...MONICA LEWINSKY: TED TALKS The story of Monica Lewinsky is synonymous with the presidency and subsequent impeachment of President Bill Clinton by the house of Assembly on December 19, 1998. However, the story is also a cursory tale about the impact of social media in our society. In this sincere, very somber reflective narrative, Monica details the part social media played in the saga and its destructive effects on her life. She narrates the effect of the saga on her life, how she contemplated suicide in the depths of her despair and what helped her get through it all. The main focus of the talk was harassment and bullying especially on social media. With her story as the backdrop, Monica erased from my mind the image of her in that blue beret and replaced it with the image of a confident woman who has made mistakes, suffered from her mistakes, learnt from her mistakes and grown from her mistakes. In taking this very public stance against bullying, she attacks the institutional mentality that makes public shaming permissible and acceptable. She denounces the environment that makes “humiliation” a commodity and gives perfect strangers the permission to “stab” you with their words. She criticizes the internet community for pacing a value on the clicks that a story generates and blames that value for the rampant abuse and reckless rise of cyber bullying. Monica’s speech was heartfelt and humanized her for all those who had labeled her and called her all sorts of names based...
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...Monica Gomez Ms. Gregory English 3P/Period 3 Is it Really Justice? The killing of Ferguson Missouri native, Michael Brown, and the astonishing verdict that followed, gave life to riots all throughout the country that have surged in defense of seeking justice for the fallen teen’s life. After months of deliberation, a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Wilson, the police officer who shot Michael, for his death. With the public in total opposition to the given verdict, anger and violence rose, with people believing that justice had not been given to the black teenager. Waves of protestors stepped up throughout all the states, defying the authorities in order to gain the equity that the teen deserved to have. In the midst of all the sudden chaos, the real motives these protestors had to riot have diluted, being replaced with haphazard civil disobedience and manipulative media to document it all. The fifth political cartoon shows a picture of a person breaking into a store and stealing a huge flat screen TV. At the same time, bored news broadcasters are present asking him questions pertaining to the Ferguson crisis. The man, looking like a thug, responds to the news lady’s question with “Michael? Michael who?”. This shows how the man is oblivious to the Ferguson turmoil, having no real cause to defy the law. The man is simply taking advantage of all the chaos around him to get away with committing crimes that he would not be able to get away with under any other circumstances...
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...This article was downloaded by: [The University Of Melbourne Libraries] On: 02 September 2015, At: 02:39 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG Accounting and Business Research Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rabr20 Fairness in performance evaluation and its behavioural consequences a Mahfud Sholihin & Richard Pike a b Universitas Gadjah Mada , Indonesia b School of Management , Bradford University , Emm Lane, Bradford, BD9 4JL Phone: +44 (0)1274 234393 Fax: +44 (0)1274 234393 E-mail: Published online: 04 Jan 2011. To cite this article: Mahfud Sholihin & Richard Pike (2009) Fairness in performance evaluation and its behavioural consequences, Accounting and Business Research, 39:4, 397-413, DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2009.9663374 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2009.9663374 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors...
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...Monica Morris • Civil inattention goffman idea where are we when these street acts take place we are on the street. The normal action in north American cities is characterized by civil inattention that is what usually prevails between strangers • We don’t bang into each other on the sidewalks we are aware of what is happening around us. We don’t move inot other peoples space • Street is also characterized by silence. We don’t speak to each other people on the street look at you and say good morning in other countires it is not typical in north American countires • Norm of civil inattention can be breached or disrupted there is normal and then can be breached • The street remark is a comment in a public place between people that are not acquainted with one another • Street remarks that involve men and women • Youthful women that are the objects of street remarks and not youthful men ( would be a OBSERVATION) o This seems obvious but sociological thinking takes into account the obvious • We live in society but don’t notice things until we interpret it and then we notice some kind of order • Third thing - The substance of the remarks whatever they are sounds or words focus on woman’s appearance but not only their appearance • Fourth thing we can’t do anything that is morally questionable • The comments seem to suggest that she is acting out of role she’s not measuring up or she is measuring up in a certain way that makes her extraordinary...
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...sitcoms. From the newest season of ‘Ugly Betty’, ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’, ‘That 70’s Show’, to ‘Scrubs’. I love watching them all. And my all time favorite sitcom would be ‘Friends’. I think most television viewers are familiar with the show’s six main characters that live and work in New York City. Those six characters would be Chandler and Joey whom share an apartment across the corridors from the apartment shared by Monica and Rachel. The remaining two friends comprise Ross and Phoebe. Ross is Monica’s brother who has his own place, while Phoebe is full-time masseuse and a part time singer who sings the most unmelodic songs which she composes herself. When each half-hour show starts, we hear the title song ‘I’ll Be There For You’ which is a really catchy tune. Love and friendship are the themes of the sitcom. In fact, although they might bicker with each other over some things, all six of them are wonderful friends to one another. This friendship is sometimes complicated by the fact that Ross has always been in love with Rachel, or when Monica and Rachel fall for the same guy. However, every time one of them gets into some kind of scrape or sticky situation, the others are sure to rescue him or her. What makes this sitcom so appealing is the cast. The actors and actresses in the show are all very good-looking and talented. Of course, the fact that ‘Friends’ has many witty scriptwriters who give the cast wonderfully clever lines to say helps a lot! The writers...
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...the feeling that someone might not believe you. Kaminsky (2006) states that; “Staying in the realm of the government, President Clinton himself came under fire for alleged sexual harassment. Paula Jones was a state employee when Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. In 1991, she claimed that Clinton exposed himself and asked her for oral sex in a hotel room. Clinton denied all allegations. After several rounds of filing, Jones's lawsuit was dismissed for failing to state a claim. During the appeals process, a settlement was reached. Jones dropped her suit against Clinton in exchange for $850,000. However, she never received an admission of guilt or an apology. Jones's allegations paved the way for investigating the President's sex life. The Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment of President Clinton were big follow-ups to the Paula Jones case.” I believe victims of sexual harassment should be taken care of at the upmost. You never know how a person is feeling about the situation and might try to get back at the other individual violently. What if one of these women wanted to get back at the president in a harmful way because of it? Just because he is the president I feel this should have been taken care of differently. Yes, he should have been impeached instead of paying these poor women off instead he was allowed to...
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...Dangerous Women They fight with power, speak with persuasion and play with seduction. Their humor is cold and wet and they strive to make a name for themselves. They nurture and take care of their followers but they also make time to get down to business. Don’t worry, I knew what you were thinking, but this has nothing to do with any sort of political election, well almost nothing. For once this is about the women. For many centuries, women would seldom leave their houses. They weren’t tied up, or locked in, so why were they always there? Women worked and spent most of their time cleaning the house, doing dishes and taking care of her children because that is what society and men expected from all women back then. “They did what they could to assure that women carried out their supportive roles as faithful and deferential helpers and nurturing companions” (Hoffert, 15). Men were the breadwinners and were physically stronger than any women, or so they liked to believe. For men, their physical strength is what made them so powerful in the world and amongst the opposite sex. But unfortunately for the men, they forgot that women posses a strong sense of mental and emotional strength, making them extremely dangerous in any situation. Women were stepped on for so many years, and they were tired of being treated like flies. Of course they all wanted the perfect love story with the perfect family, but had ambitions to accomplish so much more. Women wanted to make it known to all...
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...Self-Esteem over Logic and Beliefs Columbia College, Missouri Abstract Self-Esteem gives a person the right to value themselves. Our self-esteem sometimes overpowers our logic, and can lead us to act in ways that are not always our own. This paper examines how the following theories; Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Self- Evaluation Maintenance Theory, Self-Affirmation Theory, Rationalization Trap and Self-Discrepancy Theory impact a person's self-esteem decisions. Where people in different cases come to realize that the choices they have made overpower their superior perfect logic, they have to deal with the consequences that come along with the choices they have made. Self-Esteem over Logic and Beliefs According to Cherry (2010), “self-esteem is how a person values oneself”. It is a personality trait which comes from the inside of a person. It is all about what one believes about his/her looks, emotions, and behavior. It is an extremely essential need in a person so they can behave normally and be socially healthy. Self-esteem is intertwined with a person’s thoughts, and can also be called self-worth, self-respect or self-value. According to Kruger and Dunning (1999), “People often hold overly complimentary opinions of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains.” Many individuals end up doing things wrong without even realizing it, for the sake of a positive self-esteem. This paper will give examples of behavior that throw logic and common sense...
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...Would You Stand By Your Man? Dateline: 08/19/98 He Admits He Had A Relationship... Only if you've been living in a cave for the last few months would you not know what that means. Bill Clinton, the President of the United States, has finally admitted that he indeed did have a 'relationship' with Monica Lewinsky. May we hear something we didn't already know? The sad fact is that seeking the truth has taken up so much time in a world that has better things to do. Why Does Hillary Stay? It's easy for the rest of us to say what we would do if he were our husband. Of course we'd teach him a lesson for humiliating us in public! Of course we'd not stand for such behavior! Of course we wouldn't let him get away with it again. It's very easy...
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...[pic] [pic] Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Practical Training Paper-V) Essay submitted by Vidya R John 1st Year LLB, 2nd Semester Sexual Harassment at Work Place [pic] It all began when Bhanwari Devi, a saathin or village-level worker in Bateri in Rajasthan's Bassi tehsil took a stand, risking her life and her family's, showing extraordinary courage in the face of a social boycott after five men raped her in 1992 when she tried to stop a child marriage. But she stood her ground. The incident changed her life and shaped the women's movement in Rajasthan. The most frightening part was that the heinous crime was committed to teach Bhanwari Devi a lesson for exposing a child marriage in the village. The five accused took it almost like a challenge to hurt Bhanwari Devi. 18 years on, Bhanwari Devi’s fight for justice continues. But after that day on September 22, 1992, the movement managed one significant victory, the Vishakha judgment of August 1997. The verdict, on a PIL filed by Vishakha and four other women's groups in Rajasthan against the State and the Union of India, provided the basic definitions of sexual harassment at the workplace and also laid down guidelines for dealing with it. Sexual Harassment affects all women in some form or the other. Lewd remarks, touching, wolf-whistles, looks are part of any woman’s life, so much so that it is dismissed as...
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...number of phenomena connected to this name and each of them has had a huge effect on history of the USA. In this paper we will discuss such processes as Clinton’s sexual scandal with Monica Lewinsky and Clinton recovery as well as their impact on American economy and history. The Clinton's Scandal The point of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky sexual scandal was in the following: from 1995 to 1997 Monica was a trainee in The White house and intimate relations between Monica and the President Clinton were built and developed. Their relationships were disrupted at the same time as Lewinsky was transferred to work in Pentagon. Lewinsky had mentioned about her connection with President while talking on the phone to her friend named Linda Tripp, who was a political activist. In 1997 Ms. Tripp, who had recorded her phone conversations to Ms. Lewinsky where she talked about her relations with Mr. Clinton, forwarded the records to an attorney Kenneth Starr who has started official investigation. Actually, the reason for the investigation appeared not the fact of sexual relations between the President and Lewinsky, because a breach of faith is not regarded in the USA as a crime or malfeasance. During questioning Clinton was asked if he had intimate relations with Monica Lewinsky, and the President denied that fact while being under oath. It is well known that perjury is a felony and, moreover, a foundation for impeachment, i.e. removal of the President...
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...destroy the privacy life. Because some people don’t have right to private life. Therefore, this essay will discuss about public figures have no right to their private life , relating to politicians and celebrities and suggest that public figures should not be entitled to any privacy in their private lives. Politicians are the presenter of the countries; in addition, they take many responsibilities: ministry of law and ministry of finance. If politicians are doing something that might be considered immoral such as press stories about his affair with a woman, it causes embarrassment to the country. For example “ in interview with former president Clinton, Dan Rather asked Bill Clinton the tough question about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky: Why? "For the worst possible reason. Just because I could," said Mr. Clinton” (CBSNEWS, June 20, 2004). The Ministry of law is responsible for making the law, which is used to control the societies to be a peaceful country. If they use the law in the wrong ways such as using the law for their advantages; as a result, it brings significant loss to the country. Besides, the ministry of finance takes responsibility for making the law about taxation, which is used in order to develop many facilities for citizen. In contrast, some of politicians have a big industry, but they avoid paying taxes on their amount. This situation causes damage to the country. In 2009, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admitted that he failed to...
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...Irreversible is a French film, written, directed and produced by Gaspar Noé that was released in 2002. All scenes in the film are mounted in a reverse chronological order: The film begins with the end of the story and ends at the beginning of the latter. After the rape of his wife (Monica Belucci), Marcus (Vincent Cassel), accompanied by his best friend Pierre (Albert Dupontel), decided to find the culprit. The film has raised the polemic by the intensity of the scenes of violence that may offend the sensitivity of the spectator. In fact, these scenes (Physical aggression and rape) are projected onto the screen in a complete adequacy with the definition given by Gilles Deleuze to the time-image: The time-image being essentially characterized by its ability to show a pure image of time: the time appears by itself, it is an image that shows pure optical and sound situations. Indeed, as Garett Stewart mentioned “It is a discourse about time, while merely a story about death and aborted futurity”. As the title of the movie itself suggests, the story is mainly about the impossibility of going back in time, to anticipate the future, to make up the time. The film is a set of a dozen long master shots: from the final scene of revenge (failed) until the scene showing the couple's happiness, shortly before the tragedy. With a project as ambitious as that posed by Gaspard Noe in this film (representing "a cosmic view of temporality"), one wonders why the film fails to achieve this aim...
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...Siyu Song Professor Glover English 113A 20 November 2015 Stop Cyber Bullying and Make World A Better Place Internet networking have turned the world into another generation that increased the rate of invention and knowledge acquiring. In the Internet age making connections between people is faster and easier than ever. But the cost of the networking is also greater; not going out and being anonymous online can do a lot. Cyber bullying is one then and it has become a side effect of Internet and social media. Cyber bullying is a more serious problem than people thought, and by stopping cyber bullying we can make the world a better place. The consequences of cyber bullying are real, brutal and ruthless, it can ruin people’s reputation and life, cause from mental health problems to suicide; to make world a better place cyber bullying can be stopped by compassion empathy and caution. Cyber bullying is a common practice in many nations and have led to many disasters. Internet brought home many good interventions but this one was the wrong one in the generation. It is believed that a million number of people get exposed by cyber bullying each day. The fact that the cyber bullying has gone far in affecting our young generation it unstoppable. It is the action that we can all take so that we could stop these actions from happening again in the future. Cyber bullying have raised fighting actions among those individuals who are affected by the action. In addition, cyber bullying...
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...Business Communication & Tools of Connection To: From: Date: Subject: Good leader Vs Bad Leader Mother Teresa was chosen as the good leader for this assignment. Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910. There was some confusion on when she was really born. She was baptized on the 27th of August as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the day that is sometimes is considered her actual birthdate. Her father passed away when she was only 8 years old, the cause of his death still to this date remains unknown. There are some speculations that he was poisoned. At the age of 18, she decided to become a nun this is when she took the name sister Mary Teresa. Mother Teresa first made her vows in India where she would stay there for 17 years. Mother Teresa was a teacher at Saint Mary’s high school later on she became the principal of Saint Mary’s.(The Biography Cannel). Mother Teresa took the Final vows on May 24, 1937 this is when she actually became Mother Teresa. On September 10, 1946 Mother Teresa had a second calling Christ spoke to her telling her to abandon teach and begin working in the slums and helping out the poor. Mother Teresa need permission to do this since she already made a vow of obedience. It took about a year and a half to get the permission she needed. In January of 1948, Mother Teresa did get the approval to go ahead with the new calling. Mother Teresa established in old buildings a home for the dying. She won recognition for new congregation...
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