The non-western society I chose to research about its art tradition is China because its art has one of the oldest traditions in the world and it comes in many forms. Chinese Calligraphy is one of the eight most elegant forms of art in China, in the same ranking as “Zheng (harp), chess, paintings, poems, tea, flowers, and liquor”. Calligraphy has been changing since the Chinese language developed because different dynasties use a different official font for Chinese. China is...
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If we have perspective on what others know, we can learn how to achieve things in a new way. When we try to do something that has worked many times in the past, but doesn’t work now, that is called a mental set. When we are set in doing something the way it has worked before, this causes complications and hinders our work. With the point of view of others, we can do things in new approaches. Perspective is what...
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Between the 1650s and the 1770s, the American colonies enjoyed an excellent economic period leading to excellent living standards but lacked freedom and liberty. With the imposition of Parliamentary taxes and more control of the British to the American colonies, politically inspired movements began to form within the colonies to oppose the British and fight for freedom. There were several key players to the American Revolutionary war who included Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin,...
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How do race and gender structure the international trade regime? Race and gender are two forces which structure the international trade regime. In order to allow for a deeper analysis of the trade regime in consideration to development and neoliberalism this essay will focus on race rather than gender, to suggest these concepts give the regime an inherent racial bias. This is important because to speak of a post-colonial world conjures the inaccurate notion that decolonisation in the 20th century...
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Expressionism played a very important role in the artistic scene of Germany, primarily occurring at the onset of the 20th century. It talks about humanity's role on earth and with each other, and how broader society alienates individuals, while also trying to give off empathy and compassion artists had for each other. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene can be used as a prime example of the permanence of the expressionist movement in...
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African Americans and American women have been oppressed by the opinions and laws of white men since the drafting of the Constitution of the United States. African Americans and American women’s most prevalent contributions exist in literature and culture, most predominately in the works of Langston Hughe’s “I, Too,” Zora Neale Hurston’s, “How It Feels To Be Colored Me,” Bontemp’s, “A Black Man Talks of Reaping,” and Alice Walker’s, “In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens.” African Americans and American women...
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Life in Europe during the time leading up to World War 2 was a time of great turmoil. While the countries in the League of Nations wanted to avoid conflicts and wars altogether because of the severity of World War One, there were several factors that led to the beginning of World War Two. The rise of Nazism and Adolf Hitler rising to power as German Chancellor and employing the use of aggressive foreign policy, were among some of the...
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Reparation, also known as “compensation in money or material payable by a defeated nation for damages to or expenditures sustained by another nation as a result of hostilities with the defeated nation – usually used in plural” [merriam-webster, 2019], has been a question affecting our nation for years. There have been many examples of our nation ‘damaging’ many people of our nation. These examples can be having African Americans as slaves, Native Americans with stealing their land, and Japanese Americans...
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Christianity began to gain momentum in Europe as the main religion. This called for the European lifestyles to match the momentum created. Buildings had to be bigger, larger, and taller than ever before. This required new architectural techniques in order to fulfill the new demand of exceptional buildings. This new form of architecture of large vertical buildings with intricate detail inside and out was called Gothic architecture. The term “Gothic” architecture can be derived from the Romanesque timeline and there...
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Executive Summary In this paper, we will highlight the United States Army Recruiting Command’s (USAREC) diversity management practices. USAREC is responsible for the recruiting of young men and women to join the US Army. For fiscal year 2018, USAREC, did not attain their recruiting goals. A closer look at their diversity management practices may give some insight on how they possibly missed to reach their objective. We will evaluate potential limitations of the organizational theories and practices utilized by the...
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German expressionism is not distinguished by a particular style or method of creation, it is better described as a portrayal of the artists' inner feelings and emotions. This essay explores how Expressionism as a movement emerged across various cities in Germany from approximately 1905 to 1920 and how the prominent artists of that time created a movement that would challenge societies perceptions of art in way that created a more personal experience for the artist and the viewer. (ref1) Prior...
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In the past where diversity management has been viewed as merely a legal requirement, increasingly it is being adopted by organisations to play to a competitive advantage and to fully access the potential of employees. Recognition of patriarchal leadership in business has already proven valuable, and studies show closing the gender pay gap alone could add $12 trillion to global growth by 2025 (McKinsey & Company, 2015). Diversity in business no longer exists for moral or legal obligation, but as...
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To what extent do the media influence perceptions of African Americans in the criminal justice system in the US “Stereotypes are not mysterious or arbitrary, but grounded in the observations of everyday life.” (Eagly, A. 2015, “How Do Stereotypes Form and Can They Be Altered?”). Stereotypes are integrated within everyday life due to media representation and personal experiences. On the least harmful part of the spectrum comes the stereotype surrounding high school drop outs. The idea that they are less...
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Diversity management has a pivotal role in growth in today’s fiercely competitive global market and workplace issue due to the rapidly change in globalization. To encourage managing diversity, bringing talented workers, including foreign nationals and women is considered as the key role in global enterprises, as diverse workforce is interpreted essential for sustaining and strengthening the creativity and competitiveness of economies. However, Japanese enterprises are known as culturally homogeneous and non-diversified and the chronic problem of gender inequality at work...
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Diversity in the Workplace: Workplace diversity refers to the segmentation of the workforce into unique variable classes that have a comprehend commonality within a particular cultural or national status and that influence potentially harmful or useful employment outcomes such as job opportunities, treatment in the workplace and upgrading chance, irrespective of job related proficiencies and qualifications (Stockdale and Crosby, 2004). Different organisations and cultures can define diversity in different ways. The human resource literatures, business and organisation viewed three types...
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In A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage aims to put into words the development of societies and civilizations by describing the drinks that originate in those places. To further emphasize the connections between the emergence of said societies and how the drinks shaped them, he takes an unusual yet straightforward approach to how beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and coca-cola have been the spark behind many significant turning points in history. In his book, Standage proves...
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Diversity in H&M In January 2018, H&M photographed a young black boy by the name of Liam Mango wearing a green sweatshirt with the words “coolest money in the jungle” written across the front in their ad. When this ad was published to their website to be sold, many individuals were outraged and took to social media for the picture to be removed as it was viewed as racist. When this controversial ad hit the internet, some people could not...
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Concern with diversity, equity and inclusion have been central to my research, teaching, and advising during my Ph.D. studies and postdoctoral time. I have worked with diverse populations both as a Teaching Assistant at Michigan Technological University and as a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University that prides itself on having a diverse population of students. I describe below my current and proposed efforts in advancing diversity. About six years ago, I was about to pursue my master’s degree in China....
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Diversity is key to the development of every human endeavor, technology has brought us closer together than ever, making the issue of diversity a compulsory challenge to confront. In this assignment I am going to focus on the improvements Google has made to leverage on diversity which has also contributed to the tremendous successes of the company. Racial diversity is barely improving for black and Latino staff, Google has changed their recruitment strategy by leveraging on diversity. In 2014 the...
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Introduction I am Sergeant Jermaine Denee Bowens with the District of Columbia National Guard located in the most important city in the Nation. The District of Columbia is the capitol of the United States and is located in the Mid-Atlantic region. The city has a total area of 68.34 square miles (177.0km2); 61.05 square miles (158.1 km2) is land and 7.29 square miles (18.9 km2) (10.67%) is water. The District of Columbia is one of the fastest growing cities in...
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The link between media exposure and pervasive discontent of one’s physical appearance is something that has been long established (reference) in literature that covers a century. In the modern era we now live, technology has transformed the exhibition of ideals, opinions, and capacity of content for which young people can compare themselves. Arguably the biggest platform for a constantly growing library of images depicting idealised body-types is Instagram; with more than 500 million accounts active every day and more than...
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Case Study Answers Question-1 Why should ABC analyse existing practices in relation to diversity? ABC should analyse existing practices in relation to diversity because neither company mission nor the current operational plan contains any detail for the implementation of the diversity which implies that all the benefits of the diversity that have been mentioned will not be reaped by the company so they should carefully examine their existing practices in accordance with diversity. Question-2 Explain the benefits of diversity in...
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Diversity in organizations represent to the equality in employees and also opportunities are given without any kind of gender bias, culture, age, language, regional bias. In organizations diversity is really essential because while working with different kinds of people at one place it helps to improve the company's name and fame by their various sort of modern and improvised thinking procedure. In every organization diversity is a most important factor for their success criteria. It has enormous benefits for every...
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The first colony of Australia was established at Sydney by Captain Arthur Phillip on January 26, 1788. They believed the land was terra nullius or empty land as they couldn’t see any evidence of buildings, crops, land development, fences, borders or governments. This assessment was incorrect as the land belonged to the Aborigines as they had lived there for over 60,000 years. Chinese migration and settlement in New South Wales has a long history. Early records show evidence of Chinese...
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Governor Arthur Phillip founded the first British settlement in Port Jackson (Sydney Harbor) on the 26th of January 1788. Just over a week later the Aboriginals first saw the European settlers. The First Fleet carried around 759 convicts and 206 marines. They described Australia as terra nullius, which means wastelands that could be taken without approval. Terra nullius translates to land of nothing. They saw it as terra nullius because there are no fences, borders, no houses, no land development,...
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We are one and we are many. A famous Australian verse, sentence and lyric that Australians live by. The past couple of years Australia has been going through a tough time considering the national anthem. Many say the national anthem is racist and should be changed, and I for one agree with that statement. Hours upon hours of research I have finally come to the conclusion that the Australian national anthem is, well, racist. Written in 1879, Australia’s national anthem...
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Diversity Assessment Notes – rephrase everything. Reference APA referencing Citethisforme.com Definition of diversity Diversity includes people with difference characteristics that include varying gender age, religion, race, ethnicity, cultural background, sexual orientation, languages, education, abilities and etc. Diversity explanation for each section Identify specific areas of diversity that the organization addresses Gender, including transgender For ANZ, gender balancing in their organisation is a business imperative. ANZ ensures there is equal representation of women and men in our leadership teams this is...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence and computation in machines, especially computer systems. These such processes include learning, reasoning and self-correction. There is AI all around us, from self-driving vehicles to virtual personal assistants on mobile devices such as Apple’s Siri. A.I can be categorized into two different groups: weak AI and strong AI. Weak AI are systems that are designed for specific tasks. They are able to sense things similar to what they know and classify...
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Throughout the history of mankind, there have been atrocities that have rocked the world and changed the way we view the world around us. In the 1930s, the world watched on as the defeated people of Germany turned to Hitler and followed him into his final solution to the ‘Jewish problem’. This solution was the extermination of all individuals of Jewish descent. However, this ‘solution’ has come to be known as the holocaust and is the worst Genocide in recorded...
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When my parents first migrated to Australia, we lived in an area which was largely populated by Chinese immigrants. Naturally, I was influenced by Chinese culture and grew to enjoy their, food, culture and social interactions. Many Chinese migrants opened shops which displayed Chinese writing and symbolisms. I was fascinated by these writings and the unique symbols and would try to replicate them as a child creating secret meanings for different patterns only I understood. Not only did I practice...
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