in the American Bottom. The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers served as channels of change to the area, bringing outside influences of many different peoples to an Indian-inhabited land. Like the constant flow of the rivers, there was a constant change in the American Bottom. The progress eventually developed the area into a center of economic activity and gateway to the west, but also excluded native and long-time residents. The Illinois Indians long dominated the American Bottom. They were a unique
The View from the Bottom Rail The Lewinsky Scandal… A perfect example as to why we cannot accept everything at face value before carefully examining it first. Everyone thought President Clinton was behaving himself in the White House, but, as it turns out, he was most definitely not. This can be the same for history. We must carefully consider different aspects of articles so that we do no make the mistake of believing everything we read. In order to fully understand an article, we must understand
The Character of Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream The character of Bottom in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is frequently foolish, but he is not a fool. His exuberance and energy are allied to practicality and resourcefulness, with an alarming lack of self-consciousness. He, at any rate, is not at all tongue-tied before the duke, as Theseus has known others to be. We do laugh at Bottom in many situations, but should note that these are situations in which any man might seem ridiculous:
Critical Analysis of Arthur Levine's A Race to the Bottom A Race to the Bottom is a highly informative article detailing a study conducted by Arthur Levine. It relates to the quality of educational administration programs across various college and university campuses. This analysis will discuss the core concepts, logic, contexts, arguments and justifications, major points, and state my personal evaluation of the article. Core Concepts The major concepts of this article relate to the ineffectiveness
Euthanasia and the Hospitals' Bottom Line An important factor in debates over health care and treatment strategies is the issue of cost. It is tremendously expensive to provide the state-of-the-art care that the modern hospital offers. Concerns about where the money will come from to care for elderly citizens appear to be making the case for "mercy killing" even more compelling. Under financial pressure, hospitals are exercising their right to deny such expensive healthcare to the aged or seriously
consideration and the successful implication of Triple bottom line. However, the small and medium enterprises in Bristol also play an important role in contributing to the prize of this city. Therefore, Bearpit Social - a small coffee shop, which has been applied the business concept to have a suitable development plan as well as help Bristol develop more comprehensively. This report was written to help organisations understand more clearly about the Triple bottom line and how to implicate to improve the business
adverse effects of its emissions on the environment, such as polluting rivers and destroying ecosystems. To address this issue, John Elkington introduced the concept of the triple bottom line (TBL) in the mid-1990s, which measures the sustainability of organisations by adding "social" and "environmental" as two more "bottom lines" in the performance measurement framework (Slaper & Hall, 2011). According to the University of Wisconsin (n.d.), genuine sustainability requires organisations to balance social
society and the environment. Triple Bottom Line The triple bottom line is a concept for business to not only be a profitable organization to benefit the economy, but to have a social and environmental responsibility to keep a healthy balance of the concept “profit, people, and planet”. To maintain an economy that allows
The triple bottom line is a framework for companies that measures more factors than the profit only. The triple bottom line consists of three P’s: people, planet and profits, meaning that the social, environmental and environmental performance is considered altogether. (Relumination, 2016) The triple bottom line is incorporated into the business practices of Patagonia and it publishes an annual benefit corporation report to show the efforts they take to create a public benefit. Patagonia works
The triple bottom line The concept of triple bottom line is concerned directly to the concept of sustainability. The review of the literature suggests that organizational sustainability at broader level includes with three major components which are the environmental, society, and economic dimensions. This perspective significantly relates to the idea of the triple bottom line, a concept developed by Elkington(1998, 2004). The concept is simultaneously
The Triple Bottom-Line Concept Explained The Triple Bottom Line (TBL) concept is a unique concept that is anticipated to develop the goal of sustainability and to measure environmental responsibility. It consists of the three Ps: Profits, People and the Planet. Together, the three Ps takes into account the use of sustainable environmental practices, measuring the social, environmental and financial strength of the firm. The Triple Bottom-Line Concept’s Best Strength and Its Worst Weakness The strength
by the name of John Elkington saw the need for a sustainable growth measurement system, and strove to measure sustainability by bringing to view a new outline to measure sustainable performance in corporate America. This outline, called the triple bottom line, went beyond the customary measures of shareholder value, profits, and return on investment to include social and environmental dimensions. By focusing on widespread
Triple bottom line is defined as “a corporation’s ultimate success or health can and should be measured not just by the traditional financial bottom line, but also by its social/ethical and environmental performance” (Norman and MacDonald, 2003). There are many advantages when it comes to being a triple bottom line corporation. While incorporating the triple bottom line, you are also incorporating sustainability you’re your business. Therefore, becoming a triple bottom line corporation means it is
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom The theatrical production Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is one that has many themes. Not only does the playwright August Wilson bring up several thoughts on the injustices and social issues of the time he also displays how it effected blacks. With all of these ideas it made me wonder what audience was Wilson trying to address with play. In reading the play there were several instances where I could see where Wilson was addressing a mixed audience. Let me explain. In the beginning
N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. John Elkington, "Towards the Sustainable Corporation: Win-Win-Win Business Strategies for Sustainable Development," California Management Review 36, no. 2 (1994): 90–100. TBL "The Triple Bottom Line: What Is It and How Does It Work?" The Triple Bottom Line: What Is It and How Does It Work? N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2013.
by the name of John Elkington saw the need for a sustainable growth measurement system, and strove to measure sustainability by bringing to view a new outline to measure sustainable performance in corporate America. This outline, called the triple bottom line, went beyond the customary measures of shareholder value, profits, and return on investment to include social and environmental dimensions. By focusing on widespread
Approaches of Bottom-up and Top-down The main two approaches to reading, top-down and bottom-up have produced a great debate towards which is the best approach to teach children to read. Top down reading is also known as the whole language approach in which the meaning of the text relies upon the reader’s background knowledge and his/her use of prediction to anticipate the meaning of the text. (http://www.sedl.org/reading/topics/balanced.html [23.10.01]). The bottom-up approach to
“Evaluate the implications of defining the vision for change from the top down relative to the from the bottom up” There is really no organization that it is not faced with a changing situation. Technology and globalization are perhaps the biggest issues impacting most organizations today. The difficulties that loom for creating that change can be intimidating. How should we implement change? It's a simple enough question, surely there's a simple answer-especially since we get to do it so often
Number Grid Investigation In numerical way I am going to multiply the top left number with right bottom number and the top right number with bottom left number and than I am going to find the difference between the products. The difference of product is going to be same as the size of a grid (in width) in 2 x 2 size. In 3 x 3 size the difference going to be four times bigger than a grid (width) size. I will also use the 5 x 5 grid, 6 x 6 grid and 7 x 7 grid to see how it works. E.g.
Getting Sober To recognize that they have drinking problems, alcoholics have to be completely miserable and willing to change. When they get to this point, it is called their "bottom." There are "high bottom" and "low bottom" drunks, but it doesn't matter as long as they get sober. There are many different reasons why an alcoholic decides to get sober, but in my own case, I lost my self-esteem, I couldn't control my drinking, and my life became unmanageable. The first thing that made me