...Fearless and Falling Man In the movie Fearless, it narrated how Max Klein reacted in his life after he survived from a terrible air crash. Although Max had been able to survive in the crash and helped other passengers on the air to escape from the fired airplane, he was living under the shadow of the air crash. The terrible air crash brought Max both painful memories about the crash. In general, Max’s behavior is a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a kind of anxiety disorder. This kind of disorder is able to occur after someone has gone through a traumatic event involving injury or death. For example, it was hard for Max to walk out of the shadow of the air crash. That is, the memory about the crash belonging to Max was indelible. The fact drove Max’s memory simulated and indelible is the process his getting out of the plane. No matter when Max felt that he was not able to breathe and depress, he would love to rush to some wide space to get relaxed. For instance, when he was crowed by a lot of journalists to be asked to say something about the crash, he just rushed and kept running until he saw the sea. It just liked Max escaped from the plane that was a small space to a Bakersfield that was wide enough. For Max, it was a way out of the plane, and it was a method away from death. As I mentioned above, it was hard for Max to walk out of the shadow of the crash. Consequently, he needed some coping methods to help him to be psychologically healthy. He went...
Words: 911 - Pages: 4
...Analyse the ways history and memory generate compelling and unexpected insights. In your response, you must make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least one other related text. Through history, documented evidence of past events, and memory, personal recollections of the past, a representation is conveyed. The perspective of the representation of the history and memory of events ultimately shapes the responder’s understanding of the event. This is evident on the Smithsonian website of American History, ‘Bearing Witness to History’ and Richard Drew’s photograph, ‘The Falling Man’, where the responders are exposed to different language forms and features that generate compelling and unexpected insights into the events of September 11. The Smithsonian website of American History, ‘Bearing Witness to History’, allows the responders to develop compelling and unexpected insights into the events of September 11 through a perspective built on American values. The homepage of the website adopts a muted and neutral colour scheme, creating a sensitive atmosphere to memorialise those who lost their lives. The respect created for those affected suggests that even now, more than a decade later after the event, individuals are still suffering and the pain and anguish created by the event is enduring. The title of the website September 11: Bearing Witness to History’ is in present tense, which implies that the history of this specific event is an ongoing process that is...
Words: 1289 - Pages: 6
...“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty.”- Mother Teresa. In Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Mother Teresa’s words of wisdom apply to Adeline's life because throughout the book, Adeline feels isolated and unwanted, and Adeline always says how much she wishes to feel wanted. She feels lonely, undesired, but more lonely at home than at school. Mother Teresa’s words of wisdom about being lonely apply to Adeline’s life because feeling lonesome is something that Adeline is very familiar with. She is lonely when the girls at school leave, when Niang treats her like an outcast, when her siblings gang up on her, and countless other times. For example, in the book, Adeline knows she must not tell anyone how Father and Niang treat her. She says, “I should just go to school every day and carry this dreadful loneliness, a secret I could never share. Otherwise it would be over, and Father and Niang would never come to love me.”(Yen Mah 55) This quote shows that by carrying her secret of loneliness all to herself, this makes her more lonely because no one else knows about it but her. Another example is “As usual, Fourth Brother picked first, followed by Little Sister, Big Brother, Second Brother, and Third Brother. By the time my turn arrived, I was left with the scrawniness baby bird.” (Yen Mah 73) This example shows that to Niang and Father, she is the least favorite and ranked last among the children. This makes her isolated because she knows that...
Words: 619 - Pages: 3
...Chinese Cinderella by Adeline yen Mah is an autobiography written to general audience who may be interested in childhood memoirs or perhaps in understanding the different culture Adeline came from. Whereas animal refuge is an article written for general audience as well but to describe not only what they did and how money they had to spend but also how they felt about their lives. However both the texts share the same concept to inform, explain and describe their experiences to the readers by the writers various techniques. In Chinese Cinderella, the extract sets the stage for Adeline’s story. Mah uses plain language, simple sentences and first person (I) to invoke the feeling of childhood nostalgia, giving the story a perspective from Adeline’s viewpoint, ‘I watched her open the closet door and take out her safe deposit box’. Mah characterizes her younger self as an innocent and curious girl, eager to please and learn. Moreover, Aunt Baba’s pride and patience with Adeline creates the illusion that they come from a loving house because of The way that Aunt Baba treats Adeline’s certificate like “some precious jewel” shows how Aunt Baba vies Adeline as a treasure “impossible to replace”. However the article animal refuge, the writer uses 2nd person to show the view point of Sarah who states that being 14 can be horrible as adults ignore your opinions. The writer uses phrases such as ‘social breakdown’, ‘Reebok’ or ‘Levis jeans’ to relate to the audience as such phrases are quite...
Words: 415 - Pages: 2
...from summer reading or from your reading log from the last quarter.) It can be fiction or nonfiction. Your report is due on Wednesday, February 17th. It must be typed in Times New Roman, 12-point font. (If you are presenting in something other than a paper, make sure your font is approved by the teacher. I’m trying to avoid issues with legibility. ) Since I cannot construct a rubric for every single type of report, I will grade you on the following: neatness proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation knowledge of text determined by information presented in project knowledge of text determined by brief interview What kind of knowledge will be looked for? knowledge of characters, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution (fiction) knowledge of content of nonfiction book. How does the information from the text affect the audience? (The audience is your teacher and fellow students.) You may work by yourself or in groups of no larger than three. groups are from your period groups must make contract for teacher and for members of the group (Two copies – one for teacher, one for group) all members of groups must have parent’s signature (Group work can be difficult to coordinate. Your parent must be made aware that you have made this choice.) What choices do I have for a book report format? Go to the “Book Report” tab on Mrs. Sadenwasser’s webpage for ideas. Go to this site for even more ideas: http://teachnet.co...
Words: 337 - Pages: 2
...the old days and describes in great detail struggles that many ordinary working class people face in life. The story in this book tells us of the social issues regarding unemployment and social deprivation. The story is based in a neighbourhood where residents would help each other where possible, even though many of them did not have a lot to offer. It tells us of the hardworking jobs that children had to do, for a very low wage. Many of the boys got taken on in factories for an apprentice when they were very young but then got laid off as soon as they hit they age where they would have to be paid a man’s wage. After this happened many men faced trouble getting back into work and therefore had to live a life on the dole. As if having to live off the dole wasn’t bad enough they then had to face a ‘means test’. Anybody wanting to go on the dole would have to have an assessment to make sure they were eligible to receive the funding. The whole family would get looked at to see if they had enough money to support them. This meant that in many cases one wage had to be enough to support a whole family. They faced many struggles. In order for these people to get money to be able to put food on the table and pay their rent to keep a roof over their heads, they had to find ways to collect money. A popular way for people to get their hands on some money was to go to the pawnbrokers and pawning their goods. Many did this every week in order to survive. Pawning items such as husbands ‘Sunday...
Words: 803 - Pages: 4
...Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish philosopher and economist who is renowned as the author of The Wealth Of Nations (1776), one of the most influential books on market economics ever written.[2] Adam Smith was born in 1723 on an unknown date. He studied moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, but eventually left the latter and made a name for himself as a traveling lecturer. He later became a professor of logic, ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence and political economy.[3] [edit]Introduction Adam Smith has not received as much recognition for his theory of growth as he has for his theory of value and rent, but the fact still remains that he does provide a consistent dynamic model. Adam Smith identified three major sources of growth: (i) growth in the labour force and stock of capital (ii) improvement in the efficiency with which capital is used in labour through greater division of labour and technological progress (iii) promotion of foreign trade that widens the market and reinforces the other two sources of growth.[citation needed] To understand the final growth process as stated by Adam Smith in this theory, we first need to look into the individual components, which have laid the foundation of the theory. These are Adam Smith's Production Function, his views on the process of growth of labour force and capital accumulation in the economy. [edit]The production function Adam Smith recognized only three factors of production: land, labour and...
Words: 1835 - Pages: 8
...while attending Stanford Business School in the early 1960's. In 1998, Nike was the leader in the sports shoe industry, with annual sales of $9.5 billion and a 40% share of the American sneaker market. It became a lightning rod for protest when alleged “sweatshop” conditions where happening in Southeast Asia. May 1998 is when Phil Knight, the founder and CEO, admitted that “the Nike product has became synonymous with slave wages, forced overtime, and arbitrary abuse.” What people couldn’t understand was how Nike could get associated with deplorable labor practices. The strategy that Knight developed involved outsourcing all manufacturing to contractors in low wage countries and pouring the companies resources in high profile marketing. They where trying to take the blame off by saying that “We don’t know the first thing of manufacturing. We are marketers and designers.” They did manage to be marketing a lot by placing the Nike “swoosh” on the uniforms of athletes such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. When manufacturing started it was done in Japan, but as wages rose, they transferred production to Korea and Taiwan. Later on, in 1982 more than 80% of Nike...
Words: 849 - Pages: 4
...Factor Markets in Indian IT Industry The following case-let is an attempt to understand the applicability of the concepts of “Labor factor markets” in the context of the country’s Information Technology (IT) industry. The Indian IT industry started in the early 70’s, grew in the early 80’s and 90’s and boomed in the late 90’s. The boom started with the Y2K problems and brought with it the internet / web era where every organization in the world wanted to have a web footprint in the form of a website (e-commerce site in a business language) and this continued until the early 2005’s. Until early 2005, the industry had collected so much data through its e-commerce sites that organizations now wanted to analyze historical data, establish consumer trends and leverage that data to make strategic business decisions, thus introducing “Business Intelligence” to the world. With the industry moving at such a high pace, there was indeed a huge demand for large but low cost workforces with IT knowhow that could translate standard / custom requirements into software solutions / products. By now, we can understand that IT programmers are the factors of production of this industry. (Hereafter, the words IT Programmer/software developer might be used interchangeably). The revenue model of the industry was different from others in the fact that maximum revenue was generated from junior software developers and as people moved into higher managerial roles the revenue generation in terms of self-billing...
Words: 1558 - Pages: 7
...Hannah Grace S. Bielza AC-301 The Keynesian Theory * In the depression of the 1930s democratic nations were concerned about the problem of inflation. Wherein, general level of prices for goods and services is rising and, consequently, the purchasing power of currency is falling. * Because of inflation, workers are unwilling to accept further cuts in their wages for the reason that their earnings were already cut down by unemployment and part-time work. It is really hard to work, earning a small amount of money while having a huge amount of expenses that’s why a lot of workers don’t want to cut their wages. * Explanation of wages and wage changes in this kind of setting inevitably directed attention to general wage levels rather than to wage rates in the labor markets. This means that the employers focus on this average wage paid to employees rather than the rate per hour or based on production. * John Maynard Keynes advanced his full employment theory by publishing “General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money” in 1936 which provides basic analysis on which the theory is based. * To many theorists in the classical tradition, Adam Smith’s, “Wealth of the Nations” provided rationalization for policies they thought necessary but could not embrace with clear conscience. There’s no scholarly document to prove that this will fit more closely to the needs of the times. Keyne’s Theory on Employment * Keynes admitted that the Classical and Neo classical...
Words: 873 - Pages: 4
...referenced research was rooted in peer reviews, frequency of citations, and perceived quality. For the purposes of this summary, the methods were not re-analyzed or tested. The research addressed here is focused on findings within the context of the United States. The analysis of the causes of poverty as well as research on issues that impact income, earnings and poverty can be considered determinants of poverty. The issue of employment and life experiences that put people at risk of not working or not working enough to prevent entry into poverty is strength of the economy and quality of wages. Introduction The scale and conditions of poverty make it one of the most pressing social issues facing the nation. According to the 2007 Population Report prepared by the US Census Bureau, over 36 million people in the United States are living in poverty and 54 million are at severe risk of falling into poverty.1 “The annual rate of entry into poverty for the total population of the United States has been estimated at roughly three percent per year”.2 Poverty will touch the majority of Americans at some point during adulthood. It is estimated that, on average, 60 percent of 20 year olds in America will experience poverty at some point during their adult years and about half of adults will experience poverty by the time they are age 65. Poverty is not static. It represents the status of families moving into and out of poverty at different points in time. Almost half of the spells...
Words: 1579 - Pages: 7
...Millaniyage Dulan Chaturanga Perera 617809 Managing Employee Relations Assignment Research Essay Is the work of Unions still relevant? A trade union, as defined in the History of Trade Unionism is ‘ a continuous association of wageearners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their working lives’.(Webb and Webb, 1911) Unions exist on the basis that they protect the wages and conditions for employees, making sure that they're protected from unemployment by obtaining a substantial degree of job security as well as supporting employees in disputes and claims against their employers.(Murphy, 2014) The relevance of unions may vary from place to place. Using reasoning and statistical day, we will aim to achieve some sort of clarity towards the complexity and variety of opinions that people have on the need for trade unions. Importance of Trade Unions Unions not only negotiate wages, they also have an impact on fringe benefits, labour productivity,work allocation, job security and employee participation practices.(OECD, 1991) There is also a spillover effect, through extension of agreements and employer responses to union environment where some of these benefits alter the employment terms of non union members.(OECD, 1991) A substantial amount of protective legislation supporting unemployment compensation, sickness insurance, employment protection along with occupational health and safety, is the outcome of work by trade unions. ...
Words: 2424 - Pages: 10
...discrimination which we as a society have failed to deal with since ages. Discrimination refers to inequality. Gender discrimination therefore refers to inequality between people of opposite sex. Gender Discrimination at Workplace There is an alarming rise in the rates of increasing gender discrimination at workplaces nowadays. Every now and then we come across reports related to gender discrimination at workplace. Researchers have also ratified this. Gender discrimination can take place in various forms in respect to unusual or unequal and harsh treatment to a person of one sex as compared to the person of the other sex. * Often, there is discrimination in terms of wage pay to the women employees as compared to male employees as the women are often tagged as the ‘housewife material’ and hence is offered lower wages/salaries and men are considered hard working and dedicated comparatively. This is a common discrimination that women laborers face. What do you think? * Many a times, women (housewives) generally step out of their houses during their difficult times to deal with the hardships to earn to provide the basic necessities to their family and hence the employers take the advantage of the situation by providing lower salaries irrespective of the qualities or qualifications of the...
Words: 719 - Pages: 3
...English 111 05 March 4, 2014 Homelessness In the U.S. there seems to be a lot of homeless people. Approximately 3.5 million people are likely to experience homelessness in any given year(www.nlchp.org). There are many reasons why people become homeless which are, domestic violence, addiction disorders, lack of jobs, mental and medical health issues, lack of education, and insurance. Some of these problems spiral out of control resulting in the inability to provide for oneself or ones family. In most cases homelessness is rarely caused by one factor but it can happen. Fifty percent of the cities surveyed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors identified domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness. Approximately sixty three percent of homeless women have experienced domestic violence in their lives (National Coalition for the Homeless). Women generally are scared to ask for help for the fear of the one causing their violence may take it out on the one that helps her so therefore women tend to fend for themselves. Some women think it will ruin their pride to ask for help so they stay until the violence gets so bad they can’t take it anymore. So they choose to be homeless verses asking friends and family for help. Addiction and substance abuse isn’t generally a cause of its own in homelessness but it does happen that way. Most people that have an addiction or substance abuse problem are already homeless but for some people it is a reason...
Words: 1003 - Pages: 5
...3. The difficulties of Foxconn International Holdings If we shift from macro aggregates to company cases, it is much more difficult to be optimistic about Chinese manufacturing prospects for upward mobility towards competing on brand with established Western firms. The resources of generally favourable national ratios in manufacture are an advantage that can be negated in key sectors by Western firms which aim to relegate their Chinese partners to permanent junior assembler status by leaving them with nothing to invest in or no investment funds. This can be done in two ways. The first option is illustrated by the Sino-foreign joint ventures in car assembly (like SAIC) which hold more than 75% of the Chinese domestic car market and make almost no exports. Here, the dominant Western partner retains the intellectual property and know how in product and process, so that the Chinese subordinate may make profits but has no easy pathway to upward mobility through own account strategic investment in, for example, power train manufacture. The second option is illustrated by electronics assemblers like Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) which can derive little benefit from assembling premium products like smart phones for sale in Western export markets. The instrument of subordination here is the contract with the dominant Western partner which ensures the assembler makes little profit so that the Chinese Apple Business Model: Financialization across the Pacific 16 | ...
Words: 2291 - Pages: 10
