...Personal Reflection on the Self Paper Deonte Jones PSY/400 January 26, 2012 Yvonne Moore Personal Reflection on the Self Paper At the cross-roads of the objective reality of behavior and the myriad of perceptions, representations, and schemas that constitute human thought is the mediating element of the self. It cannot be discounted that the individual self does not exist in a vacuum, but rather in a social framework that includes regular contact with other selves. The self is more a confederation or alliance of concepts than a single, unilateral mechanism, bringing together the possible-self, the social-self, and the self-concept into one amalgamated system. However, the self can be better understood upon a full examination of the aforementioned subordinate parts and within the context of a practical application of the self onto two social situations within my own life. Self Concept Central to the idea of self is the answer to the question: “Who am I?” This question can be answered in many ways, but it is the piecing together of the potential answers that constitute our complete self-concept (Myers, 2008). The self-concept can further be divided into self-schemas—specific beliefs about the self that help define the self-concept. Humans use self-schemas as templates to organize the world without and the mental life within. For instance, higher learning approaches can intrinsically motivate if the content is perceived relevant to a student’s self-schemas...
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...The Gap Year The “gap year” has been a common rite of passage in many foreign countries for decades, but it has now started to gain significant steam here in America as told by Danielle Wood, a parent from Today’s Parenting. This leads to many questions that parents and students want answered, such as: “Is the “gap year” a good or bad consideration?” “Will this decision put me behind?” “Does this stop me from ever going to college?” “Will I ever get my college degree?” All of these questions have can be answered yes and no, all depending on the person and their determination. Some people argue that a gap year is not a good idea, however; others say it is a great idea and every student should consider taking one. However, as I mentioned in my thesis, it all depends on how each individual indulges in the activities that help them to become better prepared for the transition. A gap year does not mean that your child will NEVER go to college or ever get a college degree. It is merely time taken out to plan out what exactly they want to do in college and experience life in the real world. During this time off the student and parents should take time to complete college applications and decide on what major and school environment is right for them. Still this does not mean that every parent is in agreement with this gap year. Most parents do agree that after twelve years of consistency in school, a student may need to take a break, whereas; others say that a student should continue...
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...A Gap of Sky Youth is often associated with freedom, exploration, desire, and choices which concern the future of the individual. Being young is not always easy. The parents are now in the background and, therefore, young people enjoy the freedom which comes with the parents’ withdrawal. Although, having fun and being free is part of youth, there are responsibilities and expectations, and these must not be neglected. But real freedom and responsibilities go together. The short story ‘A Gap of Sky’ by Anna Hope deals with issues which may be associated with being young in a big city trapped in an environment where drugs and “freedom” without responsibility are part of everyday life. The main character, Ellie, wakes up on a Monday afternoon realizing that she has to write an essay for the next day. She has been out all night, high on drugs and alcohol, and she is close to being kicked out of the university that she attends. In the short story Ellie goes through a mental journey, and the outcome of this is a new Ellie who doesn’t take everything for granted, and she realizes that life has so much to give her if she gives something back. Ellie is 19 years old and lives in the heart of London. She might live at a college as she has to walk down a corridor to get to the toilet. She studies at a university even though she doesn’t take it seriously. It was her parents who made her attend, and she has already had an extension. She doesn’t do her schoolwork and the past...
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...Company Report: Gap Inc. and Business Ethics Depestel Caroline Milijana Zlatic s0101027 s0100470 Professor S. Hughes Year: 2012-2013 3th Bachelor Applied Economics 1. Executive Summary The topic of this paper is business ethics within Gap Inc., a multinational retail – clothing company. The foundation of its corporate ethical approach is summarized in the Code of Conduct . This paper outlines the ethical problems Gap Inc. faced in the last years and more important, the solutions they found in order to remain a successful company. It shows how large companies deal with common issues like child labour and sweatshops. In the first place, this report points out several examples of the problems had to deal with. These points, among which an important lawsuit and documentary, illustrate that their Code of Conduct is not sufficient enough to name Gap Inc. a model corporation in terms of business ethics. Secondly, it is essential to make an overview of the resolutions for the problems that Gap created over the years. In answer to the critics on child labour and employee abuse, they launched a campaign in which they support several organizations. Furthermore, Gap increased its corporate responsibilty by creating several multi-stakeholder initiatives. The quick solutions Gap came up with show that a big company can limit its economic damage when ethical issues occur. To maintain this positive ethical image that Gap pursues, it could...
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...employees – known as Partners – who have a say in the running of the business and receive a share of annual profits, which is usually a significant addition to their salary. The group is the third largest UK private company in the Sunday Times Top Track 100 for 2010. Additionally, John Lewis also has the distinction of being UK’s best high-street website after beating M&S in October 2010. Moreover, John Lewis is one of the UK’s top ten retail business with 27 John Lewis department stores and more than 166 Waitrose stores. The first store opened in Oxford Street London in 1864 with the first branch of the Waitrose chain opening in 1904. John Lewis has been known for providing a unique source of competitive advantage that has fuelled 75 years of profitable growth and a reputation among customers and suppliers unparalleled in the UK retail industry. The John Lewis Partnership is a visionary and successful way of doing business, boldly putting the happiness of Partners at the centre of everything it does. II – Reading the case study 1. Read the case study of John Lewis’s customer service. Provide a summary of what has created the success of John Lewis in keeping customer satisfaction. John Lewis is very well known for their brilliant customer service. As Partners in the business, they want to provide the best possible choice, value and service to...
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...extra of 59 days to match the salary earned by men, which makes an average gender pay gap of 16.2% across the European Union in 2010. ("Equal pay day:," 2013). The reason why the quota system in Europe is not working is, because it has the status of a directive. Equality is one of five values on which the Union is founded. The Union is bound to strive for equality between women and men in all its activities. (3 Articles 2 and 3 TEU, Article 8 TFEU). Therefore, the EU has laws that forbid discrimination based on sex. Article two of the Maastricht Treaty (TEU) clearly states men and women are equal. (Van Ooik, & Vandamme, 2010, p. 5). In addition, article 121 of the TFEU states that men and women have the right for equal pay. Finally, article 21 of the Lisbon Treaty specifically prohibits discrimination based on sex (Van Ooik, & Vandamme, 2010, p. 161). This means that women in the EU are protected by law against discrimination based on their gender. However, in practice gender inequality still exists in European businesses. The European Union and its fight for gender equality has been a long battle. Despite EU law and directives the European Union has not been able to solve the problem. The main issue the EU is facing is that there are only a few women in top-positions in government institutions and private companies in Europe, and that the statistics have slightly improved in ten years. At this point, only 1 in 7 (13,7%) board members at Europe’s top companies is a woman...
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...How can we close the Achievement Gap? When we are thinking about our school system it isn’t difficult to think about different gaps, which we should reach. Gaps that we should break down to get a stronger education system, with better qualified teachers, which can lead our students to a grounded education. In the education system you can find negative stereotypes, which make the way for success for students even more difficult. Stereotypes can effect students in their personal goals but also make them feel less valued. Also, bad teachers in the school system aren’t making things better, which get protected from unions, but on the other hand teachers have no freedom. To find a way out of this dilemma between negative effected students and unsatisfied teachers who lose all kind of motivation, we should encourage students and teachers in their work away from unions, so that we can to attend our achievement gaps as soon as possible. Stereotypes are everywhere in our society, also in our schools. Although stereotypes can help students to do better in certain materials, stereotypes affect students and perpetuate and exacerbate gaps. Students who are in a negatively stereotyped group often underperform because of the pressure and worry they get in qualifying exams and aptitude tests in math, and these intensifies worries. According to Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, the author of “ Framed!” “Notions about innate ability don’t just hinder the performance of negative stereotyped...
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...AREA, ISLAMABAD 44000 Dear Mr. Rahim I am writing to you a report about the bad customer service experience I had at your esteemed restaurant during my recent visit. The report is entitled “Conclusion and Reflection of Negative Service Encounter” The report provides a brief explanation of the service delivery system of BBQ Tonight and the negative service encounter. The content of the report specifically concentrates on the analysis of customer’s expectations and perceptions regarding service offerings of BBQ Tonight. At the end we have suggested recommendations on how BBQ Tonight can improve their customer services to avoid the further occurrence of such incidents. After carefully investigation, we have come to know that the lack of quality maintenance by kitchen staff resulted in serving un-hygienic dish from which an insect was found and put a question on performance of the quality control management team. In reading this report, you will gain valuable insight regarding measuring customer’s expectations and perceptions using various service models like Expectancy disconfirmation model, SERQUAL Model to identify the possible service gaps which led to a bad customer experience. I hope that the recommendations in this report will provide you with a beneficial strategy by which BBQ Tonight will get a competitive advantage and will leap far ahead in the restaurant industry. I hope that my bad experience will turn out to be a learning opportunity for the management team of...
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...A Gap of Sky Youth is often associated with freedom, exploration, desire, and choices which concern the future of the individual. Being young is not always easy. The parents are now in the background and, therefore, young people enjoy the freedom which comes with the parents’ withdrawal. Although, having fun and being free is part of youth, there are responsibilities and expectations, and these must not be neglected. Though real freedom and responsibilities go together. The short story ‘A Gap of Sky’ by Anna Hope deals with issues which may be associated with being young in a big city trapped in an environment where drugs and “freedom” without responsibility are part of everyday life. The main character, Ellie, wakes up on a Monday afternoon realizing that she has to write an essay for the next day. She has been out all night, high on drugs and alcohol, and she is close to being kicked out of the university that she attends. In the short story Ellie goes through a mental journey, and the outcome of this is a new Ellie who doesn’t take everything for granted, and she realizes that life has so much to give her if she gives something back. Ellie is 19 years old and lives in the heart of London. She might live at a college as she has to walk down a corridor to get to the toilet. She studies at a university even though she doesn’t take it seriously. It was her parents who made her attend, and she has already had an extension. She doesn’t do her schoolwork and the...
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...A Gap of Sky Growing up can be a hard time, you can feel that you are falling down into a big black hole and are beginning to think that everything doesn’t matter. But in the end you will change and start thinking of all the good things you have done in your life up till now, so you can realize that you actually have a good life and that you can get up and make something out of yourself. In this story we hear about a teenage girl named Ellie who is mentally down she struggles through the whole story to get up from the black hole. In the beginning of the story the sentences are very short but trough out the story the sentences are getting longer. The text is written en third person narrative, but sometimes sounds like a first person narrator. By looking at the language in the story we can see that Ellie transform, like in the beginning she has a very bad mouth: “…fuck. How the fuck did she manage to sleep for so long?..” (p.2 l. 16) then we can see at the ending, that she is talking in a more adult way. “… looping between them in great bonds of love”(p. 5 l. 121) On her way to buy printer ink Ellie ends up in a museum. In here she found a stone that reminds her of her mother, because she has given Ellie one of those. She is here feeling guilty because she realizes that she has been taking her mother for granted her sign of love. You can clearly see her anger and frustration in this sentence: “Whatever, it was still an expression of something, a distilled expression of something...
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...government purchases multiplier calculated? (Review) How is the taxation multiplier calculated? Why is it lower than the government purchases multiplier? How is the transfers multiplier calculated? 2. Given some gaps and marginal propensities to consume, calculate how much government purchases, taxes, or transfers should be changed. 3. Explain why an equal increase (decrease) in government purchases and net taxes (taxes minus transfers) has an expansionary (contractionary) effect. 4. What is the balanced budget multiplier? 5. Explain why discretionary fiscal policy has not been very effective in reducing recessions in the United States. 6. What are the “time lags”? 7. What is meant by "automatic stabilization"? What are the main automatic stabilizers? 8. What is meant by "official budget deficit"? by "structural deficit"? Why is the structural budget deficit a better measure of the intent of fiscal policy? 9. What does it mean that "fiscal policy is expansionary (or contractionary)"? How does one determine whether fiscal policy is expansionary or contractionary? 10. In what ways might budget deficits be bad for an economy? In what ways might they be good for an economy? 11. What is meant by “crowding-out”? 12. Explain the relation between the budget deficits and the trade deficits. 13. What is meant by the "national debt"? What is the difference between "budget deficit"...
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...I will also be comparing my career plan with my skills audit to see how they both perform in my future. Gaps in my skills For me to become a solicitor in the future I need to get into University with 300 ucas points. In order for me to get 300 ucas points I need to work very hard in college and try to achieve a distinction for this year to get into university quicker. The skills gaps that need to be obtained to help me are the ones which I am currently studying which are Business Level 3 B-Tec and also GCSE English level 2. I need these skills to enter University because they are required for the course I will be doing. GCSE English level 2 is a gap for me because I had previously gotten a grade lower in this subject and this can affect my future career plans if I do not change it. The way I will change this is by taking the English GCSE level 2 classes provided by college. I will have to retake the exams and work very hard to achieve the grade I want to get into university. It is important for me to identify my skills gap because if I do not then this can lead to a bad effect in my future career. For example if I do not move my GCSE English result to a grade c then the university may not accept me and this can hold me back another year because I will still have to get a c in English. Skills Audit Skills audit is a process that can be used to identify the skill gaps within yourself. The outcome is a training needs analysis that identifies where training is needed. You can...
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...A Gap of Sky By Anna Hope One of the first things you put in mind, is the drug K. There are a lot different drugs on the market such as, marihuana, heroin and Coke. All of them can be equally dangerous; it all depends on the dose you take. But not only is drug dangerous, they also have an effect on the individual human being. If people starts talking about drugs, we do not react immediately, because nowadays it has reached to a lot young people, and we hear more and more about drugs. Even though drugs are, but are not supposed to be, a part of the underground environment, it always manages to reach the surface, and maybe wind up with some innocent people who actually don’t want anything to do with it. Some might get pressured to do it, others who’s at club and dancing, might get something in their drinks if they leave them unseen. And in the end we got those types of persons who do drugs, because they love it, or having a hard time getting out of it. In this short story by Anna hope, we meet a poor girl named Ellie. The reason for she is poor is because of the fact that she lacks control of her life. Ellie is nineteen years old and she lives in London, in fact she lives on her own, and she is taking a course on University College London. But these facts don’t make a nineteen years old girl poor. The reason is that Ellie is a victim of the dangerous environment of drugs. The story spans an hour and eleven minutes, from 16:29 till 17:40, a Monday afternoon. As everyone...
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...I don't get my parents when they pronounce something bad about the technology today. Telling me that surfing the internet is a waste of time annoys me. It's funny when they can't get our trend and keep on summoning about the good things in their generation. This makes a gap between us. It is an intangible and invisible gap that creates two groups of earth dwellers inhabiting in completely divorced timelines, simultaneously. This is the gap exists between the youth and the adults. That gap is the so called GENERATION GAP. Generations' differences Many would think if generation gap is just the difference in the number of years and in the way of thinking between two generations or something more. But we could say that there is really something more. Every generation has created its own commotion as it has entered into the adult working world. And, every generation says the same things about other generations — “They don’t get it.” Different generations view their education, values and lifestyle differently. Those who were born between 1922-1945, the Veterans, are said to be respectful and disciplined. They tend to have traditional nuclear families and they view education as a dream; while the Baby Boomers (1946-1964) were optimistic and used to have disintegrating families. For them, education is birthright. On the other hand, Generation X (1965-1980) view education as a way to success and are said to be skeptic than Generation Y (1981-2000s) who are confident, real and for...
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...There is a big gap between wealthy and poor people and it has grown a lot over the years. One part of England is doing well, while the other part is struggling and facing bigger challenges. It causes a lot of difficulties for the poor, but is it just materialistic or is it also psychological? In the essay “Poverty is a state of mind” by Bernard Hare from 2012, originally broadcasted on BBC radio 3, he reflects on his life growing up poor and talks about how he finds poverty as something controlled by your mind. Hare is a social worker and a writer. He was born in Leed in 1958 and grew up in poverty. His father was a coal miner, and his mother was a shop worker in a department store, even though they both had a job, they were poor, probably because of the time they used on the pub drinking and smoking. But Hare did not have a problem with that since he did not feel poor at that time. In the story we follow Hare through his life as a child in poverty, social worker, back to poverty, helping a group of children, and then becoming a writer. I am going to analyse this essay by focusing on Hare’s own experiences, his use of contrast, and his intention in writing this essay. Even though Hare grew up in poverty, he did not notice it much in his childhood. By looking back, Hare sees that they had a good social circle in the neighbourhood, love, and the things needed to survive: “As far as I was concerned, we had warmth, love, shelter, enough to eat – except towards the end of...
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