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Executive Women: Substance Plus Style
Number of Words: 713 / Number of Pages: 3
... areas and that executive women
are just as capable at leading, influencing, and motivating groups, as well as
analyzing problems. The authors go on to show that, despite these similarities,
women are disproportionately represented in the ranks of Fortune 500 company
executives.
Repeated references are made to studies that were conducted with 22 people, 16
men and 6 women, whose job is to select executives for top jobs. These people
are continually referred to as "savvy insiders" throughout the article. These
so called savvy insiders were tasked with providing an example of what they
considered t ...
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Image And Masculinity
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... with love and respect, he is likely to appreciate women.
A prominent image given to guys is that they have no feelings and would never cry. Crying is for girls or for homosexuals, it is thought. Over time this causes many bottled up feelings and results in a violent temper. Men are just as prone to be hurt as women are, but often have a harder time expressing it. The man is supposed to be the strong and stable one, as where the women is the meek and frail one that the man must protect. A man that can’t cry, or express the way he feels is no more a man than one you can inflate.
Some mascu ...
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A Black Cloud
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... most races other than their own. White
hooded silhouettes, German Soldiers echoing “Hail Hitler!”, and the infamous
Skinheads are harsh reminders of hatred which exists throughout the world.
In the same way that prejudices of large groups of people are expressed,
hate crimes are committed to demonstrate acts of hatred. Most recent are the
burning of black churches across the South. A crime of this sort shows hatred
against the black race. Sometimes leading to manslaughter, racial tensions are
abundant. Furthermore, the burning of crosses or flags are offensive crimes
that are committed to sh ...
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Children Are Easily Influenced
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... tells them than girls are. A lot of young boys are
easily deceived. Girls, on the other hand, are more cautious. Even when
girls are young, they are still weary of trusting people they don't know.
There are, of course, exceptions to every rule.
Finally, kids are most influenced by their parents and their
friends. Because friends and family members are people that kids trust,
they tend to want to be like them. Parents play a big role in a child's
life. If a kid sees his/her parents fight all the time at home, it will
probably make the child violent or secluded. If a kid hears his fr ...
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The Ku Klux Klan
Number of Words: 897 / Number of Pages: 4
... governments and their leaders, both black and white, which came into power in the southern states in 1867.
Dressed in robes with pointed hoods, for disguise and in an early attempt to frighten superstitious Blacks, the Klan launched a campaign of terrorism and violence against Whites and Blacks whom they considered traitors to their cause. The original Klan, which is not to be confused with the groups calling themselves by that name today, was organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the winter of 1865 to 1866, by six former Confederate army officers who gave their society a name adapted from the G ...
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Types Of Bosses
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... most liked boss is the most helpful boss. When a boss gives demands or requests that need to be met then he helps the employees, it usually makes them more productive. For example, another of my bosses, Marty, understands when there are so many things that need to be done and not enough people to do them. If only one person is scheduled for a shift and there is too much work for that person, Marty helps out wherever he is needed. Working together may sometimes make you feel equal rather than having the owner/worker relationship. The owner/worker relationship is not always bad but can be intimidat ...
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Divorce And Children
Number of Words: 1238 / Number of Pages: 5
... can be psychologically damaging, and in many ways can be as damaging as being physically abused, even if the other person isn’t doing any intentional or tangible harm.
Divorce is almost never a happy thing. The emotional experiences that come after it can be complex and devastating for the entire family. It can have very powerful after-effects on the adults who have just broken up. You can usually tell if an adult is hurting after a divorce if they show any of these symptoms: sarcasm, where if someone were to mention their ex-spouse, they would tend to be sarcastic or take potshots at the ex-spou ...
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Stereotyping
Number of Words: 1419 / Number of Pages: 6
... so.
Knowing this, does that mean that stereotyping is “wrong”? When is it
considered “correct”, if ever? We are provided with prerogative to think
however we like, but is it correct in assuming that stereotyping is immoral
and unfair? This topic will be more discriptive through the proceeding.
Stereotyping
As it was mentioned in the Introduction, stereotyping is relative
to making generalizations towards a whole culture, class, or nation, etc.
based on the actions of one or a select few. It is quite obvious that the
accuracy rate of observing in such a manner would be quite minimal, yet
there ar ...
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Romanticism In The 19th Century
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... systematic and downright heartless in terms of feeling or
emotional thought) and it was men such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in
Germany who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which epitomized what
Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and
gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through individuality as
opposed to collectivism. In England, there was a resurgence into
Shakespearean drama since many Romantics believed that Shakespeare had not
been fully appreciated during the 18th century. His style of drama and
expression had been downplayed and ignored by the ...
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Role Models: A Bright Red Peel On A Rotten Apple
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... The role models have an undisputed athletic ability, but all too many times they are only a bright red peel on the rotting core of the American role model apple.
Since the Greek sport competitions to the latter part of the twentieth century, appropriate behavior, which included achieving set goals, working for a meaningful cause and setting benchmarks for good sportsmanship, was commonplace in society. Athletes were noted for their acts of generosity and their civility that they displayed on and off of the field. Most of the time, sports figures were role models, who wanted to draw attention away fro ...
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