The Vampire Diaries: The Fury Chapter One

Elena ventured into the clearing. Underneath her feet wears out of harvest time leaves were freezing into the slush. Nightfall had fallen, and in spite of the fact that the tempest was decreasing the forested areas were getting colder. Elena didn't feel the virus. Neither did she mind the dim. Her understudies opened wide, getting together small particles of light that would have been imperceptible to a human. She could see the two figures battling underneath the extraordinary oak tree plainly. One had thick dim hair, which the breeze had beaten into a tumbled ocean of waves. He was somewhat taller than the other, and in spite of the fact that Elena couldn't see his face she some way or another realized his eyes were green. The other had a stun of dull hair too, however his was fine and straight, practically like the pelt of a creature. His lips were moved back from his teeth in fierceness, and the relaxing effortlessness of his body was assembled into a predator's hunch. His eyes were dark. Elena watched them for a few minutes without moving. She'd overlooked why she had come here, for what reason she'd been pulled here by the echoes of their fight in her brain. This nearby the fuss of their displeasure and scorn and agony was practically stunning, as quiet yells originating from the warriors. They were secured a passing match. I wonder which of them will win, she thought. They were both injured and dying, and the taller one's left arm hung at an unnatural point. All things considered, he had quite recently hammered the other against the contorted trunk of an oak tree. His anger was solid to such an extent that Elena could feel and taste it just as hear it, and she realized it was invigorating him unimaginable. And afterward Elena recalled why she had come. How might she have overlooked? He was harmed. His brain had gathered her here, battering her with stun influxes of fury and torment. She had come to help him since she had a place with him. The two figures were down on the cold ground presently, correcting like wolves, growling. Quickly and quietly Elena went to them. The one with the wavy hair and green eyes-Stefan, a voice in her brain murmured was on top, fingers scrabbling at the other's throat. Outrage washed through Elena, outrage and defense. She came to among them to get that stifling hand, to pry the fingers up. It didn't happen to her that she shouldn't be sufficiently able. She was sufficient; that was all. She tossed her weight to the side, tweaking her hostage away from his rival. For good measure, she weighed down hard on his injured arm, thumping him level all over in the leaf-tossed slush. At that point she started to stifle him from behind. Her assault had shocked him, yet he was a long way from beaten. He struck back at her, his great hand bungling for her throat. His thumb delved into her windpipe. Her assault had shocked him, yet he was a long way from beaten. He struck back at her, his great hand bungling for her throat. His thumb delved into her windpipe. Yet, he was more grounded than she was. With a snap of his shoulders, he broke her hang on him and turned in her grip, tossing her down. And afterward he was over her, his face twisted with creature anger. She murmured at him and went for his eyes with her nails, yet he thumped her hand away. He was going to murder her. Indeed, even injured, he was by a long shot the more grounded. His lips had stepped back to go on the defensive previously recolored with red. Like a cobra, he was prepared to strike. At that point he quit, floating over her, his face evolving. Elena saw the green eyes extend. The students, which had been contracted to awful spots, sprang open. He was gazing down at her as though really observing her just because. For what reason would he say he was taking a gander at her that way? For what reason didn't he simply get it over with? Yet, presently the iron hand on her shoulder was discharging her. The creature growl had vanished, supplanted by a look of bewilderment and miracle. He sat back, helping her to sit up, at the same time looking into her face. â€Å"Elena,† he murmured. His voice was split. â€Å"Elena, it's you.† Is that who I am? she thought. Elena? It didn't generally make a difference. She cast a look toward the old oak tree. He was still there, remaining between the upthrust roots, gasping, supporting himself against it with one hand. He was taking a gander at her with his unendingly bruised eyes, his foreheads attracted together a glare. Try not to stress, she thought. I can deal with this one. He's idiotic. At that point she flung herself on the green-looked at one once more. â€Å"Elena!† he cried as she thumped him in reverse. His great hand pushed at her shoulder, holding her up. â€Å"Elena, it's me, Stefan! Elena, take a gander at me!† She was looking. Everything she could see was the uncovered fix of skin at his neck. She murmured once more, upper lip moving back, getting defensive. He solidified. She felt the stun resound through his body, saw his look break. His face went as white as though somebody had struck him a blow in the stomach. He shook his head marginally on the sloppy ground. â€Å"No,† he murmured. â€Å"Oh, no†¦Ã¢â‚¬  He was by all accounts saying it to himself, as though he didn't anticipate that her should hear him. He arrived at a hand toward her cheek, and she spoke harshly to it. â€Å"Oh, Elena†¦Ã¢â‚¬  he murmured. The last hints of rage, of creature bloodlust, had vanished from his face. His eyes were bewildered and blasted and lamenting. The last hints of rage, of creature bloodlust, had vanished from his face. His eyes were bewildered and blasted and lamenting. He gazed at her a second, the agony in his eyes arriving at a pinnacle, and afterward he basically surrendered. He quit battling totally. She could feel it occur, feel the opposition leave his body. He lay on the frigid ground with pieces of oak leaves in his hair, gazing up past her at the dark and obfuscated sky. Finish it, his exhausted voice said in her psyche. Elena wavered for a moment. There was something in particular about those eyes that called up recollections inside her. Remaining in the evening glow, sitting in a storage room room†¦ But the recollections were excessively ambiguous. She was unable to get a grip on them, and the exertion made her mixed up and wiped out. Also, this one needed to bite the dust, this green-looked at one called Stefan. Since he'd hurt him, the other one, the one Elena had been destined to be with. Nobody could hurt him and live. She cinched her teeth into his throat and bit profound. She understood immediately that she wasn't doing it very right. She hadn't hit a conduit or vein. She stressed at the throat, irate at her own inability. It felt great to nibble something, yet very little blood was coming. Baffled, she lifted up and bit once more, feeling his body snap in torment. Much better. She'd found a vein this time, yet she hadn't torn it profoundly enough. A little scratch like that wouldn't do. What she required was to tear it directly over, to let the rich hot circulation system out. Her casualty shivered as she attempted to do this, teeth raking and biting. She was simply feeling the tissue give way when hands pulled at her, lifting her from behind. Elena growled without relinquishing the throat. The hands were stubborn however. An arm circled about her midsection, fingers twined in her hair. She battled, sticking with teeth and nails to her prey. Relinquish him. Leave him! The voice was sharp and ordering, similar to an impact from a virus wind. Elena remembered it and quit battling with the hands that pulled her away. As they stored her on the ground and she admired see him, a name came into her brain. Damon. His name was Damon. She gazed at him gloomily, angry of being yanked away from her slaughter, yet faithful. Stefan was sitting up, his neck red with blood. It was running onto his shirt. Elena licked her lips, feeling a pulse like a craving for food that appeared to originate from each fiber of her being. She was bleary eyed once more. â€Å"I thought,† Damon said so anyone might hear, â€Å"that you said she was dead.† He was taking a gander at Stefan, who was significantly paler than previously, if that was conceivable. That white face loaded up with boundless misery. â€Å"Look at her† was all he said. A hand measured Elena's jaw, inclining her face up. She met Damon's limited dull eyes straightforwardly. At that point long, thin fingers contacted her lips, examining between them. Naturally Elena attempted to nibble, however not hard. Damon's finger found the sharp bend of a canine tooth, and Elena bit presently, giving it a touch like a kitten's. Damon's face was passive, his eyes hard. â€Å"Do you know where you are?† he said. Elena looked around. Trees. â€Å"In the woods,† she said cunningly, glancing back at him. â€Å"And who is that?† She followed his pointing finger. â€Å"Stefan,† she said apathetically. â€Å"Your brother.† â€Å"And who am I? Do you know who I am?† She grinned up at him, going on the defensive. â€Å"Of course I do. You're Damon, and I love you.†

Models of Personality and Effect in Organisations

Models of Personality and Effect in Organizations Saarthak Sankalp File Theme (Jump to) Character Character Models Foreseeing Personality with Social Behavior Significance of Corporate Brand Personality Traits Job of Personality factors in Coping with Organizational Change Difficulties and Concerns with Personality Assessment in Indian Context End Book reference Character The work character is gotten from the Latin word persona, which was utilized to portray the various jobs or camouflages performed by dramatic entertainers. Character can be characterized as an individual’s novel trademark examples of contemplations, emotions and practices. Gordon Allport characterized character as †â€Å"the dynamic association inside the person of those psychophysical frameworks that decide his one of a kind changes in accordance with his environment.† Character Models Numerous models have been given by different scientists to examine the character. The most recent character models are as per the following :- Myers-Briggs Type Index (MBTI) The MBTI is a character perfect dependent on Jung’s hypothesis of mental sorts created by Briggs and Myers and comprises of four components of inclinations which are as per the following:- Extroversion (E) versus Introversion (I). This measurement gives a knowledge about the direction of the person. Outgoing people are supposed to be more worried about the functional real factors than with the inward musings. Contemplative people, however, look more into the internal identity and are pre-busy with their own musings. Detecting (S) versus Intuition (N). People who have all the more detecting measurement depend more on that can be watched and are viewed as twisted towards what is genuine. People having progressively natural measurement depend extra on their non-target and oblivious perceptual procedures. Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F). An inclination for intuition demonstrates the individual uses a greater amount of rationale and sound techniques to settle on choices and activity. Individuals having additionally feeling measurement gave increasingly passionate answers to occasions and offer inclination to set up emotional procedures. Judgment (J) versus Perception (P). The judgment-recognition inclinations were created to show if discerning or unreasonable decisions are prevailing after an individual is connecting with nature. In dynamic the critical individual uses both the reasoning and feeling, while the detecting and instinct procedures are utilized by the discernment individuals. The Big Five Personality Model The Big Five is the normally utilized term for the model of character which depicts the five crucial variables of our character. It was characterized freely by numerous analysts dependent on the factor-examinations of the character characteristics. The five attributes are generally alluded as OCEAN. The five character attributes are as per the following:- Receptiveness to Experience: It is the receptiveness to creative thoughts, new encounters, interest, experience, gratefulness for feelings and craftsmanship. Honesty: Tendency to be facilitated and trustworthy, show self-restraint, focus for achievement, acts obediently and doesn't incline toward unconstrained conduct. Extraversion: Affirmative feelings, amiability, emphaticness, vitality, garrulity and the inclination to seek after incitement. Pleasantness: Traits of an individual who is obliging and humane instead of questionable and hostile towards others. It is also a proportion of one’s supportive and confiding in nature, and whether the individual is without a care in the world. Neuroticism: It alludes to the level of passionate strength and drive control in an individual. The attributes to effectively yield to outrage, uneasiness or sorrow. Score on all the five variables are utilized to portray a person’s character Kolbe Conative Index (KCI) KCI is viewed as a character model which is not quite the same as MBTI and FIRO-B as it estimates intuitive practices of a person that show up while that he/she attempts to accomplish objectives. The KCI arranges the natural practices into four classifications: testing, designing, enhancing and illustrating. Every class has its comparing ‘Action Mode’ which are as per the following: Certainty Finder (FF): Probing instinctual conduct is given by this activity mode. This mode is identified with the data gathering. Reality discoverers are worried about systems, research and subtleties. They set up needs for settling on choice by gathering and breaking down information. Finish (FT): Patterning natural conduct is given by this activity mode. This mode is identified with structure. Individuals constrained by FT look for structure, and plan and plans for advance. They respond in a consecutive way. Fast Start (QS): Innovating intuitive conduct is given by this activity mode. This mode is identified with the best approach to manage hazard and vulnerability. Fast starters start changes, face challenge, and they are imaginative. Practitioner (IMP): Demonstrating instinctual conduct is given by this activity mode. This activity mode is identified with the best approach to deal with space and physical assets. Individuals having this activity mode are acceptable at utilizing space and materials, create develops, and effectively use hand on gear. Kolbe Action Modes Principal Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior (FIRO-B) Schutz built up the FIRO-B character model. The force of the relational needs of consideration (I), control (C), and love (An) are estimated by this model. The individual’s social need of communication and belongingness is characterized as Inclusion. The requirement for force and impact is characterized as Control, and can be identified with initiative. The requirement for closeness and kinship is characterized as Affection. How much every one of these three needs can be depicted into 2 components of communicated (e) or needed (w). How much one acts in that manner toward others is characterized as communicated while how much one likes others to act as such toward oneself is portrayed as needed. The FIRO-B model can be clarified by the connection of communicated and needed measurements with the three relational needs, bringing about six classes of relational needs as depicted in the figure underneath. Every class is estimated with a 10 point scale (0-9). FIRO-B Model Most recent looks into identified with Personality The most recent looks into identified with characters are as per the following:- Foreseeing character with social conduct Character is an attribute which impacts the conduct of an individual with others. Social conduct can give us a decent understanding about the character of a person as they carry on exhibit a standardizing (or typical) conduct in social communications. To comprehend this inside the extent of a social conduct, we think about the activities in the accompanying principle gatherings:- Nextwork Bandwidth (NET): The dynamic inclusion in the informal communities, the time spent there and movement conveyance (uniform or bursty). Message Content (MSG): The assortment and measure of messages they are sending, regardless of whether they are the connections or URLs of sites or the sent messages and so on. Pair Behavior (PAIR): How they carry on with their companions and family members, the factual proportions of standard deviations and normal of different activities across various devotees and companions. Correspondence of activities (REC): Levels to which there activities are responded by their companions. Instruction (INF): Information that could be picked up from the conduct with the companions, regardless of whether there is same sort of conduct with each companion or whether a few companions are preferred over others in explicit activities. Homophily (HOM): All the past highlights processed for the person’s companion to comprehend her group of friends. Significance of Corporate brand character qualities Corporate brands make a specific picture in the psyches of the clients and different constituents which can help the corporate to separate their image from others. Various variables will be liable for the corporate picture like the items an organization makes, the moves it makes, and the way where it imparts to purchasers. Another significant segment of corporate picture is the corporate brand character. 60 US brands have been inspected and are found to fell into the accompanying five fundamental bunches, â€Å"(1) Sincerity, (2) Excitement, (3) Competence, (4) Sophistication and (5) Ruggedness. Corporate Personality Traits Corporate brand character is characterized as how client sees a specific brand †characterstics of shoppers who are utilizing it. It tends to be viewed as a methods for the client to communicate what they truly expect or need. Corporate brand character is increasingly about the view of workers †both the client confronting and the senior administration as they establish the entire association. It mirrors the activities and estimations of the considerable number of representatives of the association. Corporate brand character of a 21st century business can be assembled into three measurements which are as per the following:- Heart †It comprises of two qualities: sympathetic and enthusiastic. Psyche †It comprises of two characteristics: Creative and restrained. Body †It comprises of two qualities: Agile and community oriented. Job of Personality factors in adapting to authoritative change Concerning the examination paper composed by R. Ravi Kumar, change is inescapable to any association. Both outer and interior components can achieve changes to an association. The workplace is influenced to a huge degree by outside factor, for example, changing assumptions regarding quality, consumer loyalty and new work power socioeconomics. It is additionally influenced by the inside elements, for example, the mergers and acquisitions, budgetary limitations and the need to improve profitability. Character assumes a significant job in the activity execution of a person when changes in an association occur. The character factors which influence the presentation are as per the following:- Segment

3 Proven Strategies to Motivate Your Team

3 Proven Strategies to Motivate Your Team Its a fresh battle every day to find the motivation to get through my to do list. But motivating your team is an entirely different challenge. Its not always as simple as cracking the whip or offering a cash bonus, either. Understanding how people respond to different types of motivation can help us be better leaders and increase the productivity of our teams. It can just take a little science to figure out what works best and which strategies to use to motivate your team. 1. Show Appreciation This first approach sounds simple, but it can make a big difference. In a survey of 2,000 working Americans, 81 percent said theyd work harder for an appreciative boss. 70 percent also said theyd feel better about themselves and their work if their boss showed appreciation more often. For a simple thanks, thats quite a good returnâ€"even if it only leads to a small increase in productivity, its worth the effort. According to Wharton professor Adam Grant, A sense of appreciation is the single most sustainable motivator at work. Grant says appreciation differs from motivators like cash bonuses or promotions, which we quickly adjust to, because the sense that other people appreciate what you do sticks with you. A review of over fifty studies from the London School of Economics in 2011 backs up the benefits of showing appreciation for your team. The review found people put in more effort at work when they feel appreciated. Another example of this effect at work comes from behavioral economist Dan Ariely, who conducted an experiment on motivation at an Intel factory in Israel. The study split employees into groups and told each group theyd receive a different reward for completing all their work each day. One group would receive a small cash bonus, another would receive a voucher for free pizza, and a third would receive a compliment from the boss. On the first day, the pizza group was most productive, with the compliment group a close second. The cash bonus group had a small bump in productivity compared to the control group (who received no bonus reward) but was far behind the pizza and compliment conditions. And on the second day of the study, the cash bonus group actually performed worse than those employees not receiving any reward. As the week finished up, productivity leveled out across all three conditions, but compliments ended up as the best option for boosting the workers performance. This study points out how little money can motivate us, and how, in fact, it can even harm our motivation. But another study showed that when we dont feel our work is appreciated, we tend to expect more money as compensation for the same work. So take some time to say thank you to your team members today. That quick act could save you money and increase productivity. Discover team productivity 2. Show Your Team the Fruits of Their Labor Research shows we like to see the outcome of our efforts. An example comes from a study that asked participants to build Lego models, paying a small sum per model that decreased for each one the participants completed. For some participants, the models were immediately disassembled by the researchers. For the rest, their models were kept under the table to be disassembled at the end of the experiment. The team whose work was kept until they were done completed an average of eleven Lego models before quitting, while those whose models were immediately disassembled only managed seven. Even though both groups of participants knew their work would ultimately be destroyed, seeing the fruits of their labor was enough to encourage participants to keep working for longer. A less tangible example comes from a study of a fundraising call center at the University of Michigan. Call center workers were visited by students who had benefited from the centers efforts, for a ten-minute chat. A month later researchers found that those workers whod been spoken to by students were spending 142 percent longer on the phone, and overall the centers income had increased by 171 percent. Even if your team isnt creating something tangible like Lego models, there are ways you can show them the outcomes theyre contributing to. Seeing how their efforts lead to a meaningful result could motivate your team to work harder. 3. Motivate Your Team by Putting Something at Stake We like to get new things, but we hate losing things even more. This principle is called loss aversion. Were so averse to loss that well go a long way to avoid it. Vassilis Dalakas, professor of marketing at California State University San Marcos tested how loss aversion could be used to increase his students motivation to study. He taught the same consumer behavior class twice, with the same material, and introduced optional pop quizzes throughout the class in both cases. The quizzes were worth one point if they were passed, and any student with five points at the end of the class could skip the final exam. The only difference between the two classes was the rule around the final exam. In the first class the exam was required, but students could earn the right to opt out by gaining five points from the quizzes. In the second class the exam was optional from the start but students could lose the right to opt out by not gaining five points. Guess which class passed more quizzes? In class one 43 percent of students earned five points by the end of the class. In class two it was 82 percentâ€"almost double. The reason is simply loss aversion. We hate to lose things that we feel belong to us. Its so upsetting that well work harder to maintain our ownership over those things rather than suffer the loss. The students in the second class believed they owned the right to skip the exam and didnt want to have it taken away, so they were more likely to study hard and pass the quizzes. The good news is even small losses work better as motivators than rewards. As we saw in the study above, it’s simply a matter of framing that changes how much we’re motivated to work hard. So you might offer your team the chance to earn an afternoon off by hitting their weekly goals. Or you could promise them an afternoon off every week unless they don’t hit their weekly goals. The outcome is the same, but the framing is different. It seems we care more about not losing something that’s already been promised to us than we do about earning something new. You can combine the various suggestions I’ve explored here to motivate your team. Show your team the fruits of their labor and remember to offer your appreciation for their work, but also try putting something at stake now and then. Each of these approaches has been shown to increase motivation, but together theyre sure to work even better. Teamwork made simple Discover MeisterTask Discover MeisterTask

The Effects Of Child Abuse On Children - 1841 Words

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International Business Chapter 1-4 - 2294 Words

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Benito Cereno and American Characteristic Free Essays

19th Century Literature Prof. Bland Typical American Character â€Å"Benito Cereno† is a work that exceedingly depicts how ideological self-delusion of an American character is one of the most dangerous capacities of mankind. Captain Delano a Yankee from â€Å"Duxbury Massachusetts† exemplifies these two American cultures of concerning nature and confidence. We will write a custom essay sample on Benito Cereno and American Characteristic or any similar topic only for you Order Now As Americans we have concerned and helped other less fortunate (i. e. the amount we donate to help third world countries), we are also confident and fearless in nature that we can accomplish anything (i. e. American dream). These traditional American characteristics I believe forms the American arrogance that we are stereotyped to have. We maybe helping others we have no business helping. Just like the American culture Delano truly believes he is doing the right thing, by showing concern and having confidence in being able to help the San Dominick slave-ship and he is incapable of seeing the horrifying consequences of his actions both with respect to his â€Å"friendly racism† and his fantasy of â€Å"superiority†. He spends a day on the  San Dominick  following a slave mutiny, never quite aware that anything is wrong until the truth all but bites his head off. Delano subscribes to a typical â€Å"Northern† view of African slaves: he considers them to be naturally good-natured, submissive servants. He spends much of his time aboard the  San Dominick  condescendingly admiring Babo’s performance. Melville critiques this naivete arrogance of superiority and friendly racism to which although these characteristic are positive if not careful, can be a barrier that blinds a person from seeing the actual situation. â€Å"None wore fetters, because the owner, his friend Aranda, told him that they were all tractable† (BC 224) As Delano first boards Benito’s ship, the slaves are still unfettered. The ship seems unreal; these strange costumes, gestures, and faces, but a shadowy tableau just emerged from the deep, which directly must receive back what it gave† (BC). This â€Å"shadowy tableau,† on the ship inhabited mostly by unregulated African slaves, roaming around freely is there for Captain Delano to dev elop his own understanding as to why this ship culture is the way it is. Having the traditional American character of concern, Delano in nature is concerned about the ship and his intention of genuinely helping the troubled captain Benito Cereno becomes a curtain that prevents him from seeing the real intentions of the slaves. Symbols that have previously been formed and encoded by the American culture and upbringing in the back of his mind; Delano’s â€Å"trustful good nature† makes him accept the image of the faithful slaves in his understanding of the unknown Africans slaves on the ship. With this idea of faithful slaves, confronted with a genuine signs and warning; the frail captain Benito Cereno, the vigilant Babo, chained Atufal, the oakum-pickers and hatchet-polishers, the flaring moments of violence and unease—he is not capable of understanding and arranging them accurately or truthfully. This trustful and concerned nature of Americans is one of the characters Captain Delano represents. That an American upbringing create a perception even today that we, as a country, had a right to go around the world helping other struggling nations who were beset by tyrants or internal fighting with the attendant killing and raping of the populace. This trusting and concerned nature makes us delusional preventing us from seeing the facts that maybe these country America is helping does not want our help. The same goes for captain Delano his trustful nature creates a delusion of â€Å"faithful and harmless slaves† that helping this slave ship and its current condition of unfettered slaves is a result of the poor management of Captain Delano’s lesser Hispanic counter Captain Benito Cereno therefore his is obliged to help to get it under control. This concerning nature blinds Captain Delano from seeing the truth. Before even making contact with the blacks on the ship, Delano readily stresses their good-natured and pristine qualities. These â€Å"unsophisticated Africans,† with their â€Å"self-content† and â€Å"peculiar love . . . of uniting industry with pastime,† (BC) bring out Delano’s â€Å"weakness for negroes. † In his understanding of them, they are a mixture of docility and nobility. Delano feels confident as he sees â€Å"the affectionate zeal† and â€Å"good conduct† (BC) As this book reveals, Delano alternates between his images of the Africans as an innocent faithful slaves, he completely misinterprets the slave revolt and totally neglects the blacks’ inner motivations. While revealing how Delano adapts these ideological images of the black man to fit his own understanding. This confidence from his own American upbringing and staying in his own paradigm of slaves being kind in nature, and are submissive servants make Captain Delano a benign racist. He does not express hate for the black people; he likes them. But his fondness of them shows in a characteristic of overconfidence or arrogance, in which that he is confident in his own knowledge that the slaves are obedient creatures, incapable of harm and completely demeaning the black slaves. He considers Babo, for instance, to be a childish slave of limited intelligence. In Delano’s understanding, the faithful blacks are closer to animal nature than the white man is. Delano’s dialogue continuously dehumanizes the slaves by attaching animal imagery to them. First, as the narrator mentions, â€Å"Delano took to negroes, not philanthropically, but genially, just as other men to Newfoundland dogs† (BC). When Babo looks up at Don Benito, he is â€Å"like a shepherd’s dog,† (BC) whose grins denote â€Å"mere animal humor† (BC). These references and comparison to animals of the slaves becomes not to decline them as human, but instead to acknowledge them within the white community in their position as docile servants, the image of the dog, domesticated animal, is significant in this context. At the same time, their animal reference accounts for their inability for being totally free. This show of confidence and trust completely blinds Captain Delano from the truth and maybe be seen by the majority as a weakness but this ignorance ultimately helped him from the slave revolt. Delano’s trustfulness and perception that all the blacks are docile and faithful slaves and are good nature saves their lives. Delano’s ignorance prevents him from discovering the truth, which would almost certainly lead him to a untimely demise. Cereno conveys his surprise that Babo refrained from murdering Delano,   Cereno conveys his surprise that Babo refrains from murdering Delano, â€Å"to think of some things you did – those smilings and chattings,  rash  pointings and gesturings. For less than these, they slew my mate† (BC) This reinforces the fact that if Delano makes any indication of recognizing the truth, he would have been killed on the spot. Delano’s confident, arrogant and absolutely insulting demeanor and perception of slaves being too stupid to be able to formulate a revolt ultimately saves him and Benito Cereno. If Delano is not so unaware of the events encircling him and exhibits a little more suspicion, Babo would certainly have him executed. This confidence that conveys a typical American characteristic is also part of Captain Delano’s. This confidence created a barrier that prevented him from once again seeing the truth in the situation. An arrogant demeanor that he underestimates his adversary, in which nine out of ten will completely destroy you but in this particular story turned out to be an advantage. Captain Delano’s overconfidence in his own â€Å"limited† knowledge and upbringing and from his own experiences growing up, and perhaps his interaction with the black community, he views them as a lesser being forming an idea of himself as a superior or idea of white supremacy that completely limits his understanding and cannot read the gravity of the situation. This overconfidence in his understanding became ignorance and although I believed it helped him from getting killed on the ship by Babo and the slaves, is the same overconfidence that can potentially be deadly. With the revelation of the slave revolt, we should realize that one of the main reasons Delano has been incapable of seeing through the masquerade has been his benign racism, in which that he see’s the slaves as harmless and too stupid to come up with such an idea. Delano’s racism can be understood most directly it seems to be a reflection of his upbringing in a somewhat liberal Northern racism that practice anti-slavery views (it’s important to remember Delano is from Massachusetts, a hotbed of anti-slavery activity during the period). The story suggests that Delano, like others who viewed slaves sympathetically, may have a weak recognition of the horrors of slavery and may consider himself the slaves’ friend, but such feelings depend on viewing himself as superior to the slaves and to the slaves staying in their appointed position of submission. In conclusion while Delano finds blacks utterly charming and â€Å"fun-loving,† fond of bright colors and of â€Å"uniting industry with pastime,† this â€Å"admiration† masks his deep-seated conviction that blacks are not entirely human. In fact, when in the midst of trying to understand the odd occurrences on the San Dominick, it briefly occurs to Delano that Cereno might be in league with the blacks, he dismisses the thought with a shudder: â€Å"who ever heard of a white so far a renegade as to apostatize from his very species almost, by leaguing in against it with Negroes? † (BC). This proves once again his overconfidence in his understanding limiting him from seeing the big picture that the slaves are controlling the situation. He can never imagine that the slaves are the one who thought up the grandiose plan, that he thinks Captain Cereno is orchestrating something gainst his kin. He fails to discern that the Spanish vessel is in fact in the hold of a complex, meticulously plotted mutiny, that the slaves have successfully revolted, and that the dutiful Babo is in fact the revolutionary in command. Delano’s trusting and overconfidence in this regard is very nearly fatal, and in a way that the text explains, and that critics have frequently described, it is his concerning, unselfconscious, absolutely stubborn ideology of slaves and creates a benign racism—his offhand white supremacism—that drives and sustains this ignorance. Despite his several moments of deep suspicion, is his unmoved confidence that a slave like Babo, so naturally docile, so ideally suited to those watchful and pleasant â€Å"avocations about one’s person,† could never surpass the â€Å"unaspiring contentment of a limited mind† common to all Africans (BC). The blacks in league with a piratical Cereno? â€Å"But they were too stupid,† Delano reminds himself (BC). Believing this, he cannot see what’s before him, because of his paradigm and views of the slaves in a northern upbringing of being sympathetically to the slaves, He is incapable of imagining the black slaves in any but a passive role of devoted and faithful servants, docile and incapable of harming their white superiors, This overconfidence is ultimately ignorance that Delano cannot perceive the true situation on the San Dominick. Works Cited Page Melville, Herman, and Herman Melville. Bartleby ; And, Benito Cereno. New York: Dover Publications, 1990. Print. How to cite Benito Cereno and American Characteristic, Essay examples

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The Pros and Cons of Managed Mental Health Care Essay Abstract This paper will discuss the different effects managed care has on the quality of mental health care for its clients. On the positive, managed care has increased availability to a cliental that would otherwise not be able to afford mental health care. On the negative, there has been a reduction in quality in order for managed care corporations to keep costs low and still make money. Proper implementation of managed mental health care would likely result in high quality, low cost mental health care. Introduction Two decades ago hospitals were for the physically ill and asylums were for the mentally ill. With the stigma fading from mental illness and a movement toward deinstitutionalization, this paradigm of segregation of mental and physical health care does not hold true today. A direct effect of the paradigm shift is a greater willingness on the part of the public to seek help for mental health problems. (Madonna, 2000, 6) Managed care has stepped up to fill the increasing need for inexpensive mental health care coverage. Each year, 52 million Americans have some form of mental health problem and out of those patients 60% are members of a managed care group. (Madonna, 2000, 8) Managed mental health cares successes and failures now bear directly on the mental wellbeing of 32 million particularly vulnerable Americans. Initially managed care was intended to be a comprehensive approach to healthcare that included balancing cost, quality, utilization, and access. We will write a custom essay on The Pros and Cons of Managed Mental Health Care specifically for you for only $16.38 $13.9/page Order now (Madonna, 2000, 23) In theory, this is an optimal approach to the delivery of health care and it has proven somewhat successful in the area of physical health, but it has not provided the same success in the area of mental health. Mental health is still being treated as a separate and less important aspect of health care despite the fact that some mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia, have shown higher success rates than those of common medical procedure, such as angioplasty. (Etheredge, 2002, 6) The Cons First and foremost managed mental health care is a business and good business often prevents good medicine. Theoretically, a well implemented managed care could work well, but in order to make their stockholders happy, managed care companies do not always implement policies to help the patient. An example of this would be the common policy of company personnel making treatment decisions instead of mental health treatment providers. This organization of power raises concerns with patients and treatment providers alike. Historically managed care organizations have not switched mental health patients to less costly forms of treatment, they have just reduced care in general, restricting access to costly medical procedures. (Madonna, 2000, 12) One reason a stigma is placed on forms of managed care, such as health maintenance organizations (HMO), is a highly publicized practice of providing material incentives to doctors to control the amount of costly tests and medications the doctor prescribes. Before providing these material incentives the HMOs would force the doctor to sign a gag rule, preventing the physician from disclosing any information pertaining to the unethical practice. Since the doctors who participated in the bribery can not speak about the practice, there is no way to tell the impact of this practice, but one can assume that many patients received diminished treatment of illnesses, possibly resulting in harm. The Pros It may be hard for most people to believe that there are some pros to the existence of managed care, but this may be because only 8% of the thousands of articles writen about managed mental health care in national publications have a positive influence on the reader. 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