Essays on Outset

Portrait of War provides a different take on the United States participation in the First World War. As the name suggests it is a collection of a visual depiction of the war, focusing on the American involvement. This unique premise follows the perceptions of 8 U.S. Army Soldier-artists recruited by the military to escort the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Europe (Alfier, 2007). Despite only one of them having any military training prior to their involvement, they were recruited as Captains to help them utilize special passes provided by the upper echelon that allowed them access to the front ...

Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had several specific military advantages over the Union Army. Ultimately, however, the Union Army triumphed. General Lee and the officers and men under his command could not overcome the inherent strengths of the Union Army and ultimately were defeated.

Lee’s Army: The Strengths

The Army of Northern Virginia had three major military advantages compared to the North (“Confederate States Had Many Advantages at Civil War Outset,” 2014). The North had to invade them and obtain the complete surrender of the South. Otherwise, the North could not preserve the Union (Wells, 2013). This meant that the South could ...

At some point, everyone must speak before an audience. For some, public speaking can be frightening, causing anxiety and dread. As terrifying as public speaking may be for some people, there are effective ways to overcome public speaking anxiety, or so-called stage fright. Public speaking anxiety can be overcome by establishing an audience connection, objectifying our biological response to the situation, and by owning our public speaking experience. Connecting to the audience, and engaging them in our content and delivery is an important way in which to overcome public speaking anxiety. After all, public speaking, by definition, entails speaking ...

Introduction

The delivery of the speech that is critiqued in this paper is an argumentative lecture by Yusuf Estes on the subject of Hadith in Islam. The delivery of the speech shall be assessed within the framework of how effectively Estes was able to deliver the introduction, the body and how the speech was concluded, followed by recommendations.

The Critique

For any speech to be effective, it must create an impression on the listener. Even if the content is excellent, it is the delivery by the speaker that decides how the speech is received and how much of it is retained. Studies ...

Many times, people are almost certainly motivated to act or not to take action by various factors. Hamlet is a play that focuses on the betrayals and the uncertainties that are involved as power shifts from one person to the next. From the outset, it is important to note that the play is set within a monarch but following the death of the beloved King Hamlet, the power does not devolve to his son but in a twist of fate, his brother, Claudius, takes over as the king. Ultimately, the play dramatizes the concept of revenge, justice, and moral ...

In the present paper we are to analyze Evernote Corporation in its essence of doing business and compatibility of its position in its particular branch of business. The company is concerned with producing applications for mobile phones and computers and this way it can define how both individuals and teams work today. The company has to offer a wide range of products, including such well-known apps such as Android, Blackberry 10, Windows Phone, etc. Besides, the new ones always appear (Duffy, 2011). Thus it can be said that being founded in 2008, the company won its niche in the ...

Abstract

Many of the US companies are trying to enter international markets, outsource the manufacturing processes, and become international. Such activity needs certain knowledge from the company’s managers and all those colleagues that will participate in communications with the foreign partners. Spain has a very rich history and culture and therefore there are many aspects that US business people should learn before starting to work with Spanish partners, suppliers or customers. The economic situation, business etiquette and traditions in Spain are different from the US ones. This is mostly caused by the relaxed rhyme of life in this country and ...

1. Established at the outset of the nineteenth century was Manifest Destiny, which emerged as the guiding tenet and ideology for American foreign policy. Manifest Destiny of the 1840s has been argued to be a product of American nationalism and the impulse to expand its frontier to the west coast of North America. Ultimately, the ideology of Manifest Destiny drove the territorial expansion that resulted in the outbreak of the Civil War. The history of American expansionism during the nineteenth century indeed retained a racial paradox at its core: while American conquests across the Pacific Ocean and the North American continent ...

Business faces enhancements in times that people across diverse cultures establish new way of addressing problems through creating solutions and communicating cultural perspectives. Business communication problems seen across cultures arise while participants within diverse cultures are not in position of culturally understanding the differences in communication thought processing, practices, and traditions. This way, none of them has a likelihood of recognizing the subtle ethnocentrism forms in which there is shaping of individuals. The article addresses the international business practitioners and the needs to be careful while conducting business communication within the cultures. The article focuses on the gains of ...

Impacts of Architecture

Impacts of Architecture on my Discipline

My discipline is art & architecture. There are a lot of things that I get involved in while pursuing this profession. This discipline is a combination of art elements and architectural elements. However, the distinct elements are mutually inclusive because of their relationship. Some tasks that are carried out in art are equally important in architecture, and vice versa. As an artist and architect, there are various job descriptions that describe my profession. My profession covers a wide range of professionalism. Some of the tasks covered in my profession are discussed below. The most fundamental task ...

Is There an Inherent Right to Healthcare in the U.S.?

David Orentlicher Is There an Inherent Right to Healthcare in the U.S.? David Orentlicher This review is based on the analysis of the paper by David Orentlicher, outlining the inconsistency and instability in the U.S. Healthcare system in the current scenario. The explosion of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease are on the brink of overturning the current structure of the national healthcare insurance system in the U.S. At the very outset, this paper disagrees with the suppositionthat there exists an inherent right to ...

Part A

As the course materials make clear, at its most fundamental level, a negotiation is a discussion “with a view to compromise.” Naturally, not every negotiation one enters into will be a success but if one plans, prepares and preforms, chances of succeeding will weigh more heavily in one’s favor. In business, it is more likely than not that you will have to enter into a negotiation at some point in time. Accordingly, you should use the inevitability of negotiations as a map to guide all subsequent actions. Indeed, planning for a negotiation should be part of every project from the outset. Since negotiations almost ...

When asked “Who is Doctor Who?” most people today know the Doctor is the protagonist and title character of the BBC television science fiction series. Some may also know that Doctor Who, and was featured in two cinema films and one made-for-television movie. Fans may also know about the wide range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips associated with the series. That is because Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary last year making it the world's longest-running science-fiction program. That was not the case when it premiered in 1963. Back then it was a small budget children’ ...

Ernest Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises has received immense critical attention, ever since its arrival on the literary scene. While the novel has met with its fair share of harsh, dismissive criticism, as those of the early readers: "Here is a book which, like its characters, begins nowhere and ends in nothing"; "a most unpleasant book"; "raw satire"; "entirely out of focus”1 and even of Hemingway’s mother, who reflected upon the characters as "utterly degraded people" and that the novel might better have never been written2, The Sun Also Rises has invited applaud and appreciative critical ...

Towards the end of cold, Europe was divided into East and West, with each affiliated to Soviet Union and United States respectively. With the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1991, there was great enthusiasm on the part of its former members to join the Western alliance lead by NATO. Moreover, as the European Union went ahead with absorbing new members from East and South, its geographic center moved toward Germany. In the process, adding to Germany’s already increased political and economic weight on the continent (Mayhew 1998). The expansion of became the new meaning for the ...

Introduction:

The Southern and Chesapeake Bay Colonies were rather similar in outlook and social mores since both were built on agriculture and a slave economy from the outset. These contrast with the New England colonies which although also focusing on agriculture were far more rigorous in their social and religious outlook due to the fact that they were Puritans and as such committed to the liberty of man. Since the Chesapeake Bay colonies were more focused on agricultural production and crops such as tobacco, they were more liable to vice and maltreatment of slaves. Let us take a look at the Chesapeake ...

The western and the war film are both distinctly violent films – they are basically about revenge, defeating the adversary, and operating in a wilderness of sorts (the Old West, compared to the jungles of Vietnam or the beaches of Normandy). In many films of this genre, the protagonist is unfamiliar with the harshness of the environment around them – they are not accustomed to violence, and must find themselves in the process. Two such characters are, respectively, Mattie Ross in the 1969 western True Grit and Chris Taylor in the 1986 war film Platoon. Both are young, idealistic characters who slowly ...