1 November 2009 Paper #2 Assignment What is life like on the global assembly line? In the article “Life on the Global Assembly Line” Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes did a very good job of portraying what was really going on in the lives of women working in an assembly line in Third World countries. I felt like the authors were not happy about what the corporations were doing. I think that the corporations are like a hungry dog that never could be satisfied with anything. I only disagree
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Breaking a norm is like an experiment. You are never going to know what the outcome is going to be. A lot of sociologist like to see it as a social experiment‚ and the reason is because people are living their life what is considered the right way. It’s a mimicry‚ everyone doing the same thing‚ following the same rules‚ avoiding everything that is not considered normal‚ usual‚ typical‚ and even standard. For my social experiment‚ I decided that my norm violation would be saying “I love you” when
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The Tragedy of a True American William Cutting‚ a man of patriotism and honor started out as a mere orphan after his father died fighting in the war of 1812. Due to his father dying at the hand of a British Man‚ an outside‚ it gave him immense hatred to trespassers. He honestly believed the America owned by the U.S is the land of the free‚ the land for those who ruled. Despite all these new-found beliefs‚ the country and its people didn’t treat him kindly. He was set back even more so for being
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CHAPTER 5 Building Competitive Advantage Through Business-Level Strategy SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the various business‑level strategies that a company can use to compete effectively in a business and in an industry. This chapter argues that the basis of all successful business models is the choice of business-level strategies that work together to provide competitive advantage through optimal competitive positioning. The decisions made about customer needs‚ customer
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“Obstacle to Deficit Cutting: A Nation on Entitlements” Due to today’s economy‚ more and more Americans are forced into financial strain causing to rely heavily on government benefits in order to make it day to day. This article provides a great deal of insight into the financial problems that Americans are faced with daily. Some benefits explained in the article that Americans have to rely on include unemployment benefits‚ social security‚ subsidized housing‚ and other benefits provided by
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Today when I was dining with my family in a formal restaurant‚ I broke two of the similar cultural norms. One being that‚ I drank my soup using a fork‚ where the norm is to drink soup with spoon. The second being that I use my knife to eat my cake‚ where it should’ve been eaten using a fork. It might seem that these two actions that violate the cultural norms is small‚ but the reaction that I got from other people is extensive. As I was committing the act‚ I noticed that the surrounding people
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In Blakemore’s experiment regarding children gender role development‚ it was concluded that gender norms vary with age and have both a positive and negative affects on children. Although gender norms can give a child a sense of self and identity‚ it can also limit a child to judge others based on a lack of knowledge and empathy for other people. The article stated that older children are more flexible than younger children regarding gender‚ although older children are less flexible in their judgments
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Ashoke and Ashima’s romance is one whose initiation has no place for individual choice. It is a classic arranged marriage‚ determined by cultural norms of India‚ such as astrological consultation and socio-economic matching. It is a predetermined path‚ but with a stroke of luck they seem to be instantly attracted to each other. There is an unspoken cultural norm in the country that values a parent-child relationship as having greater significance than that of a husband and wife. Hence‚ their relationship
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History of the Illuminati The Illuminati trace their origins back thousands of years to their conception as a result of the genetic inbreeding between a reptilian extraterrestrial race and humanity. Their modern origin‚ however‚ traces back to the 1760s and a man named Adam Weishaupt‚ who defected from the Catholic church and organized the Illuminati‚ financed by the International Bankers. Since then‚ according to the Illuminati‚ their top goal has been to achieve a “one world government”
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The Red Line The story “The Red Line” by Charles Higson revolves around a woman and two men of whom one is stabbed and another becomes a murderer. All of the characters share the feeling of displacement. They all feel different from other people. The first character we meet‚ the Bob Seeger imitator‚ feel that he is different from others in his appearance and better than others when it comes to performance. “when he looked out of the window he could see people. Ugly people.”. He thinks that people
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