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““You must not tell anyone,” my mother said, “what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born”” (Kingston 120). In the short story No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston, Kingston learns about the fate of her aunt in a village in China; the disgrace she gave her family was too unbearable that it would have been better if she had never been born. Due

2. Introduction Today, computerized mechanism and ICT (information and communication technology) have a significant impact on human life process. What was on the top of the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is now performing a vital role in each human life. Due to the swift growth in the technology industry and hardware and software development computerized systems and machines are used on an everyday basis by almost everyone, even people from different fields which are not related to computing. Major

The Pain of Massacre and Poverty In her novel, The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat creates scenes of personal trauma in Tibon’s description of his capture and Amabelle’s beating. Danticat does an excellent job of humanizing the horrors of a general massacre through the development of specific characters. The painful memories that Danticat composes are extremely similar to Frank McCourt’s remembrances in his memoir, Angela Ashes, where he retells his childhood in extreme poverty. Danticat writes

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was established by the U.S. Congress in 1987 to raise awareness of quality management and recognize U.S. companies that have implemented successful quality management systems (Knowledge Center, 2010). The criteria for the Baldrige criteria for performance of excellence consist of 7 key components. (1) Leadership: How upper management leads organizations, and how the organization leads within the community (2) Strategic planning: How the organization establishes

Zadie Smith is a British African writer, she was born October 25, 1975 in the United Kingdom. Some of her most well-known books are: On Beauty, White Teeth, NW, The Autographed Man, and latest book, Swing Time. When she wrote White Teeth she was known as a strong and powerful writer. She wrote White Teeth when she was 24. Her latest work Swing Time is the first piece of work that is written in first person. In her books there are many themes that she has in her book, she has relationships with friends

\ III Contents Contents ix QUAI.TY AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 25 (Ju,ility and Business Results 27 TIIRLE LEVELS OF QUALITY 29 QUALITY AND PERSONAL VALUES 29 SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS AND TERMINOLOGY 31 QUALITY IN PRACTCE: FROM LEADERSHIP THROUGH QUALITY TO LEAN Six SIGMA AT XEROX 31 CHAPTER 3 PHILOSOPHIES AND FRAMEWORKS THE CEDAR FOUNDATION 90 89 QUALIY PROFILES: TEXAS NAMEPLATE COMPANY, INC., AND THE DEMING PHILOSOPHY 91 Deming 's 14 Points 99 Foundations of the Deming Philosophy

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston is a collection of memoirs, a blend of Kingston’s autobiography with Chinese folklore. The book is divided into five interconnected chapters: No Name Woman, White Tigers, Shaman, At the Western Palace, and A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe. In No Name Woman, three characters are present: Kingston, Kingston’s mother, and Kingston’s aunt. This section starts off with Kingston’s mother retelling the story of her aunt and her

achieving and maintaining excellence within an organization. Plan of Strategy In the case study regarding Pal’s Sudden Service, where the restaurant implemented a training program that won them the prestigious Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award and the Tennessee Excellent Award more than once has shown they can maintain excellence (Aamodt, 2014). For Pal’s Sudden Service training program as well as other organizations to have a successful training program, it starts with having a strategic plan

The Aftermath of War and Violence War and violence are major problems. It does not matter in the world where someone lives, War and violence are always seen and heard. War and violence can affect people in different ways. Humanity has gotten so used to seeing people massacred, murdered, and killed. The young generation are growing up being taught that the best way to solve something is to go to war and kill people. War and violence are making society fall to little pieces. In Persepolis by

2.1 Introduction This section examines the theoretical foundations of the study, review of empirical literature, the conceptual framework and research hypotheses. 2.2 Theoretical Foundations of the study This section provides a brief review of the literature and theoretical background on the two main constructs underlying the models tested in this study: Competitive Strategy, Total Quality Management. 2.2.1 Competitive Strategy According to Porter (1985), strategies allow organizations to gain