Fligstein and Shin’s (2007) article explores the cause-effect relationship between shareholder value strategies and profitability. I believe‚ however‚ that we can go deeper and say that this relationship illustrates human nature itself and how we‚ as stakeholders or managers‚ are actually mostly the problem if we view shareholder value maximization as the path to profitability and hence success. We tend to follow our own interests and have a short-term focus if our capitalistic system is incentivized
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Towards the end of Clair’s article‚ he states a quote about work‚ “Work‚ it seems‚ has no single definition or essence‚ good or bad – only a history of various and unique experiences” (Muirhead‚ 2004‚ p.4). To Clair‚ work has no one definition that sums up what work is. Like the quote that he mentioned‚ it’s a history of different and unique experiences. I think this article is very good to start the semester as we will all come in with different meanings of work and will all leave with different
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1. Berger says that "Discourse analysis... focuses attention not only on the content of written material but on the style that writers use‚ the language they use to express themselves‚ and the strategies they adopt to get their ideas across. The focus‚ we may say‚ is on the ’how’ not the ’what’" (p. 174). Explain the difference between the "how" and the "what." Instead of concentrating on the content they concentrate on the style of the content. When reading a review of a movie‚ we are still reading
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The articles I read cover the effects of race and economic areas on marriage rates and marriage decline. In the first article‚ Ecological Areas and Marriage Rates‚ author James Bossard discusses how the economic prosperity of areas in a city has an influence on marriage rates. In his 1928 study‚ Bossard conducted research on 20‚000 married men throughout different parts of Philadelphia‚ which was the US’s 3rd largest city at the time. Data was collected from the Philadelphia Marriage License Bureau
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A Critical Analysis of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain A. Theme The theme of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is the journey to freedom. Huckleberry Finn is the story of Huck escaping from his father’s cruelty and Jim‚ a former slave‚ running from the harsh world of slavery. Throughout the second half of the book‚ the two are trying to escape from the duke and the king because they are tricking innocent people by being dishonest. Throughout Huck’s and Jim’s journey‚ several conflicts
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Corruption: A cop breaks the silence on police abuse‚ brutality‚ and racial profiling. Chicago‚ Illinois: Chicago Review Press. The article entitled “The state of race relations [Editorial].” was written by M. Fletcher & K. Thompson was taken from the Courier-Journal website http://www.courier-journal.com/ dated January 17‚ 2010 but was retrieved on January 27‚ 2010. The article focuses on racial profiling‚ particularly that of Black Americans by law enforcement. The first point that Fletcher
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In regards to development‚ it is believed that they had exchanged genes with regular humans. They were the closest species to humans through DNA‚ but did not have the same level of speaking or critical thinking abilities as humans. Researchers argue that they did have some of the same critical thinking abilities‚ because they had to hunt and gather necessities that took at least some trace of thought. They were similar to humans in the sense that they used tools to complete physical tasks.
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After reading Geake and Cooper’s article‚ I would have to agree with the proposal. I would agree there is a relationship between cognitive science and education. Cognitive Science is the scientific study of the mind and its process. In education‚ we are teaching the students a process in learning the materials of the curriculum. We are leaving them think of decision and logic in coming up with answers to questions. The best questions are when there are no right or wrong answers and the students
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critical appraisal of two articles using the appropriate CASP guidelines”: Introduction: CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills programme 2010) is a tool for one to criticize research paper. The questions provided‚ make one think and consider whether a research study is convincing and trustworthy. In the following‚ CASP will be used to criticize 1 quantitative research and 1 qualitative research. Paper 1 For quantitative research‚ Experiences of sub-fertility among Chinese couples in Hong
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America’s love for marijuana 1950-2000 “A Critical Analysis” By Mohsin Aftab Prof: Thomas Anderson CJ-411 In this paper I will be analyzing the various aspects of American culture in terms of drug use and abuse particularly marijuana‚ such as legislation‚ the media’s relationship to drug use‚ drug use and advertising. I have chosen to discuss the time period spanning from 1950-2000. According to the research‚ marijuana is the most used drug in the U.S. besides tobacco
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