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In watching the presentation, I also learned that the African American community wasn’t afforded a lot of the opportunities as the whites, so my parents probably didn’t have an opportunity to even move up the ladder if they even wanted to, also Black wealth was always frowned upon or thought of as a poor culture to…

The multiplicity of ethnic cultures constructs our racial attitudes and helps us realize our social identity. In this context, social identity is defined as our various group memberships, where each group membership is emphasized by personal importance (Hoplamazian & Knobloch-Westerwick, 2014). Our personal identities can help us develop how we want to be perceived as individuals by our ethnic culture. In this context, a personal identity refers to how we use our unique individual…

of a group of friends that have the same interests as each other (Esen, 2012). Teens want to be a part of a group even if that means changing the way they dress or hair style to look like others in the group. Middle school teens care more about what the friends think of them and getting their approval first (Steinberg & Monahan, 2007). Teens are pressured into dressing a certain way to look the same to have been known that they way they are dressed makes them be identified as that group.…

race and ethnicity, as well as their status as international or foreign students. In a similar study, Sengstock (2009) reported a good number of cases of discrimination against students on the basis of gender, skin color, ethnicity, belonging to minority groups and sexual orientations in the United States. In a more recent study, Seider and Hillman (2011) examined, through interviews, the discussions about race and social class among the ‘privileged group’ students who participated in a…

Diversity of Dance Santa Fe College’s Fine Arts department presented Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance on Thursday, October 27th at 8 pm. I had the pleasure of attending this amazing performance at Santa Fe College, in the Fine Arts hall, which set the tone with its beautiful ambience. Arriving ten minutes early allowed me to look over the program and get ready for the curtains to open. Each performance was unique and I look forward to speaking about each of them. The First dance was Oh My…

“offensive.” That we as Americans have the right and the obligation to hear people out, regardless of their differentiating viewpoints on stances and subjects, and even if we have to sit back and evaluate if this is wrong or right, we as a people have the ability to do that. With all of the censoring of “offensive” and “demeaning” talk today, a safe space culture nation, these words carry true, showing that while you may not agree with what is being said, you as an American have the right to…

Cases surrounding one of the biggest organizations in the automotive industry, Ford Motor Company, through its subcompact Pinto, have been one of the popular topics in the engineering field. Numerous reports involving Ford Pintos on rear-end collision with deaths and serious injuries have been made not too long after its entrance into the automotive market in 1970s. It is known that the cause of the incidents is due to Pinto’s major design flaw which is the defection in the fuel system design.…

The adolescence is the transition phase between childhood and adulthood, it is a natural time of learning and adjustment, particularly in the setting of long-term goals and personal aspirations. Peers become more important and experimenting with relationships is an important development task during adolescence. While a lot changes, from physical appearances to social development both the rates of depression and anxiety rise dramatically, with anxiety disorders seen in 5 - 30% of the children…

year agreement with Perot systems which took the responsibility of maintenance, repair and IT operation. This in-turn reduced the IT knowledge within VWoA. 9. The Volkswagen AG (VWAG) group company was created in GedasUSA which was subsidiary of GEDAS AG and will look after IT operations within the Volkswagen Group of companies. 10. To boost up the start up process for GedasUSA all the IT staff was again transferred from VWoA to GedasUSA which left no real IT knowledge to VWoA. 11. During 1999…

This write-up seeks to address the question of the postcolonial identity which emerges from the text, Yuva (2004) by Mani Ratnam. The subject(s) form a sense of communal unity in identity despite being from different social and regional backgrounds, highlighting different roles/identities being played out during the course of the movie and how these identities synthesize by the end of it. For Benedict Anderson, nation “is an imagined political community--and imagined as both inherently limited…