For the course project, you will select a country of interest (Rwanda) and assess the international business potential of that country and compare its characteristics to the characteristics of the United States. You will write a paper based on your research over the course of next 5 weeks. Include the following sections in the paper:
· Executive summary
· Macroeconomic condition
· Political and cultural environment
· Operations, Marketing, and Human Resource considerations
· Overall recommendations and risk assessment for making business investments into this country
The following organizations gather and publish data relevant to your course project. Use these resources for research.
· United Nations
· World Bank
· International Monetary Fund
· European Union
· Asian Development Bank
· Central Intelligence Agency
· Trade Information Center
· Japanese External Trade Organization
· Lexis-Nexis
· Ernst & Young
· International Trade Centre
· Dow Jones
· DIALOG
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Client - a company synonymous with the term innovation. Since its inception, the company founders have instilled a belief in unique product creation, including life altering product innovations such as the light bulb envelope, TV tube, and optical waveguides. This concept of innovation has been deemed one of the company's most essential quality programs, bridging functional groups within the organization, renewing itself through continued time and iterations. For the client, innovation not only challenges traditional ways to thinking, but has become a key impetus to drive change. Innovation converts ideas into opportunities.
The client began its journey with the realization that the rate of new product development would be insufficient to maintain company profitability in the future. In the late 1970's and early 1980's there was a cycle of small pockets of promising technological advances, defensive moves, and diminishing returns. Previously the company's innovation processes had been defined only within the areas of research, product development, and engineering. The client began by analyzing past innovations and the successes and failures associated with each, and benchmarking their own best practices and lessons learned.
The client has defined innovative effectiveness as: requiring an understanding of overall corporate and business strategies; developing organizational roadmaps based on customers, the market, competitors, strengths and weaknesses, and resources; ability to evaluate, prioritize, and select projects; and executing the selected project well. The key elements of innovation intervention are: an innovation task force, composed of key innovators; the utilization of company history as a resource for innovation; a focus on strengths and resources in a project of paramount importance, referred to as "flexible critical mass;" and a two-and-a-half-day innovation conference for 200 company leaders which focuses on reintrodu.
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Leading Innovation and Change: Best Practice Case Study
Client - a company synonymous with the term innovation. Since its inception, the company
founders have instilled a belief in unique product creation, including life altering product
innovations such as the light bulb envelope, TV tube, and optical waveguides. This concept of
innovation has been deemed one of the company's most essential quality programs, bridging
functional groups within the organization, renewing itself through continued time and iterations.
For the client, innovation not only challenges traditional ways to thinking, but has become a key
impetus to drive change. Innovation converts ideas into opportunities.
The client began its journey with the realization that the rate of new product development would
be insufficient to maintain company profitability in the future. In the late 1970's and early 1980's
there was a cycle of small pockets of promising technological advances, defensive moves, and
diminishing returns. Previously the company's innovation processes had been defined only within
the areas of research, product development, and engineering. The client began by analyzing past
innovations and the successes and failures associated with each, and benchmarking their own
best practices and lessons learned.
The client has defined innovative effectiveness as: requiring an understanding of overall
corporate and business strategies; developing organizational roadmaps based on customers, the
market, competitors, strengths and weaknesses, and resources; ability to evaluate, prioritize, and
select projects; and executing the selected project well. The key elements of innovation
intervention are: an innovation task force, composed of key innovators; the utilization of company
history as a resource for innovation; a focus on strengths and resources in a project of paramount
importance, referred to as "flexible critical mass;" and a two-and-a-half-day innovation conference
for 200 company leaders which focuses on reintroducing the innovation process.
Through the work conducted by the task force, not only were successes analyzed, but so were
areas in which the organization had fallen short over the years. By improving innovation by 10%
per year, costs could be cut in half, and doubling that rate would be equivocal to doubling the
RD&E spending level. This success would come down to the restoration of simple fundamentals:
- An environment and culture of energy and enthusiasm
- Entrepreneurial behavior at all levels
- The right people in the right places
- Sound business and technological strategies
- Improved processes for nurturing ideas
- Organizational mechanisms that could support the organization's drive for results.
Critical success factors also emerged from the client’s innovation conference, focusing on:
training programs at all levels within the company which would become a part of project reviews
and the deployment of empl ...
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The document discusses factors for success and failure in innovation. It outlines an innovation growth model with 5 phases (adhoc, program, co-creation, eco-innovation, value chain innovation) and the challenges of moving between each phase. Key success factors discussed are people, management processes, tools, and opening innovation processes to external partners through co-creation.
International Executive Master Program in Intrapreneurship and Open Innovationmigarzab
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When any organization ramps up a new or refined business approach, it must align with their goals as a company and provide benefits that outweigh any associated costs. And, due to their typical ambiguity, corporate innovation programs often present many challenges that can be difficult to face without expert guidance.
In this presentation, Mindjet’s John Welder discusses how you can support your crowd innovation management programs through design thinking, agile methodologies, and lean start-up processes, in order to accelerate real business outcomes and revenue.
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Leading Innovation and Change: Best Practice Case Study
Client - a company synonymous with the term innovation. Since its inception, the company
founders have instilled a belief in unique product creation, including life altering product
innovations such as the light bulb envelope, TV tube, and optical waveguides. This concept of
innovation has been deemed one of the company's most essential quality programs, bridging
functional groups within the organization, renewing itself through continued time and iterations.
For the client, innovation not only challenges traditional ways to thinking, but has become a key
impetus to drive change. Innovation converts ideas into opportunities.
The client began its journey with the realization that the rate of new product development would
be insufficient to maintain company profitability in the future. In the late 1970's and early 1980's
there was a cycle of small pockets of promising technological advances, defensive moves, and
diminishing returns. Previously the company's innovation processes had been defined only within
the areas of research, product development, and engineering. The client began by analyzing past
innovations and the successes and failures associated with each, and benchmarking their own
best practices and lessons learned.
The client has defined innovative effectiveness as: requiring an understanding of overall
corporate and business strategies; developing organizational roadmaps based on customers, the
market, competitors, strengths and weaknesses, and resources; ability to evaluate, prioritize, and
select projects; and executing the selected project well. The key elements of innovation
intervention are: an innovation task force, composed of key innovators; the utilization of company
history as a resource for innovation; a focus on strengths and resources in a project of paramount
importance, referred to as "flexible critical mass;" and a two-and-a-half-day innovation conference
for 200 company leaders which focuses on reintroducing the innovation process.
Through the work conducted by the task force, not only were successes analyzed, but so were
areas in which the organization had fallen short over the years. By improving innovation by 10%
per year, costs could be cut in half, and doubling that rate would be equivocal to doubling the
RD&E spending level. This success would come down to the restoration of simple fundamentals:
- An environment and culture of energy and enthusiasm
- Entrepreneurial behavior at all levels
- The right people in the right places
- Sound business and technological strategies
- Improved processes for nurturing ideas
- Organizational mechanisms that could support the organization's drive for results.
Critical success factors also emerged from the client’s innovation conference, focusing on:
training programs at all levels within the company which would become a part of project reviews
and the deployment of empl ...
2016 - 2. Innovation as a core business process.potNadia Lushchak
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International Executive Master Program in Intrapreneurship and Open Innovationmigarzab
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When any organization ramps up a new or refined business approach, it must align with their goals as a company and provide benefits that outweigh any associated costs. And, due to their typical ambiguity, corporate innovation programs often present many challenges that can be difficult to face without expert guidance.
In this presentation, Mindjet’s John Welder discusses how you can support your crowd innovation management programs through design thinking, agile methodologies, and lean start-up processes, in order to accelerate real business outcomes and revenue.
The document describes the activities and services provided by the Canadian Innovation Centre related to new product and business development. It discusses three main activities: education, tools, and development. Under education, it shares knowledge about commercialization best practices. Its tools involve pre-commercialization research and evaluation. For development, it works on new strategies and methods to help innovators commercialize technologies. It outlines various studies it conducts at different stages from evaluation to launch to address issues innovators may face.
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The document discusses various aspects of service innovation including:
1) Service innovation involves developing new services or modifying existing services to create added value for customers through new technologies or competencies.
2) Companies must learn to tap into service innovation by addressing higher customer expectations, the rise of mobile internet, big data, and the internet of things.
3) Successful service innovation focuses on relieving what customers do not like, enabling what they cannot do without the service, and making it easier for customers to get what they need.
How any organisation can drive culture and design systems to pursue practical...Toby Farren
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including the various factors determining the capability of organisations to innovate internally;
the differences between frontend and backend innovation; and a focus on the relatively new
‘open’ innovation methods (including the advantages of utilizing sandboxes in the frontend
innovation process as well as collaborating with external bodies).
Level up - First SDGs accelerator in CEEEmanuele Musa
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Here is the model:
- We invite different corporation choose 1 or more SDGs that they wish to support;
- We scout for different NGOs and social ventures promoting these SDGs;
- We let the corporate choose the venture that they want to adopt for the program;
Both venture and up to 10 employees from the sponsor company will attend the accelerator. The goal is three-fold:
- Support the social enterprise to scale its impact;
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- Use the program as a platform to develop a corporate-startup collaboration, focused on the SDG that both wish to support.
If you wish to learn more, please reach out to manu@babele.co
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The document proposes an open innovation framework for established companies. It discusses roles, processes, and policies needed to implement open innovation. The key roles include external brokers, internal brokers, champions, and scouts. The main processes are the outside-in process of acquiring external ideas and assets, the inside-out process of commercializing unused internal assets, and trend scouting. Policies around intellectual property, knowledge management, collaboration, and communication are also important. The goal is to design a tailored open innovation model that leverages a company's existing competencies and culture to create sustainable innovation.
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Ian Coughlin is a software development director with extensive experience managing teams to deliver web and mobile applications across various industries. He has a proven track record of managing projects from requirements definition through delivery. Currently he is the Director of Professional Services at Trackmind Solutions where he created processes to build and manage a team that delivered successful projects for clients.
IIG is a global leader in business innovation and business model research and development. They help companies understand limitations in their current business models and develop improved customer value propositions. IIG was established in 2009 based on academic work in business models. They have since built an international team of consultants and experts in business models and now advise businesses, governments, and entrepreneurs on business development strategies through workshops and consulting.
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The element 'SUPPORT' encompasses the following sub-clauses, which are the different ways in which support could be extended:
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Discussion - Week 3
Elements of the Craft of Writing
The narrator's point of view is the reader's window into the soul of your story. Combined with the tone of voice, characterization, and dialogue, these elements of the craft of writing give your story believability and interest. How can you combine the elements of the craft with the elements of the short story and the techniques of development you learned about in Weeks 1 and 2? In this Discussion, you will understand point of view, tone of voice, characterization, and dialogue and examine how other writers use these elements of craft to improve their work.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the assigned portions of Chapters 3, 4, 6, and 7 in Shaping the Story.
Review "Revelation" by Flannery O’Connor, "Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros, and "Why I Like Country Music" by James Alan McPherson in Shaping the Story.
Reflect on the voice in the assigned stories.
How would you describe the voice in each short story?
How do these voices demonstrate what the authors are saying about the main issues of each story?
Reflect on the similarities and differences in the ways that the authors use dialogue to establish character presence.
Consider the issues that each story discusses. How do these issues shape the characters and affect the light in which they are seen at the beginning and the end of the story?
With these thoughts in mind:
Post by Day 3
: 2 to 3 paragraphs comparing and contrasting different approaches to two of the following elements in two of the three stories in the Week 3 reading.. Be sure to cite at least two specific examples from your readings.
Point of View
Tone of Voice
Characterization
Dialogue
Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week's Learning Resources, or something you have read, heard, seen, or experienced.
Read
a selection of your colleagues' postings.
Respond by Day 5
to at least one of your colleagues' postings in one or more of the following ways:
Ask a probing question.
Share an insight from having read your colleague's posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Validate an idea with your own experience.
Make a suggestion.
Expand on your colleague's posting.
Return
to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.
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WALDEN INSTRUCTOR
MANAGER
Tips for the week 3 discussion (read before you post)
COLLAPSE
Great job so far, class! I've really enjoyed your first two weeks of discussion posts.
Now we will shift our focus to even more tools we can use in our own stories, but first, we will see how they play out in the work of others.
Make sure you do all the readings for the week before posting anything, and also, go through and ask yourselves all the questions (above) from the
"to prepare for the discussion"
section of the instructions. I.
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Give names of bacteria in the genus enterobacteriaceae. How would differentiate enterobacteriaceae from other gram (-) bacteria?
Read the selected scriptures and in your response to the prompt discuss how at least one of the scriptures relates to the discussion topic.
Matthew 8:2-3
"A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, 'Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.' Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 'I am willing,' he said. 'Be clean!' Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy."
Mark 16:17-18
"'And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.'”
Respiratory System Disease
Pneumonia is diagnosed by the presence of fluid (dark shadows in an X ray) in the alveoli. Since pneumonia usually is caused by a microorganism, what causes the fluid accumulation? Name a bacterium, a virus, a fungus, a protozoan, and a helminth that can cause pneumonia.
Students will individually examine why pneumonia –an infection of the respiratory tract is among the most damaging. Students are also required to use the information they have learnt from the text, lectures, discussions and/or assignments to describe why the respiratory tract is an important portal of entry to inhaled microorganisms such as viruses, fungal spores and bacteria.
Learners will synthesize their findings in a summary presentation of
at least 10 slides
that will be shared with their peers by the specified due date, when they will then
compare and contrast
the feedback from their research in this discussion forum. Learners will be evaluated against the criteria outlined in the assignment and discussion forum rubric.
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With these thoughts in mind:
Post by Day 3
: 2 to 3 paragraphs comparing and contrasting different approaches to two of the following elements in two of the three stories in the Week 3 reading.. Be sure to cite at least two specific examples from your readings.
Point of View
Tone of Voice
Characterization
Dialogue
Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week's Learning Resources, or something you have read, heard, seen, or experienced.
Read
a selection of your colleagues' postings.
Respond by Day 5
to at least one of your colleagues' postings in one or more of the following ways:
Ask a probing question.
Share an insight from having read your colleague's posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Validate an idea with your own experience.
Make a suggestion.
Expand on your colleague's posting.
Return
to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.
REPLY
QUOTE
18 days ago
Chad Husted
WALDEN INSTRUCTOR
MANAGER
Tips for the week 3 discussion (read before you post)
COLLAPSE
Great job so far, class! I've really enjoyed your first two weeks of discussion posts.
Now we will shift our focus to even more tools we can use in our own stories, but first, we will see how they play out in the work of others.
Make sure you do all the readings for the week before posting anything, and also, go through and ask yourselves all the questions (above) from the
"to prepare for the discussion"
section of the instructions. I.
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Discussion - Microbial Classification
Give names of bacteria in the genus enterobacteriaceae. How would differentiate enterobacteriaceae from other gram (-) bacteria?
Read the selected scriptures and in your response to the prompt discuss how at least one of the scriptures relates to the discussion topic.
Matthew 8:2-3
"A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, 'Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.' Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 'I am willing,' he said. 'Be clean!' Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy."
Mark 16:17-18
"'And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.'”
Respiratory System Disease
Pneumonia is diagnosed by the presence of fluid (dark shadows in an X ray) in the alveoli. Since pneumonia usually is caused by a microorganism, what causes the fluid accumulation? Name a bacterium, a virus, a fungus, a protozoan, and a helminth that can cause pneumonia.
Students will individually examine why pneumonia –an infection of the respiratory tract is among the most damaging. Students are also required to use the information they have learnt from the text, lectures, discussions and/or assignments to describe why the respiratory tract is an important portal of entry to inhaled microorganisms such as viruses, fungal spores and bacteria.
Learners will synthesize their findings in a summary presentation of
at least 10 slides
that will be shared with their peers by the specified due date, when they will then
compare and contrast
the feedback from their research in this discussion forum. Learners will be evaluated against the criteria outlined in the assignment and discussion forum rubric.
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Discussion (Chapter 7): What are the common challenges with which sentiment analysis deals? What are the most popular application areas for sentiment analysis? Why?
Note: Response should be 250-300 words. Make sure to have at least one APA formatted reference (and APA in-text citation)
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Discussion - Big Data Visualization tools
Several Big Data Visualization tools have been evaluated in this week's paper. While the focus was primarily on R and Python with GUI tools, new tools are being introduced every day. Compare and contrast the use of R vs Python and identify the pros and cons of each.
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Discussion - 1 Pick 2 different department team members and descri.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
Discussion - 1 : Pick 2 different department team members and describe why they were chosen and what skill they should bring.
Discussion -2 : What are the most vital functions at your place of work that the BIA will address?
Course Name - Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
No Plagiarism, proper references with APA format
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Discussion
(Chapter 7): What are the common challenges with which sentiment analysis deals? What are the most popular application areas for sentiment analysis? Why?
Questions for Discussions:
1. Explain the relationship among data mining, text mining, and sentiment analysis.
2. In your own words, define text mining, and discuss its most popular applications.
3. What does it mean to induce structure into text-based data? Discuss the alternative ways of inducing structure into them.
4. What is the role of NLP in text mining? Discuss the capabilities and limitations of NLP in the context of text mining.
Exercise:
Go to teradatauniversitynetwork.com and find the case study named “eBay Analytics.” Read the case carefully and extend your understanding of it by searching the Internet for additional information, and answer the case questions.
Internet exercise:
Go to kdnuggets.com. Explore the sections on applications as well as software. Find the names of at least three additional packages for data mining and text mining.
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Discussion (Chapter 7) What are the common challenges with whic.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
Sentiment analysis deals with common challenges in determining sentiment from unstructured text. Popular application areas for sentiment analysis include social media, customer reviews, and survey responses due to the large amounts of online opinions and feedback generated. Students are asked to post a 100-300 word response to an online discussion by Wednesday discussing challenges in sentiment analysis and popular application areas.
Discussion (Chapter 6) List and briefly describe the nine-step .docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
The document discusses conducting a neural network project and outlines a nine-step process. Students are asked to engage in an online discussion by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. EST by posting their first response early and interacting frequently with other students' posts.
Discussion (Chapter 5) What is the relationship between Naïve Bayes.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
Naive Bayes and Bayesian networks are both probabilistic classifiers but differ in their assumptions of independence between predictor variables. Bayesian networks are more flexible as they can represent dependencies between variables through a directed acyclic graph structure. To develop a Bayesian network model, one identifies variables of interest, determines conditional dependencies between variables, quantifies these dependencies with probabilities, and represents them in a network diagram.
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Discussion (Chapter 4): What are the privacy issues with data mining? Do you think they are substantiated?
Note:
Your response should be 250-300 words. There must be at least one APA formatted reference (and APA in-text citation) to support the thoughts in the post. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author's words and continue to use in-text citations.
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Discussion (Chapter 3): Why are the original/raw data not readily usable by analytics tasks? What are the main data preprocessing steps? List and explain their importance in analytics.
Note: Response should be 250-300 words. There must be at least one APA formatted reference (and APA in-text citation) to support the thoughts in the post. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author's words and continue to use in-text citations
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Discussion (Chapter 5) What is the relationship between Naïve B.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
Naive Bayes and Bayesian networks are both probabilistic models but Bayesian networks can represent conditional dependencies between variables while Naive Bayes assumes independence. To develop a Bayesian network model you identify variables, determine dependencies between variables, quantify these dependencies with conditional probabilities, and construct a directed acyclic graph representing the dependencies. Students are asked to post a 100-300 word response to the discussion question by Wednesday and engage with two other classmates' posts.
Discussion (Chapter 10 in the textbook or see the ppt) For ea.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
Discussion (Chapter 10 in the textbook / or see the ppt):
For each of the steps in the "Seven Step Forecasting Game Plan" for forecasting, discuss the following:
Who do you suspect is being included in creating each step of the various company forecasts?
Why? Why not? Be specific about the various players and the reasons they might be involved.
Assignment (Chapter 10) (1-2 pages double space):
Objective and Realistic Forecasts. The chapter encourages analysts to develop forecasts that are realistic, objective, and unbiased. Some firms’ managers tend to be optimistic. Some accounting principles tend to be conservative. Describe the different risks and incentives that managers, accountants, and analysts face. Explain how these different risks and incentives lead managers, accountants, and analysts to different biases when predicting uncertain outcomes.
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Discussion (Chapter 1) Compare and contrast predictive analytics wi.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
Discussion (Chapter 1): Compare and contrast predictive analytics with prescriptive and descriptive analytics. Use examples.
Response should be 250-300 words and with references
There must be at least one APA formatted reference (and APA in-text citation) to support the thoughts in the post. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author's words and continue to use in-text citations.
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Discussion (400 words discussion + 150 words student response)Co.docxmecklenburgstrelitzh
Discussion (400 words discussion + 150 words student response)
Consider the potential conflict between corporate social responsibility and ethics while maximizing share holder wealth. How does exercising Christian principles play a part in running a successful business while operating within state and federal regulations?
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Discussion (150-200 words): Why do you think so much emphasis is placed on cash-flow-based stock evaluations, especially the "free cash flow model"?
Assignment (1-2 pages double space): What is the six step process involved in valuation? List the six steps in sequence, explaining and discussing the importance and relevance of each step.
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discussion (11)
explain the concept of information stores as they relate to email. Use the Internet to research how and where email data is stored on different computer
platforms and systems and then report your findings. How is this information pertinent to a forensic investigation. around 250-300 words
with references
discussion 12
Explain how cookies can show that a user has visited a site if that user's history has been deleted. Be specific,
do not merely explain how cookies work. Report on how cookies can be used in a forensic investigation. around 250-300 words, with references
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Discussion #5: How progressive was the Progressive Era?
The Progressive era stands out as a time when reformers sought to address social ills brought about by a rapidly changing society. Debates surrounded issues such as political corruption, the regulation of business practices, racial equality, women's suffrage and the living conditions of impoverished immigrants overcrowded into urban slums.
In order to prepare for this discussion forum:
Review and identify the relevant sections of Chapter 22 that support your discussion.
Read Booker T. Washington's speech The Atlanta Compromise
Read W.E.B. Du Bois The Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement's "Declaration of Principles" by W.E.B.Du Bois
The Women's Suffrage Movement
Excerpt from How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis and the photography of Jacob Riis.
After you have completed your readings post a response to only ONE of the following questions.
Compare and contrast the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. In your opinion, which of these two men had a better plan? Explain why.
When it came to the issue of suffrage, did all women agree? Explain.
Which social problem was Jacob Riis addressing through his work? How did he communicate the severity of this problem?
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Discussion #4, Continued Work on Vygotsky
A. Why is it important as a teacher to understand what children are:
interested in?
thinking about?
attempting to create or problem-solve?
how does this knowledge support further development?
B. Note teaching strategies that enable you to learn about the child or children's thinking:
decriptive language, narration
waiting for the child's or children's language, response
open-ended relevant questions based on the child's perspective
assistance with relevant additional materials
C. Vygotsky's theories of learning are based on adult: child relationships and peer:peer interactions, what is the value in learning and advancing development through:
specific and meaningful grasp of what the child is focused on
opportunity for further experience supported by
Amplification
scaffolding as assistance
through the child's perspective
intentional in the strategies and support to assist children in entering the
Zone of Proximal Development
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Discussion #4: What are the most common metrics that make for analytics-ready data?
Exercise #12: Go to data.gov—a U.S. government–sponsored data portal that has a very large number of data sets on a wide variety of topics ranging from healthcare to education, climate to public safety. Pick a topic that you are most passionate about.
Go through the topic-specific information and explanation provided on the site. Explore the possibilities of downloading the data and use your favorite data visualization tool to create your own meaningful information and visualizations.
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Techno-pedagogic skills refer to the ability to effectively integrate technology into teaching and learning processes. In simple terms, it means having the knowledge and skills to use digital tools and resources in a way that enhances the learning experience for students. Teachers with these skills can make lessons more engaging and effective by incorporating technologies such as interactive whiteboards, educational apps, online resources, and multimedia tools in the classroom. This approach allows for the creation of interactive and multimedia-rich lessons, catering to different learning styles and providing personalized learning experiences. Overall, techno-pedagogic skills enable teachers to leverage technology to make learning more fun, interactive, and impactful for students in today's digital age. Here’s how it works:
1. Enhanced Engagement: By using technology, teachers can create more engaging lessons. For example, they might use interactive quizzes or educational games that make learning fun and interactive.
2. Personalized Learning: Technology allows teachers to tailor lessons to individual students’ needs and learning styles. They can provide different resources or activities that cater to each student’s strengths and weaknesses.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the creation of images and videos, enabling the generation of highly realistic and imaginative visual content. Utilizing advanced techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and neural style transfer, AI can transform simple sketches into detailed artwork or blend various styles into unique visual masterpieces. GANs, in particular, function by pitting two neural networks against each other, resulting in the production of remarkably lifelike images. AI's ability to analyze and learn from vast datasets allows it to create visuals that not only mimic human creativity but also push the boundaries of artistic expression, making it a powerful tool in digital media and entertainment industries.
Your Skill Boost Masterclass Online Safety and Cybersecurity Tips is a presentation by Richard Mawa Michael in a session organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan.
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For the course project, you will select a country of interest (Rwa.docx
1. For the course project, you will select a country of interest
(Rwanda) and assess the international business potential of that
country and compare its characteristics to the characteristics of
the United States. You will write a paper based on your research
over the course of next 5 weeks. Include the following sections
in the paper:
· Executive summary
· Macroeconomic condition
· Political and cultural environment
· Operations, Marketing, and Human Resource considerations
· Overall recommendations and risk assessment for making
business investments into this country
The following organizations gather and publish data relevant to
your course project. Use these resources for research.
· United Nations
· World Bank
· International Monetary Fund
· European Union
· Asian Development Bank
· Central Intelligence Agency
· Trade Information Center
· Japanese External Trade Organization
· Lexis-Nexis
· Ernst & Young
· International Trade Centre
· Dow Jones
· DIALOG
Leading Innovation and Change: Best Practice Case Study
Client - a company synonymous with the term innovation. Since
its inception, the company founders have instilled a belief in
unique product creation, including life altering product
innovations such as the light bulb envelope, TV tube, and
2. optical waveguides. This concept of innovation has been
deemed one of the company's most essential quality programs,
bridging functional groups within the organization, renewing
itself through continued time and iterations. For the client,
innovation not only challenges traditional ways to thinking, but
has become a key impetus to drive change. Innovation converts
ideas into opportunities.
The client began its journey with the realization that the rate of
new product development would be insufficient to maintain
company profitability in the future. In the late 1970's and early
1980's there was a cycle of small pockets of promising
technological advances, defensive moves, and diminishing
returns. Previously the company's innovation processes had
been defined only within the areas of research, product
development, and engineering. The client began by analyzing
past innovations and the successes and failures associated with
each, and benchmarking their own best practices and lessons
learned.
The client has defined innovative effectiveness as: requiring an
understanding of overall corporate and business strategies;
developing organizational roadmaps based on customers, the
market, competitors, strengths and weaknesses, and resources;
ability to evaluate, prioritize, and select projects; and executing
the selected project well. The key elements of innovation
intervention are: an innovation task force, composed of key
innovators; the utilization of company history as a resource for
innovation; a focus on strengths and resources in a project of
paramount importance, referred to as "flexible critical mass;"
and a two-and-a-half-day innovation conference for 200
company leaders which focuses on reintroducing the innovation
process.
Through the work conducted by the task force, not only were
successes analyzed, but so were areas in which the organization
had fallen short over the years. By improving innovation by
10% per year, costs could be cut in half, and doubling that rate
would be equivocal to doubling the RD&E spending level. This
3. success would come down to the restoration of simple
fundamentals:
- An environment and culture of energy and enthusiasm -
Entrepreneurial behavior at all levels
- The right people in the right places
- Sound business and technological strategies
- Improved processes for nurturing ideas
- Organizational mechanisms that could support the
organization's drive for results.
Critical success factors also emerged from the client’s
innovation conference, focusing on: training programs at all
levels within the company which would become a part of project
reviews and the deployment of employees; rise of internal
entrepreneurial behavior; and continued organizational self-
examination.
As the innovation process continued, the company realized the
need to develop links between technology, marketing, and
manufacturing. It had become clear that "Innovation... was the
glue that bound all functions into a cohesive team of inventors,
producers, and innovators." From these successes, a program
was launched -- to reengineer key business processes through
continuous improvement of best practices. The overarching goal
was to get the most from their innovative efforts. Together, the
team sought to reengineer the process by which "creates,
identifies, evaluates, prioritizes and executes against market
opportunities."
Additional benefits of cross-functionality during innovative
processes have been: - A common language and understanding
between teams of people;
- A framework to hold together the team in a global sense;
- All functions can actively participate in the production of the
project from the beginning; - Assistance in outlining
deliverables;
- Shared ownership of the project; and
- An ability to balance between market requirements,
manufacturing capabilities, and technological capabilities.
4. Continually, the company requires that employees undergo
innovation training and follow a thorough set of guidelines and
tools geared toward product innovation. As time passes, these
training opportunities have been extended to more teams and
functional units, continuing the idea of establishing and
cementing a common language. This effectiveness on behalf of
innovation has yielded large returns for the client; in 1994, total
sales of products less than four years old was 30%, by 2001 that
number increased to 80%. Through morning meetings, technical
tutorials, research reviews, and communities of practice, is
creating awareness. "It is about how scientists, engineers,
technicians, and commercial managers are sharing knowledge,
experience, and perspective on a regular basis. In doing so, they
are optimizing, leveraging, reusing this key knowledge,
experience and perspective... this translates into new product
and process innovation - ideas into dollars." Through this
mechanism, the company increases the number of people and
disciplines involved, increases sharing between functionalities,
and provides necessary tools for reuse. The innovation process
is viewed as an iterative process where learning ties together
the organization.
An example of continued innovation at the company is the
fusion process and success of the Eagle2000 program. In the
1960's the client manufactured automobile windshields, a
market which did not produce success. In the 1970's they were a
producer of sunglass lenses and television tubes. Extending
their presence in the display market, they began making flat
panel glass for liquid crystal display applications like laptop
computers, PDA's, and flat screen televisions. The Eagle2000
program allowed the company to make larger, lighter, thinner,
and higher resolution displays for computers and home
entertainment systems. Through the innovation process
incorporating manufacturing, marketing, and technology, the
client has guaranteed that the production process has met all
performance requirements. A cross-functional team was
established at the program's inception to diminish the existence
5. of problems that may arise down the road when manufacturing
is not involved in the early stages of development.
At the company, technology is never lost. There remains a
continuous focus on the "knowledge reuse quotient" and the
"learning machine." The company increases the number of
perspectives they obtain within the organization, therefore
extending the knowledge reuse base. Building a "knowledge
(technology) warehouse," or archive, increases reuse by creating
an area in which one can research and identify areas of past
technology attempts and growth. The type of collaboration
taking place ensures interactive collaboration, which will yield
greater resource availability, contain costs, assist in company
growth and stability, and create larger target populations.
The client also utilizes learning coaches who become learning
advisors within the organization. These coaches are trained to
be innovation project managers, skilled in the areas of adult
learning and innovative effectiveness. Coaches join teams of
participants and encourage them to share their knowledge, cross
boundaries, and become effective collaborators. By being
involved with more than one team, the coach acts as a bridge,
cross-fertilizing the population of participants with knowledge.
The client has learned many lessons through the initiation of
this innovation project; they know to:
· Start with a strong and visible champion who has a passion for
innovation;
· Establish a link between the initiative and the company's goals
and values;
· Form an iterative yet flexible process;
· Encourage cross-functionality;
· Leverage best practices and lessons learned; and
· Know who the customer is and what their requirements are.
Today, innovation is a continued focus. This dynamic process
which features cross-functional and cross-disciplinary
integration has enabled the company to make better, faster
decisions. The rigid flexibility allows people and projects to
overcome internal and external obstacles and provide increased
6. opportunities. The client nurtures its innovation processes and
uses them as a means through which to succeed.
Leading Innovation and Change: Best Practice Case Study
Client - a company synonymous with the term innovation. Since
its inception, the company
founders have instilled a belief in unique product creation,
including life altering product
innovations such as the light bulb envelope, TV tube, and
optical waveguides. This concept of
innovation has been deemed one of the company's most
essential quality programs, bridging
functional groups within the organization, renewing itself
through continued time and iterations.
For the client, innovation not only challenges traditional ways
to thinking, but has become a key
impetus to drive change. Innovation converts ideas into
opportunities.
The client began its journey with the realization that the rate of
new product development would
be insufficient to maintain company profitability in the future.
In the late 1970's and early 1980's
there was a cycle of small pockets of promising technological
advances, defensive moves, and
diminishing returns. Previously the company's innovation
processes had been defined only within
the areas of research, product development, and engineering.
The client began by analyzing past
innovations and the successes and failures associated with each,
and benchmarking their own
best practices and lessons learned.
7. The client has defined innovative effectiveness as: requiring an
understanding of overall
corporate and business strategies; developing organizational
roadmaps based on customers, the
market, competitors, strengths and weaknesses, and resources;
ability to evaluate, prioritize, and
select projects; and executing the selected project well. The key
elements of innovation
intervention are: an innovation task force, composed of key
innovators; the utilization of company
history as a resource for innovation; a focus on strengths and
resources in a project of paramount
importance, referred to as "flexible critical mass;" and a two-
and-a-half-day innovation conference
for 200 company leaders which focuses on reintroducing the
innovation process.
Through the work conducted by the task force, not only were
successes analyzed, but so were
areas in which the organization had fallen short over the years.
By improving innovation by 10%
per year, costs could be cut in half, and doubling that rate
would be equivocal to doubling the
RD&E spending level. This success would come down to the
restoration of simple fundamentals:
- An environment and culture of energy and enthusiasm
- Entrepreneurial behavior at all levels
- The right people in the right places
- Sound business and technological strategies
- Improved processes for nurturing ideas
- Organizational mechanisms that could support the
organization's drive for results.
Critical success factors also emerged from the client’s
8. innovation conference, focusing on:
training programs at all levels within the company which would
become a part of project reviews
and the deployment of employees; rise of internal
entrepreneurial behavior; and continued
organizational self-examination.
As the innovation process continued, the company realized the
need to develop links between
technology, marketing, and manufacturing. It had become clear
that "Innovation… was the glue
that bound all functions into a cohesive team of inventors,
producers, and innovators." From
these successes, a program was launched -- to reengineer key
business processes through
continuous improvement of best practices. The overarching goal
was to get the most from their
innovative efforts. Together, the team sought to reengineer the
process by which "creates,
identifies, evaluates, prioritizes and executes against market
opportunities."
Additional benefits of cross-functionality during innovative
processes have been:
- A common language and understanding between teams of
people;
- A framework to hold together the team in a global sense;
- All functions can actively participate in the production of the
project from the beginning;
- Assistance in outlining deliverables;
- Shared ownership of the project; and
- An ability to balance between market requirements,
9. manufacturing capabilities, and
technological capabilities.
Continually, the company requires that employees undergo
innovation training and follow a
thorough set of guidelines and tools geared toward product
innovation. As time passes, these
training opportunities have been extended to more teams and
functional units, continuing the idea
of establishing and cementing a common language. This
effectiveness on behalf of innovation
has yielded large returns for the client; in 1994, total sales of
products less than four years old
was 30%, by 2001 that number increased to 80%. Through
morning meetings, technical tutorials,
research reviews, and communities of practice, is creating
awareness. "It is about how scientists,
engineers, technicians, and commercial managers are sharing
knowledge, experience, and
perspective on a regular basis. In doing so, they are optimizing,
leveraging, reusing this key
knowledge, experience and perspective… this translates into
new product and process innovation
- ideas into dollars." Through this mechanism, the company
increases the number of people and
disciplines involved, increases sharing between functionalities,
and provides necessary tools for
reuse. The innovation process is viewed as an iterative process
where learning ties together the
organization.
An example of continued innovation at the company is the
fusion process and success of the
Eagle2000 program. In the 1960's the client manufactured
automobile windshields, a market
which did not produce success. In the 1970's they were a
10. producer of sunglass lenses and
television tubes. Extending their presence in the display market,
they began making flat panel
glass for liquid crystal display applications like laptop
computers, PDA's, and flat screen
televisions. The Eagle2000 program allowed the company to
make larger, lighter, thinner, and
higher resolution displays for computers and home
entertainment systems. Through the
innovation process incorporating manufacturing, marketing, and
technology, the client has
guaranteed that the production process has met all performance
requirements. A cross-functional
team was established at the program's inception to diminish the
existence of problems that may
arise down the road when manufacturing is not involved in the
early stages of development.
At the company, technology is never lost. There remains a
continuous focus on the "knowledge
reuse quotient" and the "learning machine." The company
increases the number of perspectives
they obtain within the organization, therefore extending the
knowledge reuse base. Building a
"knowledge (technology) warehouse," or archive, increases
reuse by creating an area in which
one can research and identify areas of past technology attempts
and growth. The type of
collaboration taking place ensures interactive collaboration,
which will yield greater resource
availability, contain costs, assist in company growth and
stability, and create larger target
populations.
The client also utilizes learning coaches who become learning
advisors within the organization.
11. These coaches are trained to be innovation project managers,
skilled in the areas of adult
learning and innovative effectiveness. Coaches join teams of
participants and encourage them to
share their knowledge, cross boundaries, and become effective
collaborators. By being involved
with more than one team, the coach acts as a bridge, cross-
fertilizing the population of
participants with knowledge.
The client has learned many lessons through the initiation of
this innovation project; they know to:
• Start with a strong and visible champion who has a passion for
innovation;
• Establish a link between the initiative and the company's goals
and values;
• Form an iterative yet flexible process;
• Encourage cross-functionality;
• Leverage best practices and lessons learned; and
• Know who the customer is and what their requirements are.
Today, innovation is a continued focus. This dynamic process
which features cross-functional
and cross-disciplinary integration has enabled the company to
make better, faster decisions. The
rigid flexibility allows people and projects to overcome internal
and external obstacles and provide
increased opportunities. The client nurtures its innovation
processes and uses them as a means
through which to succeed.
12. Running head: COURSE PROJECT TASK 1
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COURSE PROJECT TASK 1
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Course Project Task 1
Introduction
There are many organizations which strengthen the international
business opportunities of different countries of the world. Some
of those organizations include the United Nations, the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. These
international bodies play a critical role in ensuring that
international trade takes place. This paper seeks to analyze the
specific role of each of these international bodies.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank play
very significant macroeconomic roles (Woods, 2006). They
ensure that there is worldwide monetary cooperation. They aid
international business by facilitating international trade. It also
ensures that different countries of the world are financially
stable. These international organizations ensure that there is
sustainable economic growth, poverty reduction, monitoring the
rate of inflation, a reduction in the rate of unemployment.
The United Nations (UN) is an international body made up of
193 member states. It ensures that there is political stability in
different parts of the world (Richmond, 2004). When there is
political instability, there would be no suitable environment for
businesses to thrive. The international business potential of
such a country would be low. The UN restores peace in war tone
countries so as to ensure that normal activities are restored in
such countries.
13. The country selected for the course project is Rwanda in the
Africa continent. The country is selected because according to
the reports published in the World Bank, IMF and UN websites,
the country has great international business potential. There is
also political stability in the country. The country has well
developed human resources. The country also boasts of smooth
business and marketing operations. All these considerations
justify the reason why the country is selected for the course
project. The two back-up countries which have similar
characteristics to that of Rwanda include India and Japan. These
countries have good recommendations when risk is assessed for
the potential of business investments to thrive.
Conclusion
There are various factors that determine whether a country is a
suitable destination for business and investment opportunities.
As indicated above, there are various international bodies which
ensure that countries are suitable for different investment
opportunities. When all underlying factors are okay, then a
country’s ratings in terms of potential for international business
becomes high.
Reference
Richmond, O. P. (2004). UN peace operations and the dilemmas
of the peace building consensus International Peacekeeping,
11(1), 83-101
Woods, N. (2006). The globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank,
and their borrowers. Cornell University Press
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Zora Neale Hurston
14. I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating
circumstances except the fact
that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather
on the mother's side was
not an Indian chief.
I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my
thirteenth year I lived in the
little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a
colored town. The only white
people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from
Orlando. The native
whites rode dusty horses, the Northern tourists chugged down
the sandy village road in
automobiles. The town knew the Southerners and never stopped
cane chewing when they
passed. But the Northerners were something else again. They
were peered at cautiously
from behind curtains by the timid. The more venturesome would
come out on the porch
to watch them go past and got just as much pleasure out of the
tourists as the tourists got
out of the village.
The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the
town, but it was a gallery
seat to me. My favorite place was atop the gate-post.
Proscenium box for a born first-
nighter. Not only did I enjoy the show, but I didn't mind the
actors knowing that I liked it.
I usually spoke to them in passing. I'd wave at them and when
they returned my salute, I
would say something like this: "Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-
where-you-goin'?" Usually
the automobile or the horse paused at this, and after a queer
15. exchange of compliments, I
would probably "go a piece of the way" with them, as we say in
farthest Florida. If one of
my family happened to come to the front in time to see me, of
course negotiations would
be rudely broken off. But even so, it is clear that I was the first
"welcome-to-our-state"
Floridian, and I hope the Miami Chamber of Commerce will
please take notice.
During this period, white people differed from colored to me
only in that they rode
through town and never lived there. They liked to hear me
"speak pieces" and sing and
wanted to see me dance the parse-me-la, and gave me
generously of their small silver for
doing these things, which seemed strange to me for I wanted to
do them so much that I
needed bribing to stop. Only they didn't know it. The colored
people gave no dimes. They
deplored any joyful tendencies in me, but I was their Zora
nevertheless. I belonged to
them, to the nearby hotels, to the county-- everybody's Zora.
But changes came in the family when I was thirteen, and I was
sent to school in
Jacksonville. I left Eatonville, the town of the oleanders, as
Zora. When I disembarked
from the river-boat at Jacksonville, she was no more. It seemed
that I had suffered a sea
change. I was not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a
little colored girl. I
found it out in certain ways. In my heart as well as in the
mirror, I became a fast brown--
warranted not to rub nor run.
16. But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow
dammed up in my soul, nor
lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to
the sobbing school of
2
Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a
lowdown dirty deal and
whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter
skirmish that is my life, I
have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little
pigmentation more or less.
No, I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my
oyster knife.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the
granddaughter of slaves. It
fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the
past. The operation was
successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible
struggle that made me an
American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The
Reconstruction said "Get set!";
and the generation before said "Go!" I am off to a flying start
and I must not halt in the
stretch to look behind and weep. Slavery is the price I paid for
civilization, and the choice
was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worth all that I
have paid through my
ancestors for it. No one on earth ever had a greater chance for
glory. The world to be won
and nothing to be lost. It is thrilling to think--to know that for
any act of mine, I shall get
17. twice as much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite
exciting to hold the center of the
national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh
or to weep.
The position of my white neighbor is much more difficult. No
brown specter pulls up a
chair beside me when I sit down to eat. No dark ghost thrusts its
leg against mine in bed.
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the
game of getting.
I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the
unconscious Zora of
Eatonville before the Hegira 1. I feel most colored when I am
thrown against a sharp
white background.
For instance at Barnard.2 "Beside the waters of the Hudson" I
feel my race. Among the
thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon,
overswept by a creamy sea. I am
surged upon and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself.
When covered by the
waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again.
Sometimes it is the other way around. A white person is set
down in our midst, but the
contrast is just as sharp for me. For instance, when I sit in the
drafty basement that is The
New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We
enter chatting about any
little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz
waiters. In the abrupt
way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It
loses no time in
18. circumlocutions, but gets right down to business. It constricts
the thorax and splits the
heart with its tempo and narcotic harmonies. This orchestra
grows rambunctious, rears on
its hind legs and attacks the tonal veil with primitive fury,
rending it, clawing it until it
breaks through the jungle beyond. I follow those heathen--
follow them exultingly. I
1 Exodus or pilgrimage: Hurston refers here to the migration of
millions of African Americans from the
South to the North in the early 20th century. (All notes from
Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings
unless otherwise cited)
2 Barnard: Barnard College in New York City, where Hurston
received her BA in 1927.
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dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my
assegai3 above my head, I
hurl it true to the mark yeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living
in the jungle way. My
face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My
pulse is throbbing like a
war drum. I want to slaughter something--give pain, give death
to what, I do not know.
But the piece ends. The men of the orchestra wipe their lips and
rest their fingers. I creep
back slowly to the veneer we call civilization with the last tone
and find the white friend
sitting motionless in his seat, smoking calmly.
19. "Good music they have here," he remarks, drumming the table
with his fingertips.
Music! The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not
touched him. He has only
heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across
the ocean and the
continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his
whiteness then and I am so
colored.
At certain times I have no race, I am me. When I set my hat at a
certain angle and saunter
down Seventh Avenue, Harlem City, feeling as snooty as the
lions in front of the Forty-
Second Street Library, for instance. So far as my feelings are
concerned, Peggy Hopkins
Joyce4 on the Boule Mich with her gorgeous raiment, stately
carriage, knees knocking
together in a most aristocratic manner, has nothing on me. The
cosmic Zora emerges. I
belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its
string of beads.
I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and
colored. It merely
astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my
company! It's beyond
me.
But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped
against a wall. Against a
wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour
out the contents, and there
is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless.
20. A first-water diamond5, an
empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a
door long since crumbled
away, a rusty knifeblade, old shoes saved for a road that never
was and never will be, a
nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a
dried flower or two, still a
little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground
before you is the jumble it
held--so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be
emptied, that all might be
dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering
the content of any greatly.
A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps
that is how the Great
Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place--who knows?
3 Assegai: a weapon for throwing or hurling, usually a light
spear or javelin made of wood and pointed with
iron. (Wikipedia)
4 American actress and celebrity (1893-1957). Boule Mich:
Boulevard St. Michel, a street on the left bank
of Paris.
5 A diamond of the highest quality (Answers.com)