To paraphrase Karl Marx: Men and women make history, but they do not make it as they please. Hernandez and Beckert both write about the way that the Chinese in California and the working class in New York influenced the history of these regions. Even though the Chinese and the workers were not the victors in their respective conflicts, they did shape and influence identity, law and politics in various ways.
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Describe how music or various types of music affects the brain.
-Background information on the topic including historical and modern perspectives.
-How does the topic illustrates the “mind-body” connection? Is the topic more focused on the “mind” or the “body”
-Provide scientific explanations for what is going on in the brain and body during engagement in this subject matter
ACME Inc. gave generous vacation benefits to its employees. New employees received three weeks of paid leave, and employees with over 25 years seniority received six weeks of paid leave. With the economic downturn, ACME decided to give all employees only three weeks paid leave a year, to boost worker productivity. The employees with over 25 years seniority (all over 40 years old) sued ACME under a disparate impact claim, claiming that the policy deprived them of a benefit, while it did not deprive younger workers of that same benefit.
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How did you get to class this week?
In your response, consider the following:
How did you physically get to class (mode of transportation)?
What factors needed to be in place in order for you to get to class? (examples of things to consider include: child care, your personal health and hygiene, desire to attend class, financial aspects related to tuition, transportation, clothing, etc., getting your work schedule approved – anything you can think of that needed to in place for you to get to class)
Assume you are presenting an informative lecture to your internal business colleagues addressing the issues needed to be considered when including foreign suppliers from that country in your firms supply chain.
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In 1943, Abraham Maslow argued that all humans subscribe to a specific set of needs that affect self-actualization. Arranging the needs in a pyramid, he theorized that in order to reach the pinnacle of self-actualization (self-improvement), humans need to have other basic needs taken care of first.
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According to Porter O’Grady and Malloch (2015), “In the twentieth century, the focus of work was on performing the right processes. In the twenty-first-century the focus is on obtaining the right outcomes” (p. 4). The purpose of using evidence to guide practice is to promote positive outcomes.
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