...Social activists have channelled the use of social media to promote their cause through hashtag activism, as Suey Park did in her “#CancelColbert” campaign, on Twitter. However, to fully understand Park’s position and her calls to cancel Stephen Colbert’s show we need to establish her character as a social activist on Twitter. Park initiated the hashtag “#NotYourAsianSidekick” to urge Asian women to join in the conversation and resist the stereotypes and oppression, doing a quick search of either of Park’s initiated hashtags you can understand the scope of her campaigns. However, without discrediting her prior attempts of hashtag activism, the “#CancelColbert” hashtag was as frivolous as was Colbert’s, since deleted, tweet: “I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.” In Josh Depp’s tweet in response to Park’s interview with Huffington Post: “Ahh, the righteousness of professional umbrage-takers. @suey_park wasn't muted or silenced. I invited her to explain herself & she declined,” he makes a point that Park’s activism belongs only on social media, in replying to another Twitter user by saying: “Pretending that a silly idea isn't silly because of the race of the person holding it is condescending and racist, @FatBodyPolitics” he backs his stance. Depp’s tweet eluding to hashtag activism and calling out Park for thinking that a joke made by a known abrasive comedian can be taken out...
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...on such grounds. But the daunting realities have contradictory stories to unfold. India – with its thousands of sub-castes stands divided on the basis of social divisions at every nook and corner. People, children, women are suppressed. MBA Essay topics: Need of Activism The need of social uprising arises here. These are the activists who raise a voice against the atrocities and let the world know about the same. They educate the people, garner their support and try to get the wrong doings rectified. This is the fear of activists that corruption and corrupt practices are catching the attention of people at large. The irregularities committed are being highlighted. Those who are under the watchful eye of activists – which can be media, social networking, NGOs etc. will think twice to go for any corrupt practices. Activism in fact is the activity that awakens the sleeping people about something going wrong and enlightens them what remedies are to be taken to get the things in order – by themselves, by the arms of constitutional forces – Parliament, Legislative assemblies, executive bodies –administration, government and the Judicia Social activists in a democracy have to mount a determined offensive over issues affecting all walks of life like corruption, black money, dowry,...
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...is something called Hashtag activism. What are hashtags though? Hashtags is something used in social media that begins with a pound sign then a word or phrase after it. This lets users who are interested in a certain topic, quickly find information about that topic. With Hashtag activism, people are able to make awareness on a topic within a few minutes. That’s why many activist uses social media as a tool to make huge amounts of awareness on such topics like #Ferguson (Michael brown shooting), #Ican’tBreath (Death of Eric Garner), #BringBackOurGirls (The kidnapping of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram), and #BlackLivesMatter (Death of Sandra Bland). Hashtags has made it possible to let activist not only fight for what they believe in while they are protesting outside, but also when they come home. With sites and apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, there is a more possibility in achieving a certain goal of awareness. Hashtag activism also creates more opportunities for engagement and more help with donations. For every click, like, and favorite, users are getting involved and helping activists achieve their goals. It could be to gain a certain amount of money or to get the topic on the news, each time it is being shared it gets closer and closer to the goal. You could possibly think of hashtags...
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...Mohammed Alabdulwahid Reg Johanson English 103-04 Ode to the joy of yes moments The struggle to create awareness Tears for the sake of joy There have been many negative issues covered in our class throughout this semester. Issues have ranged from social injustices, colonialism, and women’s rights. Some included personal tragedies concerning women of Aboriginal descent living in British Columbia. It has been quite emotional at times to actually read about the struggles that have taken place right here in British Columbia regarding immigrants and Aboriginal people. We even got to meet the author of Mercenary English, Mercedes Eng, in person to make the words of her story really come to life. However, not all of the books we have studied convey negative outlooks of certain problems being faced. There have been positive social changes, personal victories and many moments that make the reader believe things can be made right if an effort is put into it. This research essay will focus on the positive view portrayed in three books studied this semester which include: Mercenary English, Active Geographies-Women and Struggles on the Left Coast and the Unnatural and Accidental Women. The positive themes discussed will display triumphs on a personal level, meaningful change on a social stage and a look at how social activism deeply connects people together. Firstly, Mercenary English has a very unique way of showing social injustice, believed to be carried out in the eyes of its...
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...Group 2: Alex, April, Terry, Yuki Project 1 The Relationship and Social Responsibility of Shareholders to Stakeholders As the human civilization developing, the society is becoming increasingly controversial. Social responsibility as a sophisticated concept appeared in 20th century. Social responsibility means that a corporation or individual should be held accountable for any of its actions that affect people, their communities, and their environment. It implies that harm to people and society should be acknowledged and corrected at all if possible. There are some different kinds of social responsibilities. And the content of obligation may be different. Our group will focus on CSR (Corporate social responsibility) which may require a company to forgo some profits if its social impacts seriously hurt some of it s stakeholder or if its funds can be used to have a positive social impact. The idea of corporate social responsibility appeared around the start of the 20th century. Then, two broad principles emerged (Charity Principle and Stewardship Principle) which shaped business thinking about social responsibility during the 20th century and become the foundation stone for the modern idea of corporate social responsibility. The Charity Principle, the idea that the wealthiest members of society should be charitable toward those less fortunate people, is a very ancient notion. The stewardship principle points that the company leaders have the obligation to see that everyone-particularly...
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...Timken experience in “How Wall Street Bent Steel” illustrates that the Pearlstein’s claim that “the cult of shareholder value wrecked American business”. In the corporate world, companies run with two main objectives including the making of profits and maximizing shareholder’s wealth. This are the norms of business. However, Pearlstein thinks in different way. He claims that the pressure by shareholders to maintain their wealth is ridiculous. Pearlstein notes that the urge to maximize shareholder’s wealth is overtaken the customer satisfaction and interests. In America, business ethics has vanished in business operations because companies are striving to do all they can to make money. This is heavily brought by the pressure imposed to managers...
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...Week #1 Checkpoint: Financial Management Goals Erica Brock Due Sunday Nov. 25, 2012 Nic Lane Financial Management refers to a rulebook which a business must follow to be accountable to their shareholders, stakeholders and the general public. See financial management is the essential because a big amount people can be affected by the unethical behaviors and the actions on a business. The employees deserves to know what’s going on in the upper management and with the company as a whole just in case in advance of potential but yet serious problems. The shareholders and the general public have to know to because the shareholders got to know what are going on with company and what they’re investing. Their money depends on its financial strength of the company. The general public has to know for the fact of the transactions of a public traded company, just in case if there is catastrophe, which they could be responsible for it bailing out of the company including with the taxpayers money. Economic status in company’s market place could include price earning ratios, the earnings per share, the price and cash ratios, book value per share, dividends yielding, market value per share and the marker and book ratios. The market value gives the management an ideal of what the company or firm investors thinks of their performance and future prospects. If a company’s ratios are good then the market value ratios can or should reflect on that and stock prices may go high. The increasing...
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...Question: FORD MOTOR COMPANY’S VALUE ENHANCEMENT PLAN (VEP) Q1. Vote in Favour or against of Ford Value Enhancement Plan? Vote in favour of ford’s Value enhancement plan for reasons discussed below: 1. Choice to Investor: It clearly gives the choice of investment and possible returns that could be obtained to the investors. They can make the choice for themselves depending future prospect of pay-out that they would prefer. 2. Share Advantage: For example if we take an investor has 100 shares in the company, if he would prefer to receive extra shares instead of a cash pay-out he would now have 174.8 shares in place of the 100 he initially had, an increase of almost 75% of shares owned by him. With the increase in the number of shares an investor owns, even though the share price will fall it gives the investor the advantage of selling a part of their shares for a more profitable investment and still a retain considerable number of the company shares. If the company were to conduct a share repurchase it would take considerable amount of time before all the shares could be bought back as the limit for daily repurchase is set at 25% of their volume. It could take up to almost a year by the time ford can repurchase the shares for $10 billion. So VEP adds value as they provide an option where they can repurchase a lesser percentage of their shares. 3. Pay-out Advantage: For an investor who would prefer to receive cash pay-out in place of receiving more shares, with the VEP he...
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...what method would be the best for financing of my business. Borrowing money from the bank, selling the supply, or licensing my product; are all selection I that are essential to be taken into to deliberate and examine prior to reaching the finalized conclusion. For the subsidy of my business, the best legal form of business I have decided upon, marketing stocks would be the finest for the corporation. In corporation stock is a minor portion of proprietorship. The proprietorship is divided into small portions are identified as shares. To establish how much of the business each individually shareholder maintains, shares are purchased and retailed to any person that wants it. If a company is doing well with the stock market, the cost of the share would be raised. If the business was not doing well, with their stock market, the cost of the share would drop significantly. Fundamentally, when shareholders possess more shares, clearly their profits will be increased as well as the quantity of significant administration judgments that would have to be constructed. With the absence of management understanding that I have,...
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...THE COMPANIES ACT, 2063 (2006) Date of Authentication: 2063.7.17.6 7 kartik 2063 ( 3 November 2006) 1. The Act Amending Some Nepal Acts, 2064 2064.5.9 (26 August 2007) ACT NO. 18 OF THE YEAR 2063 (2006) An Act made to amend and consolidate the law relating to companies Preamble: Whereas, it is expedient to amend and consolidate the law relating to companies in order to bring about dynamism in the economic development of the country by promoting investment in the industry, trade and business sectors through economic liberalization and make the incorporation, operation and administration of companies much easier, simpler and more transparent; Now, therefore, be it enacted by the House of Representatives in the First Year of the issuance of the Proclamation of the House of Representatives, 2063 (2006). Chapter 1 PRELIMINARY 1. Short title and commencement: (1) This act may be called as the “Companies Act, 2063(2006)”. (2) This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on 20 Ashwin 2063 (6 October 2006). 2. Definitions: In this Act, unless the subject or the context otherwise requires, (a) “Company” means a company incorporated under this Act. 1 (b) “Private company” means a private company incorporated under this Act. (c) “Public company” means a company other than a private company. (d) “Holding company” means a company-having control over a subsidiary company. (e) “Subsidiary company” means a company...
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...AC113-Accounting-Unit 3-Assignments Exercise 2-21 (pg.70 &71) Describe how each transaction of Lucent Technologies Inc. affect the three elements of the Accounting Equation Assets Liabilities Stock Holders Equity a Received Cash from issuing stock Increase in stock holder equity and increase in asset of cash b Made cash sale Increase in Asset of cash c Received cash from issuance of long term debt Increase in Asset of cash and Decreased Liability by paying debt d Paid research and development expenses for the current year Paid off a liability and decreased the asset of cash e Purchased machinery and equipment for cash Increased asset for owning equipment and decreased asset of cash f Received proceeds from selling a portion of manufacturing operations for a gain on a sale Decreased land asset with the sale increased cash asset with the sale gain may also decrease equity of stock g Paid off long term debt Decreased liability and could increase stock equity because of less debt h Paid employee pension expenses for the current year Increased a liability by paying the debt and decreasing asset i Paid taxes Decreased asset of cash and decreased liability by paying of debt j Paid Officers salaries Decreased asset of cash and decreased liability by paying of debt k Paid selling expenses Decreased asset of cash and decreased liability by paying of debt l Paid dividends Decreased asset of cash and...
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...dividend of $50,000 b) transfer of $50,000 from the general reserve to retained earnings c) payment of 100,000 bonus shares fully paid at $2 per share from retained earnings. 8. The equity of Master Shipping Ltd on 30 June 2009 consisted of: 280,000 ordinary shares, issued at $2.40 each, called to $2.40 $672,000 Calls in arrears (24,000 shares x 80c) ($19,200) The directors forfeited the shares on which the call was outstanding. The company’s constitution provides that forfeited shares cannot be reissued and that the balance of any forfeited amounts, net of reissue costs, must be refunded to the former shareholders. Refund cheques were sent to shareholders. Prepare journal entries to record a) forfeiture of shares b) refund of forfeited amounts to shareholders.(2 Marks) 9. Prepare journal entries to record the following related transactions of a public company. (3 marks) a) The company issued 40,000 options at 50 cents each to acquire shares at $5 each in this company b) The holders of 36,000 options then exercised their rights to acquire shares in the company. c) For the options not exercised, the company...
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...1. Identify the main stakeholder groups in your company. What claims do they place on the company? How is the company trying to satisfy chose claims? Dell has internal stakeholders’ are: employees, and customers. Dell external stakeholders’ are: suppliers, shareholders, government organizations and non-governmental organizations. Dell helps its employees by sponsoring women rights, gay and lesbian rights, and employees with disabilities. Customers needs are met by customizing products just for them. Suppliers get the best possible deals with Dell. Shareholders get profits. Government and non-government get the best prices for their computers. 2. Evaluate the performance of the CEO of your company from the perspective of (a) stockholders, (b) employees, (c) customers, and (d) suppliers. What does this evaluation tell you about the ability of the CEO and the priorities that he or she is committed to? The CEO, Michael Dell, is always trying to make things better for everyone. He tries to offer everyone the best possible solution. Of course not everyone can be satisfied at the same time. Employees, suppliers, and shareholders speak highly of him and the way he is running the business. If he did not, then employees would be suing him for one thing or another. Suppliers would cut him off, it would be news everywhere. The stakeholders would cash out. 3. Try to establish whether the governance mechanisms that operate in your company do a good job of aligning...
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...1 THE VEGA FOOD COMPANY In February 2007, Francisco Valle, Jr., president of Industrias La Vega, organized the first family council meeting in the owning family’s history to address problems he was having with his youngest sister, Mari, a shareholder in the company. He felt that the problems were not of his making and were interfering with his management of the company. Francisco, 45, had worked closely with his father, Francisco Sr., since 1986 and had become president of the company in March 2004, when his 72-year-old father was killed in an automobile accident. Industrias La Vega was a Spanish meat-processing business that produced hams, sausages, and other delicacies for domestic and export markets. The $104.8-million-a-year business was demanding, of course, but Francisco Jr. felt most challenged by the family conflicts that often overwhelmed him. The ownership structure of Industrias La Vega had been updated just months before the tragic accident involving Francisco Sr. At the request of Francisco Jr., who was concerned about the possible loss of control of the enterprise he had co-managed with his father for years, Francisco Sr. and his attorneys had created two classes of stock. The voting A shares did not pay dividends. The nonvoting but dividend-bearing B shares had a par value 10 times higher than that of the A shares. Except for brief stints, none of the Valle daughters had worked in the business prior to their father’s death. Ana, the second eldest daughter, was...
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...increased functionality and fun. Therefore, a large company like LG Electronics can have a great impact on the society and has many stakeholders. The internal ones include directors/managers, employees and shareholders. Suppliers, customers, NGO/ International organizations, community and local government are external stakeholders. Directors/managers Directors and managers are the ones that run the business. They aim to maximize their own benefits, such as higher salary and annual bonus. Thus, they try their best to improve the corporate values. Shareholders By the end of 2012, the number of shareholders of LG Electronics was 201,161. Shareholders are powerful stakeholders because they invest their money into the business. As the owners of the business, they aim to maximize the profit. They are hoping for a disclosure of transparent management information as well as more dividends. It is stated in the mission statement that the company wants to deliver innovative products. Without re-investing profit into the business, new products may not be invented. However, shareholders tend to share the profit immediately, which conflicts with the mission statement. LG Electronics communicate with the shareholders through different ways, including holding a general shareholders’ meeting, having a performance presentation and publishing a business report. Employees Another important internal stakeholder group is employees. As of December 31, 2012, LG Electronics has 86,697 employees...
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