However, once the two of them begin to have sex, Pamuk dies suddenly, and the episode turns into a kind of dramatic farce wherein Mary, her mother, and her maid have to move Pamuk's body back to his own room without notifying anyone else. As Sharon Marcus notes, Downton Abbey owes some of its plotting and pacing to the stage melodramas of the Victorian and Edwardian period, and so some elements of the episode concerning Kemal Pamuk can be understood as artifacts of this legacy (Marcus 2012, p
On the one hand one wants to admire the program for including these radical characters, because they offer refreshing criticisms of the staid, uptight ideology of the rest of the establishment characters. Lady Sybil in particular is an attractive character because unlike Tom, whose resistance is sometimes presented as resentment against the rich, Sybil presents a somewhat underrepresented category of agitators and radicals, namely, upper class white women (Weiner 2000, p
There was a marked lack of inventiveness which was demonstrated by the marked lack of remarkability of the overall results. The Qualitative Phase The qualitative phase of the study was made up of interviews which found that students had a preference for copying and pasting their notes for logistical reasons and found that typing notes was generally distracting to them (Igo et al
Read & Write 5.0 by textHELP (1999) is an invaluable tool for students with reading and writing difficulties" (Quenneville, 2001)
Likert is one of the most effective an direct uni-dimensional scaling methods which can help one define very cohesively what one is attempting to measure: "it is assumed that the concept you want to measure is one-dimensional in nature. You might operationalize the definition as an instruction to the people who are going to create or generate the initial set of candidate items for your scale" (Trochim, 2006)
if, whilst moving forward, the standards and beliefs and prejudices of society are embraced, individuals may fail to differentiate themselves from the masses. This, Heidegger regarded as living an 'inauthentic' existence" (Hornsby, 2002)
The Go daddy commercial was yet another sexist addition to the super bowl line of commercials. Even though the add did manage to get the domain name a lot of business the next day, over all the company incurred a loss of more than seven million dollars for making the commercial (Grinberg, 2013) Surely enough, everyone is used to seeing the sexist commercials every now and then
Some of these connections actually become relationships that last longer. (Jenkins, 2013, 82 ) In simpler terms, #notbuyingit probably started out about a single add that objectified women or was stereotyping, and eventually it grew into an entire network of people speaking against the biased add agency
These posts created a huge deal for Harrods and thus made quite an impact on the marketing and general outlook of the store. (London, 2013) This goes onto show that something so hidden and not projected to an entire nation can still be corrected if projected in the right way
S. Cole was bombed in Yemen in October 2000, Blackwater received a large federal contract to train sailors in the art of counterterrorism (Flintoff, 2007)
com) "No one fired at them, they were not attacked by gunman…I swear to God no one did anything to them at all" (CNN.com). The FBI report (Johnson, et al
The difficulty in establishing just what a soldier and do and what he cannot do is delicate, and this article clearly shows the challenges inherent in this kind of operation. Rose admits that there can be "…no universal recipe" for ROE, since the rules must be crafted "to a specific context" (Rose, 234)
" In December, 2008, five Blackwater security guards were charged with killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding 20 others (Vicini, 2008). But on December 31, 2009, a federal judge "threw out the indictment of five former Blackwater security guards" because of "the government's mishandling of the case" (Savage, 2010)
, 2007) on November 13, 2007, found that "…at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq." In December, 2008, five Blackwater security guards were charged with killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding 20 others (Vicini, 2008)
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom may have organized in Zurich in May 1919 but its dedication to peace and to ensuring the voting rights of women connected many women and many pacifists across the world as well as in small, intimate communal networks. (Dawley 1)
Specific industries seemed to be more effected than others also, such as telecommunications. The Irish telecommunications market is dominated by Eircom, which was once government owned (Hearne, 2012), which was propped up by individual investment (Hearn, 2012)
The literature is examined to determine whether employee engagement was effected during said recession Recession and Business The recession affected businesses across the globe but it seemed to have an especially deleterious effect on Ireland. The country had been one of the "most admired" in the world for its fiscal policy and growth, but the recession demonstrated the problems that were lurking underneath the seeming promise (Honohan, 2009)
Since employee engagement produces "commitment to the organization, job ownership and pride, more discretionary effort (time and energy), passion and excitement, commitment to execution and the bottom line" it is a desirable quantity to extract, but it is also known to be "illusive" (Little & Little, 2006). The importance of employee engagement can be seen in recent studies that point to its efficacy as a means for companies to recover from the recession (Lewis, Thomas & Bradley, 2012)
Employee Engagement The second question to be answered concerns employee engagement. The term is based on surveys that the Gallup organization has conducted over the last 25 years (Little & Little, 2006)
Since employee engagement is heavily tied to the ability of employees to emotionally connect to their workplace, it became a much tougher sell for companies when there was constant concern over losing employment altogether. Employees in some sectors may have seemed more engaged, but it was more because of fear than any other reason (Warren, 2011)