Essays on Unpacking

Overview

Pro Service is a service provider that mainly emphasizes on outsourced resources to facilitate the handling of aspects related to human resources. The services are fixated on small and mid-sized organizations which are incapable or reluctant to handle these aspects internally. Pro Service handles matters concerning health insurance, payrolls, orientation of new staff, and retirement funding. Pro Service as a company has well over 250 permanently employed workers to variably suit client needs. Our mode of service provision is split twofold, into two localities, where most of our staff are situated. 20 of our staff members spend their time ...

Mary Louise Pratt: “Arts of the Contact Zone”

Pratt continued the assertion of the baseball card experience, as an excellent way of learning, by using examples of real world texts that were common to the baseball cards, and what she quotes as “new visions of literacy” (486). This was a quote from comments made by Tony Sarmiento at this particular conference (the Pittsburgh conference on literature). In many ways, her article is based in the original thought of how Sam learnt to communicate, and become literate. She mentions the letter, written by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, with text as well as images. This ...

Discussion Board Posts

Published in 1984, Audre Lorde’s article argues in favor of a unified feminist movement, which does not ignore the differences among the experiences of women belonging to different groups, but rather, it uses those differences to examine the different ways in which women are oppressed, and the ways in which those differences contribute to enriched creativity. The author explains that, right now, the feminist movement is divided by the same forces that create human differences in general, which oppose dominant groups to minority groups, thus creating simplistic patterns of difference, where the characteristics of the dominant groups are ...

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Question 1

These passages from the article means that in reality, men are oppressing women and whites are oppressing other races specially blacks. However, this type of oppression is not recognized, since society has accepted that these are dominant groups in a society and their actions are considered as the standards. For men and for whites, there are just doing what society is expected them to do, but if different races or women do exactly what they have been doing, a different view point will exist. Although, there are no written laws that distinguish what women or men do in a society ...