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Alice Walker American Women
761 wordsDespite oppression, African-American women of the past were able to overcome obstacles by taking on the role of artists. They relied on their creative spirits to carry them through their wretched existence. In Alice Walker's essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, " she explains how the mothers and grandmothers of her generation held on to their dignity and strength through their expression of creativity. The boldness represented by this creativity shows the dynamic depth of their souls and th...
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Anthem By Ayn Rand
1,648 wordsImagine a world where the individual has been repressed to the point that the word I no longer exists. Now, as hellish as that sounds, imagine that you are the only one who has the capability to break free from the iron fists that are choking you and your brothers. This is the life of Equality 7 - 2521, the principal character and narrator of Ayn Rands Anthem. Anthem takes place in the dark ages of the future, in a totally collectivized world. This culture has regressed to conditions reminiscent...
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Rose Like Glow Falling From Heaven Passage
1,383 wordsIn this passage, Joyce develops motifs and images present throughout the book to create a moment of epiphany, where the speaker realizes a moment of artistic innovation in a poem In addition, this passage reflects important themes in the novel. Joyce uses the motif of dawn to suggest that this is a breakthrough moment in the speakers life. He begins by saying Towards dawn, he awoke. This is a foreshadowing of the new and innovative moment that is about to come in the passage. He is describes as ...
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R Amp D Creative Thought
2,292 wordsLeaders know in their gut that creativity and innovation are the life blood of their organization. New ideas can lead to programs that are superior to those that are already going on or planned in the organization and which would have been divested or never initiated had a better idea or program come along. So, the mission of every leader should be to search continually for ideas and programs that are superior to the ones the organization is currently committed to. In a word, it's called PROGRES...
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Nobel Prize Creative Thought
2,227 words... that thinking process disease known as "hardening of the categories. " This becomes a special problem when the knowledge is focused in a small specialty area, because the breadth of alternative information that could be used in creative synthesis is missing. Creative Leaders Are Original Thinkers Original thinking is not the same as creativity but is obviously prerequisite for creative thought. Originality requires an active search for the different. This may involve deliberate attempts to c...
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R Amp D Creative Thinking
2,238 words... l tone of his unit, and that tone may encourage creativity or may actively discourage it. Junior level professionals are easily intimidated or disheartened in attempts to sell their ideas. The senior scientists studied by Pelz and Andrews who were the most effective in implementing ideas were those whose superiors "stayed out of the way, " with respect to the actual conduct of the research. For this level of employee, the proper role of leaders would seem to be limited to encouragement, frie...
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Heaven And Hell Love And Hate
1,385 wordsThe Romantic period produced more poets who, at one time or another, aspired to become philosophers than in any other period in English literature. The Romantic poets felt a need for a metaphysical structure that would, conceptually, make explicit the mind set that had emerged from am era of revolutionary change in art, politics, and society. William Blake is one the philosophical poets of the era whose works attempt to get at philosophical truth through imaginative means. In The Marriage of Hea...
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Decision Making De Bono
1,427 wordsSix Thinking Hats Generally, decision making is the action of choosing from a number of alternatives. Some tools and techniques of decision making are easy and popular, so we commonly use them in our daily life when doing shopping, choosing education establishment, etc. For example, we can record and consider advantages and disadvantages of an option, or look for somebody elses opinion, or use random methods, like tossing up a coin. But there are situations, connected with business or other impo...
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Oxford Oxford University York Random House
2,512 wordsCan morality provide us with a form of self-transcendence? Within the scope of this research, we will elaborate on various philosophers opinions in order to find out whether morality can provide us with a form of self transcendence. Self-transcendence, according to Nietzsche, is the common essence of all moral codes. "Man, " he says, "is something that should be transcended. " (Cohen 126) Self-transcendence is, for him, not only the essence of morality, but most emphatically the essence of man h...
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21 St Century Resistance To Change
1,560 wordsThe New Agenda The combination of: concentration of ownership, deregulation, technology, and corporate vs. public agenda, have led to the construction of a brave new world In the context of the new global economy the very essence of the human purpose is being reshaped. We are being constructed towards a new purpose. The reason to that mainly stays in our technology development, industrialization, globalization and very low interest in solving environmental problems. The playground for organizati...
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Key To Success Public Relations
1,534 wordsBusiness Strategy The economy as we know it today has gone through immense changes during the hundreds of years it exists. From the early forms of barter in the Stone Age to first attempts of mass production in the time of the industrial revolution and to e-commerce and emotional marketing in the 21 st century, the world has seen many different strategies of producing and selling goods. Today, businesses utilize various strategies in order to succeed on the competitive market, which is continuou...
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Ability To Manipulate Conventional Wisdom
1,493 wordsAs a first clarification, it should be pointed out that we will not be concerned with artistic creativity. Though there are no doubt some close connections between creative art and creative thinking we will not investigating the abilities involved in playing the violin or painting a picture, but rather the abilities involved in thinking, creatively. What is thinking? A general definition is probably impossible, but three very broad cognitive processes which constitute the core of our ability to ...
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U S News S News And World Report
1,027 wordsCreativity Creativity is the sole heart of modernization, technology and the arts. Without creativity, humanity would still thrive in caves. There is no argument against creativity being an important aspect of our society, there is, however, a question whether creativity is spawned by mental disorder. Albert Einstein came up with ideas that seemed impossible or eccentric. Froyd's psychology theorems were laughed at, but now widely used and accepted. Both men were highly successful with their wor...
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Creativity Workers Ideas
362 wordsEight Ways to Spur Creativity in Your Employees By Daniel Collison, Associate Editor, Smart Workplace Practices Its a dog-eat-dog business climate. To ensure your businesss survival beyond 2001, listen to your workers profit-minded, productivity-boosting suggestions. What follows are eight tips for boosting employee creativity. 1. Model creativity Change a procedure. Kick-off a new one. You wont prompt worker creativity if they dont see it in you. 2. Assure job security Before a successful idea ...
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