Africana studies

Unit 5 Discussion 1. Describe the similarities and differences among generic strategies. Provide an example of an organization using a generic strategy. Michael Porter’s “Generic Strategies” can be offensive or defensive with respect to competitive forces. The Generic Strategies are cost leadership, differentiation, and focus. The first strategy, the cost leadership refers to the ways of gaining a competitive advantage over the rival company. When a company sets out to become a leader in…

In this essay, I will analyse the organisational structure and leadership strategies that Tooker implemented and how those decisions affected his position, his employees and the company as a whole. I will show the positive changes he was able to achieve during his years as CEO and what consequences his actions brought on him and his employees. I will critically analyse all the setbacks Tooker faced, the reason for their emergence and how he dealt with them. I will also provide a few…

Gender equality is everyone's issue, whether you are a man or a woman. Many things contribute to gender inequality, such as stereotypes or unequal pay between men and women. Now, in the 21st century, gender inequality has been a very soft subject but also a very important topic for years now, and in the future. Women want equal pay, equal feeling of importance in the government, and equality all around. Gender inequality is not just a women's issue, it's a worldwide issue with everyone. The…

There are many issues of gender and sexuality in A Passage to India: the novel includes an “alleged sexual assault on a British woman by an Indian man” (Childs 1999: 348), and the intimate, homoerotic, relationship between Fielding and Aziz, plays an important part. As Childs states, the novel analyses issues of control and resistance in terms of gender, race and sex (Childs 1999: 348.). Colonisation has, as mentioned above, been described as an example of the survival of the fittest, where…

While Abbott’s, “Flatland” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper” both illustrate critiques towards gender roles, such as women being treated unfairly, and man’s role being superior to women, these authors reveal numerous approaches and techniques toward the narratives’ critiques. Due to the methods and techniques to critique gender roles throughout these two texts, it supports the authors main theme of a typical gender role during the Victorian period. Additionally, Rosemary…

The Hound of the Baskervilles Book vs. Movie In Victorian England lies one of the greatest authors in the mystery genre, the father of the detective story, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of his best works, was written in 1902. It is in the perspective of Dr. Watson, who is working along with Mr. Sherlock Holmes to try and solve the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville. However, in 2002, one hundred years later, David Atwood directed a…

For all that, feminist theorists are more interested in theorizing than in tensions evoked by the body. Gender is done or constructed by the person and others in his society. Contrary to this established idea, Judith Butler, in her book Undoing Gender, sees that gender can be done by resisting and escaping from the clutches of the social norm through which gender is recognized. She argues: “I may feel that without some recognizability I cannot live. But I may also feel that…

Gender representation in film is a reflection on gender roles and ideas in society, and with every change and constant in these socially constructed differences it is subsequently seen in film. By looking through the sociological perspective the contrasts in the films beauty and the beast (1959) and Maleficent (2014) can be understood by looking at events in society and the creators of Disney films in addition with applying symbolic interactionism and sociological concepts and theories from…

For example, when power is captured at the micro-level of society, this captures how power in institutional and cultural practices produce individual domination (Sawicki, 1991, p. 22). Although Foucault has been extensively criticised for making few references to women and to the issue of gender in his work, Foucault’s focus on the relations between power, the body and sexuality have made a significant contribution to a feminist critique of essentialism (Diamond & Quinby, 1988, p. 167). However,…

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson the author of “Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept,” examines the concept ‘misfit’ through a feminist materialist perspective. She see’s it as something that emulates the shift from a more deviating analysis on disability, towards a material meaning using the relation between a body and its outer surroundings. The argument being made is that through observing lived experiences of disability located in a place and time, while simultaneously viewing…