...hours a day. But it’s okay because I know he’s working to provide our family with the best care and make us proud (Cohen 2011). (Question 1) When I wake up, I start out my morning with looking at my schoolwork and seeing what I need to do for the day and plan accordingly. My parents and family back home in Japan have high expectations for me and I want to do everything I can to impress them. I then attend all of my classes back to back because I’m taking twenty credit hours; my plan is to graduate this December. After I finish my classes, I head up to the library for three back to back Asian centered study groups. My friends and I help each other out a lot; I have found that we compliment each other well because we experience the same stereotypes and can help one another out (Kiley 2012). (Question 2) A common misconception of Asians is that we are complete nerds that have no life or time for anything but studies. Well that’s not true and very prejudice. I have a job just like a lot of other college students. My scholarship covers my schooling but I like to have spending money for myself. My parents say that I am an adult and should support myself....
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...Ponyboy is a greaser in the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. Ponyboy plays the narrator and the protagonist in the book. If you were to meet this character for the first time most likely some ideas about him would come to your head, but some of those ideas could be a stereotype. A stereotype is a belief about a group of people based on a common characteristic but is not necessarily true. Some stereotypes of Ponyboy could be he is a criminal, thief, does not care about school, and does bad things to people; however, these are not true. A stereotype for ponyboy of being a gang member is that he is a criminal and does bad things to other people. Some people would have many stereotypes about Ponyboy like if he is in a gang he is a criminal but that not true. Ponyboy is a gang member but he is not a criminal ponyboy helps lots of people out. There are many ways he has helped people, for instance, he saved 8 little kids lives from a burning building without hesitation. Furthermore, people may think he is a thief or a drug dealer for his gang. Ponyboy is not a thief or is involved with drugs in the book it never said anything about ponyboy being into drugs or a thief. When most people think of greasers or gang...
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...Reality Tv is one of the most popular hobbies used by children and adults, but who thinks about the negative stereotypes ? It can cause people to start living by its lifestyles, also it can make children think these events are real, lastly reality Tv can take a lot of attention away from our actual lives. Reality Tv and the real world aren’t as the same as people think they are. Reality Tv can cause people to start living by its lifestyle. “Bad Girls Club” and “Empire” are two shows that shows this. These shows might make people think whenever they see the actors physically fighting, cursing, and starting unnecessary drama they can do it too. According to buzzle.com, “Humans are a bunch of manipulatable species where the media feeds off this ever-growing trait that lies within us all, where half the time we aren’t aware of what it’s doing to us. “ Furthermore this quote explains that when people are on these shows, sometimes they have no idea that they are being changed slowly but surely....
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...The need for understanding cultural differences, diversity of needs and competing interests is paramount to be successful in the current age of globalization. Business dealings have evolved into cross border … and business executives are required to deal with counterparts for from different parts of the world. A high level of cross cultural negotiation skills becomes a prerequisite for success. Thus the importance of understanding cultural diffences becomes critical. Cross cultural negotiations are complex and involve both personal and cultural – they have an impact on both perception of conflicts and the methods used to solve them. Many factors influence the outcome of cross-cultural negotiations and should be considered before entering into negotiations with another culture. Negotiators who understand certain aspects of cross-culture negotiations have the advantage over the negotiator who is not well prepared to negotiate with their foreign counterpart. I will discuss a few negotiation factors which constitute a basic framework for identifying cultural differences that was presented during the cross cultural team presentations. Cultures have different views and reasons for setting their goals in negotiations; for example in North America the goal of any business negotiation is to reach a substantive outcome; time is money and the outcome of reaching an agreement is quick and formal. In Italy, quite the contrary is true; the goal for a negotiation is to focus on building...
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...areas of the earth have different work ethics. Some claim that American students are lazy while Chinese students are more ambitious. However, is this stereotype an accurate representation of modern day education? I believe this stereotype to be false. Anywhere you traverse in the world, you will see students of all different sorts. Some will possess limitless motivation while others will lack the will to even complete the simplest task assigned to them. This is a universal motif. Some will succeed while others fail. To succeed, it simply depends on how much effort a student is willing to exert. Based on their work...
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...an aspect of inequality is labelling. Labelling is process where someone holds a certain belief over another individual. Within sociology labelling is a way of controlling the behaviour of an individual. For example, in a school a teacher may label a student as a failure if the student is someone who cannot complete their homework due to other commitments or not having the facility to do so. Due to the label that the teacher has against the student, the attitude that the teacher will show the student would lead the student to failure. This is self-fulfilling prophecy. Self-fulfilling prophecy that the individual, who has been labelled, adapts their attitude and follows the attitude of the label. When a positive label is associated to an individual such as ‘she is an overachiever’ this is known as the Halo effect. Stereotyping is another form of inequality within society. Stereotyping and labelling are quite similar, however stereotyping is generally against a group of people and is usually untrue. Stereotyping in society usually comes from sources which are myths and are only in place as that is what people want society to believe. For example a stereotype that is quite regularly portrayed within the media is that “All gay men are feminine.” For example on Modern Family with...
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...For over a hundred years, stereotypes of Asian Americans have dramatically changed from being viewed as uneducated poor laborers to being characterized as successful educated minority. It has changed from negativity to positivity. According to the article “Outwhiting the whites”: An examination of the persistence of Asian Americans model minority discourse, Asian Americans were stereotyped as the “Yellow Peril” before. It was a fear that Asian Americans were going to take power in America. Japanese Americans had lost a lot during World War II. They were imprisoned in internment camps, lost their homes, land, and property. After the World War II, people started to change their views on Asian Americans. The Japanese Americans were able to recover quickly. The media noticed how quickly they were able to recover and began publishing positive stories of how Asian Americans culture were able to succeed. From there on, the media continued to publish positive stories on how Asian Americans were succeeding which created the model minority stereotype. There were two articles that I analyzed, Asian-Americans: Are they making the grade by U.S. News & World Report, and The new whiz kids by Brand, D. I believed the two articles ended up combating the model minority model. Asian Americans have been stereotyped as the model minority. They are the smart, wealthy, hard-working, successful, and obedient minority. Some people believe in that, others don’t. It is not that simple...
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... I watched many basketball games on TV as a kid, and even attended a game here when I was in kindergarten. What I did not realize at the time, being 5 years old, that the athletes that I was watching were not only athletes, but also students, students who juggle many responsibilities, both on the court and in the classroom. Student athletes at UNC may feel that with all of their obligations, they work harder than many non-athlete students, as well as dealing with a stigma and dumb-jock stereotype that sometimes surrounds being a student athlete. In order to examine the accuracy of these claims, I observed the track and field team as well as interviewing a member of the team. To first get an idea of what the extracurricular expectations of being a student-athlete at UNC is, I observed one of our track team’s practices which was a...
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...There are numerous pros and cons of inclusions in a school setting. A benefit of inclusion in a school or classroom setting is that it gives that child with a disability an opportunity to interact with his/her peers, improve social skills, create friendships, and even learn certain behaviors from children around them without disabilities. A disadvantage of inclusion is that children who may have certain types of disabilities can look profoundly different or exhibit certain types of behaviors and have outbursts. Other children in that setting may misunderstand the disability or become uncomfortable or frustrated by some of these characteristics that are exhibited. This could lead to the child getting teased or being punished for their behaviors...
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...In Dan Kindlon & Thompson's Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys (1999), the concept of lifelong mental abuse towards boys is brought to light. The most significant notion Kindlon & Thompson (1999) spoke of was the way parents and schools do not acknowledge the emotional needs of boys. Most adults stereotype boys, therefore unconsciously shaming and belittling them. This analysis of the early educational years for boys deeply resonates with me. Although I am not a boy myself, I have two brothers. I have an older brother, who, as a matter of fact, hates school and dropped out of college, and a younger brother who is going through the awful motions mentioned in this book currently. My younger brother is not the strongest reader,...
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...Today, I just have a lecture about behavior in social and culture context, there are two parts in the lesson impress me. They are the case of the suicide bomber and the concept of prejudice. Firstly, the story of the suicide bomber makes me think about the frauds in the recently years. Although there is news report reminding people not to fall in the trap, the numbers of frauds still increase in every year. In the past, I always wondering why the victims are so stupid, they already have the idea of how the frauds were happened but still being cheated. However, I know that’s not their fault after the lesson. Just taking an example of a body-fit Centre, in order to let people fall in the trap, the Centre will firstly promote their company by offering an extreme low price treatment to the customers who had never try the services before. As the customer think that they just have to spend a very little price to become slim, they go to the company to have a try. In the treatment, the staff would persuade the customer that it is very important for women to keep fit and become slim. For example, by telling them they will get better offer and paid if they are fit, they may become popular among men if they have a perfect body shape and etc… the staff just conclude the view of the society in one simple attribution—as a woman, you should be slim, and make the customer strongly believe on it. Afterword, the customer would told that they can reach that attribution if they finish a course...
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...“Thanks again for helping out with my homework!”, you wave goodbye to your best friend. Some of your other friends wonder why the two of you always hang out considering the fact that you’re opposite genders, but really, how different boys and girls can they be? Many people wonder if girls and boys can be friends, or if boys and girls learn better in separate classrooms? Numerous of schools are now debating whether to have mixed gender classes or single-sex classes. (ink.niche) Schools should have all classes be coed classes because it helps students focus, allows students to open up, and helps their future. Having coed classes helps students learn. From the article “Boys and Girls Together” (responsiveclassroom.org), Anna Foot, a consulting teacher says students like being paired up with the opposite gender for assignments because it allows them to focus more. Since some of the students don’t usually talk to the other gender, then there’s nothing to talk about which creates less distractions leading to better concentration. In addition to that, if all students are required to work with the other gender, then there would be less rumors of boy-girl action because everyone will be working with the other gender. From the article “Debate: Do Students Learn Better in Single-Sex Schools?” (www.nea.org) , Andre Boyd, a middle school...
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...Does your child need a tutor? Needing a tutor for your child or teen is not uncommon or a bad thing. Sometimes concepts are just too hard for kids to grasp or maybe your child is preparing for harder material and college prep and needs a hand. With extra help, your child can gain the confidence to get better grades, boost their self-esteem and overall achieve higher goals. Here are some signs that your child may need a tutor: * Grades are steadily or rapidly declining * Not doing homework and making excuses to why it is not getting done * Misbehavior in class * Anxiety over tests and exams * Lower self-esteem * Working hard to complete homework however still receiving sub-average grades * Easily distracted while doing homework * Prepping for SAT or other college exams * Doesn’t see the point in school if they are not doing well * Uses phrases such as “I’m stupid” or “I’m never going to do better” What to do before you hire a tutor for the first time Before hiring a tutor, like any other type of service, a bit of research should go into it. Check out their profile and credentials to ensure that they match what you are looking for. Don’t be afraid to ask questions as well, tutors are there to help and teach you or your child so it is perfectly acceptable and appropriate to spark up a quick conversation prior to engaging in any form of agreements. Also, don’t be afraid to ask to see credentials or their plan for the tutoring session. ...
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...Outline and assess the view that in school factors have the main influence on the educational achievement of different social classes (50 Marks) INSIDE - The Curriculum What is taught in schools disadvantages working class pupils. The knowledge taught in school is different to the cultural experiences of working class pupils. For example, History deals with the ruling class such as kings, queens and politicians, rather than the majority of ordinary people. Cultural Bias of the hidden curriculum favours middle class pupils. This may lead the underachievement and truancy of those from working class backgrounds. Ramsay argues that knowledge is used as a form of social control and that there is a hidden curriculum behind the subjects of Maths and English to keep the working class in their place. Ramsay argues that truancy is a protest against this pressure. - Teacher Labelling Interactionists study the interactions between teacher & student and student & student. Their explanations are based on a “labelling theory”. Teachers judge students not by their ability or intelligence, but by characteristics such as class. Keddie – “Classroom Knowledge” Keddie studied classroom interactions in a large, socially mixed comprehensive school in London. She had found that teachers categorised and evaluated classroom knowledge. The knowledge that teachers gave pupils was based on their assessment of the pupil’s ability to cope with the knowledge. Pupils that were categorized as “bright”...
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...Reginia Lanes Dr. Graham English 105 14 April 2013 Mr. Mom As I sat through frustration of rush hour traffic, I received a text message from my best friend who is a male. The text message read “What’s a good age to start wearing tampons?” My sarcasm immediately kicked in and I almost replied back “Whenever you think you’re ready.” However knowing this is probably another one of those sensitive subjects for him concerning his daughter, whom he has raised alone since soon after her birth, I figured I better answer seriously. I responded “Whenever she’s comfortable.” As usual he replied “Ok, Just thought I’d ask.” You see my friend is one of the many men that have challenged the stereotype that has been placed upon them of being absentee or dead beat fathers once their relationship ends with the mothers. This is proving to no longer be status quo. You see I have several male friends who are raising their children, mostly girls, alone. Thus we now have a growing number of “absentee or deadbeat” mothers in our society. According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, there is a significant rise in the number of single fathers raising kids. Specifically, the census data shows that the rise in families led by single fathers has outpaced the rise in single-mother families for the first time since 1970. Today, there is an increase of 14 percent of single-dad households. The number of single-mother households only increased by roughly 3.2 percent in the past 10 years. Gone are...
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