Ursula Burns

In Ursula Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” the reader finds themselves faced with a moral dilemma. Would you sacrifice someone’s happiness or even their life, I fit meant you would always have happiness? Chances are many people would in fact answer that question with a yes. Often times, there must be a sacrifice in order for a community or society to prosper. Omelas, or as Carl Badgley called it in his critique of the story, “Oh, my loss” is the perfect example of…

In both Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Ursula Le Guin’s, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, there is a town in which a person is sacrificed in one way or another in order for the entire community to thrive. These sacrifices are rituals which only these towns know about. “The Lottery” focuses more on an actual ritual where the town draws papers from a box and one person ends up getting stoned in order for the crops of that year to thrive. “The Ones Who Walk Away” from Omelas is a story…

play a vital role to maintain the community and families. This role is displayed in the actions of Ursula, Santa Sofía de la Piedad, and Fernanda. Ursula is a perfect example of this vital role, throughout the story she works to maintain the community and her family. Her role in her family is to try and preserve the family and the house. When Jose Arcadio Buendia isolates himself in his lab Ursula steps up to care for the entire family. She not only took care of her children without Jose…

significant numbers. 1980s increased emphasis on female and minority hiring, appointing Barry Rand, African American to position of minority president division. 1990s adoption of Non-discrimination policy on sexual orientation, 2007 appointment of Ursula Burns as First female Xerox President, succeeded by Ann M Mulcaly, historical female to female hand over of giant Company’s’ presidency…

Chief Tries to Redefine Its Culture. New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2015, from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/business/21xerox.html This article reflects on the redefinition of Xerox’s culture by Ursula Burns, the first African American woman C.E.O of a fortune 500 company. Ursula life form rags to riches did not come easy and it showed through the continuous efforts she made by speaking up and not giving up when the company was on the verge of collapse. Her toughness led her to the…

Risk Taking Risk taking is one of the most influential deciding factors in whether a person makes it big or remains ordinary. A generally accepted idea is that the higher the risk a person takes, the greater the potential profit will be. While managing risk is an imperative skill to possess for maintaining wealth, learning to take risks in the first place is what makes wealth. The research conducted on “Rags to Riches” Americans shows that every single person took a significant risk at some…

People like Liz Murray and Ursula Burns are inspirational figures that have used education as a way to go above and beyond their limitations. They came from nothing and rose up way above their circumstances. Ursula Burns grew up in the projects of Lower East Side Manhattan. Burns says that she “knew that education was my way up and out”(Lean In). Burns attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute for her Bachelors and attended Columbia University for her Masters. Today Burns is the CEO and Chairman…

burning of the American flag. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Wife’s Story,” she makes the connection between acceptance through the eyes of a wolf. “My So Called Enemy”, a film about girls of different backgrounds and religions, explains the…

Comparison of the life of the people in “ The Ones who walk away from Omelas “ and “Fahrenheit 54” to my life. The short story “ The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas ” is written by Ursula le Guin. At the first glance the people of Omelas have a happy life. The city is situated by the sea – the day which is described in the beginning is the Festival of Summer. The children are riding horses, there is music and dancing. The people are described as happy, but not as simple minded people, what you…

In this play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Hero tells Claudio she is still alive and they get married to each other. After Claudio wrongfully exposed Hero for a sin that she did not even commit the day before they were suppose to get married. Also Beatrice and Benedick planned on getting married after being so mean towards one another for a long time. Although Borachio and Don John were the main causes for this conflict they did not get arrested for making Hero look like a…