...always lament the coldness of the modern society. But some of us are still willing to help others and improve society without expecting reward, fame, benefit or privilege. As the old saying goes, “There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.” There is no doubt that volunteering community makes a contribution to our society and the people who are in need. Our personal efforts are limited, but we can make great contributions to our community. What`s more, serving the community as a volunteer is also beneficial to the ourselves. We can get a great chance to improve our communication skills with different people when providing help for others. I got to know many classmates a little better and felt more involved when I left. Also, we may get in touch with different kinds of environments as well as broaden our horizon. I learned a lot about many different sorts of subjects related to horses including everything from riding to physical care of the animals to management of barns and stables by talking to the staff in the stable. In conclusion, after working with the big event, I felt I made impacts by helping others and serving the community. I always believe that the true value of our life is not in what we have, but in what we give. I would like very much to join the Hart School Big Event next time and serve the community. There is a career fair held by PCMA...
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...a month, and how it’s everyone’s history. Central Idea: Black history has been single out to one month as a way to make sure that blacks are remembered in history. Blacks has always been apart of history. Therefore is it reasonable to set a side just one month to illustrate the participation of blacks in our countries history? Introduction I. In Media That Matters Film Festival, August 2005, tittles A Girl Like Me by Kiri Davis a 17-year-old film student of Manhattan’s Urban Academy a doll test was duplicated. Kiri Davis who participated in the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking program, a free after-school program was supported by cable network HBO. A. In this documentary a female voice asks the child a question: “Can you show me the doll that looks bad?” The child, a preschool-aged Black girl, quickly picks up and shows the Black doll over a White one that is identical in every respect except complexion. B. Why does that look bad?” “Because she’s Black,” the little girl answers emphatically. “And why is this the nice doll?” the voice continues. “Because she’s White.” “And can you give me the doll that looks like you?” The little girl hesitates for a split second before handing over the Black doll that she has just designated as the uglier one. 1. This doll test was originally done in 1954 by Dr. Kenneth Clark to help make the case for desegregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision 2. That outlawed...
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...1.) Write an essay on the assumption of the “Rational Self Interest”. Make sure that you touch on each of the three components of this assumption that we discussed in class. Comment on the relevance of this assumption in our daily lives. Economics is defined as how we make choices with scarce resources to obtain our own needs, wants and desires. The Assumption of Rational Self –interests tells us that the definition of rationality means not doing something that will deliberately cause harm. We are told that with every decision we make, we must weigh the rewards against the punishments and that it is actually necessary for us to ask the question “What is in it for me”. There is actually a difference between acting selfishly and acting on the best of our own self- interest. Acting selfishly means that in doing so, you are causing harm to others. Acting in your own self- interest actually benefits others. Adam Smith is known as the father of Economics. In 1776 he purchased The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Today the title has been shortened and is known as Wealth of Nations. Smith was asking the question, why powerful countries such as Spain and Portugal collapsed while a small country such as England thrived. The biggest difference he found was that while Spain and Portugal denied their colonies education, England encouraged it. Smith believed that governments have to give people incentive to do well. He stated that self-interest should be encouraged in every person...
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...201403027 Md. Sazzad Hossain 201403034 Course Participant BUS 501: Managerial Communication (Section-02) WMBA Program Institute of Business Administration Jahangirnagar University December 20, 2014 Letter of authorization November 23, 2014 Course Participant BUS 501: Managerial Communication The purpose of this report is to familiarize you with the basic techniques and principles associated with writing a formal business report so that you can build and enhance this specific written communication skill. This formal report will be coordinated with a formal presentation session on the topic of the report. At a minimum, your report should include information related to the following issues: Introduction to the Industry/Sector/Area – What is the industry/sector/Area? What is the background of the industry/sector/Area in Bangladesh? Who are the major participants? You may show how the industry/sector/area is contributing to the economic development of the country. In this case, you must use industry-related data for the past three years (at least). In case of export-oriented industries, you must use export performance for the last three years (at least), or the latest available data. Describe any known issues surrounding the industry that might be related to the topic of the report. A conclusion summarizing the main points of the report. Use both commercial and academic resources. Use at least 10 references in your report from academic and industry-related...
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...United States has such a variety of people and all of us have either personally moved here from somewhere else or have ancestors who have moved to this country. I also learned a lot about how I can help move the push for equality forward and show my support. I have learned that all groups have discrimination. I have also learned that my culture is just as discriminated against as everyone else’s, even though I did not know that before. According to a report done by Pew Research Center, buy 2050 the United States will be at an incredible 438 million in population. This coming up from the 303 million in the United States in 2008. (Haub, 2008) Not only that but the racial pool of this large group of people is also going to shift. Caucasian Americans will go from the 67% it stood at in 2005 to the estimated 47% of 2050. Other races included in this estimate are Hispanics, which are estimated to go from 14% to 29%. African Americans that are expected to stay at 13% and Asians, which are estimated to go from 5% to 9%. (Passel, 2008) I think a lot of this has to do with the amount of immigration we have right now and the fact that a large portion of our immigration is from our southern border. There are a lot of challenges that the United States faces as a whole do to such diversity. One problem is that as a whole, we are a country that is constantly hurting ourselves. We spend more time fighting about who should have what rights and less time focusing on things like trying to help...
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... Ten years of making Ten years of making chocolate 100% slave free chocolate 100% slave free we’re now nowyears on the way to to we’re ten ten years on the way 100% slave free free chocolate. We’ve been 100% slave chocolate. We’ve been supported, encouraged, challenged and and supported, encouraged, challenged eaten. We now now know how difficult it is eaten. We know how difficult it is to change an industry. We havehave grown to change an industry. We grown enormously and achieved results. enormously and achieved results. Here’s our timeline: Here’s our timeline: 2o10 2o10 2o09 2o09 Our bars are available in more more and Our bars are available in and We started the ‘Tony’s in We started the ‘Tony’s in more more stores, including supermarkets. Africa’ project: a study of stores, including supermarkets. Africa’ project: a study of Our revenue grows considerably from from cocoacocoa supply chain and Our revenue grows considerably the the supply chain and this pointpoint onward, which also this onward, which also ways ways to improve Fairtrade to improve Fairtrade sharply increases the amount of sharply increases the amount of certification. certification. cocoacocoa beans we need. beans we need. 2o11 2o11 2o05 2o05 2o06 2o06 2o08 2o08 2o07 2o07 The first Tony’s Chocolonely bar bar Tony’s goes official The first Tony’s Chocolonely Tony’s goes official comes on the market, after after episodes comes on the market...
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...diversity in the United States has helped me to have a better understanding of all problems that are among our society. Previously to this course, I had no clear definition of prejudice and discrimination according to Schaefer prejudice and discrimination are related concepts but are not the same. Prejudice is a negative attitude toward an entire category of people. The important components in this definition are attitude and entire category. Prejudice involves attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs—not actions. And discrimination consists of negative behavior toward a group (Schaefer, 2014). I was not as conscious of how discrimination and prejudice can make a difference to culture and ethnic groups. In these past five weeks, I have honestly opened my eyes and mind differentiate these two words that both affects the society because they are used in comments that hurt people's feelings. As far as my own race, ethnic or cultural history I have learned that we have been a racial minority in the United States for many years. A record of 33.7 million Hispanics of Mexican origin resided in the United States in 2012, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by Pew Research Center. This estimate includes 11.4 million immigrants born in Mexico and 22.3 million born in the U.S. who self-identified as Hispanics of Mexican origin. Also, Mexican Americans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States to a positive contribution to the American society building a more diverse...
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...have the honour to present the fourth budget of President Zuma’s administration. Mr President you said in the State of the Nation address that “we should put South Africa first. All of us have a patriotic duty and responsibility to build and promote our country.” You further said “The National Development Plan provides a perfect vehicle for united action precisely because it has the support of South Africans across the political and cultural spectrum. Leaders in every avenue should be ready to rise above sectional interests and with great maturity, pull together to take this country forward.” This challenge applies to all sections of our society: business, labour, public representatives, activists and citizens in every part of the country. As we pointed out in the 2012 Budget, global economic uncertainty will remain with us for some time. South Africa’s economic outlook is improving, but requires that we actively pursue a different trajectory if we are to address the challenges ahead. 1 2013 Budget Speech Under your leadership Mr President, we have opened new channels of communication and built more cohesion among key stakeholders in South Africa. We have taken many steps to create the conditions for higher levels of confidence in our economy and society. Now we are ready to implement the National Development Plan. South Africans have a rich history of acting together for a better future. • Thirty years ago, the United Democratic Front brought together people of goodwill...
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................ 5 1. Social & Cultural Diversity............................................................................................... 6 2. Citizenship ...................................................................................................................... 7 3. What Is A Good Pakistani Citizen? Define His/Her Responsibilities & Rights. ............... 8 4. What Is A Good Pakistani Citizen? Define His / Her Rights And Responsibilities .......... 9 5. What Is A Good Pakistani Citizen? Define His / Her Rights And Responsibilities ........ 11 6. Sectarian Violence: Implications for Citizens and Country............................................ 12 7. Becoming A Responsible Citizen: Can Education Help? .............................................. 13 8. Becoming A Responsible Citizen: Can Education Help? .............................................. 15 9. Becoming A Responsible Citizen Can Education Help? ............................................... 16 10. Becoming a Responsible Citizen? Can Education Help ............................................. 20 11. Will Peace Education In Pakistan Reduce Conflict? OR Conflict Is Not Destructive; It’s How We Deal With It....
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...seven million people residing on our “land of opportunity” have fallen below the poverty line, and our efforts have produced little improvement to poverty. The U.S. citizens can’t ignore the poverty issue, but should determine the best plan of action that would produce most positive outcomes on poverty. Proof that our efforts are producing a positive outcome would be displayed with statistics, which displays significant reductions in poverty population, when comparing the current years to past ones. While attempting to reduce the amount of the poverty population, the government must be sure to maintain the poverty line, so that the people of poverty don’t suffer any harsher effects, than they have already experienced today. Unfortunately, the U.S. has been fighting a war on poverty for over 50 years, and hasn’t produced the improvements they had hoped. Above all we have to consider that the welfare’s assistance maybe creating a behavioral-dependence on the governments financial assistance, that decreases the likelihood of a recipient from moving-up in financial class, and increases likelihood of being on welfare long-term. We need to investigate whether our welfare system is truly helping poor population, or whether changes are necessary to rectify system. By the government focusing their attention to reducing the behavioral-dependence on the financial assistance programs, and providing some sort of motivation for their recipients to try to better themselves, the result could be...
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...Justin Testa, Technical Department Intern DATE: October 6, 2013 RE: Donation of Technical Equipment to Native Americans on Reservations Thank you for approving my request to research donating our technical equipment to Native Americans on reservations. Kroger has a wonderful and unique opportunity to aid Native Americans with this one time donation of technical equipment, without forfeiting any donations to their local charities. The technical equipment would consist of six large color copiers, 55 laptops, and 75 desk top computers. All of the equipment is from the Corporate Offices in Cincinnati and at the present time is not ear marked for any destination. My research shows there is a need for this type of donation. This one time donation will bring national attention to the needs of Native Americans and continue to confirm Kroger as the leading contributor to those in need. Attached you will find an executive summary and a detailed report with my conclusion and recommendations. If you have any questions on this report please email me at testaj27@yahoo.com. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY……………………………………………………………………….3 INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………...4DONATIONS……………………………………………………………………………………..4 Figure 1-Chart………………………………………………………………………………5 KROGER’S CONTRIBUTION PROGRAMS…………………………………………………...6 DONATIONS MADE BY RETAIL STORES……………………………………………6 DONATIONS FROM KROGER FOUNDATION……………………………………….6 DONATIONS RAISED...
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...management within multicultural team environments can be effective when project managers demonstrate an awareness of cultural variation. Participants further highlighted that, one of the critical components of building multicultural teams is the creation and development of effective cross cultural collectivism, trust, communication and empathy in leadership NAME: SARAH CHRISTOPHER KITELEJA 11/23/2012 EMPOWER STUDENT 2012 COUNTRY: MWANZA- TANZANIA A. Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION3 1.2 Objective of diploma paper3 1.3 Significant of the study3 2. BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM3-4 3. MANAGEMENT OF MULTICUTURAL TEAM…………………………………………………………………………………...4 3.1 Type of multicultural team & its diversity 4 3.2 Condition for higher performance4-5 3.3 management of Multicultural team……………………………………………………………………………..6-7 3.4 management of Multicultural team…………………………………………………………………………..7-9 4. THE USE OF DMIS IN MANAGEMENT OF MULTICUTURAL TEAM…………………………………………..10-12 5. CHALLENGES IN MANAGING MULTICULTURAL TEAM……………………………………………………………13-14 6. RECOMMENDATION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………15-18 7. CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….19 8. REFERENCE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………20 1. INTRODUCTION Multicultural teams have become very common in recent years. With cross border mobility becoming much easier the number of people moving from one country to another...
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...Obesity in America a Family Epidemic Tamara Garwood American InterContinental University Abstract What comes to mind when you see an overweight child or adult? Do your thoughts lead you to automatically blame the individual for not being more physically active, eating correctly, or do you blame the parents for not monitoring the consumption of the child? It is easy to automatically draw judgment on those that are overweight in our society because, although obesity is more prevalent in our society, it is still seen as socially unacceptable. This paper will seek to understand the contributing factors to obesity as external, internal, or environmental. Obesity in America A Family Epidemic In addressing the problem we must first discuss the main points that are essential to understanding why obesity is increasing in the U.S. and most of all among our children. The initial analysis of environment, choice of nutritious meals, as well as the influence of society will provide insight to the cause as well as the solution to the obesity epidemic. Once examined the data will prove the argument presented at hand. The main contributors to obesity among adults but especially among youth are, environmental factors, lack of choosing nutritious meals, portion distortion and the factor that fuels all of these, advertising media. So what defines an individual as being obese? Childhood Obesity Action Coalition-OAC.( n.d.) states “A child is defined as “obese” if their body mass...
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...Operational Management 2014-12-11 Hjalmtyr Daregård 21835 612 Course 612 Live Project 2014-12-11 Abstract This report investigates what the key time drivers are throughout the NGO Reach for Change (R4C). Our main focus has been to find time drivers and needed support functions throughout the organization and come up with solutions to improve efficiency in time management. A mission to decrease workload, keep employees happy and output level constant. Due to an already stressed and over-worked work force, recommended solutions have been of low effort and relatively high benefit nature. Initially we recommend that R4C start to focus on improving structures on how to find information and documents. This shall be achieved by standardize folder-structure routines and use of indexation. 2 612 Course 612 Live Project 2014-12-11 Table of contents I page number I 1 Introduction 1.1 The purpose of the Live Project 1.2 Project objectives 1.3 The scope of the project 1.4 Introduction to Reach For Change 1.5 Business incubators for social entrepreneurs 3 3 3 3 3 4 2 Methodology 2.1 Pre-study 2.1.1 Meetings with members of R4C 2.2 Data gathering 2.2.1 In-depth interviews 2.2.2 Survey/Questionnaire 2.3 Use of models and theories 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 9 8 9 9 9 10 10 11 13 21 21 21 22 22 23 24 3 Analysis 3.1 Analysis Part 1 3.1.1 Input-transformation-output model 3.1.2 Operations 3.1.3 The 4V’s process 3.1.4 Service process 3.1.5 Four-stage model of operations 3...
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...subsequent discussion in the field. Velasquez’s "International Business, Morality and the Common Good" 1992 paper takes business ethics to be concerned centrally with questions about the corporation's proper role in and relationship to the social order. These questions are said to surround the moral status of the corporation: Is the corporation a moral agent? Do multinational companies have any moral obligations to contribute to the international common good? While dominant management thinking is steered by profit maximization, this paper proposes that sustained organizational growth can best be stimulated by attention to the common good and the capacity of corporate leaders to create commitment to the common good. However, the complex process of re-orientating corporate priorities towards the common good requires alertness and concerted effort if both business and society are to truly benefit. In our contemporary post-modern context, it has become increasingly awkward to talk about a good that is shared by all. This is particularly true in the context of multi-national corporations operating in global markets. The common good dictates that leadership should be judged, first of all, according to moral criteria rather than professional competence. It helps correct the distorted prioritization of the maximization of profit in every business decision, recognizing that businesses have a multitude of rights and responsibilities, and the common good reminds us that the first of these...
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