...for January 4, 2016 Have You Been Deported? Get Uncle Sam’s Help Starting a Business When a child gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they don’t typically get rewarded with an extra cookie. Yet the Obama Administration has decided they will take the unusual step of rewarding illegal immigration by providing business support to undocumented immigrants from El Salvador that were deported from the United States. [1] To be clear, the program isn’t incidentally helping deportees—it is directly intended to assist them. The program, which is administered by the non-profit Instituto Salvadorno Del Migrante (INSMI – translated to Institute of Salvadorian Migrants) and funded through a $50,000 grant from the taxpayer-backed Inter-American Foundation, “will further develop a network of returned migrants, including deportees, facilitate reintegration into their communities and support their enterprises by offering financial education, technical advice and assistance with business plans.” [2] So, if you break the rules and get deported, we’ll help you start a business back in your home country. How absurd. It seems that the justification for this program is that returning deportees often have trouble getting business loans. INSAMI director Cesar Rios was quoted saying, “[t]he mistaken reasoning of bankers is that if they lend a deportee [$]10,000, tomorrow morning he’ll be in New York because he’ll use the money to pay for a new trip.” [3] Mistaken reasoning? With...
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...twenty-something hired this year can expect to find that they working with colleagues who are older than they are by fifty or more years. The reason for this is primarily due to labor shortages for trained personnel in many industries. In addition, many older workers are now delaying retirement due for economic or other reasons. Many of the baby boomer generation can now be expected to delay retirement into their seventies. (Randstad USA) As you will learn, an inter-generational workforce provides many opportunities and challenges. While generational differences can and do lead to frustration, conflicts and poor morale, they do not have to. This section of the handbook will help you to better understand effective methods for leading and working with intergenerational teams. You will see that the differences brought to the mix by different generations can lead to increased productivity, creativity and success. In addition, you will understand the programs and benefits offered to enhance and optimize the benefits of maintaining an inter-generational workforce. Defining the Generations In an article published in the Journal for Quality and Participation, Gesell provides the following definitions of the generations. The Silent Generation. Born between 1925 and 1945, this group values hard work, conformity, dedication, sacrifice and patience. They are comfortable with delayed recognition and reward. The Baby Boomer Generation. Born between 1946 and 1964, this group are optimistic...
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...The Grapes of Wrath is primarily a story about the Joads, an all-American farming family, and their journey westward, but through the use of inter chapters, the novel also depicts the hardships faced by the general population during the Great Depression. These chapters are added to give more detail and history about the economic and familial circumstances simple people must go through. The use of inter-chapters in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath adds to the novel stylistically, thematically, and symbolically by allowing readers to experience the struggles of average American families and relating those situations back to the Joads. Steinbeck’s use of inter-chapters add to the novel stylistically by using them as a foreshadowing technique. In chapter 7, it says “Squirt in a couple quarts of sawdust. Put some in the gears, too. We got to move that lemon for thirty-five dollars” (). Steinbeck is telling the readers about corrupt car salesmen who tamper with cars to take advantage of desperate families for profit. This chapter is foreshadowing the events in chapter 16 when the Wilson family’s car breaks down and the Joads stay back to help them. Another example is chapter 9 foreshadowing the...
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...APA style, what source would be used? The source used would be Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 2. How many levels of headings are identified in APA style? What would be the proper style for each of those headings? What is the purpose for using different levels of headings? According to The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2010), there are five levels of headings identified in APA style. Each level is identified as follows: “Level 1: centered, boldface, upper and lowercase heading; Level 2: flushed left, boldface, upper and lowercase heading: Level 3: indented, boldface, lowercase paragraph ending with a period: Level 4: indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase paragraph heading ending in a period; Level 5: indented, italicized, lowercase paragraph ending with a period” (p. 62). 3. What do the initials “DOI” represent? What is it, and why is it important? According to The Publication Manual DOI represents digital object identifiers. The DOI system was “developed by a group of international publishers...[to provide] a means of persistent identification for managing information on digital networks (p. 188). 4. What is the web address for the off-campus access EZ Proxy login? https://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?pid=2955 5. What kinds of resources can you access through the Liberty University Online Library? Resources that can be accessed are newspapers, articles, and ebooks. 6. What is ILLIAD?...
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...budget surpluses that we had. Finally, subtract any additional money that was used specifically to pay down the debt. You end up with a monetary figure that equals our national debt. The US national debt is composed of both “Public” and “Inter-governmental” debt. It is this fact that allowed President Clinton to claim a “budget surplus” for three straight years back in FY1998, FY1999, and FY2000. One must remember what was happening in our economy back then. Those fiscal years were the peak of the “dot com” boom. As such, citizens of our country were making very high salaries in the computer fields, and therefore paying in a lot of money to the Social Security and Unemployment trust funds of the Federal government. The government trust funds are required by federal law to use any funds, not needed for outlay in the current fiscal year, to purchase U.S. Treasury securities (a.k.a. Inter-governmental Lending). It was because of the vast increase in Federal debt sold to the trust funds that the “Public debt” was not needed – and actually ran a surplus. This is what President Clinton and his supporters were referring to as a “budget surplus”. However, budget surpluses and deficits are not calculated on public debt alone. They also include inter-governmental lending,...
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...Terrorism and Homeland Security: The Impacts on Preventative Measures Abstract This paper explores four different topics on homeland security and anti-terrorism policies. The creation of the Department of Homeland Security or (HDS). What policies had to be implemented and what did the creation of a new agency affected or benefit. The impact that international terrorism has caused the United States of America and how this policies and changes help build a stronger defense against them. The implementation of local enforcement agencies and the community in the fight to deter terrorist attacks. The Federal Emergency Management Agency or (FEMA) and how organizational bureaucracy hindered cooperation and communication among local and federal agencies. This paper will address what measures have been and can be taken in the future to improve inter-agency cooperation and communication. Table of Content Terrorism and Homeland Security: The Impacts on Preventative Measures Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………2 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Terrorism and the creation of the DHS………................................................................................4 USA PATRIOT ACT……………………………………………………………………………...5 Appropriate roles of agencies and community………………………………………………….5-6 Preventative plans…………………………………………………………………………………6 Community Emergency Response………………………………………………………………...6 FEMA……………………………………………………………………………………………..7 National Response Plan…………………………………………………………………………...
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...Happiness’ definition is not a motionless feeling; it evolves as people age. While we are young we see happiness as living life with excitement and adventure; however, when we get old we see happiness with inter-peace. Since the definition of happiness varies there are no overall elements that should be required for something to be considered happiness. The definition of happiness is done on an individual feeling of how happiness is defined in their lives. I think it all starts with the way we are raised and how our parent view life is stamped into our physic that brings us to our conclusions of happiness. Cultural myths I think are not much a factor as cultural beliefs of what brings happiness to a cultural as a whole. Additionally, a cultural definition of happiness is an evolving emotion that never stops defining itself in any culture. Happiness has been distorted by American media should be mostly used as a vehicle of selling products and services, not used to define happiness in our society; that if this was a perfect world. Regrettably, Americans uses the media and advertising as a guideline for happiness. Americans are told for a woman to be successful she must look like a model, so many of our young girls are making themselves sick or even worst killing themselves to find the happiness that is portrayed in the media and in advertising. In addition, for the young boys the media and advertising is portraying that the only way to be happy is to be an...
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...short years later, the industry is wondering if RIM can compete with the likes of Apple and Google with their new devices running on their revolutionary iOS and Android operating platforms. The future of wireless industry is constantly improving and the future looks promising for “smartphones” with internet capabilities. The trend shows that more and more cellular phone users are now upgrading their handsets to smartphones. Statistics that tracked sales of phones in the United States showed that in January 2010, “234 million Americans subscribed to mobile phone plans”. Of these, 42.7 million owned internet-accessible smartphones, which represented an 18 percent increase over a three month period (Practical Ecommerce, 2010). RIM was one of the original companies that first changed the way we perceived what a cellular phone could do. The market is once again being revolutionized, in order to stay competitive in this evolving market; RIM needs to decide what steps to take to ensure success in the future. Background and History RIM was one of the first major technology companies to originate from Canada. The company was founded in 1984 by Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin while they were both students at the University of Waterloo, which should come as no surprise as their headquarters are located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Originally, the company was set up as a business to help clients with their computing or electronic needs. “Within four years, the company would...
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...exclusions, varying co-payments, and access to certain doctors and hospitals, which creates an ethical dilemma. Receiving the best care is subjective in most cases, but with money you can buy almost anything, including the best care. Although those living in poverty are given access to healthcare, that does not mean they receive the best or equal care as those who are wealthy. Living in a capitalist society, the richest Americans enjoy larger homes, nicer cars, better education and even health care. Even if we lived in a capitalist society where everyone had access to The practice of using inter-professional teams in delivering care is not a new concept but current health policy requires professionals work within a multidisciplinary team Department of Health (2001) and entrenched in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008) Code. The principle focus of this essay is to discuss the importance of inter-professional collaboration in delivering effective health care and what challenges and constraints exist. The integration of a case study will give an insight into inter-professional collaboration in practice. The demand of a constantly developing health service has required each professional to become highly specialised within their own field. Despite the focus for all professionals being on the delivery high quality care (Darzi, 2008); no one profession is...
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...“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” -Eleanor Roosevelt Introduction Millions have suffered crimes against humanity. Millions are left poor, without any of the basic needs to survive. Millions more suffer in forced labor. Other millions are discriminated on because of their race, gender, and nationality. When do these millions become less, or none for that matter? When will crimes against humanity stop? When will one’s race not matter? “The idea of human rights has a long history, but only in the past century has the international community sought to galvanize a regime to promote and guard them” (Council on Foreign Relations, 2013, 1). Particularly, since the United Nations was created in 1945, the world community has cooperated to codify human rights in a universally recognized regime of treaties, institutions, and norms...
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...Abstract Intercultural communications is often marked by the impact of cultural differences on communication, commonly resulting in miscommunication or misunderstanding. This paper examines the challenges influencing intercultural communications between the Japanese and the Americans. In its conclusion, it emphasizes on the sensitivity to the mentioned cultural differences in order to create harmony and understanding amongst people with different ethnic backgrounds. Intercultural Communications between the United States and Japan Introduction According to Dima (1990), intercultural communication refers to the exchange of ideas between people belonging to different cultures, in spite of them using the same language. Intercultural communication plays an important role, in that cultural differences can often lead to miscommunication and misunderstanding. This is increasingly becoming important in today’s multicultural society such as in the US (Inoue, 2007). What are the common challenges of intercultural communications between America and Japan? How do cultural differences play part in shaping the Japan-American intercultural communication? As defined by Peace (2002), culture is a "system of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that guides behavior and is shared by a group of people; and these are transmitted from generation to generation, rarely with explicit instructions," (p.14). There are a variety of cultures that...
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...managed to make before it passes. The above is what Barack Obama’s speech at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial from 2006 is about. Through the use of many of the same rhetorical instruments that Martin Luther King used before him, Obama establishes not only what Martin Luther King meant to America but also what he means to Obama on a personal level. In the following, I will make a rhetorical analysis and interpretation of the speech. The speech can be described as being an occasion speech which means that Obama’s aim is for him to entertain his audience at the memorial, by interpreting his vision of Martin Luther King Jr. The speaker is Barack Obama who is an African-American senator and soon-to-be presidential candidate in the United States. The audience for his speech is the participating to the national memorial, but primarily the speech is meant for the African-American inhabitants. He entertains his audience by reminding them of the great things that King has accomplished for the African-Americans in the United States of America: “I will tell them that because he did these things, they live today with the freedom God intended, their citizenship unquestioned, their dreams unbounded” (p. 2, l. 63-64). Obama’s main claim of his speech is for Martin Luther King to be remembered for his great accomplishments. The ground for his claim is that King was a good man, which Obama inter alia expresses by the use of a quote from the bible:...
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...What are the Main Challenges to Liberalism in the Current Global Order? Introduction: Liberalism: dominant ideological force shaping western political thought. Identified with western civilisation itself. Lib v. Popular inter-war period by idealists who believed warfare was an outdated way of settling events. Heywood- the central theme of liberalism in all its forms is harmony Peace is normal Faith in HN Democracy is necessary Outline what Neo-Liberalism believes in1) peace and security2) Economy – capitalism, no government intervention, invisible hand, free trade, absolute advantages, relative advantages. David ricardo. 3) Democracy Democracy and the USA ( link USA with liberalism) Ability of USA to steer world order is diminishing All about state capitalism: Rising powers are wanting a greater share of the spoils → challenging liberalism and thus USA → russia and china veto UN involvement in Syria Newly powerful states are starting to advance their own agendas for the world order: weaker US will find it harder to defend liberalism Todays rising states are large non-western developing countries. Brazil/China/India HOWEVER: Most people believe India/Brazil likely to support liberalism e.g. India has a commitment to interdependence. India is a joiner – it wants to be included e.g.recently pushed for a permanent seat on the UN security council Economy The recession has bolstered this narrative. The economic crisis started US- tarnished American model...
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...Communication Overview. This unit focuses on the role of communication in the relationships of peoples and groups with different cultural, ethnic, religious or social backgrounds. It looks at both the cultural barriers to effective communication as well as to various ways those barriers can be overcome. This unit also addresses the concept of dialogue as the use of communication to achieve harmony, mutual understanding and respect among peoples and groups. Learning Outcomes: Students who complete Unit 5 will be able to: explain the role of ethnocentrism in intercultural communication discuss guidelines for effective intercultural and interreligious communication compare Arabic and English communication patterns demonstrate intercultural aspects of inter-religious communication Key Concepts for Unit 5 Definition and conceptualization of intercultural communication and overview of guidelines Overview of ethnocentrism and prejudice in communication Definition and conceptualization of dialogue as a model of communication ► Intercultural Communication Nations and people of the world are increasingly interconnected and mutually interdependent. Globally, most cities and countries are becoming more diverse internally, with citizens and residents of varying races, religions, ethnicities and national backgrounds. Meanwhile, greater the risk is associated with economic or political aloofness and social isolation. All of these social forces are fostering increasingly more study of intercultural communication...
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...Short Writing Assignment Is Brazil a Multiracial Democracy? There are so many comparisons between Brazil and the United States of America. Both Brazil and the United States of America are the largest multiracial societies in the Americas, as well they both share a history of slavery, and plantation slavery at that, and finally both societies have confronted the legacy of slavery in the form of deeply entrenched racial inequality(Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States, page 229). With all these similarities you would imagine that they both would be making strides toward a more equal society. It is safe to safe that the United States of America is at a state of more equality than any time in the history of this country, but where does that put Brazil? Are they making the same strides as the United States of America? Brazil is most definitely a Multiracial population, which would lead you to believe that it is a multiracial democracy, but that assumption would be far from the truth based on all the research that I have done and based on the articles that I have read. In the year 1991 51.6% of Brazil’s population was white, while 42.6% of the population was brown, and 4%was black (Demographic Censuses). When you look at that compared to the United States of America in 1980 when 83% of the population was white, while only 11.7% of the population was black and 5% of the population had some other orientation (1980 Census of Population). When you look at Trivett 2 ...
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