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    community that I belong to is my swim team‚ and on my team‚ I am one of the captains. I joined the school team as a freshman and due to my dedication‚ persistence‚ and ability to lead I was given the honor of being a captain. As a captain I aim to be a leader that inspires and leads by example. I make sure that I work as hard as the rest of the team‚ and that they see me as someone they can look up to. Some of my duties as captain are making sure everyone gets into the pool when practice begins‚ leading

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    Industrial Relations

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    Industrial Relations Industrial relation means the relationship between employers and employees in course of employment in industrial organisations. However‚ the concept of Industrial Relations has a broader meaning. In a broad sense‚ the term Industrial Relations includes the relationship between the various unions‚ between the state and the unions as well as those between the various employers and the government. Relations of all those associated in an industry may be called Industrial Relations

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    transactional motives by presenting awards are punishments‚ transformational focus on inspiration and change‚ participating more hands and subordinates are involved in planning‚ and delegating in which subordinates are accountable for their own action. Captain Herbert Sobel leadership style can be put in the transactional category. Colonel Bauer loves to quote the saying “An officer on duty has no friends.” I always assumed I knew what he meant but I got the full

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    post-Fordism has replaced the position of Fordism and Taylorism in the modern society. This essay is about to critically evaluate the explosive view that ‘Taylorism’ and ‘Fordism’ have been replaced by ‘Post-Fodism’ as the ruling paradigm of work in capitalist society. Views and some comments from different sociologists‚ such as‚ Michael J. Piore‚ J.Atkinson and Anna Pollert will be referred to in this article. The most obvious phenomenon of Post-Fordism is the flexibility. It can now be easily witnessed

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    Industrial Revolution

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    History Living Conditions: As the industrial revolution gathered pace‚ housing was needed for more and more workers. Some landlords seized the opportunity to exploit this situation. They made their profits by cramming as many poorly-built houses into as small a space as possible. Such as cramped‚ squalid living conditions proved the perfect breeding ground for disease. The new factories were like magnets. Made small tows overcrowded cities due to the knock on effect. The development of factories

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    Industrial Agriculture

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    Question: Should the governments set standards for the food producing multinational companies to ensure the safety of its citizens and the environment? Introduction As a necessary part of human survival‚ food is a human right. Small‚ local family farms were the bedrock of traditional rural communities and the global food security which was the ability of countries to produce the food they need to survive in a more sustainable way. Yet the global food supply is increasingly falling under the control of

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    The Industrial Heartland

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    The Industrial Heartland There are basically seven factors that must be met before an industry can start to take place in a particular area. Those seven factors are: raw materials‚ transportation‚ energy‚ markets‚ labour‚ capital‚ and government. The Industrial Heartland is almost like one big industry‚ connected in a vast megalopolis. I’ll be taking a closer look at these factors and the way this area meets the locational factors. The Industrial Heartland is an area that includes: Quebec

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    character Captain Vere is developed in two different ways: he is portrayed as a martinet or strict disciplinarian and as a gentle fatherly figure. I can guess these different portrayals of Captain Vere apply in the corresponding different situation. I think both of these portrayals fit Vere’s character well in different situations. Some of the ways Vere shows these two personalities are through how he interacts with other characters in the book and what he does. An example of a way Captain Vere was

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    Introduction to Industrial Pollution Industrial pollution is pollution which can be directly linked with industry‚ in contrast to other pollution sources. This form of pollution is one of the leading causes of pollution worldwide; in the United States‚ for example‚ the Environmental Protective Agency estimates that up to 50% of the nation’s pollution is caused by industry. Because of its size and scope‚ industrial pollution is a serious problem for the entire planet‚ especially in nations which

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    Chapter 22 Section 1 Origins of the Industrial movement The Enclosure Movement An agricultural revolution started to occur in the 1500’s Until the 1600’s farmers used public lands to graze cattle and sheep. Then these lands started to be enclosed‚ or fenced off‚ into individual plots This is called the Enclosure Movement. This benefited richer landowners‚ who added to their lands‚ but the smaller landowner was forced to become tenant farmers or had to move into the cities. A tenant farmer

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