The site Documentary Diva is a personal blog site about documentary films by a documentary film historian and was the Executive Director of the International Documentary Association for eight years. She also serves in many other areas of documentary filmmaking and viewing. She clearly is passionate about documentary films, and with her contacts in the industry, she has access to many filmmakers and directors that most people would not. The site not only contains her reviews of documentary films, it also includes bios and information on filmmakers, and her reviews of attendance at worldwide film events. It also contains book reviews of books that deal with documentary films and filmmaking. This site is very comprehensive, and unlike most blogging sites, it is very professional and even academic. It is a good source for information on documentary films, and the author's credentials give credence to her views and reviews. In addition, the site conta

Abstract This paper discusses the qualities and methods needed in a student success guide. This guide outlines what students must do to perform well and complete their education satisfactorily regardless of the institution they attend. Introduction Of primary concern to most students when entering college is their ability to achieve, succeed and acquire their diploma. Many universities now offer success guides to students with the hope that students will benefit from these guides. This paper hypothesizes that a successful student guide will encourage students to find intrinsic motivation and adopt learning strategies that support a self-managed approach. A self-managed approach is one where students have control over the courses they take and the manner in which they study (Dembo, 2000; Bandura, 1982). This approach d

Research, teaching, and learning are three terms that relate to scholarship. Choose one or more of these terms and discuss how it affects a person's commitment to scholarship. To be a true scholar, and to devote one's life to scholarly practice, an individual must love learning. This love must come from a love of learning's sake. A professor or graduate student must log long hours in the research laboratory or library, often with little positive reinforcement that he or she is 'ge

About Mattel, Inc – Mattel started out as a garage workshop activity in Southern California in 1947 (Mattel Inc. 2007). Its founders were Ruth and Elliot Handle and Harold Matson, from whom the company was derived. Their first simple products were picture frames. Elliot thought of starting a doll house furniture business from their picture frame scraps. Harold Matson later sold his share of the business to the Handlers who decided to embark on toy production (Mattel). The Handlers' first product in the toys line was the Uke-a-Doodle in 1947 (Mattel 2007). In 1955, they began advertising their products through the Mickey Mouse Club. They introduced Barbie in 1959, naming it after their daughter Barbara who had a fascination with cut out paper dolls. Barbie became the foremost doll brand in the toy industry. In 1960, Mattel became a publicly owned company, listed in the New York and Pacific Coast Stock Exchanges in 1963 and 1965. At this time, its sales shot up to

Tarzan of the Apes is one of the most enduringly popular pieces of literature that has fascinated readers for about a century now. Published in 1912, Tarzan's story gained immediate success and over the next two decades, many extensions of the story were written and published on popular demand. There is nothing real about Tarzan or his upbringing, in fact even though the author has made a serious attempt at convincing us of the reality of the situation, the readers have never been in any doubt that such a thing is close to impossible. However they have not bothered to question the veracity of such a story and have usually enjoyed for the great enthralling piece of literature that it most definitely is. If anything ever raised the question of Nature vs. Nurture, then Tarzan's story was certainly the reason. Is man made or born the way he is? Burroughs has no ambiguities on this question: in the race between nature and nurture, it is always the former that wins. Nature is t

"Poetry"-this is such a wide term, like the category "novel," or "non-fiction," or "song." There are poems that are a smattering of lines and those that fill an entire book. Some follow strict rhyme, and others stick to free verse. Complete plays are written in poetic verse, and operas, too. Even the different types of poems, themselves, are poetic when listed: ode, epic, tanka, pantoum, villanelle, jintishi, sonnet, lyric and prose. And, one should not forget all the wonderful terminology that describe the way words are said: accent, alliteration and assonance; consonance, dissonance; foot and eye rhythm; enjambment; 1/2 rhyme, rhyme scheme, and sprung rhythm; onomatopoeia, anacrusis and Caesura, and, of course, aposiopesis, anadiplosis and stichomythia. Also, poetry includes periods, styles, and movements... Black Mountain, Cowboy, Folk, Limerick, Lyric, Libel, Concrete, Pastoral, Romanticism and Imagism. Erasure, Movement Minnesinge

Look at any group of small children in a line-the children will inevitably be comparing themselves. Who is taller? Who is heavier? While this comparison is possible simply by sight, measuring through standardized units allows everyone to compare their heights, weights, and other data to individuals not within their direct line of vision. They can compare themselves against the 'norm'-just as their parents can see if their weights fall in an unhealthy range, and if their bloo

Stealing Buddha's Dinner is the autobiographical story of Vietnamese immigrant Bich Minh Nguyen and her continuous struggle to fit in and become 'truly American' in Grand Rapids, Michigan during the 1970s and 1980s. Her perception of what 'American' means relies almost completely on media imagery and messages. In a very foreign world, Bich finds refuge in watching television. In a culturally homogenous Midwestern city, her highest aspiration becomes not to be noticed by her peers. When recalling her childhood and teen years in Grand Rapids, she points out that she felt awkward and misplaced due to her physical and cultural coordinates which did not match those of the other kids at school: "I came of age in the 1980s, before diversity and multicultural awareness trickled into western Michigan. Before ethnic was cool. Before Thai restaurants became staples in every town." (Bich 10) Very sensitive and introspective, Bich begins to feel isolated and find comfort in watching television which becomes h

If Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly sat down to watch the evening news in 2007, they would probably be very sorry to see what has become of their lead as newscasters. Except for a scanty few news magazines, such as "60 Minutes" developed by "See It Now" alumni Don Hewitt, and political talk shows as "Bill Moyers" and "Face the Nation," most of the TV news consists of sound bites, canned formats with bantering newscasters and rehashes of the same information ad nausea. In fact, the news often sounds like a soap opera, where people tune in to find out the next saga in someone's life (or death). Many (most?) of today's TV viewers want to be entertained. Just look at all the reality shows that have become so popular. Instead, Murrow thoroughly covered a topic. This provided the viewers with a strong foundation on the subject.

Both Japanese and American firms have capitalized upon the use of innovative forms of technology and have changed the way the world does business. This is embodied in the creation of the wildly popular Toyota Prius as well as the ubiquity of Microsoft Windows on almost every computer screen around the world. However, although examples of successful American and Japanese firms are easy to find, both countries have radically different corporate cultures. America has a business culture of entrepreneurship and individually-generated innovation, while Japanese stresses the value of having stable corporate institutions that hone talent in a collaborative fashion. America's core innovative advantage is in deploying entrepreneurship funded through the strategic use of venture capital. Entrepreneurs profit by taking risks like Bill Gates, who made the decision to drop out of Harvard and begin a c

First of all, with a city council made up of only 4 members (there are almost always an odd number of members in order to avoid a deadlock on any issue), there needs to be extremely good cooperation – and no political agendas between members – in order to accomplish what is right for the citizens in these troubled times. In this case, the right thing to do is to address the most pressing issue facing the citizens. That said, I would vote to use the $200,000 in the city budget to beef up the police department. Why fund the police instead of the Fire Department? There is still one fire truck remaining, and with good professional collaborati

INTRODUCTION Many individuals and groups believe that advertising is harmful. This work seeks to research and examine this issue and determine the actual elements of harm that are connected to advertising and further to persuade the reader that advertising is indeed harmful. I. PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION REPORT The Public Health Association states in a report entitled: "Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Harmful Says PHA" published October 6, 2006 that it is "welcoming reports that the Government may soon ban direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines."(Scoop Health, 2006) The Director of the Public Health Association, Dr. Gay Keating states that evidence exists that "direct-to-consumer advertising causes harm" because "there is a risk that people will purchase pharmaceutical based not on what's best for their health, but on which company produces the most convincing advertisements." (Scoop Health, 2006) II. MARKETING AND ADVERTISING HARMFUL TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH In a September 28, 2002 report in 'The Lancet' entitled: "Marketing and Advertising: Harmful to Children's

Introduction The ethics shall be necessarily applied in the field of accounting because it increases the opportunities aimed at detection of frauds. According to several professionals ethics has been regarded as the primary tool for fraud detection through replication and peer review. The profession of accounting is extremely delicate, and slight manipulation of records can be responsible for the magnanimous nature of fraud, and irreparable loss for the individual or company. In the financial sciences, 'the debate over ethics has focused on the philosophical underpinning of the world view of the accountants as being as much of a problem as the actual behaviors of the accountants. The key areas for accounting are divided into the gathering financial data and reporting and interpretation of the data. Before launching into a philosophical discourse on the underpinnings of the world view of accountants, replete with the discussion of epistemological concerns, hermeneutics, ontology, paradi

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this research is to examine ethics, practice and research in public health and specifically to add insight and offer solution to the problems faced when performing an evaluation in regards to public health. To this end, two articles will be reviewed. I. THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF EVALUATION (THOMPSON, 1992) Andrew Thompson, in the work entitled "The Ethics and Politics of Evaluation" writes that evaluation "can be regarded as a distinct branch of social science research and, as such, presents evaluators with specific ethical problems not encountered by other researchers." (1992) Andrew relates that ethical issues gain the notice of all researchers during the course of study and as explained by Sungalia (1987, p.287) "I had come to evaluate the work of an educational planning unit. That was my purpose. But what transpired as the real purpose of my study? I learned in time that I ...had come to assist in market a product: to bottl

The United States is a country that has traditionally been the homeland of immigrants from all over the world. While English is this country's official language, I would argue that in today's multicultural era, we can no longer continue to view American English as one solid, flawless entity. Instead, following in the American tradition, we have to start thinking in terms of "Englishes," as the language continues to be shaped by the vast contributions that the immigrant population has made in learning to speak and write it. Rather than see this as a sign that the English language is in trouble, on the contrary I would say that English is probably one of the world's liveliest languages, as it continues to grow and evolve thanks to the numerous different Englishes that are spoken in America each day. In her essay "Mother Tongue," the novelist Amy Ta

The intent of this analysis is to evaluate and analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of Ford Motor Company as of October, 2007. Ford Motor Company is comprised of eight brands including Aston Martin, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury and Volvo which together combine to create one of the world's most recognized brands. On March 12, 2007 Ford announced the sale of Aston Martin for $925M to David Richards, John Sinders, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment Co. (Ford Motor Company, 2007). The sale of Aston-Martin was consistent with Ford's strategy of concentrating more on its core business units. The SWOT analysis of Ford Motor Company is next provided below

Introduction: Military health care has been a hotly debated issue within the popular press and among politicians for the last ten years. This is as a result of the development of programs that government military health care, in a privatized manner, and the attempt to cut costs in doing so. ("Relations with Non-Federal Entities Outline," 2001) The Department of Defense operates one of the largest and most complex health-care organizations in the nation. Including their overseas facilities, the Army, Navy, and Air Force operated about 465 military treatment facilities (MTFs) in 1999, including 91 hospitals and 374 clinics (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1999b).The beneficiary population consists of approximately eight million active duty personnel, retirees, survivors, and their dependents. Their care is provided through a program called TRICARE, which offers both managed-care and fee-for-service options. TRICARE managed-care providers include the MTFs and a network of civilian pr

Successful teaching involves much more than reciting information to a room full of students. Instead, successful teaching requires a foundation of pedagogical philosophy that guides the teacher in the methods to best teach understanding with their students. More so, to build this pedagogical philosophy that is required for successful teaching, a teacher must constantly be teaching themselves by maintaining up to date on the latest theory and practice developments. This paper will critically review some of the latest pedagogical theories, as put forth by some of education's most leading scholars. Particularly, the theories that are proposed and analyzed within these seven articles focus on the general concept of how to better teach a rapidly diversifying classroom. With classrooms becoming more and more inclusive of abilities, languages, races, backgrounds and social-economic status, the ability to reach every student's unique learning needs becomes more and more of a c

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the poem "The Sluggard" by Isaac Watts. Specifically, it will contain a literary exploration of the poem as it relates to children's literature. In "The Sluggard," the author berates a lazy child for his behavior. He writes, "Thus he wastes half his days, and his hours without number," (Watts 32). Is this a relevant poem for today's youth? At first glance, this poem seems outdated, even archaic in how it looks at life, work, and the "sluggard" who sleeps his days away. I believe, however, that even though this poem was written in 1715, when life was much more difficult and demanding, even for children, that it is still relevant, even significant, today. I believe this for a number of reasons, from the nightly news to my own experiences. Our society has become a society of many different opportunities and technologies that make life much easier than it used to be. In addition, there seems to be an aversion to hard work in many are

1.On September 26, 2007 a representative from Merrill Lynch presented a comment letter in regards to the SEC 33.8818 proposal to end the reconciliation requirement for foreign companies to comply with GAAP rules, standards and guidelines when issuing financial statements. Merrill Lynch applauds the decision and it is easy to see why. According to the comment letter Merrill believes that the reconciliation requirement has been an impediment to foreign companies that costs Merrill Lynch (and many other financial firms) millions of dollars in revenue each year. In the letter Merrill Lynch states that there have been a record number of de-listings on the NYSE due to this requirement. Considering the fact that to list a stock on the exchange costs a company approximately $3

As his name conveys, Goodman Brown naively believes that his community is sin free, without any malice or evil intent. He cannot concede that in his world both good and bad dwell together. He leaves behind Faith, his aptly named wife, and heads out for a clandestine meeting in the dark of nature, with the gloomiest of trees and a path closing in on itself as he passes. Around him, shadows fall, as if passing "through an unseen multitude." "There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree," he says to himself, glancing fearfully around and adding, "What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!" He is not sure if what he see is real or the dreams of exhaustion. Soon, he meets a second traveler, looking much older and wiser, despite his attire that is as simple as Goodman Brown's. Whether this is indeed the devil or Brown's imagination come alive remains unknown. Brown tries to

John Cheever's short story "The Country Husband" ends with the protagonist Francis Weed, happily making a bookshelf upon the advice of his therapist. Over the course of the tale, he has experienced a series of traumas, beginning with the possibility of his flight crashing, his sad babysitter Anne throwing herself at him after sobbing about her alcoholic father, and confronting a hidden former German conspirator working as a servant in at a suburban home. The end feels curiously deflating, although it feels 'realistic' in the sense that the reader can envision such an event taking place in real life. Francis does not run off with the babysitter, or die in a plane crash. Rather, it shows the protagonist experiencing a mid-life crisis that could be potentially and powerfully life-altering, but ultimately has no exterior effects upon his existence. Francis' suburban life is too comfortable for him to leave it, and seek real happiness. Instead, he vents his

The trumpet invokes the primal sense stimuli of sound, sight, and touch through its evocative use of melody, tone, and rhythm. The trumpet, of all the brass instruments, is the one that sounds the most like a human voice. It usually provides the melody of a jazz work because of the clear, bell-like sound of its notes. Its tone is one of clarity that can cut through the noise of a crowd or audience at an orchestra. Its noise rises above the dull thump of the lower-toned base instruments like the tuba, the drone of the woodwinds, and the buzz of the string instruments. Even an untrained ear can identify the sound of a trumpet, almost as if its sound was hard-wired into the brain from birth. When there is no singer, the trumpet is the voice of the orchestra. Like children respond to their mother's voices, so we respond to the voice of the trumpet out of this primal memory, this love of speech and articulation. The trumpet's quick notes of brightness, unlike

The personal, relational, and collective well-being has been the progressive feature of health care management. However, the conceptual clarification is required for the analysis of the 'positive, needed, and recent development in health promotion' (Karl, 2004), which is achievable through synergistic applications. In this regard, the health care management is urged to differentiate among 'sites, signs, sources, and strategies' (Mark, 2002) associated with the well-being. The progress is the function of different parameters that include temporal, ecological, participation, and capabilities; the application of which is the approval of these domains. The temporal domain has been referred to as 'timing of interventions and entails a continuum from reactive to proactive strategies', whereas the ecological domains refer to the 'site of interventions, ranging from person-centered to community-centered' (Marika, 2002), the participation domain is the 'voice and choice of citizens and consume

The book entitled The Difference "Difference" Makes: Women and Leadership, edited by Deborah L. Rhode, collects various articles and writings that reflect and comment on the role women play in leadership positions and how these roles are specifically defined by them being women. In a way, this book picks up where Carol Gilligan's ground breaking book, In a Different Voice, left off. In summary, Gilligan's book laid the foundation of feminine leadership thought with the argument for a "difference theory", or the theory women and men are uniquely different and thus approach things, such as leadership, in different manners. Deborah L Rhode's career has been highlighted with her many articles and work in the legal field that focuses on Gilligan's difference theory, specifically assessing its promises and problems. According to Rhodes, all of her work is focused on flushing out "the importance of multiple frameworks that avoid universal or