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One thing Obama has done to try and provide a solution for the race issue in America was create a policy known as affirmative action. Affirmative action caters to those who usually face discrimination in relation to education or employment. The policy requires for schools and work places to hire or accept a certain amount of colored people. Connerly believes the policy has backfired and…

Identity formation and point of view is affected by stereotypes and life circumstances. In S.E. Hinton’s “The Outsiders” circumstances and stereotypes makes the characters struggle with who they are. The Outsiders is told from the point of view of Ponyboy. Ponyboy is golden and doesn’t care for stereotypes and through him we see how the other characters are affected by those stereotypes. The characters’ identity formations are delayed by stereotypes; greasers are seen as dirty, low life…

FACTS: Harris was a former employee of Forklift Systems. She made claims that the president of the company (Hardy) would harass her because of her gender at work and create an “abusive work environment” (Harris v. Forklift Systems). This was a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is a law that protects employees from being discriminated on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion (www.aauw.org). The president would make unwanted sexual remarks, and…

Social Mobility For Gatsby vs Janie Upon first glance, Gatsby from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and Janie from Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God seem very different. Gatsby — a wealthy white man-- seemingly has all the ability in the world to gain money and status, whereas Janie appears to have very little social mobility, as she is a black woman living in the South. However, upon closer inspection, it is clear that they have similar hopes and dreams, and that within their…

Underprivileged In Natasha Rodriguez’s essay, “Who Are You Calling Underprivileged?,” she argues that the word underprivileged shouldn’t be used based on someone’s ethnicity. The author then went on to explain that the definition of “underprivileged” didn’t fit who she is just because she’s of Latino/Hispanic background. Rodriguez also explained that researchers found that labeling these students as underprivileged can give them lower self-esteem, and that colleges should not automatically send…

Diversity in the workplace is an immense and challenging idea. Diversity quite simply means, to have a variety. To apply diversity to the workplace would be to have a variety of people with different races, ethnicities, genders, and sexualities. In the articles “How Diversity Makes Us Smarter” by Katherine W. Phillips and “Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion” by Laura Sherbin and Ripa Rashid, we are given the advantages of diversity and also reminded that inclusion is critical with…

POLYCHRONIZAT ION There has been recent experimental evidence that neurons can transmit information through precisely timed spike patterns. Patterns can be found in the precise spike timings of a group of neurons, which form a functional neuron group. Polychronization [20] can be defined as the ability to produce ‘time-locked’ but not synchronous firing patterns with milli-second precision. A network consisting of a group of neurons recurrently connected, with axonal delays and a synaptic…

having such a diverse workforce and not be afraid to advance someone based off their gender, ethnicity, culture, or age. Leaders and everyone in the workforce needs to get it out of their head that a certain person only got hired because of affirmative action. I have heard that too many times and it usually is not true. “Do you want me to hire a minority or do you want me to hire the best person for the job” Mellody Hobson goes on to explain that those two go hand in hand and it helps a company…

Journal 4 This week we began to discuss hiring and promotion decisions and affirmative action. One of the topics mentioned in hiring and promotion decisions is sex stereotyping. This issue is important to me because I grew up being told that girls do this and boys do that. I have four brothers and one sister that I didn’t really get along with. This led to me spending a lot more time rough housing with my brothers. I would definitely describe myself as a tomboy for the most part. Sometime at…

Concept of Social Inclusion Social inclusion can be defined as a series of positive actions to achieve equality of access to goods and services, to assist all individuals participate in their community, sport and society, to encourage the contribution of all persons to social, sport and cultural life and to be aware of, and to challenge, all forms of discrimination. Effective social inclusion results in each individual having an equal opportunity to make decisions that affect their quality of…