9/13/11 Our Iceberg is Melting By John Kotter ‘Our Iceberg Is Melting’ is a story about a penguin colony having to adapt in an ever-changing world. Based on the award–winning work of Harvard’s John Kotter‚ it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations. This charming story illustrates key truths about how to deal with the issue of change: handle to challenge well and you can prosper greatly: handle it poorly‚ and you put yourself at risk. The characters in this
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Josh Copeland Professor Patton ENGL 1020M06 19 Feb. 2014 The Initiation Becoming an adult does not happen in a day. This process takes years of maturing and developing a brain that is capable of making smart life decisions. In the short stories “Stepdaughters” by Max Apple and “A&P” by John Updike‚ two young adults are put in difficult situations and forced to overcome them by making their own choices. In “Stepdaughters”‚ Stephanie‚ a high school student athlete struggles with her relationship
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Have you ever heard that America is a melting pot or a salad bowl? The metaphor for the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading for America. A more accurate metaphor would be a salad bowl‚ for the salad bowl can be very different from the melting pot because of all its ingredients can make it distinguished from the melting pot. Even today Americans are calling America a salad bowl instead of a melting pot. Whereas it once was a melting pot but soon changed. There have been many questions
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Salad Bowl vs. Melting Pot There have been many to question and many so called answers to the merging of America and its different citizens. One cannot choose which term is better than the other; they both serve the same cause just in a different example. Along with this perspective‚ however‚ there is another expression that describes the diversity of people in America. It tends to be interpreted in the same way as the “melting pot‚” but actually has a slightly different meaning with a different
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Our iceberg is melting by John Kotter “Once upon a time a colony of penguins was living in the frozen Antarctic on an iceberg near what we call today Cape Washington.” The following summary will explain the key moments of the fable and how they relate to our lives. First‚ let’s introduce some of the more important penguins – the Leadership Council members. Louis‚ the head of the Leadership Council‚ could perhaps be considered the CEO of the penguin colony. Alice is a smart‚ aggressive member
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Melting Greenland ice 10 marker “Suggest why some groups and communities view the melting of the Greenland’s ice sheet as an opportunity rather than a threat” (10) Some groups and communities view the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet as an opportunity rather than a threat because the melting ice creates some commercial advantages for the Arctic region the new route available from the melted ice will be the quickest way of travelling from Europe to the Pacific and Asia. This also increases the tourism
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In my opinion the nation is a melting pot. We are a melting pot because despite differences you cannot per say pick up one chunk of something without getting a whole lot of something else. No matter what we are all connected. If the nation were a salad you could pick up something without the involvement of another issue or people. Despite few issues that people are still fighting for equality‚ I would say over all we as a nation are fighting for this equality as a whole. For example gay marriage
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The United States is a melting pot of many cultures‚ races and ethnicities. I have learned that each group has differences and many similarities. With these differences they have taught me to be tolerant and accepting of them. By embracing the differences through our diverse society‚ I have learned new concepts of living‚ new ways to think‚ and have been introduced to a variety of foods that I have enjoyed. It seems in the end many of the groups that are so different have a common interest which
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Melting Pot or Mosaic‚ which one? Culture is a behavior that consists of several critical elements‚ such as language‚ religion‚ race and ethnicity‚ clothing and politics. Culture is what one does in his/her daily life. In order to understand others‚ we must first keep in mind that every culture carries its own set of values and assumptions. Culture is an evolving‚ ever changing civilization‚ which includes several different groups people. For immigrants‚ America is a land of opportunity; for others
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look the same or even sound the same‚ each American is different in their own way. There is not a description of a perfect “American Citizen”. America is a big “melting pot”. “The ideal of the melting pot symbolized the process of blending many strains into a single nationality and we have come to realize in modern times that the melting pot need not mean the end of particular identities or traditions.” (Kennedy‚ 27).
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