“A Temporary Matter” By Jhumpa Lahiri 1. The story is about the marriage of the 2 main characters‚ Shukumar and his wife‚ Shoba. The story begins when Shoba‚ returning home from the gym‚ finds a notice from the electric company letting the people of their street know that nightly there will be an hour long outage while they are repairing some lines that had been downed during their last snowstorm. Shukumar is comparing the differences in his head from his wife the way she was when they had
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Electricity‚ the telephone‚ the steam engine‚ the telegraph‚ the railroad and ..IT? In his HBR article‚ "IT Doesn’t Matter‚" Nicholas Carr has stirred up quite a bit of controversy around IT’s role as strategic business differentiator. He examines the evolution of IT and argues that it follows a pattern very similar to that of earlier technologies like railroads and electricity. At the beginning of their evolution‚ these technologies provided opportunities for competitive advantage. However‚
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Feminism and Gender Roles Society has set certain standards that women are supposed to follow. The most common image of women is that they are very passive and try to avoid conflict in any situation. More and more in society women are breaking down the social barriers that confine them to their specific roles. The movies The Graduate and The Last Picture Show reveal to viewers a side to females that is very untraditional. These two movies help to show how women are rebelling against sexual
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INTRODUCTION The College‚ a part of the Delhi University‚ stands today as one of the most reputed Business School in India. Not just academics‚ But CBS caters to the development of co-curricular acumen among students. CBS resides in itself‚ FinX‚ the finance society of college‚ that aims at developing financial and monetary skills among students. Objectives Boost financial acumen of students Awareness about the recent happenings in the world of finance Platform for students to present
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Randy Ablack ‘Grey Matter’ is a short movie script by Jeanette D. Farr which concerns itself primarily with race relations and stereotyping. A young African-American male confronts an old white woman in a police station with regard to her apparent racial profiling. As it turns out‚ he is there to return the very same wallet that she is about to report as lost. The dyadic conversation between confrontation and conclusion is initiated by the nonverbal cue of her moving her handbag
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Stereotype. Stereotypical. Stereotyping. All are words I’m sure we all have heard. A question I have asked myself is “Why do stereotypes exist and more importantly‚ why do they matter?” A stereotype is an oversimplified image of a person‚ place‚ or object. George Takei‚ a Japanese actor‚ once said “If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype‚ we have allowed a generalization to replace our own thinking.” So why do we allow ourselves‚ as people‚ to judge one another based on a stereotype
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My favorite fictional character would have to be Sherlock Holmes. I like him because he has awesome deductive reasoning skills. I relate his skills pretty much to my daily activities. I actually think that we do have to use deductive reasoning in our daily lives even only for a tiny amount. Even for the simplest things‚ we have to use our logic and analyze whether whatever we’re about to do is right and consider what the outcome is going to be. It always excites me whenever he finds new clues and
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“Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts” (Peter A. Facione) - summary – The article starts with emphasizing the importance of making good decisions and practicing fair judgments comparing with enduring the consequences of uninformed and bad choices. Next topic is defining “critical thinking”‚ which is based on rhetorical questions that can help each of us deducing by ourselves what it means and why it is important. Whenever you are in the position to choose‚ you have to analyze
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Gender equality in the workplace is not a priority for business today. In the workplace context the term gender equality refers to equality between men and women with respect to opportunities‚ treatment‚ and outcomes including both economic and social achievements. It encompasses a range of considerations including equality of representation in the workforce‚ types of work performed‚ access to equal pay‚ representation at management and board level‚ childcare‚ workplace flexibility‚ equal opportunity
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Discuss explanations of gender dysphoria (8+16) One psychological explanation is that gender dysphoria is caused by childhood trauma or a maladaptive upbringing.The psychodynamic approach believes that gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. Coates studied one boy who developed gender dysphoria and suggested that this may have been a defensive reaction to his mother’s depression following an abortion. Gender dysphoria is confusion and sufferers experience a strong sense of discomfort whilst feeling
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