Howard Staunton Essays

  • King Lear and Illegitimacy

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    King Lear and Illigetimacy Shakespeare’s treatment of illegitimacy in the play King Lear can be interpreted in many ways depending on the audience. The situation of illegitimacy is portrayed through the relationships of the characters the Earl Of Gloucester and his two sons Edgar and Edmund. Edmund is the illegitimate son while Edgar was born within the law. We learn of Edmund’s illegitimacy in the opening scene in the first act where The Earl of Gloucester is holding a conversation with Kent

  • Machiavellianation Scale: According To The Power Orientation Scale

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    A32- According to the power orientation scale, this assessment is designed to find out your Machiavellianism score. Machiavelli wrote how to gain and manipulate power. If an individual has a high score, they usually maintain emotional distance. Generally the average is 25. My score is a 22, which seems pretty high. Unfortunately this test doesn’t really give a clear representation of what score is high or low. My score can be low and I wouldn’t even know, since it is not identified. Assuming my score

  • The Civilian Conservation Corps

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    (Davidson 718). The Civilian Conservation Corps set up camps all over the country with many of them right here in the western part of Virginia. There were eight different camps in the Shenandoah Valley. Seeing as the Shenandoah Valley, specifically Staunton is where I am from, I wish to focus on the three camps that were located within Augusta County. North River, West Augusta, and Sherando were the names of the three camps located within Augusta County. North River Camp, also known as Mount Solon

  • Twelfth Night: Character Analysis

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    As the handmaiden of Olivia, Maria is considered today to play a relatively minor role in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, but despite her minor role, Maria is the driving piece in the subplot to trick Malvolio by writing a letter in her lady’s script, and she is, at the end of the play, married to Olivia’s cousin Sir Toby. Maria is typically interpreted as being “feisty, witty, and outgoing” (Marshall 217), but some would argue that this is not her personality in Trevor Nunn’s rendition of Twelfth

  • Lanval Symbolism

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    There are a few components that can symbolize numerous things in Lais of Marie de France to recognize Lanval and his character. When we are initially acquainted with Lanval inside the story, we are immediately recognized of King Arthur's absence of thankfulness for Lanval's commitment and loyalty, leaving Lanval discouraged and depressed about his knightly title. Lanval leaves the courtship of King Arthur, seeking after a sign to encourage his well deserved recognition, to only shortly abandon his

  • My Soul Mate

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    My Soul Mate I never thought I would meet the other "half of my orange." "Offspring" was not in my vocabulary, until I saw him, the entity of my imaginings. As he roamed the halls, strutting as though he possessed the building, he consumed my every thought. Every muscle he owned protruded through his uniform, his bulky, curly, caramel, tresses chiseled high and tight. The looks he granted me reassured my interests. He would be the father of my children. He dreaded our visit to Texas; we would

  • I Am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

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    and the emotions that sight evoked in me, you would be reading for a very long time and what I did this morning would indeed present itself in quite an extraordinary light. It is in recognition of this, with respect to the brain's aptitudes, that Howard Hughes in his paper, "Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World" quoted May Pines in expressing, "We can recognize a friend instantly-full face, in profile, or even by the back of his head. We can distinguish hundreds of colors and possibly as many as

  • Global Connections

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    December 1999, Vol. 42, No. 12. Murali, J. “Weblogs: Instant Publishing.” 29 March 2001: The Hindu On-Line. Internet. 16 June 2003. Available WWW: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/03/29/stories/082 90001.htm Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community, Electronic Version. Internet. 16 June 2003. Available WWW: http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/1.html. Chapter 1 Sosonoski, James. “Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines.” Tribble and Trubek. 400-409 Tribble

  • Starbucks Business Communication Practices

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    of “The Best 100 Companies to Work For” in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2008 (Starbucks, 2008). The Starbucks Experience provides consumers and the general public a direct line a of business communication. From friendly baristas to press releases from CEO Howard Schultz, Starbucks keeps its “partners” informed. The structure of Starbucks business communication is exceptional. Rather you are in their store buying a Caramel Frappuccino®, visiting their website or watching one of their advertisements on television;

  • Orin Smith CEO Starbucks

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    most successful executives, Orin Smith. As the 62-year old Smith retires this month as Starbuck’s CEO, he will be remembered for his leadership in the company by turning the inspiration and vision behind Starbucks into a reality. When previous CEO Howard Shultz approached Smith to join the Starbucks team in 1990, there were only approximately 45 stores in the U.S. and Canada combined (Starbucks). Today, there are around 9,000 stores occupied over 39 countries in addition to the 1,500 planned to open

  • Ehical and Moral Qualities CEOs Should Have

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    Required Qualities The responsibilities of the servant leaders go beyond organizational goals and development of subordinates, responsibilities extend into all stakeholders, internal and external, towards the corporate and societal community (Peterson et al., 2012). The qualities reach into ethical and moral values of the CEO as a person and their reflection of the corporate entity (García-Sánchez et al., 2013). The movement between ethical and moral decisions transcend level of consciousness reflective

  • How Howard Hughes The Aviator And His Planes

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    California. With Hughes keeping all of his designs and projects a secret, this new built cause quite a stir with the public. Once the people heard and saw the H1 they were calling it “The Silver Bullet”. Although Howard was called her “My Beautiful Little Thing”. With all of the excitement Howard filed to check his fuel levels on the H1 and had to crash land that plane. Flying the same H-1 fitted newly designed and longer wings; Hughes set a new transcontinental airspeed record by flying non-stop from

  • Starbucks Sells Fairtrade International Coffee

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    Starbucks Sells Fairtrade International Certified Coffee Starbucks Coffee is a chain that sells Fairtrade Certified coffee. Starbucks began purchasing in 2000 and now became one of the world’s prime purchasers of Fairtrade Certified coffee (“Coffee.”). Fairtrade International Charter’s has five core principles that companies are to achieve for certification and the next paragraphs will showcase how Starbucks achieves them. Principle 1: Market access for marginal producers Starbucks achieved the first

  • Experience the Sound: Pep Rally Experience

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    undergraduates in all different forms, whether they were speaking slang to connect to the younger folks or if they were speaking intellectually with vast vocabulary. However, any way these words were delivered, these words triggered in many minds, except mine. Howard University’s homecoming was October 22nd thru the 27th, 2013. A day after my eighteenth birthday was proclaimed to be turn up time for Howard’s students as well as graduates, celebrities, and especially local District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia

  • Australian Identit in Piper’s Son by Dominic Finch-Mackee

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    Identity. It’s a broad and difficult concept. As Australians, our identity is multi-faceted, having various different expressions. One aspect of my sense of Australian identity is masculinity and the idea of the “Aussie Battler.” An Aussie Battler is a man from the working class, a person who has pride in the country they live in. An Aussie battler is a patriarchal figure who works hard to support their family, often spending their spare time with the family or at the pub. The Piper’s Son, an Australian

  • Overcoming Barriers and Resistance to Change at Starbucks

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    The Transformation Agenda announced by CEO Howard Schultz in March 2008 had clearly framed Starbucks’ renewal strategy for restoring the company to profitable, sustainable growth (Schultz, 2011). However, in spite of careful meticulous planning, subsequent implementation of the changes comprising the agenda had met with considerable cultural and environmental resistance (Koehn, Besharov, & Miller, 2008). In retrospect, the leadership team failed to develop effective strategies for coping with the

  • Vision, Mission, and Strategy at Starbucks

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    Starbucks was bought out by current CEO Howard Schultz in 1987. Since then, Andrew Harrer (2012) reports the company has grown to operate over “17,244 stores worldwide” (para. 1). Fortune (n.d.) reports in its yearly 100 Best Companies to Work for that Starbucks employs “some 95,000 employees”. From only a handful of stores in 1987 to a billion dollar franchise today, the success of Starbucks is due in great deal to their corporate culture, specifically how employees, or as Starbucks calls them,

  • Competitive Strategic Approaches used by Starbuck

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    This has all along been the case. To accentuate this phenomenon, there was a time Howard Schultz had to travel to Italy to explore more of the Italian coffee tastes offered in Italy coffee bars and come back to customize the same in America. Unfortunately, upon his return he resigned from Starbuck and formed his own company. However, a few years after he formed his company, Starbuck went on sale and this led Howard Schultz and other investors to mobilize resources and purchased Starbuck. Schultz’s

  • Starbucks and Leadership Traits

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    family. One example of this servant leadership is when former Starbucks President Howard Behar and Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz came to the aide of families of employees who had been shot and killed in Washington D.C. After receiving a call in the middle of the night at his home in Seattle Behar immediately called his CEO and told him of the tragic happenings and what happened next astounded most. Howard Schultz went to Washington D.C to be with the families of his three employees who had

  • Summary of Disney´s The Little Mermaid

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    the timeline in The Little Mermaid, the makers of The Little Mermaid use their imagination and Disney house style to visualize Andersen’s story and develop The Little Mermaid characters into modern people. In addition, the composers, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, created witty songs that fully enhanced the movie. The fascinating story begins at sea, depicting the underwater kingdom, and the glimmering lights reflecting on the water. Ariel, who is dissatisfied with her life as a mermaid. Ariel does