In this article‚ Richard J. Lundman and Robert L. Kaufman explore the racial discrimination that white officers possess when interacting with individuals of color. The authors present a study‚ arguing that African-Americans and other individuals of color are more likely to be stopped and pulled over by law enforcement in comparison to their white counterparts. Furthermore‚ the authors use statistical data and personal accounts from those individuals involved in police encounters to examine how police
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Culture evolves over time in response to adaptive challenges. One result of this evolutionary process is beliefs and practices that help us adapt to persistent as well as changing circumstances. These beliefs and practices are organized as models or schema about how things work‚ what is ideal‚ and which practices are proper and help individuals or groups survive and prosper. Cultural models are so familiar that their functions and effects are often unseen‚ invisible‚ unnoticed. The evidence of their
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Supply Chain Responsiveness and Efficiency – Complementing or Contradicting Each Other? Dennis Minnich1 Frank H. Maier2 International University in Germany Campus 1 76646 Bruchsal‚ Germany Phone +49 7251 700-341 Fax +49 7251 700-350 e-mail dennis.minnich@i-u.de Abstract Balancing responsiveness to market requirements with overall efficiency is an important issue in supply chain design and management. The objective of the system dynamics model introduced in this paper is to capture generic structures
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Evidence Cultural Responsiveness/Accommodations 1. How was culture addressed‚ recognized‚ or celebrated in the classroom? The classroom where I am observing does not have any decorations to recognized any culture‚ yet every culture is represented in the curriculum. For example‚ the teacher has a poster with children from different countries dressed in their traditional clothes. Another way that different cultures are represented is through books. For example‚ the class was reading a book called
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Module EG1083 Fluid Mechanics PRESSURE ‚ FLUID SYSTEMS and FLUID PRESSURES SM(1) Pressure Definition of Pressure Fluid pressure: Force per unit area exerted by a fluid in a solid wall. Force acts perpendicularly to the surface in contacts. Fluid is a co u d s common word for gas a d/o liquid. o od o and/or qu d Pressure is a scalar quantity. It has the units of: N/m2 or Pa (or kPa) in SI system of units psi in Imperial system of units Pressure can also be expressed in terms of height
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responsibility in maintaining standards‚ said Roberts‚ the faculty co-chair for the Board of Judicial Affairs‚ in an interview after the panel.) Instead‚ panelists linked cheating to the social pressure put on students to prize high grades over education and other values‚ including creativity and imagination. Pressure by parents and schools to achieve top scores has created stress levels among students—beginning as early as elementary school—that are so high that some educators regard it as a health epidemic
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Pressure Today in our modern society cheating in school is growing at a rapid rate‚ but who is to blame‚ is it the school system is it students or is it the teachers. I strongly believe that it is not only the student’s fault but the school systems as well. To begin‚ cheating among students has rapidly increased. The numbers are crazy; statically 2 out of every 3 kids have cheated on a test‚ homework‚ ect. “Cheating in school is rampant and getting worse 64% of students cheated on a test in the
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Local Employees‚ Local Pay? William O’ Dell‚ vice president for human resources at LeBert Graphics (LG)‚ a fast growing software development firm headquartered in Boston’s Route 128 technology belt‚ was visiting the firm’s first overseas subsidiary‚ LeBert Graphics Bangalore Ltd. (LGB). The visit had been going well‚ but a recent lunch with his good friend Ashok Rao had left him troubled. Rao was one of many Indian expatriates who had migrated to the United States in the 1980s. He had been
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According to the essay “Too Much Pressure” by Colleen Wenke‚ the reason that students cheat on their tests is because they are under too much pressure to get good grades‚ which is accurately portrayed since cheating is usually seen as one of the only ways to pass tests and that’s what students are being stressed to do. Based on her essay‚ teachers should be teaching students right from wrong as opposed to pressuring to the extent of making them cheat. This is important to see because it is a way
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I am concerned with the lack of cultural responsiveness; “a student-centered approach to teaching in which the students’ unique cultural strengths are identified and nurtured to promote student achievement and a sense of well-being about the student’s cultural place in the world” (Huffington Post‚ 2011) that is currently in curricula of schools. Being a teacher of math‚ with a growing student population of English Language Learners (ELL)‚ having a culturally inclusive or diverse curriculum to reach
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