...Slavery Makes No Sense The ones who suffer had a different way to see life; they appreciate every single moment of happiness. For slaves, there was almost no time for happiness. A writer that describes all that he/she had to go through during his/hers life time, explains every single detail because they remember what they felt at that moment, how it felt, the smell, the light, the thoughts, everything. Slaves suffered too much, until they said “enough”. As black slaves, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs have a lot of common because of the symbolism they used, the theme of how they describe slavery, and the literacy scene in how they did something everyone thought was impossible. For both, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, the symbolism of the word “slave” had a deeper meaning than just a word. In “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave” is written, “The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, change to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon” (Douglass). In this quote, Douglass is describing how the person who bought him for slave changed from being a good person to becoming a demon. The power that corrupts this person which in the story is Mrs. Auld makes her become a bad person by wanting to have control over the slave...
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...summary. Engage the text. 1. The Argumentative Topic Sentence You can think of your critical response paragraph as a mini-essay; your paragraph’s topic sentence (usually the first sentence) must act as both the thesis and the introduction. You should include the author’s name and the title of the text you are writing about, and you must state precisely and concisely what you are going to argue, prove, or analyze about the text. Creating a strong argumentative topic sentence is perhaps the most crucial step in writing a critical response paragraph. A strong topic sentence gives you something to say; it helps ensure that the paragraph you write proves, argues, illustrates, interprets, or explains something. The most common mistakes students make when writing a...
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...An individual’s ability to purposely inflict injury on another person is one of the world’s greatest mysteries. Although the nation struggles to make sense of senseless violence, a large portion of society embraces the morbid entertainment prevalent on the big screen and marathoned inside our living rooms. As a defense mechanism, we tend to make danger seem distant by simply labeling horror movies as “fake” and dismissing the true crimes stories shown on television because it “won’t happen in our safe town”. The truth is no community is immune to violence and even Hollywood’s best directors could not have fathomed the crimes that have taken place in history. Despite our society’s false sense of security, the grim reality is that the United...
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...Does Granting Animals Human Rights Make Sense? University Does Granting Animals Human Rights Make Sense? Throughout history, there has been any number of people belonging to various groups that for one reason or another were persecuted, oppressed, or otherwise denied equality with the rest of society. Over time, these groups have either formed their own activism or received sponsorship from another group with the goal of achieving equality in the eyes of society, if not in the eyes of the law. Workers, women, minorities, and homosexuals are examples of such groups where the pursuit of what we have come to call human rights has both made history and changed society. This document will explore the question: “does granting animals human rights make sense?” While it is understood that human beings, the species Homo sapiens sapiens, are members of the animal kingdom, for the sake of this discussion use of the term “animals” will refer to those that are non-human. Much of the rhetoric emanating from the animal rights debate is highly emotionally charged. By approaching the issue from the perspective of a reasonable person, it is possible to strike a balance by ensuring the humane treatment of animals where human culture and purposes intersect with the animal kingdom. Often, the animal rights debate is referred to as though there were only two sides to the argument. One side would grant rights to animals that are equivalent to the rights humans strive to afford one another...
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...Assess the view that it no longer makes sense to talk about the patriarchal family: Functionalists support the view that it makes sense to talk about the patriarchal family, they believe in the nuclear family which means that the man of the household is meant to be working and the wife if meant to be doing housework. Oakley argues that housework is a low status job and is different from ‘real work’ that the males carry out. However it may be argued that functionalists are against this view that it doesn’t make sense as the nuclear family isn’t male dominated however different members of the family just have different roles. Although the separate roles indicate more emotional attatchment from the female and financial control from the male, Edgell doesn’t support this view and his theory found that the family is patriarchal as women made less important decisions more frequently and the men dealt with less frequent big decisions which suggests that men have more power over women. Feminists argue with this view, they believe the patriarchal family exists and power is unequally distributed within the family. Delphy and Leonard believe that women make the main contributions to the family, most of which is unpaid work such as childcare and housework and men benefit most from their contributions. However this perspective ignores that men also help out with housework and childcare or that women enjoy doing housework and do it out of choice. Young and Willmot found a rise in the symmetrical...
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...3. Think about and create a list of step that makes sense for your organization. As a management sponsor the implementation of this project is crucial. The project manager and steering committee would be politically astute enough to develop and maintain an open, honest relationship with the management sponsor. The list of step that will make sense for organization to implement the HRIS as follow: 1. Process Mapping. To implementation of any new information system it is important to understand an existing process. On the surface, this appears to be a rather straightforward task which is the process and identify: a. The Data elements are stored and modified. b. How those data elements are stored and modified. c. What output exists? In reality, additional information and structure are required to ensure that the essence of the entire organizational process is captured. The first step is to generate a list off all the processes performed by each area of the HR function and a second list process of processes that are touched by more than one are of the HR function. The second step is to start generating a model of each process within the entire HR function. A successful model will incorporate both a flowchart picture and a dataflow picture model (i.e what data elements, processes and outputs go with each step of the process). The Completed process maps are ideally compiled into a large chart that provides an overall view of the organizations processes. 2...
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...Assess the view that it is no longer important to talk about the patriarchal society today (24 marks) In the 19th century (or even a century before) society was deemed upon as a patriarchal dominance. (Male dominating society). Where husband/father would work and provide money for the family, whereas the wife/mother was seen as the nurturer or carer for everyone; especially for the children. Also doing domestic chores. However it is now possible to state, in the 21st century the roles have switched and women have become more independent in terms of finance; more women orientated, and more men as househusbands. The functionalist view of talking about the patriarchal family today is relevant, as they still deem upon how men and women portray the roles which were present from the 1950s era. Men would express the 'instrumental role' the position of a person who supports the family with finance and also known as the authority figure, whereas women would be stereotyped as the 'expressive role', and would stay at home and look after the children. The husband and wife would have segregated conjugal roles. Where they would have different roles and spend their leisure time separately. Conversely, Willmott and young would argue that this was not the case now in the 21st century; as men and women have switched roles; and therefore it is irrelevant to consider the family as patriarchal. The symmetrical family is evident in today's day and age as more women go to work; whilst many husbands...
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...For the most part of human civilisation families were always considered as being male dominated or patriarchal, however since the mid 1950\'s and onwards families have slowly become a lot more women orientated. Some sociologists argue that now women have a lot more power in the home and as they become more equal to men in society they also have more power in the marriage and the way the household operates, these sociologists say that modern day families are no longer male dominated as they were last century and before. However other argues that Patriarchal family does exist. In the 19th century, it was a patriarchal unit, where father/husband was the head of the family. He would often have little involvement in the care of his children and children might see relatively little to their parents and generally children had low status in the family and were expected ‘to be seen and not heard’. However now in 21st century the amount of time parents spend with their children has more than doubled since the 1960s and children’s welfare is seen as the major family priority. Feminists claim that families are essentially Patriarchal (dominated by men). Several sociologists have looked at how and by whom decisions are made in families. Sociologists such as Stephen Edgell in 1980 carried out a study in which he found that wives dominated decision making in interior decoration, children’s clothes and spending on food. These decisions are seen as frequent and not important whereas men made...
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...To decide what are the pros and cons of going public or stay private, first of all we have to understand what section 302 of SOX is requiring of the CEO and CFO Section 302 of SOX requires that a company's CEO and CFO be personally responsible for accurately reporting all materials in respect to their company's financial health and stability. Additionally, Section 302 states that the company's CEO and CFO certify that all of the proper "disclosure controls and procedures" are in place within the internal accounting functions of the business to guarantee the accuracy and timeliness in the company's financial reports released to investors and the public. Section 302 goes on to state that any willful signing of these certifications by a CEO or CFO who knows they are not accurate will result in fines up to $5 million dollars and up to 20 years in prison (Cohen & Brodsky, 2004) Pros for Apex: • Meeting 302 SOX requirements opens the door for Apex to go public and obtain much needed capital from outside investors should those investors choose to take a chance on Apex and place their money in their stock. • By receiving additional funds, Apex can pursue moving into the food production markets and have a shot at greatly increasing their market share and earnings as they move through new ventures. Cons for Apex: • In order for Apex to meet SOX 302 compliance, the company's directors and officers (D&O) insurance policies will likely increase substantially. According to research of...
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...Chemical Senses Eric Gunderson PSY/345 - Sensation and Perception June 27, 2016 Matthew Will Chemical Senses The five senses of human experience are well known to most everyone: we can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. However, the science behind them is not as well known. The first three (sight, audibility, and touch) are senses in which external stimuli are perceived by a person through the by-product (i.e. reflection of light, pressure changes in air, pressure/stretching/vibration) of an environmental object. The latter two, taste and smell, are senses in which external stimuli have to physically enter into a person in order for him or her to experience the sensation. The sensations themselves are activated by chemical reactions from the external stimuli as opposed to light and pressure changes that the other senses employ. The chemical sensations smell and taste are interactively working together. The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail just this. The first thing that will be discussed is how smell and taste affect each other and which one of the two one would change to make a meal taste better, followed by a description of the sensory elements that must be present to emphasize the connection between the chemical senses, emotional memories, and the brain in order to make the most memorable meal of one’s life, and concluded by a description of the connection created between the chemical senses, emotional memories, and the brain. How Smell and Taste...
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...Sense Making in Organizations Karl E. Weick by Umar Zia Khan 0002, Hassan Asif 0009, Shafqat Iqbal 0022, Omar Ahmed 0025, Rashid Iqbal 0033 & Shaharyar Khan Rasikh 0028 Table of Contents Book Synthesis 3 The Concept of Occasions for Sense making: 4 Varieties of Occasions for Sense making: 4 Ambiguity and Uncertainty: 5 General Properties of Occasions for Sense making: 5 Substance of Sense Making 5 Minimal Sensible Structures 5 Vocabulary of Societies/ Ideology 5 Vocabulary of Organizations / Third order Controls 6 Vocabulary of Work/ Paradigm 6 Vocabulary of Coping / Theories of Action 6 Vocabularies of Predecessors/ Traditions 6 Vocabularies of Sequence & Experience/ Stories 6 Sense making as Commitment 10 Transcript Summary 10 Interview Inferences 11 End of Contents Book Synthesis Sense making in organizations pertains to giving sense to framed (subject) experiences and literally making sense of the situation. It basically deals with the fact that how people reacted to certain situations. Most of the times, people encounter such events in their organizations which were implausible and out of some odd feeling they were reluctant to share their experiences and their responses to such situation. In other words, it is about placement of items into frameworks in order to drive meaning out of the situation. In practitioner's point of view, every no sense making event is put into the framework to make more sense out of it. Organization...
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...towards racism 3. Malcolm X’s use of loaded words, and vivid verbs creates a sense of oppression 4. Malcolm X’s reflective tone creates a sense of change and possibility 5. The drastically different tone in the excerpts from Malcolm X’s autobiography illustrates his point that all experiences make up who he is. 6. Malcolm X’s experiences affect the progression of his writing and feelings towards society 7. Malcolm X’s change is in his life is reflected in the change of his writing Claim: (The pledge of Allegiance creates a sense of unity and strength through its use of strong words.) Claim: (The pledge of Allegiance creates a sense of unity and strength through its use of strong words.) Point 1 (the use of specific loaded words is used to make us feel together) Point 1 (the use of specific loaded words is used to make us feel together) Evidence: (the word “allegiance” connotes we are all in this together) Together) Evidence: (the word “allegiance” connotes we are all in this together) Together) HOW does Malcolm X do this? Point 1 (the use of our rights makes us feel strong) Point 1 (the use of our rights makes us feel strong) My finished paragraph would look like this: The pledge of Allegiance creates a sense of unity and strength through its use of strong words. The use of specific loaded words is used to make us feel together such as the word “allegiance” which connotes we are all in this...
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...The senses: Taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell. Everything we know is based on our perception of our senses and our knowledge of the world. Everything we know of perceptually in our brain’s memory bank is built upon the senses. Our senses pick up information and send it to our brain to be processed into something tangible. We use our senses to prove what we are told and we unconsciously depend upon our senses to function. Someone tells us a train is coming and it is near; we immediately want proof of it. The first instinct we have is to look for it and if we don’t see it we listen for it. If we cannot see or hear it then more than likely we are probably not going to believe that the train is near and dismiss the person as being misinformed. Our senses help us to make ‘sound” judgments as to whether we believe in something, if we like or dislike something, and if we trust or fear something. Without our senses we could not function. Businesses use sensory analysis, a technique to test or analyze our senses for their marketing. A restaurant uses sensory analysis to find out if their products are feasible to market by analyzing the effect a food product has upon their clients. The International Organization for Standardization has set procedures for sensory analysis “to conduct sensory evaluations under constant, controlled conditions with a minimum of distractions, to reduce the effect that psychological factors and physical conditions can have on human judgment”...
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...to being common sense? Because, science can be tested, retested and tested again. There are processes and steps that must be taken to prove something is fact rather than opinion. Psychologists do studies, take surveys and samples of the population or a group of individuals depending on the issue they are testing and the size needed for the tests. Now with all of that being said, I’m going to try to dig into it a little more and see if I can find any similarities between the two. Psychologists are probably just more in tune with their “Common Sense”, And just like in High school when we did science projects and needed to test a hypothesis, Psychologists have fine-tuned their skills to study a hypothesis or what they call a casual hypothesis. But, common sense plays a huge roll in psychology because you cannot test a subject that doesn’t make sense. It must be a reasonable subject with reasonable results. There must be a controlled group and confounding variables, for them to even begin a test. There has to be laboratory observation and case studies. All of these things must coincide with each other to get a practical by-product and must be tested several times to get the average result. Now common sense isn’t as “common” as we think. Some people are naturally aware of their surroundings and very in tune with what we assume is a mutual understanding of a subject. Others are, let’s say they lack in that area. It’s normal for people to either have common sense or be inadequate...
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...Chemical Senses Jenny McDowell PSY/345 04/18/2016 Adam Castleberry Chemical Senses Chemical senses are the connection of smell and taste. Different fluids and water are chemical substances that dissolve in the mouth that is a stimuli of taste. “There are four basic descriptions that stimuli taste, they are the following, bitter, salty, sour and sweet. These sensations can be combined to stimulate different types of stimulation of taste,” (Bartoshuk, L. M., & Beauchamp, G. K.) (1994), Chemical senses. Examples would consist of salt and vinegar potato chips, sweet and sour chicken, and other different combinations. Taste buds that are located on the tongue are called receptors, there are thousands of tiny bumps (taste buds) all around the tongue that are called papillae. Within each papilla there are many taste buds and information is conveyed by nerves, then to the thalamus and finally to the area of the cortex. “For smell, in humans the olfactory receptors work together to detect different types of smells, there are over 400 types of different sensors in the receptors of the olfactory,” (Monell chemical senses center; extensive variability in olfactory receptors influences human odor perception. (2013). The stimuli chemical substances are in the atmosphere, which as in a result the olfactory receptors are simulated by these substances. The receptors are located in the upper portions of the nasal passages. The olfactory nerve is formed when neurons...
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