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Equality is shorthand for equality of opportunity, it does not provide anyone with an advantage or equal treatment, but rather aims to put everyone on roughly equal footing for things such as pay, accessibility to documentation and advancement. Diversity is the term used to describe having a workforce of people from various backgrounds, ages, cultures and genders, among other things. Inclusion is taking action to promote diversity within an organisation or community; this is generally achieved…

The presentation “A Liberal Use of ‘Liberal Arts’” by Matt Kirk, is a presentation teaching the audience about the classical view of liberal arts, specifically the trivium. The speaker then explains how the trivium disappeared from current education. Finally, the speaker calls for modern education to use elements of the classical liberal education, in order to make education stronger. The visual aid was very effectively used to create a guide for the audience to follow. The slides contained…

She had a rough voice gentled, between London and Liverpool, as the group voice was. When Roland began to speak, after this, she put a hand over his mouth, which was as well, for he had nothing to say. Later, Roland noticed, as he himself had his successes, Val said less and less, and when she argued, offered him increasingly his own ideas, sometimes the reverse side of the knitting, but essentially his. She even wrote her Required Essay on "Male Ventriloquism: The Women of Randolph Henry Ash."…

It hits you when you’re at your local shopping centre. When you’re alone or with your family. It hits you at the bus stop, down the road. It hits you at the airport. One in five students get slapped with it every day. Racism, it’s a problem we continue to deny exists in our country. But ladies and gentlemen, as one of those students, I can confidently let you know that this is not the case. Racism is alive in all platforms of life. Let’s take the media for example. The media affects and…

Twyla Tharp was born in 1941 and grew up in Southern California. Growing up, her extracurricular activities consisted of baton, ballet, toe, flamenco, drums, elocution, painting, viola, violin, acrobatics, shorthand, German, and French. Tharp graduated from Banard College with a degree in art history. After graduating, Tharp performed her first professional debut with Paul Taylor Company in 1963, having the role of crawling across that stage. Two years later, she founded her first company in…

The Dread Doctor, Ray Bradbury, was the harbinger of vice he wrote books of futuristic phenomenons, in technology and civilians dependence on it, which ultimately came to be. He wrote famous fables such as The Pedestrian; a short tale about how the nail sticking out always gets hammered, along with Usher II and Veldt which are horror stories of how people have used technology to murder another. Fahrenheit 451, which is a novel about intense censorship, is also one of Bradbury’s most known work…

interactions and increased general knowledge, improve our quality of life; however, the negative impacts are obvious and some are related directly to the positive aspects. Digital access has led to less person-to-person contact and a development of shorthand language which has increased impatience and intolerance for any message or idea that is not instantly communicated or digested. Higher productivity means employers now expect their employees to be always available via email, cell phone,…

one? According to Psychology Today, when it comes to dating, most women see altruistic qualities as a constellation of traits that prioritize kindness, conscientiousness, warmth, and respect—but when it comes to romantic interests, nice can be a shorthand antonym for bold, strong, or sexy, instead meaning “needy, weak, predictable, boring, inexperienced, and unattractive” (Herold & Milhausen, 1999). Apparently, being too nice has created a negative reputation for “Mr. Nice Guy” in the dating…

In the article Does Texting Affect Writing? Michaela Cullington argued the sides for and against texting affecting writing and gave examples from many sources such as teachers, articles, books, and magazines. In Cullington’s article, she included many literary devices trying to gather the reader’s attention to help support both sides of the argument allowing the reader to understand the two sides of the argument. Cullington starts her paper by opening it up to draw the reader’s attention by…

The American clothing brand, Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) is best known for its trendy and collegiate inspired accessories and casual wear targeted toward teens and young adults. The vision of Michael Jeffries, brought on as CEO in 1992, led A&F to become the uniform of preppy, conventionally attractive teenagers across America (Goldstein, 2014). However, in recent years the brand has suffered and the clothing retailer has lost popularity. Logos and Symbols Logos and symbols are often easily…