Organizational purpose: how it translates into strategic practices for small-sized enterprises within the consumer goods industry

On a global level, the consumer goods industry has been transforming as the market perception praises purposeful and meaningful actions in many sectors of society. Following a qualitative method, the present study aims to discuss whether small and micro-sized businesses in this industry are able to generate concrete strategic actions in line with their purposes. Currently, small enterprises make up a significant majority of the business population, and the potential for study in the field is vast. Hence, byclustering different CEOs' perspectives on organizational purpose and purpose-driven leadership, the research results provided the conception that these company size categories can indeed build solid practices internally such as externally when connected with purpose at the core of their strategy. Finally, a model, based on the grounded theory methodology, aggregated the findings. Furthermore, limitations and opportunities for future research were discussed

El Saadawi Does Not Orientalize the Other in \u3cem\u3eWoman at Point Zero\u3c/em\u3e

El Saadawi’s work in translation has been widely read in the West. On the one hand, she has been criticized for writing for the West, and many Arab critics argue that El Saadawi is famous in the West not because she “champions women’s rights, but because she tells western readers what they want to hear” (Amireh, 1996). In addition, when Woman at Point Zero is taught in the Western classroom, some students, reviewers, and critics tend at times to read the novel as a window “onto a timeless Islam instead of as [a] literary [work] governed by certain conventions and produced within specific historical contexts” (Amireh, 2000). Recently, Drosihn (2014) has claimed that in Woman at Point Zero El Saadawi “is implicated in Western discourses seen in her reproduction of Orientalist stereotyping feeding into Western tendencies of simultaneously superiority and fear of the Middle East and especially Islam.” Referring to Said’s theory of Orientalism, I contend that El Saadawi does not orientalize the Other in her novel Woman at Point Zero. She occupies a space in-between in which she at times employs stereotypes but at other times challenges them. Also, using the theory of intersectionality, I argue that Arab women suffer from multiple jeopardy

Our Fluttering Stranger

Currently, Lebanon is undergoing dire economic and political crises, in addition to, the August 4, 2020, Port explosion, and the worldwide Corona Virus pandemic. The country is badly in debt and a third of its population is suffering from extreme poverty. More specifically, in the past year, the country has been suffering from a shortage of fuel. To express her anger at the high rate of pollution, the narrator wrote a poem describing how the Lebanese have been living in the dark because the government can no longer supply electricity. All citizens are obliged to pay another bill for private generators. The narrator was inspired by Coleridge\u27s poem Frost at Midnight, in which the soot, the fluttering stranger, is romantically described coming out of the fireplace; for Coleridge soot is a symbol of domestic tranquility, companionship, and deep thought. The narrator creates her version of Lebanese soot in Our Fluttering Stranger

The Chronotope of the House and Feminist Matrilinealism in Nada Awar Jarrar’s Somewhere, Home

This paper studies feminist matrilinealism in Nada Awar Jarrar’s novel Somewhere Home. In this novel the author builds her stories around a house which was inhabited by several generations of female ancestors. Tess Cosslett claims that the Bakhtinian concept of the chronotope in matrilineal narratives influences the space and time structures of women’s writing whereby women communicate along two time frames simultaneously: a synchronic, horizontal plane and a diachronic, vertical axis. The synchronic plane refers to the way in which women from different generations unite and bond whereas the diachronic plane goes backward and forward in time. Employing Bakhtinian notion of the chronotope and Tess Cosslett’s two time frames model of feminist matrilineage, this study argues that the chronotope of the house in Somewhere, Home plays a major role in displaying matrilineage and this house clearly manifests the synchronic and diachronic planes: those of female bonding, feminist recovery, and feminist progress

Writing the Body as subversion in Alexandra Chreiteh’s Always Coca-Cola

Women in Always Coca-Cola are oppressed by multiple intersectional forces of oppression, such as patriarchy, the male gaze, colonialism, and the beauty myth. Although some women in the novella are caught in a state in between rebellion and conformism, Always Coca-Cola largely subverts patriarchy. By the end of the novella, the female protagonist is able to break free from some of her chains of oppression. Through a close textual analysis, this paper draws on many theories such as the “male gaze,” Hélène Cixous’s “writing the body,” and Naomi Wolf’s “the beauty myth” to argue that Alexandra Chreiteh’s Always Coca-Cola attempts to subvert the male and colonial gaze, the beauty myth, and heteronormativity through writing the body

Teacher Use and Perceptions of Writing Practices in West Virginia: Policy and Leadership Implications

National standardized test scores indicate West Virginia students perform below the national average in writing achievement, yet little research has been conducted to investigate how writing is being taught. Gaining understanding of the instructional strategies West Virginia teachers use to teach writing may provide insight for educational leaders about how to better support and prepare teachers for the complex task of teaching writing. Identifying challenges and barriers to implementing evidence-based practices may provide areas of focus for school and policy improvements as they relate to writing expectations. This study investigated the practices and perceptions of fourth-grade teachers in West Virginia using a three-part researcher-developed survey. The survey, emailed to all fourth-grade teachers (N= 1,302) in Fall 2021, was composed of demographic questions, questions asking teachers to report frequency of use and perception of effectiveness for 20 evidence-based writing strategies, and a qualitative item asking about the challenges and barriers to implementing the strategies. Results indicated West Virginia fourth-grade teachers provide positive reinforcement as a strategy for writing instruction most frequently and explicitly teach typing least frequently. Overall, statistically significant differences were not found among the demographic variables (class size and years of teaching experience). Responses to the open-ended item indicated fourth-grade teachers face many challenges in delivering evidence-based writing instruction. Teachers reported student abilities and the lack of prior knowledge as the most common barriers to implementing evidence-based writing strategies. The combination of quantitative and qualitative data from this study can guide local educational leaders in better supporting teachers and mitigating barriers teachers face when delivering writing instruction

Who are you?

On August 4, 2020, Lebanon witnessed a second Hiroshima-like explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. It killed and injured thousands of people, destroying most of Beirut. Compounding Lebanon’s misery, the coronavirus has taken its toll, as in the rest of the world, with thousands of deaths. There are no more vacant hospital beds and not enough medical supplies. For the last two years, Lebanon has been experiencing economic and political instability. The country is badly in debt and the banks have gone bankrupt and confiscated people’s life savings. The Lebanese Lira is pegged to the dollar and two years ago, every dollar was worth 1500 Lebanese Lira; recently, it reached 15000 Lebanese Lira. Half of the population is suffering from poverty and the price of basic food supplies is the highest in the MENA region. The government has resigned but the politicians cannot decide on who to form a new government. Domestic violence has been on the rise because of patriarchy but spouses are mainly fighting over insufficient salaries. Many Lebanese are immigrating, in search of a better living. The poet is dismayed at all this suffering and she resorted to sublimating her anger into writing fiction, memoirs and poetry, playing the piano, singing and drawing. She attended a drawing lesson online. The teacher showed the students how to draw a certain image of a woman. However, the woman who the poet actually drew turned out totally different. When she showed it to her friends, everybody was wondering who it was. So, she was inspired to write a poem answering their questions