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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI (Enrichment 1)) is the result of many years of hard work and research by the mother-daughter duo of Katherine Briggs and Isabelle Myers. The MBTI is a non-judgemental tool used to sort people based on personality, where no trait is positive or negative. The test is self-administered with no time limit, no right or wrong answers, and sixteen possible outcomes. Each outcome, known as a type, has four representative letters. There are two possibilities for…

This paper will be re-analyzing the Duffy Speech, made by Senator Mike Duffy, the two methods that will be utilized in this paper are the gender analysis by Deborah Tannen’s and the Critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough, Ruth Wodak and Teun A. van Dijk. These test methods are similar for they are both trying to uncover and expose the meaning/reasoning behind the usage of certain dialects. A short summary of Mike Duffy’s speech; Senator Mike Duffy was accused of taking money from…

The assignment for the ANT 415: Understanding Secularism course is on the hijab in Bangladesh. And I would like to look into the performativity aspect of the hijab and the extent to which it affects the lives of the women who wear them. The hijab, or the headscarf, is a visible marker that helps construct and embody a woman’s Muslim identity and all around the world, this identity has an image associated with it. This image as it is seen here, will be explored as I spend a week in Dhaka wearing…

As technology continues to evolve in an accelerating fashion, humans have placed an intense focus on the future of our race. This has come in the forms of things like genetic mutation, self-driving cars, and forming a settlement on Mars. But the increase in technology has come with a decrease in quality human interaction, which is demonstrated by tendencies to find entertainment through screens rather than in another human being. The study of human interaction is a field that affects every…

There is a deep history of exclusionary state policies and laws in regards to immigrants in general, which profoundly inform the sentiment towards asylum seekers today. The United States for example had the Chinese Exclusion Act from 1875 to 1882, and the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act which limited the total number of immigrants per year (Rose-Redwood, The United States: Historical and Contemporary Migration, 2016). These two examples show the racialized and restrictive immigration policies of the…

Ken Xiang Professor Matson English 101 12. November 2013 Directive Process Analysis: Pursuit of Love Interest For most people, a large part of leading a happy, fulfilling life means finding the right spouse or partner and being able to spend the rest of their lives together. However, doing so is not always as easy as it sounds for men, particularly the part of pursuing potential love interests. Human courtship is probably the most complex mating ritual in the animal world. While there exist no…

Alfred Adler was born in Rudolfsheim, near Vienna, Austria. His father was a grain merchant, and his mother was a stay at home mom. Alfred was born into a religiously nonobservant family, but they were ethnically Jewish, and they were lower middle class. Adler was profoundly affected by the death of a close younger brother, his own near death experience, and from the rickets he suffered from as a child. (Edwards. 2010) He was constantly trying to outdo his older brother even though he was…

Employee Use of Internet at Work: Policy Proposals Corporations nowadays are functioning in a technological world of doing business. One prime example is the internet. A realm full of information that has allowed higher level employees to low- level employees to use the internet to conduct research and other business related activities. It is not without saying that the internet has helped cut the days in half for many such as board of director, high level managers to low-level employees the…

tendency to emphasize the poverty that persisted in Iranian culture was evident above all else. As one might expect, this realization provoked anger amongst the Shah and his Government, who were forced to concede to the idea of the film placing a disclaimer at the beginning, in order to insinuate to its audience that the events of the film took place long before the Shah’s rule, as the events on show were by no means compatible with the Shah’s fabricated…

In June of 1966, the outcome of the trial - Miranda v. Arizona declared that suspects must be informed of their specific legal rights when being placed under arrest, bringing about the creation of the Miranda Rights and forever altering all criminal arrests and law enforcement conduct. The Supreme Court’s decision in Miranda v. Arizona addressed four different cases involving custodial interrogations. These four cases included Miranda v. Arizona (the first case taken), Vignera v. New York,…