William the Conqueror was a Norman duke who later became an English king. He had many great accomplishments. His most well-known accomplishments are the idea of feudalism and the Domesday Book. The Normans were a fierce group who were very militaristic. William the Conqueror was born around 1027 in Normandy. He was the illegitimate son of the former Duke of Normandy. Because his parents‚ Duke Robert I and Herleve‚ were not married‚ he was nicknamed William the Bastard. At the age of 8‚ he became
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A Participatory Market-Oriented Strategy for Development in Kenya Kennesaw State University 19 Annual Economics Convention Mumbai‚ India December 16-17‚ 2011 Chris Blackburn‚ James Chapman‚ Kendrick Pulver‚ Shamir Virani‚ Jarret Yingling Advisors: Professor Murat Doral and Professor Michael Patrono th Foreword Africa’s emergence into the global marketplace presents new challenges for its postcolonial countries that seek improvement in their standard of living. Kenya’s post-colonial economic
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70 Leadership Is a Contact Sport The “Follow-up Factor” in Management Development by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan Leadership is not just for leaders anymore. Top content management 2 companies are beginning to understand that sustaining peak performance requires a firm-wide commitment to developing leaders that is tightly aligned to organizational objectives — a commitment much easier to understand than to achieve. Organizations must find ways to cascade leadership from senior
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Compiler: A Definition Compiler‚ in computer science‚ computer program that translates source code‚ instructions in a program written by a software engineer‚ into object code‚ those same instructions written in a language the computer ’s central processing unit (CPU) can read and interpret. Software engineers write source code using high level programming languages that people can understand. Computers cannot directly execute source code‚ but need a compiler to translate these instructions into
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Transformational Leadership and Performance Across Criteria and Levels: A Meta-Analytic Review of 25 Years of Research Gang Wang1‚ In-Sue Oh2‚ Stephen H. Courtright1‚ and Amy E. Colbert1 Group & Organization Management 36(2) 223–270 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1059601111401017 http://gom.sagepub.com Abstract Although transformational leadership has been studied extensively‚ the magnitude of the relationship between
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Problem-Oriented Policing Rod Taylor University of Phoenix Problem-Oriented Policing According to Dictionary.com‚ “policing is to regulate‚ control‚ or keep in order with or as if with a law enforcement agency.” The art of policing has changed significantly for many different reasons but mainly to accommodate the times. Crime rates have gone up substantially when compared to 50 years ago. Much of the reason why this may be is the easy accessibility to gory movies
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Problem oriented policing or (POP) was developed by Herman Goldstein what makes his research unique is that he also added into the analysis what he had experienced(Fritsch‚ Liederbach‚ Taylor‚ & Caeti‚ 2009‚ p 100). The goal of his research was to develop a form of policing that is effective but also committed to maintaining and extending democratic values. The concept of (POP) was to move away from the traditional law enforcement approach and with the community leaders and citizens identify the
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Leadership Styles LDR/531 Organizational Leadership Leadership Styles Leaders have a “the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set of goals” (Robbins & Judge‚ 2007‚ p. 402). In the past leaders have been described by certain traits or characteristics. These traits can help an organization identify potential candidates who may be strong leaders. Later behavior approaches of leaders were identified that could be taught. In short‚ leaders could be made. Situations
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Famous Sociologists 1. Emile Durkheim Emile Durkheim is knows as the "father of sociology" and is a founding figure in the field of sociology. He is credited with making sociology a science. One of his most famous pieces of work includes Suicide: A Study In Sociology. 2. Robert K. Merton Robert K. Merton is considered one of America’s most influential social scientists. He is famous for his theories of deviance as well as for developing the concepts of "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "role model
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Jimmy Carter was not the best president for a while he was known as one of the worst president but had later rehabilitated his reputation with humanitarian efforts. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1‚ 1924‚ in Plains‚ Georgia. Grew up on a peanut farm that is father owned as well as a warehouse and store. James Carter became the first person from his father’s side of the family to graduate from high school. He then studied engineering at Georgia Southwestern Junior College before joining
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