Challenges and Influences on The Salvation Army

Challenges and Influences on The Salvation Army THE SALVATION ARMY Introduction Background Hi, this assessment unit is 27763 about Analyze the impacts of influences and assesses their consequences for an organisation. The nonprofit Maori organization I have chosen is The Salvation Army. This organization has overcome poverty and spiritual pain in New Zealand. Its been helping more than 120,000 families and individuals in need each year-with budgeting advice, food and clothing assistance, life skills programs and other comfort and support. We are committed to our mission of caring for people, transforming lives and reforming society. Full-time officers and employees, along with soldiers (church members) who volunteer their skills and expertise, provide their social and church-based services. Our Army has over 3000 officers and employees in New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga and is recognized as a high value employer. Our Army is a registered charity under the Charities Act 2005, registered number CC37312. This means we are freed from income tax. We are giving quality care and supp ort for needy people in their own homes. Influences: Â   Â   Internal Influences- i) Skills Skills are one of the important factors of an organization. We have highly trained and professional staff members providing their best efforts where needed with their skills. As it is a helping organization, we create a healthy and helping atmosphere in the organization if we are or not at work. We provide valuable skills through its unique training, employment and support services centers. ii) Staff Our army staff officers have worked as missionaries in many countries. Most recently, our army officers set up corps in Fiji since 1973 and Tonga in 1986. We have a large number of trained and experienced staff from different parts of world which shows the talent and co-operation among our staff. iii) Structure Our administrative structure of The Salvation Army can best be described by following diagram. iv) System We are updated to the new ways and technology which is affordable and beneficial for our purpose and goals. We know that we have to be always ready for any emergency for good running of the organization so we always the new technology, machines, staff according to our need. v) Shared values We are the best examples of the shared values. All Salvation Army worship services are open to everyone. We affirm that racial and multicultural combination of believers is desirable and reasonable. Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each person equal with each other, whether a person is a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman. The Salvation Army is intentional in its efforts to incorporate different styles of worship to meet the specific needs of its increasingly diverse organizations. External Influences: vi) Social Our programs of social work among the homeless, unemployed, addicted and other needy people were the most visible aspect of its work in the 21st century. Moving away from our earlier, strongly independent attitude, our Army worked closely with government agencies and other organizations. We also addressed the causes as well as the effects of social hardship, and regularly advised and pushed the government on policies that affect the most weak in society. Recently, the Salvation Army gave their contribution in Nepal Earthquake and did a good job working three days in Nepal after the disaster. vii) Economic Now talking about the economic, we are well known for our economic contribution to the economy by network of Thrift Stores or Charity Shops, which raise money for its rehabilitation programs by selling donated used items such as clothing, housewares and toys. The Salvation Army has a history of free therapy from alcohol and drug abuse. Thrift stores provide the revenue to run the Adult Rehabilitation Centers known as ARCs. The ARCs, found in many global locations, are work and Bible-based operating with the 12-step program, and offer residential facilities which helps in economic condition of the country. viii) Political Moreover, talking about the politics, as an international Christian church and charitable organization, we work within a wide variety of political and social backgrounds. We are not supported by political parties. Although it pursues to influence governmental and public affairs, it will not promote or approve specific candidates or political parties. ix) Technological In extent to this talking about the technological factors, we have improved business processes including the management of finance, supply chain, asset and property management not only to overcome fragmentation of information but also to speed up the flow of information. Now, passersby can donate not only to the traditional workers with bells and buckets, but they can also swipe their credit cards, or simply enter their card information on a volunteers phone. Salvationists would receive Android smartphones donated by Sprint, outfitted with the square mobile card reader, and contributors can donate directly to the Armys account. x) Legal We are legally registered and secured and we are not interfered by any political parties so we do not have any worries about any issue if we keep on doing our job like we are doing now. xi) Environment In contribution to environment. The implications of our Environmental use of natural resources on current and future generations has to be considered and action taken to report this. The consequences of such use often have a greater impact on poorer nations, resulting in increased poverty. Furthermore, we are Promoting and resourcing work to minimize any negative environmental impact of its activities, Aligning work to the wider sustainability plan, The use of ethically sourced goods wherever possible, Reducing waste and increasing recycling. Impacts Opportunities Opportunities for the skills will be the new ideas for projects like positive lifestyle programme, parenting programs and surveys. We will give a rise to our staff by giving them bonus when they do a great job and promotions wherever needed. Moreover, salary is increased after every 6 months. This will be the opportunity for our staff. Our skills are the main key of our healthy running organization because we are doing our best with our skills for the organization. Our experienced and trained staff do their best where they are needed by their abilities. Our organizational structure and distribution of jobs is organized in the best manner by our Human Resource Management team. Our systems are up to date and it is helping the organisation by their proper use. We have an experienced multicultural staff from different parts of world in the organization which creates a positive environment in the staff to work smoothly without any discrimination and it makes a peaceful environment. We are not politically being interfered so we do not have any issues with politics. We are economically contributing in the economy by our mission and work done by us. We are socially attached and understand the conditions of needy persons so we are a socially reputed organisation. We always adopt the new technology in our use which helps us as well as the person we are helping so it is a good symbol for us. We are legally registered and secured so we do not have any worries about any issue if we keep on doing our job like we are doing now. We are environmentally helpful because we do not use or do any work which harms the environment so we are eco-friendly. These are the opportunities for our healthy running organization. Threats If an employees relation is not good with staff or feel insecure he/she might be able to case a file of physical/sexual/mental harassment or can do strikes and can disturb the confidentiality of the organisation. Sometimes there is hidden racism or partiality takes place in the working environment of the organization and it leads to the bad atmosphere within the organization and it will take the organization downwards and its the main impact on our shared values. As we all know, human does not have control on nature, so if anything goes wrong like earthquake, tsunami, and storm so we cannot do anything in that case, so it is a natural threat. People are what we working for, but sometimes we dont know what people want and think about us, so we can get negative feedback about us or may give us a negative response. We are legally approved working organization on a large scale, in case in future if there are some legal rules regulation changes that can be a major threat. As we are worki ng in a nonprofit organization with the latest use of technology, in future there might be some heavy technological change which we cannot afford easily or make in use of our organization then it will be a threat. We are politically not interfered by the politics or politicians but as we are working best on our goals, some political parties or politicians may get jealous of us or may not want to see our organization rising, they may be able to do some things which can make a bad issue against our organization. As we are contributing towards the growth of the economy and organization as well, there can be some changes in the tax rates or the policies which may not be in the favor of the organization. Consequences Skills are leading to the growth and development of the organization as well as the goodwill of the organisation by adopting new programs, projects and surveys. Our staff is now more comfortable while working with the new policies in favor of them by increasing their pay rate, and promotions. Now there is a positive atmosphere within the staff while their working hours. Our organisational structure is organized in a matter that makes our organisation a strong healthy working organisation. Our system is upgraded that it makes our organisation more advance and reachable wherever we are needed. Now we have more record of data and we are known where we are needed. Our shared values are very strong and our staff is proactive and they believe that they now have more knowledge of culture and talents of other parts of the world from their colleagues working together with them. We have no negative relations with the political parties as we are not politically interfered. Now we are economical ly highly strong that we have enough resources and assets for us. Our technological factors and our systems are so advanced that it is being the most helpful and giving a push to the organisation for its organisational work. As we are an environmental friendly organisation, we have contributed for some good causes for the organisation and we have achieved some honorable awards with our good work. As a result, we are working towards our goals in the best way and we are getting the positive results for that. Recommendations I recommend that we should always keep doing some efforts like surveys, seminars so that it will improve our organisational skills. Organisation should keep on hiring new talent and staff according to the need and changes in the organisation and when old staff which is no longer available to work should be retired with honor. For system, I recommend that there should not be any unawareness about the new systems as we have to be updated with our day to day operations. Our shared values should be same as present as our staff is working in a positive atmosphere and it is further needed in our organisation. We should not do any activity or take any step which makes us politically interfered in future so we have to be aware about that. There should not be any misuse or theft in the organisational money inside or outside the organisation as all the employees are getting reasonable pay for their work. For technology, there should not be any misuse or theft in the organisation of any technol ogical equipment and soft wares. I recommend that there should be more CCTV cameras and security options for the internal organisation. As we are doing well, we need to keep that carry on by not doing any illegal work by which our organisation have to face problems in the future. We need to be more careful about the environmental contribution because it the environment is good then we will be able to work otherwise not. References www.salvationarmy.org.nz www.educationandemployment.co.org www.wikipedia.com

Baroque Part One

The Baroque Era is a period that existed in European art in the latter 16th, 17th Century, as well as the first half of the 18th Century. Baroque refers primarily to the free style of architecture that formed a restrained and balanced style of the earlier Renaissance. It was later applied to the same tendencies in music, painting sculpture, and literature. The Baroque style stems from the dramatic, large, ornate. It is full of motifs and forms expressions of energy and conflict.It originated in Italy and Spain and spread throughout Europe and is identified in architecture, with Catholic Europe and was  the official style of the COUNTERREFORMATION. Of all the many subjects which arose during the Baroque Period, the landscape genre is the most decisive marking a change in Western thinking.In Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) a pupil of Lodovico, Carracci was a versatile painter with unusual skill. He spent seven years studying the works of the masters. He particularly studied the works o f Carreggio and Parmigiano in Venice and Parma. He aided in the conducting of the academy school until 1595, when he went to Rome to assist in the Farnese gallery. The ceiling, in which he made dozen drawings for, was rich in illusionistic elements.It included fake architectural and sculptural forms that inspired many of the later painters. Among his numerous well-known works include Flight into Egypt (Doria Gall. Rome) This archetypical classical landscape, was later worshiped with various versions by Domenichino, Poussin, and Claude.The Holy family stands out because they are placed in the middle of the painting, the small measure of the figures in relation to the large natural setting first establishes a new precedence in which landscape takes is first and history is second. Order#11112799 Baroque Era Pg. 2 Carriacci brings to life an ideal nature in the painting to whichits theme tells of the nature enriched and completed by man and the works of man. And yet one assume with this underlying theme an authentic Baroque one; Carriacci implication acknowledges man is no longer the unassailable center of creation and that other forces of the world have more of a claim to his attention.The figure and the story of the painting are inconsequential to the landscape. Joseph, in the painting has dreamed that king Herod is searching for the baby Jesus to kill him, and runs away to Egypt with Mary and the child to stay there until after Herod’s death. However, the landscape is hardly Egypt instead, Carriacci has changedthe story to a high-civilized Italian setting. This is the peaceful, simple life. A middle ground that is between civilization and wilderness where people live free of both the decadence and crime of city life and the uncontrollable forces of nature.Annibale Carracci’s Landscape with flight into Egypt is Considered his masterpiece. I like the rich colors in the landscape, on The lush trees and grass that surrounds Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesu s and the horse standing in the center of the painting. It is familiar and pleasing sense of Italian landscape painting. 3Claude Lorrain, has a place in art history as a pioneer in landscape painting.He like Carracci, was widely respected and imitated for two centuries and often produces in the popular feeling of de’ja’- vu, especially in his best-known paintings. Lorrain’s power of invention was limited. He concentrated on a very narrow range of tones inside a narrow range of tone of colors inside a narrow landscape.Lorrain did not develop much further deliberately, after he had Order#11112799 Baroque Era Pg. 3 perfected his technique, because his work was too eagerly wanted by powerful supporters. His most idyllic of all his landscape paintings where he casts the world and its people, though small in a poetic light. In hisA Pastoral Landscape he works in an atmospheric point of view to soften all sense of tension and resistance to bring us to a world of harmon y and peace. In A Pastoral Landscape, as well as many like it represents the best civilization has to offer and has melded with the best of a good and gentle nature.Landscape paintings played on the concept that because God created the Earth, one could sense its soul and majesty in his work, similar to one who is able to sense emotion in a painter’s movement on the canvas. The majesty of God’s vision symbolically suggests in a panoramic sweep of the longer view to give up two thirds of the canvasto the infinite depth of the heavens. A Pastoral Landscape like many of Claude Lorrain’s include large leafy trees, a three arched bride over and large tree branch. The figures in the center of the painting also appear in the right foreground of Lorrain’s River Landscape. The countryside around Rome is the source of most of his inspiration.The Roman Campagna is a countryside haunted by the remains appear in the foreground of Lorrain’s River Landscape. The c ountryside around Rome is the source of most of his inspiration. The Roman Campagna is a countryside haunted by the remains and the association of antiques.The key period of its development were artists of many nationalities coming together in Rome. They formed and traveled to other countries. Claude Lorrain’s poetic contribution of rendering light is very influential, not only in his lifetime but also in England from the mid-18th to Order#11112799 Baroque Era Pg. 4 mid 19th Centuries. 4Jacob Van Ruisdael is another Landscape artist who is considered the greatest Dutch landscape painter. It is not determined whether he worked as a pupil for his father; a frame maker and artist Issak de Goyer, a well-known Haarlem landscapist. Jacob Van Ruisdael isthe most celebrated of the Dutch painter. He first worked in Haarlem and moved to Amsterdam in 1656. He obtained a medical degree, late in life and practiced as a physician in Amsterdam. Ruisdael’s work consists of northern na ture in a somber mood.The many characteristics to his paintings are overcast skies that throw a restless flux of light over the countryside. Gnarled, knotted oak and beech trees are created with authentic accuracy. Ruisdael later work show great depth of stroke, which dramatize humanity’s insignificance amid the splendor of nature. His later important paintings include Jewish Cemetery (Detroit, Inst.Of Art) and Wheatfield’s (Metropolitan Mus. ) He produced some very Etchings Ruisdael inspired many of the great French and English landscapists in the next two Centuries. One of the pupils he inspired was Meindert Hobbema who was an outstanding painter in his own right. In his painting View of Haarlem from the dunes at overveenc (1670) it is not so much landscape than sky and the light that comes from it, alternately casting the Earth in shadow and light, knowledge and ignorance.Rising to importantly meet the light on the largest building in the landscape, the church. The beam of light in Caravaggio’s painting suggests aspiritual presence of Christ becomes in landscape, a beam of light from the Sun/Son,† Popular among English poets of that period. The last half Order#11112799 Baroque Era Pg. 5 of the Seventeenth Century found the real space of the Dutch landscape became so idealized that it is almost like Eden.An example of landscape offers viewers an important lesson in the direction of where art took from the late seventeenth Century down to present day. The spiritual is not found only in the church. It is found in nature light in form even as we move into the modern future in the artist’s very self.The end of the seventeenth Century found the church no longer the major support of art as it had been for centuries from Spanish kings, to wealthy Dutch merchants, to a growing huge group of Middle-class rich with disposable incomes wanting to increase and refine their tastes. The patrons of art changed until the middle of the twenti eth Century when art was bought and sold in an international â€Å"art market. †These brilliant Baroque landscapes painters were concerned with naturalism and space. The Dutch panoramic view, with its large, far-reaching expanse prospect offer a familiar example of spatial illusions in landscape paintings.However, the continuity of space often suggests by other means, such as the implication presented presented to viewers is only part of an endless larger total. Viewers should not overlook, in this connection this effect on art and artists to expand the world of the seventeenth Century.The taste of the exotic, in particular is understood as a mirror to geographical discoveries of the age of exploration, which served to wake up new interests in distant lands and people. And yet, Baroque landscape art though without a doubt open to picturesque motifs from non-European sources, was marked by intellectual depth affected by the spirit ofexoticism. These Painters also might include authentic details of costumes and settings in their paintings, all except Baroque landscape Order#11112799 Baroque Era Pg. 6 painters whose view was essentially unchanged. The element of virtue in the Baroque architect manipulations space should not allow to be not well known a more important fact, which is the first rule of coexistence space, applies to seventeenth Century architect to a painting and sculpture.The principal many also be seen in brilliant form in church facades by Pietro de Cortona, Bernini and Borrommini, where the outside landscapes and inside space is marked.It is this similar controlled movement of space that gives to the large insides of the Baroque period its unmistakable character. The idea of continued space is the basis to the art of the paintings designs, that looks to collect the point of view of real space of the auditorium.The implication of movement is characteristic of many works of painting and sculpture of the seventeenth Century may come forth the sense of time as well as of space. The passing look, the momentary gesture of the changing aspects of nature tell of passing, inconstant undecided and times in swift flight. The constant cycle of day andnight and the continuation of the seasons offered artists another way of handling the landscape with the infinity of time. -Reference Site- 1. Questia Online Encyclopedia- Baroque book by John Rupert Martin; Unknown, 1977.Annibale Carracci pgs 16,17,27,86,175,250. 3Clause Lorrain, 217,224. Pastoral Landscape, 335. 4Jacob Van Ruisdael view of Haarlem from the dunes at overweenc, 1670. Pg. 177 2. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia Fourth Edition. Edited by Bruce Murphy. 1 The Baroque Period. Lorrain, Claude (Originally Claude Gelle’e, 1600-1682) pg. 614, Ruisdael, Jacob van (c 1629-1682) pg. 896.

“50 first dates” Movie Review Essay

50 first dates was a fun and a colorful movie, which brings the audience into curiosity. The movie is about a guy named Henry trying to build a romantic relationship with a girl named Lucy. Henry before was in to short-term attractions to the tourist. He was afraid of commitment because of what he went through in college. He would jump from one sexual attraction to another not think anything of it. While Lucy who had a mental disorder called Goldfield Syndrome, which made her lose her short-term memory. Really had no chose on being in a relationship because she wouldn’t remember the person the next day. That all changed the moment Henry first saw her in the cafe. From then on Henry made all the effort he could give just to win Lucy’s heart. Despite the syndrome Henry managed to let Lucy know how much he loves her through a video tape that he takes every single day. In this way, Lucy will know what happened to her and the tape is used to remind her what she did the past days. Visual arts was important to Henry because without it he could’ve not let Lucy remember what happened to her. Besides the story of Henry and Lucy in 50 first dates, visual arts plays a big role in my life. Not only because it makes life more colorful, but to think that art can express itself into a greater way that is through what a man can see. Not only do the visual arts provide pleasure and creative inspiration, but they also help foster dialogue and bring important issues to the public eye.

Dorothy Dandridge African American Woman - 1979 Words

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