Intersection

Oasis Inc wants to earn enough revenue to create their newest heated luxury massage chair:The Tranquility 5000. However, the company needs to estimate the equilibrium price and quantity in order to find the optimal retail price needed to create this launch. This report will provide concrete analysis on the prices. The beginning of the analysis focused on the demand data. The demand included a range of prices and the quantity demand of n=110 test weeks. This can bee seen on Figure 1, which…

convert to Christianity. Eventually this inspiration reached the emperor of the time, Constantine, and he too became a disciple of Christ. Constantine was converted when he was leading his troops into battle; he saw a symbol which looked like the intersection of the Greek letters chi and rho in the sky with the inscription in hoc signo vinces which means "in this sign you will be victorious." This sign became an insignia of his regime. Constantine issued the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, effectively…

I should reconsider my career choice of a chief diversity officer. The article, Experiences of Women of Color University Chief Diversity Officers (Nixon, M. L., 2016) uncovered the immense pressures both personally and professionally that women of color face in their quest to serve as catalyst for diversity in institutions of higher learning. The qualitative study conducted semi structured interviews with five women of color and to determine if the equities experienced relating to being chief…

Why would Shakira—an artist who consistently proclaims to be proud of her varied identities—refuse to blend the two most fundamental languages of her identity? Carmen Fought offers us an explanation when she discusses the perceptions of Spanglish speakers by Anglo-dominant society. Code-switching (or Spanglish) is often associated with lower-class Latinx communities and is interpreted by whites (and to an extent, even some Latinxs) as a marker of a lacking education or linguistic non-conformity…

Introduction: I am a sexually queer, polyamorous, white, upper-middle class, able-bodied, American, female-to-male transgender student. Even as I type this long list of intersections that create my identity, I know that I’ve likely failed to include multiple aspects of who I am. I also know that I could include my subcultures, such as grunge or goth, or physical aspects, such as my piercings and tattoos or my decision to bleach my hair so regularly that my friends forget I’m not a natural…

President. But the tears that came up from a deep source inside me were strictly for me.” (Cofer 7). Also it saddened me, going back to paragraph 2,when the normally loud and happy El Building fell silent,“Even the traffic on one of the busiest intersections in Paterson—Straight Street and Park Avenue—seemed to be moving slower. There were no horns blasting that day. At El Building, the usual little group of unemployed men were not hanging out on the front stoop making it difficult for women to…

normative idea grounded in Eurocentric ways of knowing, which seeks to keep racial hierarchies in play as excellence is propagated upon White bodies. These idealizations mask racist tenancies, and portray post-racial societies while negating the intersections of class, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, ability and race. Thus, as notions of excellence seeks to categorize individuals based on their levels of achievement, and meritocracy is used as an alibi…

The Great Gatsby and The American Dream The 1920s, sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or the "Roaring Twenties," was known as a time of social change in rural America. In many aspects of life, women and men were changing their past accepted lifestyles and quickly adopting lavish lifestyles. Emerged during the twentieth century, one of the most notable writers of his time, F. Scott Fitzgerald, developed one of the greatest novels written, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald used his novels to…

Victory through Harmony: An Analysis Christina Baade’s focus in Victory Through Harmony is an analysis of how the BBC’s (British Broadcasting Corporation) wartime broadcasting of popular music and jazz helped redefine notions of war, gender, class, and nationality. The immediate goals of the BBC and the British government in this endeavor were to maintain civilian and military morale, increase industrial production, and foster a sense of Anglo-American cooperation. Peripheral effects of the…

In “The promise”, C.Wright Mills (2016) defines the concept of sociological imagination as a “quality of mind” which allows understanding of how the intersections of biography and history shape individual lives. Mills recognizes that most people encounter a feeling of being trapped since their perception of the world is largely shaped by their social milieu. He further states that people are therefore unaware of the relationship between their personal circumstances and the broader social and…