African studies

In contemporary society, there is an established gender hierarchy that maintains male superiority over females. This hierarchical perspective that is constantly reinforced generation after generation, consistently places a higher value on masculinity than on femininity (Schilt; Westbrook, 442). Many components attribute to the gender hierarchy like gender roles, racial privileges, “doing gender”, and a most important factor of heterosexuality. Heterosexuality contributes to the subordination of…

This case study demonstrates a good case scenario in an organization functioning. It also gives us an idea of what is needed to be done or keep stabilizing or improving an organization. In order to keep Keiser University succeeding, it is imperative to hire someone with the right qualifications to get the job done. Along with the qualification, the person has to be able to fit the office environment and what the office individuals are familiar with. This will still cause a change in the…

The first article (scholarly article) talked about test anxiety in young children summarizes how students in elementary grade levels have vastly different levels of anxiety between high-stake tests versus regular classrooms tests. The levels of test anxiety among children was measured using two different kinds of tests, the CTAS (Children’s Test Anxiety Scale) and the BASC-2-TA (Behavior Assessment Scale for Children, Second Edition). The CTAS measured the students physiological reactions to…

Thoroughly reading Twelfth Night Gender Roles become apparent on every page as the story unfolds. The way Viola changes her gender to becomes Cesario which sets the whole plot of the play in motion and the interesting relationships between characters. Shakespeare used this play to challenge the entire notion of gender roles and sexuality altogether by placing heteronormative representation of binary gender identities to achieve her desired ends, Viola demonstrates that gender is a fluid identity…

Geographical alignment of Western Union acted as a top goal during the global shift. Leaders bringing change to an organization will face many struggles and push-back. “Your message will probably have strong competition from other day-to-day communication within the company; so you need to communicate it frequently and powerfully and embed it into everything you do (Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model, n.d.).” A. Define the Behaviors that Achieve the Desired Results. Communicating what successful…

Interrogating Judith Butler’s view on gender oppositions, Vicki Kirby asserts that she is ‘clearly committed to a notion that language possesses a constitutive and regulatory force which causally implicates sex/gender and sexuality’ . This essay will critically dissect poststructuralist theories to expose phallogocentricism and instability within the gender binary. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle assert that ‘the notion of essentialism’ in gender ‘consists primarily in anatomical or…

Doohickeys Case Study In the final Doohickeys Inc. paper, we looked at three more areas that we believe would help Doohickeys Inc. become a more successful company. The first problem we will discuss is the process for dismissing employees, which include firing, furloughs, and layoffs. The second problem focuses on the culture within the company. The final problem looks into the physical layout and environment of the company and how physical changes can improve performance and the point of view…

The title of this book is ‘Hatchet’, written by Gary Paulsen, and this book has received “Newberry Honor Book” award. It was published in 1987 and named “the bestselling classic survival story”. The genre of the book is coming-of-age adventure novel. Children aged 10 to 15 will enjoy reading it very much. In the beginning, the story takes place in the small airport in Hampton, New York, where the main character is from, and later in the Canadian woods by the lake. The story is about a teenager…

Background People’s productive activity is inseparably linked with the transformation of energy; substance and information flows in order to obtain the necessary products of labor. At the same time, there is always the possibility of emergency release of energy contained in techno-social systems due to its entropic properties. Such an inevitable attribute of production activity is usually correlated with technology and is called a danger (technogenic by source). Safety is then understood as the…

Gender is “a constructed and contingent set of assumptions about female and male roles” (Oosterveld 56). The term gender in today's society is a very important and relevant topic. Our “polished society” (Wollstonecraft 656) has created a “binary system” (Corwin) where boys and girls are pushed to play a specific role in society. Slage says that gender is “essentially a performance” and that “we not only carry out but we also observe these ‘performances’ every minute of the day” (Slage).…