...Frederick douglass and the Slave girl in California were both put into slavery at a young age. They are both have stories that are the central themes that are similar, such as going into slavery and smarts .The slave girl in California and the Narrative life of Frederick Douglass have opposing themes as well, such as family and strength. When Douglass and Slave girl were put into slavery they were both at very young ages. Frederick was taken from him month when he wasn't even 12 months old and put into slavery. while his mother worked on another farm.The slave girl was put into slavery when she was eight years old. Her parents thought it'd be good for her to work. plus her mother was sick. Shyama's owners paid $25 to her family....
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...Integra(ng)Risk)Management) into)Strategy)&)Corp)Governance) Peter%Verhezen% Principal)Verhezen)&)Associates)) Fellow)Harvard)Kennedy)School) Adjunct)Professor)Melbourne)Business)School) ) ) This)slide)presenta(on)has)been)prepared)for)and)in)collabora(on)with) Pri)Notowidigdo) Risk = effect of uncertainty on objectives Scenarios / Probabilities Positive deviation Opportunities Upside Risk has a positive side Target Negative deviation from target Downside Future: probabilities Negative deviation Today’s Value (mark-to-market) Threats As management projects into the future, the value of the firm will be affected by many different market and business variables – i.e. risk factors. Tomorrow’s Possible Values (mark-to-future) 2 Mortgage Crisis => Global Financ Crisis hKp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqvwOJx2eQ) Scenarios / Probabilities ) Positive deviation Opportunities Upside Risk has a positive side Target Risk Appetite Future: probabilities But usually perceived as negative Downside Negative deviation Today’s Value (mark-to-market) Threats As management projects into the future, the value of the firm will be affected by many different market and business variables – i.e. risk factors. Tomorrow’s Possible Values (mark-to-future) 3 Within boundaries & above average High Moral & Social Norms / Higher than Average Value + + Risk Opportunity Value at Risk (1) Enrich Shareholders & Serve Stakeholders ...
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date In Search of True Freedom The autobiographical Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass does not only carry important historical implications, but it is also a tale that evokes philosophical and social implications. Douglass in his narrative provides a roadmap of the excursion from the brutal hold of slavery to freedom; freedom of different kinds. The South at the time of Douglass’ birth was a land that thrived economically depending on slave labor for the plantations. The slaves were treated cruelly from birth and lived a life full of drudgery. Freedom was vague idea that for some seemed an impossible thing while others like Douglass took action to attain it. Despite running away from the clutches of slave owners to the North where slavery was not the norm, Douglass did not truly feel free until he assisted the people he left in slavery to gain freedom. The freedom that Douglass envisioned for his people was not only physical freedom of the body free from the control of a master, but also mental freedom having the power to choose one’s destiny in life. This is what Douglass considered true freedom. Douglass’ quest for freedom for himself and other slaves was a journey to attain physical and mental freedom, which he considered true freedom. Slavery in the United States was an economically driven activity. The present-day United States was based on the economic upsurge that followed the American Industrial Revolution that was...
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...Guatemalans, and other Central/South American immigrants – has ignited terror and havoc in communities throughout the United States by committing heinous crimes, such as drug distribution, murder, rape, home invasions, immigration offenses and many more. The notoriety of MS-13 and the level of violence that has ensured has captured the nation’s attention, as well as the president himself to which he has branded these gang members as “animals.” CNN and The New York Times have commented on the situation: CNN explaining Trump’s attempts to rid the nation of MS-13 members, while The New York Times described how Trump has exaggerated false claims regarding MS-13 deportation numbers. This current spectacle relates to Leo Chavez’s Latino Threat Narrative in the sense that the gang and criminal activity demonstrated by MS-13 is being associated with any person who crosses the border, and the immigration and deportation measures being taken is negatively affecting those entering the United States with good intentions....
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...hardships himself and others endured during the capture of Jews in 1943. Originally titled If This Is a Man, Levi expresses captivating images and vivid emotions of his experience of inhumane treatment. The memories indicate the intense and extreme situations all Jews suffered in the totalitarian state of Nazi control. Levi learns an immense amount of survival tactics in order to breathe every waking day of his new life. The weak were tested physically and emotionally as the path of death was effortless, while the road to survival seemed impossible and unachievable. Throughout the narrative, Primo transforms from an apathetic victim to a progressive survivor in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz. The concept of black marketing, knowledge in chemistry and his spirituality all contributed toward the survival of Primo Levi and others in Auschwitz. According to Primo Levi, illegality, deceit, infidelity and sin were all relevant in the concentration camp. These characteristics made up Auschwitz and were used as necessities in order to survive such horrid conditions. Those who were captured and sent to German camps quickly noticed that this was a place where happiness was extinct. Little pieces of bread, shoes or soup bowls were perceived as rather large when consumed and used by other prisoners. The smallest amount of food attracted any inmates, creating trust issues and this idea of every man for himself. This type of nature constructed the black market and how...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of the Onondaga Dragway Chelsea Cox Baker College October 26, 2013 102 Composition Rhetorical Analysis of the Onondaga Dragway Is the Onondaga Dragway ruining its residents’ right to live peacefully? Many argue that the answer is “yes.” Onondaga is home to nearly 3,000 residents and is nestled between Lansing and Jackson County ("Onondaga Township, Ingham, 2013). The Onondaga Dragway closed its doors in 1978, and sat abandoned for more than thirty five years due to a declining economy. In recent times, a local family and a handful of car enthusiasts have worked hard to revive the quarter-mile drag way track (Byrd, 2013). After the recent opening of the Onondaga Dragway, on September 17th, 2013, citizens of Onondaga have come together in hopes to shut the Dragway down and formed the CORE group. Newly, the CORE group wrote an argument in its semi-local newspaper, The Leslie Weekly Guardian. While the CORE group’s argument is emotionally appealing and passionately written, the failure to acknowledge opposing viewpoints may ruin the argument’s credibility to its audience. The recently founded CORE group, also known as “Neighbors for a Change in Onondaga Township”, is arguing that the Dragway thrill ignores the negative impact it has on Onondaga community. CORE opens up with a hopeless outlook for Onondaga residents. The Neighbors for a Change in Onondaga Township point-blank state that the Dragway has already dangerously proved that its existence is...
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...A Call for Further Research: Afro-Chinese Marriages in 20th Century Cuba Katie Wang UCLA Professor Wright-Dixon I. Introduction Coalitions through marriage is a long understood concept. Kingdom alliances through marriages are ones that first come to mind. Often fictional portrayals of real pressures for pressures to gain resources or military alliance for a capital or imperial need involve young princes and princesses who are forced to marry. However, in a nonfictional example for this paper, Chinese indentured laborers or former indentured laborers and African slaves or former slaves married in 19th century Cuba both romantically and strategically. I argue that there needs to be further research around Afro-Chinese marriages in Cuba and a recentering on women. I had originally planned to center this paper around African slave women who married Chinese men in Cuba in the 19th century but was not able to because of the lack of literature available. However, I aim to focus on a reading against the grain for indications of women’s agency and voice in this set of literature. My personal stakes in this topic are two-fold. First, my mother’s side of my family lived in Cuba for a few decades from the late 1920s to 1960 as a part of an entrepreneurial endeavor and as refuge from persecution from the Communist Party of China. Because of my personal tie to Chinese in Cuba, I seek to uncover untold stories and hidden transcripts. Second, this paper is a part of a larger project...
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...Wr-121 2:00 p.m. Rise with Red Eyes Marijuana has been unjustly criticized for the past century. In the 1950s, the U.S. Congress was advised that marijuana incited, “many of our most sadistic, terrible, crimes… such as sex slayings” (Manderson 1). I myself have chosen to experiment with this allegedly vicious substance and have never had any deliberation of committing anything resembling a “sex slaying”. Possibly a slaying of a 1-pound bag of Doritos and a 12 pack of grape soda, hardly something I would categorize as “sadistic”. Nonetheless our government still refuses to acknowledge the undeniable benefits of marijuana. James Masin, the head of the United States Public Health Service, said that we should not give AIDS patients marijuana to help with their debilitating symptoms because, crazed by the high, they would be much more likely to engage in unsafe sex (Manderson 2). This quote is not only frivolous; it also holds no medical evidence to support such an outlandish claim. There has been no reputable scientific study that suggests marijuana causes it’s users to become sex-crazed maniacs that will do anything to pleasure their id personality. I was under the assumption that our government was in a position of power to create laws and regulations for the benefit of the country based on non-biased facts. I was obviously mistaken. Marijuana can be used in many functional and valuable ways. Thirteen states have legalized the use of medicinal marijuana. A...
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...‘It’s Business, Man!': Unions and ‘Socially Responsible’ Corporations Liza Featherstone ▪ Fall 1999 “How do you feel?” roared Jerry Greenfield, CEO and co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream company that has (in the public imagination, at least) long epitomized corporate social responsibility. He posed this question a few years ago to the audience at the company’s folk music festival, held annually in mansion-packed Newport, Rhode Island. “I feel good!” roared back the Teva-and tie-dye-clad crowd. (Greenfield opens the company’s staff meetings with the same ritualized call and response.) The folk festival—featuring countercultural icons like Joan Baez and accessorized by petitions supporting legislation to “Save the Family Farm”—was vintage Ben & Jerry’s. Greenfield’s performance was designed to assure the festival’s upper-middle-class audience that Ben & Jerry’s, maker of flavors with trippy names like Cherry Garcia, is not a bunch of grim stuffed shirts in a boardroom, but a downright groovy (and ethical) little company. The skeptical observer, however, couldn’t help wondering: what happens if you don’t feel so good? Last year, a group of maintenance employees at the Ben & Jerry’s plant in St. Albans, Vermont, found out. These workers wanted time and a half for work on weekends and for any work that exceeded the standard eight-hour day. Company policy was to pay the federal minimum: time and a half only after forty hours have been worked in a week. (This...
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...rending consequences on the entire scope of welfare of the individual against whom the atrocities are leveled. Native residents of respective lands hardly face any forms of discrimination other than that which is based on economic and education statuses (Yen-ching Weng 2013). As such, natives afflictions such as unemployment due to corruption in their governments yet they are still regarded citizens of their respective nations or states. Such affliction cannot be matched to that which is based on racial and/or religious discrimination. Some have even utilized the crisis surrounding Muslim immigration in their ambitious ascent to powerful positions (Laurence and Goodliffe 2013). This presents the worst form of prejudice and is manifested in illegalities such as denial of access to health services, food, housing, education and other fundamental necessities. Muslims and immigrants in France are fraught with issues pertaining to policy on these fundamental necessities as they are discriminate against on ethnic basis (Fredette 2014). Fredette argues that black and Arab Muslim immigrants and their children are subjected to hostility, discriminative hiring and illegal surveillance. The tension with the police even aggravates Muslim marginalization so that they don’t feel welcome in their neighborhoods. According to this author, this group experiences exclusion, separation and hierarchies in housing, education and employment due to an elite discourse that portrays the group as suspicious non-integrated...
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...feminism: Marxist feminism – exponents analyze the connection between patriarchal domination of society and oppression of women on the one hand, and the capitalist oppression of workers on the other hand. Eecofeminism - draw parallels between capitalist domination of nature and the patriarchal domination of women. Critics attribute eco-violence to the hegemonic masculinity traits for example domination and aggression in global political and economic systems. A good solution to contemporary eco-violence will be the enthronement of feminine cultural values such as compassion, kindness, tenderness and a women focused system. Post-Modernist feminism rejects assumptions of shared identity and experiences among women – the issue of meta-narrative and deconstruction. Analyses subordination and domination within and between gender.Underscores the analytical and political limits of the notion of women as a group. critics argue that post-modernist feminism is antithetical to the feminist cause() Human beings are dependent on bonding and relationships, which renders them vulnerable and gives them the power to violate others. But this essential human vulnerability only leads to victimization and violence under certain circumstances. Societies take precautions: they institutionalize, regulate, civilize or unleash collective or personal violence within institutionalized power relations. They define “legitimate” and “illegitimate” violence and create institutions in order to enforce the...
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...SECRET LANGUAGE of • HOW LEADERS INSPIRE ACTION THROUGH NARRATIVE The LEADERSHIP STEPHEN DENNING John Wiley & Sons, Inc. More Praise for The Secret Language of Leadership “Out of the morass of strategies leaders are given to transform organizations, Denning plucks a powerful one—storytelling— and shows how and why it works.” —Dorothy Leonard, William J. Abernathy Professor of Business, Emerita, Harvard Business School, and author, Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom “The Secret Language of Leadership shows why narrative intelligence is central to transformational leadership and how to harness its power.” —Carol Pearson, director, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, and coauthor, The Hero and the Outlaw “The Secret Language of Leadership is not only the best analysis I have seen of how and why leaders succeed or fail, it’s highly readable, as well as downright practical. It should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in engaging a company with big ideas who understands that leaders live and die by the quality of what they say.” —Richard Stone, story analytics master, i.d.e.a.s “A primary role of leaders is to create and maintain meaning for their organizations. Denning clearly demonstrates that meaningmaking comes from stories well told.” —Thomas Davenport, President’s Distinguished Professor of I.T. and Management, Babson College, and author, The Attention Economy “Steve...
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...S(ex) F(or) C(ommerce) -its (???) licking good!!! Critiquing the Market in ‘body’… -submitted by: EkataBakshi To: Prof. Harish Naraindas Course: Economy and society in India. “What we became: Ruined Tools Infertile Holes Bloody Meat Exiled Silenced Alone… What we got called Ianfu-Comfort Women: Shugyofu- Women of Indecent Occupation (- SAY IT, The Vagina Monolouges- Eve Ensler,2008) Prostitution, pornography or sex work has been in history one of the most demeaned kinds of work. But today there is a drastic change in the way prostitution is viewed. There are demands from every corner about decriminalization of prostitution. In its draft statement ICPR (International Committee For Prostitute’s Rights) states, “Until recently, the women’s movement in most countries has not, or has only marginally, included prostitutes as spokeswoman or theorists. Historically, women’s movement (for example socialist and communist movements) has opposed the institution of prostitution, while claiming to support prostitute women. However, prostitutes reject support that requires them to leave prostitution, they object to being treated as symbols of oppression and demand recognition as workers. Due to feminist hesitation or refusal to accept prostitution as legitimate work and to accept prostitutes as working women, the majority of prostitutes have not been recognised...
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...LACAN AND CONTEMPORARY FILM EDITED BY TODD McGOWAN and SHEILA KUNKLE OTHER Other Press New York Copyright © 2004 Todd McGowan and Sheila Kunkle Production Editor: Robert D. Hack This book was set in 11 pt. Berkeley by Alpha Graphics, Pittsfield, N.H. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Allrightsreserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Other Press LLC, except in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. For information write to Other Press LLC, 307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1807, New York, NY 10001. Or visit our website: www.otherpress.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McGowan, Todd. Lacan and contemporary film / by Todd McGowan & Sheila Kunkle. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59051-084-4 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Motion pictures-Psychological aspects. 2. Psychoanalysis and motion pictures. 3. Lacan, Jacques, 1901- I. Kunkle, Sheila. II. Title. PN1995 .M379 2004 791.43'01 '9-dc22 2003020952 Contributors Paul Eisenstein teaches literature and film in the English department at Otterbein College, Columbus, Ohio, and is the author of Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject (SUNY Press, 2003). Anna Kornbluh...
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...2013B Carefully read the following excerpt from the short story “Mammita’s Garden Cove” by Cyril Dabydeen. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Dabydeen uses literary techniques to convey Max’s complex attitudes toward place. ‘Where d’you come from?’ Max was used to the question; used to being told no as well. He walked away, feet kicking hard ground, telling himself that Line he must persevere. More than anything else he knew 5 he must find a job before long. In a way being unemployed made him feel prepared for hell itself even though he knew too that somewhere there was a sweet heaven waiting for him. How couldn’t it be? After all he was in Canada. He wanted to laugh all of 10 He continued walking along, thoughts drifting back to the far-gone past. Was it that far-gone? He wasn’t sure . . . yet his thoughts kept going back, to the time he was on the island and how he used to dream about 15 being in Canada, of starting an entirely new life. He remembered those dreams clearly now; remembered too thinking of marrying some sweet island-woman with whom he’d share his life, of having children and later buying a house. Maybe someday he’d even own 20 a cottage on the edge of the city. He wasn’t too sure where one built a cottage, but there had to be a cottage. He’d then be in the middle class; life would be different from the hand-to-mouth existence he was used to. 25 His heels pressed into the asphalt, walking on. And slowly he...
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