LEADERSHIP The activity of leading a group of people or an organization or the ability to do this. Leadership involves (1) establishing a clear vision‚ (2) sharing that vision with others so that they will follow willingly‚ (3) providing the information‚ knowledge and methods to realize that vision‚ and (4) coordinating and balancing the conflicting interests of all members and stakeholders. Leadership is "organizing a group of people
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A People’s History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book‚ Zinn seeks to present American history through the eyes of the common people rather than political and economic elites. A People’s History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States.[1] It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work‚ which now includes stories that previously were ignored.[2] The book
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"Main Characteristics of Hinduism" Hinduism is the third‚ largest religion in the world and considered the oldest. It has roughly 837 million believers totaling to be about 13% of the globes population. It is the leading organized religion in Nepal‚ India in Sri Lanka. The United States alone has about 1 million followers. The characteristics of the Hinduism long history‚ way of life‚ symbolic meaning and the popular yoga practice makes this religion very unique. Hinduism history is built on
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involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops & replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces. * Silent Majority: phrase used to describe people‚ whatever their economic status‚ who uphold traditional values‚ especially against the counterculture of the 1960’s. * Kent State: an Ohio University where National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War on May 4‚ 1970‚ wounding 9 & killing 4. * 26th Amendment: lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. * Pentagon
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“If one is led to see oneself as a certain type of person? Does the availability of a classification‚ a label‚ a word or a phrase‚ Open certain possibilities‚ or perhaps close off others?” (Hacking 2004: 285) What this line of questioning opens up is the possibility that who we (and others) are is an effect of what we know ourselves (and others) to be. Hence sociological perspective helps us gain a better understanding of ourselves and our social world. It enables us
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numerous different cultures that are continuing to develop. We look at culture as a way of expressing behavior patterns‚ arts‚ beliefs‚ institutions‚ and all other products of human work. But with these ways‚ our cultures are being divided into countercultures‚ which are typically carried out by the younger generation with values or lifestyles in hostility to those of the established culture. A subculture social group within a world culture that has distinguishing pattern of behavior and beliefs. An
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Essay During the 1960s their were many changes and social movements. A few of these include movements centred around race‚ feminism‚ anti-war protests and counter culture. The most notable of these movements was the counter culture revolution because it involved all the other topics within itself. The counter culture movement of the 1960s contains the concerns of race‚ feminism‚ status quo’s & war. This movement changed the identity of the newest generations and has changed the way our modern
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people made their careers after they unwillingly practiced in MKULTRA. They use their experience as an outlet to help them get over the experiment. “Ken Kesey‚ the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and a source of inspiration in the counterculture movement‚ was first exposed to LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a part of the MKULTRA project while still a graduate student at Stanford university” (J. Francis Wolfe). “Robert Hunter‚ a lyricist and longtime collaborator with the Grateful
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the University of California‚ Santa Barbara‚ following which protesters set fire to the Bank of America”. Prior to the 1970’s‚ the old American culture was not as violent as the new counter culture. They did not express their opinions like the counterculture did. Woodstock was kind of like a goodbye to the 1960’s American culture‚ and a hello to a new one. After the concert‚ “hair styles were longer‚ entertainment promoters realized the fruitful market for rock concert… movements such as Black panthers
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