Imagine yourself walking in the middle of the night‚ and suddenly‚ a person approaches you with a gun and threatens to rob you of all your possessions. Take a moment to focus on the robber’s physical appearance‚ what does the robber look like? Regardless of what the robber looks like‚ the physical characteristics of him or her have no actual significance. The purpose of this scenario is to show how visualizing and defining a criminal based on physical features is a form of active participation within
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According to Heather Collins‚ successful thinking is “carefully reasoning about and actively engaging with your environment” and also “asking lots of questions”. Collins tells a childhood story about her as a young girl. She explains that “[she asked her] mom too many questions [and] asking all those questions when [she] was young was actually a good thing”. Collins states that constantly being curious and asking questions as a child is what made her a successful thinker today. Successful thinking
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Good To Great by Jim Collins Chapter 9: From Good to Great to Built to Last Chapter Summary: • Four Conclusions: 1. Great companies from Built to Last evidence shows that early leaders followed good-to-great framework. The only difference is that they were entrepreneurs in small business‚ as opposed to CEO’s. 2. Apply Good to Great concepts to sustain results‚ as a
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In the story “Hunger games” by Susan Collins‚ the main character‚ Katniss Everdeen is forced into the hunger games. Over a 3 year course‚ Katniss shows a great deal of changes in and out of the Arena. Katniss must leave her family including her younger sister Prim to take care of herself. Katniss herself is not certain she will return. She leaves all the responsibility in her sister’s hands. Once the 74th hunger games is over‚ katniss returns home to her mother and her sister only go straight back
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The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow‚ written by Michelle Alexander‚ gives a brief history recount of the past caste systems that have oppressed African-Americans and proposes that today there is a new caste system. She suggests that today’s caste system is created by the U.S. criminal justice system by targeting black men and incarcerating them. In other words‚ she says that today’s racial caste is based on the mass incarceration of African-Americans. She supports her claims by providing an abundant
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the essay‚ “The Specter of Slavery” by Jane Collins‚ analyzes the relationship between workfare and economic citizenship. Collins observes the relationship between workfare and economic citizenship through numerous interviews of individuals residing in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. In order for us to understand the impact workfare has on economic citizenship‚ we must comprehend the relationship between workfare and economic citizenship. In her essay‚ Collins interviews numerous women residing in Milwaukee
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Good to Great: Responding to Change. I think that Jim Collins’ book is essential for future entrepreneurs‚ managers‚ and leaders in the Philippines. The tips given by the author are useful in the dynamic‚ ever-changing‚ and constantly fluctuating business environment of the Philippines. Jim Collins described the kind of leader who can address these changes as a Level 5 leader "a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will." The Level 5 leader is not the "corporate savior" or "turnaround
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In Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina 1896-1920‚ Glenda Gilmore exposed the benefits of adjusting our angle in studying the southern political narrative of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In studying elite‚ educated‚ black and white women‚ Gilmore found sources that voiced the opinions and views of these women. By placing educated black and white women at the center of her study‚ Gilmore revealed how the political activism and mutual
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In chapter two of Michelle Anderson’s “The New Jim Crow‚” Alexander explains how the system of mass incarceration works. Anderson argues that the War on Drugs has led to the increment of African Americans in state and federal prisons for non-serious drug violations (possession). Most of these men have no serious criminal histories and are rarely drug kings or high ranked drug dealers. Due to the government’s persistence in making the community safer by removing “criminals‚” they have developed programs
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contestants something they desperately needed. I like how the author came up with these ideas‚ how she explained that the game makers did all these cruel things‚ for the sanguinary capitol people‚ who enjoyed watching these boys and girls kill each other. Collins made Katniss look like a very thoughtful‚ warm-hearted and intelligent girl with a special talent for hunting. During the hunger games Katniss never meant to directly kill people or hunt them down. She only hid and ran and defended herself when she
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