Essays on Bias

Introduction

The article “Nurses’ Perception of Medication Administration Errors” by Aboshaiqah, Ahmad (2014) presents a quantitative study conducted to identify the factors that influence nurses’ medical errors. A critical appraisal is essential because it will provide a better understanding of the research methods used including data collection design and analysis. The aim of this critical appraisal would be to analyze whether the researcher employed the correct research methods and whether the findings agreed with the results and hypothesis. Quantitative research involves the use of questionnaires, surveys, and experiments to gather statistical data used to explain a hypothesis (Burns, & Grove, 2011). ...

Introduction

Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mocking Bird is a unique story, which provides insight into the issue of inequality that existed between the black and white races during the 1930s. The Book is based on the author’s observation of the society during that era and reflected the biased and hypocritical views and actions of the members of the society. Although the book is relatively old and the inequality between the white and black races has been significantly eliminated from society, some resemblance can still be found in the modern day the United States of America and ...

Israel and Palestine have been fighting over Gaja for decades. The ongoing struggle has left Gaja in ruins. The ongoing siege of the Gaja territory by Israeli forces has made it impossible for any humanitarian efforts to rebuild the Gaja strip. In the midst of this conflict, Coca-Cola has decided to invest in the Gaja territory and is set to build a factory. The author examines the real reasons behind such investment and takes a microscopic look at the deal to determine whether this investment will be for the benefit of people residing in the Gaja strip or will ...

The search for truth has always puzzled humanity. Since ancient times, people have sought to know the truth about the world and the many claims being made about everything in the world. For modern scholars and philosophers, the process of determining what is true is an important epistemological process through which human beings develop knowledge. However, there are several competing truth claims in the world such that it is not easy to know if something is true or false. Fortunately, the following steps can be used to determine what is true and what is not. One of these steps ...

For the cultural immersion project I have chosen to learn more about the Eastern Europe, as I believe that I lack relevant and unbiased knowledge about Slavic culture, their values, attitudes and traditions. Therefore, I asked my friend from Ukraine to let me spend a day with her family, who has recently emigrated from Eastern Europe. I really did not know much about Ukrainians, so I thought that such an experience will be particularly beneficial for my personal growth. My friend and her family were happy to help and organized everything to make the experience interesting and useful. I ...

Essay 2.1

Swiffer's Gendered Ad Since men and women are different in numerous ways, it must not come as a surprise that advertisements depict men and women in different ways. Stereotypes are formed through the continuous, prolonged exposure of viewers to the various devices of imagery. These stereotypes begin to pray on our gender, and eventually help us form a bias in the media, and in our homes and lives. The notion, message, or idea of an array of depictions must be taken into consideration when analyzing stereotypes. The recent print ad of Swiffer Bissell Steamboost can be used as an ...

The paper on the childhood obesity will present the preliminary literature review and an action item checklist with the goals to achieve reduction of the problem that is on the increase. The child obesity has become a vast problem of the developed world and modern way of living which must be controlled in order to have a healthier population. The obesity has been quickly spreading and the prevention of childhood obesity must become a priority in improving the nation’s health. There are two major effects of child obesity one is the physical health that is more documented and ...

For decades, television is a constituent part of people’s daily lives, all over the world. More than a routine, television represents a social tool for aligning viewers on a certain pattern of thinking or seeing the perceived reality transmitted through various programs. Most people are educated in the concepts that mass media, through television as one of its main mechanisms, serve their audiences. The topics presented through television programs are a reflection of the social reality. By presenting the social reality from a certain angle, television shapes attitudes and creates stereotypes. For instance, “The Wire” television program manipulates ...

Diversity and Discrimination

At present, increased cases of diversity and discrimination are very apparent in most labour workforce nationwide. By diversity, it primarily includes different sectors that were gathered into one larger organization. These sectors may have different races, cultures, beliefs, sexual preference, etc. that are distinct from their own potentials and principles. In terms of workforce, many companies and organizations have already opted to diversify their workers in order to promote unity and cooperation among different races. However, instead of working towards their goal of confederacy among different sectors, many of which are still oppressed. Several races are still experiencing discrimination ...

An essay exploring the truth to the phrase “media violence is a significant cause of social violence”.

There has been extensive research into the correlation between media violence and social violence. Social violence takes a range of forms from legal union strikes to vigilantly groups. Violence in the media has been a hot topic since the evolution of mass media. Acts of violence are almost newsworthy. The media also has an obligation to inform society of any events that impact their safety. The statement we are examining is similar to the expression “Who came first? The chicken or the egg”. Though the violence reported by the media has already occurred the expression of the violence will ...

Describe best practices for setting employee expectations

Explain which performance outcomes (i.e., goals or standards) should be used for construction supervisors and laborers Setting expectations for employees is one of the most improvement techniques for performance. Performance outcomes can be obtained through communicating in a specific, unambiguous and clear way on what is expected. It also involves ensuring that employees are definitely committed to the goals of the organization. However, one of the most glaring challenges is communicating the manner in which the performance outcomes should be used for construction supervisors and labors. It is important to ensure that supervisors are equipped with tools and skills ...

Any effective program to reduce racial discrimination must address both the symptoms and the underlying cause (Hawley). Symptoms here refers to direct and outwards discriminatory treatment that officer display towards minority citizens. To address this the department should draft and implement an office-wide, top-to-bottom policy that expresses the department’s “zero-tolerance” for discriminatory actions while on duty and in the exercise of an officer’s capacity as a law enforcement official. Moreover, the department should establish a responsible person to monitor, enforce, and amend the policy as necessary. While addressing the symptoms should satisfy most discriminatory incidents a deeper ...

Introduction

Racial profiling is the targeting of a particular race for a particular crime. The practice was rampant from the time before the Civil War. African-Americans frisked by police from the street irrespective of their status (free or enslaved) were a common practice. The punishments for criminals differed as per color of the skin until the end of the crack cocaine period. The practice is unwelcome with minority communities since it often results in unfair treatment. An African-American or Hispanic origin civilian has higher chances of police questioning him compared to a Caucasian. In addition, the post-9/11 era comprises of ...

Executive Summary

The following report provides a detailed and exhaustive description of asset classes according to their characteristics and related advantages and disadvantages. Consequently, the paper considers 5 most important asset classes, including both local and international shares, bonds, cash and listed trusts. Further, according to the given statistical data regarding the levels of revenue of these classes of assets, the author conducts corresponding calculations evaluating their average profitability and effectiveness in investment portfolio along with clarifying what exact type of portfolio should be conducted for an investor operating with these securities in order to achieve maximum level of revenue with ...

Abstract

The paper is aimed at analyzing the criminal justice system. In this regard, the paper has examined the case of “11-CV-22122 Lawrence V. MS & RE Kesef Corporation” with respect to the concepts of prejudice along with the moral laws. The paper yields the outcomes that the court has made a viable decision entailing the criminal and moral laws that take in the biblical perspectives as well.

Introduction

The paper intends to analyze the essential components of a criminal justice system. For this purpose, the paper examines the “11-CV-22122 Lawrence V. MS & RE Kesef Corporation” case. It was trialed in the “ ...

Introduction:

Henry Alline certainly was one of the key figures associated with the cultural history of 18th century Canada and North America. Although Alline was primarily an evangelist and a preacher, he had a political and social role to play as well in the politics of North America in the late 18th century. Henry Alline was mostly involved in preaching to common rural people a different version of the Bible and Protestant Christian teachings than was officially supported by the British Government and the Established Church. He was especially influential in the Maritime regions of Canada, especially Nova Scotia. This ...

Introduction

In the modern world, businesses have discovered the power in understanding their market. As such, they have leveraged all the available tools in order to guide their steps into the future. The desired goal can only be achieved by combining knowledge of the market and application of the combination of the right forecasting tools (Green & Armstrong, 2012). Therefore, forecasting is defined as a decision-making tool that is used by business to project its future. Consequently, demand forecasting will be the decision tool that an organization will use to foretell the amount of their product that will be demanded. Broadly, ...

I. Introduction Under the Sixth Amendment, one of the fundamental rights that a person accused of a crime holds is the right to a “public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district” where the crime was committed. Subsequent Supreme Court jurisprudence has interpreted the Sixth Amendment’s impartial jury provision to mean a jury composed of unbiased individuals in regards to how the perceive the defendant. While an important of consideration as to whether a juror is biased has focused on issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and national origin. An equally important consideration is whether a ...

Chapter 1.

Section 1.1. Strategic management is regarded as the implementation of certain actions and conduction of the particular events that involve the participation of the leading management of the company, the related companies and rivals within the industry of the operation of the company causing the efficient performance of the business unit. The main question posed by the strategic management is why some companies have the better performance within one market or industry in comparison to the rivals. In order to plan the appropriate strategy for the company, it is vitally important to consider all possible options so that company ...

Scenario Analysis

After conducting the chi-square test, the most important factors to consider while determining the presence of gender bias in firefighter promotion is the chi-square statistic and the p value. These two factors are important as they help determine whether the relationship between gender and firefighter promotions is significant.

Is the promotional status of recently promoted firefighters independent of their gender?

Based on the results of the chi-square test conducted it is evident that the promotional status of recently promoted firefighters is independent of their gender. This implies that there is no relationship between promotions and gender. What reasons should the assistant chief convey to the fire chief to justify the absence ...

Introduction

Some organizations are successful while others are not successful. There has been arguments as to what causes some organizations to succeed and what causes others to fail. Some literature support the view that organizations succeed if they recruit skilled and experienced employees. Other sources argue that success of organizations largely depend on the kind of leadership they have. Still, some argue that it is a combination of leadership and employees with certain qualities because leaders are required to direct employees to achieve the vision of their organizations. But what differentiate good leaders from bad leaders? Allio (2007) argued that ...

There has always been an opposition between religion and science, despite the confession and the type of scientific data. The reasons behind this battle are understandable, as each of paradigms tries to explain the development of the universe differently. Each of the sides has its own arguments. A religious view is based on faith, while scientific point of view roots in theory, logic, and facts proved or disproved by experimental design. In his editorial “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God” Eric Metaxas tries to argue that today scholars admit God’s authorship of the universe (Metaxas). In order ...

INTRODUCTION

A man approached a gay couple screaming “I hate faggots”, and placed the knife to the neck of one of the men. An attacker approached a lesbian, called her a “dyke” and punched her in the face. A transgender woman was raped and strangled. A gay man was attacked, beaten, impaled with a stick and left nude by multiple assailants. A trans woman was shot to death by a group of individuals who followed and taunted him. A gay man was attacked at his place of employment. A transgender woman was beaten, raped and killed. These types are reported ...

In A Class Divided, Jane Elliot was using the social identity approach to teach the children empathy, by decategorizing identities and by splitting the classroom up into two groups: the blue-eyed people and the brown-eyed people. She made the brown-eyed people into the group that was going to face the discrimination on Tuesday, and made the blue-eyed group the target of prejudice on Wednesday. In just these two days, the third graders learned a profound lesson on prejudice and discrimination that would inevitably affect their outlook in their adult life. One of the blue-eyed students that used his position ...

Having been communicated the subject matter to be dealt with in the course of work, I immediately plunged into thorough speculation on the utility of this kind of social research. This speculation eventually brought me to direct inference of the curiosity and meaningfulness thereof. Thus, let me firstly figure it out. Throughout its entire history, society has always had this expressed tendency to get more and more divided into certain groups and subdivisions as to race, sex, color, origin, religion and so on. Thus, nowadays a majority of people are prone to assess themselves and determine their position in ...

Introduction: Ethical Issue

Auditors hold positions of trust in the society. However, over the years, auditors have been accused and, in some occasion, found guilty of failing to live up to these expectations. Therefore, this inability necessitated the enactment of laws that will support both accounting through strengthening firm’s internal controls and procedures and auditing through attestation of these internal controls. As such, this has strengthened the auditors’ position to uphold the social trust. Nonetheless, isolated cases have been observed where auditors have given the organization a clean bill of health yet such organization end up collapsing due to malpractices that ...

Introduction

Professional ethics is an inseparable part of every profession. According to the definition, professional ethics encompass the personal, organizational and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. To clarify and assure ethic rules disciplinary codes exist for specific fields. These codes are required, because professionals often have to operate private data of their clients to apply their skills for making judgments and decisions unobtainable for the general public. One of the exemplary set of professional ethic rules is the Hippocratic Oath to which doctors have been adhered for about 23 centuries.

Professional aims, that engineers should do:

Firstly keep the safety, health and wealth of ...

Researcher

The role taken by the researcher is conducting specific, observable behaviors using more structures techniques and involved in participants when collecting data related to ethnographic information using less structured techniques (Oshima & Emanuel, 2013). The researcher, however, has no interactions with the subjects during data collection. The research can as well remain detached from the subjects and, therefore, uninfluenced by their view and ideas. The researcher as an observer places limitations on the behavior and settings that can be observed especially in natural circumstances. The researcher may not be in a position to collect supporting data by asking the subjects ...

1) Explain three approaches within psychology: The biological approach to psychology attempts to understand mental processes in relation to the physical factors that make up the human body. Physiological, chemical, and genetic information can help to establish a better understanding of how the biological makeup of an individual has an effect on their cognition. Surgery, electrical stimulation, and neuroimaging grant biological psychologists the ability to analyze these processes on a more fundamental level. This approach to psychology is much more concerned with the impact that nature has on the human mind than nurture (Aos, 2013: 119). Behavioral approaches to ...

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Plausible bigotry in the criminal justice system

Over two decades ago, a bystander recorded Los Angeles police officers brutally beating an African American man, Rodney King. Members of the African American community had long trumpeted police abuse; with the videotape, these hopefully had enough evidence to crystallize their accusations against the “white-controlled” police force. But at the trial, the jury absolved the four of using inordinate force; the city was engulfed in a riot. Though two of the officers were eventually convicted in Federal court, the case according to African American community leaders shows the extreme difficulty for members of racial minorities to obtain justice ...

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Source: Law Office of Shawn M. George <http://www.smgapc.com/practice-areas/california-three-strikes-law/ Every generation in the United States has seen new tactics designed to continue the oppression of racial minorities, abjuring the rights the Founding Fathers deemed necessary and irrevocable for all people in the nation. Many African Americans were denied their right to participate in the growth of the new nation. Centuries later, the United States is still far from being called a true “egalitarian society.” Racial segregation and bigotry have been evinced in a number of forms; over the years, these forms have changed and evolved but the ...

Introduction and Background Information

Identification procedures, line ups and show ups form some of the most important and fundamental elements of criminal procedure that help in the investigation of crime and bringing to justice to those suspected to have committed an offence. An identification procedure normally involves the identification parade or line ups whereby a victim or witnessed the commission of a crime is allowed to single-handedly pick out the individual they allegedly saw at the scene of the crime or in the actual act. On the other hand, show ups enable witnesses of crime commission to decide whether one is a perpetrator ...

Reflection on:

This article is interesting because it really looks at the ways in which an English Language Learner (ELL) classroom runs, and the ways in which the biases of the teacher are communicated to the students. It deals with all the research that has been done on the topic, exploring how those research studies related to one another, and how they look at the way that students learn. The article also thinks about the idea that some teachers in ELL classrooms might not want to be there, and might actually resent their students as being behind other students who are ...

Introduction

The article, which is titled “Brave, New Social World”, is the focus of this rhetorical analysis, is written by Dennis MCCafferty. Its main focus is on the growing role of social media in the modern world and its impact on important historical occasions, businesses, and other social causes. The author of the article, Dennis McCafferty, emphasized on the notion that the social media is playing a potentially pivotal role in the modern society and experiencing increasing use as a weapon of choice by creative individuals, as they strived to contribute to the society via their opinions, experiences, news, and ...

Answer 1)

Saint Leo Core Values: Excellence, Community, Respect, Personal Development, Responsible Stewardship and Integrity In the context of marketing research, our textbook describes marketing researcher, the client, the responder and the public as the four stakeholders. Although every market researcher has a modus operandi of performing the work, however, on the larger context, it appears to me that while completing the research work, an influential interest is shared by the researcher and the client as while the former designs the research layout, latter fund it. Henceforth, this influential relationship deviates the market researcher from the ethical path as in order ...

The PID (Proportional, Integral and Derivative) controller is feedback controller which aims to make system output follow desired response (Hägglund & Åström, 1995). The controller is defined by following equation: ut=K(et+1Tioteτdτ+Tdde(t)dt) where u is input control signal to the plant model and e is the control error which is difference between desired and actual system output used to generate the control action. As shown by equation the controller consists of proportional, integral, and derivative terms. Gain K, integral time Ti and derivative time Td are all parameters of PID controller. We can ...

Nursing

Differences between Quantitative and Qualitative Research Quantitative and qualitative researches differ in their approach to the nature of phenomenon they study. Quantitative research is based on the measurement of quantity or amount and is applicable to phenomena that can be expressed in terms of quantity. On the other hand, qualitative research is concerned with qualitative phenomena, and is concerned about discovering the underlying motives and desires of the subjects (Kothari, 2004, p.3). Qualitative research studies smaller groups that are not randomly selected, while quantitative research studies larger and randomly selected groups. Qualitative research is holistic, looking at the big ...

Most parents receive parenting information from informal sources. Those sources may include advice from family members or friends, social media influences or the internet or “popular” print sources (as opposed to academic sources). In general, people do not necessarily check whether or not the advising source is qualified to dispense parenting information, but rather if it rings true on an intuitive level. In researching six sources, three web based and three popular print sources, I was intrigued by what I had found. At www.parents.com there was an article titled “10 Books to Read by Kindergarten”. As a kindergarten teacher ...

Ethical Dilemma Paper

Introduction In these two preliminary pages, I will describe my personal experience that is related in the workplace. I have experienced and witnessed indirectly decisions and actions that were taken by various stakeholders. I will not divulge the identity of the individuals and company given the confidentiality of the information. Although there could be hints as to the nature of the problem because of the omnipresence of information in the World Wide Web, I would still leave to my readers to find out for themselves who these stakeholders were. Hence, in case some of the personalities were similar to ...

A Debate on Gay Marriage portrays the opinions and explications of Andrew Sullivan regarding the matter of gay marriage. In the contextual essay, Andrew Sullivan goes on to opine that it is truly unfair to stigmatize gay marriage. He delves into the traditional notion of marriage and shows logically why it is wrong to have an opinion against gay marriage. The essay explicates that emotions and trust are the basic ingredients of the marital bond. It should not be constricted by sexual identity of the two people. Also, if a gay couple raises a child, the child would have ...

In considering the potential contribution of linguistic anthropology to the ongoing reform of Native American education it is evident that there are various sources of information that demonstrate the need for major reform in specific categories of education. This can be applied in order to develop better practices for educating not only Native American students but students of various differing ethnicities. In developing these pedagogical reforms there are particular categories of education that should be focused on. In consulting on a tribes in a generic sense, the differing types of educational reforms that can be recommended on the basis ...

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Colors are visual attribute of things resulting from the light they emit, reflect, or transmit. They have an important role in life as they help in differentiating things from one another. They also influence processing of information and can help in giving good looks to different things, thereby beautifying the life of living beings looking at them (Gil & Le Bigot, 2014). Colors can be considered as a relevant informational context in dealing with different types of stimuli, and they are found to be related to psychological aspects such as cognition, affect, and perception of human beings. ...

Living in the modern world with its deftly organized media, well-developed system of informational sources and media-transportation mechanism makes everyone excessively dependent on media and all the items designed to provide access thereto (like the internet, television, the radio and so on). However the author of the book “The bias of media” Harold Adams Innis delivers a brand new look upon media and information therein. The noted political economist looks upon media as a key pillar for cultural stability and longevity of societies. In particular, the idea of the media two-dimensional existence is worthy of attention. Innis convincingly claims ...

Organizational behavior entails research on individuals within an organizational setting. Such research requires particular focus on the behavior of persons while alone (private individuals) or behavior of individuals while working as a team or a group (Sing). Studies on organizational behavior aim at actuating an understanding of the factors influencing groups and individual dynamics within organizational settings for better efficiency and effectiveness of these groups. Organizational behavior draws heavily from sociological and psychological sciences. Several levels of analysis are applied to understand individual behavior as the environment influences the acts of individuals working within it. These standards include the ...

[Author Name] You do not have to wear the uniform to appreciate the inherent difficulty of police work. Each work day is different, and there is no clear and consistent guidebook on how police should make unsupervised, split-second judgements, handle threats to public safety, properly maintain order, or determine the efficient allocation of limited investigative resources. In truth, the unique requirements of their jobs demand that officers have broad authority to exercise their best judgement: the core of police discretion. Kelling (1999) describes two discrete aspects of police work that require that officers be insulated from knee-jerk, public scrutiny: ...

Racial profiling is one of the problems in the United States. It is worth noting that criminal justice system has been accused of racial profiling criminals. Some of the institutions that are believed to focus on racial profiling include courts, police and correctional facilities. People who allege to have been profiled on race are the Hispanics and blacks. The trend on racial profiling in courts is on the decline. The Supreme Court in U.S held that racial profiling is against the constitution (Glover, 2009). Statistics show that racial profiling in courts affects the blacks. Based on the statistics it ...

Being happy is a feeling that every human being yearns to have, and that is what we always look for either directly or indirectly in our daily activities. On the contrary, individuals dread being hurt by anything but this as well is inevitable, and they just have to cope with it because they cannot run away from every bad situation. Now the big question is, how do we find this happiness? In line with this, "The Futile of Happiness" by Gertner talks about the quest to find happiness and how people perceive the concept of happiness differently. Gilbert and ...

According to Jon Gertner’s, article, “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness” humans are not poor judges when it comes to foreseeing future emotional states. Professors of psychology in various universities Daniel Gilbert, Tim Wilson, Dan Kahneman and an economist George Loewenstein have embarked on studying a specific emotional and behavioral prediction. One of their studies was hedonic forecasting, which refers to the prediction of one’s emotional state in future as a process that affects behavior, preferences, and decision-making. For an instance, how do we imagine emotions and feelings about winning the lottery? How that will affect our delight, ...

1. Blocked Responses Robert Merton’s strain theory focuses on the stress, anxiety and deviance caused by “discrepancies in cultural goals and the legitimate means to achieve them,” (Murphy & Robinson, 2008, p. 503). This would entail situations where “society doesn’t provide the means to everyone to accomplish the goals it sets out for them,” (Wright, 2008). The most common shared goal in American society is the pursuit of the American Dream. But strain is caused when there are blockages to that goal. When a person is not born in a position of economic comfort or wealth, for example, ...

Before breaking into market research and study, one should be aware of the most common mistakes associated with researching, analyzing and applying information. Only those researchers who are aware of potential mistakes and the most wide-spread cognitive biases can avoid them easily and deliver a high-quality research. First of all, “confirmation bias is one of the most common cognitive biases for entrepreneurs”, in particular for those who are dedicated to and passionate about what they do (qtd. in Forbes.com). To put it otherwise, an entrepreneur or researcher believes in a particular idea so strongly that he/she does not require ...

Sarah Whitten’s article, ‘Can 140 characters affect the 2016 presidential election?’ examines the use of social media by the candidates in the 2016 general election. Social media has become a tool for achieving many ends election campaigns being one of them. Social media enables news to travel fast and also provides instant feedback from critiques and fans. The article targets the common US voter while also addressing election commentators, and the people involved in the campaign, giving them a critical assessment of what social media can or cannot do for their campaign. Whitten effectively uses rhetorical techniques of ...

ARTICLE CRITIQUE: BRAVE NEW NEIGHBORHOODS

Introduction Although the idea of freedom of speech seems to be something that is fundamentally important to the fabric of the United States, many people are unaware of the extent to which these freedoms can and often are restricted in everyday life. The article, written by Margaret Kohn (2004), discusses how “private space” as a concept in American society has changed the way that freedom of speech is understood and structured within the cultural confines of the community and society as a whole (Kohn, 2004, pp. 3-4). Although Kohn (2004) writes that most Americans believe that freedom of speech ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the interpersonal reflection after viewing the given video, i.e., “The Class Divided”. The video is based on the exploration of the nature of prejudice. It has been established that in this video, Jane Elliott, a third-grade teacher intentionally developed a specific situation. The situation was mainly aimed at teaching the students about the feeling of feeling discriminated, on the basis of ethnicity, race, gender, orientation, etc. The given video is found to be the repeated representation of the classic documentary on the exercise of Jane Elliott, i.e., “blue eyes/brown eyes”. Jane ...

Quiz Questions

1. Explain the differences between the two questions, “What is Art?” and “What is art for?” Art is a vast phenomenon and its meaning varies from the viewer to the artist itself. To understand the notion between the difference between what is art and what it is for, it is first important to look into the insight of the descriptor (Theschooloflife.com). As art is taken into consideration, most people are daunted to ponder and ask directly that what exactly might the piece of art for. There is a misconception that art is everything, or art is anything, also art ...

Introduction

The case presented brings to forefront the issues relating to the biases and differences based on race, gender and culture. The case specifically highlights the one time where Coca Cola had to pay a humongous sum of $192.5 million to Linda Ingram and three other African American former employees of the company in a case filed against the company on the grounds of racial discrimination. According to these plaintiffs, the top officials of the company Coca Cola would continually abuse them by way of name-calling, even hindering their career growth. This particular case brought to light one of the ...

In 1920, Oscar Micheaux directed the release of an American silent film known as Within our Gates. The film portrayed the existence of racial discrimination and prejudice in the early 20th century. The film is also regarded as a race film, and it was produced during the era of Jim Crow, the Great Migration of the Blacks to Northern and Midwest Cities, and the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. The director incorporated massive stereotypes that are associated with the black people in the US. The paper will entail a detailed analysis of Within our Gates film by providing ...

History is an important subject because, as Loewen puts it, “it is about us” (Loewen). We as a nation must study our past in order to understand how far our society has come, as well as learn about the future. They say that people make mistakes so that others can learn from them, and so in this regard we must learn about the examples of our ancestors and figure out our own choices based on the course of history. History has taught us about the negative consequences of certain actions, such as racism or murder, and has prevented us ...

Article Review

Age bias in IT: The reality behind the rumors article puts forth the idea that there is some friction when it comes to the technological industry and the older portion of the workforce. This age group, namely the group that were digital adopters as opposed to digital natives, may find it difficult to have equal footing within the younger generation in the industry. The article suggests that those over 45 and using old coding language may be on the way out. However, it is interesting to note that the “age bias” label is far to general. The author says ...

Impact of the Sarbanes-Act on the Threats to Auditors’ Independence

The last decade of the 20th Century and the early 2000’s witnessed an increased rate of corporate scandals and audit failures in major companies not only in the United States in the entire world. However, it is U.S that mostly felt the pinch with companies such as Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Xerox, and Adelphia almost collapsing. The scandals saw the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 which served as the ‘messiah’ in the accounting sector by introducing major revolutions. Analysts had for a long time criticized the accounting profession because of its apparent inability to control/self-regulate itself. ...

Discussion Questions

1 Have you ever participated in pre-employment testing? If so, what types of questions were asked? What was the outcome? Diane Dupont -I personally have participated in pre-employment testing. The type of questions I can recall being asked was mostly scenario type questions to see what I would do in the position. For example,If a customer was irate about a bill she received what would you do to assist and deescalate the call?Other types of questions I have been asked was: What types of words best describe you, I have been given a typing test as well as ...