Giving People a Second Chance
Critique Analysis
Giving people a second chance Ernest Martinez, Giving People a Second Chance. Ernest Martinez is saying that ex- convicts should be given an equal opportunity as any other person to work. “Hispanic brethren who are ex-convicts who need employment avenues for reentry into society, we close our eyes and ears to their cry for assistance”. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to work because everyone deserves a second chance to make things right and change their lives around.
Martinez makes a great point when he argues that everyone should have an equal opportunity to work. Employers should not discriminate against ex-felons because they have committed a crime, convicts often do change after realizing the mistakes they have made. Something negative could have influenced that persons decision at the time, they might have been engaged with the wrong people and the wrong time and got in trouble. “We can all attest to the fact that we have done something for which we have simply not been caught--for example, drinking alcoholic beverages as minors, or driving without a license, or hanging around with the wrong people and being at the wrong place at the wrong time.”(Martinez)
A great point Martinez also makes, “The business today is not solely based on equipment, products, or services. It’s dependent on the skills, talents and savvy of people”. This is a great point because without those people to operate those machines, and equipment’s there would not be a business to work. “ We are not only in an information age today; we are in an age of man, where by sales can only be made and increased through the interpersonal relationships that we create between provider and consumer, between our companies and our customers”. “Show me an organization or business that does not believe people are their greatest resources and I will show you an organization with built in limits to its success, and perhaps one destined for certain failure”(Dr. Drucker). It is
Giving people a second chance Ernest Martinez, Giving People a Second Chance. Ernest Martinez is saying that ex- convicts should be given an equal opportunity as any other person to work. “Hispanic brethren who are ex-convicts who need employment avenues for reentry into society, we close our eyes and ears to their cry for assistance”. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to work because everyone deserves a second chance to make things right and change their lives around.
Martinez makes a great point when he argues that everyone should have an equal opportunity to work. Employers should not discriminate against ex-felons because they have committed a crime, convicts often do change after realizing the mistakes they have made. Something negative could have influenced that persons decision at the time, they might have been engaged with the wrong people and the wrong time and got in trouble. “We can all attest to the fact that we have done something for which we have simply not been caught--for example, drinking alcoholic beverages as minors, or driving without a license, or hanging around with the wrong people and being at the wrong place at the wrong time.”(Martinez)
A great point Martinez also makes, “The business today is not solely based on equipment, products, or services. It’s dependent on the skills, talents and savvy of people”. This is a great point because without those people to operate those machines, and equipment’s there would not be a business to work. “ We are not only in an information age today; we are in an age of man, where by sales can only be made and increased through the interpersonal relationships that we create between provider and consumer, between our companies and our customers”. “Show me an organization or business that does not believe people are their greatest resources and I will show you an organization with built in limits to its success, and perhaps one destined for certain failure”(Dr. Drucker). It is