The article titled Time to Create Sound Teamwork by Diane Bandow talks about the importance of teamwork for running businesses successfully. Lack of teamwork within an organization can cost a lot more than what is obvious, for lack of trust and understanding in relationships between team members can decrease performance levels, inflate production cycles, and…
Tag: North America
The most important influences on the colonial experiences of Europeans in North America?
The European colonial experience in the New World is not one monolithic, homogenous entity. The wave of colonists arriving in the newly discovered continent comprised of several groups deriving from different religious, cultural, linguistic and class backgrounds. At one end of the spectrum were members of imperial royalty, whose purpose was one of administration and…
Review of Stephan Shennan’s introduction to Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
Evolutionary biology as a field of inquiry is fairly well entrenched, with detailed and documented studies carried out over the last 150 years. The same cannot be said about cultural evolution, which is a synthesis of anthropology, archaeology and the study of human history. While evolutionary biology has come to depend on well-established methods of…
Book Review: Gambling with the Future by Yale D. Belanger
The history of the social and economic impoverishment of aborigines of North America in general and Canada in particular is fairly well documented. But the effect of European colonization and settlements in Canada has had a destructive effect on aboriginal gaming and gambling as well. This latter aspect of the history of aboriginal life under…
Socrates and the notion of an examined life
According to Socrates, a commitment to moral reasoning is an essential condition of a well-lived life. An individual should base his actions upon the outcomes of such internal dialogues. The exercise of self-examination and introspection as a way of arriving at moral truths is of paramount importance to Socrates. So much so that he unequivocally…
The impact of Abolitionism on First Wave Feminism
One way of looking at the significant historical events in North America and Europe over the last few centuries is by studying and understanding the first wave feminist movement and the abolitionist movement. Such a study will lead to the inference that the two social movements had much in common and each took strength from…
The impact of abolitionism on first wave feminism
An interesting perspective on the history of North America and Europe over the last few centuries is attained by relating the women’s movement and the anti-slavery movement. The former, of course, would be denoted by historians as first wave and second wave feminist movements and the latter is termed the abolitionist movement. This connection makes…
The influence of race on the position of first-wave feminists
In discourses of women’s issues and the history of development of feminist thought, the first-wave feminist movement is accorded a place that is secondary to the second-wave activism of the 1960s and 1970s. One of the reasons for this is the relative lack of emphasis on racial equality in the first-wave movement. To illustrate the…