Topics for This Week’s Discussions: Objective Tone (graded) Flawed Diction (graded) Q&A Forum . . . for your questions and comments (not graded) Note: Click on the links in the “Topics” section to view the discussion topics. Then‚ click “Respond” to add your thoughts to the discussion thread. Topics Objective Tone (graded) Flawed Diction (graded) Q&A Forum Objective Tone (graded) Though an objective tone is probably most appropriate for nearly
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What is a Gated Community and does it have to have gates? Discuss. This essay reviews the literature drawn upon and clarifies what it means by community. A full discussion is offered of what a gated community is and whether their associated gates are physical‚ psychological or simply visual barriers to outsiders and are GC defined by these gates? In order to further explore these issues‚ this essay invites theories and concepts such as Weber’s life chances‚ Cohen’s moral panic and Durkheim’s collective
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In her essay‚ Where are you going‚ Where have you been‚ Joyce Carol Oates‚ underscores the importance of communication to develop her story. Both the presence and absence of communication are utilized in the evolution of Oates’ purpose. The author relates each of her subjects to archetypal characters in order to firmly cast them into a category. Through careful consideration of detail‚ Oates’ offers a particular understanding of Connie’s relationship with her parents and the world around Connie.
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In Woody Holton’s book‚ “Forced Founder’s‚” the traditional idea that the Virginia’s involvement in the revolution was led by the great land owning elite‚ like George Washington is questioned. Instead‚ Holton offers the theory that Indians‚ merchants‚ slaves‚ and debtors thrust Virginia into the independence movement‚ and the gentry’s motives for joining the revolution were those of maintaining power not liberty. The gentry in Virginia’s positions depended on land and labor and Britain was restricting
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something doesn’t work people will cling to it even if they can see it doesn’t work‚ simply because they are in their comfort zone and have ‘always done things this way’. There will be many different ways to reach different people‚ and the HR practitioner has to be sensitive and switched-on to these differing needs in communication. It can be argued that the HR function should be ‘an agent of continuous transformation‚ shaping processes and a culture that together improve an organisation’s capacity for
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to‚ rather than what it is selling. Zappos.com mission statement is " to provide the best customer service possible." Employees also call it the wow statement and has been the key factor for Zappos.com quick success in a global scale. This mission statement has helped with employee retention because the company goes through many steps to find objective based employees which clearly fit the company ’s profile. They do mention that they have left behind very talented people who were not fitted with
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believe that this movie does have implications on children‚ Ursula‚ Flotsam‚ and Jetsam are made to be scary characters while the good characters are not. In most cases‚ kids would rather be the good characters than the evil characters. Ariel is part of a counterculture; “cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society” (Macionis‚ pg. 73). Unlike her father and the rest of her society‚ Ariel believes that not all humans are harmful and she should be allowed to fall in love
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Should CEOs be on the Board? By direction of the board‚ a foundation’s top executive staff person (titled CEO for this discussion) manages all aspects of the organization. CEOs typically oversee the foundation’s money‚ time and human resources and act as a liaison between the board and staff. Rather than keeping the CEO in a strictly managerial position‚ some boards award them a role in governance as well‚ offering the CEO full membership—and in some cases‚ voting rights—on the board. CEOs who sit
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What Else Could We Do?: Turning Tragedy into Triumph "Well‚ what else could we do?” (American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till) J. W. Milam asked‚ though it was a rhetorical question at best‚ for he already knew the answer. “I like niggers -- in their place…But I just decided it was time a few people got put on notice... And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman‚ he ’s tired o ’ livin ’. I ’m likely to kill him" (American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till). In
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Where Have You Been? “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about an average fifteen year old girl who is not unlike many other girls her age‚ she is self-absorbed‚ and has a “Nervous giggling habit of craning her neck and glancing into the mirror‚ or checking other people’s face’s to make sure her own was all right.”(Oates‚ 388) The story takes place in Middle America. Oates wrote “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” in the 1960’s‚ she was
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