I have never looked at anything as intensely as I have through the viewfinder of a camera. It may seem odd that my most intense experiences of reality have come through an artificial lens‚ but a camera is a close cousin to both a magnifying glass and a microscope. It is not only the ability to see things in more detail that commands our attention. It is something else‚ something about the art of photography that forces us to examine the world as we don’t normally do. Normally we don’t see things
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Separaration of Powers The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Separation of Powers doctrine built into the Constitution. Discussion will cover the origins of the doctrine‚ the factors that made it attractive to the founding fathers‚ and the question of its usefulness in modern America. Political theorists as far back as Aristotle had discussed the merits of various forms of government. The point had been made over and over again that to have all governmental authority vested in a single
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Attaining power in works of literature can be a very effective way to bring a character to life. Once a character gains power‚ the reader sees their true personality‚ whether that is a good or evil personality. Power can bring people together and provide happiness or destroy a person and cause chaos. Many works of literature contain characters that are affected by power. Some characters are affected for the better while others are destroyed by the effects of power. The destructive effects of power are
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Soft Power Author(s): Joseph S. Nye‚ Jr. Source: Foreign Policy‚ No. 80‚ Twentieth Anniversary‚ (Autumn‚ 1990)‚ pp. 153-171 Published by: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1148580 Accessed: 12/08/2008 12:33 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless you
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SOLAR POWER IN TODAYS WORLD JEROME T. GARDNER COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT Since first discovered in the 1860s‚ the concept of storing energy from the sun to use as a source of power has been studied and pursued by many programs. Either using solar collectors or photovoltaic cells‚ the methods of using solar power are becoming more efficient and cost-effective. Solar technology is currently being used by homes and businesses‚ but is still too expensive and risky for many residents. Researchers
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# the start of this has the power-law fitting function you can use‚ make sure to evaluate it before calling plfit # PLFIT fits a power-law distributional model to data. # # PLFIT(x) estimates x_min and alpha according to the goodness-of-fit # based method described in Clauset‚ Shalizi‚ Newman (2007). x is a # vector of observations of some quantity to which we wish to fit the # power-law distribution p(x) ~ x^-alpha for x >= xmin. # PLFIT automatically detects whether x is
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wondered what role politics and power play in organizations? When used effectively they can be compatible in reaching the organizations goals. Power is defined as the ability to get someone to do something you want done or the ability to make things happen in the way you want them. (Schermerhorn‚ Hunt‚ and Osborn‚ Chap. 15). Power is important within organizations because it is the way in which management influences individuals to make things happen. When power and influence combine‚ most of
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The Powers That Be Of Five By‚ Wanda June Lingle February 9‚ 2013 Page 1 Power is defined by experts as the degree of potential one person has to influence another person ’s behavior‚ values‚ beliefs‚ or attitude. To quantitate the power one has is to determine the likelihood that one person will be influenced by another. There is a greater chance that one person will be influenced by the person with the greater power. Influence is the degree of change that actually occurs in one
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Power and Politics Introduction Power is important within organizations because power is the way in which management influences individuals to make things happen. When power and influence combine most of the time‚ "politics" becomes involved in some manner which may pose some problems. Organizational politics is best described as management influenced by self-interest through the use of means not necessarily authorized by the organization. Organizational politics have been viewed as an organizations
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Power in organizations: A look through the TQM lens Carson‚ Paula Phillips‚ Carson‚ Kerry David‚ Knight‚ E Leon Jr‚ Roe‚ C William. Quality Progress. Milwaukee: Nov 1995. Vol. 28‚ Iss. 11; pg. 73‚ 6 pgs Copyright American Society for Quality Control Nov 1995 IN A TOTAL QUALITY ENVIRONMENT‚ THE empowered employee alters the traditional supervisor-subordinate relationship. Instead of passively executing orders‚ empowered employees assume both the responsibility and authority necessary to anticipate
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