...Human Rights Are for All Humans “America the brave still fears what we don’t know.” A loud and clear lyric from the song “Same Love,” produced by Ryan Lewis and performed by song artists: Macklemore and Mary Lambert. “Same Love” brings me to tears almost every time I hear it. This song has strong emotional pull and logical appeal in favor of gay and lesbian rights and equality. This is the fourth single released by rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis and one of many to hit a platinum status for the popularity and amount of sales in multiple countries, making it obvious that this single had caught the attention of the world. Singer and songwriter Mary Lambert is featured on the song in celebration of gay and lesbian rights based upon her personal struggle with her sexual orientation. On the cover of the single are two older white men, Maklemore’s uncle, John Haggarty and his partner Sean. The song itself is a strongly opinionated slue of verses rapped by Macklemore in a spoken word type of performance and sung by Mary Lambert, supporting gay and lesbian rights on principle of equality. Macklemore is the first voice to be heard, rapping eloquently about him thinking he was gay as a child in third grade. He explains that the reasoning behind him thinking he was gay was based off of his ability to draw, the association of his uncle being gay and his desire to keep his room straight. Reasoning that undoubtedly comes solely from social influence. At eight and nine years of...
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...HUMA 1000 (L1) Assignment 3 – Draft Essay Would you agree that all human actions are ultimately motivated by self-interest? Provide reasons for your agreement/disagreement. Although few would use the word “selfish”, a word of negative connotation that implies actions done harm the interests of others for the benefit of the doer, to describe the whole human race, some believe all rational human actions are ultimately motivated by “self-interest”, a more neutral word that implies actions done are motivated by the doer’s desire, but may or may not cause harm to others. Others, however, argue that some acts such as altruism, or otherwise called “selfless actions”, serve as evidence that counters the view. This essay will argue that all human actions are ultimately motivated by self-interest. By examining human actions as either (1) acts for self, (2) altruistic acts that also benefit the doer or (3) altruistic acts that do not, it will argue that all of the above actions are ultimately initiated by self-interest. ["apparent fact" sounds like an oxymoron; "clear fact" is better] It is widely accepted that many human actions are done to benefit the doer. Every day, people work for food and shelter. They entertain themselves with occasional trips to theme parks or the cinema. In desperate circumstances, some may even commit theft or murder. All these are actions intended to be self-beneficial. It is not necessarily evil to be self-interested. Any rational person would...
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...Is culture really all that International Human Resource Manager is about? * Introduction * Diversity Management * IHRM & Culture issue * Conclusion * References Introduction People have always been the driving force of business and management. This force is a challenge and if not addressed with the right skills, it will develop into disturbing elements that are very dangerous for the management of the company. The challenges of global talent selection and mobility of labor, established by a career concept that transcends national borders and organizational groups and the emergence of virtual collaboration on international projects requires companies to develop new skills in their employees to be effective in the complexity of today's contexts. The workforces are people, and as we are human, we are all different from various points of view. This paper aims to answer the question: “Is culture really all that International Human Resource Manager is about?” I’ve analyzed the differences between HRM and IHRM based on the concept of diversity, characteristics that influence both topics but in a different way. After this, the next stop is to define IHRM and the concept of culture to reach the conclusion that managing cultural differences in an international team is the major challenge to IHRM. Due to the movement of employees between foreign subsidiaries and headquarters and between foreign locales, HRM professionals are likely to...
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...English 080 A death in all its own Looking at me now, can you see the hell I’ve been through? No you can’t because I know I hide my dance with hell particularly well. You would never think to expect the women you see now ever had a brush with heroin. I’m not even sure I want to tell this story; but it needs to be told. Every person lives through things differently; every person handles different situations in their own way. My story will not be the same as the next, I imagine this is the very reason I chose to tell it. Not every relationship is butterflies and rainbows. Abuse is not always physical; it can be emotional and mental as well. How many times can someone get pushed down every time they try to get back up? Before they stop trying and decide to just lay there? He hit me; sliced my tires when I tried to leave; locked me away from my daughters; pushed me into a wall when I was seven months pregnant with our son; threw me up against steps and almost broke my back. The list of things that were done to me by him can go on and on. I won’t go into it all. See he was addicted to all different types of drugs and had anger issues worse then a hurricane. He got me started into all of it. Yes I had the choice to make. When it comes to either do this or never see your children again; you do what you are told, especially when you know if you don’t the worst will happen. That “relationship” already had me feeling like there was no way...
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...Button, Button RICHARD MATHESON The package was lying by the front door-a cube-shaped carton sealed with tape, their name and address printed by hand: "Mr. and Mrs. Aurthur Lewis, 21 7 E. Thirty-seventh Street, New York, New York 10016." Norma picked it up, unlocked the door, and went into the apartment. It was just getting dark. After she put the lamb chops in the broiler, she sat down to open the package. Inside the carton was a push-button unit fastened to a small wooden box. A glass dome covered the button. Norma tried to lift it off, but it was locked in place. She turned the unit over and saw a folded piece of paper Scotch-taped to the bottom of the box. She pulled it off: "Mr. Steward will call on you at 8:00P.M." Norma put the button unit beside her on the couch. She reread the typed note, smiling. A few moments later, she went back into the kitchen to make the salad. The doorbell rang at eight o'clock. ''I'll get it," Norma called from the kitchen. Arthur was in the living room, reading. There was a small man in the hallway. He removed his hat as Norma opened the door. "Mrs. Lewis?" he inquired politely. "Yes?" ''I'm Mr. Steward." "Oh, yes." Norma repressed a smile. She was sure now it was a sales pitch. 103 SHORT STORY DECISIONS DECISIONS "May I come in?" asked Mr. Steward. ''I'm rather busy," Norma said, ''I'll get you your whatchamacallit, though." She started to turn. "Don't you want to know what it is?" Norma turned back. Mr. Steward's tone had...
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...not only means to cease from doing (to leave off), and to cease from being (to take away), but also not at all to do (to intermit, Ezekiel 3:11; Zechariah 11:12), and not at all to be (to fail, to be absent), thus: ubi verborum est abundantia non deest peccatum (Fl.). Michaelis suitably compares πολυλογία πολλὰ σφάλματα ἒχει by Stobus, and כל המרבה דברים מביא חטא in the tractate Aboth i. 17, wherewith Rashi explains the proverb. פּשׁע is not here, as elsewhere, e.g., Psalm 19:14, with special reference to the sin of falling away from favour, apostasy, but, like the post-biblical עברה, generally with reference to every kind of violation (פשׁע equals Arab. fsq dirumpere) of moral restraint; here, as Jansen remarks, peccatum sive mendacii, sive detractionis, sive alterius indiscretae laesionis, sive vanitatis, sive denique verbi otiosi. In 19b it is more appropriate to regard משׂכּיל as the present of the internal transitive (intelligenter agit) than to interpret it in the attributive sense (intelligens). We do not, with Bertheau, understand 19a: by many words a transgression does not cease to be what it is; the contrast 19b requires a more general condemnation of the multitude of words, and חדל not only means to cease from doing (to leave off), and to cease from being (to take away), but also not at all to do (to intermit, Ezekiel 3:11; Zechariah 11:12), and not at all to be (to fail, to be absent), thus: ubi verborum est abundantia non deest peccatum (Fl.). Michaelis suitably...
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................................................................................. 7 Language review exercise A: complete the sentences with a gerund from the box. ............ 7 Language review exercise B: complete each sentence so that is seams the same as the sentences just before it. Use a gerund each time. ................................................................. 8 Language review exercise C: circle the correct form(s) of the verb in the text. ................... 8 Writing editing exercise A: read this short text about demanding customers. ..................... 8 In-class assignment week 3 – Team Building ............................................................................. 9 Reading exercise A: none of us is as smart as all of us. Do you agree? In what situations is it true or not true? Give...
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...stood a massive tree. The trunk was acres wide and the branches miles long. The tree had millions of blossoms in all shades of colors with a small spark inside of them. These sparks were lives of thousands of plants and animals, and yes, humans too. The garden was called Rakuen, and the tree in center would someday be known as the Tree of Life; but for now it was named Seikatsu. Seikatsu was taken care of and guarded by an ancient spirit. This being was a Turtle Dragon possessing the ears, paws, and tail- of a jaguar, the body and head of a Chinese dragon, and the shell of a turtle. The Turtle Dragon was named Shi and he was the embodiment of death....
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...All human actions are ultimately motivated by self-interest Human actions and motifs in behinds are the most interested issue in psychological study. ‘Human actions’ are behaviors done by people which typically with an aim, meaning and involve a choice. On a rational basis, one makes decisions to maximize self-interest and minimize own loss. (Pütz, 1992) Within this context, ‘Self-interest’ means the consideration of advantage, which refer to both the material and psychological one, for oneself when they are making a decision. This essay will argue that humans act with respect to the account of their self-interest, which is a collective sum of different subjective values, regardless of whether it is conscious or not at the instance. Such argument will be declared by analyzing two distinctive kinds of actions, relationship-related action and charity action, in terms of their ultimate causality with self-interest. One best example of action demonstrating self-Interest motivation is parental love, particularly in Chinese culture. Subjectively, one family members and friends are seen as part of their own property. Protecting and acting along the self-interest of their beloved one is actually a guarding of one own self-interest. Nowadays in Hong Kong society, ‘helicopter parents’ is a popular phenomenon. Helicopter parents are those who over-protect, over-control and over-perfect their children by not requiring the children to take care of themselves while having extremely high...
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...real dad. Gone were the distinguished, upper-class fathers with the pipes and sweaters with the leather patches on the elbow—the guys who gently sat their children down and explained to them in a calm voice that the kids had messed something up and then gently gave them moral advice on how to fix the situation. Oh, yes, those men were gone. Enter the new guy: Archie Bunker. This dad was middle-aged and middle-class, he believed in family and country, and he feared everyone who was different from him. He yelled at the top of his lungs about anything and everything, and he showed his sensitive side only in the most serious of situations. Archie and family were introduced to America in 1971 by sitcom genius Norman Lear in a show called All in the Family, an American remake of the British hit Till Death Us do Part, which ran for ten seasons in England from 1965-1975. Initially, the show didn’t do well in the ratings. America’s response to the character who would become “America’s most loveable bigot” was outrage. Many wondered how CBS could air a show whose main character used words like “jungle bunny,” “jigaboo,” “fag,” “fairy,” “Mick,” “Spick,” “dumb Polack,” and “Hebe” on a regular basis. The audience was shocked and, at first, put off by such a character. However, the show was saved from cancellation by the popularity of its summer repeats, and had finally earned a place on CBS’s fall schedule (IMDB). Still, the show was shrouded in controversy, which continues...
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...In 1945 he decided to leave the Army to pursue a career in comedy writing, but this later changed into screenwriting and producing for television. Lear's family was Jewish his parents, Herman and Jeanette Lear, had jobs in sales. At the age of 9 his father was sentenced to a three year prison sentence for fraud. While his father was incarcerated, his role models were his grandfather and his uncle. Lear's grandfather composed regular letters to the president on the different political issues . Lear later announced that his grandfather's political participation taught him a lesson he never forgot: "that a citizen can matter." Nevertheless, Lear never imagined himself growing up to be a rich and famous celebrity. "All I wanted was to grow up to be a guy who could flip a quarter to a nephew," he once said. He served as a radio operator and gunner during World War II, flying 52 combat missions in the Mediterranean Theater and...
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...format; especially in team environments. By using these conventions the database can be understood by anyone applying these conventions; thus increasing maintainability. These are not rules but guidelines that can be adapted to any working environment. All names should be in camelcase with the first letter in lower case. Separate name parts by using camel case and NOT underscores or spaces. This provides better readability and you will not have to use quotes when doing SQL statements. Prefixes or namespaces are the ONLY parts of names that should be separated by underscores. This defines a clear separation between names and areas. Do not use numbers in names. This is poor design, indicating divided table structures. Do not use dot (.) separator between names, remember use camel casing. This way you will avoid problems when doing SQL statements as fields are accessed using dot notation. It goes without saying, do not use reserved database words in any name. Always try to use names that make sense and are descriptive of their purpose. Avoid abbreviations whenever possible. ONLY use abbreviations that are well known and documented. Avoid acronyms whenever possible. Only use acronyms that are well known and documented. Also, they should all be in uppercase if used. Tables are usually entity you are modeling for persistence. So make sure the names are in proper English and carry natural meanings. These names should make sense and should be descriptive. Avoid...
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...how they grieve individually and as a family. Six feet under is a tragedy drama, because it deals with death, coping with it, and what comes after. Tragedy dramas force viewers to sympathize the family and relate to what they are feeling and dealing with. The Character architecture of Six Feet Under’s pilot episode is that of an ensemble cast. An ensemble includes a group of main characters as opposed to just one main character. Ensembles can follow one character more than the others, or change focus frequently like this episode of Six Feet Under did. Each character is different, they have different personalities, struggles, and aspirations. The episode changes focus from each of the two sons, to the mother, and to the daughter, who are all struggling to cope with their recent loss. Each member is struggling internally with decisions they have made and outside factors that are only made worse by the loss of their father. The pilot of Six Feet Under is a premise pilot. Premise pilots are first episodes in which a life changing event takes place which sets the tone for each of the characters’ lives and how the viewer will see them progress. The major event in Six Feet Under was the family’s father being killed in an automobile accident. The family operates a funeral home, so they are no strangers to death, however each family member struggles to deal with the loss and cope with their own internal issues as well. Nate Fisher is the eldest son of the family, he was waiting...
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