communication skill. Its design rests on two assumptions. First‚ for a person to improve as a communicator‚ instruction must be individualized‚ based on repeated opportunities for practice and feedback. To create this condition MGC breaks from traditional business school conventions. It requires only single-author writing projects‚ convenes small groups in conference room settings for individual presentations‚ and employs an action-based workshop format for developing team management skills. The
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The Making of a Quagmire Book Review David Halberstam was a reporter assigned to the Vietnam conflict during 1962 and 1963. After graduating from Harvard University‚ David Halberstam went on to work for various newspapers. He went to work for the New York Times Washington bureau in 1960. In the fall of 1962‚ Halberstam was assigned to the Vietnam conflict. David Halberstam’s book is an attempt to put into retrospect the portrait of the American experience in Vietnam‚ to capture the details
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"Call of the Wild" Book Review By: Sheldon Shepard What if you were torn away from your home‚ your life‚ your family‚ and everything that was ever familiar to you‚ and got thrown into harsh‚ life threatening situations? Would you adapt in order to live and survive or would you be totally enveloped in the chaos and just give up‚ and become a name unmentioned? In Jack London’s book "Call of the Wild"‚ we are taught that anyone or thing can be taken from its surroundings and hurled into a world
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Book Review of: Tara Revisited Maria Kelly History 204.401 May 8‚ 2008 Throughout History‚ women have played various roles‚ but often time portrayed much differently. In Tara Revisited Catherine Clinton analyzes the women of the South during and after the Civil War and discusses the myths and realities. Often in literature and movies‚ there was an idealized picture of a gentle and romantic picture of Southern life‚ yet this was not the realistic picture.
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Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn This book talks about Mama Lola life and family heritage and how she becomes a healer in the Vodou religion. Marie Therese Alourdes Macena Champagne Lovinski or known as Mama Lola to everyone. She is the most famous Vodou priestess in the United States. The ethnographic book was written by Karen McCarthy who came in contact with Mama Lola in the 70’s and came very interested in the culture of Haitian Vodou. McCarthy becomes part of Mama Lola’s family and
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Book: Sanchar Mimamsa Author: Nirmala Mani Adhikary Publication: Media Educators Association of Nepal Pages: 33 Date of publication: 2068(2011 AD) “Sanchar Mimamsa” composed by Nirmala Mani Adhikary puts forth communication Studies and process from the perspectives of vaidika Hindu amid western theories and models of communication. The book brings to light‚’Sadharanikaran theory and model as per propounded by Adhikary himself. It is quite unique and interesting‚ reading theories in verses
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Owen was a member of SEAL Team Six and was on the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden and many other less known missions. In the autobiography No Easy Day‚ Mark takes us into the world and life of America’s most elite special operations soldier. This book portrays his life story and sheds light into the secretive world of counterinsurgency. The story starts out in Green Team which is the name of the training process to get into DEVGRU (Shortened name for Special Warfare Development
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Book Review #2 How History Exposes the System By: Nicholas McGee (w1073395) History 320 Fall 2012 How History Exposes the System A significant portion of African-American history in the western new age democracy of the Americas over the past four hundred years is a reminiscence of stories from the years when African-Americans were used as slaves on the plantations or farms of affluent‚ white farmers. One intriguing story of slavery and the struggles with it was written by a guy named Melton
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Book Review written by Jaya Tripathi Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird is the story of a young Indian village girl who overcomes adversity and extreme hardship to ultimately live a full and happy life on her own terms. I first heard about this book when a parent expressed his concern about the (in)appropriateness of its selection as required text for 5th graders in a public school in the United States. The book was chosen‚ he was told‚ to educate the students about India. So
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Book Review - Shanghai Gone This book is a harsh criticism China’s housing reform system for destroying its own people‚ written by the author who observes China from liberal’s point of view. The author‚ Qin Shao wrote for those people who want to learn about the large-scale housing revolution in China throughout crucial experiences that citizens have gone through. It criticize the demolition and relocation system‚ questioning the level of morals. In introduction‚ he gives concretely negative
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