Essays Tagged: "Empowerment"

The Scarlet Letter

uses diction and symbolism to show the negative effects of stifling conformity verses the positive empowerment found in embarrassing one's own truth. He tries to impress upon his readers that an outs ...

(2 pages) 68 0 4.7 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

An essay on the importance of names in "This Earth of Mankind" by Pramoedya Toer (3 pgs, bibliography included)

him. Even after he discovers what Minke means, he decides to keep the name and use it as a form of empowerment. Nyai Ontosoroh is another prime example. She was forced into what she is, only a Nyai, ... just another piece of property. Mama has not only embraced her name, but also uses it as a form of empowerment.A name can have such vested importance that it might actually be beneficial to change it ...

(3 pages) 72 1 3.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

This is a college essay on the code of ethics for social workers, pros and cons.

being and help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty. A historic and defining ...

(3 pages) 497 1 4.7 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Steven Spielbergs Amistad

become now. The film represents...'the necessity of articulation through storytelling as a means of empowerment...how storytelling empowered victims of racial injustice in the past,' writes Lipkin.The ...

(2 pages) 119 0 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The portrayal of women in the novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Marquez and "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende.

ed years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits differs greatly. In One Hundred Years of Solitude empowerment comes only through age, for instance Ursula Iguaran, the matriarch of the Buendia family ... a Tenera the 'sexual matriarch' of Macondo. This is in contrast with The House of the Spirits where empowerment comes also through force of conviction, as seen with Nivea, and also through commercial ...

(6 pages) 116 0 4.4 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Why Microsoft is so successful

ple, due to a motivated fork force. Microsoft is successful because of their workplace environment, empowerment of employee ideas, and their employee benefits. A motivated work force causes a team of ... ble to think and have incentive to produce new innovations and increase products.Secondly, employee empowerment is another way by which Microsoft motivates its employees. In today's society computers ...

(4 pages) 393 2 3.2 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

This paper discuss how important having an education is. It discusses how formal education guarantes power among society.

Formal Education Guarantying PowerIn my opinion, I think that formal education is the key to empowerment for everyone. To me power is having the ability to be a leader and be effective in the r ...

(3 pages) 397 2 5.0 Jul/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Harley Davidson case analysis -- with IFE, EFE, CPM, and TOWS matrix...

ety). Harley-Davidson believes the key to success is to balance stakeholders' interests through the empowerment of all employees to focus o value-added activities"Current Strategy:Differentiation Stra ...

(6 pages) 1100 0 2.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Automotive Companies

How Contemporary Organisations Gain Competitive Advantage by Human Resource Management

ime workforce within the industrialized world, there are some issues, such as leadership, teamwork, empowerment etc, which are vitally important and need to be managed carefully, each of these concept ...

(1 pages) 170 1 2.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

The Total Quality Program for a Computer

and distribution intermediaries' processes used in development of the product focusing on planning, empowerment and conflict management techniques.The Total Quality Program for a ComputerSupply and de ... grees to the TQM requirement and interprets the flowchart provided by XYZ with a focus on planning, empowerment, and conflict management.To create a computer, PDQ must plan their course of action. The ...

(4 pages) 99 1 3.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

This essay is critiquing the work of James Baldwin in his short writing "On the Painter Beauford Delaney ". It is a rhetoric analyisis of his work.

a light, being present in Delaney's artwork. Baldwin's essay takes the metaphorical meaning of the empowerment of light and connects it to the acclaimed work of Beauford Delaney.In Alaska the winter ...

(2 pages) 40 0 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Book: Guadalupe, Mother of the New Creation by Virgil Elizando - answering the question: How does Elizando present the Guadalupe apparaiton as an example of "Conversion within one's own tradition"?

er,) a messenger of the true gospel and mother of the living Christ brought hope, love, acceptance, empowerment, and an embracing of the Nahuatl people, history, and culture - which resulted in the op ... ant element in Elizando's presentation of conversion is the restoration of dignity, self-worth, and empowerment to Juan Diego (and the Nahuatl.) La Virgen de Guadalupe entrusted Juan Diego with the mi ...

(6 pages) 49 0 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

The Spartan Warriors.

: The Spartan Warriors is a research paper about the ancient warrior culture of Sparta that rose to empowerment over the Grecian Peninsula. This paper speaks in depth specifically about the issues of ...

(7 pages) 152 0 4.8 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Team Charter.

archically and functionally driven structures) in favor of team-based approaches that emphasize the empowerment of employees and sharing of leadership responsibilities.In the past, many organizations ...

(5 pages) 563 3 4.8 Sep/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Colorful Metaphor is a Critical Thinking paper.

g upon the diversity of language in the role, it plays inside of the critical thinking process. The empowerment of language is only limited, to the expression of our cerebrations experienced throughou ... eds to resonate our thoughts to our fellow beings, thus stimulating creative juices of the mind.The empowerment of language is only limited to the expression of one's thoughts, either through a vocal ...

(2 pages) 398 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Empowerment

1.1 EMPOWERMENT"Empowerment is a concept that gained popularity in the 90's and is set to continue as a ... ilities to teams at workplace or customer level."(Arkin, 1995 cited in Beardwell & Holden, 2001)Empowerment can be defined as an enabling process that removes unnecessary restrictions from staff a ... on control through systems and bureaucracy towards control through trusting. Mullins (1999) defines empowerment as a way of allowing employees greater freedom, autonomy and self-control over their wor ...

(2 pages) 156 1 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Anne Moody's activism style in "Coming of Age in Mississippi" reflects both that of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Henry David Thoreau.

le to actually able to work with King. Her many protests allowed her to work with many famous black empowerment leaders, including King and Jackie Robinson.In "Coming of Age in Mississippi" while at N ...

(3 pages) 98 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Color Purple: Film

male characters. The novel focused on Celie, an abused and uneducated black woman who struggled for empowerment. The book grew popular worldwide, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. As a resul ...

(4 pages) 113 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Comparison between Osar Romero and Oscar Schindler.

ign of justice in society. Oscar Romero and Oscar Schindler dedicated their lives to people with no empowerment, protested against the killing of innocent people and left behind the courage and influe ...

(1 pages) 32 1 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

The Joy of Cooking: Like Water for Chocolate. A comparison of the novel by Laura Esquivel to the 1992 movie. Work Cited included.

e Water for Chocolate(Como Agua Para Chocolate) which I argue is a site for feminine resistance and empowerment.The film incorporates the mundaneness of periodical romance and the fantastic characteri ... far from the case. Without the necessary conventions of the magical realistgenre there would be no empowerment in this scene. Without the magical transubstantiation allthat is left is a Merchant Ivor ...

(18 pages) 144 0 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American