North Country is a semi-fictionalized film of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in northern Minnesota. The issue at the center of North Country is sexual harassment and equality in the workplace. The sexual harassment complaint was filed in court on October 5‚ 1984 and the women won the first sexual harassment class-action suit
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In the early part of the movie‚ the avenues of sexual harassment on display here are bad‚ various‚ and unexciting. One can hardly imagine such an environment even being tolerated by working women‚ yet that seems to be what was happening here. The attack feels worst when you get
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every movie that is either inspired by a true story or based on a true story doesn’t convey the real story. Unless it’s a documentary then the movie more than likely isn’t the true story. Hollywood directors and writers take real stories of people and their lives and make them into a big Hollywood production. Therefore‚ the true story is lost in all the action and drama that the writers put into these movies. There are a huge number of movies that are like this. One in particular would be North Country
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Many stereotypes of women were depicted in the movie North Country. The first major one that I notice was when the main character was talking to her childhood friend after washing her hair. He friend told her that she worked at the town mine. The main character automatically asked her if she was a secretary there. This is a large stereotype that has affected women for a long time. Many people assume that the job a woman would be working in a male environment such as mining must be as a secretary
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North Country stars Charlize Theron as a female worker at an iron mining company in Northern Minnesota who is sexually harassed and leads a class-action lawsuit against her employer for failing to protect her and other female employees. "What Josey Aimes wants is a decent job so she can put food on the table and take care of her kids. What she gets is threatened‚ insulted‚ ogled‚ fondled‚ belittled‚ attacked and called filthy names. "Take it like a man‚" her callous male boss says. Instead‚ she takes
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“North Country” Josey was a woman who was looking for a new start when she and her 2 kids left her abusive husband. Unfortunately the abuse did not stop for Josey. The abuse continued when Josey went to work at the Mining company to get some extra money so she could take care of her two kids and move out of her parents house. Josey worked at a salon before moving to the mining company. At the salon she was not making enough money to make ends meet. This was an example of rights theory not being
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North Country: Relevance to Argumentation In the movie North Country the plot over laps allot of the issues we discuss in class weekly. The way the inerrant dominant power the men naturally take within the union. It reminds me of a lot of Cornell West theories on the politician’s in Washington. Where women potentially will never have equal power unless we keep on widdling away the barriers of gender discrimination. I noticed in the movie there were no African American people in the film. I assume
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North Country Analysis MGMT 339 The movie North Country portrayed many stereotypes of women and especially women in the work place. The first one I seen is when the main character‚ Josey Aimes‚ is talking and catching up with her childhood friend. Her friend stated that she worked at the mine and Josey automatically asked her if she was the secretary there. This implies that mining is work only suitable for men and a woman could only work there at a clerical position. Another
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Numerical: (1) North Country Auto-Transfer Pricing problem‚ Page 181‚ Book: MCS by Vijay Govindarajan & Robert N Anthony Solution: Facts of the case: (a) North Country Auto has departments/profit centre : (i) New & (ii) Used Car Sales‚ (iii) Parts‚ (iv) Service & (v) Body. (b) New & Used cars dept.: Headed by managers. They dealt in cars of Ford‚ Saab & Volkswagen. (c) Parts dept.: Manager was responsible for tracking parts inventory for the three lines & minimizing both carrying cost &
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died in infancy—and yet they were called “free.” They were the free blacks of the slavery era—African Americans who were not enslaved‚ typically because their masters had freed them‚ their parents‚ or their ancestors. However‚ they were only free in the sense that no one legally owned them. They lived in both the North and the South‚ but perhaps surprisingly‚ they often led harder lives in the North. Despite suffering from oppressive
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