... along the importance of social class and wealth. Whilst, Estella and Miss Havisham provide an insight into the position of women and the inequality of power between the genders. Throughout the novel Pip encounters a range of people and undergoes various experiences. It is through these people and experiences that Pip learns numerous lessons in life. Pips main learning-catalysts are Magwitch, Joe, Miss Havisham and Estella. Education was an important cultural aspect of the Victorian era. Education allowed wider access to employment, and respect; for one could not become a gentleman and part of the upper-class without an education. Yet access to education was greatly determined to one’s position in society. Those in the upper class were given a higher priority to receive education than those in the lower class. Therefore it was very difficult for one to advance within society. This provides Dickens with the opportunity to gently satirize the class system of this era and to provide a Marxist view on the inequality of wealth and power. Dickens presents numerous characters, all from different social classes with different levels of education. Through the characters Joe and Drummle, Dickens is able to compare their levels of education and their social classes to convey the unequal provision of education within the society....
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...the analysis of children’s books and the subsequent development of two analytical categories of novels. The first category captures books whose narratives describe and support unequal social arrangements; the second category captures those whose narratives work instead to identify inequality and disrupt it. Building on Griswold’s methodological approach to literary fiction, this project examines how children’s novels describe, challenge, or even subvert systems of inequality. Through a sociological reading of three sampled texts – Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, A Wrinkle in Time, and Hitty: Her First Hundred Years – readers learn how these analytical categories work and how the sociology of literature might be enriched by attention to structural forms of inequality within literary fiction. This essay investigates children’s books in order to reinvigorate the discussion and use of novels by sociologists. Keywords: childhood, fiction, gender, literary analysis, literary narrative, power relations, social inequalities, Sociology, Sociology of literature Acknowledgments: I...
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...Objectives and Key Takeaways The previous course on Organizational Behavior focused on individuals within organizations and the aspects of their behavior that would be relevant for a manager. This course moves a step further and looks at the group and organizational level dimensions of organizational behavior. Work most often than not involves interactions between two or more people. It also implies that these interactions need to be managed for effective functioning of organizations. This course covers important sociological and psychological theories explaining group behavior and leadership, their implications for teams within organizations. We will also discuss some crucial aspects of organizational structure, culture and managing organizational change effectively. At the end of the course the students will be able to: * Understand the dynamics underlying group and team behavior within organizations and therefore be better equipped to deal with interpersonal dynamics at the workplace * Expose students to the concept of leadership and its relevance at the workplace * Understand and appreciate the complexities of the organizational context- specifically the structure and cultural dimensions * Become familiar with issues related to power and politics in the workplace in order to be able to deal with them effectively * Understand how to manage change within organizations * Develop oneself to manage and lead for higher performance in organizations ...
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...footnote. Pledge signature: Matthew Romano, Anthony Perugini, Joseph Kim, Sarah Hemler (by typing my name here, I am bound to the pledge as if the signature was written by hand.) 1. Objectives Objective 1: Calibrate an elbow flow meter. Objective 2: Determine the useful accuracy and range of commercial flow meters based on vortex generation, magnetic field, and ultrasonic sensing. Objective 3: Determine the “wheel map” for the centrifugal pump: the relationship between flow rate, shaft speed, and head across the pump. Objective 4: Determine the pump efficiency of the centrifugal pump as a function of shaft speed and flow rate. 2. Hypotheses Hypothesis 1: The elbow flow meter will be within 10% of the ASME reference standard orifice sensor reading at varying flow rates. Hypothesis 2: Using the magnetic flow meter as our base standard, the rotameter, elbow meter,...
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...Women have been facing different forms of oppression within various societies, which has created a social change within them over time. This oppression through power brought about resistance within these women and the idea of thinking for themselves and challenging the misuse of power. ‘The Romance of Resistance’ and ‘Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power’ both showcase a different type of power and resistance both portrayed by women. The readings by Abu Lughod and Audre Lorde respectively share a common ground as both are explaining the patriarchy and oppression which women face as they both differ on the main topics being addressed. Lughod speaks mainly on the resistance of women in a patriarchal society and the ways they went about it while Lorde focuses on the power women have within themselves but is being suppressed because of a patriarchal society....
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...The indigenous community have always been disregarded in many ways within society. Both Smith and Patton consider the reasons why indigenous practices have been of unimportance compared to settler practices. Two main factors discussed within Smiths reading as well as mentioned in Patton’s are imperialism and colonialism. It was the colonization of Europe that had allowed them to gain power putting their views and methods on top of everyone elses. (Smith,359). Smith states “imperialism was the system of control which secured the markets and capital investments. Colonialism facilitated this expansion by ensuring that there was European control, which necessarily meant securing and subjugating the indigenous population” (Smith, 359) The western world had their own ideology of how society should be ran. They based their society around...
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... |BCOM/230 Version 3 | | |Business Communication for Accountants | Copyright © 2012, 2010 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces students to the foundations of communication in a business accounting setting. Students are exposed to various topics related to interpersonal and group communications within the context of applications to the accounting field. Students will develop skills in the forms of written communication, including memos, e-mails, business letters, and reports. Other topics include communication ethics, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, and professional competence and values. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Beebe...
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...[pic] Course Syllabus BCOM230 Business Communications for Accountants Course Start Date: 01/31/2012 Course End Date: 03/06/2012 Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright ©2011 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix© is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft©, Windows©, and Windows NT© are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix© editorial standards and practices. Facilitator Information Ed Seibert eseibert@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) edwardbseibert@gmail.com (Personal) 302-853-2571 (EST) Where to Go to Class Main: This is the main forum for the class and is where discussion is conducted. It has read-and-write access for everyone...
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...Definitions Prepared for the Department for International Development (DFID) for its gender mainstreaming intranet resource by Hazel Reeves and Sally Baden February 2000 BRIDGE (development - gender) Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1273 606261 Fax: +44 (0) 1273 621202 Email: bridge@ids.ac.uk Website: http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/ © Institute of Development Studies ISBN 1 85864 381 3 Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 2. Quick Definitions ................................................................................................... 2 3. Detailed Explanations and Further Reading ....................................................... 4 Culture ..................................................................................................................... 4 Gender Analysis ...................................................................................................... 6 Gender Discrimination ............................................................................................. 7 Gender Division of Labour....................................................................................... 8 Gender Equality and Equity................................................................................... 10 Gender Mainstreaming ...........................................................................
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...Knowledge and Individual Power When someone hears the words “Knowledge and Individual Power” what might come to mind is the well-said and overused quote “ Knowledge is Power”. With these different poems is it is important to notice that although they might share a common theme of knowledge gaining and personal and individual empowerment within ones self, they are just that, representations of individuals own power. The three poems I am choosing to make examples of because after reading them they have stood out to me in concern with the topic of Knowledge and Individual Power, are “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes, “Much Madness is Divine Sense” by Emily Dickinson and “Crazy Courage” by Alma Villanueva. These poems all in my opinion convey knowledge that helps can help and can also be essential to growth and a persons individual power. With the same topics or themes being portrayed they are simply just portrayed in different ways. In the poem by Langston Hughes “Theme for English B”, you can discover that personal experience and knowledge are things that people acquire in different ways, for each person and happen sometimes unusually. In this work of writing he makes a point for everyone to know that he is basically the only colored student in his class. He uses the classroom almost like a baseline and uses it to show that they are all separate parts that come together as whole, therefore making these “parts” all equal no matter race, age, size or other characteristics...
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... |Innovation, Design, and Creativity | | |for a Competitive Advantage | Copyright © 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course will provide students with a solid foundation in innovation, design, and creativity. Additionally, students will be prepared to apply relevant principles, tools, and techniques to promote and sustain organizational innovation for competitive advantage. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Rowe, A. (2004). Creative intelligence. Discovering the innovative potential in ourselves and others. Upper Saddle River, NJ:...
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...The book I read was Stronger by Michael Carroll. The story follows a superhuman named Gethin Rao and it goes back and forth in time following his life starting from when he first gets his powers at the age of twelve to his imprisonment at the age of 35. Gethin got his powers at twelve out of the blue but his change to a superhuman made him grow to 13 feet and develop blue mostly impervious skin. Gethin spent most of his life on the run hiding out in forests and caves because people were scared of him and the other superhumans on the planet either hated him or were brainwashed into hating him. One superhuman with superintelligence figured out a way to remove superhumans powers and used that on Gethin along with most of the superhumans on...
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...society, disseminate messages implanted or ‘encoded’ (Hall 2001, p.167) with meaning ‘through the operation of codes within the syntagmatic chain of a discourse’ (Hall 2001, p.166). Hall’s model examines the processes in which television texts are constructed with dominant codes or ‘preferred readings’ (Hall 2011, p.172), whilst signifying theoretical strategies from which audiences can deconstruct and consume such readings existing within texts in correspondence to cultural and social conditions. Hall’s model laid the foundations for much ethnographic research; it is upon this premise and its comprehensive influence, that in this essay the advantages and limitations of his model will be evaluated with focus on how effectively it functions within the indicated parameters of specific texts and discourses. Hall’s model which is fundamentally a mode of communication and audience reception theory, stems from early models of which proposed to analyse how audiences interpreted texts through the visual and aural discourse of television. Hall utilised and developed upon preceding and often problematic models such as the Effects and the Uses and Gratification models. Conversely from a structuralist standpoint, ‘it took, from the effect theorists, the notion that mass communication is a structured activity, in which the institutions which produce the messages do have a power to set agendas, and to define issues’ (Morley 1989,...
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...forbidden love story between a married sitting President, Fitzgerald Grant, and his former Communications Director, Olivia Pope, Scandal plays with preconceived notions about affairs, power structures, and interracial relationships. The specific episode in question aired on November 19th, 2015 and was the ninth episode in the fifth season of Scandal. Season five was perceived as the resolution of the forbidden love story by ending the previous season with the characters promises to be together out in the open. A divorce, an official announcement, and residence change put the characters...
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...Outcomes | | Assessment Criteria | 1. Identify and apply strategies to find appropriate solution | 1.11.2 | Explain strategic contextWhat are missions, visions, objectives, goals and core competenciesWhat are these for the business.Review the issues involved in strategic planning.Choose either Ansoff Matrix or Boston Matrix and apply it to your business. | | 1.3 | Explain different planning techniques.Look at the role of planning and the impact it has on managers/owners; Targets; when to plan; who should be involved in planning. | | | | 2. Be able to formulate a new Strategy | 2.1 | Produce an organisational audit for your chosen organisation.Choose either a resource audit or value chain analysis and apply it to your business. | | 2.2 | Carry out an environmental audit for your chosen organisation.Choose either PESTEL or Porters Five Forces analyses | | 2.3 | Explain the significance of stakeholder analyses.Who are your stakeholders, what is their relationship to the business and identify any patterns | 3. Understand approaches to strategy evaluation and selection | 3.1 | Analyse possible alternative strategies rating to substantive growth, limited growth or retrenchmentWhich of the following growth strategy would you consider for your business: organic growth; growth by merger/acquisition; strategic alliance; licensing; franchising; horizontal and vertical integration or diversification | | 3.2 | | | 3.3 | | | 3.4 | | 4. Obtain funds for an...
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