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    Journal Entry During the early years of the 1600’s many Europeans and Africans moved over from England and became indentured servants. Indentured servants were employed by wealthy people and were used mainly for cheap labor. Some types of labor consisted of working in the fields and helping farmers. Around the 1680’s is when the employment of indentured servants slowly dropped. The reason for the drop was due to the rise of slavery. This was masterminded by European and euro-American colonist

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    stepping on others to reach it and at the same time to avoid extreme and take the middle way. My human ideal is pretty much stated in “Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle”‚ but the other texts have their own validated ways to reach the human ideal. The Odyssey portrayed a character who seems to be the ideal mortal. His name

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    Hegel: Master and Servant

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    he knows‚ on the whole what a lawful and honorable course of conduct it is.” (Baird 76). Shown by this quote‚ there is still an ethical statute of status in society one must have. How Hegel would put why people would be segregated into different classes is because conformity is part of universal reason in which humans are human agents of universal spirit. Absolute reason and spirit is free movement and self defined‚ but in relation to other objects. The universal spirit gets to know itself by manifesting

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    The Supervisor and Servant Leadership There are many styles any supervisor may take on to lead their team through the everyday tasks of a job. One style is actually considered to be a theory. That theory is the Servant Leadership Theory. Servant Leadership can collectively be defined as serving people first and then leading them. To serve someone and put their needs before the servant’s own will thus bring natural leadership to the table. Robert Keifner Greenleaf wrote an essay about this theory

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    others I am working with at the time. This relates to the servant leadership theory because collaboration is one of the primary leadership characteristics identified for servant leaders by Focht (2015). Focusing more on collaboration and making allowing others to lead in areas they excel will help overall in my leadership practices. The second recommendation is figure out best practices for work-life balance. Liden (2014) discusses how servant leaders should serve as positive role models for their teams

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    In The Odyssey‚ Homer demonstrates Life’s journey in several different situations. These situations are lead by actions that reveals an example of karma and how people don’t always get what they want. An allegory implies that even when a reward is as precious as Penelope‚ people do not always get what they want. An allegory also illustrates how when advices are ignored and continuously do wrongdoings‚ punishments occur. The suitors get frustrated and causes these actions because they want nothing

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    Leadership In The Odyssey

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    and the Cyclops had. However‚ once he reaches Ithaca‚ the way he bides his time and disguises himself as a beggar shows how he has developed and changed. Instead‚ he could have simply rushed home and declared himself before the extremely hostile suitors (“change”). “He is not the same glory-hungry individual who often committed rash and rather vacuous actions in order to gain kudos(“change”).” More recently‚ the texts have proved that Odysseus has come a long way‚ learned a lot from past mistakes

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    DCA must also apply servant leadership to motivate its staff. According to Northouse (2016)‚ servant leadership begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve‚ to serve first. The outcomes of servant leadership are follower performance and growth‚ organizational performance‚ and societal impact (Northouse‚ 2016). The servant leader will help Moshoeshoe 1 International Airport to provide services expeditiously‚ and impact

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    such a strong distinction between the male and female slaves and servants? What does this say about a women’s place in society (slave or servant)? I think the document makes such a strong distinction between male and female slaves and servants because it gives the reader an idea of just how different it was between being man or woman‚ slave or servant. I think Number 51 gives the best picture of the differences between female servants and slaves as well as the beginnings of racism during the beginning

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    Odyssey Literary Analysis

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    The Author and his Times The author of the Odyssey‚ to this day‚ remains unknown. Early Greeks have accredited works such as the "Homeric Hyms"‚ The Iliad‚ and The Odyssey to an individual by the name of Homer. However‚ there are some scientists that insist these said works were product of a group of people and not one man. This particular group of scientists claims that the subject matter of the writings is too diverse for them to have been the product of just one person. Despite these differing

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