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    One of the theories that Naomi Zacks talks about is the theory of genetics. Zacks stated that there are two possible ways that race can be hereditary. First the physical traits are passed down through genes. The second way is that race is usually transferred from parent to child or through ancestors and that is how a person can identify themselves into a race category. Zacks theory is that there is transmission of genetics and genealogical heredity and through genealogy race is either found though

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    breast‚ and in most cases white. But is this ideal body that society wants us to believe‚ necessary? Well‚ just as Naomi Wolf describes it‚ it is just a beauty myth. In the present day‚ women are captive in this obsession with physical perfection making some of them miserable and insecure‚ as they try to satisfy society’s definition of the perfect beauty. In this film‚ The Beauty Myth‚ Naomi Wolf helps us understand this frustration and anxiety as many of us go through when trying to make our bodies

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    Naomi Klein addresses the issue women workers face while working in sweatshops. When women hit around their twenties they are laid off‚ because they no longer have the proper fingers for the job. Naomi Klein says that 90% of sweatshops workers are women it made me think why do women face such hard conditions. In the video‚ we watched in class los angeles one of the women asked about her rights she was laid off. This made me think how little workers have a choice in the amount of hours they work.

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    Aryeetey Loretta Naomi

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    MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON PRODUCTIVITY A CASE STUDY OF GHANA AIRPORTS COMPANY LIMITED by Aryeetey Loretta Naomi PG3042009 A Thesis submitted to the Institute Of Distance Learning ‚Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of COMMONWEALTH EXECUTIVE MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINSTRATION JUNE‚ 2011 1 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this is my original work and that it has not been presented either in whole or in

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    Naomi Wolf had written her book “The Beauty Myth in 1991. The book was written has a feminist platform to inform the world that there are laws and policies made up by the government had been given to women as somewhat of a cover up to the more harsher of women rights laws. Women at the time had rights but they weren’t as powerfully enacted until later years as women’s rights began to progress in change. It also inspects the repercussion against the feminist movement and the way in which old ideas

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    often a hyper-feminized body‚ which is glorified‚ including perfectly sculpted curves and a pore-less face. It is with these typical standards that regularly everyday women feel inadequate or unattractive unless they fit this unrealistic expectation. Naomi Wolf refers to this experience as “the beauty myth” where despite the notion of being liberated as a woman‚ there still exists restrictions in the form of physical appearance (9). What is extremely dangerous about this hyper-feminized media is that

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    The story I chose to embellish is a passage from the book “Becoming Naomi Leon” by Pam Munoz Ryan‚ while I spent a good part of the week trying to find a poem to illuminate none of them spoke to me the way this exert did. This passage had always held a special place in my heart and has stuck with me years after first reading the book‚ I believe that embellishing and illustrating the quote gave the poem new and deeper meaning got me. When I had first read the poem I sympathized with the main character

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    The most dominant force known to mankind is not weapons or natural disasters. It is our own mind. Our own thoughts and behaviors. Our thoughts construct our reality. We human being the most educated animals on earth‚ let our fear control us. Fear is the best weapon of all great manipulators. It can change us to do anything‚ no matter how logical and stupid the situation is. Take for example‚ after World War 1 had finished‚ people were so afraid that reality would come back and happen again‚ so they

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    Being Famous

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    WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BEING FAMOUS? If you are a famous person all the people believe you have a wonderful life with no worries or problems. But‚ to my mind being famous have both advantages and disadvantages. The greatest advantage is that celebrities are usually very rich and they have easier lifes than other people. They live in beautiful enormous houses mantained by housekeepers‚ gardeners‚ cooks and many servants. Secondly‚ being a celebrity bring them such privileges

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    The efforts of five women known as the Famous Five has had a lasting effect on the rights of women in Canada to this day. These women‚ all from Alberta‚ were Emily Murphy‚ Nellie McClung‚ Louise McKinney‚ Irene Parlby and Henrietta Muir Edwards. Emily Murphy pressured the Alberta government into passing the “Dower Act’ which protected a wife’s right to one-third (⅓) share of her husband’s property. Nellie McClung was very active with organizations and was involved in politics from 1914 to 1926

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