Assess the importance of school factors such as racism and pupils responses to racism in creating ethnic differences in educational achievement. (20 Marks) There are many factors which lead to differences in educational achievement between different ethnic groups. These factors consist of labelling and teacher racism‚ pupil responses and subcultures‚ the ethnocentric curriculum‚ institutional racism and selection and segregation. Labelling and teacher racism is when you attach a meaning or definition
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CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT: CREATING COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AMONG CONSUMERS ABSTRACT This paper analyses the various effects of celebrity endorsements on consumer buying behavior through a descriptive study. With a sample size of 100‚ top of mind awareness of various brand endorsed by a celebrity was explored. It also analyses cognitive dissonance among consumers‚ various factors which influence consumer buying behavior and whether any downfall in the celebrity’s image also affects or brings down the
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Are European hotel restaurants problematic or instrumental in creating value? In Western Europe the majority of the hoteliers and other stakeholders involved with them agree that hotel restaurants are a liability because of the very low profit margins and the difficulty of making a return on investment. This is without even mentioning all the operational problems inherent to this type of activity. It is true that in Europe hotel restaurants are subject to the same constraints as other restaurants
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definitely at higher ground than those who don’t. As Heather McCune in her editorial on sustaining innovation says‚ “It is not about becoming a market leader. The work is about sustaining it.” Creating and supporting a culture of innovation thus becomes extremely important for an organization.
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DIFFERENCE eco-efficiency creating more value with less impact foreword In 1991‚ we in the then Business Council for Sustainable Development were looking for a single concept‚ perhaps a single word‚ to sum up the business end of sustainable development. Finding no such concept on the lexicographer s shelf‚ we decided we would have to launch an expression. After a contest and much agonizing‚ we came up with eco-efficiency. In simplest terms‚ it means creating more goods and services with
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Urban Outfitters Continuing Case Study: Creating a Business Makeia C. Jackson Instructor Sally Rogers Introduction to Business January 30‚ 2011 Identify at least three challenges when setting up a business. Explain why they are challenges. Three challenges when setting up a business is capital‚ location and marketing. To start a business you need money to get it off the ground. This money will be used to rent or purchase space for the business‚ furniture and equipment‚ supplies‚ professional
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According to Rogers cited in Coetzee‚ Van Niekerk‚ & Wydeman (2008)‚ classroom climate is the tone that the class experiences in normal daily life. The classroom is essentially a group of learners brought together for the common goal of learning. The attitude of the class depends on the attitudes of the individuals in the classroom‚ as well as the educator’s attitude. The educators’ role is to use their knowledge‚ skill and behaviour to create an effective and positive learning environment in their
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motivation. They have achieved this success in part because of their ability to communicate with their employees. It is because of this communication that they are able to motivate employees through intrinsic rewards. Creating Motivation: Analysis of Google‚ Starbucks‚ and Whole Foods Introduction Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." By championing new and innovative methods of employee motivation
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In Chapters 7 and 8 of the book Creating Black Americans: African-American History and its meanings‚ 1619 to the present by Nell Irvin Painter‚ the author shows that even after emancipation‚ African Americans made huge steps in the advancement of their own education and professional lives‚ even when faced with white supremacy groups that were doing everything in their power to push blacks back into being slaves and a subordinate people. This idea is shown when Painter says‚ “But black success threatened
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BPSM (FedEx-UPS) Creating Value at FedEx and UPS From the company’s founding close to 30 years ago‚ FedEx’s strategic competitiveness has been based on an obsession with‚ and careful nurturing of‚ delivery speed and reliability as its core competencies. These competencies have been critical to the pursuit of the opportunities that were associated with Frederick W. Smith’s early vision of today’s fast-cycle global economy. Believing that value could be added to business firms’ operations if
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