... I remember the night vividly – it was cold, dark, and quiet. My family and I had our bags packed, our entire life squeezed into six suitcases and three backpacks. Other than each other and our UN representative in Turkey, not a soul in the world knew we were leaving our apartment in Tehran that night. Being believers of the Baha'i Faith under a regime governed by religious extremists meant receiving phone calls from officials with death threats almost every night. It was time we escaped. As a seven-year-old boy, I couldn't understand much, but I knew that it was the lack of justice – fairness – that had taken us to this point. The interplay of justice and injustice, oppressors and those who protect human dignity, human rights and the lack thereof have played an important role in my life. At the age of twenty-four, my uncle was executed for his beliefs. He took a deep interest in ideas of social justice, and though he was prohibited from an enrolment in education, he became a catalyst for the formation of study groups discussing concepts of human rights and the freedom of thought. Now twenty-four myself, my identity as a Baha'i would still ban me from the fundamental right to higher education in Iran. My curiosity – stemmed from my experiences - has, similar to my uncle, only fanned my desire to understand the complex subject of justice and the application of the rule of law in both domestic and international settings. The process of immigration was difficult, but I am thankful...
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...Exactly 16 years ago, I moved to the U.S. Today, I wrote my senators the following letter in support of undocumented immigrants: I arrived in the US on September 26, 2001, a shy, big-headed seven year-old. In the 5840 days I’ve lived here, I have had the privilege never being undocumented. That means that I've never had to worry about being sent back to a county ravaged by civil war, economic exploitation and foreign policy. I never worried about having to pay for college because I knew I could apply for loans and FAFSA. I never had to worry about a going back to a country I barely know or have ICE show up at my door. In those 5840 days, I've seen countless friends and families torn apart by deportations family separations. I've had...
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...Raising Hope Home Care History Raising Hope Home Care is organized and managed by Raising Hope, Inc., a non-profit organization located in Providence, Rhode Island. Raising Hope, Inc. was established in 2003 to cater to the needs of low income families, especially immigrants and people of color. In 2007, the organization became a tax-exempt non-profit with a 501-c-3 description by IRS. Raising Hope is currently involved in activities to uplift and enhance immigrant families, children and older adults, including home care services, education and advocacy, employment and job opportunities, after school sports, educational and cultural programs. Raising Hope Home Care provides services to adults 18 years and older with disabilities, older adults and seniors with debilitating illness due to old age or disabilities. Current service areas include Providence and Cranston communities in Rhode Island. Our target population includes, but not limited to immigrants from West Africa, i.e. Liberians, Ghanaians, Nigeria; Cape Verde, Haiti, and the Caribbean. Home Care services include assistance with ADL skills, personal care-i.e. bathing, toileting, grooming and dressing; medication reminders, cleaning and mopping; transportation, companionship, errands and shopping assistance. All employees are screened and finger-print verified. We provide adequate...
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...Rebuttal Of Article Paper Dwight Dundas BCOM/275 4/28/2014 Doris Savron “Legalizing illegal immigrants is a bad idea.” So reads the headline of an article written for the Chicago Tribune by Dave Seminara (February 08, 2013). First I must state that I disagree with the author’s opinion in this article. The legalization of immigrants isn't a bad idea. Aside from my personal opinion, there are many studies that have shown this to be a good move for our country. The author, Mr. Seminara, made several points throughout the article to justify his opinion. Some of his title points included, “It’s not just going to be 11 million”, “Shadowy people aren't going to come out of the shadows”, Jobs Americans won't do, and “We already have guest worker programs that don't work”. According to Mr. Seminara, “A substantial percentage of illegal immigrants are here alone, and once they get green cards, they will be able to petition for their wives and children to join them in the U.S. And if they become U.S. citizens, they will also be able to petition for their siblings and parents” he also goes on to say that “11 million migrants could result in possibly 30 million new arrivals”. This conclusion from Mr. Seminara sounds like more an sensationalized theory, than actual fact. He offers no supportive data to prove how 11 million illegal immigrants will become 30 million, nor does he state how long the number would take to grow from 11 to 30 million. However, if his numbers...
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...the BBC and director of media strategy for Weber Shandwick, said “The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life (Brown, n.d.).” What is most interesting about his statement is that he was not far off. It is clear that in today’s world there is a division between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” but that are differing opinions in how to best reconcile this division for the future. “Digital natives” are those that have grown up in a world surrounded by technology and “digital immigrants” are those that would have learned about the technology and tried to adapt as an adult. In the articles by Kuehn, Myers and Sundaram, and Oriji and Efebo, they all focus on what these terms mean and how the new digital world has been a part of defining them. They also address the issue of how to reconcile these two groups in today’s world. In particular, they focus on whether or not there is hard distinction between the two groups. In Myers and Sundaram’s article they talk about how the “digital natives” entering the work force will fare since business systems and managers are all “digital immigrants”. They discuss how because “digital natives” would be proponents of change that their “digital immigrant” managers would be resistant of change. Furthermore they bring up how “digital natives” have also influenced the ubiquitous information systems to better suit their preferences thereby making it easier for them to transition...
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...general conclusion: there are intensifying problems within the American education system. Marc Prensky, the author of “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants,” argues that the real issue with educating today’s youth is that our education system was not designed to teach them because today’s students are not the same as the students our education system was built around years and years ago. He refers to today’s students as “digital natives” and their educators as “digital immigrants.” Prensky delivers this argument through his syntax/diction and his overall...
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...behind the migration of these groups becomes evident. This research tackles the factors causing immigration whilst paying special attention to the role played by government policy and state action. This is mainly because emigration and immigration have, over the years, become state affairs transcending the personal requirements of individuals. Countries have adopted strict laws, policies and protocols that guide the emigration and immigration processes. The paper established a deep correlation between these laws, policies and protocols and the migration patterns. This was after analysis of available migration statistics as well as government policy and state action. The latter was found to have a rooted influence on the former either directly or indirectly. In the direct influence, government policy presents a push or pull factor that necessitated migration. In the indirect influence, government policies affect other push or pull factors that in turn accept migration. Thesis Statement The current government policies, laws and protocols coupled with relevant state action impact the global emigration and immigration trends. In order to fully address the thesis statement, the research paper is organised into three sections that...
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... People that live in poverty are considered violent, lazy, and uneducated by some members of the community. This may cause people who are viewed as poor to be avoided and discriminated against. Intergroup contact would help a lot with this segregation and help us see each other as individuals. Hypothesis The researchers guessed that immigrant students that had difficulty adapting would form friendships with mostly, if not only,...
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...02/19/2015 Wesley Page Pros of Immigration “With over 11 million immigrants in the United States illegally (as of 2012), the issue of illegal immigration continues to divide Americans,” (What Are the Solutions to Illegal Immigration in America?, 2014). I feel this statement should be corrected and instead of the word “divide” it should be “unite”. Reason being is for decades and centuries immigrants around the world have traveled to different countries for the same common goal. To better ourselves and with hard work we will persue to our personal growth. Here in United States, people say that with illegal immigration in our states will have the benift to increase our US economy through additional tax revenue, the increase of money circulation, and low-cost labor. Many Americans despite immigration because immigrants come to United States soil with motivation and replace those who wont perform specific job duties. Illegal immigration can benefit us in numerous ways and according to the website apecsec.org, it states, “Illegal migrants who own real estate properties will be obliged to pay taxes and this will benefit the country where they go. Real estate agents including the brokers will get commission coming from the real estate transactions made between them and the immigrants. Financial & auto insurance loans will make the country’s income even higher,” (Illegal Immigration Pros and Cons, 2014). Also, giving Immigrants the opportunity and hope they will have motivation to have...
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...promised the American people he would release private information of immigrants in the USA in order to aid the US government in detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. After he was elected, on January 25th, 2017 the Trump administration released an executive order, formally recognized as “Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements.” The order violated the Privacy Act of 1974, which promised immigrants and visitors to the US the right to privacy and disabled the US government from releasing public records of individuals without permission. Esha Bhandari and Neema Singh Guliani, authors of “The Trump Administration Is Threatening to Publicly Release the Private Data of Immigrants and Foreign Visitors,” describe the violation and concerns of Trump’s executive order on Immigration Enforcements. The authors explain how the order “undermines U.S.-E.U. agreements on data sharing … because the U.S. would no longer be able to guarantee protections for European citizens’ private information” (Bhandari & Giliani). In addition to the Immigration Enforcement executive order, Trump signed the “Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety” order, which claimed to reflect Trump’s commitment to reducing crime in the US by enforcing a task force to “tackle illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and violent crime” (Trump) – In reality, this executive order was a reflection of what Trump had said about Mexican immigrants on June 2015, and the order was his way to show his supporters...
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...ETHICAL ISSUES INVOLVING WAL-MART STAKEHOLDERS Employee Stakeholders DISCRIMINATION The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed fifteen lawsuits against Wal-Mart since 1994. Of these, ten are still pending, and five have been resolved. FEMALE EMPLOYEES Although women account for more than 67 percent of all Wal-Mart employees, women make up less than 10 percent of top-store managers. Wal-Mart insists that it adequately trains and promotes women, but in 2001 a Wal-Mart executive conducted an internal study that showed the company paid female store managers less than men in the same position. In June 2004, a federal judge in San Francisco granted class-action status to a sexdiscrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart. It is the largest class-action lawsuit and involves 1.6 million current and former female employees at Wal-Mart. It claims that Wal-Mart discriminated against women in promotions, pay, training, and job assignments. Even Wal-Mart concludes in its annual report that if the company is not successful in its appeal of the class-action certification of the case, the resulting liability could be material to the company. DISABLED EMPLOYEES In January 2000, Wal-Mart agreed to pay two deaf applicants $132,500. The two applied to work at a Wal-Mart in Tucson, Arizona, but were denied employment because of their disabilities. Wal-Mart agreed to hire the two men as part of the settlement and to make corporate-wide changes in the hiring and...
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...Termination of Illegal Immigrants With the reputation as a national melting pot, America is known for its vast diversity in several aspects: ethnic, religious, and lingual diversity. Since America’s independence, millions of people have immigrated to this country seeking a better opportunity: education, freedom, quality of life and work. The Department of Homeland Security reports that in 2011 there were a total of 1,062,040 new legal permanent residents in the United States (Monger and Yankay). Whereas there are more than ten times that amount of illegal immigrants living in the US, estimated to be 11.5 million … with 35,000 illegal immigrants residing in Washington, D.C (Hoefer, Rytina, and Baker: Dane). Noel Merino defines ‘Illegal Immigrants’ as people who enter the United States unlawfully, or may be admitted on a temporary basis and stay past the date they are required to leave (14). Since America is a land of dreams and opportunity, thousands of people have taken the risk to come here and work without legal documentation which has led to various social problems. Illegal workers taking jobs from legal immigrants, the state and federal government losing tax revenue, unfair use of social benefits, fraudulent documents are counterfeited, and countless employers taking advantage of undocumented employees are all problems caused by illegal immigrants and could be fixed by lawful deportation back to their homeland. The main reason individuals enter the United States unlawfully...
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...Professor: Imran Fancy February 11th, 2015 Table of Contents I. Organizational Research and Recommendations RBC Royal Bank 3 a. Mission Statement 3 b. Core Values 3 c. Commitment to Employees 3 d. Strategies to new graduates 4 e. HR Issue 4 f. Solution 5 II. HR Position and Job Analysis a. Financial Control Assistant Manager at RBC Royal Bank 5 b. Sample Job Description 6 c. Sample Job Specification 7 III. Human Resources and Technology a. Employees and HR Technology 8 b. Effective HR Software 8 c. Risks and Concerns 9 I. Organizational Research and Recommendations I am truly interested in working for RBC Royal Bank because employee in the bank provided good services and explained methodically when I firstly set up bank account in Ontario. It also pledged 100 million to help a lot kids and youth that address their needs (Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, 2015). It gives me really positive image that I really want to work in this company. a. Mission Statement Based on market capitalization, RBC Royal Bank is one of Canada's largest banks and one of the largest banks in the world. Always earning the right to be our clients' first choice is RBC Royal Bank’s vision that it committed to provide best services in its five business segments, personal and commercial banking, wealth management services, insurance, investor services and capital markets products (Canada, Corporate Profile, Royal Bank of...
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...American Dream for many people as it appeared to be near but was far away in the end, similar to how Daisy was close to Gatsby but she was far from his grasp. In both cases, reaching one’s green light Today, the American Dream is becoming more and more inaccessible as the United States and its people change. Aid to people in need is varying on the views that other people hold about certain groups of people. Lawrence Mead, a professor at New York University, stated that “if poor people behaved rationally, they would seldom be poor for long in the first place” (Document D) which shows how the upper class still holds financial status and overall worth equally. Today, the United States is number fourteen on the list of countries with the most personal opportunity for its...
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...a violent provocation. Manipulated public opinion about domestic immigration policy. Introduction - The great May Day marches of 2007 began a new social movement on the issue of immigration. Its outpour forced US citizens to consider the existence of immigrant workers in society. Moral legitimacy The nations perception of immigrant-rights marchers is a crucial factor that helps shape national attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policy. How TV depicted the assault by Alabama police and state troopers with truncheons and tear gas on 600 nonviolent civil right marchers in Selma in 1965. - May Day 2007- two separate marches took place in LA Morning- took place as normal without any incident Afternoon- ended violently. LA police suddenly attacked 7000 peaceful demonstrators. Paralleled an earlier episode of LA police misconduct- Marked a turning point in Chicano Moratorium - 40 years ago the nations perception of the marchers was not crucial Today, the medias portrayal of immigrant rights is key to the public perception and to the ultimate success of this new social movement. - Research on television news representation has underscored its power in the framing of social movements, Latinos and immigrants. The mass media present the news regularly document the use of crude and demeaning Latino stereotypes These depictions reflect the restricted access Latinos have to all kinds of media One decade later, research shows that Latinos...
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