Battle Royal
Ralph Ellison
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!
And yet I am no freak of nature, nor of history. I was in the cards, other things having been equal (or unequal) eighty-five years ago. I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed. About eighty-five years ago they were told they were free, united with others of our country in everything pertaining to the common good, and, in everything social, separate like the fingers of the hand. And they believed it. They exulted in it. They stayed in their place, worked hard, and brought up my father to do the same. But my grandfather is the one. He was an odd old guy, my grandfather, and I am told I take after him. It was he who caused the trouble. On his deathbed he called my father to him and said, "Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men. The younger children were rushed from the room, the shades drawn and the flame of the lamp turned so low that it sputtered on the wick like the old man's breathing. "Learn it to the younguns," he whispered fiercely; then he died.
But my folks were more alarmed over his last words than over his dying. It was as though he had not died at all, his words caused so much anxiety. I was warned emphatically to forget what he had said and, indeed, this is the first time it has been mentioned outside the family circle. It had a tremendous effect upon me, however. I could never be sure of what he meant. Grandfather had been a quiet old man who never made any trouble, yet on his deathbed he had called himself a traitor and a spy, and he had spoken of his meekness as a dangerous activity. It became a constant puzzle which lay unanswered in the back of my mind. And whenever things went well for me I remembered my grandfather and felt guilty and uncomfortable. It was as though I was carrying out his advice in spite of myself. And to make it worse, everyone loved me for it. I was.
1) When customers are researching for healthcare service options, .docxSONU61709
1) When customers are researching for healthcare service options, the most important performance measure is staffing. It is the most important performance measure because your care may require special equipment or specialty services. Another factor into placing importance on staffing, according to the Medicare website, that higher staffing levels may indicate higher quality of care. The patient experience with the staffing is also crucial and is important to the quality of life for a patient.
2) In my opinion, healthcare consumers, find all of the performance measures mentioned important and all three are equal in importance. Health inspections, staffing and quality are the top three performance measures used determine if a customer will use that particular facilities services. Health inspections are important to ensure that patients are safe and there are polices in place to ensure patient safety. Staffing measures are important to ensure that staff is qualified to provide the services needed by the patient and that staff interaction is positive to improve quality of life. Quality measures are used to ensure that the patient is safe and always monitoring what needs to be changed to meet patient’s needs.
3) Consumers should use the site to simply weed out the lower rated nursing facility. However, the website will not answer a lot of the probing questions a consumer may have before placing their loved ones into a particular facility. According to the University of Chicago Medicine, a study shows that many believe that CMS could improve the website’s appeal by adding more information regarding cost, opinions from nursing-home residents about the quality of care and the availability of activities to residents (Targeted News Service, 2016).
4) As a consumer seeking a nursing facility, in addition to reviewing the performance measures, it is important to consider the location of the facility, if the facility is certified by Medicare and Medicaid (how does it affect you financially), and explore what activities are offered to residents. It could also benefit the consumer to physically visit the nursing facility. Consumers could also explore how to get feedback from individuals that have experience with that particular nursing facility.
5) Although it has been several years since visiting the location, I will base my answer on my experience then. Two of my great-grandmothers resided there. One of them declined in health after being placed there and the other lived there for years, reaching the age of 103. Mostly, I do agree with the ratings CMS has given this facility. However, I do remember the staffing rates always seemed to be low and overworked. I believe this facility could definitely use some work on quality measures overall.
http://www.wicknet.org/english/bfreeman/Anthology/battle_royal.htm
Battle Royal
Ralph Ellison
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and ...
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion because they th.docxdaniahendric
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.
—James Baldwin
Son,
Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the Far West Side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. When the host asked me about my body, her face faded from the screen, and was replaced by a scroll of words, written by me earlier that week.
The host read these words for the audience, and when she finished she turned to the subject of my body, although she did not mention it specifically. But by now I am accustomed to intelligent people asking about the condition of my body without realizing the nature of their request. Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America’s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Hearing this, I felt an old and indistinct sadness well up in me. The answer to this question is the record of the believers themselves. The answer is American history.
This article is adapted from Coates’s forthcoming book.
There is nothing extreme in this statement. Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. This defiance is not to be much dwelled upon. Democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are specimens of sin, so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. In fact, Americans, in a real sense, have never betrayed their God. When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” he was not merely being aspirational. At the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term people to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. As for now, it must be said that the elevation of the belief in being white was not achieved through wine tastings and ice-cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land.
That Sunday, on that news show, I tried to explain this as best I could within the time allotted. But at the end of the segment, the host flashed a widely shared picture of a 12-year-old black boy tearfully hugging a white police officer. Then she asked me about “hope.” And I knew then that I had failed. And I remembered that I had expected to fail. And I wondered again at the indistinct sadness wellin ...
Chapter Five THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF THE BLACK MAN .docxspoonerneddy
Chapter Five
THE LIVED EXPERIENCE
OF THE BLACK MAN
"Dirty nigger!" or simply "Look! A Negro!"
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning
of things, my soul desirous to be at the origin of the world,
and here I am an object among other objects.
Locked in this suffocating reification, I appealed to the
Other so that his liberating gaze, gliding over my body
· suddenly smoothed of rough edges, would give me back
the lightness of being I thought I had lost, and taking me
out of the world put me back in the world. But just as I
get to the other slope I stumble, and the Other fixes me
with his gaze, his gestures and attitude, the same way you
fix a preparation with a dye. I lose my temper, demand an
explanation . . . . Nothing doing. I explode. Here are the
fragments put together by another me.
As long as the black man remains on his home territory,
except for petty internal quarrels, he will not have to ex
perience his being for others . There is in fact a "being for
other," as described by Hegel, but any ontology is made
impossible in a colonized and acculturated society. Appar
ently, those who have written on the subject have not taken
this sufficiently into consideration. In the weltanschauung
of a colonized people, there is an impurity or a flaw that
89
90 I Black Skin, White Masks
prohibits any ontological explanation. Perhaps it could be
argued that this is true for any individual, but such an ar
gument would be concealing the basic problem. Ontology
does not allow us to understand the being of the black man,
since it ignores the lived experience. For not only must the
black man be black; he must be black in relation to the
white man. Some people will argue that the situation has
a double meaning. Not at all. The black man has no onto
logical resistance in the eyes of the white man. From one
day to the next, the Blacks have had to deal with two sys
tems of reference. Their metaphysics, or less pretentiously
their customs and the agencies to which they refer, were
abolished because they were in contradiction with a new
civilization that imposed its own.
In the twentieth century the black man on his home
territory is oblivious of the moment when his inferiority is
determined by the Other. Naturally, we have had the op
portunity to discuss the black problem with friends and,
less often, with African-Americans. Together we pro
claimed loud and clear the equality of man in the world.
In the Antilles there is also that minor tension between
the cliques of white Creoles, Mulattoes, and Blacks. But
we were content to intellectualize these differences. In
fact, there was nothing dramatic about them. And then . . .
And then we were given the occasion to confront the
white gaze. An unusual weight descended on us. The real
world robbed us of our share. In the white world, the man
of color encounters difficulties in elaborating his body
schema. The image of one's body is so.
1) When customers are researching for healthcare service options, .docxSONU61709
1) When customers are researching for healthcare service options, the most important performance measure is staffing. It is the most important performance measure because your care may require special equipment or specialty services. Another factor into placing importance on staffing, according to the Medicare website, that higher staffing levels may indicate higher quality of care. The patient experience with the staffing is also crucial and is important to the quality of life for a patient.
2) In my opinion, healthcare consumers, find all of the performance measures mentioned important and all three are equal in importance. Health inspections, staffing and quality are the top three performance measures used determine if a customer will use that particular facilities services. Health inspections are important to ensure that patients are safe and there are polices in place to ensure patient safety. Staffing measures are important to ensure that staff is qualified to provide the services needed by the patient and that staff interaction is positive to improve quality of life. Quality measures are used to ensure that the patient is safe and always monitoring what needs to be changed to meet patient’s needs.
3) Consumers should use the site to simply weed out the lower rated nursing facility. However, the website will not answer a lot of the probing questions a consumer may have before placing their loved ones into a particular facility. According to the University of Chicago Medicine, a study shows that many believe that CMS could improve the website’s appeal by adding more information regarding cost, opinions from nursing-home residents about the quality of care and the availability of activities to residents (Targeted News Service, 2016).
4) As a consumer seeking a nursing facility, in addition to reviewing the performance measures, it is important to consider the location of the facility, if the facility is certified by Medicare and Medicaid (how does it affect you financially), and explore what activities are offered to residents. It could also benefit the consumer to physically visit the nursing facility. Consumers could also explore how to get feedback from individuals that have experience with that particular nursing facility.
5) Although it has been several years since visiting the location, I will base my answer on my experience then. Two of my great-grandmothers resided there. One of them declined in health after being placed there and the other lived there for years, reaching the age of 103. Mostly, I do agree with the ratings CMS has given this facility. However, I do remember the staffing rates always seemed to be low and overworked. I believe this facility could definitely use some work on quality measures overall.
http://www.wicknet.org/english/bfreeman/Anthology/battle_royal.htm
Battle Royal
Ralph Ellison
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and ...
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion because they th.docxdaniahendric
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.
—James Baldwin
Son,
Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the Far West Side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. When the host asked me about my body, her face faded from the screen, and was replaced by a scroll of words, written by me earlier that week.
The host read these words for the audience, and when she finished she turned to the subject of my body, although she did not mention it specifically. But by now I am accustomed to intelligent people asking about the condition of my body without realizing the nature of their request. Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America’s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Hearing this, I felt an old and indistinct sadness well up in me. The answer to this question is the record of the believers themselves. The answer is American history.
This article is adapted from Coates’s forthcoming book.
There is nothing extreme in this statement. Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. This defiance is not to be much dwelled upon. Democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are specimens of sin, so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. In fact, Americans, in a real sense, have never betrayed their God. When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” he was not merely being aspirational. At the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term people to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. As for now, it must be said that the elevation of the belief in being white was not achieved through wine tastings and ice-cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land.
That Sunday, on that news show, I tried to explain this as best I could within the time allotted. But at the end of the segment, the host flashed a widely shared picture of a 12-year-old black boy tearfully hugging a white police officer. Then she asked me about “hope.” And I knew then that I had failed. And I remembered that I had expected to fail. And I wondered again at the indistinct sadness wellin ...
Chapter Five THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF THE BLACK MAN .docxspoonerneddy
Chapter Five
THE LIVED EXPERIENCE
OF THE BLACK MAN
"Dirty nigger!" or simply "Look! A Negro!"
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning
of things, my soul desirous to be at the origin of the world,
and here I am an object among other objects.
Locked in this suffocating reification, I appealed to the
Other so that his liberating gaze, gliding over my body
· suddenly smoothed of rough edges, would give me back
the lightness of being I thought I had lost, and taking me
out of the world put me back in the world. But just as I
get to the other slope I stumble, and the Other fixes me
with his gaze, his gestures and attitude, the same way you
fix a preparation with a dye. I lose my temper, demand an
explanation . . . . Nothing doing. I explode. Here are the
fragments put together by another me.
As long as the black man remains on his home territory,
except for petty internal quarrels, he will not have to ex
perience his being for others . There is in fact a "being for
other," as described by Hegel, but any ontology is made
impossible in a colonized and acculturated society. Appar
ently, those who have written on the subject have not taken
this sufficiently into consideration. In the weltanschauung
of a colonized people, there is an impurity or a flaw that
89
90 I Black Skin, White Masks
prohibits any ontological explanation. Perhaps it could be
argued that this is true for any individual, but such an ar
gument would be concealing the basic problem. Ontology
does not allow us to understand the being of the black man,
since it ignores the lived experience. For not only must the
black man be black; he must be black in relation to the
white man. Some people will argue that the situation has
a double meaning. Not at all. The black man has no onto
logical resistance in the eyes of the white man. From one
day to the next, the Blacks have had to deal with two sys
tems of reference. Their metaphysics, or less pretentiously
their customs and the agencies to which they refer, were
abolished because they were in contradiction with a new
civilization that imposed its own.
In the twentieth century the black man on his home
territory is oblivious of the moment when his inferiority is
determined by the Other. Naturally, we have had the op
portunity to discuss the black problem with friends and,
less often, with African-Americans. Together we pro
claimed loud and clear the equality of man in the world.
In the Antilles there is also that minor tension between
the cliques of white Creoles, Mulattoes, and Blacks. But
we were content to intellectualize these differences. In
fact, there was nothing dramatic about them. And then . . .
And then we were given the occasion to confront the
white gaze. An unusual weight descended on us. The real
world robbed us of our share. In the white world, the man
of color encounters difficulties in elaborating his body
schema. The image of one's body is so.
Chapter Five THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF THE BLACK MAN DioneWang844
Chapter Five
THE LIVED EXPERIENCE
OF THE BLACK MAN
"Dirty nigger!" or simply "Look! A Negro!"
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning
of things, my soul desirous to be at the origin of the world,
and here I am an object among other objects.
Locked in this suffocating reification, I appealed to the
Other so that his liberating gaze, gliding over my body
· suddenly smoothed of rough edges, would give me back
the lightness of being I thought I had lost, and taking me
out of the world put me back in the world. But just as I
get to the other slope I stumble, and the Other fixes me
with his gaze, his gestures and attitude, the same way you
fix a preparation with a dye. I lose my temper, demand an
explanation . . . . Nothing doing. I explode. Here are the
fragments put together by another me.
As long as the black man remains on his home territory,
except for petty internal quarrels, he will not have to ex
perience his being for others . There is in fact a "being for
other," as described by Hegel, but any ontology is made
impossible in a colonized and acculturated society. Appar
ently, those who have written on the subject have not taken
this sufficiently into consideration. In the weltanschauung
of a colonized people, there is an impurity or a flaw that
89
90 I Black Skin, White Masks
prohibits any ontological explanation. Perhaps it could be
argued that this is true for any individual, but such an ar
gument would be concealing the basic problem. Ontology
does not allow us to understand the being of the black man,
since it ignores the lived experience. For not only must the
black man be black; he must be black in relation to the
white man. Some people will argue that the situation has
a double meaning. Not at all. The black man has no onto
logical resistance in the eyes of the white man. From one
day to the next, the Blacks have had to deal with two sys
tems of reference. Their metaphysics, or less pretentiously
their customs and the agencies to which they refer, were
abolished because they were in contradiction with a new
civilization that imposed its own.
In the twentieth century the black man on his home
territory is oblivious of the moment when his inferiority is
determined by the Other. Naturally, we have had the op
portunity to discuss the black problem with friends and,
less often, with African-Americans. Together we pro
claimed loud and clear the equality of man in the world.
In the Antilles there is also that minor tension between
the cliques of white Creoles, Mulattoes, and Blacks. But
we were content to intellectualize these differences. In
fact, there was nothing dramatic about them. And then . . .
And then we were given the occasion to confront the
white gaze. An unusual weight descended on us. The real
world robbed us of our share. In the white world, the man
of color encounters difficulties in elaborating his body
schema. The image of one's body is so ...
Chapter Five THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF THE BLACK MAN .docxtiffanyd4
Chapter Five
THE LIVED EXPERIENCE
OF THE BLACK MAN
"Dirty nigger!" or simply "Look! A Negro!"
I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning
of things, my soul desirous to be at the origin of the world,
and here I am an object among other objects.
Locked in this suffocating reification, I appealed to the
Other so that his liberating gaze, gliding over my body
· suddenly smoothed of rough edges, would give me back
the lightness of being I thought I had lost, and taking me
out of the world put me back in the world. But just as I
get to the other slope I stumble, and the Other fixes me
with his gaze, his gestures and attitude, the same way you
fix a preparation with a dye. I lose my temper, demand an
explanation . . . . Nothing doing. I explode. Here are the
fragments put together by another me.
As long as the black man remains on his home territory,
except for petty internal quarrels, he will not have to ex
perience his being for others . There is in fact a "being for
other," as described by Hegel, but any ontology is made
impossible in a colonized and acculturated society. Appar
ently, those who have written on the subject have not taken
this sufficiently into consideration. In the weltanschauung
of a colonized people, there is an impurity or a flaw that
89
90 I Black Skin, White Masks
prohibits any ontological explanation. Perhaps it could be
argued that this is true for any individual, but such an ar
gument would be concealing the basic problem. Ontology
does not allow us to understand the being of the black man,
since it ignores the lived experience. For not only must the
black man be black; he must be black in relation to the
white man. Some people will argue that the situation has
a double meaning. Not at all. The black man has no onto
logical resistance in the eyes of the white man. From one
day to the next, the Blacks have had to deal with two sys
tems of reference. Their metaphysics, or less pretentiously
their customs and the agencies to which they refer, were
abolished because they were in contradiction with a new
civilization that imposed its own.
In the twentieth century the black man on his home
territory is oblivious of the moment when his inferiority is
determined by the Other. Naturally, we have had the op
portunity to discuss the black problem with friends and,
less often, with African-Americans. Together we pro
claimed loud and clear the equality of man in the world.
In the Antilles there is also that minor tension between
the cliques of white Creoles, Mulattoes, and Blacks. But
we were content to intellectualize these differences. In
fact, there was nothing dramatic about them. And then . . .
And then we were given the occasion to confront the
white gaze. An unusual weight descended on us. The real
world robbed us of our share. In the white world, the man
of color encounters difficulties in elaborating his body
schema. The image of one's body is so.
Get ready for a delightful blend of travelogue, storytelling, and humour - from the ridiculous to the sublime.
Travel with us to Knossos Palace, Crete, and beyond as we share our tales and experiences through a refreshingly different lens.
A melange of storytelling, travel and humour.
Enjoy the musings of a would-be- professor of ethics.
Follow our loved-up couple on their absurd and very tragic story set in Crete.
Get to know Alex - a college kid trying to survive among the undead in NYC.
Dive into a travelogue about Knossos Palace in Crete.
Summary of a Literary Non-Fiction Text 500 wordsA succinct sum.docxpicklesvalery
Summary of a Literary Non-Fiction Text 500 words
A succinct summary can help students explain key concepts or theories while formulating their arguments in a formal essay. While summaries can be extremely helpful in formal essay writing, one of the challenges to creating a summary is to know how much material to omit before the central idea has been lost. In this assignment students are asked to summarize one of the literary non-fiction texts from this course: “How it Feels to be Coloured Me.”
Format
All written assignments must be submitted in MLA (Modern Language Association) format, double spaced, with 1” margins, and in 12-point Times New Roman font. Please include your name, professor’s name, the course code, and date in the upper left corner. In the upper right corner please place your last name and a page number. Also, please do not include a cover page with any written assignments.
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
I AM COLORED but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating
circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United
States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year
I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville l Florida. It is exclusively a
colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town
going to or coming from Orlando. The native whites rode dusty horses l
the Northern tourists chugged down the sandy village road in automobiles.
The town knew the Southerners and never stopped cane chewing when
they passed. But the Northerners were something else again. They were
peered at cautiously from behind curtains by the timid. The more
venturesome would come out on the porch to watch them go past and got
just as much pleasure out of the tourists as the tourists got out of the
village.
The front porch might seem a daring place for the rest of the town l but it
was a gallery seat for me. My favorite place was atop the gate?post.
Proscenium box for a born first?nighter. Not only did I enjoy the show l but
I didn't mind the actors knowing that I liked it. I usually spoke to them in
passing. I'd wave at them and when they returned my salute l I would say
something like this: "Howdy?do?well?I?thank?you?where?yougoin'?"
Usually automobile or the horse paused at this l and after a queer
exchange of compliments l I would probably "go a piece of the way" with
them l as we say in farthest Florida. If one of my family happened to come
to the front in time to see mel of course negotiations would be rudely
broken off. But even SOl it is clear that I was the first "welcome?to?
ourstate" Floridian, and I hope the Miami Chamber of Commerce will
please take notice.
During this period, white people differed from colored to me only in that
they rode through town and never lived there. They liked to hear me I I
speak pieces" and sing and wanted to see me dance the parse?me?la, and
gave me gen ...
Ch. VII in Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassCHAPTE.docxcravennichole326
Ch. VII in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
CHAPTER VII
I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else. It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. It was at least necessary for her to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power, to make her equal to the task of treating me as though I were a brute.
My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being ought to treat another. In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear. She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness. The first step in her downward course was in her ceasing to instruct me. She now commenced to practise her husband's precepts. She finally became even more violent in her opposition than her husband himself. She was not satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed anxious to do better. Nothing seemed to make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper. She seemed to think that here lay the danger. I have had her rush at me with a face made all up of fury, and snatch from me a newspaper, in a manner that fully revealed her apprehension. She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.
From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to be suspected of having a book, and was at once called to give an account of myself. All this, however, was too late. The first step had been taken. Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.
The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the ...
Before 1918, approximately 60 of the wolves in the New Mexico a.docxgarnerangelika
Before 1918, approximately
60%
of the wolves in the New Mexico and Arizona region were male, and
40%
were female. However, cattle ranchers in this area have made a determined effort to exterminate wolves. From 1918 to the present, approximately
70%
of wolves in the region are male, and
30%
are female. Biologists suspect that male wolves are more likely than females to return to an area where the population has been greatly reduced. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)
What is the probability that
8
or more were female?
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Bed Bath & Beyond – The Raise and Struggle 1
Bed Bath & Beyond – The Raise and Struggle
By
John Doe
Mary Joe
Peter Jackson
Ray Jones
Victor Smith
Professor Dr. Harry Omoregie
University of the Cumberlands
Information Governance
10/05/2019
Bed Bath & Beyond – The Raise and Struggle 2
Table of Contents
Company Profiles .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Phoenix
Solution
s Inc ................................................................................................................................ 4
Leadership Profiles ........................................................................................................................................ 5
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) .................................................................................................................... 5
Chief Financial Officer (CFO): .................................................................................................................... 5
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ................................................................................................................. 5
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) ................................................................................................................. 5
Chief Risk Officer (CRO) ............................................................................................................................. 6
History of Bed Bath & Beyond ...................................................................................................................... 6
Challenges Faced by Bed Bath & Beyond in the Last Decade ....................................................................... 8
Major Competitors in Global E-Commerce ................................................................................................. 10
Discuss the Opportunities and Challenges of Big Data in Global E-Commerce .......................................... 11
Opportunities Provided by Big Data to the Global E-Commerce Organizations: ................................... 12
Customer analysis. .............................................................................................................................. 12
Personalization. ................................................................................................................................... 13
Customer service. ............................................................................................................................... 13
Flexible pricing policy. ......................................................................................................................... 13
Safer online payments. ........................................................................................................
Beethoven; Art and Protest in the 1800s Please respond to the foll.docxgarnerangelika
"Beethoven; Art and Protest in the 1800s" Please respond to the following. You can use resources under the
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1) Listen to one (1) composition (i.e., for a symphony) by Beethoven. Identify the composition that you listened to, and determine whether you would characterize the chosen composition as either the Classical or Romantic style of music. Explain the features that lead you to your conclusion.
2) What were the Romantics all about? If you had only one example to use to explain Romanticism to someone who had never heard of it or read your book, which work of visual art or literary art from your text would you choose, why? What did the Romantics think about the technological and scientific innovations of their age? Do you think they would feel similarly today, why or why not?
3) Please give one example of how either black slaves or white abolitionists used literature or the visual arts as a form of protest against slavery. How do you think the work you selected impacted its audience? What about the work enabled it to change minds?
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"Becoming Deviant"
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In your readings, you have explored the topics of social controls and the underlying causes of deviance. Examine the types of social controls and analyze one social control which you believe is more compelling in regard to the sanctioning of behaviors. Then explore the underlying cause of biology and inherited behavior and determine whether either of these underlying causes can be treated and corrected to allow an individual to align his or her thinking with the majority. Provide support for your response.
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Becoming a ManagerElaine has worked in the IMCU of a communi.docxgarnerangelika
Becoming a Manager
Elaine has worked in the IMCU of a community hospital for 11 years. She is one of the best nurses, and serves as a preceptor and a resource for other nurses on the unit. Elaine has made numerous contributions to the unit. She has presented training classes, in-services, and booklets. Elaine has been the day shift charge nurse for 5 years.
In January, the unit manager decided to retire. The IMCU manager position was posted. A very unpopular nurse from another unit bid on the position, as well as a nurse from another hospital. The staff has approached Elaine, imploring her to bid for the job. They tell her she will be a terrific manager, and they all love her. Elaine is very happy with her job, but she knows that things will change with a new manager.
After serious deliberation, Elaine bids on the position. Her qualifications are undisputable, and she is offered the position. She is warned, however, that her relationship with her co-workers will not be the same. She has long been a leader, but she must now see herself as a manager. Try to imagine that you are Elaine:
What steps will you take to initiate this change?
How will you establish your new position with the staff?
What type of management/leadership style would you employ?
How do the “Cores of Credibility” apply to your new role?
Your response should consist of complete sentences and should be at least one complete paragraph, but it should be no more than three paragraphs in length.
Post your individual responses by the end of the day on Friday of Module 2.
Read the postings of other students, and thoughtfully respond to at least two other student postings by end of the day on Sunday of Module 2.
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The McDonald’s ‘Beef Fries’ Controversy
“Hindus and vegetarians all over the world feel shocked and betrayed by McDonald's deception
and ultimate greed.”
- Attorney Harish Bharti, on filing the lawsuit against McDonald’s, in May 2001.
“These are the ways the fries are made in the US, and we don’t have any plans to change.”
- Walt Riker, McDonald’s spokesperson, in May 2001.
A CONTROVERSY ERUPTS
In May 2001, a class action lawsuit
1
was filed against the world‘s largest fast-food chain
McDonald‘s, in Seattle, US. The lawsuit alleged that the company had, for over a decade, duped
vegetarian customers into eating French fries
2
that contained beef extracts. The lawsuit followed a
spate of media reports detailing how the French fries served at McDonald‘s were falsely promoted
as being ‗100% vegetarian.‘
Although McDonald‘s initially declined to comment on the issue, the company issued a
‗conditional apology,‘ admitting to using beef flavoring in the fries. The furore over the matter
seemed to be settling down, when to McDonald‘s horror, some of its restaurants in India were
vandalized. Activists of Hindu fundamentalist groups – the Shiv Sena, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad
(VHP) and the Bajrang Dal, staged a demonstration in front of the McDonald‘s head office in
Delhi protesting the alleged use of beef flavouring. They submitted a memorandum to the Prime
Minister, demanding the closure of all McDonald‘s outlets in the country.
Activists also staged protests in front of McDonald‘s restaurants in south Mumbai and Thane.
Mobs ransacked the outlet at Thane, broke the glass panes and smeared the McDonald‘s mascot
Ronald with cow dung. About 30 people were arrested and later let off on bail. Company officials
estimated the loss to the outlet at Rs 2 million.
Officials at McDonald‘s India quickly announced that the vegetarian products served in India did
not have any non-vegetarian content (Refer Exhibit I for details). However, despite this
reassurance, the anti-McDonald‘s wave refused to die down.
Meanwhile, more cases were being filed against McDonald‘s – t.
Because this is an interdisciplinary humanities course, so far this .docxgarnerangelika
Because this is an interdisciplinary humanities course, so far this quarter we have analyzed literary texts intended for a child audience alongside historical documents, journalistic writing about current events, a documentary film, and even a music video. Choose one literary text that we have read so far (by Hesse, Muñoz Ryan, or Taylor) and explain how reading it in tandem with one of these other textual or audio-visual sources (the Winsor article, the 1959 Declaration,
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
, the McFadden article, or the music video for “Formation”) helped to enhance your learning experience. What connections did you draw between the two sources? Why was it important for you to examine the non-literary source alongside the literary one? How did this help you to further develop your understanding of American childhood? Please write at least one long, detailed paragraph, observing standard conventions of strong academic writing.
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Because of the difficulties that expatriates face, some firms have b.docxgarnerangelika
Because of the difficulties that expatriates face, some firms have begun a policy of “inpatriation” (a concept discussed further in the Debate section of chapter 13), whereby they relocate foreigners to the host country, with the expectation that after a period of time, they will replace expatriates. While this provides the MNE with a source of workers who do not face cultural obstacles, some significant problems remain. First, inpatriates, who are paid the going rate in the MNE’s home country, are often disappointed or upset when they go to the host country, where salaries are much lower. Second, many inpatriates are ineffective because of their ambiguous position. While the headquarters views inpatriates as “us” because of their time in the home country, other HCNs also view them as “us” because of their common ethnicity.
1.Given the pros and cons of expatriation and inpatriation, which do you feel is more effective for MNEs? Would certain situation call for one strategy over another? What could an MNE do to alleviate some of the difficulties of inpatriation?
2.
MNEs operate in multiple locations, negotiating through a complicated web of formal and informal institutions that are different from country to country. An MNE is successful, in part, because of its ability to work within a complex network of laws and values to create a global, cross-cultural entity. The question is could labor unions do the same? While union presence is strong in some countries, it is nearly absent in others, so that workers in those countries have relative little protection from potentially unfair actions. What is the feasibility of establishing a global (or semiglobal) labor union to cover these countries? How would they overcome institutional obstacles presented by governments and by MNEs? What would be the pros and cons of such a movement?
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Because Eileen Dover, the CEO of Good For You! Bakery, began her.docxgarnerangelika
Because Eileen Dover, the CEO of Good For You! Bakery, began her business with limited background in data architecture, some historical data that was saved in legacy systems is in bad shape. For example, sales date information was entered haphazardly, in different formats; sometimes sales amounts included a dollar sign and cents to the right of the decimal, and sometimes they didn’t; and the alphanumeric code she initially used to designate products is confusing to her new managers.
Ms. Dover wants to ensure that she can move data from her legacy system to SAS®. She had one of her new IT people produce a pipe-delimited data file in .txt format. He was not able to do much data validation/cleaning on his end, and Ms. Dover wants to know if this crucial step can be completed in SAS®. She wants you to do the following:
Import the legacy data file (
Week 4 Assignment Data
) into SAS®. (Note that if you look at the .txt file using a text editing program such as Notepad, you can see anomalies in the data; for example, dates and dollar amounts are represented in different formats.)
Create a report that:
Lists sales, by month, with subtotals and a grand total
Interprets all dates correctly and displays them in the same format
Interprets all dollar values correctly and displays them in the format $99
Add comments to the SAS® code to explain what each section of the code does, so that your team can apply similar to logic to cleaning/validating other data files.
Follow
the instructions in the
Week 4 Assignment Instructions
document to complete this assignment. You will be using the
Week 4 Assignment Data
file to complete this assignment.
Submit
your SAS® program.
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Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA Style format..
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Beauty, Effort, and Misrepresentation: How
Beauty Work Affects Judgments of Moral
Character and Consumer Preferences
ADRIANA SAMPER
LINYUN W. YANG
MICHELLE E. DANIELS
Women engage in a variety of beauty practices, or “beauty work,” to enhance their
physical appearance, such as applying cosmetics, tanning, or exercising. Although
the rewards of physical attractiveness are well documented, perceptions of both the
women who engage in efforts to enhance their appearance and the high-effort
beauty products marketed to them are not well understood. Across seven studies,
we demonstrate that consumers judge women who engage in certain types of ex-
tensive beauty work as possessing poorer moral character. These judgments occur
only for effortful beauty work perceived as transformative (significantly altering ap-
pearance) and transient (lasting a relatively short time), such that they emerge
within cosmetics and tanning, yet not skincare or exercise. This effect is mediated
by the perception that putting high effort into one’s appearance signals a willingness
to misrepresent one’s true self, and translates into lower purchase intentions for
higher-effort cosmetics. We identify several boundary conditions, including the at-
tractiveness of the woman performing the beauty work and whether the effort is at-
tributed to external norms or causes. In examining how beauty work elicits moral
judgments, we also shed light on why effortful cosmetic use is viewed negatively,
yet effortful products continue to be commercially successful.
Keywords: aesthetics, beauty, beauty work, effort, cosmetics, moral judgments,
true self, innate self
T hroughout history, women have gone to great lengthsto enhance their physical appearance. Queen Elizabeth I inspired a generation of women to coat theirfaces with lead to achieve the perfect pale complexion, and
Victorian ladies removed their ribs to whittle down their
waists (Corson 1972/2003). While modern beauty rituals
may be less extreme, we continue to see consumers engage
in extensive “beauty work,” defined as the beauty practices
people perform on themselves to elicit certain benefits
within a social hierarchy (Kwan and Trautner 2009). These
practices are often effortful, such as popular multistep
Korean skincare regimens (Chang 2011) or trends in con-
touring and strobing, where layers of make-up are carefully
applied to highlight facial features (Cardellino 2015). Even
mundane routines such as styling hair or applying cosmet-
ics often require significant time and care. Interestingly,
while research acknowledges that physical attractiveness
can be enhanced through beauty work (Etcoff et al. 2011;
Kwan and Trautner 2009), it has not examined how the
Adriana Samper ([email protected]) is assistant professor of marketing
at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe,
AZ 85287. Linyun W. Yang ([email protected]) is assistant profes-
sor of marketing at the Darla Moore School of Business, Univ.
Beau Nelson posted Apr 6, 2020 1010 AM1. What positionpositi.docxgarnerangelika
Beau Nelson posted Apr 6, 2020 10:10 AM
1. What position/positions in your organization are accountable for workplace relations in your organization? What impact do they have? What programs are in place to impact relations at work? Provide specific examples.
My organization is unique. As a member of the IG, I am tasked with inspecting other organizations for compliance, readiness, resource management, and training. Most military organizations have a commander who is responsible for workplace relations in the organizations. The commander ‘s responsibilities include executing the mission, leading people, managing resources, and improving the unit (Air Force Instruction 1-2, 2014).
The commander is responsible for the organization but is not alone. The First Sergeant is responsible for ensuring the force understands the commander’s goals, objectives, and policies. The first Sergeant must communicate with other leaders in the unit and be familiar with personnel programs, professional military education, financial needs, family matters to include housing (Air Force Instruction 36-2113, 2014).
There are many other personnel responsible for workplace relations in the organization. Supervisors at all levels, Equal Opportunity, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office, the Inspector General, and the legal office. All these key organizations play a role in the organizations under their span of control.
2. If you were an HR manager in a private-sector organization, what key programs would you implement to improve employee-employer relations? Why?
The first program I would implement is streamlined communication. If assigned to a large organization I would look at developing a smart phone application to help with the follow of communication. Employees want to know where they fit in the organization and what they are working toward (Smith, 2017).
Another program I would ensure was developed was a recognition program. Gallup recently completed a survey showing fifty-three percent of employees are not engaged, another survey showed workers who give their management a lower rating is more likely to apply or interview for other positions (Duran, 2020).
Finally, a program I believe is essential today is a career development program. In a survey in 2018, forty-two percent of millennials said their current employer provide learning, development, and training opportunities (Witkin, 2018). Eighty six percent of millennials say they would stay at their current job if the company offered development training opportunities (Duran, 2020).
3. How would you determine the added value of your programs?
As with most programs a Return on Investment (ROI) Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) should be performed. A BCR greater than one shows the program has worth and is not losing the organization money (Kaminski, & Lopes, 2009). ROI was deemed impossible to calculate for human resources, but that is no longer the case (SHRM, 2016).
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
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Bed Bath & Beyond – The Raise and Struggle
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Information Governance
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Table of Contents
Company Profiles .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Phoenix
Solution
s Inc ................................................................................................................................ 4
Leadership Profiles ........................................................................................................................................ 5
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) .................................................................................................................... 5
Chief Financial Officer (CFO): .................................................................................................................... 5
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ................................................................................................................. 5
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) ................................................................................................................. 5
Chief Risk Officer (CRO) ............................................................................................................................. 6
History of Bed Bath & Beyond ...................................................................................................................... 6
Challenges Faced by Bed Bath & Beyond in the Last Decade ....................................................................... 8
Major Competitors in Global E-Commerce ................................................................................................. 10
Discuss the Opportunities and Challenges of Big Data in Global E-Commerce .......................................... 11
Opportunities Provided by Big Data to the Global E-Commerce Organizations: ................................... 12
Customer analysis. .............................................................................................................................. 12
Personalization. ................................................................................................................................... 13
Customer service. ............................................................................................................................... 13
Flexible pricing policy. ......................................................................................................................... 13
Safer online payments. ........................................................................................................
Beethoven; Art and Protest in the 1800s Please respond to the foll.docxgarnerangelika
"Beethoven; Art and Protest in the 1800s" Please respond to the following. You can use resources under the
Explore
heading to shape your response!
1) Listen to one (1) composition (i.e., for a symphony) by Beethoven. Identify the composition that you listened to, and determine whether you would characterize the chosen composition as either the Classical or Romantic style of music. Explain the features that lead you to your conclusion.
2) What were the Romantics all about? If you had only one example to use to explain Romanticism to someone who had never heard of it or read your book, which work of visual art or literary art from your text would you choose, why? What did the Romantics think about the technological and scientific innovations of their age? Do you think they would feel similarly today, why or why not?
3) Please give one example of how either black slaves or white abolitionists used literature or the visual arts as a form of protest against slavery. How do you think the work you selected impacted its audience? What about the work enabled it to change minds?
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Becoming Deviant Please respond to the followingIn your.docxgarnerangelika
"Becoming Deviant"
Please respond to the following:
In your readings, you have explored the topics of social controls and the underlying causes of deviance. Examine the types of social controls and analyze one social control which you believe is more compelling in regard to the sanctioning of behaviors. Then explore the underlying cause of biology and inherited behavior and determine whether either of these underlying causes can be treated and corrected to allow an individual to align his or her thinking with the majority. Provide support for your response.
150-200 words
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Becoming a ManagerElaine has worked in the IMCU of a communi.docxgarnerangelika
Becoming a Manager
Elaine has worked in the IMCU of a community hospital for 11 years. She is one of the best nurses, and serves as a preceptor and a resource for other nurses on the unit. Elaine has made numerous contributions to the unit. She has presented training classes, in-services, and booklets. Elaine has been the day shift charge nurse for 5 years.
In January, the unit manager decided to retire. The IMCU manager position was posted. A very unpopular nurse from another unit bid on the position, as well as a nurse from another hospital. The staff has approached Elaine, imploring her to bid for the job. They tell her she will be a terrific manager, and they all love her. Elaine is very happy with her job, but she knows that things will change with a new manager.
After serious deliberation, Elaine bids on the position. Her qualifications are undisputable, and she is offered the position. She is warned, however, that her relationship with her co-workers will not be the same. She has long been a leader, but she must now see herself as a manager. Try to imagine that you are Elaine:
What steps will you take to initiate this change?
How will you establish your new position with the staff?
What type of management/leadership style would you employ?
How do the “Cores of Credibility” apply to your new role?
Your response should consist of complete sentences and should be at least one complete paragraph, but it should be no more than three paragraphs in length.
Post your individual responses by the end of the day on Friday of Module 2.
Read the postings of other students, and thoughtfully respond to at least two other student postings by end of the day on Sunday of Module 2.
Please click the Grading Information button, then the View Rubric button to the right of the discussion board window for grading criteria.
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IBS Center for Management Research
The McDonald’s ‘Beef Fries’ Controversy
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management situation.
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The McDonald’s ‘Beef Fries’ Controversy
“Hindus and vegetarians all over the world feel shocked and betrayed by McDonald's deception
and ultimate greed.”
- Attorney Harish Bharti, on filing the lawsuit against McDonald’s, in May 2001.
“These are the ways the fries are made in the US, and we don’t have any plans to change.”
- Walt Riker, McDonald’s spokesperson, in May 2001.
A CONTROVERSY ERUPTS
In May 2001, a class action lawsuit
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was filed against the world‘s largest fast-food chain
McDonald‘s, in Seattle, US. The lawsuit alleged that the company had, for over a decade, duped
vegetarian customers into eating French fries
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that contained beef extracts. The lawsuit followed a
spate of media reports detailing how the French fries served at McDonald‘s were falsely promoted
as being ‗100% vegetarian.‘
Although McDonald‘s initially declined to comment on the issue, the company issued a
‗conditional apology,‘ admitting to using beef flavoring in the fries. The furore over the matter
seemed to be settling down, when to McDonald‘s horror, some of its restaurants in India were
vandalized. Activists of Hindu fundamentalist groups – the Shiv Sena, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad
(VHP) and the Bajrang Dal, staged a demonstration in front of the McDonald‘s head office in
Delhi protesting the alleged use of beef flavouring. They submitted a memorandum to the Prime
Minister, demanding the closure of all McDonald‘s outlets in the country.
Activists also staged protests in front of McDonald‘s restaurants in south Mumbai and Thane.
Mobs ransacked the outlet at Thane, broke the glass panes and smeared the McDonald‘s mascot
Ronald with cow dung. About 30 people were arrested and later let off on bail. Company officials
estimated the loss to the outlet at Rs 2 million.
Officials at McDonald‘s India quickly announced that the vegetarian products served in India did
not have any non-vegetarian content (Refer Exhibit I for details). However, despite this
reassurance, the anti-McDonald‘s wave refused to die down.
Meanwhile, more cases were being filed against McDonald‘s – t.
Because this is an interdisciplinary humanities course, so far this .docxgarnerangelika
Because this is an interdisciplinary humanities course, so far this quarter we have analyzed literary texts intended for a child audience alongside historical documents, journalistic writing about current events, a documentary film, and even a music video. Choose one literary text that we have read so far (by Hesse, Muñoz Ryan, or Taylor) and explain how reading it in tandem with one of these other textual or audio-visual sources (the Winsor article, the 1959 Declaration,
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
, the McFadden article, or the music video for “Formation”) helped to enhance your learning experience. What connections did you draw between the two sources? Why was it important for you to examine the non-literary source alongside the literary one? How did this help you to further develop your understanding of American childhood? Please write at least one long, detailed paragraph, observing standard conventions of strong academic writing.
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Because of the difficulties that expatriates face, some firms have b.docxgarnerangelika
Because of the difficulties that expatriates face, some firms have begun a policy of “inpatriation” (a concept discussed further in the Debate section of chapter 13), whereby they relocate foreigners to the host country, with the expectation that after a period of time, they will replace expatriates. While this provides the MNE with a source of workers who do not face cultural obstacles, some significant problems remain. First, inpatriates, who are paid the going rate in the MNE’s home country, are often disappointed or upset when they go to the host country, where salaries are much lower. Second, many inpatriates are ineffective because of their ambiguous position. While the headquarters views inpatriates as “us” because of their time in the home country, other HCNs also view them as “us” because of their common ethnicity.
1.Given the pros and cons of expatriation and inpatriation, which do you feel is more effective for MNEs? Would certain situation call for one strategy over another? What could an MNE do to alleviate some of the difficulties of inpatriation?
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MNEs operate in multiple locations, negotiating through a complicated web of formal and informal institutions that are different from country to country. An MNE is successful, in part, because of its ability to work within a complex network of laws and values to create a global, cross-cultural entity. The question is could labor unions do the same? While union presence is strong in some countries, it is nearly absent in others, so that workers in those countries have relative little protection from potentially unfair actions. What is the feasibility of establishing a global (or semiglobal) labor union to cover these countries? How would they overcome institutional obstacles presented by governments and by MNEs? What would be the pros and cons of such a movement?
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Because Eileen Dover, the CEO of Good For You! Bakery, began her.docxgarnerangelika
Because Eileen Dover, the CEO of Good For You! Bakery, began her business with limited background in data architecture, some historical data that was saved in legacy systems is in bad shape. For example, sales date information was entered haphazardly, in different formats; sometimes sales amounts included a dollar sign and cents to the right of the decimal, and sometimes they didn’t; and the alphanumeric code she initially used to designate products is confusing to her new managers.
Ms. Dover wants to ensure that she can move data from her legacy system to SAS®. She had one of her new IT people produce a pipe-delimited data file in .txt format. He was not able to do much data validation/cleaning on his end, and Ms. Dover wants to know if this crucial step can be completed in SAS®. She wants you to do the following:
Import the legacy data file (
Week 4 Assignment Data
) into SAS®. (Note that if you look at the .txt file using a text editing program such as Notepad, you can see anomalies in the data; for example, dates and dollar amounts are represented in different formats.)
Create a report that:
Lists sales, by month, with subtotals and a grand total
Interprets all dates correctly and displays them in the same format
Interprets all dollar values correctly and displays them in the format $99
Add comments to the SAS® code to explain what each section of the code does, so that your team can apply similar to logic to cleaning/validating other data files.
Follow
the instructions in the
Week 4 Assignment Instructions
document to complete this assignment. You will be using the
Week 4 Assignment Data
file to complete this assignment.
Submit
your SAS® program.
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Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA Style format..
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Édouard Manet and Realist painting
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Revolutions of 1848 in Europe
French painting: Idealism and Realism
Early Romanticism
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Beauty, Effort, and Misrepresentation HowBeauty Work Affect.docxgarnerangelika
Beauty, Effort, and Misrepresentation: How
Beauty Work Affects Judgments of Moral
Character and Consumer Preferences
ADRIANA SAMPER
LINYUN W. YANG
MICHELLE E. DANIELS
Women engage in a variety of beauty practices, or “beauty work,” to enhance their
physical appearance, such as applying cosmetics, tanning, or exercising. Although
the rewards of physical attractiveness are well documented, perceptions of both the
women who engage in efforts to enhance their appearance and the high-effort
beauty products marketed to them are not well understood. Across seven studies,
we demonstrate that consumers judge women who engage in certain types of ex-
tensive beauty work as possessing poorer moral character. These judgments occur
only for effortful beauty work perceived as transformative (significantly altering ap-
pearance) and transient (lasting a relatively short time), such that they emerge
within cosmetics and tanning, yet not skincare or exercise. This effect is mediated
by the perception that putting high effort into one’s appearance signals a willingness
to misrepresent one’s true self, and translates into lower purchase intentions for
higher-effort cosmetics. We identify several boundary conditions, including the at-
tractiveness of the woman performing the beauty work and whether the effort is at-
tributed to external norms or causes. In examining how beauty work elicits moral
judgments, we also shed light on why effortful cosmetic use is viewed negatively,
yet effortful products continue to be commercially successful.
Keywords: aesthetics, beauty, beauty work, effort, cosmetics, moral judgments,
true self, innate self
T hroughout history, women have gone to great lengthsto enhance their physical appearance. Queen Elizabeth I inspired a generation of women to coat theirfaces with lead to achieve the perfect pale complexion, and
Victorian ladies removed their ribs to whittle down their
waists (Corson 1972/2003). While modern beauty rituals
may be less extreme, we continue to see consumers engage
in extensive “beauty work,” defined as the beauty practices
people perform on themselves to elicit certain benefits
within a social hierarchy (Kwan and Trautner 2009). These
practices are often effortful, such as popular multistep
Korean skincare regimens (Chang 2011) or trends in con-
touring and strobing, where layers of make-up are carefully
applied to highlight facial features (Cardellino 2015). Even
mundane routines such as styling hair or applying cosmet-
ics often require significant time and care. Interestingly,
while research acknowledges that physical attractiveness
can be enhanced through beauty work (Etcoff et al. 2011;
Kwan and Trautner 2009), it has not examined how the
Adriana Samper ([email protected]) is assistant professor of marketing
at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe,
AZ 85287. Linyun W. Yang ([email protected]) is assistant profes-
sor of marketing at the Darla Moore School of Business, Univ.
Beau Nelson posted Apr 6, 2020 1010 AM1. What positionpositi.docxgarnerangelika
Beau Nelson posted Apr 6, 2020 10:10 AM
1. What position/positions in your organization are accountable for workplace relations in your organization? What impact do they have? What programs are in place to impact relations at work? Provide specific examples.
My organization is unique. As a member of the IG, I am tasked with inspecting other organizations for compliance, readiness, resource management, and training. Most military organizations have a commander who is responsible for workplace relations in the organizations. The commander ‘s responsibilities include executing the mission, leading people, managing resources, and improving the unit (Air Force Instruction 1-2, 2014).
The commander is responsible for the organization but is not alone. The First Sergeant is responsible for ensuring the force understands the commander’s goals, objectives, and policies. The first Sergeant must communicate with other leaders in the unit and be familiar with personnel programs, professional military education, financial needs, family matters to include housing (Air Force Instruction 36-2113, 2014).
There are many other personnel responsible for workplace relations in the organization. Supervisors at all levels, Equal Opportunity, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office, the Inspector General, and the legal office. All these key organizations play a role in the organizations under their span of control.
2. If you were an HR manager in a private-sector organization, what key programs would you implement to improve employee-employer relations? Why?
The first program I would implement is streamlined communication. If assigned to a large organization I would look at developing a smart phone application to help with the follow of communication. Employees want to know where they fit in the organization and what they are working toward (Smith, 2017).
Another program I would ensure was developed was a recognition program. Gallup recently completed a survey showing fifty-three percent of employees are not engaged, another survey showed workers who give their management a lower rating is more likely to apply or interview for other positions (Duran, 2020).
Finally, a program I believe is essential today is a career development program. In a survey in 2018, forty-two percent of millennials said their current employer provide learning, development, and training opportunities (Witkin, 2018). Eighty six percent of millennials say they would stay at their current job if the company offered development training opportunities (Duran, 2020).
3. How would you determine the added value of your programs?
As with most programs a Return on Investment (ROI) Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) should be performed. A BCR greater than one shows the program has worth and is not losing the organization money (Kaminski, & Lopes, 2009). ROI was deemed impossible to calculate for human resources, but that is no longer the case (SHRM, 2016).
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BE6-5 In its first month of operation, Moraine Company purchased 100.docxgarnerangelika
BE6-5 In its first month of operation, Moraine Company purchased 100 units of inventory
for $6, then 200 units for $7, and finally 140 units for $8. At the end of the month,
180 units remained. Compute the amount of phantom profit that would result if the company
used FIFO rather than LIFO. Explain why this amount is referred to as phantom
profit. The company uses the periodic method.
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Bear in mind what you learned about Imagism as you answer one of.docxgarnerangelika
Bear in mind what you learned about Imagism as you answer one of the following questions geared towards showcasing what you've learned about this aspect of the Modernist movement. NO OUTSIDE SOURCES may be used for this and other discussion posts.
1) Pound’s definition of the image was “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." How does "In a Station at the Metro" fall in line with this definition? What is the intellectual and emotional complex being presented here?
2) If Imagist poetry deals with fleeting associations, what role is Helen as a figure playing in this poem? What revisions are being made to the myth in terms of how Helen is represented?
3) William Carlos Williams is famous for turning ordinary objects into poetic subjects with meaning. How does he accomplish this in “The Red Wheelbarrow”? What overall tone or feeling are you left with at the end of this? How does “The Red Wheelbarrow” work within the scope of Imagism?
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Be the Chair of the Federal Reserve BankGo to the following si.docxgarnerangelika
Be the Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank
Go to the following site and play the Fed Chairman game.
http://sffed-education.org/chairman/
Then, answer the following questions
1. How did you do?
2. Did you get reappointed? Why, or why not? Explain.
3. Were you dismissed? Why, or why not? Explain.
4. What did you learn from this exercise? Explain
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Be sure to support with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.
Continuous Variable
The continuous variable I selected is “Problems w/Public Health Clinics”. The means for this data is 7.43, the median is 7.4335 and the mode is 0. For the variable, the mean is the best measure it incorporates every value of this variable making it more representative of the variable (Frankfort-Nachmias, Leon-Guerrero, & Davis, 2020). The standard deviation is 5.11961, this number represents the difference of the data points from the mean. This number means that the scores regarding problems with health clinics differed from the mean by 5.11961. The variance is 26.210 describes the degree to which the data points are spread. I would describe this variable as having a lot of variability and extreme. Those that had no problems with public clinics more than double the amount of those that had a median amount of problems and triple those that had lots of problems.
Categorical Variable
Categorical variables are nominal or ordinal and cannot be described with mean or median. The best central tendency for these variables are mode, which is the score that shows up most frequently (Frankfort-Nachmias, Leon-Guerrero, & Davis, 2020). The categorical variable I selected is “country’s present economic condition compared to 12 months ago”, is mode is a tie for same and better all with the frequency of 2872 and a percent of 27.8%. This variable has low variability. Most of the participants believe there has been a small change or no change in economic conditions over the past 12 months.
References
Frankfort-Nachmias, C., Leon-Guerrero, A., & Davis, G. (2020). Social statistics for a diverse society (9th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Wagner, III, W. E. (2020).
Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science statistics
(7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 4, “Organization and Presentation of Information”
Chapter 11, “Editing Output”
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Be sure to read Making Arguments I before completing this discussion and watch the documentary, The Age of Consequences, at the address below; do set of viewing questions. Click here (The Age of Consequences, Viewing Set) to download a set of those questions. Remember: Conclusions must be typed in blue font and appear at the very END of your argument all semester long (two sentence length or less only)!
Your discussion forum response is a reply to the question below. Do NOT post your responses to the viewing set questions here.
Documentary, The Age of Consequences (Links to an external site.)
The consensus of the American security experts interviewed for the documentary is that climate changes are occurring and that a certain amount of change is already built in and will continue to occur over the course of our lifetimes.
Many places in the documentary describe large-scale displacements of people due to changing climate factors where millions and tens of millions of people have been forced to re-locate to secure food and water. The experts unanimously point out the de-stabilizing effects of these mass migrations for the countries who receive them.
Do we have an ethical obligation to assist people caught up in these large-scale movements of people to help them secure the basic necessities of food, water, and a secure way of life. Why or why not?
Click on and read Making Arguments, Conclusions before completing this week's discussion assignment.
Your assignment will be graded according to the grading rubric.
Week 1 begins with 100:
Composition:
Do the postings show consistent attention to rules of grammar, spelling and proper citation?
Argument (reply to forum question):
Did the main argument give reasons that were connected to one another and then did these reasons have a connection to the conclusion? Did the main argument show good development?
Conclusion:
Was the conclusion written according to week 1 directions with font made blue and restricted to two sentences or less?
The Age of Consequences, Viewing Set
“We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities simply because we want to avoid them.”
Conflict
1. What climate factor and what crop created local support for the Taliban in Afghanistan?
2. What climate factor frames the civil war in Syria? When did the climate event begin? How
many people were displaced by it? How much did Syrian cities grow in that period? Was the
drought in the region due to climate change?
3. What did ISIS promise to those who were displaced in the Syrian region? What resource fear
drives ISIS strategy?
Instability
4. What climate factors caused the conflict in Somalia in the early 90s?
5. Around 2000 who began to recognize the connection between climate change and national
security? What was the name of the 2003 Pentagon study that announced the policy change?
6. What group composed of Generals from all five services has changed the go.
Be sure to mark your calendars with your day.
Points:
Outline: 20 points
Leading Prayer: 10 points
Overview
Theme:
In keeping with the topic of the class this semester and the year’s theme of love your neighbor, the theme of the prayer assignment this semester calls you to explore a world religion. Part of exploring world religions and loving your neighbor includes broadening your knowledge of spirituality, both of religious and humanist traditions. For your prayer/reflection assignment, you may choose from a world religion or a humanist tradition. For example, if the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) has interest to you, your prayer plan may include a traditional LDS prayer. If you are an atheist, then you may wish to research humanist traditions or share a piece of literature, music, or art that expresses your spirituality or foundational belief.
Format:
Similar to your freshman and sophomore year, your prayer outline is to be formatted as follows. (A sample prayer follows these instructions.)
1. Upper right corner of page one (1): Name, Block, Teacher’s name, Date of Prayer
2. Broken into the following sections: Opening; Brief explanation of the religion, group, or your world view; Prayer or Text; Reflection; Intentions; Closing.
3. Bold and underlined section headings.
Section Details:
Opening
Explain how you will open the prayer or reflection time. For example, will you ring the prayer bowl, invite everyone to do the sign of the cross, or invite them to a moment of silence?
Summary
In one or two paragraphs summarize the religion, group, or what has contributed to your world view. Either during or after your summary, be sure to cite the two resources you consulted or that have contributed to your world view.
Your summary or your personal story will include a visual or audio resource, such as a video clip, drawing, photograph, or song. You need only have one visual or audio resource during your prayer/reflection presentation, so decide if it will be in the summary or the reflection/prayer.
Prayer/Reflection
This can be a prayer from the religion, a text from the group, or text that has meaning for you. (A text can be a piece of art, video, song, piece of poetry or literature, or personal writing).
Your summary or your prayer will include a visual or audio resource, such as a video clip, drawing, photograph, or song. You need only have one visual or audio resource, choose if it will be in the summary or the prayer.
Intentions
Two intentions related to events occurring in the world that are in need of social justice (loving your neighbor). These events do not need to be related to your person or topic. With prior notification, these events may be changed due to current events at the time you lead prayer/reflection.
Intentions may be followed with “We pray to the Lord,” or a moment of silence. If you have an idea for another way to close them, please share it with the teacher.
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Be sure to include insights on these three perspectives:
· What did you learn from other presentations?
· How the business processes in those presentations compare with yours?
· What additional recommendations that are not included in the presentation would you provide to this other organization?
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Thinking of getting a dog? Be aware that breeds like Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, and German Shepherds can be loyal and dangerous. Proper training and socialization are crucial to preventing aggressive behaviors. Ensure safety by understanding their needs and always supervising interactions. Stay safe, and enjoy your furry friends!
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...RitikBhardwaj56
Discover the Simplified Electron and Muon Model: A New Wave-Based Approach to Understanding Particles delves into a groundbreaking theory that presents electrons and muons as rotating soliton waves within oscillating spacetime. Geared towards students, researchers, and science buffs, this book breaks down complex ideas into simple explanations. It covers topics such as electron waves, temporal dynamics, and the implications of this model on particle physics. With clear illustrations and easy-to-follow explanations, readers will gain a new outlook on the universe's fundamental nature.
Natural birth techniques - Mrs.Akanksha Trivedi Rama University
Battle Royal Ralph Ellison It goes a long way back, some .docx
1. Battle Royal
Ralph Ellison
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had
been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone
tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though
they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I
was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except
myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a
long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to
achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born
with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover
that I am an invisible man!
And yet I am no freak of nature, nor of history. I was in the
cards, other things having been equal (or unequal) eighty-five
years ago. I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been
slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been
ashamed. About eighty-five years ago they were told they were
free, united with others of our country in everything pertaining
to the common good, and, in everything social, separate like the
fingers of the hand. And they believed it. They exulted in it.
They stayed in their place, worked hard, and brought up my
father to do the same. But my grandfather is the one. He was an
odd old guy, my grandfather, and I am told I take after him. It
was he who caused the trouble. On his deathbed he called my
father to him and said, "Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep
up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I
have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's
country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction.
Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome
'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death
and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide
open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He
2. had been the meekest of men. The younger children were rushed
from the room, the shades drawn and the flame of the lamp
turned so low that it sputtered on the wick like the old man's
breathing. "Learn it to the younguns," he whispered fiercely;
then he died.
But my folks were more alarmed over his last words than over
his dying. It was as though he had not died at all, his words
caused so much anxiety. I was warned emphatically to forget
what he had said and, indeed, this is the first time it has been
mentioned outside the family circle. It had a tremendous effect
upon me, however. I could never be sure of what he meant.
Grandfather had been a quiet old man who never made any
trouble, yet on his deathbed he had called himself a traitor and a
spy, and he had spoken of his meekness as a dangerous activity.
It became a constant puzzle which lay unanswered in the back
of my mind. And whenever things went well for me I
remembered my grandfather and felt guilty and uncomfortable.
It was as though I was carrying out his advice in spite of
myself. And to make it worse, everyone loved me for it. I was
praised by the most lily-white men in town. I was considered an
example of desirable con- duct-just as my grandfather had been.
And what puzzled me was that the old man had defined it as
treachery. When I was praised for my conduct I felt a guilt that
in some way I was doing something that was really against the
wishes of the white folks, that if they had understood they
would have desired me to act just the opposite, that I should
have been sulky and mean, and that that really would have been
what they wanted, even though they were fooled and thought
they wanted me to act as I did. It made me afraid that some day
they would look upon me as a traitor and I would be lost. Still I
was more afraid to act any other way because they didn't like
that at all. The old man's words were like a curse. On my
graduation day I delivered an oration in which I showed that
humility was the secret, indeed, the very essence of progress.
(Not that I believed this-how could I, remembering my
grandfather?—I only believed that it worked.) It was a great
3. success. Everyone praised me and I was invited to give the
speech at a gathering of the town's leading white citizens. It was
a triumph for the whole community.
It was in the main ballroom of the leading hotel. When I got
there I discovered that it was on the occasion of a smoker, and I
was told that since I was to be there anyway I might as well
take part in the battle royal to be fought by some of my
schoolmates as part of the entertainment. The battle royal came
first.
All of the town's big shots were there in their tuxedoes, wolfing
down the buffet foods, drinking beer and whiskey and smoking
black cigars. It was a large room with a high ceiling. Chairs
were arranged in neat rows around three sides of a portable
boxing ring. The fourth side was clear, revealing a gleaming
space of polished floor. I had some misgivings over the battle
royal, by the way. Not from a distaste for fighting but because I
didn't care too much for the other fellows who were to take part.
They were tough guys who seemed to have no grandfather's
curse worrying their minds. No one could mistake their
toughness. And besides, I suspected that fighting a battle royal
might detract from the dignity of my speech. In those pre-
invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T.
Washington. But the other fellows didn't care too much for me
either, and there were nine of them. I felt superior to them in
my way, and I didn't like the manner in which we were all
crowded together in the servants' elevator. Nor did they like my
being there. In fact, as the warmly lighted floors flashed past
the elevator we had words over the fact that I, by taking part in
the fight, had knocked one of their friends out of a night's work.
We were led out of the elevator through a rococo hall into an
anteroom and told to get into our fighting togs. Each of us was
issued a pair of boxing gloves and ushered out into the big
mirrored hall, which we entered looking cautiously about us and
whispering, lest we might accidentally be heard above the noise
of the room. It was foggy with cigar smoke. And already the
whiskey was taking effect. I was shocked to see some of the
4. most important men of the town quite tipsy. They were all
there-bankers, lawyers, judges, doctors, fire chiefs, teachers,
merchants. Even one of the more fashionable pastors.
Something we could not see was going on up front. A clarinet
was vibrating sensuously and the men were standing up and
moving eagerly forward. We were a small tight group, clustered
together, our bare upper bodies touching and shining with
anticipatory sweat: while up front the big shots were becoming
increasingly excited over something we still could not see.
Suddenly I heard the school superintendent, who had told me to
come, yell, "Bring up the shines, gentlemen! Bring up the little
shines!"
We were rushed up to the front of the ballroom, where it
smelled even more strongly of tobacco and whiskey. Then we
were pushed into place. I almost wet my pants. A sea of faces,
some hostile, some amused, ringed around us, and in the center,
facing us, stood a magnificent blonde—stark naked. There was
dead silence. I felt a blast of cold air chill me. I tried to back
away, but they were behind me and around me. Some of the
boys stood with lowered heads, trembling. I felt a wave of
irrational guilt and fear. My teeth chattered, my skin turned to
goose flesh, my knees knocked. Yet I was strongly attracted and
looked in spite of myself. Had the price of looking been
blindness, I would have looked. The hair was yellow like that of
a circus kewpie doll, the face heavily powdered and rouged, as
though to form an abstract mask, the eyes hollow and smeared a
cool blue, the color of a baboon's butt. I felt a desire to spit
upon her as my eyes brushed slowly over her body. Her breasts
were firm and round as the domes of East Indian temples, and I
stood so close as to see the fine skin texture and beads of pearly
perspiration glistening like dew around the pink and erected
buds of her nipples. I wanted at one and the same time to run
from the room, to sink through the floor, or go to her and cover
her from my eyes and the eyes of the others with my body; to
feel the soft thighs, to caress her and destroy her, to love her
and to murder her, to hide from her, and yet to stroke where
5. below the small American flag tattooed upon her belly her
thighs formed a capital V. I had a notion that of all in the room
she saw only me with her impersonal eyes.
And then she began to dance, a slow sensuous movement; the
smoke of a hundred cigars clinging to her like the thinnest of
veils. She seemed like a fair bird-girl girdled in veils calling to
me from the angry surface of some gray and threatening sea. I
was transported. Then I became aware of the clarinet playing
and the big shots yelling at us. Some threatened us if we looked
and others if we did not. On my right I saw one boy faint. And
now a man grabbed a silver pitcher from a table and stepped
close as he dashed ice water upon him and stood him up and
forced two of us to support him as his head hung and moans
issued from his thick bluish lips. Another boy began to plead to
go home. He was the largest of the group, wearing dark red
fighting trunks much too small to conceal the erection which
projected from him as though in answer to the insinuating low-
registered moaning of the clarinet. He tried to hide himself with
his
boxing gloves.
And all the while the blonde continued dancing, smiling faintly
at the big shots who watched her with fascination, and faintly
smiling at our fear. I noticed a certain merchant who followed
her hungrily, his lips loose and drooling. He was a large man
who wore diamond studs in a shirtfront which swelled with the
ample paunch underneath, and each time the blonde swayed her
undulating hips he ran his hand through the thin hair of his bald
head and, with his arms upheld, his posture clumsy like that of
an intoxicated panda, wound his belly in a slow and obscene
grind. This creature was completely hypnotized. The music had
quickened. As the dancer flung herself about with a detached
expression on her face, the men began reaching out to touch her.
I could see their beefy fingers sink into her soft flesh. Some of
the others tried to stop them and she began to move around the
floor in graceful circles, as they gave chase, slipping and
sliding over the polished floor. It was mad. Chairs went
6. crashing, drinks were spilt, as they ran laughing and howling
after her. They caught her just as she reached a door, raised her
from the floor, and tossed her as college boys are tossed at a
hazing, and above her red, fixed-smiling lips I saw the terror
and disgust in her eyes, almost like my own terror and that
which I saw in some of the other boys. As I watched, they
tossed her twice and her soft breasts seemed to flatten against
the air and her legs flung wildly as she spun. Some of the more
sober ones helped her to escape. And I started off the floor,
heading for the anteroom with the rest of the boys.
Some were still crying and in hysteria. But as we tried to leave
we were stopped and ordered to get into the ring. There was
nothing to do but what we were told. All ten of us climbed
under the ropes and allowed ourselves to be blindfolded with
broad bands of white cloth. One of the men seemed to feel a bit
sympathetic and tried to cheer us up as we stood with our backs
against the ropes. Some of us tried to grin. "See that boy over
there?" one of the men said. "I want you to run across at the bell
and give it to him right in the belly. If you don't get him, I'm
going to get you. I don't like his looks." Each of us was told the
same. The blindfolds were put on. Yet even then I had been
going over my speech. In my mind each word was as bright as a
flame. I felt the cloth pressed into place, and frowned so that it
would be loosened when I relaxed.
But now I felt a sudden fit of blind terror. I was unused to
darkness, it was as though I had suddenly found myself in a
dark room filled with poisonous cottonmouths. I could hear the
bleary voices yelling insistently for the battle royal to begin.
"Get going in there!"
"Let me at that big nigger!"
I strained to pick up the school superintendent's voice, as
though to squeeze some security out of that slightly more
familiar sound.
"Let me at those black sonsabitches!" someone yelled.
"No, Jackson, no!" another voice yelled. "Here, somebody, help
me hold Jack."
7. "I want to get at that ginger-colored nigger. Tear him limb from
limb," the first voice yelled.
I stood against the ropes trembling. For in those days I was
what they called ginger-colored, and he sounded as though he
might crunch me between his teeth like a crisp ginger cookie.
Quite a struggle was going on. Chairs were being kicked about
and I could hear voices grunting as with terrific effort. I wanted
to see, to see more desperately than ever before. But the
blindfold was as tight as a thick skin, puckering scab and when
I raised my gloved hands to push the layers of white aside a
voice yelled, “Oh, no you don't, black bastard! Leave that
alone!"
"Ring the bell before Jackson kills him a coon!" someone
boomed in the sudden silence. And I heard the bell clang and
the sound of the feet scuffling forward.
A glove smacked against my head. I pivoted, striking out stiffly
as someone went past, and felt the jar ripple along the length of
my arm to my shoulder. Then it seemed as though all nine of the
boys had turned upon me at once. Blows pounded me from all
sides while I struck out as best I could. So many blows landed
upon me that I wondered if I were not the only blindfolded
fighter in the ring, or if the man called Jackson hadn't
succeeded in getting me after all.
Blindfolded, I could no longer control my motions. I had no
dignity. I stumbled about like a baby or a drunken man. The
smoke had become thicker and with each new blow it seemed to
sear and further restrict my lungs. My saliva became like hot
bitter glue. A glove connected with my head, filling my mouth
with warm blood. It was everywhere. I could not tell if the
moisture I felt upon my body was sweat or blood. A blow
landed hard against the nape of my neck. I felt myself going
over, my head hitting the floor. Streaks of blue light filled the
black world behind the blindfold. I lay prone, pretending that I
was knocked out, but felt myself seized by hands and yanked to
my feet. "Get going, black boy! Mix it up!" My arms were like
lead, my head smarting from blows. I managed to feel my way
8. to the ropes and held on, trying to catch my breath. A glove
landed in my midsection and I went over again, feeling as
though the smoke had be- come a knife jabbed into my guts.
Pushed this way and that by the legs milling around me, I
finally pulled erect and discovered that I could see the black,
sweat- washed forms weaving in the smoky, blue atmosphere
like drunken dancers weaving to the rapid drum-like thuds of
blows.
Everyone fought hysterically. It was complete anarchy.
Everybody fought everybody else. No group fought together for
long. Two, three, four, fought one, then turned to fight each
other, were themselves attacked. Blows landed below the belt
and in the kidney, with the gloves open as well as closed, and
with my eye partly opened now there was not so much terror. I
moved carefully, avoiding blows, although not too many to
attract attention, fighting group to group. The boys groped
about like blind, cautious crabs crouching to protect their
midsections, their heads pulled in short against their shoulders,
their arms stretched nervously before them, with their fists
testing the smoke-filled air like the knobbed feelers of
hypersensitive snails. In one comer I glimpsed a boy violently
punching the air and heard him scream in pain as he smashed
his hand against a ring post. For a second I saw him bent over
holding his hand, then going down as a blow caught his
unprotected head. I played one group against the other, slip-
ping in and throwing a punch then stepping out of range while
pushing the others into the melee to take the blows blindly
aimed at me. The smoke was agonizing and there were no
rounds, no bells at three minute intervals to relieve our
exhaustion. The room spun round me, a swirl of lights, smoke,
sweating bodies surrounded by tense white faces. I bled from
both nose and mouth, the blood spattering upon my chest.
The men kept yelling, "Slug him, black boy! Knock his guts
out!"
"Uppercut him! Kill him! Kill that big boy!"
Taking a fake fall, I saw a boy going down heavily beside me as
9. though we were felled by a single blow, saw a sneaker-clad foot
shoot into his groin as the two who had knocked him down
stumbled upon him. I rolled out of range, feeling a twinge of
nausea.
The harder we fought the more threatening the men became.
And yet, I had begun to worry about my speech again. How
would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would they
give me?
I was fighting automatically when suddenly I noticed that one
after another of the boys was leaving the ring. I was surprised,
filled with panic, as though I had been left alone with an
unknown danger. Then I understood. The boys had arranged it
among themselves. It was the custom for the two men left in the
ring to slug it out for the winner's prize. I discovered this too
late. When the bell sounded two men in tuxedoes leaped into the
ring and removed the blindfold. I found myself facing Tatlock,
the biggest of the gang. I felt sick at my stomach. Hardly had
the bell stopped ringing in my ears than it clanged again and I
saw him moving swiftly toward me. Thinking of nothing else to
do I hit him smash on the nose. He kept coming, bringing the
rank sharp violence of stale sweat. His face was a black blank
of a face, only his eyes alive-with hate of me and aglow with a
feverish terror from what had happened to us all. I became
anxious. I wanted to deliver my speech and he came at me as
though he meant to beat it out of me. I smashed him again and
again, taking his blows as they came. Then on a sudden impulse
I struck him lightly and we clinched. I whispered, "Fake like I
knocked you out, you can have the prize." "I'll break your
behind," he whispered hoarsely.
"For them?"
"For me, sonafabitch!”
They were yelling for us to break it up and Tatlock spun me half
around with a blow, and as a joggled camera sweeps in a reeling
scene, I saw the howling red faces crouching tense beneath the
cloud of blue-gray smoke. For a moment the world wavered,
unraveled, flowed, then my head cleared and Tatlock bounced
10. before me. That fluttering shadow before my eyes was his
jabbing left hand. Then falling forward, my head against his
damp shoulder, I whispered.
"I'll make it five dollars more."
"Go to hell!"
But his muscles relaxed a trifle beneath my pressure and I
breathed, "Seven?" "Give it to your ma," he said, ripping me
beneath the heart.
And while I still held him I butted him and moved away. I felt
myself bombarded with punches. I fought back with hopeless
desperation. I wanted to de- liver my speech more than anything
else in the world, because I felt that only these men could judge
truly my ability, and now this stupid clown was ruining my
chances. I began fighting carefully now, moving in to punch
him and out again with my greater speed. A lucky blow to his
chin and I had him going too—until I heard a loud voice yell, "I
got my money on the big boy."
Hearing this, I almost dropped my guard. I was confused:
Should I try to win against the voice out there? Would not this
go against my speech, and was not this a moment for humility,
for nonresistance? A blow to my head as I danced about sent my
right eye popping like a jack-in-the-box and settled my
dilemma. The room went red as I fell. It was a dream fall, my
body languid and fastidious as to where to land, until the floor
became impatient and smashed up to meet me. A moment later I
came to. An hypnotic voice said FIVE emphatically. And I lay
there, hazily watching a dark red spot of my own blood shaping
itself into a butterfly, glistening and soaking into the soiled
gray world of the canvas.
When the voice drawled TEN I was lifted up and dragged to a
chair. I sat dazed. My eye pained and swelled with each throb of
my pounding heart and I wondered if now I would be allowed to
speak. I was wringing wet, my mouth still bleeding. We were
grouped along the wall now. The other boys ignored me as they
congratulated Tatlock and speculated as to how much they
would be paid. One boy whimpered over his smashed hand.
11. Looking up front, I saw attendants in white jackets rolling the
Portable ring away and placing a small square rug in the vacant
space surrounded by chain. Perhaps, I thought, I will stand on
the mg to deliver my speech.
Then the M.C. called to us. "Come on up here boys and get your
money."
We ran forward to where the men laughed and talked in their
chairs,
waiting. Everyone seemed friendly now.
"There it is on the rug," the man said. I saw the mg covered
with coins of all dimensions and a few crumpled bills. But what
excited me, scattered here and there, were the gold pieces.
"Boys, it's all yours," the man said. "You get all you grab."
"That's right, Sambo," a blond man said, winking at me
confidentially.
I trembled with excitement, forgetting my pain. I would get the
gold and the bills. I thought. I would use both hands. I would
throw my body against the boys nearest me to block them from
the gold.
"Get down around the rug now," the man commanded, "and
don't anyone touch it until I give the signal."
"This ought to be good," I heard.
As told, we got around the square rug on our knees. Slowly the
man raised his freckled hand as we followed it upward with our
eyes.
I heard, "These niggers look like they're about to pray!"
Then, "Ready", the man said. "Go!"
I lunged for a yellow coin lying on the blue design of the
carpet, touching it and sending a surprised shriek to join those
around me. I tried frantically to remove my hand but could not
let go. A hot, violent force tore through my body, shaking me
like a wet rat. The rug was electrified. The hair bristled up on
my head as I shook myself free. My muscles jumped, my nerves
jangled, writhed. But I saw that this was not stopping the other
boys. Laughing in fear and embarrassment, some were holding
back and scooping up the coins knocked off by the painful
12. contortions of others. The men roared above us as we struggled.
"Pick it up, goddamnit, pick it up!" someone called like a bass-
voiced parrot. "Go on, get it!"
I crawled rapidly around the floor, picking up the coins, trying
to avoid the coppers and to get greenbacks and the gold.
Ignoring the shock by laughing, as I brushed the coins off
quickly, I discovered that I could contain the electricity—a
contradiction but it works. Then the men began to push us onto
the rug. Laughing embarrassedly, we struggled out of their
hands and kept after the coins. We were all wet and slippery and
hard to hold. Suddenly I saw a boy lifted into the air, glistening
with sweat like a circus seat, and dropped, his wet back landing
flush upon the charged rug, heard him yell and saw him literally
dance upon his back, his elbows beating a frenzied tattoo upon
the floor, his muscles twitching like the flesh of a horse stung
by many flies. When be finally rolled off, his face was gray and
no one stopped him when he ran from the floor amid booming
laughter.
"Get the money," the M.C. called. "That's good hard American
cash!"
And we snatched and grabbed, snatched and grabbed. I was
careful not to come too close to the rug now, and when I felt the
hot whiskey breath descend upon me like a cloud of foul air I
reached out and grabbed the leg of a chair. It was occupied and
I held on desperately.
"Leggo, nigger! Leggo!"
The huge face wavered down to mine as he tried to push me
free. But my body was slippery and he was too drunk. It was
Mr. Colcord, who owned a chain of movie houses and
"entertainment palaces." Each time he grabbed me I slipped out
of his hands. It became a real struggle. I feared the rug more
than I did the drunk, so I held on, surprising myself for a
moment by trying to topple him upon the rug. It was such an
enormous idea that I found myself actually carrying it out. I
tried not to be obvious, yet when I grabbed his leg, trying to
tumble him out of the chair, he raised up roaring with laughter,
13. and, looking at me with soberness dead in the eye, kicked me
viciously in the chest. The chair leg flew out of my hand and I
felt myself going and rolled. It was as though I had rolled
through a bed of hot coals. It seemed a whole century would
pass before I would roll free, a century in which I was seared
through the deepest levels of my body to the fearful breath
within me and the breath seared and heated to the point of
explosion. It'll all be over in a flash, I thought as I rolled clear.
It'll all be over in a flash.
But not yet, the men on the other side were waiting, red faces
swollen as though from apoplexy as they bent forward in their
chairs. Seeing their fingers coming toward me I rolled away as a
fumbled football rolls off the receiver's finger, tips, back into
the coals. That time I luckily sent the rug sliding out of place
and heard the coins ringing against the floor and the boys
scuffling to pick them up and the M.C.
calling, "All right, boys, that's all. Go get dressed and get your
money."
I was limp as a dish rag. My back felt as though it had been
beaten with wires. When we had dressed the M.C. came in and
gave us each five dollars, except Tatiock, who got ten for being
the last in the ring. Then he told us to leave. I was not to get a
chance to deliver my speech, I thought. I was going out into the
dim alley in despair when I was stopped and told to go back. I
returned to the ballroom, where the men were pushing back
their chairs and gathering in small groups to talk.
The M.C. knocked on a table for quiet. "Gentlemen," he said,
"we almost forgot an important part of the program. A most
serious part, gentlemen. This boy was brought here to deliver a
speech which he made at his graduation yesterday . . ."
"Bravo!"
"I'm told that he is the smartest boy we've got out there in
Greenwood. I'm told that he knows more big words than a
pocket-sized dictionary." Much applause and laughter.
"So now, gentlemen, I want you to give him your attention."
There was still laughter as I faced them, my mouth dry, my eyes
14. throbbing. I began slowly, but evidently my throat was tense,
because they began shouting. "Louder! Louder!"
"We of the younger generation extol the wisdom of that great
leader and educator," I shouted, "who first spoke these flaming
words of wisdom: 'A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly
sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate
vessel was seen a signal: "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The
answer from the friendly vessel came back: "Cast down your
bucket where you are." The captain of the distressed vessel, at
last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came
up full of fresh sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon
River.' And like him I say, and in his words, 'To those of my
race who depend upon bettering their condition in a foreign
land, or who underestimate the importance of cultivating
friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is his next-
door neighbor, I would say: "Cast down your bucket where you
are'!—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the
people of all races by whom we are surrounded . . ."'
I spoke automatically and with such fervor that I did not realize
that the men were still talking and laughing until my dry mouth,
filling up with blood from the cut, almost strangled me. I
coughed, wanting to stop and go to one of the tall brass, sand-
filled spittoons to relieve myself, but a few of the men,
especially the superintendent, were listening and I was afraid.
So I gulped it down, blood, saliva and all, and continued. (What
powers of endurance I had during those days! What enthusiasm!
What a belief in the rightness of things!) I spoke even louder in
spite of the pain. But still they talked and still they laughed, as
though deaf with cotton in dirty ears. So I spoke with greater
emotional emphasis. I closed my ears and swallowed blood until
I was nauseated. The speech seemed a hundred times as long as
before, but I could not leave out a single word. All had to be
said, each memorized nuance considered, rendered. Nor was
that all. Whenever I uttered a word of three or more syllables a
group of voices would yell for me to repeat it. I used the phrase
"social responsibility" and they yelled: "What's the word you
15. say, boy?" "Social responsibility," I said.
"What?"
"Social . . ."
"Louder."
". . . responsibility."
"More!”
"Respon—"
“Repeat!"
"---sibility."
The room filled with the uproar of laughter until, no doubt,
distracted by having to gulp down my blood, I made a mistake
and yelled a phrase I had often seen denounced in newspaper
editorials, heard debated in private.
"Social . . ."
"What?" they yelled.
". . . equality—.”
The laughter hung smokelike in the sudden stillness. I opened
my eyes, puzzled. Sounds of displeasure filled the room. The
M.C. rushed forward. They shouted hostile phrases at me. But I
did not understand.
A small dry mustached man in the front row blared out, “Say
that slowly, son!
"What, sir?"
"What you just said!"
"Social responsibility, sir,” I said.
"You weren't being smart, were you boy?" he said, not
unkindly.
"No, Sir!"
"You sure that about 'equality' was a mistake?"
"Oh, yes, Sir," I said. "I was swallowing blood."
"Well, you had better speak more slowly so we can understand.
We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place
at all times. All right, now, go on with your speech."
I was afraid. I wanted to leave but I wanted also to speak and I
was afraid they'd snatch me down.
"T'hank you, Sir," I said, beginning where I had left off, and
16. having them ignore me as before.
Yet when I finished there was a thunderous applause. I was
surprised to see the superintendent come forth with a package
wrapped in white tissue paper, and, gesturing for quiet, address
the men.
"Gentlemen, you see that I did not overpraise the boy. He makes
a good speech and some day he'll lead his people in the proper
paths. And I don't have to tell you that this is important in these
days and times. This is a good, smart boy, and so to encourage
him in the right direction, in the name of the Board of
Education I wish to present him a prize in the form of this . . ."
He paused, removing the tissue paper and revealing a gleaming
calfskin briefcase.
". . . in the form of this first-class article from Shad Whitmore's
shop."
"Boy," he said, addressing me, "take this prize and keep it well.
Consider it a badge of office. Prize it. Keep developing as you
are and some day it will be filled with important papers that
will help shape the destiny of your people."
I was so moved that I could hardly express my thanks. A rope of
bloody saliva forming a shape like an undiscovered continent
drooled upon the leather and I wiped it quickly away. I felt an
importance that I had never dreamed.
"Open it and see what's inside," I was told.
My fingers a-tremble, I complied, smelling fresh leather and
finding an official-looking document inside. It was a
scholarship to the state college for Negroes. My eyes filled with
tears and I ran awkwardly off the floor.
I was overjoyed; I did not even mind when I discovered the gold
pieces I had scrambled for were brass pocket tokens advertising
a certain make of automobile.
When I reached home everyone was excited. Next day the
neighbors came to congratulate me. I even felt safe from
grandfather, whose deathbed curse usually spoiled my triumphs.
I stood beneath his photograph with my briefcase in hand and
smiled triumphantly into his stolid black peasant's face. It was a
17. face that fascinated me. The eyes seemed to follow everywhere
I went.
That night I dreamed I was at a circus with him and that he
refused to laugh at the clowns no matter what they did. Then
later he told me to open my briefcase and read what was inside
and I did, finding an official envelope stamped with the state
seal: and inside the envelope I found another and another,
endlessly, and I thought I would fall of weariness. "Them's
years," he said. "Now open that one." And I did and in it I found
an engraved stamp containing a short message in letters of gold.
"Read it," my grandfather said. "Out loud."
"To Whom It May Concern," I intoned. "Keep This Nigger-Boy
Running." I awoke with the old man's laughter ringing in my
ears.