...college journey and "emphasizes the influences of social and cultural capital" (p. 51). Thus, this theory highlights one's social context, such as their social class, community, and high school, as well as parental involvement and expectations. Throughout my first essay, my environment was a strong predisposition that contributed toward my expectation of attending college. Due to my parents' middle-class status, their cultural and social capital garnered them certain knowledge sets. My mother knew how to research for the best school districts and suburbs using the internet, as well as employ her social network of coworkers, college friends,...
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...Dimensions of Social Inequality Julie McElwain Park University Abstract Social inequality is how different categories of individuals are prescribed by the society. The society uses basic characteristics such as gender, sex, education, and ethnicity among other factors in order to categorize an individual. The social inequalities determine the access to limited goods such as market labor force, education, health care facilities, and other forms of participation in the society. Different forms of social inequalities are constructs of geographical distribution, and status within the country, however, cultural aspects, mostly integrated with cultural identities, of society are perceived to be the major contributor of social inequality. Discourses have, therefore, been raised on whether the poor deserve to be poor or not and whether the rich deserve to be rich or not. In order to address this question, I examined different dimensions of social inequalities in my life such as social class, educational level, and race among other factors. In this paper, I will also try to bring out understanding of different theories in attempt to explain social stratification. A comparison will be done between different perspectives through interviews and my own perspective of social inequalities. In essence all factors discussed in this paper show a link between social inequalities and different factors such as economic and political system. Trends such as widening inequalities...
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...Community College in Los Angeles, California. This is my first semester in Northeastern University and I am currently enrolled in 5 different classes, including English 1111. I am a Chinese who is born and raised in Malaysia, and apparently English is not my first language. I started to learn English since I was 10, and decided to study abroad in United States when I was 20. I have taken a few English classes since I came to the United States, and I have learned a lot from each of my English professors, which increased my current level of confidence and skill in writing. In this semester, I have enrolled 4 different classes such as Managerial Accounting, Personal Skill Development for Business, International Business and Global Social Responsibility, and Business Statistic. All of these classes are related to business studies, which is my major. Among so many different concentrations in business, I have chosen finance because my father has influenced me in many ways since I was young. He is an active trader on the share market with an extensive portfolio. Therefore, he always shares his insights with me and teaches me how to perform technical analysis and fundamental analysis to identify the intrinsic value of a company. Eventually, this makes me have more interest in finance and the stock market. I am confident that I have much to offer and I am geared to learn more in Northeastern University. First of all, the class I am most interested to attend is Managerial Accounting...
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...Anabell Abud Professor Armstead SYG 2000 Social Class Paper 20 March 2013 An Analysis of Social Class in the United States As we all explore the outside world, we all see the same traffic, stores, supermarkets, restaurants, and shopping malls. There is just one difference, we all live differently according to social class. The social stratification is a system of structured social inequality. It can be described as one lady going to Macys with her credit card wasting $1,000.00 dollars in merchandise and the other woman going to a store of discounts in clothing with a strict budget of $20.00 paying in cash. Another way I see how there are inequalities in our society is a simple question, can you afford to go buy a Michael Kors bag? If you can’t, then the Payless store it is to buy a look-a-like that can hopefully give strangers the impression that you’re not in the poverty sector. Those that are part of the super-rich see the poor as lazy; they deserve to be with meager needs because they haven’t shown merit to escape the poverty class, and the underprivileged that they have to pay out of their tax dollars to support them. Sociologists say we need the poor it’s good for our economy out of many various reasons that most of society doesn’t realize. At least journalist B. Ehrenreich saw what it was to not make it in America as an experiment to educate us all in the jobs of the working class from the article “Nickel and Dimed.” I know I became well aware of these differences...
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...reflection essay Personal Development Plan Final Reflection Essay In my previous personal development plan, I had made several initiatives through which I hoped to achieve certain goals both in academics and in social life. In the previous personal development plan, I had embarked more on the process that I believe would help me to think about my own learning, performance and achievements as well as to plan my personal, educational, social and career development. Since I made the plan within the PDP, there are certain changes that I have witnessed happening in my career, social and learning areas. For example, I have noted that for the last one semester, I have improved in a number of areas that I had pointed in my last PDP. In academics, I have achieved a lot, as my average grades have improved from the previous B+ to an A. This is primarily because I was able to develop clear SWOT analysis, in which I recognized my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats not only in academics, but also in my social life, extra-curricular activities and any other activity I took. With this plan, I worked hard to perfect my strengths, correct the weaknesses and make them my strong points, utilize the opportunities placed within my abilities and finally recognize and avoid any negative effect that was posed by the threats in the SWOT analysis (Bolton 2010). From these considerations, I recognized that some of my strengths were the ability to work under strict deadlines, carry out...
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...job characteristics theory in course analysis Part A: Analysis of a course with high motivation My motivation in one my course during my academic process was very high. I assign 98 out of 100 score to myself. This course required a previous knowledge in some of business courses in general and finances in particular. The course was a face to face class, but it was a requirement to take a pre-requisite class before being able to register for this particular class for different reasons. Student’s performances in class sometimes depend on different major factors that can clearly influence how motivated they are in a particular class. Their motivation for learning and performance can be improved by making a convenient classroom environment that is also determined by the design of various structural characteristics of a course, such as type of task, student evaluation, autonomy given to them and real time feedback. Task/skill variety: One primary reason of being highly motivated and engaged in that particular course was the challenge. The objective in this class was to achieve a goal which was established by not only the professor but also students. The course design provided students a mechanism to learn and improve a variety of skills. Task identity: Other reason for being highly motivated related to course itself. Students were given major assignment to turn in at the end of every week. This type of assignment was comprehensive case analysis, for instance, we were given a real...
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... | |[pic] | |MANAGEMENT 374 (Unique No: 04570) | |Class Times: Monday and Wednesday, 08:00-09:30 am | |Location: UTC 1.118 | Instructor: David Chandler E-mail: david.chandler@phd.mccombs.utexas.edu Office: CBA 3.332K Tel: (512) 471-2548 Office hours: Monday, 10:00-11:00 am Wednesday, 10:00-11:00 am Immediately after class and at other times by appointment. REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS (Available at the University Co-op) 1. Course reading packet: Selection of Harvard Business School case-studies, Harvard Business Review articles, as well as other articles and book chapters. COURSE OBJECTIVES This class is the capstone class for students studying at McComb’s School of Business. It is an essential component of your business degree. The overarching goal, therefore, is to build on the classes you have taken elsewhere in the business school and help prepare you to enter the workforce. The starting...
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...12:15 to 2:00 p.m. & 3:15 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Please see the D2L course website for announcements concerning any changes in office hours during a specific week. Instructor Profile I am a professor of marketing and international business at Eberly College of Business and Information Technology. My academic preparation includes MBA in International Business (Dalhousie, Canada), and MS in Marketing and Ph.D. in International Business with focus on International Marketing—both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have worked at a managerial level in a large multinational enterprise. I have taught a wide range of courses--International Business, International Marketing, The Global Village, Self-Marketing, Marketing Internship, Principles of Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research, Seminar in Marketing, and Marketing Management at undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. My research interests are in international business, business sustainability, international marketing ethics, advertising ethics, self-marketing, export marketing, cross-cultural marketing, experiential education, and effective pedagogy. My research articles are published in numerous journals that include International Journal of Business Strategy, The Journal of Current Research in Global Business, Competition Forum, Journal of the Northeastern Association of Business Economics and Technology, Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education, Applied Business Review...
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...PEST and PESTLE analysis is a framework used in the environmental scanningcomponent of strategic management. Under PEST and PESTLE analysis are externalfactors which are the major players in the success and failure of an organization. Politicalfactor is the government intervention in the economy. This includes tax policy, labour andenvironmental law, trade restrictions, tariffs, and political stability. Under Economic factor iseconomic growth, interest and inflation rates. These factors directly affect the cost of capitalin business operation as well as the costs in exporting goods and the supply and price of theimported goods in the economy. Social factors include cultural aspects, population growthrate, health consciousness and age distribution while... PEST Analysis The PEST analysis is a useful tool for understanding market growth or decline, and as such the position, potential and direction for a business. A PEST analysis is a business measurement tool. PEST is an acronym for Political, Economic, Social and Technological factors, which are used to assess the market for a business or organizational unit. Political The political area has a huge influence upon the regulation of a business and the spending power of consumers and other businesses. Before I put my product on the market I need to consider issues such as: Tax policy: I will need to look at certain levels of tax. If tax is high it can affect the incomes of customers and it might...
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...Running head: OBSERVATION ANALYSIS Classroom Observation Analysis Johan Charlery University of Phoenix Child and Adolescent Development MTE/506 Dr. Rochelle Cowden July 9, 2016 Abstract Personal Action Plan Educators help students come to a realization they are unique, they have a lot of natural talent, and are honorable. Educators help blossom students to see their awareness of their place in this world. For my Personal Action Plan Observation, I decided to go to Quality Life Center. Quality Life Center is a youth development program that includes early learning program, Arts, Character and Education, afterschool program, and Teen LITE (Leaders in Training for Excellence). This paper addressed beliefs about teaching and learning, students, knowledge, what is worth knowing, and the appropriate developmental theory. In this paper, the emphasis on providing the reader an overview of my observation. Finally, the paper will offer needed shifts for addressing key characters of the teacher I observed. I chose Quality Life Center because I wanted to observe the various types of people, interaction with teacher–student, and identify the social differences of the individuals in a classroom setting. Observation Analysis The Observation Upon entering the organization, I decided to talk to the executive assistant, Ms. Anna Wallace and notified her of my class project. I told her I would need to observe a classroom setting to see the interaction from teacher to...
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...the news that her father died in the battle and all his wealth and estate is seized by the government. Miss Minchin forces Sara to be a servant along with the other servant girl, Becky. Sara still continues being who she was. When taunted by her headmistress, she firmly said she believed that ‘every girl is a princess’. In the end, we find out that Sara’s father didn’t die but had severe amnesia and temporary blindness. When he regained his memory, he came for Sara. Miss Minchin got kicked out off the seminary and became a chimney sweep, working under a boy whom she mistreated in the past. Topic I am interested in learning about social inequality and poverty. I would like to know what social inequality is tied to and how it comes to exist. I want to find out the patterns that emerge from this topic, and how it is structured. Question How does social inequality and poverty limit those directly affected in ‘A little Princess’? * I want to find out people’s state of mind in these situations * Also, how big the affect can be....
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...LE1028 Texts in Action Assignment 1 Katherine Luesley According to Suzanne Romaine (2000:21) ‘register is typically concerned with variation in language conditioned by uses… and involves consideration of the situation or context of use, the purpose, subject matter and content of the message, and the relationship between participants.’ Consequently, my interpretation is that register can be - but is not solely - identified through linguistic choices and style. It is dependent upon the linguistic context and social situation surrounding the text- which can be identified as genre. Therefore, register is the language variety which results from the genre. Genre differs from register in that it is mainly applied to literary texts or texts which hold strict conventions such as newspapers, poetry, fictional writing and legal documents. Naturally then, to carry out a genre analysis would mean looking at a complete text rather than an excerpt as stated by Biber and Conrad (2009: 17-18) ‘Text excerpts are not adequate for genre analysis, because they do not necessarily represent the linguistic conventions that define the genre’. The data I obtained [Item 1] shows clearly that during the 24 hour period I received a larger range of differing language registers in comparison to the quantity that I produced. Language varieties I received came from a variety of contexts surrounding the text for example, listening to a lecturer deliver a presentation was formal in its approach and address...
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...Terese Wilhelmsen Master’s thesis PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF CHILDREN Exploring how intergenerational transfer of habitus frame boys and girls opportunity to generate and negotiate physical activity within their everyday life. NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management Department of Sociology and Political Science Master’s thesis in Sport Science Trondheim, January 2012 Terese Wilhelmsen PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF CHILDREN Exploring how intergenerational transfer of habitus frame boys and girls opportunity to generate and negotiate physical activity within their everyday life. Master in Sport Science Department of Sociology and Political Science Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU Trondheim, Norway. 1 ABSTRACT Several indicators of social background and gender expectations are found to have an important impact on children’s physical activity patterns, yet few studies have explored intergenerational transfer of habitus through the use of triangulation of methods. The aim of this study is to explore how intergenerational transfer of habitus frames children’s opportunit to generate and negotiate physical activity in their everyday life. This is done by examining the relationship between children’s physical activity pattern’s and: parental capital, parental perception of gender appropriate...
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...LA SALLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MBA 901 Competing in a Global Market I: Analysis of the Business Environment Integrative Capstone SYLLABUS Fall 2012 Instructor: Bette J. Walters, JD, LLM (Taxation) Office Hours: By appointment Office Phone: 215.540.0234 Cell Phone: 215.704.2335 E-mail: walters@lasalle.edu or bettewalters@comcast.net Textbook and Materials: Steiner and Steiner, Business, Government and Society: A Managerial Perspective, McGraw Hill, 13th Ed. (2012), ISBN 978-0-07-811267-6. In addition, readings from other works will be assigned and posted on Blackboard. From time to time, optional reading materials will also be posted. Course Description and Objectives: This course is completed as a cohort group with MBA 902 Competing in a Global Market II: Analysis and Implementation of Strategy and is taken with the approval of the program Director. A key objective is to provide students with insights into the influences and interactions that society, law, government, and personal values have on the daily and long-term decisions of management. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will closely examine the legal and ethical environment of business using a wide variety of materials ranging from the textbook to news reports. In this respect, we will attempt to construct a framework wherein socially responsible business decisions can be made, integrating your current knowledge and experience with content in business strategy...
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...My literary critique on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is focused on the confusion of the message being given to the reader do to the conscious struggle between right and wrong, an example of that would be the decision of stealing from Ms. Watson and freeing Jim, or not stealing from Ms. Watson and leaving Jim as a slave. Huck did decided that even though stealing from Ms. Watson would surely send him to “Hell” he still went with his gut and freed Jim, But with that later in the story shortly after Ms. Watsons death Huck and Jim found out that in her will she had freed Jim anyways. The ending of that situation in this story is what I choose to critique because of the cloudy message that is being given to the reader. It does not support...
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