New Presentations
Continuity and Change in India: A Slide Presentation
Kurt Schwehr
This presentation will cover how Google Earth and other spatial tools in the marine environment are being used for to situational awareness of the local environment and provide decision support to mariners.
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Landing Robots on Another Planet
Ships, Charting, Navigation and the Chart of the Future
Kelly Kilcrease
Greater than Profit: The Management Strategy of Daniel Webster the Farmer
This presentation examines how effective Daniel Webster was with his two New England Farms. It is presented from the context of current managerial farming techniques.
The Oldest Company in America and You have Never Heard of It
This presentation will address how did they survive for so long? What influence did religious ideology have on the firm? What strategies did they use as the world changed around them? Power point will be used to show a number of pictures of the organization from the 19th and 20th centuries.
A Hotel Goes to Peace, Not War: The Story of the Mount Washington Hotel and the International Monetary Conference at Bretton Woods
This presentation covers the 1944 International Monetary Conference at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH. In preparation for the conference, the resort, which had been closed because of the war, was quickly reopened, hastily staffed and redecorated. It also traces the "world" from the close of WWI, with Germany rendered unable to survive, giving rise to Wiemar and of course the Third Reich, WWII, and on to Bretton Woods. (read more)
Stacia Sower on Endocrinology
How Social Networking Can Work for Your Business
Does your company use Twitter and why? How is Facebook being used? What about LinkedIn? How does your organization best utilize the wave of social networking mania publicized almost daily in the press? For business, it’s not about following celebrities online and roaming from chat room to chat room. Learn how businesspeople are innovating with these new internetworking tools. (read more)
Stress Reduction
This presentation will guide the audience through a series of simple breathing exercises, teaching them how relaxation can occur within 15 minutes, calming the mind and relaxing the body. (read more)
Reforming Mental Health Via Hollywood: "The Snake Pit" (1948) and Its Audiences
What shapes the public’s view of mental illness? How can the mass media create social reform? Answers to these questions can be seen in a study of the 1948 Hollywood film The Snake Pit. Based on an autobiographical novel by the same name, Snake Pit told of a woman’s nervous breakdown and recovery at an understaffed, overcrowded hospital in upstate New York. (read more)