Ursula

I admire Ursula Burns as a phenomenal woman and business leader. Ursula is undoubtedly a superior leader. Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American business leader who has been chairwoman of Xerox since 2010, and was Xerox CEO from 2009-2016. Burns was the first African American woman CEO to head a fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a fortune 500 company. In 2014, Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world. (Wikipedia

The engineering career of Ursula Burns began as a summer intern at Xerox in 1980; in 2009, she became the first African-American female CEO. In a dialogue before a group at MIT sharing their feelings regarding her rise in leadership, Ursula Burns, spoke of her family's modest beginnings, living in the projects in the lower east side of Manhattan. Where she and her siblings were encouraged excelling, shielded them and kept safe. Steadfastness through her main beliefs of where one may live does not

Exploring The Leadership Style of Ursula Burns CEO of Xerox Corporation Myra A. Duke Dr. Eddie Montgomery Leadership and Organizational Behavior June 9, 2013 It is rare nowadays for a person to become the top ranking executive at the same company they intern with. Ursula Burns did just that by doing a summer internship with Xerox Corporation, and going on to become the CEO twenty-nine years later. Ursula Burns was the first African-American women to be name CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and

changed the world in way never thought possible. These paved roads allow me to discuss Ursula Burns. Ursula Burns is the first African-American female Chief Executive Officer. Not only is she a Chief Executive Office, but she is the CEO of Xerox, which is also a Fortune 500 Company. Ursula’s own road was not paved in gold, it was exactly the opposite. A single mother on the lower East Side of Manhattan raised her. Ursula was quoted stating that, “Many people told me I had three strikes against me: I was

Ursula Le Guin draws in many readers though her creation of fantasy worlds and characters that can relate to individuals in modern times. Born in Berkeley, California on October 21, 1929, Le Guin was raised by a writer, Theodora Kroeber, and an anthropologist, Alfred Louis Korver (Ursula K. Le Guin Biography). Partially due to the influence of her parents in history and anthropology, Le Guin mainly focuses on the science aspects of the world while incorporating elements of fantasy to entice readers

established in the past and it is still continuing to be celebrated to the president day. For example, the lottery in the story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and the imprisonment of the child in the story “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin. Tradition helps establish the social norms of what is accepted and what is not. The outlook in life that an individual has is heavily affected by their tradition, shaping their own life in turn. Although, tradition plays a key factor in

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin is a criticism of today’s capitalism by investigating what society structure would be best for human society. Le Guin uses the two models of capitalism and communism to be compared and contrasted against one another to determine which would function better and how to achieve such success. In order to depict what a replacement structure would look like; Le Guin creates two worlds to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of influence that each of these models

Ursula Le Guin challenges utilitarianism in The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by describing a fictional utopic city where everyone flourishes at the expense of a young child trapped in a basement. This fictional utopic city is a metaphor for utilitarianism at its absolute worse, since trapping an innocent child in a basement for the flourishing of others seems like a grotesque thing to do. Also, Guin is portraying utilitarianism as unethical by vividly describing the innocent beings constant suffering

to like the color pink and girls should forget about a career of their own and instead strive to act as arm candy to their more accomplished significant others. It 's hard to imagine that these values are considered controversial to some but both Ursula K. Le Guin, the celebrated science-fiction author who penned works such as The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and Paul Theroux, an American travel writer best known for The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), argue that they are socially harmful and socially

for the sake of society’s convenience. Both authors, Ray Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin, demonstrate the suffering that the protagonist endures in order to serve their society. A variety of rhetorical strategies and modes contribute to the overall role of the protagonists. Ray Bradbury uses personification and the rhetorical mode of pathos to convey the oblivious suffering that the protagonist, the “smart house”, undergoes. Ursula Le Guin utilizes diction and the rhetorical mode of pathos to demonstrate