...discriminates against the promotion of specific employees, whether knowingly or unknowingly. I can relate to this term due to learning it in an Ethnic Stdies course taking previously along with the information that in 1991, the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission was commissioned in order to asses the barriers hindering "the advancement of women and minorities to management and decision-making positions," and to make recommendations toward dismantling them. At the time I was much more focused on the ethnic side of this problem but this class has made me make a connection with the glass ceiling affect and women. In the United States, discrimination within the workplace is illegal; nevertheless, I have seen that it survives in the form of salary inequality. I believe that people view that women are still often not expected to have the ability, or particular managerial know-how, needed to compete for and be successful in the same ranks as men. After being educated on the gender wage gap, the wage gap is closing. Though the situation is improving, there is still a significant gap that should continue to...
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...THE BLUE COLLAR BOYS, THE WHITE COLLAR GIRLS Purpose of statement: discuss about society and class in A&P story. Audience: Mrs. Lewis Shelley Thesis: According to Updike’s work, A&P is a short story where society and class in US during 1930s are explicitly implied. T here comes a funny riddle: “What do the poor have but the rich don’t?”. The answer turns out to be a little bit sarcastic: “Nothing”. It’s sarcastic because It shows how different and unequal this world was, is and will be. During 1930s, those differences and inequalities are even more serious. With a good use of his talent, via A&P short story, John Updike brought to us a topic where it is driven by the dynamics of various classes represented by different characters: Sammy, Queenie, Lengel (A&P manager) and people in the store....
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...percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Its overall pace of regulatory reform had slowed and the ax burden is much heavier than other emerging economies. It could be government corruption, insecurity of private property rights, or it’s dependent on commodity exports. Rouseff and her administration worked to improve competitiveness by addressing the issue of improving infrastructure. Its strategy was the public-private partnership aiming to provide jobs with attractive salary packages by reducing the cost of the local businessmen and taxpayers. The new strategy (2013) suggested a move toward promoting long-term growth, but its success was far from certain. There was a concern that this “large-scale infrastructure project would become riddles with corruption, and that the program would greatly exceed the projected timeline for completion.”...
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...Fundamental Rights & Directive Principles of State Policy enshrined in the Constitution of India. The Fundamental Rights provide for freedom, equality, and abolition of Untouchability & remedies to ensure the enforcement of rights. The Directive Principles enshrine the broad guiding principles for securing fair distribution of wealth & better living conditions. On the 14th October, 1956, Babasaheb Ambedkar a scholar in Hinduism embraced Buddhism. He continued the crusade for social revolution until the end of his life on the 6th December 1956. He was honoured with the highest national honour, 'Bharat Ratna' in April 1990 . iii Contents PART I - RELIGIOUS Riddle No. 1 : The difficulty of knowing why one is a Hindu Riddle No. 2 : The Origin Of The Vedas—The Brahminic Explanation or An Exercise In The Art Of Circumlocution Riddle No. 3 : The Testimony Of Other...
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...Moral Issues in Film: A Time to Kill Jamienail Wood Embry Riddle Aeronautical University HUMN 330 Professor Cheryl McKinley February 15, 2015 A Time to Kill PART A The film “A Time to Kill” was released in 1996. The story is very intriguing and well-written. The movie is about racial inequality. Two white men, Billy and James, approached a 10 year old black girl named Tonya from the street, raped and nearly murdered her. Tonya’s family and community was devastated, especially her father, Carl Hailey (played by actor Samuel Jackson). Carl inquired about the case with a white local town lawyer, Jake Brigance (played by actor Matthew McConaughey). Brigance spoke of the possibility that Billy and James might walk free. Before Billy and James even had the chance to step into the court room, Carl open fired at the both of them and accidentally injuring the security escort. Carl fled the scene but was eventually arrested as there were many witnesses to the event. Brigance agreed to act as Carl’s defense attorney in the murder trial. While the trial progresses, many other characters make their appearance and the story continued to develop. District attorney Rufus Buckley (played by actor Kevin Spacey) represented Billy and James. The case was such a big deal that it captured the media’s attention. Ellen Roark (played by Sandra Bullock), a law student from Massachusetts traveled to town to offer Brigance her service for the trial. Freddie, Billy’s brother led the Ku Klux...
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...directly upon Mackinder’s notions of imperial expansion as an organic phenomenon. Lebenstraum was a central feature of Ratzel’s anthropogeography—a geography that saw human social phenomena as guided by natural laws in relation to physical topography. Nations were organisms tied to and shaped by the lands where they arose, and national growth—and therefore the expansion of state power—was an organic phenomenon. Lebenstraum then represented the national quest for “living space” or the organic need for a habitat that could accommodate an organism’s growth. Semple developed Ratzel’s ideas and became the key American proponent of Environmental Determinism, a paradigm in the discipline characterized by attributions of national and racial inequality in power to variation in the topographies that rooted “races” and nations of people. Whereas those nations and “races” arising from temperate zones had natural inclinations toward industriousness and efficiency, those groups of people who come from tropical zones tended toward laziness and social dysfunction. These constructs of social evolutionary biology provided convenient ideological justifications for imperial conquest through military power, hence the Nazi party’s embrace of Lebenstraum. As contemporaries pursuing scholarship in the service of imperial power, Mackinder, Ratzel, and Semple share certain broad assumptions regarding race, nation, national expansion, competition, and conflict. This is so much the case that Mackinder...
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...Mirahya Barry December 10, 2014 SOC 405*001 Dr. Hardesty Harry Potter and the Sociological Theories Harry Potter is best well known as “the boy who lived” – meaning, he was able to survive an attempt to kill him by Lord Voldemort. When he was just an infant, Lord Voldemort murdered his parents, and he was next- but something kept him protected and ultimately brought Voldemort down. Little Harry, sound asleep, is left by Albus Dumbledore at the door of 4 Privet drive to live with his aunt and uncle—two muggles (non-wizarding folk). Speed ahead to nearly 10 years later. Little Harry is now 10 years old, still living with his aunt and uncle, but strange things are starting to happen in his life. On his cousin Dudley’s birthday, he manages to find friendship in a snake, which he wasn’t aware he could talk to until it started to interact with him, which in turn caused his cousin to notice, and then the class just disappears off of the snake’s habitat and lets the snake loose with no explanation. Not long after that, Harry starts to receive unexplained mail which his aunt and uncle do everything in their power to keep away from him; this includes ripping up the letters burning the letters in the fireplace, closing up the letter slot, etc. But, they aren’t able to keep one letter from getting to him. As the Dursleys and Harry have left their home to seek refuge from Harry getting one of these mysterious letters in a shack by the sea, they get a mysterious visitor the night...
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...Compare the Ways in Which Chaucer and Duffy Convey the Ideas about Lust and Love Chaucer’s ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’ is a medieval text set in a patriarchal society in which women were treated in an unequal manner. In contrast to the social factors in medieval society, Chaucer’s story is dominated by women, making this a matriarchal story which presents themes of women‘s independence. This idea is accentuated due to the fact that the Wife of Bath narrates the story. The main character of the knight who reflects the personality of promiscuous males in the medieval period who were mostly lustful towards woman and the roles between men and women showed inequality. Conversely, Duffy’s poems are contemporary in contrast to Chaucer’s patriarchal influence in his story, there is more of a sense of equality as she is a modern feminist author which presents the genders in the poems ‘Adultery’ and ‘Valentine’ in a quite ambiguous nature. The reader is unable to understand if the narrative voice is a male or a female. As a result the gender of the narrator in ‘Adultery’ and ‘Valentine is ambiguous. In addition, due to the ambiguity her poems, primarily ‘Valentine’ as she compares love to an onion and does this by using imagery, symbolism and choice of lexis. Both Chaucer and Duffy present ideas about lust and love in their work. However, Chaucer presents the idea of love in a medieval fairy tale which is more idealistic as the story ends on a happy note. By contrast Duffy presents the idea...
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...THE RELEVANCE OF INDIGENOUS CUSTOMARY EDUCATION PRINCIPLES IN THE FORMULATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION POLICY BOAZ Paper presented at the Fourth International Special Education Congress, Birmingham, 10-13 April 1995 University of Manchester School of Education April 1995 THE RELEVANCE OF INDIGENOUS CUSTOMARY EDUCATION PRINCIPLES IN THE FORMULATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION POLICY Joseph Kisanji INTRODUCTION The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education adopted at the World Conference on Special Needs Education in June 1994 reaffirmed commitment of the world community to “Education for All” and urged governments to “give the highest policy and budgetary priority to improve their education systems to enable them to include all children regardless of individual differences and difficulties”. The United Nations (1994) in its “Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities” urges Member States in Rule Number 6 to ensure special needs education “is an integral part of the education system”. These statements in support of the “Education for All” campaign which was given the blessing of the international community at the 1990 Jomtien Conference provide broad guidelines for national and local action. However, national governments have to unpack the guidelines to make "Education for All" a...
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...Brown v. Board of Education Ronald Still Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Brown v. Board of Education Background The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education dates back to 1954, the case was centered on the Fourteenth Amendment and challenged the segregation of schools solely on the basis of race. The Brown case was not the only case of its time involving school segregation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was leading the push to desegregate public schools in the United States (Gold, 2005). Brown v. Board of Education was a consolidation of four cases that had made their way through the court system. It was 1950 and Linda brown was just seven years old, she lived in Topeka, Kansas and was African American descent (she was black). Each mourning Linda traveled 21 blocks and crossed through a dangerous railroad yard to get to school. Her journey to school took an hour and twenty minutes. White children who lived in the same neighborhood only traveled 7 blocks in a considerably less amount of time (Gold, 2005). Linda’s father Oliver filed a lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education arguing that he wanted the same conditions for his daughter (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 2009). The case was heard by three judges in Federal District Court, and they ruled against the plaintiffs, the case went to Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the U.S Supreme Court (Topeka, Kansas: Segregation in the Heartland). ...
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...STANLEY ASUMANU 33371253 WHAT GUIDANCE CAN ECONOMIC MODELS OF CRIME AND AVAILABLE STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OFFER TO POLICYMAKERS TRYING TO REDUCE CRIME? The study of the causes and effects of crime was predominant in sociology and psychology. Economic analysis of crime did not take effect until the late 1960s when Gary Becker gave thought into the rationality of crime: “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach”. Becker’s work was then followed by George Stigler’s “The Optimum Enforcement of Laws” and Isaac Ehrlich’s “Participation of Illegitimate Activities: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation” in 1970 and 1973, respectively (Merlo, 2004). Since then, the separation between economics and criminology has broken down as theoretical and empirical economic research on crime has increased (Machin et al. 2014). The issue to be discussed is how these economic models can guide policy makers to reduce crime. Gary Becker (1968) focused his attention to question “how many resources and how much punishment should be used to enforce different kinds of legislation?” Criminals are rational (Becker 1986). They considered the costs and benefits of committing a crime. Essentially, crime should be made unprofitable rather than incurring costs to eliminate it. Becker (1968) considered the economic importance of crime despite several economists neglecting it due to the immoral aspect of crime. Crime incurs costs; tangible such as medical cost, lost output, cost of creating...
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... Egypt’s Politics and Culture Egypt is for the most part a modern nation country relative to organization, rule, and administration; however it is not a modern Western country. Although the contemporary Egyptian state remained in essence authoritarian, such rule was not accepted unconditionally. Its legitimacy depended on adherence to certain public expectations. Egypt’s path to democracy has been continues to harshly challenge the country’s socioeconomic, political, and cultural institutions and continues to plague the nation with the current uprising for open democratic governance. Civilization and pictures of an ancient land established somewhere down in history are evoked by the insignificant notice of Egypt that was a riddle until the mid nineteenth century. In old times, Egypt was known for its magnificence, the considerable sphinx, pyramids, and pharaohs. Past the magnificence, Egypt is likewise perceived for improvements of hieroglyphic written work and accomplishments in craftsmanship, building design, and horticulture. The wellspring of antiquated Egypt's flourishing realm is said to be the Nile River and agriculture. Herodotus, the traditional Greek history specialist, depicted Egypt as the endowment of the Nile. The Nile was the life of the valley with its downpour surges and retreating cycles. Egypt was a standout amongst the ripest farming zones of the world supporting and managing the area for centuries. The economy depends heavily on agriculture...
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...The Amish Culture: A Blueprint for a Strong Family Unit Sherletrice Spencer ANT101 Dr. Elena Lattarulo May 21, 2012 The Amish Culture: A Blueprint for a Strong Family Unit The Amish are an old religious sect and trace their heritage to the Swiss Anabaptists of sixteenth century Europe (Kraybill, 2001, pg. 3). Their existence both socially and economically revolve around the church, family, and their resistance to many forms of modern technology and conveniences. The Amish choose to live apart from modern society to maintain unity among its members but most important, to shield themselves from the temptations of the modern world. The ways of the Amish are a page out of the past, but they embrace many values that are lacking in modern society today. They continue to survive and thrive because of their commitment to community survival, adherence to a strict social order, and a strong sense of family and values. The Amish, who are also known as “The Plain People” were founded by Jacob Amman. They initially belonged to a group called the Mennonites who believed in infant baptism and the unification of church and state. The Amish believed in separation of church and state and that people should only be baptized as adults because they believed one was old enough to make the decision about their religious choices as adults. With their vast differences, the Amish decided to break away from the Mennonites which made them a target of religious persecution; their beliefs...
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...Nursing in 3D: Diversity, Disparities, and Social Determinants The Social Determinants of Health: It’s Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes Paula Braveman, MD, MPHa Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPHb ABSTRACT During the past two decades, the public health community’s attention has been drawn increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care that can be influenced by social policies and shape health in powerful ways. We use “medical care” rather than “health care” to refer to clinical services, to avoid potential confusion between “health” and “health care.” The World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health has defined SDH as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age” and “the fundamental drivers of these conditions.” The term “social determinants” often evokes factors such as health-related features of neighborhoods (e.g., walkability, recreational areas, and accessibility of healthful foods), which can influence health-related behaviors. Evidence has accumulated, however, pointing to socioeconomic factors such as income, wealth, and education as the fundamental causes of a wide range of health outcomes. This article broadly reviews some of the knowledge accumulated to date that highlights the importance of social—and particularly socioeconomic— factors in shaping health, and plausible pathways and biological mechanisms that may explain their effects. We also discuss...
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...Employers, job seekers, and puzzle lovers everywhere delight in William Poundstone's HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? "Combines how-to with be-smart for an audience of job seekers, interviewers, Wired-style cognitive science hobbyists, and the onlooking curious. . . . How Would You Move Mount Fuji? gallops down entertaining sidepaths about the history of intelligence testing, the origins of Silicon Valley, and the brain-jockey heroics of Microsoft culture." — Michael Erard, Austin Chronicle "A charming Trojan Horse of a book While this slim book is ostensibly a guide to cracking the cult of the puzzle in Microsoft's hiring practices, Poundstone manages to sneak in a wealth of material on the crucial issue of how to hire in today's knowledge-based economy. How Would You Move Mount Fuji? delivers on the promise of revealing the tricks to Microsoft's notorious hiring challenges. But, more important, Poundstone, an accomplished science journalist, shows how puzzles can — and cannot — identify the potential stars of a competitive company.... Poundstone gives smart advice to candidates on how to 'pass' the puzzle game.... Of course, let's not forget the real fun of the book: the puzzles themselves." — Tom Ehrenfeld, Boston Globe "A dead-serious book about recruiting practices and abstract reasoning — presented as a puzzle game.... Very, very valuable to some job applicants — the concepts being more important than the answers. It would have usefulness as well to interviewers with...
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