Discuss pop culture elements.

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Write a 6 pages paper on leadership in pop culture elements. Leadership is characterized by a variety of theories that range from simple to complex ones. According to critiques who argue that mass-produced entertainments aim to appeal to the vast audiences and hence both the intellectual stimulation of high art and the bases release of low art and primary release of low art. Due to the prevailing growing need for leadership development in today’s society, the changing nature of the social and also economic issues, leadership development has implications for each of the primary categories which are mainly characterized by human resource development through development. However, this typically occurs within the context of either training or development. This makes the practitioners and scholars in the field of teaching and development of leaders feel valuable to find innovative and new ways to teach leadership theory and aid in the use of theory. Using media from pop culture remains one of the most effective ways in which one should approach teaching leadership (Short, 2001).

 

interactionism and reflexivity.

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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on interactionism and reflexivity. There are two philosophical roots of Interactionism: one is Phenomenology and the second is Ethnography. Phenomenology is a study of the construction of experience or consciousness. It is the study of “Phenomena”. It explains why things appear, as they are, what role they play in our lives or how we experience them and finally how experiences influence us. It includes all our sensory powers and capabilities of hearing, seeing, touching and everything that makes up an “experience”. This may include all animate and inanimate objects. It studies the entire structure of experience, starting from a thought or intention and finally translating into action. The intermediate processes, from thought to action are all studied by Phenomenology. This includes, foremost, how we perceive things, what thoughts and imagination they provoke in our mind and memory, what emotions are aroused, how will towards that task, and finally, how the action is taken or executed. Edmund Husserl was among the pioneers of the Phenomenology when it was first launched in the early 20th century. He believed that the center of all experience is the intention. It is not what final experience will bring about that decides how an individual will perceive or what an individual will learn from it. It is what the individual intends to get from experience that decides the meaning of the experience for the individual. (Smith, 2003)

 

Discuss the nature of a political leader.

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Write a 6 pages paper on the nature of a political leader. When Machiavelli talks about a common man and his nature, he contents that men possess good and bad qualities and traits, some of which are inherent in human nature. The majority is content, happy, and trustworthy in prosperous times. However, when circumstances change, the bad qualities and traits prevail and most men quickly turn selfish, deceitful, and self-interested. Therefore, Machiavelli, repeatedly calls humans fickle creatures. He, almost ironically, notices how most people admire honor, generosity, courage, and piety without ever displaying those virtues themselves. Since most men are weak and lacking the virtue of the good citizen, they need a new leader, a heroic one, who will infuse his own virtue into all the citizens. “Thus, the miserable creatures that human beings ordinarily are or become when not properly guided, are thereby transformed into patriotic citizens, capable of sacrifice, self-exertion, and other patriotic values” (Prince, 1513). It is interesting to notice how Machiavelli, not only in the Prince, gives importance to outside factors influencing human nature. In the Prince, he asserts that men tend to be satisfied with the status quo as long as they are not victims of something terrible. Very few men express real ambition. In his other famous work,&nbsp.Discourses on Livy (1517), Machiavelli writes: “Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it. but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant” (Discourses, Book 1, chapter 3, 1517). Also, in his Florentine Histories,&nbsp.through the eyes of an anonymous citizen, Machiavelli describes the state of the city of Florence at the time: “The young are lazy, the old lascivious. both sexes at every age are full of foul&nbsp.customs, for which good laws because they are spoiled by wicked us, are no remedy. From this grows the avarice that is seen in our citizens and the appetite, not for true glory, but for the contemptible honors in which hatreds, enmities, differences and sects depend. and from these arise deaths, exiles, persecution of the good, exaltation of the wicked” (Florentine Histories 1525).

Discussion on presence of the european union in africa.

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Write a 5 pages paper on presence of the european union in africa. EU foreign policies in Africa and the world have not properly geared towards attaining any balanced form of development for the African regions. According to (), the EU policies tend to reflect the interests of individual countries rather than that of the entire union. Much, therefore, need to be done before the EU ventures into international affairs controls.

The two articles that are reviewed in this paper are Adrain, Hyde-Price, “A ‘tragic actor? A realist perspective on ‘ethical power in Europe.” International Affairs 84.1 (2008): 29–44. and Fredrik, Soderbaum, “The European Union as an actor in Africa: internal coherence and external legitimacy.” Maurizio, Carbone, The European Union in Africa: Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance? Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, (2012). 25-39. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. In conducting the review, this paper will look at the various policy areas such as security, humanitarian assistance, and other development programs initiated and funded by the EU around the African continent.

The European Union is today one of the most active development partners to most African countries. These collaborative alliances stem from the fact that most African nations are former colonies of the twenty-seven countries making up the European Union. Partnering in development prospects in the region is, therefore, justified on the basis that such partnerships are jointly undertaken between the colonies and their respective colonial powers. Ideally, the European Unions policies towards the African continent are pegged upon three key pillars. These include security, humanitarian assistance, and development projects initiated and funded by the respective colonial powers in their respective colonies. Fredrik, for instance, discusses the operations of the EU in Africa based on the three primary goals.