Sick leave

Pre-Agricultural Religion Here are three pre-agricultural examples of religion. The Upanishads, Gobekli Tepe and the Ainu/Jomon tradition. All date roughly 14,000 years ago. Dawn of the Upanishads “Like radii of the same circle, all these traditions indicate a common center… long before the India of the Vedas, before the Iran of Zoroaster, in the early dawn of the white race, one sees the first creator of the Aryan religion emerging from the forests of ancient Scythia.” (-Schure, The Great…

In Tennessee William's, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” he uses his main character Blanche Dubois, to demonstrate how her current experiences relate to her past. Throughout the play, Williams uses Blanche’s life experiences to illuminate that the hardships she has faced, were also faced by many women throughout history. In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Williams was able to use Blanche’s story to call attention to the injustice of gender inequality. In the beginning of the play, Blanche moves in with…

In America, many believe that taking care of children is a private responsibility this has had led to many work environments to be inflexible and non-family friendly. This perspective was born out of the American ethos of individualism- an ideology that stresses that individuals must be independent and that they are fully responsible for their life outcomes. Hays (2003) argues that this cultural value of self-sufficiency has made us insensitive and nonunderstanding to the social factors that…

Three Unique Writers Reforming Worldview “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass” (Whitman, v. 1-5). For many eras, authors and poets, like Walt Whitman have attempted to capture what it means to be an individual as a universal theme, and what it means to be an American. Multitudes of writers have come close to…

In order to create accepted literature containing homosexual roots and scenes during the nineteenth century, Walt Whitman had to balance his “athletic love” with heterosexual encounters, passionate genderless love, and Christianity. From the 1855 Leaves of Grass “Song of Myself”, he writes “Thruster holding me tight and that I hold tight! We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.” By following the thrusters with a heterosexual couple guide the readers’ to fill in the…

Given the library’s availability, I read Henry Seidel Canby’s biography, expecting to learn about Walt Whitman’s childhood, family, and experiences that led him to write Leaves of Grass. The overall assessment of Canby’s book is that it is fair. Canby is frequently wordy, and at least the first third of the book is rather boring because one feels as if he is skimming through Whitman’s life. The photos are interesting, but Canby should have included a time line because he describes events without…

2. Paid family leave advocates celebrate over a big week, but the battle’s not over http://www.npr.org/2016/04/10/473633537/paid-family-leave-advocates-celebrate-a-big-week-but-the-battles-not-over Summary: The state of New York and the city of San Francisco have recently passed more generous paid leave policies. In a couple of years in New York, workers will have the ability to take twelve weeks partially paid family leave to care for a sick parent or new child, giving New York…

Enacted in 1933 by the Clinton administration, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides unpaid time off to assist employees in balancing work and family life. The act supplies up to a total of twelve weeks of unpaid leave during any twelve month period to specific employees. While the establishment of the act has helped some employees balance the demands of work and family, a recent increase of family-leave lawsuits in our country have demonstrated the FMLA’s need for improvement.…

2014). One of these policies is the parental leave policy which significantly effect parent’s participation in unpaid labour of childcare as the policy rules layout the amount of leave parents can have (Ray, Gornick & Schmitt, 2010). It is evident that there is a pattern throughout these three approaches. For example, the effect of relative resources, time availability and gender ideology is predominantly shaped by policy, in particular parental leave policies. In the context of New Zealand,…

ways to fire the mother on leave. Mother can often return to work stressed out, tired, focused on their children, lacking motivation or requiring further training to catch up on knowledge lost or needed to stay up to the required expected level of work. It’s for that reason that workplaces are discouraging the further rulings in favour of extended leave for new parents as the discrimination laws get tougher and tougher as parents seek further rights to extend their leave. This is creating a…