...Send in the Clones” In her article “Don’t Send in the Clones”, author Maureen Dowd states the arising issues, according to her with having Facebook applications such as RoomBug and websites such as URoom surf to automatically generate the perfect roommate by matching students with similar interests, ideas, and hobbies; therefore, students averting being surprised with a roommate that is unlike them. Dowd opens with her own personal experience as a college student being paired up with roommates that embodied a different way of thinking. Dowd then describes how “co-habiting with snarly and moody roomies prepared [her] for the working world, where people can be outlandishly cantankerous over small stuff”( 737). As a result, Dowd argues that college is intended for encountering a diverse student population. Additionally, Dowd believes that people will always have differences or similarities; thus, Dowd notes that students should learn to co-opt with students that have a multitude of different ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives. For this reason, Dowd believes this promotes self-growth and prepares students for the working sector. Dowd concludes by encouraging students to not have the same experiences over and over again. Subsequently, at the end of the essay Dowd says, “College is not only where you hit the books. It should also be where you learn not to judge a book by its cover” (737). Hence, Dowd notes that we should not judge people by their appearances, but instead we should...
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...Maureen Dowd Many books on the market discuss the differing nature of the sexes. Conventional wisdom indicates that a man asked how to get someplace that he will give directions laced with compass points, tenths of miles, and street names. The same conventional wisdom indicates that a woman, asked for the same information, will give directions that contain landmarks, usually followed by the warning that “if you see [fill in the blank] then you’ve gone too far.” I chose Dowd’s book due to her approach to this age-old issue. She discusses this dichotomy using sharp wit, which seemed appealing. Her work leaves many readers laughing at her observations, many of which were broad enough to be perceived as parodies. Her humor, however, has an edge to it. This paper will examine Dowd’s use of humor in the text and how that humor retains the reader’s interest in what she has written. The Nature of Humor Something is humorous if it is perceived as being funny. Something is ‘funny’ if it is found to be amusing, something that might make the average person laugh. Humor is often used to bring an intended audience together. Maureen Dowd brings her readers together by allowing them to share in the absurdity of what she has written. When she writes about powerful women "los[ing] altitude at Oxygen" and getting "evicted from Barbie's dream house" (104) she brings with these criticisms with easily understood images with the power to make the reader smile. Togetherness? Dowd questions...
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...Dowd and Friedman’s Strengths Thomas Friedman and Maureen Dowd have covered numerous subjects in the articles I read. The articles these writers produce have exceptionally interesting making it obvious as to why there opinions are so highly valued. Some of the issues they chose to cover were unique due to the little coverage put out by the mass media. Certain aspects of Friedman and Dowd’s articles have stuck out to me and shown me why their articles are so widely read. One part of Dowd I enjoy in particular is her use of slang and contemporary phrasing to make her writing sound young at heart. In her article on November 20th titled “Nuking the White House,” Dowd uses phrases such as “a bunch of old, white, Republican dudes.” She also in this article refers to President George W. Bush as just “W.” as she does in many other articles. Although some may find this annoying I on the other hand think her minor use of slang gives personality to the writing. Dowd’s use of slang catches my attention when I’m reading her articles and it makes her seem more down to earth. After reading Thomas Friedman’s articles I found that he is particularly skilled at coving topics dealing with foreign affairs. His outstanding knowledge in globalization makes him especially good at covering this topic. In 1995 Friedman was The New York Times’ foreign-affairs columnist. His articles pertaining to foreign affairs show that he has and exceptional understanding on what maneuvers will...
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...Speaking for What? Kendra Burgess BCOM 275 August 6, 2014 Recently, there was some controversy stirred about former first daughter Chelsea Clinton that stemmed from an article posted in the New York Times by Amy Chozick. The article is about how Chelsea Clinton now gets paid up to $75,000 for speaking engagements is booked for. This article sparked several other editorials, think pieces and online posts in response to it. The most controversial article was the editorial by columnist Maureen Dowd who wrote a very opinionated article about Clinton’s fees and was even critical of her experience as well. The subsequent online article that was written about Dowd by journalist Joe Strupp and criticizing her own fees and abilities was not only somewhat biased but almost inflammatory. I found fault with this article for this reason. The article, entitled, “Maureen Dowd is Paid Less Than Half of What Chelsea Clinton Is worth on the Speaking Circuit” is written more like an expose of Dowd than an actual objective article showing an opposing view. Two logical fallacies Mr. Strupp touches on in his article are Red Herring and also Ad hominem. This both make this article unfairly biased and take away from whatever the point of Ms. Dowd’s article was, no matter how inflammatory. The Ad hominem fallacy comes from several statements Strupp makes in his article. He lists her speaking arrangement fees within the first several paragraphs and even goes as far as casting doubt on her speaking...
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...Michael Dowd and his colleague’s behavior are despicable, they are what we would consider as rotten pocket; a term used in chapter 9 of burns describing “a group of officers engaging in corruption collectively” (Burns, 2013, p.392). However, before we start judging his colleague, we must take into consideration what may have prompted them to commit these crimes. Be mindful that they were surrounded by an inhuman individual; Michael Dowd, the perfect example of corruption, even his own partners called him a “crook in a cop uniform.” Dowd had allowed greed to get the best of him, resulting in him engaging in extortion and shakedown. Even though his partners were at fault too; their behavior is explanatory. Why they chose to get involved is something we can understand once we put sociology into context. Informal socialization a theory...
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...Harvey by Mary Chase SCRIPT ANALYSIS Who are they? * Elwood P. Dowd - forty-seven-year-old, an independently wealthy man. He is a charmer, always pleasant when talking to people, even those who address him gruffly. His best friend is Harvey, an invisible six and a half-foot-tall rabbit. (protagonist - lead) * Veta Louise Simmons – Elwood’s sister, very concerned about her social position and terrified that she will be subject to ridicule or scandal because of Elwood's embarrassing behavior (antagonist - lead) * Myrtle Mae Simmons - A young woman, the daughter of Veta. She is also concerned about the family’s standing in the community because she wants to find a man to marry. (antagonist - supporting) * Dr. William B. Chumley - An esteemed psychiatrist and the head of the sanitarium, “chumley’s rest,” to which veta has Elwood taken. He is a difficult, exacting man, feared by his subordinates. (supporting) * Dr. Lyman Sanderson - Young, for a psychiatrist, but very qualified. He was hand-picked by Dr. Chumley to be his assistant. He is just as infatuated with nurse Kelly as she is with him, but he only reveals his concern indirectly. (supporting) * Nurse Ruth Kelly - A pretty young woman and a sympathetic character. She works at chumley’s rest and appears to have some sort of love/hate relationship with dr. Sanderson * Duane Wilson - the muscle of chumley’s rest, a devoted orderly responsible for handling the patients who will not cooperate voluntarily...
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...people think, perception, remembering, and learning (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). The core of cognitive psychology revolves around many other branches while its inner core is based on how people acquire, store, and process information (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). The most common applications of cognitive psychology are to help improve memory as well as how to increase decision processes, and how to structure or enhance learning (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). Historically, between 1950 and 1970, behaviorism was psychologies most dominant school of thought (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). When studies began to shift the focus onto attention, problem solving, and memory, it became known as the cognitive revolution which then generated masses of research studies which included processing models (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). While behaviorism focused mainly on observable behavior, internal mental state was the main concern of cognitive research (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). Cognitive research also surpassed psychoanalysis in that it relied solely on the scientific method while psychoanalysis used subjective perceptions (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). Major contributors of the cognitive school of thought include Wilhelm Wundt, William James, and Edward B.Titchener (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). While these founders helped establish what we know today as cognitive research or cognitive psychology, it quickly began to encompass many other fields of study (Dowd & Arnold, 2010). Some of the branches of cognitive...
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...teachings (Dowd, 215). Had they not pioneered this method of religious inspiration, it is hard to see Tenskwatawa amassing any following. His rhetoric was clearly influenced by those before him with his prophecies of doom for Americans seizing land. He has claimed that Great Spirit promised to have a crab “earth driver” overturn the land to cover the white people and that “there will be an End to the World” should the United States not leave Greenville, Ohio, alone. Tenskwatawa derived another key part of his preachings from other tribes: separation theology. This belief that a separate creator other than the Great Spirit created whites and therefore they should not associate with the natives is an older belief that was prominent amongst the Wyandots before 1805 (Dowd, 217). On the subject, the Shawnee Prophet said, “The Great Spirit did not mean that the white and red people should live near each other” (Dowd, 218). This sentiment...
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...make decisions helps us to navigate through life, avoiding potential problems and expanding our horizons. Decision making plays a similar role in business. Decision making aids managers in identifying and selecting among potential opportunities, helping them solve immediate problems and make future problems more manageable. Good decision makers are those who are effective at processing information, assessing risks, and making choices that will have positive outcomes for their organization. • Source • Authors: S. C. De Janasz, K. O. Dowd, & B. Z. Schneider • Date: 2002 • Title of book: Interpersonal Skills in Organizations • City of publication: New York, NY. • Publisher: McGraw-Hill. • Page number: 372 Complete the following: Write a brief summary of the main ideas of the paragraph. Create an in-text citation for your summary. Answer: According to De Janasz, Dowd, & Schneider (2002), Good decision makers are those who are effective at processing information, assessing risk, and making choices that will have positive outcomes for their...
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...“In Honor of the Foot” article from Taking Root to Fly by Irene Dowd explains the structure of the foot in detail, strengthen exercises and ways to move the foot fluently. Dowed explains how the foot is effected when walking, standing, how to strengthen the foot and how to be in tune with your feet. Dowed explains how the foot is shaped like a trapezoid, the corners of the foot, the ball of the little toe, inner border of the heal and the outer border of the heal. The bones are twisted to build the arch and depending the angle of twist your arch could be in place or relaxed. When the arch is untwisted or the inside border of the heel drops is called pronation and this is also known as “flat foot”. When the arch is raised higher or surpinates it is “high-arched foot”. When walking, Dowd indicates the foot does not move on a straight line, because the arch of the foot bones creates a more serpentine path of movement. The path hits slightly to the outside of the center of the heal for the heel strike, rolls inside the cuboid bone for midstance, rolls back more to the outside as the heel come off the floor in a step and rolls back to the middle of the big toe as the toes leave the ground. The arch of the foot twists/untwists slightly, relaxing for floor stability, then stiff lever to propel the body forward and relaxing. The big toe is the last to push off the floor. According to Dowd, “In some way, the most difficult this that the foot has to do is to stand.” The foot has...
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...The police in America (The Knapp & Mollen Commission) Jarrett M. Adams CJL300.98.SP.12 POLICE & SOCIETY Professor Bill Harmening April 3, 2012 Introduction Police corruption comes at an extraordinary cost. First and foremost, a corrupt act committed by any law official is a crime. Police corruption also diminishes the integrity of the police and tarnishes the public image of law enforcement. Furthermore, corruption protects other criminal activity such as drug dealing and prostitution. Protected criminal activities are a huge threat to the community because they are able to operate with the help of law enforcement. This paper will explore the efforts put forth by the Government to control police corruption with the hopes of ridding it from society. The Knapp Commission In the spring of 1970, then New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay placed a call to Federal Judge Percy Whitman Knapp. This phone call led to Knapp’s most visible role: chairman of a five-member commission that uncovered, after many months of investigating, a pattern of corruption familiar in precinct houses throughout the five boroughs of New York. This corruption included shakedowns at bars and construction sites to accepting payoffs from gamblers and drug dealers to ignore their criminal operations. The major catalyst for the inquiry came from a series of articles in The New York Times by David Burnham, an investigative reporter who...
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...The first idea as to how the disease came about was in a medical report in Paris, which stated that the disease was airborne. The reports went on to say that if air with pathogens was breathed in, it was too late to stop the disease and you would inevitably die (Dowd). Doctors during the Middle Ages went on to come up with a variety of ideas as to how people were contracting the disease such ideas included that the plague spread through poisonous fumes, rotting flesh, and personal contacts (Dowd). These medical reports caused the population to try various different things in an attempt to steer clear of the contraction of the disease. People would wear gas masks and avoid human contact; most people would not even visit relatives because of the fear of contracting this disease. Living conditions during the middle ages were horrible because hygiene was not recognized until the 19th century (Vanneste). During this time period, people would only bathe once a year, if they were lucky. The streets of the city were filled with an abundance of bacteria and parasites. Contributing to the filthy environment, living animals would roam around in public areas (Dowd). The Bubonic Plague was spread by bites from infected rodents and fleas, but there were also rare cases in which contaminated materials came in contact with open wounds, causing an infection (Medicine Net)....
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...had been an increase in the number of incoming complaints. The complaints were just one of the problems facing Patrick Dowd when he began his assignment at WIYCR. He also needed to contend with the lack of motivation amongst the workers of the resort, as well as the communication problems in the entire organization. There was an evident clash of leadership philosophy for the expatriates coming in to manage the resort. The high turnover of expatriates was also a major cultural issue. When Dowd arrived at the resort he was greeted by one of the few motivated workers in the resort. Dave Pickering was a rare motivated employee in a workforce that couldn’t find a reason to do work. Since all the employees were given a raise after a year of work no matter how well or poorly they performed there was no motivation to work (Shay 122). This clashed with the American organizational culture which was high on performance orientation whereas the culture of WIYCR was relatively low performance oriented. Since raises were given on a yearly basis there was no reason for employees to try to advance in a company. The resort would offer opportunities for advancement in the organization but would receive a weak response since no one wanted the added responsibility. Workers in the United States were competitive and strived for advancement. This was another cultural difference Dowd was faced with upon his initial review of the problems at WIYCR. This lack of motivation was one of the biggest problems...
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...Harvey premiered on Broadway on November 1, 1944, at the 48th Street Theatre, and after one thousand seven hundred seventy-five performances, closed on January 15, 1949. The original production was directed by Antoinette Perry and produced by Brock Pemberton, starring Frank Fay as Elwood P. Dowd and Josephine Hull as Elwood's sister Veta. Elwood was subsequently played during this run by Joe E. Brown, Jack Buchanan, and most famously- James Stewart. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945. It was originally a play, but has been adapted many times – the most famous being James Stewart’s rendition in all three adaptations of Broadway, Movie, and TV show. The film version did well at the box office, but not quite well enough to recoup its...
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...Police corruption is a complex issue. Police corruption or the abuse of authority by a police officer, acting officially to fulfill personal needs or wants, is a growing problem in the United States today. Things such as an Internal Affairs department, a strong leadership organization, and community support are just a few considerations in the prevention of police corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication in an urban city during any given week would most likely have an article about a police officer that got caught committing some kind of corrupt act. Police corruption has increased dramatically with the illegal cocaine trade, with officers acting alone or in-groups to steal money from dealers or distribute cocaine themselves. Large groups of corrupt police have been caught in New York, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, as well as many other cities. Corruption within police departments falls into 2 basic categories, external corruption and internal corruption. In this research project, I will concentrate on external corruption. Recently, external corruption has been given the larger center of attention. I have decided to include the fairly recent accounts of corruption from a few major cities, mainly New York, because that is where I have lived in the past year. I compiled my information from a number of articles written in the New York Times over the last few years. My definitional information and background data came from...
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