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Racism
Number of Words: 1501 / Number of Pages: 6
... is offered the job because he is white.
Sexism: is a way of thinking and behaving as though one sex is better than the other; especially, unfair treatment of women by men, caused by thinking this way. You should not treat someone different because of their sex. Woman and men are equal in most ways and can usually complete the same tasks equally well.
Narrow-mindedness: is another form of racism. Narrow-mindedness is like when somebody predetermines by the way you dress, your race, your religion, social class, etc. that you are going to act or behave in a certain way without giving you the chance to p ...
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Communication Skills
Number of Words: 803 / Number of Pages: 3
... with what
you are trying to convey with your thoughts and ideas. This is how different
things can effect one's communication skill, speaking.
A second communication skill is body language, a very personal way of
expressing yourself without words. One's body language can carry a whole
conversation without even saying a word. Sign language is an excellent example
of this, one can spend there whole life communicating only with there body.
Still one can be able to understand exactly how a person is trying to express
themselves. Speaking and body language goes hand to hand, without gestures whe ...
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Society's Influence On The American Dream
Number of Words: 1190 / Number of Pages: 5
... rebels against society's
conformity destroying his reputation. Lacking the courage to be independent,
Babbit's dream of true ecstasy crumbles when he succumbs to hypocritical
lifestyle realizing that he needs conformity. Strongly influenced by a
sanctimonious society, Babbit, a man in search for himself, realizes that he
needs conformity to live.
Babbit dreams of improving his status in the community, not realizing that
hypocrisy is influencing every decision or action he makes. Babbit concentrates
his time and energies towards activities and events that impress the upper class.
His life revolves a ...
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Women In South Asia
Number of Words: 663 / Number of Pages: 3
... Haima who grew up happily and freely under liberal widower suffered under traditional father in law's prejudice against her. Marriage was almost a necessity as a mean of support or protection. A married woman ususally took her husband's statues and lived with the family, with little resources in case of ill treatment or nonsupport. After a marriage, she had to give up her happiness and freedom that was blessed with. Haima's soul was dying slowly. I think her husband's vacillation made her life more difficult. He should've take her away from his house because he knew her soul was getting ill, b ...
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World Cultures: Comparing China And The United States
Number of Words: 717 / Number of Pages: 3
... no matter
how good a job they do they still get the same pay. In the US we have a
Democratic-Republic which means we elect who we want to run the government for
us. People are free to sell anything for any price they want as long it has
been approved and is not an illegal substance. The US has always been a
Democratic-Republic, that was the reason why the United States was formed.
China though has not always been communist. In 1949 Mao Se Dung started the
Communist revolution and changed China to a Communist country and it has been
Communist ever since then. There are no social classes in a Com ...
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Thomas Gordon: Active Listening
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... child decides to communicate with a parent or teacher, it is because he has a need. The child’s organism is in a state of “disequilibrium” because there is something going on inside him. He wants, or needs something.
In order to bring the organism back to a state of equilibrium the child begins to talk. Gordon gives the example of hunger. When a child is hungry, he must communicate his hunger to someone else. He selects a signal he thinks represents his hunger to the other person. The child picks a code (encoding process) and perhaps says, “When is dinner ready, mom?” The mother might decode the mess ...
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Mercy
Number of Words: 690 / Number of Pages: 3
... If the spectators waved their handkerchiefs, the helpless gladiator would live. was granted only to those who had fought well, and their reward was that they would be allowed to fight another day. However, if the spectators had extended their hands with their thumbs pointed towards the ground, the victorious gladiator was ordered to kill his opponent. One source describes the judgment handed down by the spectators:
According to the most common tradition, when a gladiator had overpowered his opponent, he turned to the spectators. If they wished to spare the defeated man, they waved their handk ...
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Colonial Super Mom
Number of Words: 692 / Number of Pages: 3
... like disease. This is a formidable feat especially compared to today’s standards. Along with maintaining her own children she also brought other children into the families of others.
The midwife today is not so important as it was two hundred years ago. Back then it was the highest paying job for a female. Martha in her life time birthed over three thousand babies. She received generous amounts of money doing this and also made many friends. As a woman it was hard to earn money in those times for things other then knitting and what not. Martha was a ground breaker though and proved that a woman could ...
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Social Security
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... wealthier Americans to avoid paying taxes on some of their income. Critics say that is supposed to be a foundation for retirement planning. If wealthier people contributed more than they now do in taxes, they would either have to receive more-and in some cases much more-than they now do in benefit payments, or they would not receive any additional benefits for their added contributions into the system.
On the investment side, some people support the creation of individual savings accounts for all workers that would supplement or replace part of benefits in retirement. They say that workers would h ...
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The Need For An Anglo American Lifestyle
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... gardens filled with cactus plants and rock gardens which
resembled Mount Fujiyama (100).
Both the Cubans and the Japanese were deemed less than American.
The Cubans were acceptable as long as they did not assert their hotness,
nor their Cubanness on the street under a shady palm tree(136), or hold a
prominent position in Anglo Miami. The Japanese Americans were bearable as
long as they were locked up. The public anger at the "treachery" of the
surprise attack on Pearl Harbor left many fearing disloyalty and sabotage
(98). Although both cultures were deemed unacceptable by Anglo-American
society, th ...
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