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Whitewashing has become increasingly prevalent in modern entertainment, and Hollywood continues to cast Caucasian actors in minority roles. This pattern of casting encourages cultural appropriation, and also prevents ethnically diverse actors from becoming established in the film industry. The term “show business” in reference to Hollywood is extremely applicable; studios are so concerned with the “business” aspect that they often employ celebrities for the sole purpose of capitalizing on their…

is that police have a very distinct culture. When looking at definitions of police culture we see a few particular phrases that are most commonly frequent, these are the abuse of power, absence of culpability, discrimination of particular minority groups and internal solidarity (Terpstra, 2013). Looking at the modern policing styles of Australia we can recognize two distinct types; this is Community policing and Zero tolerance policing. Zero tolerance VS Community Policing and Police Culture…

Task 1: Evaluate the approach taken by the selected organization in managing its employees. Identify the HRM function in the organization and how they relate to contemporary perspective of HRM Introduction Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is the UK’s largest automotive manufacturing business, built around two iconic British car brands: Land Rover, the world’s leading manufacturer of premium all-wheel drive vehicles and Jaguar, one of the world’s premier luxury sports saloon and sports car marques. Under…

Introduction The group I have decided to study is the food recovery network’s monthly group meetings. Food recovery network is a group that consists of college students who fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food from both campus and the community and donate it to those that are in need (Food Recovery Network, 2016). This group is a task group. The type of task group that this group falls under is a social action group. According to Toseland & Rivas (2012), a social action…

Introduction The following case study will reflect an evaluation of the Samsung organization which is a multi-national South Korean Company widely-known for its achieved amount of success in developing innovative and new-age technology around the world. With this in mind, although Samsung, the manufacturing expertise has produced world class electronics, they are currently facing issues with the reputation of their brand and organization as a whole, product reliability, and consumer trust. The…

immigration and ethnic group diversity so I chose to do an observation of my hometown, University Park, Illinois and how diverse it has grown to become in the last decade. This observation took place November 1-3, 2015 in the GSU cafeteria annex and local restaurants in U.P. I was able to speak with a few citizens who too have lived here just as long as I have. The people I was able to speak with were two Palestine siblings who study medicine here at Governors State University and a group of…

Miles “Pudge” Halter moves to a new boarding school to find his ‘Great Perhaps,’ which is the adventurous, exciting life that he feels he deserves. I find Miles’ self perception of being an unwanted social outcast extremely irritating. He tends to focus on the negative aspects in his life and what he doesn’t have, rather than the positive things. For example, he does this when he first enters his new school. After meeting and becoming friends with his new roommate, the ‘Colonel,’ Miles feels…

topic in Canada and around the world due to rising issues of identity and rights for minority groups. Will Kymlicka is a Canadian scholar who “focuses on issues of democracy and diversity, and in particular on models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies.” Kymlicka proposes that states should protect minority and cultural rights, attempts to categorize minorities into two groups, identifies that culture is a synonym to a nation and states that minorities in a liberal…

college and university environments. For the Group Communication course held in the Fall 2016 quarter, students were assigned groups and were asked to explore different concepts relating to Group Communication theory. Members for groups were randomly selected by Dr. Boyraz, thereby allowing a greater possibility for diversity to occur. This factor of random group…

Pg. 315-328 How Groups Try to Shape Policy • Despite all the factors already discussed regarding interest groups, no one group possibly has enough resources to achieve every single one of its goals. • Therefore, these groups need to find other ways to produce income and strive towards success. • There are four main strategies that majority of interest groups have been utilizing: • Lobbying- According to Lester Milbrath, a “communication, by someone other than a citizen acting on his or her own…