...to this decision by exploring how gender roles effect women, how media effects women, how women in the work forces are effected, and the specific sexism that comes with the auto mechanic industry. I began my research with an article by Rachel Francis. Rachel Francis wrote an article called “The Art of Being a Woman in a Male-Dominated Field.” Rachel states that “Surprisingly, the things that make my job challenging are not the lack of knowledge, an inability to learn, trouble working with others, poor communication skills or even downright laziness. The things that make my job a challenge are all the things I have absolutely no control over: my appearance, my age and my gender.” This quote truly shows how a women’s work ethic truly has nothing to do with how easy or hard it is to make it in a job, especially when it comes to working in a male-dominates industry. This is because women are taught to dress to please men, yet this distracts men. If a woman is too young they are viewed as unintelligent sex objects, which also distracts men. If a woman is too old then they are viewed as unattractive and not able to change with modern society. Then there is simply being a woman. Women have always been portrayed as house wives. Society has engrained it into people’s heads that a woman’s place is at home with her kids, pleasing her husband. This article has helped me validate my knowledge about sexism and why it is so hard for women to have male-dominating jobs due to gender roles. ...
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...Business--It's Role in Today's Society Bus 100 In today's fast paced and technology driven society business is changing by the minute; as well as how we conduct and do business on foreign and a domestic level. A business is defined as any activity that provides goods and services in an effort to earn a profit. The role of business in the economy is huge especially when analyzing its impact when there is a lack of job availibity and household revenue. Lets take the economic breakdown in 2008 when we were in a recession as an example. During the economic downfall of 2008, the economy took a huge hit and from that came a rise in the loss of homes, jobs, and income. A decline in each of these critical areas resulted in a loss for the nation because if people are unable to find work then in turn they are reluctant to spend money; decreasing the flow of revenue into the economy. This all ties into business. If businesses are successful then there is a positive trend in the economy and the same can be said of the opposite. All was not lost though, in 2008 with the economy in a downward spiral we still had 19% of american adults who were involved in entreprenur activity by managing or starting their own company. Alot can be learned about entrepreneurs by studying the entrepreneurship era, one the four eras of business. During this time individuals were "self-starters", working and promoting themselves. The production era which was in the...
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...individuals or organizations” (Wikipedia), is a major component in societies that can make or break the society. People of communities can have a social structure where everyone is fine with their role in society and they get along or they can have a social structure that creates hatred between the members. A social structure that will probably create less hatred is one where it is based on your role or job in the community. A social structure that creates hatred would probably be more of one that is strictly based on wealth. Social structures that are based on the members’ roles in society are more likely to come together and survive when it comes to Globalization affecting their community....
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...Internal and External Factors Paper Chris Hammons MGT/230 Oct. 15, 2014 Donshea Williams Internal and External Factors Paper In this paper we will be exploring the internal and external factors of management in relation to Standard Plumbing Supply. Standard Plumbing Supply is a plumbing wholesale and distribution business. We will be looking at the four functions of management that include, planning, organizing, leading and controlling. We will also be exploring how Standard Plumbing Supply is affected by the internal and external factors of globalization, technology, innovation, diversity and ethics. Functions of Management The first function of management is planning. In the text of our book, Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World, planning is defined as specifying the goals to be achieved and deciding in advance the appropriate actions needed to achieve those goals (Bateman, 2011). As a manager with Standard Plumbing Supply, it is my duty to make a plan daily for the day ahead of me. This includes balancing man power between different objectives for the day whether they be logistics oriented, supplying man power for customer service or for balancing my time between running operations in the shop or visiting potential clients in the hopes of boosting future sales. Proper planning of the daily schedule is the first step in maintaining and running a successful business. The next function of management...
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...This disease caused many people to quit because of worries of death. The Panama Canal was a difficult build because of the thick swamps and jungles that provided many harmful kinds of species. While building the Panama Canal, Panama was hit with a terrible disease called malaria and yellow fever which was caused by mosquitoes,when bit worker's eyes and body would turn yellow and the color of their vomit would be black. These diseases caused workers to die and to quit their job. Also people wouldn’t come in from other places to help because of the rumored diseases and also the deaths by heat strokes. Heat strokes were from the heat they were in mostly blacks would die from heat strokes because they wouldn’t be able to take a break like the others. A man by the name of William Crawford Gorgas was an integrated program of mosquito control who was able to find a cure and find out how to stop the disease from spreading. The way he stopped the disease was that he used oil to kill all mosquito larvae, covered all pools within 200 yards that the mosquitos came from, and used larviciding to kill all mosquitos...
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...New World wine production country. So how is everyone doing on this beautiful Wednesday afternoon? Good, good. I know none of you want to be here anymore than I do, so we plan on making this as short and sweet as possible. With that, let’s go on ahead and get started. What we have prepared for you all today is a brief rebuttal to Group 10’s Australian Wine Industry case analysis. Before we begin let me set the record straight by saying that Group 10 did an outstanding job with their analysis of the wine industry within Australia. They did an excellent job incorporating Porter’s 5 forces model and the Blue Ocean strategy throughout their analysis. With this in mind, my fellow group members did find a few areas that we believe we should shed light on today. Such areas that our group found were the goals and constraints, as well as the central problem and the alternatives. One of the first areas that our group recognized was the analysis of the goals of the Australian Wine Industry. While Group 10 did hit the nail on the head with Australia’s goal of gaining market share through their campaign called “Strategy 2025”, something that we felt was vital and ncglected in the analysis was the mention that after Australia establish itself as “the world’s...
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...technology has made learning easier for most students and it is something they need to learn to be ready for life outside of school. Most people will just simply argue that they cannot live without technology. These are all good points and yes because of technology, we have been able to get more work done in less time. Sure technology can do the work faster and with fewer mistakes as a person and learning how to use technology is something that everyone needs to know. However, we have relied too much on technology and the question should not be can you live without technology, the question should be, do you know how to live without technology. Today’s jobs mostly run on technology and less by humans. If technology disappeared in the workplace, how many people know how to do the job by hand? Most would not know how to do the job by hand, unless there was still someone who knows the old way. If we lost technology today, it would probably be easier to bounce back because we have our elderly to teach us the old ways. If we lost technology five-hundred years from now, it would be chaos, because...
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...Exploring Concepts of Domestic Violence in the Film, Black and Blue Stephanie Levine Rowan University Sociology of the Family Professor Callaway November 2, 2015 The film, Black and Blue, realistically depicts what it is like to be in an abusive relationship. The main character, Frances Flynn Benedetto, a nurse undergoes extreme domestic violence by her husband, Bobby. Bobby and Frannie’s relationship in the movie clearly demonstrate concepts explained in the textbook, Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change by Mary Ann Schwartz and BarBara Marliene Scott. In the text, Schwartz and Scott explain how women and girls are usually the victims in violent situations and the United Nations defined violence against women...
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...After several years of misfortune, General Motors (GM) was encouraged to file for bankruptcy. GM had really hit rock bottom. Several of their facilities closed and thousands of jobs were cut. The cause for the bankruptcy was due to years of losses, market shares decreasing, and a breathtaking drop in sales. The bankruptcy forced GM to make some major changes within the organization, (Isidore, 2009). Knowledge Management System A knowledge management system has the ability to enhance several companies, especially GM. GM is a well-known company that has been around for several years. GM can profit from several advantages by using a knowledge management system. Some of those advantages include decreasing cost by eliminating the number of times the company must continuously resolve similar issues, decrease repetition of knowledge-based activities, raise up productivity by making knowledge accessible and user friendly, encourage employee personal growth, and establish aggressive favor in the marketplace, (Delen, Sharda, Turban, 2011, pgs. 509-510). Valuation In 2000, GM was on top of the world and put together a live Knowledge Management (KM) program. Initially, GM had the best of both worlds by having 138 best practice teams and 33 centers of knowledge working collectively with recognizable subject matter experts. The KM program was an outstanding asset for GM. The KM generated over 5000 best practices that affected quality and led to millions in cost avoidance. The KM program...
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...incidents that occur in the nation. Then there are stations, like ABC, who simply deliver the news clearly and directly to viewers at home. News stations around the nation have different methods of delivering their news, although some of them are less beneficial than others. During NBC’s Nightly News, with Brian Williams, the Pentagon correspondant, Jim Miklaszewski, emphasizes the implications the Navy yard shooting had in the four mile radius of the incident. He states, “... nearby schools were locked down, highways shut down, the Capital closed and the Nationals game postponed.” The emphasis of these implications the shooting had on the public shows the intense and immediate fear that struck throughout Washington D.C. The emphasis constantly hits the reader with the consequences of the shooting and it allows the viewer to realize the seriousness and the gravity the incident has had on people close to the capital and national security as well. However, other news stations lack the ability to convey the seriousness of a news story to the public. FOX, for example, lacks that ability. The anchors and reporters tend to deviate from the topic, even if it’s serious, and begin to make funny remarks and...
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...Bug Club New Bug Club titles for Key Stage 1 Book Band Level Goldilocks and The Big Mess Orange A Ben 10: The Omnitrix Great Cities: Exploring London Goldilocks and The Clever Plan Orange B Orange – All Levels Turquoise A Ben 10: The Transmodulator My Skateboarding Scrapbook Superman Family Adventures: Superman and the Robots Goldilocks and the Porridge Problem Ben 10: The Krakken Welcome to the Circus Sharma Family: What’s Out There? Turquoise B Turquoise – All Levels Purple A Young Robin Hood: Hit and Miss Living in a Castle Superman Family Adventures: Jimmy’s Super Watch Sharma Family: Stop That Dog! Young Robin Hood: Marian to the Rescue When Animals Attack Sharma Family: Best Birthday Ever! Purple B Purple – All Levels Gold A Young Robin Hood: The Great Escape Pirates: Life at Sea Superman Family Adventures: Lex Luthor Gets a Job Tales of Taliesin: The Powerful Potion Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Flint the Inventor The Truth About Fish and Chips Tales of Taliesin: The Magic Storm Gold B Gold – All Levels Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Weird Weather George Stephenson: The Train Man Superman Family Adventures: The Purple Superman Title Fiction Fiction Genre Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Comic Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Comic Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Comic Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Comic New Bug Club titles for Key Stage 2 Book Band Level Flash the Dog Bounces In...
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...Cumulative Paper Essay Mario Perez Lone Star College Montgomery Sociology 1301 November 24, 2013 Grand Theft Auto V Sociological review Of course, us gamers are hyped for the new video game that hits shelves in a couple of days, Grand Theft Auto, that is. Grand Theft Auto is a video game that is based on real life Los Angeles, California. Many overly hyped by this video game it comes to sense that it will be one of the biggest games in history. With that being said Grand Theft Auto V also known, as GTA is probably the biggest and most life-like sandbox ever to be made. Making the point right across is that the game consist of killing, car jacking, pistol popping and drug deals that are a significant part of real life and current living in Los Angeles. From the beginning GTA has developed a widely variety of things to do in modern society with a fictional character that will make the game popular and fun doing things that are illegal in real life even being a good citizen with morals. Doing yoga and riding around doing good deeds also doing daily activities such as golfing, scuba diving, biking and many more. Making GTAV a more realistic and a fun view of life as a criminal or a helpful citizen. Furthermore, who would not like to live a life where there is no real life consequence and no limitations on what we would do in GTA. An important factor that comes about is online video gaming. Online Gaming requires playing with other people around the world. Online video gaming...
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...Segregation had long been abolished and interracial marriages and relationships were starting to be widely accepted. Prejudice still existed among some of the population, but the country as a whole was working towards racial equality, and African American women were making their mark in all areas of society, including entertainment. No longer were femme fatales strictly played by caucasian women. Women of different ethnicities started to hit the scene, as was seen seen in the casting of the character Gabriel Shear in the film Swordfish. The strong, sensuous woman was played by the actress Halle Berry who is of mixed ethnicity. Berry also secured the role of Catwoman in the 2004 film. She played the iconic character, full of mystery and sex-appeal, who often took the law into her own...
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...UNETHICAL CONDUCT For the topic of exploring the ethical conduct in the world of business, we are encouraged to discuss a legal case that includes with it the court proceedings and the punishment that was dished out. For the sake of intrigue, I chose a case in which a very controversial punishment was given by federal prosecutors. In the wake of the 20 year surge in white collar crime…and after the dust settled from the Enron scandal & the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002…there lies a handful of businesses that don’t seem to mind being unethical in a myriad of ways. The majority of the businesses in that group are in the banking business. My subject is Wachovia Bank, formerly one of America’s six largest banks by assets. In 2012, Wachovia completed what amounted to a year-long probation arising from a March 2010 settlement deal with federal prosecutors who were pursuing criminal proceedings against Wachovia for its facilitating of illegal money transfers from Mexico totaling $378 billion. To put that number in perspective…that is more than the annual budget of the Pentagon, the world’s headquarters of military operations for the U.S. Anyone interested in the happenings of the U.S. congress can research the percentage of U.S. dollars appropriated by our nation’s congress and see that military funding makes up, on average, over 50% of the federal budget. Conversely, an average of less than 10% is spent on education, job training, employment and social services combined! The...
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...There’s Something about Mary is the plot. The plot in this film is what makes this comedy stand out from other comedy film. The plot in this film builds curiosity to an audience, drawing in much laughter throughout scenes. Without a good plot in this film, it would have been hard to define if this film was funny or not. The sequences of events in this plot are unique and hilarious, drawing much attention to this film. Overriding Purpose Exploring personal growth and change is the overriding purpose in the film the Riding Bull. Towards the end of the movie, Jake LaMotta reflects on his life as he is sitting in a jail cell, reflecting on the mistakes that he made with his wife, brother, and career. Initially in the film, Jake accuses his brother for a lot of his faults saying his brother should have given him some more slack, but reflecting on his life, he realizes his rage, jealousy, and crazy behavior to blame for his faults. Regarding the film There’s Something About Mary, the overriding purpose of this film is exploring interpersonal relationships. In this film, just about every male character in this film explores their relationship with Mary. Even after...
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