...Hidden Figures is a movie that dealt the time when discrimination and prejudice were so rampant. Three women of color who were working in NASA during 1950’s and 1960’s as human computers who were making calculations and contributions that helped launch the manned spaceflight program. They serve as human computers doing complex mathematics and engineering task to help launched John Glenn into Orbit. The three women are Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson. During this time the African Americans are still widely discriminated against particular segregationist Virginia. The film offers a realistic tension of the Civil Right era where there were segregations of bathroom, libraries, schools, and facilities. These three women...
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...Hidden Figures displays three African American women who defied the odds by aiding in the launch of John Glenn into orbit. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are all women who worked for NACA and NASA and played a vital role in his launch by providing the calculations necessary for both his launch and landing. The film takes place Hampton, Virginia during the 1960s, a prominent time of segregation amongst the community despite Brown v. Board of Education. The women face various challenges regarding their race and gender throughout the movie, however, they manage to achieve “the impossible” of the time. Katherine continued to work for NASA as a key person for space launch, Dorothy Vaughan became a supervisor at NACA and a manager at NASA which makes her the first African American to do so, and Mary Jackson became the first African American female engineer of NASA. Throughout the movie, it is made apparent that without these women, America would have had an even harder time trying to reach for the stars....
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...The theme for the movie Hidden Figures is persistence is key to success. The reason I feel this way is because of all the obstetrical these women had to face just because of there skin color that didn't they stop them from working for what they wanted. One example is Katherine Johnson. Katherine was what most would say a African American computer, she did the calculations for the for the men in NASA before they made the IBM and if not for her persistence that's probably all she would have been. Katherine Johnson calculated the flight path for the first American mission space and is now a pioneer in American space history. As for Dorothy Vaughan her persistence lead her to become the first African American supervisor at NASA. In the...
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...Hidden Figures (2016) begins in Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in 1926. The main character Katherine was noticed as an advanced student and a genius at math. Katherine gets moved up a few grades and at this new school, she exceeds her teachers’ expectations and excels. The film then moves to Hampton, Virginia in 1961, Katherine is stuck on the side of the road which co-workers Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. A racist police officer stops and asks them for their identifications. They explain to him that they work at NASA and he changes his tone towards them. He is surprised that NASA hires black women, but he is impressed. Through talking with these women, he appears to know a lot about NASA. The police officer ends up giving the women an...
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...is interesting in itself but setting up an ebusiness that may or may not provide illegal goods and services requires such an intricate system of safeguards that, for someone new to the tech world like myself, it is like opening the door to a bizarre and complicated dimension. Even after spending some time researching the subject, it would take hours more and I still would have barely explored the world of the cyber underbelly. The first thing a person needs to do when setting up a potentially questionable business, is to research various countries legal relationship with the country you’re based in. For the sake of this paper, we will assume we live in the U.S. Find out which have or don’t have Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties. When you figure out which countries don’t immediately provide legal assistance to our beloved USA, find hosting services there. The list will be shortened when you then determine which hosts allow Tor or at least don’t forbid it. Last in the host search will be sorting out which countries hosting allows payment options that don’t make you completely nervous. Look into extradition treaties as well in case you...
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...Every day there are new obstacles that get in the way of life; whether they’re political, economic, educational, familial, or societal. In the book, Hidden Figures, a nonfictional narrative written by Margot Lee Shetterly, Shetterly describes the lives of four women and other African-Americans, and the obstacles they had to overcome growing up as African-Americans in Hampton Virginia during the early to late 1900’s. While those women had many amazing personality traits and characteristics that helped them overcome many obstacles, perseverance was the most dominant trait that allowed them to overcome obstacles in their lives, such as familial, societal, and political. There are many obstacles in society that can be overcome, or at least improved, by perseverance. Perseverance helped many African Americans, overcome many societal problems. One way the African Americans persevered through societal problems was through non-violent sit-ins. One quote from Hidden Figures states, “The students called their protests ‘sit-downs’ or ‘sit-ins.’ Sometimes, the police arrested the protesters and took them off to jail. The prison sentences that followed didn’t discourage the activists. They did not intend to back down until they had defeated segregation.” The definition of perseverance, “steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay...
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...the overall processes into sub-processes. That is what makes them easier to manage. Complaints and returns were the biggest complaints from the previous year. If CanGo implements the use of a flow chart, they will be able to break down the process of handling customer service into sub-processes. The sub-processes would include taking phone calls, responding to emails, shipping, inventory, and finance. 2) Still little financing available 3) Sales = Evaluation and purchase fall off in purchases 4) Lack of knowledge pertaining to who is buying and where they are located 5) Lack of efficiency in picking orders in warehouse Issue #2: CanGo must find hidden clients to increase marketing and sales strategies – Brenda Thomas Behind every decision to buy whether the item is a service or a product, an argument or an idea, the hidden agenda is motivation. People do not follow you because they have been deceived; they follow you because they believe in you. They buy from you because you understand their values, their wants, and their needs. People will make an active decision to support you based upon the way you...
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...creative perks can foster a great work environment there usually has to be a complete package. So what are the five things you start doing now to build a better company? Well here are the five things you need for a better business and they are: 1. Hire the right people 2. Use tech to break down barriers 3. Support failure 4. Use perks to send the right signals 5. Don’t let titles restrict roles. I think these are all great tips! But number five is so important! Too often I see businesses letting roles and titles get in the way. Let’s look at it this way, you have the opportunity to have a fresh perspective without having to outsource. These are all great tips which should be consider implemented in any business. And so here are the hidden hacks that will help take your business from zero to hero in the digital space: and they are 1. Automatic emails 2. Consider boosting Facebook followership’s 3. Optimize PR When it comes to reaching customer’s public relations are usually used to get your business. Building the foundation for a strong customer/business relationship comes from trust and respect. My revision plan; I have the ambition to make a business to run well and to make the customer’s happy. Cited: WWW.Entrepreneur.com...
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...INTERVIEW Interview is a conversation led, which involved at least two people, the interviewer and the respondent. This is not a conversation, but the conversation through which the investigator wants to obtain from the respondent data set to study. Therefore, sociologists rightly point to the fact that it is a specific method of testing, which is assumed to work closely with each investigator and the respondent. The interview is a process in which the investigator is trying to influence the study posed questions and get him to give a speech on the subject of research. It is one of the methods, which allows parallel use of another-namely observation. TYPES OF INTERVIEW: Due to the form of expression of the respondents and the way the interview, and also because of the behavior of the investigator and the number of participants, which are used in the social sciences. We can therefore distinguish the following interviews: oral and written, categorized and Uncategorized, overt and covert, individual and collective, and panels. WRITTEN AND ORAL INTERVIEW: In addition to the interviews conducted in a classical sense, ie, by speaking to the investigator of one or more speakers, there are also interviews in which questions are asked in writing (eg, survey) and the answers are given in writing, directly to the questions listed in the questionnaire, or in another manner, for example, for any given researching cards. INTERVIEW Interview categorized and categorized NIESKATEGARYZOWANY ie...
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...things are opposite, such as white is opposite with black, and the chaos is opposite with quiet. Recently I read an article called the daily grind: lessons in the hidden curriculum. This is an article describing behaviors and appearance of boys and girls in the class and after class. There are a lot of oppositions in this article and they are wonderful to compare with. In the following pages I am going to talk about the three oppositions in this article. They are the appearances and behaviors of boys and girls before and in class starting. Secondly the seats that girls and boys choose to sit. Finally the performances boys and girls perform in the class. To begin with, the appearances and the behavior girls and boys perform before class and in the class. Amy Wilkinson is a bold and brassy girl, and she is also strong willed. According to the book “she is fuller-figured than she would like to be, wide-hipped and heavy-limbed with curly blond hair, cornflower-blue eyes, and a sharply upturned nose. With the help of her mother, who is a drama coach, she has become the school’s star actress: last year she played Eliza in Weston’s production of My Fair Lady.” from this description, I can see that Amy is a really outgoing girl in front of her friends, because of two reasons. One is she is good looking, and from the hidden curriculum of school, which good looking girls are popular in school. Second is she loves drama and entertain people. Thus in my opinion she must be outgoing and...
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...than just getting money. I also agree that comparing college to a can opener is almost idiotic, especially if you were to dig deeper and see that there’s more to a college education than meets the eye, which cannot be said about a can opener. While a college education helps in getting a job, it also goes beyond and above in furthering our experience and knowledge of the world around us. I wholly agree with the author of the article, clearly stating that college does not only affect our working lives, but every single aspect of our life, as we gain the skills to appreciate the little things more. We see things that other people can’t. That is truly invaluable to me, having the knowledge to look past the surface meaning and understand the hidden messages threaded throughout stories and movies. A college education is not a can opener. A college education is the stepping-stone through a variety of opportunities, like our author had stated multiple times. With college there’s obvious advances in science and technology, and basically even the future of our country. Employers trust us more as the college experience builds our character and outlook on certain things. I find this article magnificent, as it justifies my wants to pursue a college education even...
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...Mary Jackson: A Noteworthy Leader Although almost every character in the movie exudes leadership, especially the three main characters, perhaps the most prominent leader in Hidden Figures is Mary Jackson, a NASA human computer turned engineer. As part of the three protagonists’ trio, she continuously strives to fulfill her goals and supports those around her throughout the film. Her leadership is not only valuable because it leads to global progress, but also because it benefits both herself and her friends. The setting of the film takes place in West Virginia, USA, during the early 1960s, a time in which racial discrimination was still extremely prevalent, despite the fact that the monumental case Brown v Board of Education...
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... The first book that I read this summer was Escape From Camp 14, by Blaine Harden. The book retells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk’s escape from Camp 14. Camp 14 is a prison for the political enemies in North Korea, and in the camp Shin was forced to survive torture, starvation, malnutrition, and grueling hours of manual labor since he was a child. In a constant battle zone, Shin fought for food and was brainwashed by the camp into believing nothing existed beyond the fences he was trapped in. On January 2, 2005 Shin escaped from the North Korean political camp and was able to see beyond the fences when he was 23 years old. Shin then dedicated his life to sharing his story and is the only person to ever escape any of the North Korean political prison camps. The main impact of Shin’s story in Camp 14 is the psychological toll the camp took on him. At the beginning of the book, Shin describes that he thought of his mother as competition for survival (77), and this led Shin to do things like steal her lunches. The need for survival in the camp forced Shin to not have typical relationships with his friends and family, and the psychological toll of the camp returned prisoners to their basic human urges and instincts. This idea is similar to what happened to the boys in the Lord of the Flies when they began to turn against each other and view each other as a means for survival instead of friends. Another instance of the psychological toll the camp had on Shin was when Shin recalled in...
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...woods and begins to cut down the trees. While walking he stumbles upon a sign that is planted deep in the ground of the woods. He picks the sign up and throws it away as if the words “private property” meant absolutely nothing to him. The private property sign is present in this film because it adds more of a curiousness toward the viewer since Tom did not care what that sign said. Due to Tom’s idiocy of going past the sign and wandering a bout the woods, he hears a noise that sounds like a howling or a fierce wind that is coming upon him. As the noise draws to a close Tom stands there utterly confused and nervous about what was making that fierce noise. Tom asks with a stuttering voice “whose there?” “hello?” A figure of black pops right up before his eyes. The figure of...
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...Marc Andres July 19, 2012 Professor James Winter Customer Relations The first I would do with handling the customer is try to figure out what the real problem is and try to have a good attitude about the whole situation. Going with having a god attitude towards the customer, I would try to remind the customer of making sure they have the right information of the parts they needed. I would also make sure that the customer has a straight answer on what we did as a company to make them feel the way that they did. After figuring out the problem, I would get the customer to make them feel like they are really being helped and make them feel secure about the situation. I would be sincere and call them by their name and giving them a lot of eye contact. I would never interrupt the customer and since they have been a frequent customer they should already know what is expected from the company. Since the production has been declining, I would make sure every aspect of the company is at its best and saying this I would take the role of the CFO. I would take role of the CFO because we need to take of this problem right away. Even though it might have or not been our problem, we as a company should want to keep production right and make sure everything is going well. I feel as though that if we don’t think about this problem now then we are going to keep losing customers and were going to have a lot of bad things that will happen to the company. As the CFO, Jennifer Garland, said we...
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