How far was Octavian’s rise to power achieved through violence? There were many factors that contributed to Octavian’s rise to power. Caesar’s death was an important event that helped the rise of Octavian. This is because it created uncertainty through out the people‚ without a leader could lead to chaos. Octavian‚ being Caesar’s adopted son‚ was the only possible next in line. Octavian possessed no doubts in eliminating those who stood in his way on the path to power and joined with Lepidus and
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’F’ the College Standards: a Closer Look into Academic Probation Horton’s (2015) research states "that nationally only 70% of all students in public high schools graduate and only 32% of all students leave high school qualified (or “college ready”) to attend four-year colleges (p 83)." This means that a large portion of incoming students are likely to end up being at-risk or on academic probation. The news of bad marks affects students differently‚ according to Demetriou’s (2011) study‚ some find
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Authority and American Usage: Part 1 “Authority and American Usage” written by David Foster Wallace‚ poses an argument about the English language‚ and the different beliefs of its usage. This essay was written in defense of Bryan A. Garner’s‚ A Dictionary of Modern American Usage. His argument in “Authority and American Usage” is the difference the between prescriptivism perception and the descriptivism perception (Linguistic terms that could easily be made into smaller‚ more understandable words
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Power and Authority‚ Legitimacy By Stacey Ellis The idea of Authority is to look at two other concepts that give authority its meaning‚ such as power and if that is legitimate. In order to have Authority over something or someone you must have its power and how it is able to influence the person this can be used through manipulation or threats towards them‚ but the power that has a legitimate purpose is if the threats and manipulation is not needed. If you have a government and they are ruling
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AUTHORITY‚ ACCOUNTABILITY & RESPONSIBILITY By Yusop B. Masdal I. INTRODUCTION Delegation (or deputation) is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities (Blair‚ gerald 2002). However the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work. Delegation empowers a subordinate to make decisions‚ i.e. it is a shift of decision-making authority from one organizational
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Academic summary #1 Banaji‚ M.R.; Bazerman‚ M. H.; Chungh‚ D. How (Un) Ethical are you? Harvard business Review‚ Dec 2003‚ Vol.81‚ Issue12. In the article‚ How unethical are you?‚ Banaji et al. (2003) investigate four factors that result in unethical decision taken by managers: Implicit forms of prejudice‚ bias that favours one’s own group‚ a tendency to over claim credit‚ and conflict of interest. The authors believe that the implicit prejudice is an unconscious judgment which originates from
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Authority/Power/Politics Authority What is Authority The word authority derives from the Latin word auctoritas meaning invention‚ advice‚ opinion‚ influence or commands which originate from an auctor‚ indicating that authority originates from a master‚ leader or author. Essentially authority is imposed by superiors upon inferiors either by force of arms (structural authority) or by force of argument (sapiential authority). Usually authority has components of both compulsion and persuasion
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Academic Attitude During the course of a student ’s progression through academia‚ he must learn that the teacher cannot think for him. It is essential for a student to free his mind‚ allowing thought to flow. Instead of waiting for the answers to be handed to him on a silver platter‚ he will rise to his full potential‚ above to the meta level‚ and for himself‚ determine what the answer is. The student must also become active in his learning. Therefore taking his academic potential to
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the resolution “We should question authority” the following parts are vague: “we”‚ “question” and “authority”. By we I mean all people‚ by question I mean to think rationally about it and by authority I mean anybody who has to power to give us orders. Unfortunately in everyday live a lot of people follow orders blindly leading to dangerous situations. 3. Therefore I made the following case: “We should think rationally before following orders from the authority”. Points: 1st point 1. My first
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Delegation of authority The action by which a commander assigns part of his or her authority commensurate with the assigned task to a subordinate commander. While ultimate responsibility cannot be relinquished‚ delegation of authority carries with it the imposition of a measure of responsibility. The extent of the authority delegated must be clearly stated. Delegating It is impractical for the supervisor to handle all of the work of the department directly. In order to meet the organization’s
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