Redistribution

different social class levels. Social class categorizes people into upper-call, middle-class, and lower-class, and in Mantsios’ essay, he highlights how social class causes division in the United States while he favors the idea of the radical redistribution of wealth. While Manstios claims that the rich exploit the poor, he does not emphasize…

Addison's disease and Cushing's syndrome Addison Disease, arises when there is hyposecretion of adrenocortical hormones, resulting in decreases cortisol and aldosterone levels while Crushing syndrome is when there is hypersecretion of adrenocortical hormones, leading to increased secretion. According to Hunt, other causes for Addison’s disease is commonly caused by an autoimmune response to an infection or cancer, while crushing “can result from long-term use of high-dose glucocorticoid…

HOW TO PREVENT PRESSURE ULCER: Understand the skin, nutrition, wound care, the Braden scales, immobility, various types of wound and including the etiology of wound is very important as a professional. The right equipment should be in place for bariatric patients “The National Center for Health statistics reports that 30% of American adults are obese-over 6million Americans” Reposition of the patient per nursing protocols q2hours while in bed and q1hour while in the wheelchair. Physical…

Hillary vs. Bernie Everywhere we look, the middle class is squeezed out of existence by employers who shrink benefits and pay, eliminate jobs, fear-pressure their staff to work illegally without overtime pay. The redistribution of income to the top 1% continues unabated. Student loans in the US are choking our future. Medical bankruptcies darken the days of those who most need some light. Some things are very wrong in this country, and these are mainly the same things that work well for our…

largely concerned with the distribution of property. Under Nozick’s theory the state has the authority to prohibit the use of fraud and force, enforce contracts and protect property. Nozick does not believe in the redistribution of wealth by the state, or any sort of redistribution of property in order to create an equal state. Nozick states that “resources should be distributed by the operation of a free market: the resulting distribution is just if it results from a series of voluntary…

During class on October 16, after Chris B. recapped the previous class, Gwen presented on Sara Ahmed’s “Happy Objects” and “Feminist Killjoys.” At the end of her presentation, the discussion started by responding to her first question: how should we understand happiness labor? In responding to this question, Ela suggested that we look at the different spheres in which emotion work operates. Ela used the example of Hochschild’s book, The Managed Heart in which there is the private emotion work…

Food Shift/OUSD Green Gloves Food Recovery and Donation Program Last year, Food Shift in partnership with Oakland Unified School District started a project in order to reduce food waste in Oakland. The project lasted about 12 months. The decision started based on the statistics from 2002 USDA report that school cafeterias waste food, and that waste sums to around $600 million each year. Kelly ErnstFriedman was the director of this project and kindly explained the pilot project May 2013 – June…

unfortunate depiction illustrating the underprivileged has created personal burdens and disadvantages among the poor. Bell believes equality from the government and “working class” could link progressive change among a social culture to provide redistribution amidst community wealth. Unfortunately, if modern society opposes constructively changing ways the poor are represented, then the poor culture will continued to be misconstrued by society, mass media, and the destitute themselves. Today’s…

One of such downfalls is that electoral districts, one of the most essential parts of the voting system, have many flaws. Electoral districts are essential because each district has an election and the party that wins the most districts then wins the election. The first of such flaws is gerrymandering. The dictionary definition of gerrymandering is, “To divide [a geographic area] into voting districts in a way that gives one party an unfair advantage in elections” (“Gerrymandering”). The term…

Spanish settler demonstrates genuine concern for the Native population's well-being, through analyzing his focus on the settler's point of view, losing of profits, and his ethnocentrism, it becomes clear that he is actually angry that the Natives' redistribution and deaths limit his possible profits in the colony.…