Aims and Values in School. 2.5

Points and Values of Schools: Aims: * To endeavor to arrive at a specific objective that gives individuals a reason or intension to accomplish an ideal result. * It gives individuals/organisastions something to follow and progress in the direction of to accomplish the best result. * To endeavor the achievement of a reason; to attempt to pick up; to try and mean to progress nicely. Qualities: In request to accomplish objectives and points, one endeavors and tries to achieve certain activities, anyway such activities won't be embraced to the detriment of fundamental beliefs. Qualities offer standards and principles of conduct that individuals and associations follow. Qualities affect a person’s conduct and mentality and fill in as rules in all circumstances. * They are standards and convictions shared by individuals from a culture about what is positive or negative, alluring or unfortunate. * Values offer an ethical code to follow. How schools exhibit and maintain their points a nd qualities: Aims in schools are decided to follow rules and accomplish what the schools want to accomplish. The schools endeavor to surpass their own objectives.The points and goals of the schools are set by the Head Teacher, working intently along with, guardians, staff, the network and once in a while the offspring of the schools. In spite of the fact that schools for the most part share similar points and targets, they may contrast somewhat as schools set out there own objectives. It is significant for schools to speak with others their points and goals however much as could reasonably be expected, as this offers guardians and others the chance to increase an impression of the schools being referred to. This should be possible through school plans, school site, and open nighttimes/days.The schools can likewise show their points by creating joins with nearby networks where they work to build up the expects to improve pupil’s training and condition. Seeing one school speci fically, we can perceive how they convey and set their points, and whether they do this effectively. Points 1: To boost each child’s potential both instructively and socially: The schools point is to educate such that interests and rouses understudies and to guarantee that all students accomplish extraordinary scholastic outcomes comparative with their ability.The school grandly tests the children’s level of capacities and offers additional educational cost when required. This offers additional help on a ‘one to one’ educational cost bases. The school additionally offers the accompanying to amplify each child’s potential: * In year 6 all kids will have in their own individual guide. The guide meets the youngster on a normal week by week premise and talks about peaceful worries just as scholastic advancement. Guardians are welcome, in this manner, to liaise with the mentor, who will have a decent information and comprehension of their child’s progress. Toward the finish of each term, guardians are sent full reports, including subject remarks, just as social inclusion in the school. * Parents are likewise sent ‘marked perusing slips,’ during the term, which demonstrate accomplishment and exertion grades, along with remarks from the mentor. * Tests are done inside through the school during different occasions through the school year. This takes into account the educators to screen the pupil’s scholarly capacities. The school expresses that one of the highlights of the school ethos is that no two days are the same.They offer a wide scope of sports and exercises to improve the child’s by and large experience. They keep the youngsters occupied and offer a pleasant domain for learning. Donning achievement is positively a significant piece of life at the school being referred to, yet they additionally understand that game is tied in with giving an open door for most of the school to work in a group, a nd to give them a feeling of pride in their own exhibition. Games meetings at the school occur for all understudies each day of the week, aside from Thursdays, remembering matches for Wednesdays and Saturdays.They have confidence in ‘putting out' however many groups as could reasonably be expected on coordinate evenings to incorporate young men everything being equal. The school offers the accompanying games: cricket, sports, squash, swimming, crosscountry, hockey, polo, shooting, rugby, table tennis, and chess, tennis, football, games, golf, polo and croquet. Point 2: To guarantee that each kid is dealt with similarly paying little mind to race, sexual orientation, social foundation and unique needs: Promoting equivalent open doors is principal to the points and ethos of the school. They invite applications from competitors all things considered and backgrounds.The school accepts this improves the network and is imperative in setting up the understudies for today’s wor ld. They focus firmly on instructing the individual, giving an agreeable and inviting air where every individual feels esteemed. The school is resolved to rise to treatment for all, paying little mind to an individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, sexual direction, inability, learning trouble, self-perception or social foundation. We accept that the instructive experience must be enhanced if kids are presented to as wide a scope of social encounters as conceivable while they are developing.Scholarships and bursaries might be offered so as to make it workable for whatever number as could be expected under the circumstances who meet the school’s affirmation rules to go to the school. The Headmaster, senior supervisory group and staff assume a functioning job in observing the schools approaches on equivalent chances. Inside their classes, congregations, and sports they advance the accompanying: * Interact with all youngsters, and urge them to fill in as a group. * Toleranc e of one another and regard for each other’s position inside the school network. * Positive pictures and good examples to maintain a strategic distance from bias and bring issues to light of related issues. Cultivate a liberal approach and urge students to perceive the commitments made by various societies. Inclination ought to be perceived. * Understand why and how we will manage hostile language and conduct. * Understand why we will manage any occurrences quickly and in a touchy way. * The school additionally offers additional English for kids who are battling with the language. A fruitful equivalent open doors strategy requires solid and positive help from parent and watchmen, and full acknowledgment of the school’s ethos of resistance and respect.Aim 3: To work in organization with parent to energize inspirational mentalities towards learning: A child’s home life has such an incredible impact on children’s adapting particularly in early years. It is s ignificant for guardians to get included and pay an unmistakable fascination for the advancement of their youngster in school. The youngster gets aptitudes, information and scholarly incitement yet they likewise assimilate an inspirational demeanor towards learning and consolation outside of school. At home guardians can give increasingly coordinated attention.At the school being talked about, they offer the accompanying to urge families to look into their child’s movement: * Formal gatherings for guardians to examine their child’s progress with singular subject instructors are held two times per year. The school likewise offers guardians the opportunity to go to casual gatherings whenever of the year to talk about their interests with their youngster progress. * Follow a schoolwork strategy: as the school alongside the Department for Education accepts that, ‘Well sorted out schoolwork can assume a fundamental job in increasing expectations of accomplishment. * T he school accepts that schoolwork gives the accompanying to the child’s achievement: It brings up children’s accomplishment. It solidifies and broadens the work they have done in school. It assists with educating guardians about their child’s homework and permits guardians the chance to help their work. It is an important fundamental ability and grows great work propensities for optional school and future business. Point 4: To guarantee a sheltered and secure school network: Child Protection is consistently a top need at the school in question.They perceive that it is its goal and obligation to shield from hurt, and effectively advance the government assistance of every individual youngster. * Their center is of positive government assistance results for the schools youngsters and after diminishing any dangers to the kids while they are at school. * Their essential point is to guarantee that they make an environment in the school where all kids have a sense of s afety and esteemed. All government assistance arrangement is coordinated towards this objective, regardless of whether the arrangement involves individuals, premises, strategies or practices. Their strategies and practices adhere to the National Minimum Boarding Standards and are educated by the Berkshire Local Safeguarding Children Boards Child Protection Procedures. * The school expresses that there is a bad situation for maltreatment of any sort in their locale and they will do all in their capacity to forestall any episodes of physical, passionate or sexual maltreatment at the school. The school itself perceives that all staff have a full and dynamic part to play in shielding the understudies from hurt, and that the child’s government assistance is of fundamental concern.Staff at the school are reminded that the accompanying things must be dodged consistently: * Corporal discipline, having top choices, embarrassment and discipline outside of the schools disciplinary frame work. * Inviting individual young men into a staff room. Staff must regard security and private space, especially in restrooms, changing rooms and showers. They are reminded to regulate and not watch. The school obviously expresses that all staff get the applicable preparing in youngster insurance and interagency working which must be refreshed at regular intervals. All staff are given with Visa measured key focuses for youngster insurance. All staff who are named to a situation in the school are dependent upon enrollment checks in accordance with DCSF Standard 4 and governors to DCSF Standard 4B, just as in accordance with National Minimum Boarding Standard 14. * Risk evaluations are done all through the school to guarantee that all situations are sheltered. *

Life without IT

Father, you generally state, â€Å"Ah†¦back then when I was a lil' boy†¦there were no PCs, mobile phones or computer games. Tsk! You youthful fellows have all of them now, eh? We kids in those days needed to send letters, needed to tune in for our moms' call to eat, and we were fit and in great shape! Humph! You simply don't have a clue how much fun you are missin'†¦Ã¢â‚¬  My, my, here we go once more. What did I say about those â€Å"when I was a lil' boy† stories! Please father! You're so old school! Genuinely father, in what capacity can you live without data innovation? Presently it's viewed as a fundamental need to have messages and sites, and have the option to call, content and access anybody and anything consistently. Envision how urgent you would be on the off chance that you intentionally went out with no advances within reach. Only for one great day†¦I wager you'll presumably weep for help. Alright, OK. That may be bit of overstating, yet at the same time, you'll be edgy; trust me. PCs, PDAs (well, also computer games) supplanted life as we was already aware it. Is there any turning around? No chance! They've just guaranteed the whole age. Going back to the 1450s, for what reason did Johann Gutenburg concoct the mobile metal printing process? All things considered, to begin the Printing Evolution and make printing books a hit! For what reason did Alexander Graham Bell develop the phone? Clearly, to make it a lot simpler for us to speak with one another over significant distances! The entirety of the innovations we see and use today are critical to us. Without them, I realize that our lives would be less difficult however shouldn't something be said about â€Å"One little advance for man, one monster jump for mankind†? Father, I'm doing whatever it takes not to condemn for imagining that your adolescence or at all is the best. I concur that life can likewise be heavenly if there were no cutting edge innovations. However, since we live in the â€Å"Information Age†, data innovation has become a piece of our regular daily existences, and we should concede that it truly improves our nature of living. We should live our lives with data innovation and acknowledge new things or we'll be stone age men. So father, how would you like your I-Pad I purchased for you? Cool, eh? Could it be any more obvious? I let you know so; you can't overlook and oppose the new age of I.T.!

Maybe Im Amazed

Maybe I’m Amazed DID YOU KNOW? All the giant robot fighting clips in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are really just clips from some unrelated Japanese show. The reason that they keep changing to Power Rangers: Zeo or Power Rangers: Light Speed Rescue or whatever is because they run out of clips from one season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show with new giant robots fighting. Wow, its been a while! Wow, Ive been saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent memory. Anyway, I learned in high school that excuses are like dirty underwear: we all have them and they all stink, and also you can use them again if you turn them inside out. But the point is: no excuses. So Ill just apologize for being derelict in my blogging over the past few months and get right down to business. Whats happened since you last heard from your hero? Well, lots! I took 10.391: Sustainable Energy and learned that were all doomed! DOOMED. I was admitted to four graduate schools. I delivered something like 8 or 9 Valentines Day band-o-grams on the slushiest day of the past decade. I helped teach Susan Hockfield how to play Wii Tennis. But by far the most awesome thing I did since the year 2007 began was almost auditioning for The Amazing Race 12. Oh man, I just checked that site and saw that JVJ got eliminated first on The Amazing Race: All Stars! Okay, now Im definitely not watching. Unfortunately, even after a year and a half of blogging, I still dont qualify as an star, so I was stuck going to auditions for the star-free season 12. My local CBS affiliate, WHP-CBS, was holding auditions at the Harrisburg East Mall, which is like 5 minutes away from my house unless youre driving a car that Im navigating, in which case it takes like 20 minutes. But The Amazing Race has always been my absolute favorite reality show, and it was one of only two shows that I could make time to watch during my first two years at MIT. So, really, how could I resist? I called up my beloved high school friend Shanasince she spent an entire semester of her undergraduate studies in Cameroon learning how to be a global citizen, I figured that something like eating live octopus in South Korea or caber tossing in the Scottish highlands would be absolutely no problem for her. Our first step was filling out the application, which in and of itself was pretty awesome. The first question was like, How did you meet your partner? I was kind of stuck at that, but Shana instantly replied, In a spelling bee! referring to our showdown in the final rounds of the 5th grade spelling bee at Herbert Hoover Elementary School. So we went with that. According to Shana, the most difficult moment in our relationship was the outcome of that spelling bee, although I dont think we actually spoke again for like another two years. Although maybe thats why! But we knew that Former Spelling Bee Winner and Runner-Up wouldnt sound that impressive among a field of contestants that has included Friends/Professional Circus Clowns, Beauty Queen/Former POW and Dating 12 Years/Virgins. We decided to call ourselves the really judgmental team, and listed some of our hobbies as bickering like old Jewish yentls and making fun of other people on camera. I mean, what better way to get on a reality show? However, Sams Mom convinced us that this would probably be a bad idea, so instead we just decided to be college graduates who needed the money to pay back all of our student loans. Although, really, thanks to MITs generous need-based financial aid, I really dont have as much to pay back as youd expect. My favorite two questions on the survey were probably What famous personality do you remind yourself of? and What famous personality does your partner remind you of? Shana put down Madonna (sanctimonious, but ultimately good at heart) and Benjamin Franklin (also, he invented bifocals), while I wrote down Ian McKellen (flamboyant but totally bad-ass) and Patti Smith (except without the heroin addiction). I mean, seriously, how could you deny a team composed of Patti Smith/Madonna and Ian McKellen/Benjamin Franklin? So the auditions started at 10 AM, but Shana had some things to do that morning with her sister before she headed back to college in Baltimore. I value family togetherness more than one million dollars, so we decided not to get there until around 11 AM. Anyway, Sams Mom probably wouldnt have let us get there at 5 AM (Sam, people get shot in that parking lot.), so I really had no qualms about the fact that we didnt show up until around 11:20. As we were walking in to the mall, we noticed two people walking out with matching purple custom-made American Apparel t-shirts that had their names on them and a crest proudly stating, WINNERS OF THE AMAZING RACE 2007. So, you know, even these people did not get into the three-minute-long audition room until a full hour after auditions started. That should have been our first clue, really. So the Harrisburg East Mall is not even the main mall in Harrisburg, PAnobody really goes there anymore except to the Bass Pro Shop, the Chick-Fil-A closed down, and, as Sams Mom noted, people get shot in the parking lot. So I wasnt expecting people to come out to this little podunk mall from farther than, say, York. Or maybe, well, Scranton. When we got into the mall, we noticed that, quite in contrast to the usual patronage, there was now a massive line spanning the entire length of the mall and also going through some stores. Hmm. So we walked the entire length of the mall and settled back into what must have been the 787th and 788th places in line. Since my mutant power is eavesdropping on conversations, I noticed that most of the discussion back in this part of the line was confined to Hmm, I wonder how many people are in line? and If it takes 3 minutes to do an audition, they will probably get done with 15 teams of 2 per hour. and That means it will take them 8 hours to get to us. and I wonder if theyll be staying longer than 3 PM to accommodate everyone. Upon closer listening, I found that the people behind us were from State College, and they were trying to get here 3 hours ago, but they got lost. The people behind them had a similar experience, except they were from Cleveland, Ohio and drove all night to get here in time. So I think about 15 minutes later Shana and I decided that this just wasnt going to work out this time, but we resolved to stay for about an hour for the sake of staying the course, by which we really meant so we could watch funny people. And, oh, did we get an opportunity for that. I counted at least two dozen tie-dye shirts (seriously, people, there was already a Rupert), and about 30 minutes after we walked in another group entered wearing full Native American tribal regalia. I can only hope that they didnt drive around for 6 hours in that. We saw girls who had a really cute audition video ready try to bribe their way to the front of the line, and scores of bored-looking security guards and disgruntled Payless Shoe Store workers. But probably our favorite group was the team directly in front of us, who were carrying two large picture frames that they kept, very secretively, face-to-face so that no other team could see what was inside. Shana and I spent the whole 80 minutes we were in line guessing as to what could possibly be in the framespictures of their dead grandparents? Portraits of Phil Keoghan they had drawn themselves? The first dollars they ever earned? Finally, when we abandoned our amazing dreams (we reached an athletic shoe store called Finish Line and took it as a message from some higher power) Shana decided to ask exactly what prop they had brought with them, Well, one of them clarified as his girlfriend walked up and put her arm around him, were from Schenectady, New York and we majored in geography in college, so we brought our degrees with us, because what will they ever be good for except for The Amazing Race?! Ha ha ha! Wait, youre leaving. We just responded, Yeah, we live 5 minutes from h ere. Good luck! Bye. And really, I dont feel bad about leaving, because if anyone who auditioned in Harrisburg should get in, it should be the two geography majors from upstate New York who drove five hours to get there and then waited 8 hours despite a 600-person long line, especially because one of them was asian and theres really not enough diversity on reality television. Theyre pretty much better candidates than I am in every conceivable way. So if you see a half-Asian team of geography majors on The Amazing Race 12, youll know where they came from! Still, Shana and I didnt come out of the experience without an important life lesson. And that lesson was, Lots of crazy people want to be on TV, so probably every person you see on Survivor or The Amazing Race majorly changed their life around for at least 2 days just so they could get an audition. And that will just make me like The Amazing Race even more.

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Impact of E-Commerce to Malaysian Economy - 854 Words

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While consumers will gain access to a broad-based selection of lower priced goods, producers are likely to see higher demand for their products.Furthermore, in th e Internet age, people and firms will be connected with highly capable interactive capacity. Through the information highway, consumers will have free market choices, and firms will have almost unrestricted market access. This offers opportunities as well as poses threats to businesses. The impact of e-commerce can be traced at the industry and consumer levels. It can also be traced at the macroeconomy level. It is however important to note that the full impact of e-commerce on an economy depends on several factors such as the rate at which the economy adopts e-commerce.At the industry level, e-commerce will result in some rationalization of activities. Firms will need to undertake investment in an appropriate computer system to implement e-commerce. They will undertake new activities which are knowledge-intensive. Through the adoption of e-commerce, firms will demand for a new kind of workforce, particularly those with a higher level of computer literacy. This new demand will have an immediate and far-reaching implication on the provision of training in the country. Firms will be pre-occupied with technology selection and investment. This task is quiteShow MoreRelatedMarket Pressure1912 Words   |  8 Pagesfrom global economy and strong competition, the changing nature of the workforce and powerful customer’ (Turban, E. et al 2007, pg 33). I. Global economy and strong competition (a) Global economy ‘refers to an integrated world economy with unrestricted and free movement of goods, services, and labour transnationally’ (Economywatch, 2011). 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Accounting Information System Statistical and Finance

Question: Describe about the Accounting Information System for Statistical and Finance. Answer: Accounting Information System Accounting information system (AIS) is basically a subset of Management Information System (MIS). It is used for providing accurate financial and statistical information in a timely manner to managerial parties in order to assist them in the process of decision making. In present era use of AIS is not restricted to the financial field as it is also assisting manufacturing entities. The present study is focused on role and significance of AIS in manufacturing organisations. Role of AIS in the value chain of manufacturing organisation The major objective of manufacturing entities is to provide valuable products to their customers who are free from defects. These business entities are considered to be profitable if value creates by it higher than the cost of production (Reuter, Brambring Hempel, 2016). AIS adds value to manufacturing entities by providing accurate information in a timely manner by which five major value chain activities can be done in an effective manner. Timely information assists in sound decision making by which quality is improved and cost of production is reduced. Three major functions of AIS in manufacturing entity is as follows: Effective and efficient processing of data regarding transactions of company Provide information of managerial parties for making useful decisions through financial statements and managerial reports (Singh, 2013). To develop appropriate internal control by assuring that information is reliable, is in safe hand and able to satisfy objectives of management. AIS is able to provide inventory status, performance reports and budgets through which manufacturing activities can be effectively managed. Value is business is provided by performing a series of activities referred in the value chain. These activities are inclusive of primary as well as supportive activities (Prasad Green, 2015). Information technology has a significant impact on effectiveness and efficiency of preceding activities. It is because, value chain of manufacturing entity is directly connected to stakeholders such as distributors, suppliers and customers. Figure 1: Role of AIS in the value chain of manufacturing organisation (Source: Singh, 2013) Use of AIS in decision-making in a contemporary manufacturing organisation On the basis of above description, it can be said that there is the crucial role of AIS in manufacturing entities. Study of Christ Burritt (2015) shows that manufacturing enterprises are required to make strategies decision that have long-term impact on business. AIS assists in making valid and viable decisions by providing timely and accurate information in following forms Financial and economic forecasting: For future planning of business forecasting is required to be done by manufacturing enterprises. For this aspect, they are required to make predictions based on existing market conditions (Reuter, Brambring Hempel, 2016). Thus, for financial and economic forecasting appropriate information is required. In a situation where information is reliable, they businesses have to face heavy losses. In this aspect, AIS ensures that right information is available at the right time to the right person. Planning of funds: Huge funding is required by manufacturing entities for their daily operational activities. For this aspect, they are required to make the decision to obtain funds for a viable source to minimise In this aspect, AIS provide information regarding available options of financial sources and assist in making a comparative analysis of the same. Preparation of budgets: Budgets are prepared to plan the use of available sources in order to generate maximum profits. Accounting information system provides information for preparing this budgets on the basis of which strategies decision can be taken for making optimum utilisation of available resources. The decision regarding capital budgeting: Manufacturing concerns have various options for investments, but they are required to select a most optimum plan in order to strengthen the financial position of business (Christ Burritt, 2015). For this purpose, they are required to do a comparative analysis of available options which can be done by AIS effectively. AIS comprises inbuilt tools that assist in implementing investment appraisal techniques for high profits. Competitive advantage of using value chain in manufacturing organisation The value chain is influenced by porters concept that is directly connected to competitive advantages for business entities (Reuter, Brambring Hempel, 2016). Manufacturing entities are required to make decisions which have a direct impact on their competitive position in the market. In accordance with the Porter, value chain analysis can be used to develop effective strategies in order to attain competitive advantage. Figure 2: Porter's Generic value chain (Source: Strategic management, 2010) The objective of value chain activities is to offer the customer value that exceeds its cost in order to provide them benefit. These activities provide mainly two competitive advantages which are enumerated as below: Cost advantage: Manufacturing entity can attain cost advantage by making a reduction in the cost of individual activities or by it reconfiguration (Kaplan Atkinson, 2015). For this aspect, management of business organisations can conduct a cost analysis to the value chain activities. Cost advantage can be attained by controlling following drivers: Learning Geographical location Optimum utilisation of capacity Timing of market entry Institutional factors Policy for cost differentiation Timing Vertical integration Interrelationships and linkage among various activities Further, structural modifications can be made in the value chain to attain competitive advantage as it will improve the production process and develop new distribution channels. Differentiation: Benefit of differentiation can be attained through any part of value chain activity. For example procurement of inputs which are not utilised by competitors can be used for forming differentiation (Christ Burritt, 2015). It can develop distribution channels that will offer a high level of services. This approach will attract new customers and retain existing one. On the basis of the present study, the conclusion can be drawn that there is the significant role of AIS in manufacturing entities. AIS provides valuable information through which effective decisions can be made for the betterment of the business. It improves performance through implementing low-cost strategy and product differentiation strategy. It develops a better strategic position to generate synergy and growth. References Books and Journals Christ, K. L., Burritt, R. L. (2015). Material flow cost accounting: a review and agenda for future research. Journal of Cleaner Production, 108, 1378-1389. Kaplan, R. S., Atkinson, A. A. (2015). Advanced management accounting. PHI Learning. Reuter, C., Brambring, F., Hempel, T. (2016). Approach of information provision for high resolution production control. Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, 2016. Prasad, A., Green, P. (2015). Organizational competencies and dynamic accounting information system capability: impact on AIS processes and firm performance. Journal of Information Systems, 29(3), 123-149. Online Strategic management. (2010). The value chain. [Online]. Available through https://www.netmba.com/strategy/value-chain/. [Accessed on 23rd November 2016]. Singh, V., (2013). Accounting information system. [Online]. Available through https://www.slideshare.net/wiweck/accounting-information-system-18527651. [Accessed on 23rd November 2016].

The Good Earth Essays (1612 words) - The Good Earth, O-Lan

The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, is a tale of a farmer who rises from a commoner to a wealthy land owner. The setting is pre-Revolutionary China, sometime in the 20th century. The story is one of a farmer who becomes a wealthy man through hard work while facing droughts and floods. He becomes very rich, but forgets his true love, the earth, which got him to where he was. The mood of the story is serious. Droughts and floods affect the outcome of crops, which in turn, affect the people who need them to survive. As the story progresses, the mood changes to become more light hearted and careless. It is typical of today's society of how the main character becomes rich and then forgets what it was like to be on the other side. He spends money carelessly and neglects to remember how his life was just a few months before. The main element of the story is definitely character. We look through the eyes of the main character and see how he, as a person, grows and matures.There are many characters in the story. The first is Wang Lung, a farmer and the main character of the story. The author tells the story through his view of life. We see Wang Lung at the beginning of the story as a young man, full of energy and love for his land. He has been raised on the land he now farms and takes great pride in maintaining it. Later in the story, he becomes a rich man, and forgets his land, "One's flesh and blood." As he finds out that money is not everything and cannot by happiness, he realizes his fault and returns to the earth. O-lan is Wang Lung's wife in the story. She was a slave girl raised in the great House of Hwang. Wang Lung buys her from the house, but he sees that "there is no beauty of any kind in her face." But Wang Lung cannot afford a beautiful wife, for he is only a farmer. O-lan is a strong, but quite character. She bears hardships as they come and gives Wang Lung four children. Wang Lung seems to care for her, but she in return shows very little emotion. She is a hard character to reach and only before she dies, do we see the real side of O-lan. The next main character is Lotus, a prostitute living at the tea shop in town. During the story, Wang Lung becomes ashamed of his plain wife. He ventures into the tea shop in town and pays for a prostitute, Lotus. She excites him and "kept him fevered and thirsty, even if she gave him his will of her." Wang Lung falls in love with this woman and buys her to live in his house. She is a woman of delicacy and elegance, the complete opposite of O-lan, who she comes to dislike. The two live in opposite parts of the house, which keeps them happy. Lotus is another character who is blocked out from the reader. We only know that she is a material person, asking for jewels and expensive clothes and food from Wang Lung. There are many other characters who play fairly large, but not main parts in the story. Wang Lung has four children, three boys and a girl. The two oldest boys become rivals later in the story and offer Wang Lung "no peace" in his old age. The girl, who he affectionately calls "the fool," does not speak, but with her empty smile and sweet gaze fills Wang Lung with intense love and sadness. Wang Lung also lives with his father, who in his old age, sits in the sun most of the day only calling out to be fed. The story begins on Wang Lung's wedding day. He heads to the House of Hwang where he buys his wife, O-lan, from the Old Mistress there. He finds his wife plain, but a good worker and a strong-willed person. She works beside him on his land, harvesting the grain to sell. It is not long before she bears his first child, a son. But after birth, she returns to the fields to finish with the day's work. This shocked me and gave me an idea of how strong a person she really was. Year after year, O-lan and Wang Lung worked the fields, saving the extra money for whenever they needed it. O-lan bore three more kids, two sons and a

Battle of Molino del Rey in the Mexican-American War

Battle of Molino del Rey in the Mexican-American War The Battle of Molino del Rey was fought September 8, 1847, during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). Having advanced inland from Veracruz and won several victories, Major General Winfield Scotts American army approached Mexico City. Learning of Mexican forces in a mill complex known as the Molino del Rey, Scott ordered an attack to capture the facilities as intelligence suggested they were being used to cast cannon. Moving forward, troops led by  Major General William J. Worth assaulted the Molino del Rey and the nearby Casa de Mata. In the resulting fighting, both positions were captured, but American losses proved high. A somewhat Pyrrhic victory for Scott, no evidence was found that cannon were being manufactured in the facility. Background Though Major General Zachary Taylor had won a series of victories at Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, and Monterrey, President James K. Polk elected to shift the focus of American efforts from northern Mexico to a campaign against Mexico City. Though this was largely due to Polks concerns about Taylors political ambitions, it was also supported by reports that an advance against the enemy capital from the north would be exceptionally difficult. As a result, a new army was created under Major General Winfield Scott and ordered to capture the key port city of Veracruz. Landing on March 9, 1847, Scotts men moved against the city and captured it after a twenty-day siege. Building a major base at Veracruz, Scott began making preparations to advance inland before yellow fever season arrived. Moving inland, Scott routed the Mexicans, led by General Antonio Là ³pez de Santa Anna, at Cerro Gordo the following month. Driving towards Mexico City, he won battles at Contreras and Churubusco in August 1847. Nearing the gates of the city, Scott entered into a truce with Santa Anna in the hopes of ending the war. The subsequent negotiations proved futile and the truce was marred by numerous violations on the part of the Mexicans. Ending the truce in early September, Scott began making preparations for assaulting Mexico City. As this work moved forward, he received word on September 7 that a large Mexican force had occupied the Molino del Rey. The Kings Mill Located southwest of Mexico City, the Molino del Rey (Kings Mill) consisted of a series stone buildings that once had housed flour and gunpowder mills. To the northeast, through some woods, the castle of Chapultepec towered over the area while to the west stood the fortified position of Casa de Mata. Scotts intelligence reports also suggested that the Molino was being used to cast cannon from church bells sent down from the city. As the bulk of his army would not be ready to assault Mexico City for several days, Scott determined to conduct a minor action against the Molino in the meantime. For the operation, he selected Major General William J. Worths division which was located at nearby Tacubaya. Plans Aware of Scotts intentions, Santa Anna ordered five brigades, supported by artillery, to defend the Molino and Casa de Mata. These were overseen by Brigadier Generals Antonio Leon and Francisco Perez. To the west, he stationed around 4,000 cavalry under General Juan Alvarez with the hope of striking the American flank. Forming his men before dawn on September 8, Worth intended to spearhead his attack with a 500-man storming party led by Major George Wright. In the center of his line, Worth placed Colonel James Duncans battery with orders to reduce the Molino and eliminate the enemy artillery. To the right, Brigadier General John Garlands brigade, supported by Hugers Battery, had orders to block potential reinforcements from Chapultepec before striking the Molino from the east. Brigadier General Newman Clarkes brigade (temporarily led by Lieutenant Colonel James S. McIntosh) was directed to move west and assault the Casa de Mata. Armies Commanders United States Major General Winfield ScottMajor General William J. Worth3,500 men Mexico Brigadier General Antonio LeonBrigadier General Francisco Perezapprox. 14,000 men in the area The Attack Begins As the infantry moved forward, a force of 270 dragoons, led by Major Edwin V. Sumner, screened the American left flank. To aid in operation, Scott assigned Brigadier General George Cadwalladers brigade to Worth as a reserve. At 3:00 AM, Worths division began advancing guided by scouts James Mason and James Duncan. Though the Mexican position was strong, it was undermined by the fact that Santa Anna had not placed anyone in overall command of its defense. As American artillery pounded the Molino, Wrights party charged forward. Attacking under heavy fire, they succeeded in overrunning the enemy lines outside the Molino. Turning the Mexican artillery on the defenders, they soon came under heavy counterattacks as the enemy realized that the American force was small (Map). A Bloody Victory In the resulting fighting, the storming party lost eleven of fourteen officers, including Wright. With this thrust faltering, Garlands brigade swept in from the east. In bitter fighting they managed to drive off the Mexicans and secure the Molino. Haven taken this objective, Worth ordered his artillery to shift their fire to the Casa de Mata and directed McIntosh to attack. Advancing, McIntosh quickly found that the Casa was a stone fortress and not an earthen fort as originally believed. Surrounding the Mexican position, the Americans attacked and were repulsed. Briefly withdrawing, the Americans witnessed Mexican troops sortie from the Casa and kill nearby wounded soldiers. With the battle at the Casa de Mata progressing, Worth was alerted to Alvarezs presence to across a ravine to the west. Fire from Duncans guns kept the Mexican cavalry at bay and Sumners small force crossed the ravine to provide further protection. Though artillery fire was slowly reducing the Casa de Mata, Worth directed McIntosh to attack again. In the resulting assault, McIntosh was killed as was his replacement. A third brigade commander was severely wounded. Again falling back, the Americans allowed Duncans guns to do their work and the garrison abandoned the post a short time later. With the Mexican retreat, the battle ended. Aftermath Though it lasted only two hours, the Battle of Molino del Rey proved one of the bloodiest of the conflict. American casualties numbered 116 killed and 671 wounded, including several senior officers. Mexican losses totaled 269 killed as well as approximately 500 wounded and 852 captured. In the wake of the battle, no evidence was found that the Molino del Rey was being used as a cannon foundry. Though Scott ultimately gained little from the Battle of Molino del Rey, it did serve as another blow to the already low Mexican morale. Forming his army over the coming days, Scott attacked Mexico City on September 13. Winning the Battle of Chapultepec, he captured the city and effectively won the war.

The Changing Role of Women In Society Today Essay

The Changing Role of Women In Society Today - Essay Example The days when the woman stayed at home and depended on their husbands for household and family responsibilities are being replaced by the scenario where the modern woman has become an equal if not a better contributor in these and other roles that were deemed to belong to men in the past. The advance of education has made women become enlightened and visionary, thus discovering their potential and importance in society. Education has revolutionized women from the notion of only being involved in domestic chores to join their male counterparts in becoming doctors, engineers, Presidents and Prime ministers, mathematicians, economists, teachers, winners of educational and other awards among many other fields. Roles that were branded as only being suited for males like serving in the army, the building industry, the space program and others are seeing the inclusion of women who are handling them with a lot of capability. The past saw women who pursued a career or an education as strange or whose ability to raise up children was hampered, or it was assumed that her husband was not able to provide adequately for his household. This has changed dramatically as women have taken opportunities available to them. Today’s woman has become powerful, independent, competitive , strong and respected in society, and their contribution in society has been immense (Colombo, Cullen, and Lisle, 521). The running of households which was under the control of the husband is now a shared responsibility because the wife’s new status enables her to make a contribution both intelligently and financially, improving the running of the home in this regard. Each of the partners is able to positively impact on raising up children in an enlightened environment, guiding them in their career paths in a world where knowledge is increasingly becoming power.

CRJS478DB3 Research Paper Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 250 words

CRJS478DB3 - Research Paper Example DNA appears in two stands of polymers, made of simple units known as nucleotides, with X and Y genes (Lazer, 2004). The replication of DNA leads to production of a pair of identical replicas from the mother molecule. This continuous process takes place in all living organisms, and as such, ensures biological inheritance. DNA relates to the genes and chromosomes in such as way that it holds all the information in chromosomes necessary in encoding genes. Chromosomes appear in cells and contain genetic information usually passed down through a given lineage. A gene is a DNA sequence that determines particular traits in these living organisms. The most important usage of DNA tests and analysis is DNA profiling, which entails identification of individuals using the profile of their respective DNAs. Forensic scientists can make use of these profiles in identifying victims of a fire or blast burnt beyond physical recognition, or identifying criminals at a crime scene (Vaughan,

Contemporary issues on NHS

Contemporary issues on NHS A policy is typically defined as a principle or rule to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. It is not used normally what is actually done, it is normally referred to as either procedure or protocol. A policy will contain what and the why procedures. A policy can be considered as a statement of intent. Policy may apply to generalized private sector organization and groups and individuals. In another way policy can be defined as a collection of different ideas and methods which is used for the improvement in any field including health care and the other hand, health policy is a practical device or advantageous procedure and positive course of action. Social Policy is a subject area, not a discipline; it borrows from other social science disciplines in order to develop study in the area. The contributory disciplines include sociology, social work, psychology, economics, political science, management, history, philosophy and law. The name social policy is used to apply 1) that policies which are used by the government use for welfare and social protection, 2) to the ways in which welfare is developed in a society and to the academic study of the subject. In the first sense, social policy is particularly concerned with social services and the welfare state. Improvements to social policy are a key element of development and the achievement of human rights. Many social policies are addressed by the third committee of the UN general assembly. Health policy can be defined as the decision, plans and action that are undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within the society. According to the World Health Organization, health policy can achieve several things. It defines the vision of the future. We can define the different categories of the health policies, eg pharmaceutical policy, public health and personal health care policy, tobacco control policy. Before 1990 there was a good collaboration of health and social care policy. Contemporary issues on NHS National Health Services is the United Kingdom health services organization. The short form of National Health Services is NHS. It was stabilised in 1948. It was grown the worlds largest publicly funded services. It is also known as a most efficient, most comprehensive and egalitarian. In the Second World War and difficult scenario NHS was established. The principle of NHS always remains in the core. It was born for good health care and should be available to all. The NHS is the free services for anyone who is resident of the United Kingdom. The NHS only charges some prescription and optical and dental services. NHS is giving the free services more than 60 million people. It covers everything such as antenatal screening routine treatment for coughs and colds to open heart surgery, accident and emergency treatment and it also covers the end of life care. Mainly it is funded from taxation. In United Kingdom they have separate management in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; in many respects they are similar. Despite their separate management and funding there is no any discrimination when a resident of one country of the United Kingdom requires treatment in another although a patient will often be returned to their home area when they are fit to be removed? It is the huge organization. In this organization have more than 1.7 million employees and half of them are clinically qualified, including 120000 hospitals doctors 400000 nurses 40000 GPs practises and 25000 ambulance staff. The NHS of the England is the biggest part of the system It is caring more than 51 million people and employing 1.3 million people. The number of patients using the NHS is large. Every 36 hours it is dealing a million in the England, in Scotland 463 in minute and more than 700000 people will visit on NHS dentist and 3000 heart operation, here are 10000 GPs in nationwide. Each GPs look more than 140 patient in a week. NHS is spending big amount of money. When the NHS established the starting budget of the NHS is 9 billion and now the budget of the NHS is 100 billion in year which is increasing by 4% every year. It is spending 60% of the budget to pay the staff, and 20% for the drug suppliers and remaining 20% is spending for the equipment and training costs. 80% of the total cost is distributed by the local trusts. HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE BILL: TO REFORM THE NHS FROM WHITE PAPER LIBERATING THE NHS We know that the health is wealth. In any country of the world health is the backbone of the country and the main important is government funded health organization. If any policy is taken related to the health it affects the outcomes of the services. In the United Kingdom NHS is only one and which cover the almost 100% of the services. Now the government took a new policy for NHS Which is liberating the NHS. The Health and Social Care Bill was introduced into Parliament on 19 January 2011. The Bill is a crucial part of the Governments vision to modernise the NHS so that it is built around patients, led by health professionals and focused on delivering world-class healthcare outcomes. The Bill takes forward the areas of Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (July 2010) and the subsequent Government response Liberating the NHS: legislative framework and next steps (December 2010), which require primary legislation. It also includes provision to strengthen public health services and reform the Departments arms length bodies. The Bill on health and social care 2011 contains provisions covering five themes: It is strengthening commissioning of NHS services It is increasing public voice and democratic accountability. liberating provision of NHS services strengthening public health services Reforming health and care arms-length bodies. Structure of NHS Department of health Strategic health authorities Primary care trusts GPs Dentists Hospitals Patients The Department of Health (DH) is in overall charge of the NHS with cabinet minister reporting as secretary of state for health to the minister. The 10 Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) are under the department of health which oversee all activities of NHS IN England. The strategic supervision of NHS is controlled by each SHA in its area. The NHS services of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland runs separately by the developed administrations. Primary care trusts are divided into primary care and secondary care. Primary care is the front line services. GPs, Dentists are primary care where people contacts first time. Secondary care can be defined as a acute health care and can be either elective or emergency care. Primary care is the centre of the NHS and they cover and control 80% of the NHS budget. These are the local organizations so they know the needs of community and they can make sure the organizations providing health and social care services are working effectively. The PCTs oversee 1800 NHS dentist and 29000 GP. Here are 175 acute NHS trusts and 60 mental health trusts which control the 1600 NHS hospitals and specialists care centres.NHS ambulance trusts provides the emergency ambulance services, in UK there are 11 ambulance trusts. The NHS structure shown below which will be happened after reforming, Independent board 250 + GP consortiums GPs Dentist specialist service Hospitals, community services, mental unit intensive core Patients After reforming the NHS structure there would be the change in the management not in the whole system of the NHS, but changing the management system it directly affect the top to bottom shake of the NHS. which will directly affect the model of care of the NHS. Reasons of reforming the NHS NHS is the great national institution. The main principle of the NHS when it was founded is free at the point of use and available to every one based on need and it is not focused for ability to pay. Most of us believe it can be so much better for both the patient and professionals. So that the government took the bold vision for the NHS future, which is equity and excellence. According to the different surveys and analysis NHS of the United Kingdom is world class. It is giving the facility without cost and it is also employing more than 1.6 million people which mean it is giving a good services. According to the Health secretary Andrew Lansley says that NHS is the world class in some respects but it is not good enough in some areas eg ; rate of mortality, United Kingdom is the 2nd largest mortality rate among the 24 richest country in the world and rates of mortality for some respiratory diseases and the stroke has been the worst in the developed world. Now the NHS has too much bure aucracy, after reforming NHS would be more accountable to the patients and all the staff will free from excessive bureaucracy. In the structure of the NHS there are 10 strategic health authorities, 175 NHS trusts and 60 mental health trusts. After reforming It will increases spending on real terms of the health not in managing. Department of the health says NHS has further to go on managing care more effectively and international evidence prove it. The changes of NHS are The main changes are fundamental changes to structure and the operation which changes the social economic and managerial changes. The main structure of changes is a Englands 175 or so primary care trusts will be wound up in 2013 and their work, commissioning healthcare will pass to groups of GPs called general practise commissioning consortiums (GPCCs). Every GPCCs which will have existing practises will have own budget. The constriums will collect the  £ 80 billion from the total budget of NHS and GPCCs are agreed to contacts with hospital and other. More than 200 GPCCs have been set up. The outcomes or changes will be taken by keeping the patient on the heart of the NHS. The patients will have more choices and control by the easy access of the GPs and hospitals. Patient will have the right of decision making about their treatment and care. It will be focused in clinical outcomes. Success will be measured by the bureaucratic process targets, but the against results that really mat ter to patients such as improving cancer and stroke survival rates. The capacity will be increases or will empower the professionals. Doctor and nurse will have right of professional judgement about the patient treatment. This thing will be supported by controlling the front line staff. If patient want they will have the access information, they can make choices. Patient will have the right of choosing the GP practise, consultant led-team and any provider. Hospitals will require to open their mistake, if something wrong patient must know it. The patient voice will strengthen by local authorities. The targets will be removed with no clinical justification. The quality standard of NICE will inform the commissioning of all NHS care and payment system. The drug companies will be paid by the value of their new medicines, follow of money will be transparent, comprehensive and stable payment system across the NHS to promote high quality care, drive efficiency and support patient choices. T he service provider will get the money according to their services performance, payment should reflect outcome not just activity and provider an incentive for better quality. The NHS fundamental structure is controlled by the department of health, after reforming there would be one independent and accountable NHS commissioning board, and NHS will be the under control of this commissioning board. This board will allocate the NHS resources lead on the achievement of health outcomes. This board will promote and improves the patient involvement and choices. Another duty of this board will promotes equality and tackle inequalities. Day by day the minister power will be limited for the decision of NHS. The changes will be shaking top to bottom of NHS structure. Benefits of NHS reforms It is the big institution of health. After reforming there should be some changes with the facility of the NHS. GPs could more than double their income to  £ 300000 per year this is the direct impact of the NHS reforms. It also cuts the bureaucracy. NHS foundation trusts are given significantly greater financial freedom and power. It increases the quality of primary medical services. Now the NHS budget is increasing 4% per year after reforming it will increase just 0.1% per year. Model of care Model of care is directly impact to the patients and it affects the whole output of the organization. I have already described the model of care in changes of NHS. when the people born in the world at first he is known only male and female at that time there is no any discrimination like that way United Kingdom National Health Service believes in the universality. In NHS there is no any discrimination for the treatment of the patient, it is only believe for the medical requirement, it doesnt separate the richest and poorest of the people. It gives the treatment free of the cost. If the people of the different country which have more than 1 year resident permit he is also can take the benefit of the NHS. While starting the NHS at that time people have no right of choices, but now a days they have right of taking decision of their care. Day by day patients are increasing and also the NHS also increasing employees which gives the good services for the patient which is the positive point of the model of care. We know that NHS is employing the large number of employees. Now a day United Kingdom government is focusing the reforms of the NHS, many arguments were taken about the patient of care; I thought its better to describe the different arguments here. British Medical Association is the leading association of the medical staff in the UK, but the British Medical Association said against the reforms of the NHS. According to the BMA: more than 150 organizations and 80 percent budget of the NHS will go to the GPs hand. Financially and managerial power is given to GPs which increases the bureaucracy. This proposal is unmanaged damaging and unjustified. This damages the patients care. There are different surveys says after reforming its affect a patient care. According to the Unison after the cutting of the staff its directly increase the workload for the nurses and doctor and other staff. The survey said that 88% think that during first year of the coalition government their workload has increased, and 65% said that rise of hitting patient care and saf ety. Around 67% of nurses said that increasing the workload direct impact on their health, and 69% said their job is not suitable or bad for family life. This will direct affect the model of care. Beside these arguments I thought that after reforming the NHS the model of care would be better. Equality and excellence liberating of the NHS Says patient are always in the core and after reforming patient will have many choices, they will have their decision for owns care, and they can tell no decision without me, which is not in the todays model of care. Managerial cost will be saved which will be used to empower the technical and professional things, these things increases the model of care better. Conclusion Health is the backbone of the any country without healthy people country cannot be developed. Health and social care policy is directly related to the health of the people. So that government should think about how to take the policy, policy should not be taken without justification. I have already mentioned that policy is the key role of the development. Now the Government took the new policy about the National Health Services (NHS). in the history of the NHS government took many policies related to the health but this policy would be the biggest policy which will change the fundamental or it will shake the top to bottom of the NHS. in my opinion government should take the policy step by step not like big shake up. The implementation of this policy is very costly. British Medical Association already rejects this policy and many people are against of this. Health and social care policy and model of care are interrelated; this means how the patient will be treated, if the policy is fa iled then what would be the condition of the country. This policy cuts the thousands of jobs which will increase the unemployment, this policy increase the price competition allowing hospitals to undercut one another to attract patients, poses a risk to standard of care. some surveys said doctor will be the account after implementing this policy. Health is wealth This is the universal truth so that government should not play the life of the people. According to health secretary Andrew lansley this policy equity and excellence liberating NHS will make the NHS bright future.

Gender and Development Essay -- Gender Roles, Same Sex

Gender-role development is one of the most important areas of human development. The moment a women finds out she is pregnant she is often anxious to find out the sex of her child. The definitions of the terms "sex" and "gender" need to be understood. The term "sex" denotes the actual physical makeup of individuals that define them as male or female. Sex is determined by genetic makeup, internal reproductive organs, the organization of the brain, and external genitalia. The behavior of individuals as males or females, the types of roles they assume, and their personality characteristics, may be just as important as a person's biological framework. In order to differentiate between biological features one may take into consideration behaviors and social roles to establish "gender." Sex and gender are often intertwined, and certain social expectations can be attributed to ones biological sex. The sex of a newborn sets the agenda for a whole array of developmental experiences that will influence the person throughout his or her life. Overall, the sex differences between boys and girls in the first year of life are minimal. Boys may be a bit more active or fussier and girls more physically mature and less prone to physical problems, but that may be the extent of the significant differences. Mothers have a tendency to ignore more of their son's emotional outbursts in comparison to their daughters' outbursts. Boys may be rough-housed or played with in a more aggressive manor as well. This goes in line with stereotyping males as more hardy or tough and girls as gentle and soft. A parent can influence their child into these gender roles by the way they discipline. They may be harder on a boy than a girl for the exact same behavior. ... ...in the acquisition of gender difference in behavior and attitudes play a role in gender socialization (Lau, 1996). Gender role socialization according to a study done cross-culturally found that it could be narrowly defined by the type of sex-typed behaviors such as play activities and toys. In summary, gender identity is a learned behavior that starts at a very young age and can hinder or enhance a child's development. Gender plays a role in how a person defines themselves and grows as a person depending on their safety and security in being male or female and what that means to them and what they are taught at a young age. Bottom line is that men and women are different, and as a society and as parents being a boy or girl does not meet we have to fit into a certain box, as people are unique in of themselves, and that is what we can enhance and nurture to develop. Gender and Development Essay -- Gender Roles, Same Sex Gender-role development is one of the most important areas of human development. The moment a women finds out she is pregnant she is often anxious to find out the sex of her child. The definitions of the terms "sex" and "gender" need to be understood. The term "sex" denotes the actual physical makeup of individuals that define them as male or female. Sex is determined by genetic makeup, internal reproductive organs, the organization of the brain, and external genitalia. The behavior of individuals as males or females, the types of roles they assume, and their personality characteristics, may be just as important as a person's biological framework. In order to differentiate between biological features one may take into consideration behaviors and social roles to establish "gender." Sex and gender are often intertwined, and certain social expectations can be attributed to ones biological sex. The sex of a newborn sets the agenda for a whole array of developmental experiences that will influence the person throughout his or her life. Overall, the sex differences between boys and girls in the first year of life are minimal. Boys may be a bit more active or fussier and girls more physically mature and less prone to physical problems, but that may be the extent of the significant differences. Mothers have a tendency to ignore more of their son's emotional outbursts in comparison to their daughters' outbursts. Boys may be rough-housed or played with in a more aggressive manor as well. This goes in line with stereotyping males as more hardy or tough and girls as gentle and soft. A parent can influence their child into these gender roles by the way they discipline. They may be harder on a boy than a girl for the exact same behavior. ... ...in the acquisition of gender difference in behavior and attitudes play a role in gender socialization (Lau, 1996). Gender role socialization according to a study done cross-culturally found that it could be narrowly defined by the type of sex-typed behaviors such as play activities and toys. In summary, gender identity is a learned behavior that starts at a very young age and can hinder or enhance a child's development. Gender plays a role in how a person defines themselves and grows as a person depending on their safety and security in being male or female and what that means to them and what they are taught at a young age. Bottom line is that men and women are different, and as a society and as parents being a boy or girl does not meet we have to fit into a certain box, as people are unique in of themselves, and that is what we can enhance and nurture to develop.

Men of Power in “The Jungle”

A Summary and Review of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Upton's Sinclair's book portrayed a wide variety of characters to convey his messages. Only one character can be considered a major character, Jurgis Rudkus. The book revolves around Jurgis' life in Packingtown. The supporting characters, transitioned in and out of the story with great frequency. When Jurgis initially arrives in Packingtown from his native Lithuania he can best be described as being large and powerful. He believes in the work ethic to a point of naivete. His sole answer to any setback: â€Å"I will work harder. † Eventually Jurgis learns that no laborer can make enough to be the sole provider for his family. His only recourse is to send his wife and children out to work. Soon Jurgis begins to discover certain injustices that the meat packers employ to exploit their workers. Workers are worn out by a â€Å"speed-up† system, they are not compensated for illnesses or injury incurred from their work, and they are literally paid by the hour, anything less than a hour does not get compensated. Jurgis, frustrated with the current conditions in the meat packing industry, that uses the men the same way they use swine (every part), joins a Union, as does Marjia, and various other members of his family. Investing money into a home and life into his job gets a Jurgis no where. Positions of power tend to go only to the corrupted characters. Bribes and kickbacks come as commonly as unemployment and job insecurity. He finally realizes that even a physically strong man, willing to work hard, can be beaten by the system; indeed, the system must defeat and discard him as part of its â€Å"progress† through exploitation of people for profits. Eventually his luck runs out and Jurgis is injured upon his the killing beds at the meat packing plant. His foot swells and he has no other recourse but to lay in bed and wait until his foot heals. Ironically, he is free to enjoy the company of his son only when he is laid off from work. In just a few years after immigrating to the country, he is brutalized by circumstances to the point of ruin. His once mighty stature has been reduced to rubble, and looks seedy and wretched. He acts dull and beats young Stanislovas into going to work. After two months of waiting, with bills pilling up, Jurgis goes back to work to find his job filled by another man. Due to his large house payment and the need to eat, Jurgis takes the worst possible job in Packing town, the Glue factory. By this time he has taken to the bottle and has started to move father and farther away from his family. The children have all been put to work, as well as his wife, Ona and his Grandfather-in-law Deda Antonias. To make matters even worse, Jurgis finds out that Ona has been forced have sex with her Boss. This totally enrages Jurgis, he runs to the Packing house to find the boss, Connor, and then beats him savagely. After his arrest he must serve on month in jail. During his stay in jail he meets Jack Duane, and becomes somewhat good friends with him. Within the month his family is in shambles. The children now, for the most part, live on their own, various family member are dead, Ona is about to deliver a child, everyone has lost their jobs, and the house that they struggled so hard for has vanished away. By the time he finds Ona she is in mid child birth and in need of medical assistance. Due to his current lack of funds, Jurgis finds a Dutch lady to deliver his child for $1. 25. Even with the help of the Dutch lady Ona and the child dies. After Ona's death in premature childbirth, their son's dies in an accidental drowning while his father is at work. Jurgis then takes to the country as a tramp. Through his journey in the country he gets somewhat rejuvenated, and returns to his old stature. He works when he needs to, and travels and sleeps when he wants. By winter it becomes obvious to him that he can not survive out in the country for the duration of the winter, and is forced to seek work in the city he left behind. He becomes a bum, and drinks extremely heavily. While begging and wandering through the streets he, falls into a bit of luck and meets a young man named Frederick (â€Å"Freddie†) Jones. Freddie, being the son of rich Old Man Jones, takes Jurgis back to his home, giving Jurgis $100 and the privilege of dining and drinking with him. Eventually when the young man falls asleep, the butler throws Jurgis out. With the hundred dollars firmly in his possession Jurgis decides that the only place he could probably get change for the bill would be at a bar. Jurgis goes into the bar when no one is looking, and asks the bartender to give him change for the bill. The bartender makes him buy a drink, and then hands him a handful of change. Jurgis becomes enraged, and pounces on the man. Jurgis gets arrested again for battery and lands in jail. With the assistance of Jack Duane he drifts into crime and the corrupt world of politics. Jurgis make himself available now as an assistant to a robber or to a political boss rigging elections. Ironically, under these evil conditions, he discovers a new confidence and a talent for management. With a bit of luck and some help from newly acquired acquaintances Jurgis gets a cushy job in the meat packing factory. To keep this job, all Jurgis had to do was get the Democratic ticket elected, making the common man think that it was the best choice. During the 1904 meat packer's strike, he gets a golden opportunity to become a scab and then a typical boss, driving his workers and taking bribes. A chance encounter with Connor proves to be Jurgis' moral salvation. Jurgis gets arrested again for furiously beating his wife's seducer and realizes that he must jump bail. He has proven himself capable once more of moral fury, and he realizes bitterly which side he is really on. Cold and looking for a place to sleep, Jurgis stumbles into a Socialist meeting. He is profoundly moved by an orator who describes the life of the working class and how workers can take active measures to improve society. It dawns on Jurgis that he is entitled to join this movement. â€Å"A new man had been born. † He is no longer an isolated victim of circumstances; â€Å"he would have friends and allies. † Finally Jurgis reunites with Marjia, a doped up prostitute supporting the remains of his family. They have definitely become two different types of people. Her the victim, and him the fighter, still struggling for justice. With the idea, that he might be able to once again support his family Jurgis goes out in search of a job. Apparently by luck, he finds a job in a hotel, run by socialists. By the end of the book Upton Sinclair, through Jurgis and various other characters, makes various speeches, and arguments for the use of Socialism with opposition to capitalism. Personal conflict was not the key theme of this book, but rather social conflict within the corporate structures. There is, however, some conflict among various characters. The most notable instance occurs when Jurgis batters his wife's Boss Connor, upon two occasions. This is his way to release his rage and anger at the man who abused, seduced, and molested his wife. Jurgis also has a conflicting view on how he looked at the people in the factories. He saw them as weak and lazy people, complaining because they could not handle their jobs. After the death of his wife and child, Jurgis goes on as self-destructive rampage through the city and the country. Not only does Jurgis conflict with others he finds himself in conflict with the legal system, and the factory system. This causes him to make a mental shift to socialism. This also brings up the conflicting types of government, Socialism vs. Capitalism, in a obviously biased portrayal. The most important message of conflict that Upton Sinclair wanted to deliver was his idea that the individual is constantly conflicting with the trusts and work machines that enslave him. The Jungle contains numerous themes which create the perfect atmosphere for Upton Sinclair's tragic book. In 1900 – 1904, industrialized America is a jungle. The only real law is the law of the jungle: might makes right. The main problem is that the economic system fosters greed and ruthless competition as a way of life. Greed prompts people to sell spoiled meat, engage in false advertising, pollute, bribe and be bribed. In such a system, the hired worker lives at a distinct disadvantage. He is trapped, exploited, and cheated by employers who, in competition with other employers, must consider profits more important than people. The worker in early twentieth-century America is brutalized and stultified. Only that part of his personality needed to perform a monotonous task is kept alive; the rest is crushed. Under these conditions, love is reduced to mere bestiality; the tender aspects of marriage and the raising of children are harshly overshadowed by the agonies of the economic struggle; and indeed, marriage itself becomes an economic trap. Big Business has complete control of, but no responsibility for, the well-being of the masses. Big Business ultimately, deviously, controls government and the courts for its own benefit. In order to foster its corruption of politics, Big Business needs and thrives on crime and ultimately works in alliance with the criminal world. Capitalist democracy is therefore a fraud, a contradiction in terms. There can be no true democracy in a society controlled by one class with hereditary economic power. Turn-of-the-century immigrants to America were lured into a trap. They were attracted by promises of economic well-being and political equality; instead, they were sacrificed on the altar of â€Å"progress,† the generation that built industrial society for its native owners. â€Å"Here, precisely as in Russia [1904] . . . rich men owned everything. † American greatness is due to exploitation. If we are the greatest nation the sun has ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad wage earners to [a] pitch of frenzy. † By using the characters in the meat-packing industry, Upton Sinclair is able to portray his Socialistic messages. In the end, Jurgis' life is turned around because the character finds true â€Å"freedom† and happiness in Socialism. The entire book is a large piece of propaganda supporting Socialism. To say that it was only meant to be a piece of propaganda would be ignorant, and foolish upon any readers part. Through his characters, Mr. Sinclair exposes a corrupt and brutal system in which on the law of the jungle reigns true. This belief is maintained by every single character in the piece. The author obvious had strong beliefs and motives for writing this book. Mr. Sinclair used his beliefs on socialism to provided an answer to how America trusts could be broken up. This book, (from American History Class) aided the common man to understand the horrid conditions of the meat packing industry, as did books like Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe, ironically a white woman fighting for the freedom of slaves in the 19th century.