Blake Leyden Cristine Smith December 7‚ 2009 The Lords of Discipline A novel based on his own military experience at “The Citadel”‚ Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline takes place at the South Carolina Military Institute (a fictitious military school). Like most military schools throughout the United States‚ “The Institute” prides itself on its ability to transform “douche bags” to “whole men”. The authoritative figures responsible for this transformation are the cadre (upper classman)‚ carriers
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The Secret to Self-Discipline Rory Vaden ChangeThis | 96.01 Today’s work environment has been dubbed everything from the Age of Distraction and the Age of Inattention to The Multitasking Generation. The bottom line is this: regardless of your job title‚ we are all trying to accomplish increasingly more with increasingly less resources—whether those resources are money‚ time‚ focus‚ or energy. How can we achieve success—however you define it— given these constraints? ChangeThis | 96.01 I
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Standards & Discipline: “Discipline” Video Case Study Facilitator: Watching the video twice often ensures that participants are prepared to discuss the issues. Remember that SSG John Diem volunteered to share this story and served admirably and heroically in combat. Video summary: John Diem discusses the importance of discipline within the unit and the individual. “Just because you are overseas does not mean you do not continue to follow rules/standards/disciplines. You may not understand the reasoning
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The topic of our debate was based on discipline. ‘This house believes that standards of discipline within the Uniformed Public Services should be relaxed.’ There were valid points for both sides of the debate. The points mentioned during the debate of motion for agreeing with the statement being made were‚ if they made the decision to relax the discipline standards there would be an increase in applicants wanting to join the services. Members of the public are more likely to join knowing that
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INTRODUCTION: The word discipline is quite common and well known in terms of its daily use in our life. Any system or organization whether it is social‚ political or education is evaluated quite often in terms of its discipline. In the similar way when we try to evaluate a person‚ society or nation in terms of its goodness or badness‚ then also most often the criterion of such evaluation is nothing but the discipline. Schools are termed as good and bad‚ on the basis of the discipline or in disciplined
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Discipline is of the utmost importance in order to ensure the efficiency of the military organization as a whole as well that of the individual units. Efficiency helps to ensure that goals are met and that the highest level of profeesionalism is maintained at all times. The level of discipline directly affects a soldier’s conduct so the two concepts are directly related and of equal importance. Discipline is important in life as well as in the Army. The core values of the British Army are: courage
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Contemporary Performance Art: How it Varies From the early 1970’s performance art has become one of the most revolutionary ways of public expression. It is what some people would describe as “against the norm” when bringing up the subject of art. These kind of performances are presented to either random or specific audiences‚ where the performer presents and orchestrates scripted or unscripted work‚ or random and spontaneous works of art which include poetry‚ acting‚ dance‚ song‚ and painting
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department. With such variety of use‚ it can be meet the needs required both personal and public‚ embraces concerns both economic and ergonomic‚ and is informed by many disciplines‚ touching base into English‚ science‚ and mathematics. Graphic design surrounds us‚ “touching everything that we do‚ everything we see‚ everything we buy:” from the billboards to the Bibles‚ on paperback books and on websites‚ on the labels of food and on this particular discipline essay. (Helfand) With such a broad title
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Defining Applied Linguistics and its scope Applied linguistics it seems to be a not very easy concept to define‚ because many people would think different things when it comes to applied linguistics. Indeed‚ for many years those who carry out applied linguistics seem do not agree upon a universal definition. However‚ what it is true for all of them is the fact that there is a gap that needs to be filled in terms of defining applied linguistics. The definition of the problem is probably due to
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In his book The Fifth Discipline‚ Peter Senge emphasizes his model of a "learning organization‚" which he defines as "an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future." A learning organization excels at both adaptive learning and generative learning. Senge describes five disciplines that are necessary for a learning organization. "Learning organization" is a catchphrase covering the ideal of an organization built on vision‚ teamwork‚ openness‚ flexibility‚ ability
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