disagree with this part Cohen’s argument‚ because not everyone goes into a store just to see a “good-looking gal”. Another argument Cohen brings up is that retailers hire based on looks because it is smart and necessary. In the article “Going for the Look‚ but Risking Discrimination” by Steven Green gives a great example about Elizabeth Nill. She walks into Abercrombie stores and almost every time managers walk up to her and offer her a job. This proves that retailers hire only attractive
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Going for the Look In today’s younger‚ trendy‚ fashion stores‚ people are being hired for their looks and less because of their brains. Marshal Cohen‚ a senior industry analyst‚ argues about why hiring better looking people helps a store’s environment. Making a certain brand more desirable to buy‚ meaning the company shall make more money. Stores such as Abercrombie and Fitch have already set their image using this technique and have become quite successful. Hiring attractive people is not
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Noah Martin 1/6/13 Period 4 Last night I read‚ A Biography of 30 Seconds to Mars‚ pages 271 to 300 30 Seconds to Mars was formed in 1998 by the brothers Jared Leto and Shannon Leto. The banned started as a family project by Jared and Shannon respectively. Matt Wachter joined the band later as their bassist and keyboard player. Kevin Blake and Solon Bixer was there guitarist‚ but left because they couldn’t tour. They were later replaced by Tomo Miličević. Jared and Shannon were by themselves
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read the whole ebook as to understand what has been said in context. Please take note as this is for your own benefit. Dear friend; losing a person close to you is devastating. When I first lost my girlfriend it felt like the world around me is going to collapse. She was my first love and I thought that this couldn’t get any better. Every time I was with her the world didn’t matter‚ she was my little princess. I still remember that night; it was clouded‚ cold and raining. I stayed home when she
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Going for the Look Times continue to change and today people tend to judge a person on how they look. Companies are becoming more competitive and are looking for ways to attract customers. More retailers and companies are using the approach to hire based on appearance rather than work capability. Hiring should be based on work ethic‚ rather than appearance which can be discriminating. Companies all over the United States are denying people employment based on their physical appearance. In the
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Going with The Flow Katha Pollitt is a well-known writer and is most known for being a liberal essayist for The Nation. In 1985‚ she wrote an article titled “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls”. Pollitt mentions that parents find it a lot easier to go along with those preconceived notions of boys and girls that society has set than it is to go against the norm. Society has set its own criteria for how we should raise children. Genders and gender-roles play a large part in molding a child to fit
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Hunger strikes have been used for years as a way to protest‚ usually with the intent to achieve a specific goal. Two examples of this can be found in the articles “Going Hungry for Tenure” by Colleen Flaherty‚ and “Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Plans Hunger Strike in Uruguay” by Leonardo Haberkorn. Both articles tell the stories of two different men who have chosen to go on hunger strikes due to situations that have arose in their lives. In Flaherty’s article‚ she tells the story of Juan Rojo‚ an assistant
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Casey Purdy 2/12/09 Dr. Alan Kersten Dep 4130 Learning English as a second language: A case study of a Chinese girl in an American preschool A study of a three year old Chinese girl named Jasmine‚ focused on the semantics of her learning English as a second language. She was the only participant in the study who was learning a second language. Others in the study consisted of the teachers‚ interns‚ children in the class‚ and the observers of the study. Her native language was Chinese
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In Frank Romero’s mural "Going to the Olympics‚ 1984" the artist depicts life in LA through a number of images and symbols. What I see are: cars‚ hearts over the cars‚ palm trees‚ men wrestling‚ a blimp with the words "a goodyear"‚ a horse‚ and a stamp. The palm trees in my opinion represent the weather in LA. The men and the horse represent the Olympics. The stamp can represent the souvenirs in LA. The blimp represents life in LA. In Frank Romero’s mural " Going to the Olympics‚ 1984" the artist
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WC821 September 2010 Final Paragraph Going Home It’s hard for an adult to move back in with their parents after being gone for so long. That is the situation I find myself in at this moment in my life. After being terminated from my job in July I found myself in a difficult situation. My father also found himself in a difficult situation; He was diagnosed with prostate cancer along with debilitating arthritis of the joints‚ which makes it very difficult for him to get
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