Chapter 5- Affirmative Action Case 1-Local 28‚ Sheet Metal Workers v. EEOC I- The union and its apprenticeship committee were found guilty of discrimination against Hispanics and blacks were ordered to remedy the violations. Found in contempt of court orders to remedy violations‚ court eventually imposed fine and an affirmative action plan as a remedy. Did provisions of Title VII give the courts power to order race conscious membership quotas? R- Title VII A- The court held that Title VII doesn’t
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Jennifer Poldo Week 4 Homework EC 141 Principles of Macroeconomics 2. How many recessions has the United States experienced since 1950? Which ones were the longest in duration? Which ones were the most severe in terms of declines in real output? The united States has had a total of 10 recessions since 1950. The years that were the longest in duration were 2007-2009 which ran for 18 months. Second fell 1973-75 and 1981-82 which ran for 16 months. The most severe was in 1973-75 with -4.9%
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Chapter 4 HW: pg 125 #8 & #18 8. “Members of a society borrow from other cultures to solve problems that they face in common.” What does this mean? What is the significance to marketing? Because different cultures experience different events and hold different values‚ they provide a unique perspective towards a variety of problems. They may view a problem differently and provide insight that would be new to those from other cultures. An example would be “kaizen”. It is a Japanese word that essentially
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Chapter 4 Case 2: Greetings Inc.: Activity-Based Costing Solution: 1. An activity-based costing system may be appropriate for Wall Décor‚ when overhead allocation based job-order costing provides product cost distortion. As seen on previous case‚ this distortion happens when one product is manufacturing in high volume and the others are manufacturing in complexity as well as in low volume. In this situation Wall Décor should change its costing system for selling its high volume produced
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1. The most important determinant of consumption and saving is the: A) level of bank credit. B) level of income. C) interest rate. D) price level. 2. If Carol’s disposable income increases from $1‚200 to $1‚700 and her level of saving increases from minus $100 to a plus $100‚ her marginal propensity to: A) save is three-fifths. B) consume is one-half. C) consume is three-fifths. D) consume is one-sixth. 3. A decline
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Chapter 1 Sociology the study of human society Groups of sociology sports religion music medicine sociologists Social Structure – patterns of social behavior Martial age Food Reality shows Cultural Myths Social Institutions are groups of Social positions Social relations Social roles Social identity Social imagination wants you to look at structural ties that keep you aligned with a group looks at the historical past Sociologists generally look common categories Age Gender
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Chapter 8 What is a product ? Product is anything that can be offered in a market for attention‚ acquisition‚ use‚ or consumption that might satisfy a need or want Experiences represent what buying the product or service will do for the customer Consumer products are products and services for personal consumption Classified by how consumers buy them Convenience products Shopping products Specialty products Unsought products Convenience products are consumer products and services that the
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The Consumer Society‚ Chapter 8 – Jean Baudrillard The Finest Consumer Object: The Body Fetish (Baudrillard‚129. Para 3) - Social conditioning to create attraction towards a person‚ place‚ or an object Hedonistic (131‚ para 2)- a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification. Athleticism (132‚ para 3) - Characterized by or involving physical activity or exertion; active: Somatisation (140‚ para 1) - dysfunctional symptoms
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Chapter 9 Five Branches are discussed in Ch.9: 1. Therapeutic Recreation 2. Armed Forces Recreation 3. Employee Services & Recreation Programs 4. Campus Recreation 5. Private Membership Recreation Organizations What is Therapeutic Recreation? Isn’t all recreation therapeutic? TR Models and Process The Leisure Ability Model p. 199 Three components: Functional interventions – Leisure education Recreation participation The Health Protection-Health Promotion Model p.199 Prescriptive activity Recreation
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Summary What Makes an Alcoholic Beverage? • Drinkable alcohol is obtained from the fermentation of sugar in some natural products such as grapes‚ apples‚ honey‚ or molasses. The result is some form of wine. • Beer is obtained from barley‚ after the starch has first been converted into sugar‚ fermented along with other grains and hops‚ and aged. • To obtain very strong alcoholic beverages‚ it is necessary to boil the fermented liquid and condense it later ~--bfcooling. This process‚ called distillation
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