BRITISH NATIONAL IDENTITY What is national identity in postmodern Great Britain? 21st century Europe. Postmodernism. European Union. Capitalism. Fragmentation. In search of a new identity. Divided and together facing the rest of the world. History turns to be an invaluable source for the researchers to tackle properly the term. But history was written by the conquerors. The truth is probably in-between. In The importance of not being English‚ David McDowall states that national identity nowadays
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CJ345: UNIT 7 INTERNAL DISCIPLINE Confidential & Proprietary • Internal Kaplan Use Only. SEMINAR CJ345 Dealing With Misconduct • In this week’s Seminar‚ we will discuss how a supervisor can best deal with misconduct by their subordinates. - To prepare for the Seminar‚ please read Chapter 11: Internal Discipline - A System of Accountability in Effective Police Supervision. Confidential & Proprietary • Internal Kaplan Use Only. POLICE WORK CJ345 •Complex human enterprise •Serve & protect community
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Kenya Hicks-Torres Course: ENG 1101 Dr. Ross October 10‚ 2012 English Essay #1- Examined Life In Malcolm Gladwell’s essay Examined Life Gladwell believes that Stanley H. Kaplan ruined the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) by making it coachable. The Educational Testing Service‚ that created the SAT‚ did not intend for the test to be coachable or studied for. They believed that cramming or last minute review was pointless because the focus of the test was not about what a student learned‚ but
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The Irish Troubles: A Quest For Peace The Irish Troubles is the name given to the political‚ cultural‚ and civil conflict that enveloped the island of Ireland for decades. The conflict is deeply embedded in the history of Ireland and the cultural difference between the native Irish and the British. As Ireland fell under the rule of England‚ cultural clashes resulted in two completely different societies living amongst one another. The Protestant British and the Catholic Irish make up the clashing
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According to Bowles and Kaplan‚ “though the Scientific Revolution spread over two centuries and encompassed many different scientific and cultural elements‚ four main themes were important: Nature was a machine‚ instruments could quantify and measure phenomena‚ science had practical value‚ and active experimentation could prove theory better than passive observation” (Bowles and Kaplan‚ 2012‚ pg. 1). The 18th century was a time that involved the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution also
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The Irish Republican Army or IRA is Northern Ireland’s most notorious terrorist organization. Like many other groups‚ the IRA is a militant nationalist group with Marxist tendencies. They use violent attacks such as bombings‚ assassinations‚ kidnappings‚ extortion‚ and robberies that they used .to send their message. The ultimate goal of the IRA is to use militant behavior to make British rule in Northern Ireland obsolete‚ thus letting Northern Ireland become an independent republic‚ instead of two
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I – Importance of the Balanced Scorecard The Kaplan and Norton article builds upon the concept of Balanced Scorecard as introduced by Kaplan and Atkinson. The core concept highlighted by both articles is the elemental role of the Balanced Scorecard in the information age. Pure financial measures of performance may have been adequate in the industrial era where central to the organizational identity were easily measurable tangible assets such as plant and machinery. However‚ in the information age
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language on their writing in target language. The concept of contrastive rhetoric was first investigated by Robert Kaplan (1966). In his article entitled “Cultural thought patterns in inter-cultural education”‚ Kaplan argues that the humans are influenced by the diversity of their linguistic and cultural backgrounds. It affects their perceptions and thoughts about the world‚ or what Kaplan refers to as “logic”‚ which is the basis of rhetoric. This logic is believed to be a dynamic and cultural specific
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Virginia Mason Medical Center Case 1. What is Gary Kaplan trying to achieve at Virginia Mason? Dr. Gary Kaplan was trying to achieve change at Virginia Mason. He envisioned the transformation of Virginia Mason Medical Center into the quality leader in health care and sought to lead the organization toward this vision. When Dr. Kaplan joined VMMC what attracted him to the medical field was a collaborative team approach and Virginia Masons’ unique culture that was created in the early 1900’s
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