Life is more fun when you’re a tiger like me! A little boy—um, no, a tiger!—tells us all about what he gets up to on an ordinary day: how he wakes up in his tiger den, what he eats for breakfast at his feeding spot, and how little tigers feel when they are wide awake, hungry, thirsty, or in the mood for adventures. But at night, even the wildest of tigers is happy to curl up in bed with Tiger-Mom and Tiger-Dad and become a cuddly little tiger cub. With warm illustrations and playful text, this delightful story first published in Germany shows just how sweet life can be for a little tiger!
The title of Beyond the Line refers to the imaginary "Line" drawn between North and South, a division established by the Peace Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559. This is an early modern time and Eurocentric construction, according to which the southern oceanic world has long been taken as symbol of expansionist philosophies and practices. An obvious motivation for changing this "Line" division is the growing influence of the "Global South" in the contemporary economic and political setting. However, another motivation for changing opinions in regard to the "Line" is equally important. We observe an emergent consciousness of the pivotal role of the oceanic world for human life. This requires the reformulation of former views and raises numerous questions. A diversity of connections comes to the mind, which demands the composition of a catalogue of case studies with an oceanic horizon. Through this operation, different problems are being linked together. Which problems encounter historians with their research on fishes in the archives? How to trace records about pirates of non-European descent in the Indian Ocean? Which role play the Oceans as mediators for labor migrations, not only of the Black Atlantic but also of people moving from Asia to Africa and vice versa? What do we know about workers on the oceans and their routes? When considering oceans as "contact zones," with which criteria can their influence in different literary texts be analyzed? Is it possible to study nationalisms taking into account these transoceanic relationships? And how do artists address these questions in their use of the media? Against the background of this catalogue of oceanic questions, "old" stories are told anew. Sometimes, their cultural stereotypes are recycled to criticize political and social situations. Or, in other cases, they are adopted for elaborating alternative options. In this sense, the contributions concentrate on countries like India, Kenya, Angola, or Brazil and cover different academic fields. A variety of objects and situations are explored, which have been and still are determinant for the construction of cultural narratives in view of the modified relationship with the geographically southern oceanic regions.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Industriebetriebslehre, Note: sehr gut, Universität Mannheim, Veranstaltung: Strategische Führung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Spuren von Technological Forecasting lassen sich bis zu den dreißiger Jahren in den USA zurückverfolgen. Der eigentliche Beginn von Technological Forecasting liegt jedoch Anfang der sechziger Jahre. Als Grundlage wird die Monographie „Technological Forecasting“ von Lenz gesehen. 1 Ziel des Technological Forecasting ist „die Schätzung der wahrscheinlichen Verfügbarkeit oder Verbreitung einer technologischen Entwicklung zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt oder Zeitraum unter Angabe der wichtigsten Charakteristika“. 2 Durch das Forecasting sollen spezifische Infos zur Verfügung gestellt werden, die die Q ualität von Entscheidungsprozessen deutlich verbessern. 3 Es gibt verschiedene Technological Forecasting Verfahren, die jeweils in einem zweidimensionalen Schema mit den Dimensionen „explorativ - normativ“ und „quantitativ - qualitativ“ zugeordnet werden können wie Abb. 1 zu entnehmen ist. In der ersten Dimension unterscheidet man explorative und normative Methoden, abhängig davon, ob technische Veränderungen primär als von endogenen Variablen beeinflusst oder von exogenen Variablen bestimmt gesehen werden. 4 Explorative Methoden starten mit vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Bedingungen und versuchen diese auf zukünftige zu projizieren, 5 d.h. Ausgangspunkt sind die technischen Möglichkeiten. 6 Bei normativen Methoden geht man hingegen von zukünftigen Bedürfnissen oder Zielsetzungen aus, für welche die notwendigen technischen Leistungen identifiziert werden müssen, um diese zu befriedigen. 7 In der zweiten Dimension unterscheidet man quantitative und qualitative Methoden. Bei quantitativen Prognoseverfahren werden mittels Extrapolation aus den Daten der Vergangenheit Gesetzmäßigkeiten abgeleitet, die für Prognosen herangezogen werden. 8 Qualitative Prognosetechniken stützen sich indessen auf die menschliche Urteilsfähigkeit, wobei die Ereignisse diskret und eindeutig definierbar sein müssen. So sind auch Behavioral Technologies wie z.B. Verfahren zu den Aufgaben des Forecasters zu zählen. 9 Qualitative Trends können auch extrapoliert werden. Allerdings kann der genaue Level der Erfüllung nicht präzise definiert werden.
What if you were living the wrong life? What if life gave you a second chance and the wisdom to take it? Christian Mathews was living the wrong life. He was a smashing success by most standards. Young, rich, handsome and articulate, he burned as bright as any star on Wall Street. Despite his outward facade, he was plagued by unseen sorrow - sorrow he couldn't recognize, because he couldn't see himself for what he had become. Then a phone call changed his life. A father he never knew had died and left him an estate of "unthinkable wealth." But there was a catch. In order to claim the fortune, he had to crisscross the country on a journey to meet ten people and, from each, discern a life secret. It was a journey that would bring him more than wealth and more than he thought possible.
Sitting peacefully in the meadow to enjoy the sun and the fresh clover is all that Mr Hansen wants. But a dog scares him away again and again. The dog is wicked and strong. Mr Hansen seems defenceless. But then one day he's got an idea.
Katz shows how these changes are propelling America toward a future of increased inequality and decreased security as individuals compete for success in an open market with ever fewer protections against misfortune, power, and greed. And he shows how these trends are transforming citizenship from a right of birth into a privilege available only to the fully employed."--Jacket.
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