For the past week‚ I’ve gotten the liberty to attend Harvard University to take a class on justice. The professor’s name is Michael Sanders. He started the class off by introducing the topic to us as Justice: What’s the right thing to do? I believe the next thing was a do now‚ he was telling us a story. He told the story so that we can imagine it as if it was us in that position. The story was about you driving your car‚ and your brakes stop working‚ then you notice straight ahead that there are
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Are Paid What They Are Worth No‚ Chief Executive Officers (CEO’s) are not paid what they are worth. Finding data to support this argument was rather difficult. Most of the data available supports the belief that CEO’s are overpaid. Data used to support the statement that CEO’s are paid what they are worth is from companies listed on the Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500). The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) (2014) website suggests that not all CEOs receive multimillion dollar salaries
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“When stop chasing the wrong things‚ you give the right things a chance to catch you.” (Unknown) Many people get scored to show their courage for the right thing. What gives you and your peers to do the right thing with courage? Your peers and yourself do have courage because people do have that someone in life‚ that helps encourage them. It’s just buried inside and you need to show people you’re courage to do the right thing. People just don’t want to disappoint anyone. In this short story
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1. Explain the difference between a proprietary technology and an infrastructural technology. a. Proprietary technology is confidential information that is taken and used to gain a competitive advantage. Small businesses can own proprietary technologies and can be used to maintain a long term advantage; gaining higher profits than rival companies. Infrastructure technology is computer hardware‚ software‚ data‚ storage technology‚ and networks providing a portfolio of shared IT resources for the
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Do the Right Thing “Wake up! Wake up! Up you wake!” 108FM Senor LoveDaddy starts it all off with a good morning and the weather “Today’s temperature’s gonna rise up over 100 degrees.” Brooklyn‚ New York‚ a town with Koreans‚ Jews‚ Italians‚ whites‚ and a lot of blacks seem to be living to together just fine. Yet in such a small town who would have ever guessed that problems this big could ever occur about such a simple thing‚ race. In this multi-ethnic community the thought of others being racist
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There are a lot of things to do in your spare time‚ however‚ the thing that I like to do most is to write. My passion for writing developed at a very young age. I have always had a thing for writing whatever comes to my mind and thing taking the time to read those silly things. So whenever you have reached the point of boredom and do not have anything else to do just pick up a pen and a piece of paper and write whatever comes to mind. When the time comes for you to develop something that you know
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Jionne McMichael November 17‚ 2012 Art of Film Color As A Formalistic Device in Do The Right Thing Spike Lee presents his "truth" about race relations in his movie Do the Right Thing. The film illustrates the spectacle of black discrimination and racial altercations and portrayed the “true” realities of an African American living in the 1980s. The movie is set in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn‚ New York on the hottest day in the summer where racial tensions are growing
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“We are home!” On Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing With his Do the Right Thing producer‚ director‚ and actor Spike Lee has succeeded in creating a truely controversial film that leaves its audience with questions and a source for a lively discussion. And indeed many have taken the opportunity to comment on Lee’s work‚ mostly ignoring its general aspects and rather focussing on its message or deeper meaning. The film deals with both social and racial relationships and shows a community in which
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Why Standardized Testing Should Not Be A Graduation Requirement Standardized testing has been apart of American education since the mid1800s. U.S. students have slipped in performance from 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 31st place in 2009. Failure in the education system have been blamed on rising poverty levels‚ teacher quality‚ and increasingly on the pervasive use of standardized testing. Standardized testing should not be a graduation requirement because testing has not improved student achievement
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The movie Do the Right Thing‚ written and directed by Spike Lee‚ has a man vs. society and man vs man theme. As a drama this movie shows the racial tensions in Bedford-Stuyvesant‚ Brooklyn in 1989. The setting is of the neighborhood street is important to this movie because the story is about the community dealing with being suppressed and racism. In Do the Right Thing‚ the film is shot on location with the addition of Sal’s Restaurant. The street corner is Malcom X Boulevard and Quincy Street
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