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For my I.S., I am interested in cross-racial alliances and support for social movements form on racial issues. Specifically, I will study White American support and or participation in Black social movements. Existing literature broadly tell us that grievances, access to resources, and identity play roles in whether or a person decides to join the movement. The grievance theory and resource mobilization theory both leave gaps and contributes nothing to explain why a person outside of the race in…

During the years 1920 to 1939 life on the prairies had been very tough and difficult to live in due to the extremely tough economic times and climatic impact around the area. The most dominant factors of the cause are, the drastic climate change, the grass hopper plague and prices of products falling significantly low. In 1931, humongous Dust storms began. The dust-storm left every crop field empty and destroyed. As stated in the text “the wind would polish your hand if you left it out long…

issues, and certainly is responsible for a substantial number of tobacco-related mortalities. If a person passively smoke in a long period of time, the possibility that he or she has lung cancer will soar up by 48 per cent, whereas the risk of having heart-attack will increase by 25 per cent (Lonergan, Meaney, Perry, Comber, 2014, p. 2). The figures given by the article also indicated that children and pregnant women are more likely to be the innocent victims of the diseased ensued by smoking…

plastic waste. The magnitude of plastic production is shown through the increase of global plastic resin production by 620% from 1975 to 2012 (Jambeck et al. 2015). Furthermore, in 58% of countries with available data, it was found that at least ten per cent of solid waste material was comprised of plastic pollution (Jambeck et al. 2015).…

Diversity is inclusive not divisive and it is the glue of many successful companies. While analyzing diversity mission statements for corporations such Whole Foods and Gap Inc., I noticed that Whole Foods is more implicit in regards to the website map, while Gap Inc.’s provides many webpages on detailing diversity principals. Although Whole Foods require that employees under a diversity training program is not situated on their website. Both Gap and Whole Foods are dedicated to hiring from…

way with transitioning to renewable energies. Google, one of several leaders making an impact. The company has been carbon neutral, they 've reduced and offset their carbon output to zero, since 2007. They are also advancing data center technology and 50% less energy is used than the typical data center ("Google Green."). Apple is also turning green. Currently under construction is the Apple Campus 2, the new Apple headquarters. They plan to power the entire campus 100% by renewable energy,…

higher number is not always favorable. It does not make financial sense for a business to keep an excess amount of cash on hand because that cash can be used to generate more revenue. Debt Ratio - Organics debt ratio came in a little higher than the 50% desired bench mark. Their debt ratio is a measure of how much debt they are leveraging to finance this business. In this instance, Organics is relying heavily on loans to keep them going. If they were to take on any more debt, their ratio would…

GUEST SPEAKER: JOHN LEVY There are two main highlights that stood out for me about John Levy. First, to get to where he is at now took a long time and a lot of work in the “trenches.” His family owned a broadcasting business in the Hamilton area, but that did give him a free ride. I admired the fact that during summers he would work with the crew and although he screwed up many times, it provided him with technical knowledge of how things work. This “bottom-up approach” has served him well ever…

Introduction “Rapid internationalization and globalization have resulted in a diverse workforce in most Western countries”(Netto et. al 2014). A diverse workplace refers to the variety of differences between people in an organisation… which encompassses race, gender, ethnic group, age, … education, background.. “ (Greenberg 2004). Establishing a diverse workforce allows organisations to have different solutions in solving the problems within the organisation, it also provides a wider service to…

Title: Quality Improvement in manufacturing through human performance enhancement Authors: Majorkumar Govindaraju, Arunkumar Pennathur & Anil Mital Journal Publications: Integrated Manufacturing System Purpose The purpose of this study is to show how quality improvements are possible through improvements in human performance. This research presents four case studies that demonstrating the relationship between quality and different variables affecting human performance. The study target is based…