Falling action

In the documentary; the Killing Floor, it shows the struggles workers faced in the business of meat packaging. The employees worked in terrible conditions without a union contract that promised them that their jobs were safe. Workers were divided into factions because some wanted an increase in wages, while others thought that they should not step over the line due to the fear of losing their jobs. This documentary shows that several black workers did not want to join a union because if they did…

Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced to the Birmingham jail in 1963 for protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. While in jail, King reflected upon the different types of discrimination that was occurring throughout America and knew that changes needed to be made to promote equal opportunities for all people, regardless of race. While he was falsely confined in jail, he wrote the famous, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and described," Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice…

Affirmative action was created in the 1960s in order to give the groups that had been marginalized for years a leg up in order to help them out. The mentality behind its creation is best summarized in a quote from a speech given by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 in which he says, "you do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have…

Along with privileges, come disadvantages. One might ask what disadvantages would ever come to a person being white in skin color. If you have gone to college or even filled out an application for a scholarship, you have probably face some type of discrimination against your skin color. Many scholarships are explicitly for people of Hispanic, Asian, or African American background. Two students might apply for scholarships with the same grades, background, and program of study and one might get a…

Farmers everywhere in the United States during the late nineteenth century complained against the economy because the farmers were constantly being taken advantage of by the railroad companies. All farmers faced similar problems and for one thing, farmers were starting to become a minority within the American society. In the late nineteenth century mechanization was in the spotlight creating big businesses. The success of this industrialization put agriculture and farmers on the down low,…

In the last decade, many sweatshops are characterized by massive Labor Law violations such as, underpayment, no social insurance, and high level of industrial injuries. As consequences, many electronics enterprises realized the violations and are beginning to fulfill the basic legal requirements. Apparently, the difficult situation of workers cannot stand on the Labor Law alone. In order to fight for humane and decent working conditions, the workers must seek help from an effective union that…

Humans are unique in so many ways that each have their own personality, skills, knowledge, and attributes that varies from one another. The facility deals with a lot of people in all ages and races. Respect, trust and patience are some of the key factors to build a strong foundation and reputation that is admired and appreciated by all. But along this, there are a lot of circumstances that makes it more hard and challenging to deal with. Diversity issues in the workplace are common that some…

Racial discrimination does exist within society and its institutions. Tim Wise presented a statistical study that in 2006, the number of race based housing discrimination were at the highest they’ve ever been. Another study showed that “between 1991 and 2000, there were almost one million black people in this country who died, who would not have died had they merely been white and had the average health care quality and access of the typical white person in this country, had they been living in…

Propagation of Action Potential has to do with unmyelinated axons, when they do have Myelination the process of propagation is different. When the axons have myelination they send the charge even faster than without because it is being conducted and given a boundary that the charge with not get last through and will go one way together. Not only through myelination but also the diameter of the axon, the bigger the axon the quicker the action potential will travel through. The action potential…

Diversity is not just age, gender, race. it is much more complicated that we can imagine. In my opinion diversity is about our connectedness and our interactions where the lines cross. Diversity is a connection between our professional life and personal life and the framework for interrelationships between people. In the workplace we face employees with different cultural backgrounds, perceptions ,capabilities and disabilities that they bring to their workplace. Employees with different…