Straddling the Will of a Bipolar God In his novel‚ Moby-Dick‚ Herman Melville uses one man’s journey on a whaling vessel to symbolize the epic of the experience of the individual. In this epic‚ there is a double task for each of us‚ first to discover our own meaning‚ and finally to put that meaning against the backdrop of a universe that may not regard it one way or the other. Is there an elemental truth‚ justice‚ or fate‚ or do these only exist in the minds of mortals? Subjectivity An important
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relationship with employee’s performance and that with business productivity. 3.3 Research Approach There are two types of methodological research approaches which are qualitative and quantitative (Holme and Solvang‚ 1991; Wiedersheim-Paul and Eriksson 1998; Yin‚ 1994). The research is a qualitative approach which aims to determine the factors influencing the management to cull the motivation theory in
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Shortly after birth of Hsuan Tsang‚ his father is killed. Fearing for her child‚ his mother bites of part of his toe and puts him in the river(Wu 89). Buddhist priests find him and taken in by the Buddhist priests. He is chosen by the Bodhisattva‚ Kuan-yin as the pilgrim to make the journey to retrieve the holy scriptures‚ and also receives a Golden Fillet‚ with which he can cause a headache for Monkey when he is being disobedient along the
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Chinese music‚ after the Yuan Dynasty more and more is known about early Chinese music. To the Chinese mind‚ there are two main components to music‚ tone and joy. These two aspects are represented in the Chinese characters for the word music‚ Yin and Yueh. Yin is the tone‚ which the Chinese consider the essential quality of music‚ much like rhythm is to Western music. Yueh is joy; the Chinese
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considered positive. A Han government official (Document 1) wrote to local officials in order to advise them on how to use their technology to prevent floods‚ showing his interests in maintaining the empire so that it doesn’t fall. Not only that‚ Han Guan‚ another government official (Document 2) goes against the way the government is monopolizing the making of technology and that technology should be made by the people‚ since government made technologies are brittle and costing the government more
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Han insisted the praiseful perspective‚ there were still some imperfect aspects of the technology while Roman regarded the tool manufacturing is a vulgar profession of the career‚ both are the negative point toward the technology. In the Doc #2‚ Huan Guan compared the tools of previous times and those of current time‚ stating that the worse the tools are‚ the less government officials took care of the‚ which caused the social problem such
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Religion Unit Essay Notes 1. Secularism began to arise with the seperation of church and state in Europe. A. Why is this so? (Deblij 207‚ 222-224) Secularism is the indifference to or rejection of formal religion. The most secular countries today are in Europe. Secularism has become more widespread during the past century due to the rise in democracy. Democratic governments disadvantage the traditional practices of a religion because they offer freedom‚ whereas other forms of government may
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investigation of a “bounded system” or a case or multiple cases over time through detailed‚ in-depth data collection involving multiple sources of information (e.g.‚ observations‚ audio-visual materials‚ reports‚ etc.) (Creswell‚ 1998). During data collection‚ Yin (1989) recommended six types of data collection for case studies: 1) documentation; 2) archival records; 3) interviews; 4) direct observations; 5) participant observations; and 6) physical artifacts. Case studies are bounded as they are reflective of
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International Journal of Career Management Emerald Article: Impact of employee benefits on work motivation and productivity Jon-Chao Hong‚ Sung-De Yang‚ Li-Jung Wang‚ En-Fu Chiou‚ Fan-Yin Su‚ sui-Lan Huang Article information: To cite this document: Jon-Chao Hong‚ Sung-De Yang‚ Li-Jung Wang‚ En-Fu Chiou‚ Fan-Yin Su‚ sui-Lan Huang‚ (1995)‚"Impact of employee benefits on work motivation and productivity"‚ International Journal of Career Management‚ Vol. 7 Iss: 6 pp. 10 - 14 Permanent link to this document:
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preferred more neutral and absurd jokes‚ while men preferred more aggressive‚ more sexual jokes (Nevo‚ Nevo‚ & Yin; 2001). To begin with‚ Men are more likely to be considered as the producer of humor‚ while women are expected to be appreciator. Consistent result that men score higher on humor creation‚ whereas women score higher on humor appreciation were found by various studies (Nevo‚ Nevo‚ & Yin; 2001). A study was conducted by Mickes‚ Walker‚ Parris‚ Mankoff and Christenfeld (2012) to examine whether
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