...Yazket Espino March 20, 2012 When Will It End Throughout history, women have been thought of and treated as the weaker gender. Thought to be but mothers and wives, women have begun to change their identity. In recent years, women have been provided with the opportunity of obtain a higher education. With that, they are provided with better opportunities to build careers for themselves. Plenty of women today have succeeded in life without the help of men and are able to work in the same fields as them. Even though they have succeeded throughout the last years, women today still face oppression as they did in the past. An area in which women still face oppression today, as they always have, is in the work place. Although many women have great careers today, men still have an advantage given the fact that they regularly get paid more. In a study done by the General Accountability Office (GAO), the numbers show the difference between a women’s paycheck and that of a man’s. According to the GAO, “Even accounting for factors such as occupation, industry, race, marital status and job tenure, working women today earn an average of 80 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts. This pay gap has persisted for the past two decades.” Despite enormous gains made by the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Right Movement, men still obtain about 75% of all doctor and lawyer jobs in the United States. Whether these women have a higher education than that of their male coworkers...
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...Final Reflection Paper By Jessica Krick The first week I learned that children's books aren't as a genre an indication of readership. I enrolled in this class because it is required. According to my guidance counselor, it is to 'diversify my learning'. Now that I have finished the course, I couldn't agree more! I started this class thinking that children's books are simple and sort of primal. When in fact, there are a lot of literary elements involved; and the illustrations tell the story as much as the text. It has taught me to look deeper into everything, that nothing is simple. I plan on using this newly acquired skill in the future. Also during this week, I got to analyze and enjoy "The Giving Tree". It is such an exemplar picturebook, that I just had to buy it (along with "Wild Thing") to read again and again with my nephew. I typically favor the moral lessons provided in these books. With that said, I honestly didn't like the book "Millions of Cats", I guess it just rubbed me the wrong way, plus I'm a dog person! Being an artist myself, my favorite part of this class was the multitude of illustrations involved in my class work. Home work became fun. You always seem to provide extra handouts just to further our knowledge, like the 'handout of illustration styles' and I read quite a bit of the Grim folktales. Folklore revisits popular childhood folktales or how I have always known it as 'fairytales'. I found it interesting that they have survived centuries by word...
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...Constitutional Rights Strayer University PAD 525 Korb v. Raytheonr of 1989 is a case predicated on the freedom of speech and if a corporation has the right to dismiss you based on whether your speech directly or indirectly affects the company and a individual as there is associated with that company. Mr Korb was released from his duties as vice president for Washington operations of Raytheon Corporation because he spoke the media publicly and expressed views in direct conflict with the corporation's economic interest. It was noted that he spoke on behalf of the organization that he joined the executive board of the Committee for National Security (CNS). Although he was given permission by his company join CNS the company wanted Mr. Korb to still uphold the values and corporate initiatives the represented. Mr Korb gave a press conference on February 25, 1986 with CNS in the senate building during Korb's normal lunch hour in connection with the release of its annual alternative defense budget. Korb spoke at the press conference. Because this was during lunch and not an unscheduled break Mr. Korb felt like he wouldn’t be associated with Raytheon. The reporters present at the press definitely did as they reported to their outlets. The Washington Post newspaper the day after the press conference reported on the event. The article described Korb as a former assistant secretary of defense and now a private civil citizen working for arms maker Raytheon Co. It...
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...How far was the effectiveness of the civil rights movement in the 1960s limited by Internal divisions? Firstly mention the successes of the 1960s * Greensboro Sit-ins 1960, This protest was very effective; it successfully desegregated the Woolworths store by the end of 1960 and all of Woolworths by 1961. By the end of 1962, 700k people protested and 810 southern towns desegregated something which helped to start the erosion of the Jim Crow Laws. But, the foundations for divisions were set, SNCC accused the SCLC of keeping donations and they were displeased with Kings top-down leadership. NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall called SNCC a ‘group of crazy coloured’. Although this didn’t affect this campaign, the co-operation was unsustainable and could be seen as the beginning of the end. * Freedom rides 1961, This again was successful in the respect that Supreme Court rulings MORGAN V VIRGINIA 1946 and BOYNTON V VIRGINIA 1960 were upheld, but divisions remained, CORE insisted that the SCLC said that CORE originated the freedom rides, cracks were beginning to widen. * The failure at Albany also helped with the radicalisation of SNCC and CORE, people started to question the effectiveness of peaceful protest. Talk about how when there is collaboration there is usually success, e.g. March on Washington which helped the 1964 Civil rights act go through. Tangible successes (dejure) * Civil Rights Act 1964 outlawed racial discrimination in employment and all forms of segregation...
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...LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (2013) The Lee Daniel’s Butler movie is about Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) who has served six white American presidents until currently a black president, Barrack Obama. Gaines served as a butler for 37 years. He observed the slow process to race equality from a political perspective, campaigning for Civil Rights Movement. His son Louis (David Oyelowo) joined the civil rights movement and would dine with great people such as Martin Luther King Jnr. Gaines father and mother picked cotton on a white man’s plantation in Georgia (Nashawaty 1). Louis has been involved in a violence scandal as well as her mother Mariah Carey where she claims to have been raped by the plantation owner. The movie creates mixed reactions to the audience with various scandal represented, but essential to the society to understand racism in the 20th century. The movie is likely to create mixed reactions because it involves the whites and blacks, where whites are more favored than the blacks. Living in a race sensitive culture, 20th century, the movie’s actions are likely to draw the audience attention on race relations, especially with in a racism world. The audience may be also be enraged by Cecil Gaines inability to save his son, who has been imprisoned 16 times despite serving six presidents as a butler (Nashawaty 1). One film is unlikely to influence people significantly because most films actions are both fictional no-fictional. Additionally, characters in a movie...
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...Biography of Anne Moody Anne Moody was born in Mississippi on September 15, 1940, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. She was the oldest of nine children born to Fred and Elnire Moody. She attended Natchez Junior College and completed her education at Tougaloo College. Moody married Austin Stratus and had one child named Sascha. In 1969, Anne’s marriage ended in divorce. Moody died on February 5, 2015 at the age of 74. Anne Moody was an African-American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi. As a child she faces many problems, join the Civil Rights Movement, and fight racism against blacks. Anne's popular autobiography book called “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” tells the story of her struggles and triumphs in this rural Mississippi town. When growing up Anne encountered many problems. Her uncle George Lee used to beat her when he would babysit her and her little sister Adline. Their house caught on fire once because her uncle was trying to burn her. In addition, Anne's father leaves his family and his responsibilities for a life of uncontrolled sex, gambling, and alcohol. At a young age she began working for white families in the area, cleaning their houses and helping their children with homework for only a few dollars a week. Her mother boyfriend Raymond and Anne never got along and they encountered major problems. Anne child hood was extremely difficult, but through all those conflict she was still successful in life...
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...Affirmative Action in Birmingham, Alabama John R. Melville Wayland Baptist University Business Ethics Abstract The Birmingham Fire Department had been plagued with declining employee proficiency and turmoil over the past 4-years from affirmative action issues. A study was conducted to review the historical issues involved with the affirmative action programs that were affecting fire fighters and to develop recommendations for changes. The study determined that racial turmoil was generated within the department because of affirmative action polices that placed hiring and promotion quotas on the department and the ongoing associated legal litigation. The recommended changes from the study are to develop internal anti-discrimination policy and race relations educational programs, development of a fire fighters academy, and adding performance values to promotions. Department morale, teamwork, and proficiency are expected to improve with the implementation of the recommendations. Affirmative Action in Birmingham, Alabama I am the new chief of the Birmingham, Alabama fire department. My first challenge within the department is to review current hiring and training practices, and to implement changes that will improve employee morale and department efficiency. I reviewed the past history of the department and discovered that employee proficiency; inter-relations and morale had steadily declined during the past four years from affirmative action issues. The specific issues...
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...Culture is everywhere and people can find pieces of culture anywhere they look! People learn their culture by being taught it from older generations. Culture is expressed in many different ways; from the clothing people wear, the food people eat, the music people listen to, peoples’ actions, and peoples’ beliefs. In other words, culture is who people are. People live their lives the way they do because of their culture. Culture is part of their identity, it makes them, them. Culture is more than identity and it has the ability to be very powerful, so powerful it can influence and actually start a movement. Culture is important for the development of movements. “Culture implies our striving – it is our striving.” (Keita, 12) Not only does culture thrive for striving, but it helps fight for freedom. “By culture, we understand all… behaviors and attitudes accumulated by the People both through and by virtue of its struggle for freedom from the hold and domain of Nature, and also through and by virtue of its effort to destroy deviationist politics – social systems of domination and exploitation… process of its life.” (Keita, 12) For short, culture can bring people together to fight for freedom and for other reasons. Some ethnicities’ culture is stronger than others. African-Americans are a prime example of an ethnicity whose culture is extremely strong. They hold their culture close to their hearts and they express their culture vibrantly. They stand tall behind their culture and...
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...Trying to Achieve a Dream ENGL 1323- Section 030 By: Albert Rowe August 28, 1963 is a date that will live in mortality among American citizens, it was the day that one man moved an entire country, and this man single-handedly brought an entire race together using only his words. Dr. Martin Luther’s “I have a Dream Speech” is one of the most important and influential speeches ever given. This speech was given in Washington D.C. amongst high racial tensions in the U.S. between white southerners and black southerners. This speech perfectly personified the feelings and ideas of 90% of the black community. Dr. King spoke for the minorities that had no voice during this time period. Dr. King’s speech is well known for his hope for the future of his country and his people. Dr. King started with, “….even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.” Stating that in his interpretation of the American dream, he begins with “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” Dr. King dreams of an America that will unite instead of separate, an America that will look around and not see skin...
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...Women Movement of 1960s Women Movement of 1960s In this paper I am going to discuss how my own life would be different if one specific event of the 1960s had never occurred. I also would like to discuss how this event influenced my course of study and my choice of career path and how different my life would be if this event had never taken place. The event I am speaking of is The Women’s Movement if the 10960’s. Background Since the rise of dawn women have been treated as second class citizens and unequal to men. They were not given equal rights regarding their education, health, career and other aspects of their lives. In many civilizations women are treated as slaves and men considered them their property. From the beginning of History women are considered to be inferior to men. Even scholars, learned men and socialists of the early age called women as the greatest source of temptation and evil. Women were treated second-rated not only by the social norms, but also by the religion. Many religions of the world considered women as a species to gratify male hunger and produce his offspring. Civilizations were of the views that as women are physically weaker than men in the same way they have weaker mental abilities and powers. Even Christian Fathers gave humiliated statements about women e.g. St Jerome, Latin Father of Christian Church has said “Women is the gate of Devil, the Path of Wickedness, the Sting of the Serpent, in the World...
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...How far is it accurate to say that Black Power movements of 1960s achieved nothing for Black people? In the 1960s many groups such as the Nation of Islam (NOI) and Black Panthers (BP) rose up to support “black power”, largely due to being dissatisfied by Martin Luther King’s adamant belief in peaceful protest. With Jim Crow gone and Vietnam looming many former civil rights protesters no longer had any interest or time to continue with Black Rights. As a result things began to slow down. The Black Power movement did less than perhaps it could have done, unrealistic aims meant in it was difficult to achieve some things. However it did somewhat has success and did a lot to increasing the self-esteem of Black people. One well known Black Power group is The Black Panthers. Black panthers were reasonably successful in helping coloured people living in Ghettos. They organized breakfast and Medical care for Black people living in poor areas. By doing this they were not only helping them to sustain themselves but also attempting to raise their self- esteem. The BP also encouraged black people to “stand up” to white people and defend themselves. The BP’s were dedicated to arming one’s self and defending themselves from racial hatred, although in concept it aims to aid black people in the fight against racism it didn’t have the overall desired effect as the next paragraph will discuss. As a result Bp did have minor successes but they did not come without problems. BP’s violent retaliation...
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...Mandy Louis-Jacques ENC 1101-026 The Effect of Technology on the New Civil Rights Marshall Poe’s “The Hive” explores the creation and growth of the “open encyclopedia” that has now become known as Wikipedia. Technology has the potential to allow the new civil rights movement to grow into something much greater than it already is. The anonymity of Wikipedia does add on to the need to cover, while also appealing to others who may not want to make their opinions publicly known. The use of technology has the ability to allow any and everybody to make their stance on an issue known, regardless of if they want their identity to be made public or not. The new civil rights movement has the potential to grow and flourish into something much greater than it already is with the use of technology because it gives people a voice they may not have beyond the internet, to make it even easier to make universal issues known to others, and to spread information about the creation of the new civil rights. In “The New Civil Rights” Yoshino states that “The new civil rights must harness this universal impulse toward authenticity (Yoshino 483)” and the collaborative effort that is Wikipedia and its neutral point of view does encourage the need to cover. If there is such a need for a lack of bias, then a person cannot expect to make their opinion known without receiving feedback from others because that is the way today’s society functions. It is unheard of for someone to state their thoughts...
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...Civil Rights Film (Mississippi Burning) Find an old or current film that focuses on the United States’ Vietnam War or the Civil Rights movement (the period from 1958 -1973). Show a clip (without commercials) from the film and discuss the director’s message and the film’s reception. (20%, 7 min max) Directed by Alan Parker written by Chris Gerolmo the 1988 film “Mississippi Burning”, depicts an acute sense of rural Mississippi in 1964. The movie is loosely based on the true story of the disappearances of three civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. These three men were young civil rights workers who were a part of a voter registration drive in Mississippi. The movie strays away from the feel of a documentary but loosely offers the facts in a bloody, gritty police drama. Lead actors in the film are Gene Anderson and Willem Dafore who depicted the fictional FBI agents who led on the case. The directors message in the time it was released (1988) was to evoke clearly how recently in the past the rights of African Americans were routinely and legally denied particularly in the South. Also I to give “Mississippi Burning” was looked at by some as the best American film of 1988 and a likely candidate for the Academy Award as the year’s best picture when it was released. It was nominated for several awards and most notably won the Oscar Best Cinematography. However it also generated responses from critiques stating that it offered a limited or misleading depiction...
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...Biography of Anne Moody Anne Moody was born in Mississippi on September 15, 1940, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. She was the oldest of nine children born to Fred and Elnire Moody. She attended Natchez Junior College and completed her education at Tougaloo College. Moody married Austin Stratus and had one child named Sascha. In 1969, Anne’s marriage ended in divorce. Moody died on February 5, 2015 at the age of 74. Anne Moody was an African-American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi. As a child she faces many problems, join the Civil Rights Movement, and fight racism against blacks. Anne's popular autobiography book called “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” tells the story of her struggles and triumphs in this rural Mississippi town. When growing up Anne encountered many problems. Her uncle George Lee used to beat her when he would babysit her and her little sister Adline. Their house caught on fire once because her uncle was trying to burn her. In addition, Anne's father leaves his family and his responsibilities for a life of uncontrolled sex, gambling, and alcohol. At a young age she began working for white families in the area, cleaning their houses and helping their children with homework for only a few dollars a week. Her mother boyfriend Raymond and Anne never got along and they encountered major problems. Anne child hood was extremely difficult, but through all those conflict she was still successful in life (Coming...
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...DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT * The change that has most impacted orgs in the past decade has been the growing realisation that people are an organisation’s primary source of CA (Ruona and Gibson, 2004) * Demographic changes in labour force + globalisation, has inspired HR to become increasingly more effective at developing programs that leverage the differences and diversity in the workforce * Differences in approaches: wider debate of convergent/divergent approaches to HRM WHAT IS DM? * Broadest sense: diversity in org terms means differences between working individuals such as gender, ethnicity, colour sexuality, religion, disability, age, social status, personality, amongst other categories (Ellis & Dick, 2002) * However, important to look at diversity at a national level, as the predominant diversity issues in each country are different (Shen et al., 2009). E.g while racial equality appears to be the predominant issue in the USA, multiculturalism has always been the most important dimension of diversity in Western countries, including the EU nations, Aus and NZ. * Similarly, while religion and ethnicity separate people in India, household status (hukou) differentiates off-farm migrants from urbanities in China. * In response to the growing diversity in the WF around the world, many companies have instituted specific policies/programs to enhance recruitment, inclusion, promotion and retention of disadvantaged groups * DM has historically...
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