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    to take the reins from another woman, which was Anne M. Mulcahy (Byrnes and Crockett, 2009). However, Burns had been a staple at Xerox, working at various influential roles over the past few decades. From starting as an summer intern at Xerox in 1980, to working in the custom systems division in the 1980’s, to holding the general manager and vice president worldwide manufacturing position in the late 1990’s, and finally being groomed by Mulcahy to eventually become Xerox’s CEO, Burns built up a resume

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    Aside from their sexual characteristics, female leaders do not have much else in common. Some have brought peace to the world, while others have created war. Some have been competent and brilliant, others are incompetent and corrupt. They come from outlooks ranging from conservative to liberal. And represent every race and color (Unger, Sheese, & Main, (2010). Women are master multi-taskers and have held the reins for years both in the home and in a professional environment. They are highly

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    The structure and design of organizations have drastically changed over the last twenty-five years. Organizations develop new goals at the beginning of the year or after the completion of previous goals, and heavily depend on planning to help achieve these goals. Planning is an integral part of organizational success, as upper management receives substantial information on various needs such as risk uncertainty, available resources, employee development, and unforeseen changes in technology (Daft

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    Anne Mulcahy was born on October 21, 1952. After high school she attended Marymount College and later became the first woman CEO in Xerox’s history in August of 2001. She also went on to be the company’s first female chairman in January of 2002. Anne has been a part of the company since 1976 when she was hired as a field sales representative and slowly worked her way up to CEO, a position that Anne had never even considered a possibility. When Anne was appointed as the new CEO of one of Americas

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    Steven Coward Mr. Bergmann Senior English P4 21 September 2015 Long ago in ancient Greece there was a baby boy whose family was cast into exile. They were cast adrift into the ocean to fall off the edge of the earth. The parents were starving and their baby wouldn’t stop crying and whining, because it was hungry. So one day the parents tossed the baby out of the boat so that they would have more to eat. The only thing that they didn’t know was that a nearby shark was watching and waiting. Perturbed

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    Who doesn’t love a movie where the protagonist is off on a quest for revenge in numerous action sequences for his taste of sweet, sweet revenge? When breaking films into this type of category, one film that stands out among the rest has to be Gladiator. Gladiator can be argued as one of the greatest action movies of all time, and for good reasons. The soundtrack, dialogue, and characters have no equal in the revenge action category of film, and can be considered tops of pure action films. Gladiator

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    general to a slave to a gladiator, then a hero. As the trailer begins, slow images combined with Written Words are used to give the target audience time to familiarise themselves with the story of Maximus. For example the first few shots are of Russell Crowe as a general, then a slave, then a gladiator. This makes it clear to the audience who the main character is and helps to set the scene. Then the images start to become faster and more exciting. This is achieved by using rapid cuts which increases

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    Philosophy is the study of examining and thinking about questionable ethical problems and/or generally accepted certainties. Philosophy aims at knowledge that combines a variety of academic fields as well as convictions, prejudices and beliefs. What is Russell’s essay about? Present Russell’s position in your own words. Bertrand Russell’s essay addresses many issues concerning philosophy. In the writing, he states philosophy’s nature, value, and criticisms. The essay explains these aspects of

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    they are. The painter wants to know what things seem to be, the practical man and the philosopher want to know what they are. . . . but if reality is not what appears, have we any means of knowing whether there is any reality at all? - Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy In everyday life people distinguish between the real size of the sun and the size it appears to be, between the natural components of a cloud (a concentration of water droplets) and what the cloud seems to be (some

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    play a more prominent role while women are only something to be looked at and acted upon. Both films possess a male and a female protagonist. His Girl Friday casts Cary Grant as a cunning newspaper editor named Walter Burns, as well as Rosalind Russell as former reporter and former wife of Walter, Hildy Johnson. Vertigo stars James Stewart as a former detective named Scottie Ferguson, and Kim Novak as Madeleine Ester, a woman Scottie is hired to investigate. Both films challenge the feminist’s

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