The practical guide to transforming your company is a concise handbook for conducting business transformations--defining and implementing a redirection in the company's core business or in its strategic positioning. Starting where such programs as LEAN and Six Sigma leave off, t…
This thesis explores architecture as an assemblage of realities. The rise in virtual and cybernetic technologies rapidly increases the convergence of multiple realities, revealing different ways of perceiving the environment. This shift in spatial perception presents the opportu…
The classical grounded theory method was used to examine the patterns of behavior demonstrated by current and former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Nation of Islam. The data collection procedures included observations, interviews, and field notes. A …
The purpose of this exploratory inquiry is to begin to articulate traces of Sophia wisdom, a whole-making presence, as it appears throughout the development of Western mind. This inquiry explores specifically that aspect of the divine wisdom of Sophia that unites spiritual consc…
Events that could, and often do, crush us psychologically (and/or physically) can also be used for personal transformation and change. There are some individuals who find hope and opportunity in the midst of adversity and use their experience as a catalyst for positive social ch…
The 1995 Million Man March catered to a heterogeneous group of persons separated along demographic and psychographic lines. A reformation/protest-type March, such differences were problematic for the receipt of the main message delivered by Nation of Islam leader, Minister Louis…
The problem this ethnographic study addresses is the relationship between various ways of understanding "difference" and particular conceptualizations of what might constitute just educational practices for students across lines of social demarcation. Thinking about differences …
ABSTRACT Political scientists believe that the Abu Sayyaf Group's (ASG) penchant for accumulating funds through hostage ransoming and other criminal activity has caused the organization to drift away from its Islamic foundations to become bandits. This research explores this cla…
This dissertation is a contribution to the social history of the Soviet Union during the 1950s. It is a study of the opening of the Virgin Lands, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's project to settle and to open up to cultivation new lands in Siberia and Kazakstan. It focuses on a…
In Malaysia, there are on-going efforts to teach higher-order thinking skills in content instruction for the benefit of all students in elementary and secondary schools. Teachers are expected to infuse higher-order thinking skills in the school subjects they teach. This study in…
