...As I was watching the video, “What kind of Asian are you?” I felt angry and stunned when the guy said, “No, where are you really from?” I ended up doing some research on that particular question and it actually happens a lot more than I thought. Absolutely devastating. The funny part was that when she asked him where he was really from, she was weird. As the Asian was doing this, the guy looked confused. Like, why is she asking me where I’m really from; I look like I’m from the U.S. So, it’s ok for white people to ask someone of a different race but not for that person to ask a white person. Why is this ok? A lot of white people think they own everything. They think anyone that is not like them and can’t speak the language should leave the country. People come to the United States to be free and to live the American Dream, not to be white. I actually started laughing during the video when the Asian started making fun of his culture. Just because I’m white, doesn’t mean I have the right to walk around and ask “foreigners” where they are from. We automatically assume things for each ethnicity. Each race has their own stereotypes; white, everything comes easy to them. People assume all black people are out to cause trouble. Any type of Asian can’t be from the United States. Obviously none of this is true for each individual. I mean it’s ok to ask someone where they’re from but to a certain extent. If the Asian said she was from the United States, that means she was born and...
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...What Kind of Thinker Are You? Can you come up with the correct answer or solution? In this course ( HUM/111- Critical and Creative Thinking) will help you. Since I started this course in December 2012, nine weeks ago this course has helped me become a critical thinker. I have learned what is critical thinking, I can tell you the most significant things I learned about critical thinking and how my critical thinking has changed since this course, and I can reevaluate my stage of development in critical thinking, explain to you why this change has occurred, and how I plan to move from stage five: Advanced thinking to stage 6: Master Thinking. First week we learned, what is critical thinking? Critical thinking is a mental process of reviewing clear, rational thoughts based on evidence to reach an answer or conclusion. Critical thinking helps you distinguish between fact and opinion, ask questions, make detailed observations, uncover assumptions and define their terms and make assertions based on sound logic and solid evidence. Next thing, I can tell you the most significant things I have learned about critical thinking and how my critical thinking has changed since this course. The most significant things that I have learned about critical thinking, that critical thinking is based on concepts and principles, not on hard and fast, or step- by- step procedures. Critical thinking does not assure that one will reach either the truth or correct conclusions. Critical thinking...
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...Topic: What kind of person is Javier? Javier, a mature man, is one of the main figures in “La Linea”, which was written by Ann Jarmillo. Javier wanted to go to New York and earn money to send to his family in Mexico. On the way, Javierg had helped Miguel and Elena, who desired to join their parents in California. In spite of his talkativeness, Javier is a real picture of unselfishness and cleverness. At the beginning of Javier’s appearance, the first of his personal characters is talkative, “a fast-flowing river of words, as if he’d been starved for conversation.” He talked, talked, and talked without Miguel’s listening and answer. Talkativeness is really a bad impression to the reader at the inception about Javier. If we keep our reading, we can find out that Javier is an unselfish person. He’s really a good man. He’d taken a big risk to attract the “federales” and make a chance for other people in the bus to escape. He didn’t care what happened to him after the risk. Even he had a family to think about, a son, a daughter, a wife. When Javier met Miguel and Elena again, and they were in the “mata gente” together, Javier did as much as he could for Elena and Miguel. Though he had been through many hard times before he could be on the “mata gente”, he still kept looking out for every big and little danger. He had not slept, “his eyes were red, and his face was drawn.” Nevertheless, he told Miguel: “Rest some. I’ll keep watch for a while.” In many times, they had to hop...
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...Associate Level Material Stages of Critical Thinking Stages of Critical Thinking Complete the matrix by identifying the six stages of critical thinking, describing how to move from each stage to the next, and listing obstacles you may face as you move to the next stage of critical thinking. |Stages of critical thinking |How to move to the next stage |Obstacles to moving to the next stage | |EXAMPLE: |Examine my thinking to identify problems |Deceiving myself about the effectiveness of| | |that affect my thinking. |my thinking | |The Unreflective Thinker | | | |The Challenge Thinker |I am ready to face and identify my faults |Trick myself into thinking to self-justify | | |due to self-deception thinking. |to avoid a challenge. | |The Beginning Thinker |I recognize that if I train myself to think|Defending and protective thinking too | | |positive there will be no time for |shield from being hurt in any way. | | |self-deception thinking no matter the | ...
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...Student name: Student number: M00482838 Module number: IFP 0100 Summative assignment 1 What Kind of Learner am I? The way in which we differ from the person next to us, such as our taste in food and clothes, defines who we really are. It is what distinguishes us as individuals in a group of people. The method that I use to carry out a certain activity could be similar or completely different to the way another person chooses to carry out the same activity. The way we learn follows this pattern. Having been brought up and educated in Libya, I found the transition to the British higher education system challenging for different reasons both personal and institutional, which I will discuss in this essay, stating why I consider myself an Accommodator with reference to David Kolb’s experiential learning model theory as explained by Payne and Whitaker (2000). In the middle of my second year of medical studies, circumstances obliged me to return to the U.K., where I had spent the first year of my life, to continue my studies in a different field, business, starting with an IFP course to develop, and improve my abilities in the English language and to get used to the British higher education system, which is different from the Libyan system as it puts greater responsibility on the student, to reach the required level of knowledge through developing his or her research and analytical skills, rather than a teacher-centric approach where...
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...What kind of a person is John Clendenin? Intelligence, Ambitious and Capability When John Clendenin studied at Harvard Business School, he had already set himself a clear and ambitious career path: from successful corporate officer in Fortune 50 to on the board of several others, and eventually to be a cabinet-level position in our government. Actually he was ahead of his HBS plan after graduating within three years. John first came to Xerox was in 1983 after his first year at HBS. He worked as productivity consultant in the parts and supply area of Xerox US Marketing Group (USMG). He constructively suggested the efficient cost management, when he showed that Xerox was over-packing in distribution and found that the company would be more economically by having vendors’ ship directly to end users in Xerox rather than through central corporate warehouses. His excellent performance in the internship made him stay in the company and for more achievement in the future. From a productivity consultant to administrative manager for the area, John elevated to the head of the Xerox’s Multinational Development Centre (MDC) in 1986. Just within short three years in this position, Clendenin had led his group gaining a great achievement by improving the efficiency of the company’s worldwide logistics and inventory management system. His team had discovered and exploited business opportunities that saved Xerox millions of dollars a years. Their budget grown from $400000 to $4 million, its...
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... Detailed preparation will reduce if not eliminate the amount of flaws in your plan. Assuming that if your idea is clear to you, it will be clear to others. This is not true. I have tried to express an idea that seems very clear to me, yet I can tell that I lost everyone by the confused look on everyone's face. It is the speakers job to ensure that his or her audience will understand the message. This requires preparation to identify the audience so the message will be clear to them while still accurately conveying the main idea. The assumption that the people who stand to benefit most from your idea will accept it automatically without any persuasion on your part. Just because you go through great lengths to give your audience what they want does not mean that they will sign right up without...
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...War is a very bloody and violent topic to talk about, especially since most of the time when a writer writes about a war they is using Imagery, which can make you see what is happening in either 3rd or 1st person perspective. Most authors will also use Irony, which is the author saying something they don't really mean, and will indicate something of the opposite. Then the last use of a literary device that most war authors use is structure. Structure is how a author decides how he structures his poem or story. There are many poems and short stories that show off those 3 literary examples. There are two Poems that show off Irony and Imagery, the first poem is “War Is Kind” by Stephen Crane has many examples of Irony, Irony is even in the title...
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...What Kind of Management Control Do You Need? 05/04/16 18:48 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE What Kind of Management Control Do You Need? by Richard F. Vancil FROM THE MARCH 1973 ISSUE A good method of measuring a manager’s financial contribution to a company must meet two criteria. It must seem fair to the manager, and it must reward him for working for the benefit of the whole company, not just his department or division. Although simple in theory, these criteria become difficult to meet in practice. The characteristics of the business may lead managers to work at cross-purposes; moreover, the strategy of a business should have a profound effect on the kinds of decisions made. In this article the requirements of designing effective management control systems are examined in both simple and complex organizations. Pointing to realities with which businessmen are familiar, the author seeks to guide executives in weighing the advantages and disadvantages of functional forms of organization, product division forms, and the socalled matrix concept of organization. He points out that profit centers are by no means a universal answer, however appealing they may be in principle to business leaders. P rofit centers are a major tool for management control in large industrial corporations. They possess important advantages: https://hbr.org/1973/03/what-kind-of-management-control-do-you-need# Page 1 of 26 What Kind of Management Control Do You Need? 05/04/16...
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...1. Explain the concepts of stake and stakeholder from your perspective as an individual. What kinds of stakes and stakeholders do you have? Discuss. The idea of stake in my point of view as an individual would be a investment that you have made to yourself future, my stake in that would be I have put in a lot of time to educating myself and having good education so that can lead me get a good life. So for me stake means investing in myself future. On other word, stakes A stake is something that you have an interest in and having rights towards that interest. In this way, you can have a stake towards a specific course in school. Stakeholder from my point of view would be a something that you are firmly part of and has...
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...Nowadays there is a great variety of jobs to any taste. Choosing a future career, we should consider the following things. • Pay. Is the size of your salary important? Generally speaking, it is important. Of course there may be various situations, but if you are going to be independent, successful and wealthy, you have to find a well-paid job. Moreover, if you are going to have a family, you should be ready to support it, to be a breadwinner. Naturally, you'd like to live in good conditions, and your children to study at good schools, and then to enter prestigious universities, to travel all around the world and so on. Now you understand why you should take money into consideration when choosing a job. • Further training, promotion prospects and job conditions should also be kept in mind. Just after graduating it is very difficult to find a plum job which will respond to all your preferences. It is usually a monotonous, tedious clerical job, but if you are a capable and hard-working person, you will certainly be offered an opportunity to climb the ladder. • Place of work. You ought to decide whether you want to work indoors (cashier, chemist, librarian, secretary, etc.) or outdoors (driver, firefighter, estate agent, etc.). Your choice may be based on your lifestyle or health condition. • Full-time, part-time, flexitime jobs. There is no set pattern to part-time working. It may involve a later start and earlier finish time than a full-time position, working mornings or...
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...All liberals endorse foundational equality, the belief that all humans are 'born' equal in the sense that their lives are of equal moral worth. This can be seen in the doctrine of natural rights. Tom Paine believed that all men are born equal and are of moral equal value; He wrote a book called the Rights of Man which talked about it. However, this did not state that ‘everyone, including women were equal, since it just referred to men. Consequently, Mary Wollstonecraft who was a British Feminist wrote a book in reply, called ‘A Vindication of The Rights of Women’ which led women to stand up for themselves too. In the end the US constitution stated that all humans are born equal. For example, A woman and a man both have equal rights in things such as the right to live, to get married and to make their own choices. There are some ideologies which do not believe in foundational equality, such as Fascism and Authoritarian Conservatism. Foundational equality implies Formal equality, the belief that citizens should enjoy the same formal status in society. The most important expressions of formal equality are legal equality (equality before the law) and political equality (universal suffrage and one person, one vote). This is also linked to negative freedom, which means people are allowed to do things, this means allowed by the law and rights to be able to do as they like, as long as they don’t break the law. All liberals believe in formal equality, as people should be constrained by...
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...A patient always have a right to see their medical records, it is the law that medical records are available upon request with a small fee. The law also states in the policy that there is a limit of who has access to the records and to be released to without a written consent from the patient. When there an amendment needs to be made the patient or who is requesting the amendment needs to write a letter. The letter needs to outline why you think it is wrong and what the correction is. The basic information needs to be put into the letter, your name and the date of service in your letter, and then staple your letter to the copy of the page that contains the error. Make sure that the correction is written exactly as you think it should be and also make sure it is easy for the provider's record person to read, so that the right corrections can be made. Patients have the right to have restrictions on their use and disclosure at any time. The request that is made by an individual or by the PR to restrict the use or the disclosure of PHI has to be made in writing on a form that is prescribed by a DMH. Except for when an accommodation has been approved by accordance from section III.B. Then at that point a request can be made at any time. The medical records are legally owned by the physician, although it is the patient’s records. Since the records were created by the physician, then they have the rights to them. On the other hand it is the law that patients have the right...
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...What kind of hierarchies do we encounter in the study of art from 1400-1600? Ideas of the Renaissance The hierarchical phenomenon operating between the years 1400-1600 shaped and organised Renaissance society, heavily defining codes of conduct and correct communal correlations. What’s more, it was a comprehensive and widespread concept that manifested from various angles in Italian Renaissance art. Hierarchical influence can be encountered when considering the contention between several aspects of Renaissance art, and the bearing this classification and ranking process had on the canon of art history was considerable given the periods place in it. Specifically, this ladder of position operated within the competitive frameworks between the liberal and mechanical arts, Early Renaissance and High Renaissance artists, male and female artists, patrons and their employees in the practice of patronage, genres of art works, and painters and sculptors. When trying to understand how a period is structured and works as a whole, consideration of the hierarchies operating within it reveal some clear points of focus. Societies generally work on a ‘pyramid of prestige’, and Renaissance Italy followed this rule. Each societal member had a place, and was expected to fully understand the boundaries this position placed upon them. Societal roles were clear, and every person was conscious of their social standing, whether it be that they were higher or lower than the next person...
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...Urbanisation is the term given to the process of people establishing themselves in locations as a large urban community, building the characteristics of bigger towns and cities for example the cities of; London, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow. From this we can deduce that Counter-urbanisation is the process of people migrating away from the big crowded cities into less densely packed areas in the countryside or smaller settlements than the environments they came from. One of the main causes of counter - urbanisation is the perception of a better quality of life, they want to be able to live in a clean and quiet area without air and noise pollution, busy traffic, dirt and the crime of urban environments. Another attraction of moving to a rural environment is that employers have also started to move to rural areas, adding to the cause of counter- Between 1981 and 1996 rural areas gained more than 1 million jobs. The use of high speed internet connections has allowed people to work at home, even establishing their own internet businesses this has allowed them to move away from the towns and cities. One of the major effects of counter- urbanisation is that the majority of the services in the area are forced to close. This is because the majority of people moving into the areas commute to work every day so instead of using the small village shops for their goods they use the large supermarkets in the urban areas in which they work. Businesses in rural areas then have to close...
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