...put the provision for affirmative action into effect, all of the companies knew that they could not deny anyone a job because of their race, creed, or sex (www.oeod.uci.edu). No one knew at that time how they where going to incorporate affirmative action into their business so that everyone involved would have a positive outcome. The executives at Allstate realized that in order for their current employees not to feel resentment for the new changes they were going to be put into effect, they had to come up with a way in which the company can thrive even better than it had before. In order to do that they came up with four steps that would help them to promote diversity in the workplace. Using the model for goal setting, evaluate Allstate’s goal setting process to determine whether or not Allstate has an effective goal-setting program. After comparing the model for goal setting with the steps that Allstate had put into effect, I believe that they do have a successful goal-setting program already established. Nevertheless, when you are trying to make sure that a business is operating as smoothly and efficiently that it can, there will always be room for improvement. One way they could improve is instead of giving, each manage a twenty-five percent of each manager merit pay, and why not break that down to at least five percent for every employee (Hellriegel. 2010). That way even thought the percentage is lower but all the employees would be getting a reward based on the Diversity...
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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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...Justifying Reforms in the Ways States Selects Jurors to Insure Fairness to All. Joanne, Bartlett AIU Online Justifying Reforms in the Ways States Selects Jurors to Insure Fairness to All. The Supreme Court has always defended it law that a defendant is not entitle to a jury composed in whole or in part of persons of his or her own race. But they do not stop states from doing so on their own. Some law maker has suggested that names of majority races jurors be removed from the jury list and others that a certain number of seats on jury are set aside for racial minorities. The only way to justify the use of removing the names of majority race jurors from the jury list might be to have them to really take a good look at how the jurors are selected so they can see that under current law it is impossible for African American, Latinos, and Asian American to really be judged by juries of their peers because of the way that the jurors are selected. A nonprofit law organization by the name of Equal Justice Initiative took a close look at jury selection procedures in about ten states and found out that African American is underrepresented in jury pool in 75% of the counties in the United States Latinos and Asian Americans are barred in 90% of counties (Equal Justice Initiative). This lack of racial diversity and the law in the selecting of jurors make it impossible for racial minorities in places like Cumming Ga... Which have been an all-white county for decades (Los Angeles...
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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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...As an insurance frontrunner, Allstate prides itself on increasing stock value, servicing the growing desires of its patrons, encouraging company accountability, and supporting numerous benevolent establishments in areas they serve. Allstate Insurance is the country’s chief publicly held personal line underwriter. They are a Six Sigma modeled Fortune 100 company, with over $130 billion dollars in assets. They also offer economic amenities to over 15 million clients throughout the United States, employing a very diverse team of over 70,000 specialists. Allstate also has 13 key lines of coverage, including vehicle, property, life, and commercial. Allstate attributes their success to their unique take on the best way to run a business successfully. ( AllState insurance., 2009) Using the model for goal setting, evaluate Allstate’s goal setting process to determine whether or not Allstate has an effective goal-setting program. Allstate provides their employees with a clear path for success. They offer the means to grow into the best employee they could hope for. According to the goal setting model goal difficulty, goal clarity, and self-efficacy should be at the forefront of one’s business structure. (Hellrigel & Slocum, 2001) Implementing challenging yet clear and achievable goals, for employees who have faith in their personal ability to complete tasks, in most cases will lead to Allstate’s desired performance. When an individual has the ability, commitment, and feedback on...
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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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...1. What percent of the southern population must take an oath of loyalty to be able to be represented in Congress? Why did you choose that number? Fifty percent of the state’s voters in the presidential election should take an oath of allegiance to the United States and should be pledged to bide by emancipation. The state government would be within the state and then the state would be re-admitted into the Union. That way fifty percent of voters would have a say so and an opinion. 2. Should the 13th Amendment be acknowledged and should civil rights be guaranteed by all state constitutions? Why or why not? Yes, I think the 13th Amendment should be acknowledged because slavery should be banned and slaves should have all the freedoms that...
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...THE ARGUMENT FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION AT BAIL HEARINGS IN ALL CRIMINAL CASES IN STATE COURT The right to legal representation is generally accepted in the United States as a Constitutional right guaranteed to everyone. The Supreme Court promised the right to counsel to “ any person haled into court” in the infamous Gideon v Wainwright case. This case was instrumental in advancing the rights of indigent defendants through its proclamation that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel in criminal proceedings should also apply to State Courts. However, Gideon’s promise to counsel has yet to completely guarantee equal access to justice when first appearing at judicial proceedings in state courts. Although defendants who can afford lawyers will usually hire one from the onset of a criminal proceeding, the right to counsel for indigent defendants (i.e. a state-provided attorney) is interpreted as attaching at varying stages of a prosecution in different states. Only eight states guarantee indigent defendants the right to legal counsel at the initial bail hearing. Representation at the initial bail hearing is critical as a lawyer’s intervention is crucial for obtaining a defendant’s release and for protecting a defendant’s due process right (guaranteed in the Fourteenth amendment) against an unreasonable denial of liberty during pretrial detention. The lack of counsel in pretrial proceedings can result in numerous consequences; some include a high number of pleas...
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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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...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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...“All in the Family” Archie Bunker, America’s favorite old school racist is standing in his kitchen star struck by the presence of Sammy Davis Jr. The musician agrees to pose for a picture with Archie and as soon as the countdown to snap it ended, Davis puckered up his lips and laid a kiss on Archie’s cheek (All in the Family S02E21)! The look Archie Bunker had on his face said it all, it was the kiss heard around the world and one of televisions funniest and most profound moments. The television sitcom “All in the Family” aired on prime time CBS from 1971 to 1979. The 1970s were a time of social unrest; a social war between the old school and the new schools of thought. This was a time where racism, homophobia, and gender were fiercely debated in every household across the country while they were ignored on television. Archie Bunker was played by Caroll O’Connor and he was the main character. “All in the Family” used the forever hot topics of racism, homosexuality, and gender inequality in America as an overarching theme, which taught to people just how ridiculous and baseless those beliefs were while keeping viewers of all backgrounds entertained. As the story goes, Archie Bunker is a working class family man with a very strong set of conservative and often unfair views of the world. Bunker clashes with just about every person he comes into contact with on the show including his wife, strangers, random people and most of all his son in law, Mike Stivic or “Meathead” as...
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...the traditional family values were seen as less important, values such as spending time as a family or everyone eating dinner all together. However, most shows during this era still portrayed the idea of a traditional family, which is having the mother stay home to cook, clean, and take care of the children, while the father is off at work supporting the family (Frum). T.V’s popularity in the 70’s was expanding, symbolizing a movement towards equality between races and genders (Frum). With the turn of the century, shows such as “Maude,” “The Jefferson’s,” “All In The Family,” and more began airing on national television (Frum). The social movements of the time period such as equal rights for women and the civil rights movement were becoming apparent in shows like these (Dow). Other than popular shows in the 1970’s, commercial television also had a profound and wide-ranging impact on American society and culture, therefore sparking a new consumer culture. Advertisements have been mentioned as major factors contributing to increased American materialism. With more and more people watching TV, this form of entertainment seemed at an all time high. But, since some shows like “All In The Family” started airing episodes that broke down the traditional family, people at home were starting to wonder for the first time if they really want a traditional family (All In The Family Cast). Sitcom comedies from the 70’s started to aggressively incorporate the idea of feminism in their shows...
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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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