...Angela Yvonne Davis On January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, an activist, scholar, and writer was born. Her name was Angela Yvonne Davis. She is the eldest of four children. Her father and mother were teachers in the Birmingham school system. Both of her parents was a part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In her junior year of high school she decided she couldn’t stay in Birmingham. She applied at Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee, for early admission and a program developed by the (AFSC). This program allowed black students from the South could attend integrated high schools in the North, She chose the AFSC program. Davis attended Elisabeth Irwin High School, located on the edge of Greenwich Village. In 1961, Davis entered Brandeis University, in Massachusetts, on a full scholarship. She was one of only three black first-year students. In Oakland the Black Panthers formed to protect the black community from police brutality. In the summer of 1967, Davis decided to join these movements....
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...This is Angela Davis. She played a very important role in black history. She helped get blacks rights so they would be considered “Equal as one.” Also, she fought for LGBT rights and she thought they should be considered “Equal as one”, also. She really enjoyed working towards their rights. She was born born on January 26, 1944 in the place of Birmingham, AL. Her family life was very good, she was born into a well to-do-family. She had a father named Frank Davis, a mother named Sallye Davis, and three siblings named Ben Davis, Reginald Davis, and Fania Davis. She worked with LGBT for their rights and acceptance. Also, she fought for black rights. She contributed to Black History Month by being a public activist against unfair rulings and laws. One of her biggest obstacles was being falsely accused of giving an inmate weapons to escape prison. She was put on trial for this, but was later released after the court found her not guilty....
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...things at the root." An African-American who has been an inspiration in my life is Angela Davis. Angela Y. Davis is a scholar, civil rights activist, and writer. She was born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, and Davis’ experiences witnessing racial discrimination and prejudice in the south had a great impact on her. Angela Davis attended college at the University of California, San Diego University, and Brandeis University in Massachusetts and was eventually hired to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a heroic & insistent woman who also happens to be an exceptional activist. I’m inspired by Angela Davis because her words touch my soul, her activism is provoking, and her academic...
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...discussing the life of Angela Davis as an activist for civil rights and the sentencing of her involvement with a shoot-out. I found this woman on the LIFE Magazine Archives, “Winners and Losers”, Up, down and around the dice roll for ’72 on page 56. I will give a brief background on her life, then follow it with a secondary source, which comes from several primary sources to create an overview of a situation, and it tells us how the shoot-out happened. I will then analyze a primary source, which gives information by the person themselves or from a source in that time, where Davis is in an interview explaining her thoughts through the period of the shootout and the sentencing after it. The LIFE Magazine Archive, it gives us a small insight on Davis’ life as one of the “Ten Most Wanted”, for the shoot-out in 1970, in Marin County, California, courthouse. Davis, a black activist, Communist, and philosophy instructor, was imprisoned for “the part she allegedly played” (pg.56) in the shootout, for fifteen months. Finally, after...
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...Angela Davis is an activist, scholar and a writer who advocates for the oppressed. She has wrote several books including Women and Culture & Politics. Angela Davis where born on Angela Davis, born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama. She became a master scholar who studied at the Sorbonne. She joined the U.S. communist party and was jailed for charges related to a prison outbreak, though ultimately cleared. She is also known for books like Women, Race & Class. She has worked as professor and activist who advocates gender equity, prison reform and alliances across color lines. Angela Davis is best known as a radical African- American educator and activist for civil rights and other social issues. As a child she knew about racial prejudice from her discrimination growing. When she was a teenager she went to Elisabeth Irwin High School. Angela Davis parents are Sallye Davis and Frank Davis. She has one sister her name is Fania Davis. Her father was a service station and her mother was an elementary school teacher and she also was in the National Association for the Advancement of colored people. She also has two brother their name are Ben Davis and Reginald Davis. As a teenager she moved to New York City with her mother who was pursuing a Master degree at New York University. She organized an...
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...Through Angela Davis’ passage, ‘Democracy, Social Change, and Civil Engagement’, ‘The First White President’ along with the two DACA articles, one can say that we are connected with equalness and freedom, which are the top two priorities in our country today; however there are issues in our world today that don’t make these priorities fair because of the different views that people are now taking on. We, as people, are supposed get the same rights and treatment as everyone else, nonetheless, because of our new president, Donald Trump, he is equalizing ‘white privilege’ and convinced other white people that they are just as mistreated then any other race, not recognizing any other ethnicities, cultures and minorities. In Angela Davis’ passage...
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...RIZVI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES & RESEARCH WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 16 October – 22 October 2010 MMS – A MONEY MATTERS US Federal Reserve understates inflation According to the influential US investor Jim Rogers, US government inflation data is "a sham" and is causing the Federal Reserve to vastly understate price pressures in the economy. The US central bank uses inflation data that relies too heavily on housing prices, Rogers told the Reuters 2011 Investment Outlook Summit, and he criticized the Fed's $600 billion bond-buying program. ET, 8 Dec 2010 Angela Merkel rebuffs IMF call to raise euro zone fund German Chancellor Angela Merkel rebuffed IMF call on Monday for a bigger euro zone financial safety net or joint euro bonds, as finance ministers of European Union appeared split on how to stem the 16-nation currency area's debt crisis. Yahoo News, 8 Dec 2010 YES Bank in strategic partnership with National Collateral Management Services Limited YES Bank, India's new age private sector bank, entered into a strategic partnership with National Collateral Management Services Limited (NCMSL), a major agri-infrastructure player, for collateral management and warehousing services. Yahoo News, 9 Dec 2010 Banks raising high cost funds to tide over liquidity crunch Faced with tight liquidity condition, banks have started offering high interest rate of 9.5 per cent on certificate of deposit (CD). Currently, the rates of CD are varying between...
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...UNIFORM POLICY I, ______________________________________________, being employed by D.A.F.S TRANSPORT acknowledge TRANSPORT supplies me with uniform/s specific to my position. I understand: a. Home care and cleaning of the uniforms will not be an option because of the potential damage this might cause the uniform’s material and chemical treatments, b. The soiled uniforms must be turned in weekly for maintenance to a delivery point as designated byRANSPORT, c. In exchange for the delivery of soiled uniforms I will receive a clean set of uniforms weekly d. I will wear the uniform at all times when performing assigned tasks as an employee oT. I also acknowledgS 60 DAY uniform probation. A fee for cleaning will be deducted weekly this is to ensure proper care of the uniform’s during my employment as well as the return of all issued uniforms at the end of my employment. If I terminate employment and do not return all issued uniforms, the resulting cost charged to T by its uniform provider a large fee will be deducted from my final paycheck. If I return all issued uniforms in a condition acceptable to the uniform provider, I will not be charged for the uniforms. During my probationary period I will be issued temporary FRC coveralls. Should my employment terminate with the company, I will return the issued FRC coveralls in an acceptable condition. I agree to all terms and conditions of this agreement and recognize this agreement is subject to change or modification...
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...German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has stepped down after he was found to have copied large parts of his 2006 university doctorate thesis. Mr Guttenberg, considered until recently a possible candidate for chancellor, has already been stripped of his PhD. He told a news conference that it was "the most painful step of my life". Tens of thousands of German academics have written to Chancellor Angela Merkel complaining about his conduct. The plagiarism scandal led to him being nicknamed Baron Cut-and-Paste, Zu Copyberg and Zu Googleberg by the German media. But Ms Merkel had continued to stand by him, with her party facing three state elections later this month. Mr Guttenberg told reporters in Berlin that he was relinquishing all his political offices and he thanked the chancellor for her support, trust and understanding. "I must agree with my enemies who say that I was not appointed minister for self-defence, but defence minister," he said. "I was always ready to fight, but have to admit I have reached the limit of my strength." A 39-year-old aristocrat popular with the electorate, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of the chancellor's Christian Democrats. He came under pressure after a Bremen University law professor began reviewing his 2006 thesis with the aid of the internet. Reports emerged of a passage from a newspaper article that featured word for word, and then of a paragraph...
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...communicate with. Naturally if we can't seem to understand another person, don't agree, or practice what they do we find people who we do have similarities with. As we are a multicultural nation, priding this country on its diversity, we still stick to our own sub-cultures within the larger culture. In order for people to communicate effectively, there must be steps to take so that we can assure another individual or group doesn't become ostracized. In order to begin this process we need to develop a better strategic flexibility (Hybels, S. 6). There are many factors that go into a multi-culture adapting to each other, but we cannot allow full ignorance and laziness to take over. In the article The multicultural cult, German chancellor Angela Merkel has said "multiculturalism has utterly failed." She goes on to give examples of why it has done so, including taking one group of poverty stricken people and placing them in an area of middle class, thinking they would strive or be better off there. The government didn't realize that without some form of adaptation, this wouldn't and hasn't worked. Instead the people who were placed there didn't know how to adapt to the in place cultural system. This lack of cohesiveness and confusion has only lead to unsuccessful complications, "in countries around the world, and over the centuries, peoples with jarring differences in language, culture, and values have been a major problem and, too often, sources of major disasters for the societies...
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...multiculturalism in Britain has literally failed, because Britain has become one of Europe’s most active bases for terrorists’ spots. One of David Cameron’s biggest statements from his speech is that he claims that the main roots of this terror-problem is that because of multiculturalism has encouraged segregated communities where Islamic extremism can live and live separated lives, apart from each other. One of the problems is also that very religious people live by their own rules and faith, because of their holy scriptures and their religion, that they are having a hard time sticking to the law, democracy, human rights and social integration, because they are guided that much about their faith. He shares these attitudes with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. One of David Cameron’s main arguments is that the racism or discrimination is mutual....
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...The signs of greater confidence in the economic and equity outlook lend an upbeat tone to this week’s five-day gathering in Davos, Switzerland of 2,500 executives, policy makers, investors and academics. Delegates include German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, both of whom won praise in the poll. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein and billionaire investor George Soros will also be there. “There’s a great sense of relief we dodged a lot of bullets in 2012 -- we didn’t go off the fiscal cliff in the U.S., Europe didn’t have a meltdown and China didn’t have a hard landing,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Inc. (IHS) in Lexington, Massachusetts, who will be in Davos. “There are definitely pockets of good news with recoveries in North America and parts of Asia gathering momentum.” U.S. economic activity picked up across much of the country last month, boosted by automobile and home sales, the Federal Reserve said on Jan. 16 in its Beige Book survey of business conditions. U.S. Effect The improvement in the U.S. is having a “positive effect throughout the world,” according to Sriram Srinivasan, chief executive officer of Wall Street Investment Management in Chantilly, Virginia, and a poll respondent. The global economy is in its best shape since May 2011, according to the survey, with 35 percent of those contacted saying it is getting better. That’s about twice the number who say the...
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...Leadership Evaluation and Philosophy: An Appraisal of Angela Merkel’s Leadership during the Euro Crisis and My Leadership Philosophy Kelly Bullard BSN RN Grand Canyon University: MGT 605 October 8, 2014 This dissertation will discuss Angela Merkel’s Leadership style and ethics during the Euro crisis. It will also compare Angela Merkel’s leadership style to servant leadership style. It will also describe how servant leadership may or may not change the outcomes of the Euro crisis. In the closure of the dissertation, I will discuss my own leadership philosophy. Angela Merkel Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany. Last fall, she was elected to her third term as chancellor of Germany, making her one of the only two European Union leaders that survived the economic crisis (The Guardian, 2013). Angela Merkel was named by Forbes in 2014 as the most powerful women in the world (Forbes, 2014). Angela Merkel’s leadership style is pragmatic and methodical (The Guardian, 2013). Anne Applebaum (2013) states “She reigns. She doesn’t tell people what to do, she doesn’t give orders, and she isn’t bossy or pushy. She doesn’t throw Germany’s weight around or make demands. She simply sets parameters, and then lets everybody else make ‘choices’ themselves.” Merkel’s leadership style is prudent, democratic, and modest. Merkel prefers discussion, deliberation and consensus (Zeeb, 2013). The Germans call her “Mutti” (mummy), because she understands what her country wants...
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...Al-Qaeda making comeback in Iraq, officials say BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaeda is rebuilding in Iraq and has set up training camps for insurgents in the nation's western deserts as the extremist group seizes on regional instability and government security failures to regain strength, officials say. / Iraq has seen a jump in al-Qaeda attacks over the last 10 weeks, and officials believe most of the fighters are former prisoners who have either escaped from jail or were released by Iraqi authorities for lack of evidence after the U.S. military withdrawal last December. Many are said to be Saudi or from Sunni-dominated Gulf states. Teenage School Activist Survives Attack by Taliban At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by giving voice to her dreams. As turbaned fighters swept through her town in northwestern Pakistan in 2009, the tiny schoolgirl spoke out about her passion for education — she wanted to become a doctor, she said — and became a symbol of defiance against Taliban subjugation. / On Tuesday, masked Taliban gunmen answered Ms. Yousafzai’s courage with bullets, singling out the 14-year-old on a bus filled with terrified schoolchildren, then shooting her in the head and neck. Two other girls were also wounded in the attack. All three survived, but late on Tuesday doctors said that Ms. Yousafzai was in critical condition at a hospital in Peshawar, with a bullet possibly lodged close to her brain. Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu calls for early elections JERUSALEM...
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...Rodriguez Wednesday 1pm Class October 15, 2013 Week 3 Fashion Article Summary – Burberry/Apple Apple has done it again. Not only have they recently released the much anticipated, fashion forward, iPhone 5c and 5s, but also they have managed to recruit Burberrys own CEO Angela Ahrendts. The worlds of high fashion and technology have officially collided. This is quite an accomplishment not just for apple, but for the fashion industry as well. Having someone as powerful and trendsetting as Ahrendts take the position of senior vice president of retail and online stores at apple can make a major impact on the fashion industry since we are always expanding with the use of technology. Apple, who has been without a retail head for almost a year now, has hired Ahrendts for her outstanding skills and work of digital marketing in the prominent British Fashion House. They are hoping to boost up online retail sales since they have not been doing as well as they hoped in this department for a while. Since Burberry is categorized as a luxury brand, she has gotten very involved in the digital aspect of the trademark. Burberry has a transactional website and an extreme amount of online engagement. This all benefits Angela when taking on her new role at apple. It is said that Christopher Bailey, who is currently the creative director, will be taking on the position as CEO as well as creative director of Burberry. The company is not worried about its future and is happy for Ahrendts and her...
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