...story ‘The Third Dumpster’ written by Gish Jen, we meet two brothers and their struggle to make the perfect nursing home for their parents. The short story deals with the two brothers, Goodwin and Morehouse, who have bought an old poor home on auction for their Chinese parents to live in. Their parents have been living in the US for the past 50 years, although they do not like the culture or the food for that matter. Goodwin and Morehouse are to renovate the old home, so that it becomes livable and at the same time make their parents actually like the US. The house was a bargain for the two brothers; it was close to their home and the house is in one plan, which makes it easy for the parents to cope. In spite of the two brothers effort, the parents are not pleased. The short story starts in media res, just after Goodwin and Morehouse has bought the house. We are presented to the story, almost without any insight information about any of the characters; the only thing we know is that Goodwin and Morehouse are brothers. The story is being told by a third person narrator, through the eyes of Goodwin, which means we only get an insight in his thoughts and feelings. Every culture has a tradition on how to properly take care of old people who no are able to take care of themselves. In America there is two different options, and in this short story there is three, which also is connected to the title, the third dumpster. The writer tells about three dumpsters, when the brothers...
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...The Third Dumpster The Third Dumpster by Gish Jen is the story of chinese brothers; Goodwin Lee and Morehouse, relocating their parents to a new home. Jen writes the story in a comical contrasting way. The language and ideals of the brothers contrasts that of their parents. Jen uses many constrasting sentences throughout his story in the conversations of Goodwin and Morehouse. The language used by Morehouse and Goodwin’s parents, is funny and prejudice. Jen begins the story by telling us that the brothers have bought a house for their parents because they couldn’t climb the stairs in their apartment anymore. ’’..they had been Americans for fifty years and could no longer belay themselves hand over hand up their apartment stair rail to get to their bedroom..’’ here Jen uses some contrast that isn’t out in the open, he states that even though they had been americans for fifty years they couldn’t bring themselves up the stairs. The contrats can be found in their age saying that ’’they had been americans for fifty years’’ before they were able to climb the stairs now they can’t. Jen continues the story with the brothers as they are fixing the house and now need a place to dump their garbage. Here Jen shows a contrast in society and how it affects some people, ”Goodwin was out scouting for dumpster. Becuase this was what the recession meant in their neck of the woods…” ’’He (Goodwin) did not, of course, like the idea of illicit trash disposal; he would have perferred to do this...
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...”THE THIRD DUMPSTER” BY GISH JEN In most parts of the world there are cultural and ethnic differences within a population. Therefor it’s relevant to discuss how to establish a country’s society. In this discussion two answers are regularly presented: assimilation or integration. A society is highly dominated by dissimilarity. All individuals have different backgrounds, stories and experiences, and for that reason all individuals behave differently in a social context. In regards to the concepts of assimilation and integration a question of moral unfolds: Is it required to fully adapt to the country’s culture, traditions, behavior and language, and with that forget your origin? In the short story “The third dumpster” the author portrays the concepts of integration and assimilation as a contrast. The short story’s main characters, the brothers Goodwin Lee and Morehouse, are Americans with Chinese heritage. Both brothers have found a balance between identifying as American and Chinese. On the contrary their parents only identify as Chinese even though they both have a US citizenship: “And their parents were Chinese, end of story, as Morehouse liked to say. Meaning that though they had been Americans for fifty years and could no longer belay themselves hand over hand up their apartment stair rail to go to their bedroom, they nonetheless could not go into assisted living because of the food” (p. 2 l. 8-11). A distinct separation between the Chinese culture and American culture...
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...MT 140: Introduction to Management Unit 8 Assignment Integrity and Leadership are issues that Dalman is currently facing in Sandwich Blitz. New laws for the health codes have been put in place in one of their locations. Currently they do not meet the rules for the placement of the dumpster. The government zoning inspector is willing to turn a blind eye to violation in exchange for Sandwich Blitz to supply food for his company’s holiday parties. Dalman needs to use some integrity in this situation. After reading the Eight Steps in “Rethinking Integrity,” by Sherman, I believe there are definite integrity steps that Dalman should choose to follow here. Doing the right thing is the first of the eight steps of integrity that Sandwich Blitz should incorporate. Doing the right thing means having a clear understand of what is right and wrong. A good leader has good values. He leads his employees by example. In this situation Dalman needs to obey the rules. In the long run it won’t benefit him to violate this health code. The dumpster needs to be moved back the extra food that is required. These codes are set in place for a reason. In this case it is a health issue. Dalman wants his company to have a good reputation and also he wants his employees to follow the rules as well. One leads by example and in this case doing the right thing shows the employees they should not cut corners or violate laws set in place either. Dalman will need to take responsibility...
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...Sandwich Blitz, Inc. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Sandwich Blitz, Inc. top level managers has found themselves in an ethical dilemma with a government inspector about the distance between the dumpster and their back door. Due to the new local health codes and laws having been issued requiring trash dumpsters to be a minimum distance of 30 feet from the rear entrance of the building, and new land-use laws requiring that all out buildings be at least 6 feet from the property lines. The enclosure that houses the trash dumpster is 5 feet from the property lines, which is in violation of those laws. The government inspector has told the unit manager that he would be willing to approve this if Sandwich Blitz provides the food for his department's holiday party. The following describes Sandwich Blitz, Inc.’s ethical and corporate social responsibility to maintain their integrity as a company and do what is right regardless of any inconveniences or expenses it could potentially cause. According to the eight steps to integrity (Sherman 2003) Sandwich Blitz, Inc., “With the awareness of what's right comes the obligation of right action.” It is important that Sandwich Blitz, Inc.’s top level management continue to maintain their integrity regardless of the fact that the inspector is willing to overlook the violation to benefit his department. The organization must take responsibility (Sherman 2003). By taking responsibility it is up to Dalman and Lei to recognize that they...
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... In my ????? class, Professor ???? talked about one particular example of social engineering dating back to ancient times, the Trojan Horse. It is considered one the most well-known examples of social engineering in history; a hollow statue built by the Greeks to allow them access to the city of Troy. This seemingly harmless wood statue was not apparent to be a threat by the Trojans and unfortunately resulted in the fall of the city of Troy to the Greeks. Social engineering works in somewhat the same way. In modern times it is a way for criminals to access your computer, office or confidential information for illegal purposes. In this paper, I will discuss 3 of the most common types of social engineering attacks; phishing, snooping and dumpster diving. Issues Analysis Firs I want to talk about one of the most common types of social engineering, phishing. Phishing is a computer criminal activity that uses a special engineering as a disguise on a website in order to acquire credit card information, social security, and other important information about the user. The first use of phishing started...
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...The Sandwich Blitz situation, new health codes require that waste dumpsters be at least thirty feet from the back passage of the building. The new laws likewise incorporate that hard and fast structures be at least six feet from the property line; Thus Sandwich Blitz is infringing upon these laws. The walled in area that houses the junk dumpster is five feet from the property line. The nearby government auditor told the area administrator that he will disregard this infringement in return with the expectation of complimentary nourishment for his specialization's vacation party. Dalman was educated of this data by the area administrator since he felt awkward. The head at this territory is my assessment demonstrated great character by settling...
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...Technology is abundant and the knowledge of being able to use the technology can be easily manipulated. Hackers and criminals like to use two different techniques, non-technological schemes and technological schemes. Non – technological schemes include dumpster diving, mail theft, social engineering, and shoulder surfing and stealing personal items. This technique is exactly what it sounds like the criminal or hacker does not use technology but will use theft and other diversions to gather personal information. Dumpster diving is the act of going through somebody else’s garbage to obtain personal information off of the items found in the garbage. To protect yourself from this you should shred everything before throwing it away. You could also go paperless and get online bank...
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...Unit 8 Assignment The Sandwich Blitz has just been informed by one of its location managers that they are in violation of the new local health codes. Each of the Sandwich Blitz locations are situated on a very small parcel of land. This contributed to lower operating expenses for the business. Dalman and Lei consider this a competitive advantage. With the new local health code, the location of their building, which encloses the trash dumpsters, are in violation of the codes. The government inspector has told the location manager that he would be willing to overlook and approve the violation in exchange for providing food for his department’s holiday party. The location manager has conveyed the information to Dalman. After reviewing the Eight Steps in “Rethinking Integrity,” by Sherman, Stratford, I believe that Dalman and the location manager need to “Do the Right Thing.” The eight steps toward integrity is something that all corporation and businesses should strive to excel at. Theses eight steps include: doing what we say we will do, doing the right thing, taking responsibility, supporting our own weight, holistic thinking, respecting other, checking the mirror, and defining the rules and values. As stated by Bateman and Snell (2012) “Unethical corporate behavior may be the responsibility of an unethical individual, but it often also reveals a company culture that is ethically lax” (pg. 76). Sandwich Blitz as an organization that is trying to grow and expand should...
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...Crime One of the best theories best known for methodological approaches would be a rational choice. Individuals are a unit of analysis at which to study society. Society is not made up of a large number of individuals; it can contain organizations and groups. Any general sociological theory is able to tell how the social structure can come into being as well as how they can be maintained. The rational choice theory will explain how the human race behaves for the most part. There are some limits to the theory. Rational choice theory is based on the idea that individuals act for a particular purpose, that is to maximize their utility. In the simplest way, rational choice theory will say the given number of different options that people will do, because they believe that it will have the best outcome. The field of political science rational choice theory is usually used. Rational choice theorists argue that the study of political analysis need not necessarily include every detail of political information, such as dates, names and places, but that an alternative view can offer a distinctive insight into the nature of political life. An assumption made by rational choice theorists is, every human is motivated by self-interest and will figure out their own moves so that they can maximize their own interests. The rational choice theories are more likely to deter property crimes than to violence crimes if increased sanctions are put in play. The increased sanctions will...
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...contact. Attackers then use this information against the organization during the psychological methods stage. (Jones, 2003). In this scenario a supervisor that handles customer complaints received an email that one of the product listings on the organization’s website was incorrect. The link provided in the email redirected the user to a page containing a script, that once run, compromised the supervisor’s computer by downloading and installing a Trojan horse and opening a remote access session for the attacker which allowed him to access and downloaded confidential files from the system. During the first stage, the attacker impersonated a customer from account information perhaps discovered during a reconnaissance attack in the form of dumpster diving in the organization’s garbage. The hacker calls the customer support line found on the organization’s website to obtain the supervisor’s email address. The second stage targets the under trained call center personnel to provide detailed information about their supervisor; name, title and contact information. After discussing the problem with a customer support representative the attacker convinces them to...
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...deception performed against human capital. System penetrators and ‘crackers’ know that people, and their desire to be helpful, or their ability to emote, are the weakest links in any program designed to protect information systems. Attackers can trick or persuade their way into systems in any number of ways via remote and physical means, and convince users to reveal information of interest that can cause harm to an organization. A typical social engineering attack can be segmented into physical and psychological stages. The physical segment of the social engineering operation could include phone calls, or returned phone calls from employees back to the attacker (an example of reverse social engineering) that volunteer information, ‘dumpster diving’ for company specific information that can be used to simulate a rapport or relationship with the company if questioned by an employee or security, emails with surreptitious links requesting unique information such as PIN’s or user names, or physical proximity and entry by impersonating an authorized person. The psychological stage of a social engineering attack takes place after the physical foot printing of the organization by using the bona fides that were learned while gathering physical intelligence to manufacture relationships with persons or the company, or by asserting false authority by impersonating persons or departments within the company. Employees are lulled into complying because they assume that the person is who...
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...Exchange 2010 Server Roles Author’s Note This research is being submitted on August 11th 2013, for N234/CET2810C Section 01 Microsoft Exchange Server course. Exchange 2010 Server Roles When dealing with Exchange Server there are roles to be configured. Some roles are configured differently do if your implementing it in a small or large business setting. You have two different server roles one being the mailbox server role and the other being the client access server role. Each role is in charge of different task the mailbox server role is in charge of Clients access protocols, transport service, mailbox database, unified messaging and handles all activities for any active mailbox on the server (TechNet, 2013). With the client access role it handles authentication, redirection, proxy services (HTTP, POP, IMAP, and SMTP), and stores all diagnostic logs (TechNet, 2013). Each of these roles and services serves a unique purpose in setting up your exchange environment. The mailbox server role is the most common role used in Exchange Server and some could say that it is the core of an exchange organization when the mailbox server role is installed on to a server they become what is called a mailbox server. Mailbox servers interact directly with active directory, client access servers and Microsoft outlook clients. When setting up a mailbox server it is smart to consider a few things like requirements. First we have mailbox capacity the average mailbox receives 37mbs of mail...
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...theft but the elderly are especially vulnerable. Americans over the age of 60 are the fastest growing segment of computer and Internet users today. And according to the FBI, they are also the targets of identity theft more often than anyone else (FBI, 2011). Identity thieves target senior citizens because they don't regularly check credit-card statements, review credit reports or monitor their bank statements. Identity theft can be broken down into two separate categories (Identity Theft & Identity Fraud) since it is actually a two part crime. Identity theft is the actual act of obtaining personal information of an individual without his or her knowledge. Many of these thieves never use the information they obtain; they sell it to a third party for cash. Identity fraud is the actual use of the personal information to obtain financial gain such as unauthorized purchases or creating fraudulent accounts in the victim’s name. Avoiding Identity Theft Approximately 15...
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...It was July third, Jesus Joplin and his family were celebrating his grandmother's 70th birthday. The day started very happily, just like any other. Jesus and his little sister, Amiyah had to walk to the store and get ice cream for the cake. After they got to the store, Amiyah had to go to the restroom, and while she was in there Jesus was going to get the ice cream and they would meet back at the checkout, but all didn’t go as planned. Jesus had a little trouble finding the ice cream his mother told him to get so it took a little longer than expected. Amiyah came out from the bathroom and there stood a man Amiyah has never seen before, he told her Jesus had to run home and for her to go with him and he would take her home. Amiyah didn’t know any better, so she went with him. When Jesus finally got to the checkout, he couldn’t find Amiyah anywhere. He automatically thought that she just walked home because she’s done it before. When Jesus got home, he asked his mother where Amiyah was and she said she thought she was with him. His mother, very furious began to...
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