John Baugh in his article “Linguistic Profiling” (2003) discusses “linguistic discrimination based on speech or writing” (2003‚ p. 155). The article discusses the negative and positive effects that linguistic profiling has on people‚ specifically on the people with an “undesirable accent or dialect” (2003‚ p.155). Much like racial profiling and its negative effects on people of color‚ linguistic profiling is the practice of imposing certain social characteristics on people who speak with a particular
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Chapter 1 BACKGROUND of the STUDY Demographic profile is used to describe a demographic grouping or a market segments. This typically involves age bands (as teenagers do not wish to purchase denture fixant)‚ social class bands and gender. . According to NBC’s Marketing Department (1969). Demographic attributes are very relevant indicators and these could affect human behavior. In the study of achievements or performance of students‚ there are several factors that could affect their achievements
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Contingent Liability 1. Analyze why a company would prefer not to disclose its contingent liabilities. In order to understand why a company would or would not disclose his contingent liabilities it is important to know exactly what a contingent liability is. As I have learned throughout all of my accounting studies a liability is simply an obligation or debt that a business owes to an individual or an organization. Now there are many liabilities that include services‚ payroll‚ notes‚ and
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Racial Profiling Prof. James Wright/CRJS420 By Viktoria Gavre American InterContinental University June 20‚ 2013 Racial Profiling Introduction On April 19‚ 1995‚ around 9 a.m. a yellow Ryder Rental truck pulled up into a parking area outside the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Two minutes later all hell broke loose as the truck’s 4000-pound cargo blasted the government building shattering one-third of the seven-story building. Investigators got it right‚ they said the suspect
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Vicarious Liability‚ what is it? Vicarious commitment insinuates a condition where a business is considered responsible for the exercises or rejections of their specialists. In a workplace situation‚ a business can be held at danger for the exhibitions or prohibitions of its employee’s‚ whether it can be shown that the offenses happened over the range of their occupation. A case when a business can be held vicariously at risk cases can join exhibits of tormenting behavior‚ bullying‚ mercilessness
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Racial Profiling The definition of racial profiling is prejudging someone by their ethnicity or racial profile based on the stereotypes that an ethnic group may carry. Racial profiling acknowledgement in America has grown rapidly over time and has really been on the rise since the September 11‚ 2001 bombings of the Twin Towers in New York City and of the Pentagon in Arlington‚ Virginia. But is racial profiling defensible to the American public policy? Some people think like Scott Johnson
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The purpose of this article is to summarize‚ integrate‚ and evaluate the many ways interviews can be structured. Reliability and validity are key concepts in the process of selecting among job applicants‚ since the main goal of selection is to make accurate predictions about which individuals will perform well on the job. Reliability is the consistency of measurement‚ or the degree to which an instrument measures the same way each time it is used under the same condition with the same subjects (definition
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purpose of the study. To ensure that this was achieved‚ the survey needed to demonstrate validity and reliability. Validity‚ as described by Heale and Twycross (2015‚ 66)‚ examines whether the specific concept has been accurately measured. In contrast‚ according to Floss (2013‚1)‚ reliability refers to the consistency of the instrument to measure the concept. The instrument needed to feature external validity in order for the data collected to be generalised (Heale and Twycross 2015‚ 66). To ensure
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Racial profiling has become a prominent issue in America. After the incident with Rodney King‚ more emphasis has been placed on profiling. According to news reports‚ Rodney King was driving down the street in his hometown of L.A. when several police officers stopped him solely of the color of his skin. There are many conflicting reports that state he was speeding doing about 100 mph before they stopped him. When he was stopped‚ he was pulled out of the car‚ the police proceeded to deliver 56 baton
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