Essays on Diversity

America has diverse racial and ethnic communities, and this factor plays a key role in the country’s political arena. In this section, I evaluate whether the impact of ethnicity and partisanship on vote swings in a racially diverse community, and in this case Dade County is my main focus.
The elections took another twist because a runoff was declared between two Black candidates: a republican and a Democrat (Cuban American). In Dude, eighty percent of registered voters at that time were Democrats while sixty percent were affiliated to the Republican Party. This twist offered scholars the perfect opportunity Continue reading...

CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION, FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS

5. Findings and Analysis

Lulivo Irving restaurant is located in London. From the graph above, the hotel has 6 nationalities namely Italian, Albanian, Romanian, Egypt, Spanish and Hungarians. Italians are the majority with 6 followed by Albanian, Romanian and Egypt with 2 then Spanish and Hungarians 1 each. British nationals do not work in the hotel because most do not consider it a noble job to do. In the absence of British nationals, the hotel has no option but to employ other nationals thus the diversity.

Graph 2: Piazza Restaurant

Pizza restaurant has 6 nationals namely Italian, Albanian, Romanian, Egyptian, Spanish and Bosnians. Continue reading...

Reasons why California is difficult to govern

Ken and John believe that political diversity is the largest problem that has made any leadership unable to proficiently govern California. The author states that, “no single political adjective or phrase can capture California’s political diversity, in terms of the bulk state voters.” Geographically, there are metropolitan counties and San Francisco bay counties that present conflicting political views and ideas. In the two differing parties, “About 75% of the state’s voters and its main partisan and ideological division” are present. The San Francisco Bay is quite significant to the Democrat party since it significantly contributes to the Continue reading...

Introduction

Diversity challenges are common phenomena in the workplace. They must, therefore, be handled with sheer diligence to maximize on the workforce of any organization (Barnard, 2002). These diversities in the workplaces should not only provide for the differences among colleagues but also a celebration, understanding and acceptance of these differences (Barnard, 2002). The scope of the differences provided by the diversities in an organization if well managed give such an organization a broader and more inclusive decision-making edge over other less diverse organization. However, it is also a salient truth that mismanagement of a diverse staff in an organization Continue reading...

Introduction

Although some might use pluralism and diversity interchangeably, they are not the same thing. For example, diversity exists where more than one religion exists in a same area, which is not pluralism. When all these religions in the same location share common beliefs and work together to forge ahead without major differences; that can be called pluralism. Polarization, on the other hand, finds differences in the different religions and opts to separate the two based on the differences. This letter is addressed to a community leader and a radical who does not believe in any other religion other than Continue reading...

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As leader one, should not read and achieve his or her ideas or opinions into the organization immediately. The reason behind this fact is that every organization has some characters, who will always resist change. Evidently, the role of the leader usually depends on other people’s work too, hence may hinder any efforts made to convey the book’s ideas within the organization. The best way to convince the entire organization about the book is by evaluating all the key components; convey them to the audience, leaving out crucial parts in order to make them want to Continue reading...

This report highlights some important concerns that may arise out of the company's global expansion. The study is with respect to PPQ Part's expansion spree in Germany and Japan.

Issues Faced by Host Foreign Nation as a Result of Expansion

Though global expansion may be lucrative for any business in terms of brand recognition and profitability, it may bring a lot of challenges for the host country including :

• Environmental impact affecting local wildlife

• Economic instability i.e. changes in demand, supply patterns, trade barriers, limitations to exports and imports etc.

• Setback to local business and changes in business contour

• Stress on Economic resources because of the addition of new people
• Impact on local culture and social settings
Clearly, the abovementioned list only highlights some Continue reading...

Introduction

The practice of acknowledging, understanding, accepting, celebrating and valuing differences among people as regards ethnicity, class, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental prowess, race and religion is referred as diversity (Green, López, Wysocki and Kepner, 2013). In the current global scenario with the driving forces of globalization like the advent of technologies, communication, internet, transportation and transnational companies having diminished boundaries, the work place environment has grown extremely diverse with people of various cultures, backgrounds and beliefs fraternizing with each other every day on account of work and business. The demography in USA has gone through a Continue reading...

Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U.S. 557 (2009) was a controversial case that was decided by the United States Supreme court. The case concerned racial discrimination practices by New Haven, Connecticut’s fire department. The department had eighteen employees where seventeen were white, while there was only one Hispanic. The company in 2003 had seven openings for captain and eight positions for lieutenant. The department administered civil service examinations to fill the positions. The test consisted of two segments where one was oral and the other was written. The New Haven Department of Human Resources issued and RFP for the Continue reading...

Specific Aims

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) encodes a DNA-editing deaminase, which is a group of the Cytidine Deaminase family (Bello). This protein is concerned in somatic gene conversion, hypermutation, and class-switch recombination of Ig (immunoglobulin genes). Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) has been expressed in B cells at germinal center and starts the events, which lead to class switch recombination of immunoglobulin genes and somatic hypermutation. Additionally to this primary responsibility in immune diversification, deviant targeting of Activation-induced cytidine deaminase activity leads to translocations and point mutations of oncogenes linked with B-cell lymphoma. Lately, AID has been related in active DNA demethylation ( Continue reading...

Article Reflection

Article Reflection

Introduction

Placids can be defined as the endosymbiotic organelles, which substantially rely on the cell of their hosts to survive. Even so, placids are reported to have shown so much diversity in different situations. Therefore, ways through which differences emerge has been addressed. Some of the aspects that contribute to these differences are such as the difference in the lineages from which plastids originated. This is evident given that there are primary and secondary lineages from which the plastids can stem from. Additionally, the cause for the small size of the plastids has been established.
Plastids are the Continue reading...

Diversity in the Workplace

Many places of work, today, have become a beacon of multicultural individuals from all over the world. This is because of globalization as well as some managerial concepts of expanding cultural diversity at the workplace. However, different leaders at the workplace may call for inclusion or assimilation depending on their different understanding. While inclusion accepts the cultural differences and aims to maintain them in spite of the predominant culture, assimilation calls for blending or infusion of the minority culture into the predominant culture.
However, managers are advised to embrace inclusion since it brings diversity into the workplace. However, a Continue reading...

Introduction

Diversity regards to the idea of integrating acceptance and respect. It is a concept that means understanding the uniqueness of each person and recognizing people’s differences. These differences are in the dimensions of ethnicity, sexual orientation, race, socio-economic status, physical activities, age, political and religious beliefs or other ideologies (University of Oregon, 1999). The concept also promotes the need of inclusion of these dissimilarities in a constructive and nurturing manner. In essence, diversity entails understanding, tolerating or accepting and celebrating the rich scopes of diversity within each person. The paper presents a report on diversity that explores various Continue reading...

The concept and ideology of diverged cultures in the world have come into the limelight with the increased philosophy of globalization, and internationalization. The stated issues have led to increased human interaction from across the world in many aspects that touch on social, political as well as economic matters. In the recent times, there has been the observed increase in terms of technological, and innovation’s improvement across the world. This has facilitated and enhanced the observed increased human interaction. However, this paper analyzes the importance of cultural studies and diversity in the contemporary times.
It is important for Continue reading...

The arts and culture of the Vietnamese is elaborate and diverse with splendid plays, songs and set pieces performances that demonstrate indigenous expressions on culture of the Viet (Barley 93). This research paper explores with a specific example; the diverse culture of the Viet represented through subtle selection of music on the songs; “Lie Down Sleep”, a Viet lullaby from the tribe of Black Thais (Don 78) and the “Au O Vi Dau” another common Viet lullaby. The tribe of Black Thais are amongst the minority occupants of the mountain region of Vietnam, and their stylistic, cultural representations and Continue reading...

Question 1: Cultural differences between the companies

Organizational culture refers to shared norms and values within members of a given organization. These are the dominant values, beliefs and attitudes held by the organization’s employees. It can also be defined as the set of knowledge forms and basic assumptions commons amongst organizational members. Organizational culture is largely influenced by the society in which it exists. A merger between Excelsior Manufacturing and Quality Instrumentation creates a diverse and global team. Such teams are a source of competitive advantage and production efficiency. Mergers create concerns into international management. In determining the core elements in which the two organizations Continue reading...

- a. Explain what L’Oreal does specifically to improve their approach to multicultural marketing.
- Provide a specific example from the text. Be sure to elaborate on your example and explain why this is better than the “traditional” way of doing things.
One specific example of how the multicultural approach of L’Oreal works is the experience of an Indian-American-French manager of L’Oreal’s men’s skin care line. He claims that he is able to handle cultural complexities because since childhood he has been exposed to three different cultures through reading in different languages and meeting Continue reading...

Recruitment and Selection Strategies Recommendations

Introduction
Every land has its own law the saying goes. In the same breadth, every organization has its own recruitment and selection procedures depending on its goals. For this limousine business, some of the important aspects that need to be considered include workforce requirements in the coming years, forecasted demographic changes, projected workforce needs and government stipulations regarding labor.

Organizational Description

The main objective of the business is to offer Limousine services to the people at considerable prices. The business would operate car hire for necessary functions, and it would be based at Austin, Taxes. Considering the annual budget, the company Continue reading...

Essay

Religion - one of the most important among the many ways in which Americans are involved in the life of their community and society as a whole. Religion in the United States has traditionally played a major role. At all times, America was a virgin land to many religions, as well as the non-interference in religious practice has led to that the U.S. has become very comfortable shelter for small foreign sects. Americans donate more time and money to religious organizations and societies than all other voluntary associations together. About 40% of Americans participate in worship at least once Continue reading...

CHAPTER ONE

I. INTRODUCTION
Diversity in the classroom is extremely important to the development of children, and continues to become more important in light of the changing demographics of the classroom today. Diversity and multicultural education provides children with the context that they need to function within an increasingly multicultural society today. It is also a way to deal with the changing demographics of the classroom; in America, classrooms now contain children from a variety of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and providing other children with the context needed to understand their differences and maneuver around any conflicts that are created Continue reading...

The central thesis or main idea of this article is the way in which the politics of the country or nation can accommodate the cultural diversity and social differences among the people. The accommodation of multinational diversity within one state is emphasized fully in this article. The challenges towards the achievement of such an accommodative nation results from the conflict of between the old political wisdom and the current political realities in the modern world. The author concentrating on the issue of integrating multinational cultural and social aspects in a nation. The multinational cultural diversity is of the essence Continue reading...

INSECT HABITAT

INSECT HABITAT

Average and Median
What was the average number of arthropods found in the unvegetated microhabitat? ___0.46___
What was the average number of arthropods found in the vegetated microhabitat? _____0.14___
What was the median number of arthropods found in the unvegetated microhabitat? ___ 0_______
What was the median number of arthropods found in the vegetated microhabitat? ______0_____
What was the average number of beetles found in the unvegetated microhabitat? _____ 0.39_________
What was the average number of beetles found in the vegetated microhabitat? ____ 0.79_______
What was the median number of beetles found in the unvegetated microhabitat? _______0___
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Diversity is embodied in the differences we have between people. It embraces every one of us in our rich and indefinite varieties. The demographics of the world population are diverse, and there is increased need to provide multicultural experiences to the people. Globalization has grown, and advancement in technology has allowed for easy exchange of goods and services between people. By producing African Dashiki tribal outfits that are mixed with modern styles, people are offered an opportunity to reflect on their own cultures and reflect on the similarities and differences that exist between cultures. This project also allows us Continue reading...

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The US has a diverse population, with people from across the world studying and working in every state of the nation. This cultural diversity has led to the creation of minorities and there are several challenges that emerge in terms of interracial interactions. The synergy and cooperation between different cultures within the grand American culture is critical for the progress of the nation and the welfare of its people, regardless of their race, culture and ethnicity.
In the course of my studies I have gathered substantial information to corroborate my belief that diversity in the Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Executive Summary
Nurses are at the forefront of health care delivery. A patient’s satisfaction to the care he or she receives in a hospital depends on a large extent to the way nurses interact with him or her. At present, there is a growing diversity not only among patients served, but also within the health care personnel. Thus, for nurses to provide the best possible care for their patients, it is important to institutionalize effective mechanisms that promote diversity awareness and self-diversity awareness. An example of such mechanism is the proposed Diversity Awareness Campaign.

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Management

It is apparent that, in the 21st century, diversity with respect to workforce has become one of the most essential concerns in every business. Therefore, every business is looking forward to getting employees who are diverse since diversity in business means a diverse economy that is strong. If a business wants to leap economic benefits it, therefore, requires that it has all-inclusive and diverse workforce. It is believed that businesses that manage to employ or recruit from a workforce that is diverse stand a better position in that they are able to tap the best in terms of bright Continue reading...

Introduction

Reniam Boutique is a restore that is concerned with matters closest to our hearts that we contribute to our communities in order to make them stronger while enhancing quality of life. We believe in aiding our local shelters, community services and giving back to the community that has given so generously to us. We accept donations, buy gently used clothing and furniture, and happily refurbish one man’s trash to make it another man’s treasure. Forty percent of all proceeds from resale are donated to Project E.A.T. (Educate, Act, and Thrive) and Empty bowls. One of Reniam’s Continue reading...

Position Paper

- Preserving Linguistic Diversity and Protecting Endangered languages
Egypt dedicates itself to maintaining and preserving linguistic diversity and protecting the endangered language since language is the culture, heritage and identity of nations and states. Egypt supports the UDHR goals of UNESCO’s Universal declaration on culture diversity (2001) and is willing to participate in international agreements.
Nationally, Egypt wants language diversities to be an accepted norm among the citizens. The country wants the diversities to be a point of unity and not segregation among the various cultures in the country. Egypt understands the fundamentality of languages towards their native Continue reading...

Article Review: African Theology - Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology – Roman Catholic in Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church

The two articles being reviewed and compared here are African Theology – Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology - Roman Catholic, both taken from the Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, edited by William A. Dyrness and Veli-Matti Karkkainen.
Both articles begin with an overview of their interaction with diversity and it is at the very onset that the reader realizes that the two theologies vary greatly in their follower base. Despite its fundamentally Continue reading...

Racism is an issue that occurs everywhere regardless if it is at work or in school. It scars the cultural, economic, and political life of an individual whether acts of racism are done subtly or not. In many ways, racial and ethnic discrimination blur the lines of what are accepted and unaccepted norms and behaviors in society. People who have issues about other people’s races or ethnicity usually use violence and verbal abuse to show superiority and make others feel inferior. In schools and universities, one of the issues that confront America now is whether or not to Continue reading...

Description of Wheatley’s Essay

Margaret Wheatley’s Essay “Innovation Means Relying on Everyone’s Creativity” has two central points guiding a wealth of practical knowledge on organizational leadership gained through her experiences. The first is that organizations act in the same way as living organism. The whole of the organization can be seen as a species that will change according to alterations to environmental conditions. The second part of her thesis is “People only support what they create” (Wheatley, 2001). This means that in order to get support for new policies or changes to the organization, everyone within the organization must play a Continue reading...

Immigration: The Primary Element Contributing to the Society’s Diversity

OUTLINE:

Introduction:

Effects of Immigration on Social Diversity
This section shall discuss both the pros and cons of immigration in the society and how diversity in itself presents the same values of pros and cons that make up modern urbanized locations around the world today.

Conclusion

This section summarizes the whole point to which the discussion is dedicated to; identifying the connection between immigration and social diversity. It shall provide a final definition on how these two elements make up the modern society that specifically supports the new system of new human living process.
Immigration is the reason why most urban Continue reading...

Report on 3 different cultures within Australia

Report on 3 different cultures within Australia
Australia is an ethnically diverse society owing to its history. Indeed, one out of four residents of Australia were born outside the country while many others are either first or second generation Australia in the sense that they are either children or grandchildren of migrants and refugees in Australia. This identity of Australian people is due to the convergence of various factors. Similarly, the presence of various ethnic communities in the society has led to a multicultural society in the country. In essence, the culture of the people of Australia is a Continue reading...

Introduction

Diversity refers to the practice of understanding, acknowledging, accepting, celebrating and valuing differences among people with regard to class, ethnicity, age, physical and mental prowess, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and public assistance status (Green, López, Wysocki and Kepner, 2013). In the current global scenario when the driving forces of globalization like communication, transportation, advent of technologies, transnational companies and internet have diminished boundaries, the work place environment has become extremely diverse with people of various cultures, beliefs and backgrounds interacting with each other on a daily basis on account of work and business. The demography in USA Continue reading...

Introduction

The colours, red, white and blue are representative of the American flag that is hoisted in full admiration and respect signifying patriotism. Diversity is what characterized the American society, one that is tolerant, inclusive and respective of differences in opinions or standings. However, the changing times have brought modern challenges such as immigration to fulfilling this dream. This is further discussed below:
The number of immigrants arriving in America has skyrocketed over the years to reach an all time high. As Martin and Midgley (2003) quantifies it, with almost 90,000 foreigners welcomed in the American border, 1000 of Continue reading...

Introduction

This report presents an analysis of Cyrenians, a charitable housing organization whose activities are based in West London. It documents the activities of the company in the community of Hounslow detailing the needs of the residents of Hounslow in West London with regard to the services provided by Cyrenians. Centrally, the aim of the report is to establish the role that Cyrenians play in ensuring equality and diversity in housing, in its areas of operation taking the example of Hounslow as a study case.

The Community of Hounslow

The London Borough of Hounslow is an outer London borough situated in West London. It Continue reading...

The purpose of the Miner was to demonstrate, although diversity has made different people behave the same in a similar situation, there exist some exotic customs that are hard to understand. These people are not astonished the most exotic customs because they have seen all combinations of behavior and do not think if there exist such customs. The article was addressed to the anthropologist who thought they were aware with the diversity of different people. However, the author targets them when describing the ritual of the Nacirema, which is poorly understood. Miner assumes that the reader may have the Continue reading...

Abstract

Does it pay to invest company’s time and resources in broadening its diversity, and in getting its employees to work together peacefully? The obvious answer to it would be a “yes”. This article studies the factors that give rise to diversity and how it can be used to an organisation’s advantage. It also answers some questions such as measuring the effectiveness of diversity training and other related initiatives. It tries to explain how a company can achieve long term success and productivity by applying diversity training in a cross cultural environment.
Key Words: Diversity Management, Cross Culture, Continue reading...

Life is a series of opportunities for adventure. Those that we take dictate where we were meant to be. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a wide variety of experiences in my life so far, on numerous occasions finding myself at a crossroads. I know now that the decisions that I have made have serendipitously led to me becoming an emergency medicine physician. Not only was this desire ingrained in me some years prior to attending medical school, it was in all probability the single most important reason why I became a physician.
I have always been Continue reading...

Counseling patients using a perspective of their cultural beliefs, and the effect it can have on their treatment, is referred to as multicultural counseling. This form of counseling takes a therapeutic approach by considering ethnic and racial diversities. The practitioner also takes into account sexual orientation, ability, spirituality, economics and social class while counseling. Multicultural counseling helps in the acquisition of knowledge and skills needed to function effectively in a society that is pluralistic. It also helps in the exploration of both negative and positive aspects of groups.
Practitioners have embraced multicultural counseling, and in so doing, they have Continue reading...