...Growing up, JG’s family has always been suspicious of his sexuality, often asking each other if they thought he was gay. I’ve known JG and his family since the sixth grade, and I was often pulled into these gossips, his family begging for more information that I frankly did not have. In the eighth grade, JG accepted the fact that he is attracted to other men. Partially joking, I asked if he just woke up one day and realized. “No,” he explained, “you always know, but you don't accept it until later.” JG has gone from meaningless hook-ups to currently entering his first ever relationship in a matter of two years, and although he is still uncertain about where marriage will fall in his future, he does seek long-term commitment and eventually,...
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...Asking someone out to dinner or a movie has become a thing of the past; currently, young people are allowing their hormones to take control and disregarding any sort of romance involved with getting laid. With so many online dating tools available: sites like Tinder, Bumble, and Grinder have made meeting people all around the world easier than ever. Although, in the past dating sites have been seen as a resource to find a perfect match. Today’s youth see dating websites as a method to find their next one night stand. The popularity of hookup culture is rising every day, because individuals are too lazy, too broken, or straight up just don't want to deal with a relationship. Hook-up culture can come in many forms: one night stands, friends with...
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...Business Writing Portfolio Part I: Business Writing Steps • Do an audience analysis • Identify o The target audience Store managers Store employees Retail customers and the public o The communication channels Oral or written o What the message is set to do Persuade, inform, praise or shock (Townsend Hall, 2005) • Organize o The structure and format of the message o Keep communication simple and to the point. o Proofread the message o Deliver the message • Follow-up o Was the message clear to the audience o Does the audience have additional questions o Determine if extra communication is required Part II: Portfolio Business Letter: Store Managers Hook Retail 1234 Main Ave Charlotte, NC 28213 January 19, 2010 Mrs. Sophia Walker 532 Shortbend Road Charlotte, NC 27563 RE: Hook Retail Stores Modified Operations Dear Mrs. Walker, We would like to thank you for your dedication and hard work you have provided this company over the years. You may be aware of the increase in gas prices. Due to the rise, it is causing higher costs to the company as well as inflating gas bills for managers and employees commuting to work. We want to take this opportunity to inform you of the upcoming changes to our retail chains. These changes should ease your current position, save our employees’ money and time, and in the end guarantee the survival of our company. Effective February 1, 2010, a workday will consist of 10 hours. This...
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...del Sur Don Marcelino Davao del Sur has a fifteen barangays in a total land area of 40.73 (km2) according to the LGU. Out of fifteen barangays, ten are coastal barangays; Cali-an, Kinanga, Kiobog, Lanao, Lapuan, Lawa, Linadasan, North Lamidan, South Lamidan, and Talagutong. The total coastline of Don Marcelino is 46.8 km and has a total number of 8,980 fishermen in 1,821 fishing families. 15 15 Fig.1.1 Map of Don Marcelino Davao del Sur Construction of the Gear Troll line will be assembled with four rolls (#80) monocline nylon that will serve as the mainline. Mainline measures 20/25 meters in length. Branch lines will use (#40) monocline nylon. It will measure about 5 meters in length with hook at the end. Each line will have the specific hook sizes connected (#12-13, #14, #16, #18) and will be attached into the swivel. 16 16 COLOR BLUE/WHITE LURE LURE/BAIT COLOR BLUE/WHITE LURE LURE/BAIT Fig.1.2 Illustration of the Gear Gear Operation Gear operation will be done using a motorized boat. The researcher will be considering the specific fishing ground such as “kanaway” when operate the fishing gear during morning and afternoon. Fishing operation will be conducted 4 days for 1 to 2 hours. The line will be towed close to the surface behind a moving boat. The line bearing the...
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...Consumer Motivation 1 Research Paper: Consumer Motivation (5-2) By: Jenny McCutcheon MKTG 330 Professor Dr. Snyder July 28, 2007 Summer 2007 Consumer Motivation 2 Research Paper: Consumer Motivation While customers have different motivations for consuming the things they do, all consumers have motivations that guide them to want, and purchase certain goods or services. Some motivations for consumption could include the need for status, social acceptance, security or individuality while other motivations are unconscious and can be utilized by marketers to hook consumers into buying a product they never knew they always wanted. The Viennese psychoanalyst, Ernest Dichter, was a leader in the field of qualitative marketing research in the early to mid 1900’s. Dichter suggested that consumer motives were oftentimes triggered by suppressed unconscious needs (as cited in Ziems, 2004, p. 210). Unfortunately, many of Dichter’s theories that have proven to be effective marketing strategies have been mostly forgotten in modern advertising (as cited in Ziems, 2004, p. 210). Marketing campaigns that have used Dichter’s theories on consumer motives to market products such as cars, furs, cell phones and even paper towels have shown success by increased sales. Ditcher understood that individuals in different age groups or demographics cared about different things, and had varied unconscious motives and needs. In an extensive study completed on the car market in 1939, Dichter discovered...
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...Marking Template Research Paper First Draft | Marker’s Alias: Leonhart | | Author’s Alias: Spearow | I. STRUCTURE/ORGANIZATION | Comments | Introduction: HookDoes the essay begin with a hook/brief introduction that situates the topic more broadly? The hook should make it evident why the topic is interesting and important to generalist and specialist audiences.Does it draw the reader’s interest? How could it be improved? | Positive * Hook introduces the topic in a great way, by analyzing a healthy government, and introducing the topic of how, to succeed it needs the help of the people who vote them in. Improvements * The author could give an example of a regime that turned on its people, (Syria) and thus lead to the overthrowing of the government (Arab spring) to further relate to the reader and gain its interest. | Introduction: Thesis StatementIs the thesis statement easy to identify? E.g. “This essay argues…” Is it clear? Does it make sense? How could it be made clearer and more easily identifiable? | Positive * The thesis is clear and makes sense “this essay will argue that societal politics are derived from the motivations of the middle class as it pertains to the state flourishing” Improvements * The factors that relate to this topic could be further addressed in a few words. What are these economic needs? Etc.… | Introduction: RoadmapDoes the roadmap state how the paper will prove the thesis statement in several parts? E.g. “This paper is organized into...
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...2004, pp. 337-343 (Article) For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ped/summary/v004/4.2murphy.html Access provided by SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY (29 Dec 2014 03:14 GMT) The Pedagogical Possibilities of Covering Gilman’s Wallpaper Karla J. Murphy In his introduction to The Pedagogical Wallpaper, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock notes how the pedagogical diversity of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” prompted him to collect essays for this book. He goes on to explain that “given the ubiquity of the text within various academic settings, I was also struck by the absence of attention to the text within pedagogical contexts. Despite the large (and steadily growing) body of criticism to the story, very little of it explicitly addresses its importance as a tool to facilitate learning or various ways in which to make use of the text in the classroom” (3). As a collection, Weinstock’s The Pedagogical Wallpaper contains informed, detailed, and diverse analysis that attempts to shore up the absence of “pedagogical possibilities” concerning Gilman’s transgressive short story (9). Among the contributors are a MOO space specialist, a Gilman scholar, a queer theorist, an existentialist, a formalist, and several reader/student-response theorists. Because each essayist presents a distinct critical perspective on Gilman’s text, each essay is likewise concerned with “how the narrative teaches and how to teach the narrative” (5). Thus, it seems...
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...restoration. This essay will first provide a brief historical background to white anti-racism in post apartheid South Africa as well as introducing the concept of whiteness and white privilege. In order to demonstrate the challenges and possibilities relating to whiteness a few ideological discourses will be discussed. The findings of the research done by Wale and Foster will also...
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...Introduction ………………………………………… 01 2. Etymology: Origin Unknown ……………………… 02 3. Words with known origin/ undisputed origin ……... 04 4. Theories for Etymology of Origin Unknown ……… 06 5. A case study on word Key ………………………….. 08 6. Conclusion …………………………………………... 12 References Declaration 1. Introduction Etymology can be defined as the systematic study of the birth, historical perspective, and time-to-time changes in the forms and implications of words (Ross, 1962). The study of the etymology of the English language words is an interesting and useful area. But, there are many English words in the dictionaries end up with no specific etymology for them. Thousands of words in English etymological dictionaries are included with statement such as ‘of unknown origin’, ‘origin uncertain’, ‘obscure origin’, ‘ulterior etymology unknown’. Numerous studies and research have done on some of these types of words in English etymology. The issue of ‘origin unknown’ words in English etymology incites curiosity of finding an existing and acceptable etymology for them. According to Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (2010), the most of the English words have been derived from other primitive languages such as Latin and Greek. Similarly, many other words are formed by adding prefixes of suffixed. Moreover, many etymological...
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...Research Proposal, Draft 1 It’s the morning of December 15, 2012, a day after the Sandy Hook Elementary Shootings involving twenty-year old Adam Lanza. After having to support by brother through the intense fear of being looked at differently for his disability following the shooting, I found the topic of the media scapegoating Asperger Syndrome as a main factor in school violence relevant to our class. As school violence has grown in the past twenty-five years, the media has similarly sensationalized the many killers, often times looking to diagnose them with some sort of mental illness instead of digging deeper into the environment of the individuals who commit these acts of violence. In particular, I am interested in examining the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as well as the UC-Santa Barbara shooting. What I am particularly interested in learning more about is the media’s reaction to these two shootings in conjunction, as one was done at an elementary school with children ages 5-11, whereas the other was done on a college campus. This interests me because Asperger Syndrome is a social disorder, and the social scene of an elementary school is quite different from the social scene of a university. By providing statistical data, victim and killer testimonials, and historical data, I will make the main claim that the media has sensationalized school shootings and too often jumped to the conclusion that Asperger Syndrome is to blame, instead of investigating...
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...Nowadays, cyber-bullying is turning to be a big and sensitive topic in people’s lives. In the Xiaoyi’s research proposal, she read a related essay called “The Epidemic of Facelessness”. This material mainly discussed the cause of cyber-bullying phenomenon is “the huge pressures from real life”. With detailed analysis of the corresponding reading throughout the whole essay, Xiaoyi wrote bullying’s definition in her own point of view. She provides a recent hot issue around a Taiwan girl to illustrate how bad the cyber-bullying situation would be. By analyzing both additional reading and related example, she finally comes up with a conclusion that “ ‘facelessness’ being beneficial or harmful to our cultural and social development.” In my opinion,...
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...Introduction and Conclusion Worksheet Objectives: Write an introduction for a research paper. Write a conclusion for a research paper. Apply feedback and writing tools in the revision process. Complete Sections 1 through 3 to help complete your final essay: Section 1: Introduction Draft an introduction for your essay based on the best practices you studied this week. Your introductory paragraph should be 5 to 7 sentences. Remember: Your introduction should include a hook to capture the attention of your audience, any necessary background information on the topic, and a thesis statement. The last sentence of your introductory paragraph must be your thesis statement. Section 2: Conclusion Draft a conclusion for your essay based on the best practices you studied this week. Your conclusion should reinforce the main points made in your paper by providing a restatement (reworded version) of your thesis and a summary of your main points. It should also include concluding comments that allow readers to join you in deliberating the topic and that provide a strong wrap up to the paper. Avoid introducing new ideas in the conclusion. Your paragraph should be 5 to 7 sentences. Section 3: Revision Reflection How will you use the feedback you received on your Week 5 body paragraph draft assignment to revise your paper as you get ready for your final submission in Week 7? In other words, what specific...
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...Consumer Traits and Behaviors Paper and Presentation Formal Outline Nicholas Tatum PSY/322 April 14, 2015 Mr. Scott Skjordahl Consumer Traits and Behaviors Paper and Presentation Formal Outline I. Introduction A. Narrative Hook: Sentence to engage reader in your topic. B. Background on what the paper will be about. C. Thesis Statement: One-two sentences informing the reader what they will learn from reading the paper. It can outline what the main sub-topics of your paper will be II. Identify at least three psychological processes and three social processes that may influence consumer behavior. 1. Psychological factors which influence consumer behavior. 1. Motivation is a key factor as it deals with the consumer and their behavior. 2. Perception is what the consumer thinks about the brand or service. 3. Learning comes with experience. Trial and error. The consumer knows and supports a brand and/or service only after he/she uses the product/service. The consumer is satisfied when they decide to purchase the brand or service again. 4. Beliefs and attitude are essential when the consumer make a purchase. The brand image has an influence on the consumers buying decision. Marketers create the image of the product/service available in selected markets. The brands have an image associated to it. 2. Social processes which influence consumer behavior. a. Reference groups are made up of people that compare themselves with each...
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...lower-income Americans. Opponents say it is just another example of government overreach and that it is up to the states to determine whether they can afford such an expansion.” But my question to you is do you actually believe this? Because I don’t. I have come across the best argumental FACTS to help you better understand the reason Rick Perry does not want to expand Medicaid. Researchers Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire, and Lindsay Leininger argue in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper that… “Noted in February that Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion would reduce incentives to work and have a modest effect on the overall supply of labor. While there is a debate in the academic literature about the effects of the Medicaid expansion on labor supply, that debate has tended to focus on parents who enroll in Medicaid, rather than adults without kids. Dague and her colleagues conclude that if the Medicaid expansion enrolls about 21 million additional adults, anywhere from 511,000 to 2.2 million fewer people will be employed. Furthermore, they argue that the Medicaid expansion will knock almost a full point off of today’s labor force participation rate -- or share of the civilian population that is working -- a measure of economic health that is already at its lowest point since 1977.” That’s why people for Medicaid expansion need to take a serious look at this recently released paper. There is already something intuitive about the robust public assistance destroying...
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...shootings is important to students and should be to the general public. A school shooting involves an educational institution and a firearm being discharged at its facility. It may also refer to shootings near or on a school bus or near a school when it is in session. School shootings could occur anywhere in the world where firearms are available for access. These types of shootings in particular have generated a political dispute on stricter gun control. There are well known shootings in the United States, Europe, Canada, and other countries. The United States has the highest number of school related shootings. This paper will examine a few of those incidents and compare how the media and academic articles portray them. Overall, media articles show that coverage of school shooting events such as the ones that occurred at Virginia Tech University and Sandy Hook Elementary School tend to primarily focus on the number of victims, reactions of family, the misfortune of the event, as well as the mental state and background of the shootings. For an example, in the Los Angeles Times article “Gunman kills 20 kids, 6 adults at Connecticut elementary school”, they focus on the number of dead, imagery, and the emotion after the shooting such as parent’s reactions and children’s reactions. In the article they seem to dramatize the whole situation by saying things like “Evil visited this community today”. Although it is a tragic event the media seems to focus more on the issue of numbers...
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