Jobs is a history of the 16 different occupations the author held throughout his career. From developmental, to journeyman, professional, and then “post-career” positions. The lessons learned in each position. A rating on the training provided by each company that hired him. Are you looking for alternate career paths while employed? Where do you bring the most value to an employer? Education is something no one can take away from you – be it a graduate degree paid for by your employer, or the experience and knowledge gained while at that employer. If your company is sold to a Private Equity firm tomorrow, and the 20% of employees with the highest salaries are terminated Monday morning, do you still have a job? Do you still want to have a job at that company? The author’s career took him from electrical connectors to medical parts, from contract manufacturing to military business. He’s experienced in thermal electronics, from heat pipes to graphite, as well as the health, life, and disability insurance businesses. He traveled globally, visiting 34 different countries – for the most part all for business. From publicly held to private companies, commercial to government (USPS, US Military DoD) sales. The author made a bucket full of mistakes in his career – learn from them, don’t do the same!
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Media, Multimedia Law, Copyright, grade: A, New York University School of Law, language: English, abstract: Copyright infringement or what is termed as copyright violation is use of any material that is covered by copyright law in an unlawful manner whereby violating the rights of the copyright owner. Such rights include the right to reproduce the copyrighted work. In regard to audio-visual material, unlawful reproduction as well as distribution of these materials is mainly known as piracy. Copyright infringement is both unlawful and unethical therefore it is a prosecutable crime. This paper give a brief examination of copyright law and provides an account of how legal action can be taken if a person infringes the copyrights of an owner. The paper as well looks at the ethical aspect of copyright before giving a conclusion.
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Miscellaneous, grade: B, New York University School of Law, language: English, abstract: A large number of conflicts relating to international trade are not dealt with by the courts, but instead by arbitration. In a private and informal process, both parties to a contract agree to delegate their issue to a single or a group of unbiased individuals to reach some sort of resolution regarding that issue. International commercial arbitration is one form of arbitration and its use is ever-increasing worldwide for various key reasons. For example, it has the tractability, speed and discretion that standard jurisdictional processes lack . Additionally, it results in an award that is both final and binding and has the ability to be enforced overseas . While the use of ICA is becoming more widespread, particularly in Western European nations where ICA has long been a fixture, Eastern European nations have less faith in ICA, instead opting for alternative jurisdictional processes. This lack of faith has been attributed to a lack of knowledge on the part of such Eastern European nations, thus implying that improved instruction on ICA would be beneficial. The area of ICA has realised some fascinating developments over the years. The interlinked doctrines of kompetenz-kompetenz and separability are brilliant examples of such development. This essay will critically discuss both doctrines and their respective contribution to the development of ICA. This will be done using a range of academic journal articles and textbook chapters and by considering relevant case law and statute.
The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects of cultural encounters in historical and present-day settings. Bodies were and are not only markers of cultural identity and difference, endlessly inscribed and represented as the 'body politic' or 'the exotic other'; as battlegrounds of cross-cultural signification and identification bodies are also potential agents of change. While some essays address the elusiveness of the 'real' or material body, forever lost behind a veil of textual and visual representation, others analyze the performative effect of such representations - their function of disciplining colonized bodies and subjects by integrating them into Western systems of cultural signification and scientific classification. Yet, as the volume also shows, formerly colonized people, far from subjecting themselves completely to Western discourses of physical discipline, retain traditional body practices - whether in food culture, religious ritual, or musical performances. Such local reinscriptions escape the grip of Western culture and transform the global semantics of the body.
This book takes on the subject of military victory parades in New York City during the first half of the 20th century and looks on these performances as political street theater. The study shows how abstract concepts like the nation-state or Americanism were represented and embodied in these events. With its focus on the three main groups of actors involved in the parades (organizers, soldiers, spectators), the book demonstrates how these marches can only be understood as a collaboration of these actors-- each group interpreting the event in their very distinct ways. The book deepens our understanding of how political performances functioned in the U.S. and how they made an impact on society"--Page 4 of cover.
Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In Backpack Ambassadors, Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the decades after World War II, revealing that these footloose young people were doing more than just exploring for themselves. Rather, with each step, each border crossing, each friendship, they were quietly helping knit the continent together. From the Berlin Wall to the beaches of Spain, the Spanish Steps in Rome to the Pudding Shop in Istanbul, Jobs tells the stories of backpackers whose personal desire for freedom of movement brought the people and places of Europe into ever-closer contact. As greater and greater numbers of young people trekked around the continent, and a truly international youth culture began to emerge, the result was a Europe that, even in the midst of Cold War tensions, found its people more and more connected, their lives more and more integrated. Drawing on archival work in eight countries and five languages, and featuring trenchant commentary on the relevance of this period for contemporary concerns about borders and migration, Backpack Ambassadors brilliantly recreates a movement that was far more influential and important than its footsore travelers could ever have realized.
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