Elitism

I chose to compare the stores Weekends and Goodwill. I spent around thirty to forty-five minutes in each store pretending to browse around and look as If I was a shopper myself. I didn’t want the shoppers to notice a man walking around the store taking notes on people and their interactions, as it would taint distort the results. I acted as if I was texting and took notes on my phone to preserve the natural interaction between customer and employee. Goodwill and Weekends were on complete…

Science and technology is always changing rapidly. Scientists are always going outside of the box to try to create new technologies and better ways of thinking to further how people perceive ideas. Sergio Sismondo states that “Neither science nor technology is a natural kind, having simple properties that define it once and for all. The sources of knowledge and artifacts are complex and various: there is no privileged scientific method that can translate nature into knowledge, and no…

The concepts of sin and salvation make up significant components of the Christian faith. The book “Why Christian?” written by Douglas John Hall and Introducing Liberation Theology by Leonardo and Clodovis Boff examine these doctrines. The Wesleyan Quadrilateral referenced in John Cobb’s book “Becoming a Thinking Christian” highlight how the ideas of these two books in regards to sin and salvation align and diverge. With regards to Scripture, Hall believes that scripture loses its meaning…

William Butler Yeats is a poet who is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century (“William Butler Yeats”). “William was born in Ireland, June thirteenth, 1865. He had his first works at Dublin's Metropolitan School of Art while a student there. His early achievements in his life were The Wanderings of Oisin and Countess Kathleen. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for his Literature in 1923” (“William Butler Yeats Biography”). William Butler Yeats was not like most of the…

In the history of white supremacist groups, many hold extreme restorative approaches to protest actions against their beliefs. Their approach invites their followers to take action by any means necessary to protest democratic or anti-fascist actions. Throughout history, leaders of the American south garner a following through demagoguery to manipulate their audience into following them, allowing the leader to rise to power. Today, similar demagoguery is present among white supremacist leaders in…

The Triangle fire was a horrific landmark disaster that occurred on March 25, 1911, killing 146 factory workers. David Von Drehle depicts the accounts of the harsh conditions and circumstances that the women in the garment industry, specifically at the Triangle Shritwaist Company, had to endure that led up to the fire. As well as the aftermath and the court case rulings. In Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, he touches on the strike in 1909 igniting a labor movement versus the unethical…

I am of course old enough to remember when festivals still retain a whiff of their alternative roots. How far have we travelled from those calm, peaceful tranquil and lens flared days. The meaning of carnival has changed dramatically over the period of time. Carnival has always been and would continue to be the show for the elite in society. In many parts of the world where Catholic Europeans set up colonies and entered into the slave trade carnival took root. Carnival, an annual…

The United States has the number one economy in the world, some of the newest technology in the world, and one of the highest GDPs. In education, however, Americans are lacking in comparison to the rest of the first world. Our schools are much different compared to the rest of the world in terms of administration and curriculum. By observing some of the top schools in the world, it can be seen what strategies work best for schooling and what makes them superior to the rest. A successful country…

We need to look at the organizational culture problem through all of the organizational ecology steps that include: Exo (External cultural values, belief systems, politics that manifest in org. subsystems), Macro (Divisions, departments, overall organization), Meso (Inter-relationships at individual level) and Micro (Individual, peers, manager, leader). (Sims, Krone and Jablin, 2002). INSERT SOMETHING HERE FROM ANGIE’S BOOK -TBD From the Exo level we see that there are cultural beliefs of…

While this particular conversation between Socrates and Euthydemus took place many centuries ago, many aspects of it continue to be useful in our modern day education system. In fact, with Minister Heng Swee Kiat (MOE, 2011) announcing that the priority in the years ahead for our education landscape to be on values and character development, I will present to you, in this essay, that these aspects are even more relevant today than ever. Before we begin, I believe it is important to draw…