In researching my report on alcohol advertising, I came across underage drinking and what influences someone under the age of 21 to drink. I today’s society, I don’t believe that the under 21 age group is influenced by alcohol advertisements, such as television and magazines, but more so by their peers as well as how they are raised by their parent(s) as well as how much time the parent(s) spend with their children. After one graduates from high school it usually means that the person will go off to college and the perception being that there will be a lot of parties, drinking and just being away from the parent(s). At college, in order to fit in and become part of a fraternity, the person has to through a hazing process which has been part of college life for years and proving to your “brothers or sisters” how much alcohol you can handle in order to be accepted. There has been a lot of repercussions relating to hazing which has caused many young adults to die from this initiation process. Today, many colleges have banned alcohol hazing and put policies in place should one be caught drinking and that individual(s) would have to pay the repercussions, such as being dismissed from the college permanently. Parents know what it’s like going to college and what happens when their child/children are there and hopefully the parents have enough trust and confidence in their child/children that they will take the appropriate actions when it comes to drinking and also the child/children should know what the consequences will be if they are participating in any type campus drinking. A parent can’t always be around their child/children 24/7. One website I found was Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), www.madd.org. I found this website very informative and had a lot of interesting topics and stories as to what MADD is all about. MADD was started by Candy Lightner in 1980 along with other women from California when a “drunk driver who was a repeat-offender killed a teenage girl”. MADD is a non-profit organization, is known nationally and has agencies all over the United States. The MADD Website has many articles on underage drinking including an article on college drinking. A national poll was done with college-age individuals and found that 70% favor 21 as the minimum age to sell or serve alcohol and 65% want strongly to have rules enforced (The Robert wood Johnson Foundation).
Companies say they empower their employees and communities to do more or be better. What does that truly mean? According to The World Bank (2015), “Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes” (para 1). Lowe’s introduced a program in 2014 to develop its women leaders, pairing vice presidents with women store managers to develop and expand Lowe’s leadership team. In 2015, the company will leverage the program with a new group of store managers and launch a new mentoring program to pair women and minority store managers with market directors
Reframing Organizations is based on the belief that this kind of empowerment is critical for individual and organizational success. A relationship with
Managers need to provide the vision for their employees and instill confidence. Too many times, employees are held back by not having the power to make even the simplest of decisions without approval. Managers should empower their employees and trust that they are giving their total effort. This will give managers more time to work on plans to achieve the long-term goals of the company.
Perhaps one of the greatest ways Fitzgerald establishes the horrific times of the 1920s occurs when he evokes sympathy for Gatsby regarding his tragic death and the after affects. One night, after being in New York City for the day, Daisy and Gatsby are driving back to Daisy’s home. Daisy’s husband, Tom, has not remained faithful to her since their wedding day and he is in an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. The road from New York City back to Daisy’s home travels past the home of Myrtle Wilson. As Daisy and Gatsby are driving by, Myrtle sees the car and recognizes that Tom was driving it earlier. Thinking that Tom is currently driving the car, Myrtle thinks that Tom has come to get her and take her with him. Myrtle then runs out to the car, but the car does not stop because Daisy is driving it, and ends up accidentally hitting and killing Myrtle. However, when George Wilson finds out that his wife has been killed, he is wrongly told that Gatsby was the one driving the vehicle. George Wilson becomes so upset by this that he goes to Gatsby house and shoots him. This event creates sympathy for Gatsby because he gets killed for an crime that he did not commit. Gatsby’s tell also signifies his love for Daisy and how he was willing to take the blame for the murder, so that Daisy would not suffer any
Robbins, Chatterjee, and Canda (2012) describes empowerment as the process of gaining power by accessing resources that will permit people to control the situations in their life (p.
Being that I was a teenage girl not that long ago, I know that I personally would have taken this approach very negatively. The way her mother refers to her as a slut multiple times throughout the text seems very accusatory and demeaning. When you’re a teenager, everything your parents say seems stupid or pointless. Her mother is shooting off insults and pounding mounds of information into her head. No one learns through condescending tone and insult, especially not a girl coming of age. Not to say that her daughter won’t learn these life lessons over time. It takes more than a day to learn everything that her mother was teaching her throughout this short story. She also seems to be relatively young and immature. Although I 'm sure her mother is just trying to prepare her to be a responsible adult in the real world, the way she goes about doing so doesn 't seem
Empowerment is commonly confused with incentivizing employees. In many cases, there are no consequences for employee empowerment gone wrong, but some actually have severe consequences for the business. A recent example of this phenomenon is the Wells Fargo fiasco. Wells Fargo employees were incentivized in a way that made them behave unethically to meet standards and gain rewards. This skill application, will discuss Wells Fargo could have used other methods of empowering and engaging employees, which probably would have had a less harmful effect on their business and how they should act in the future.
As defined by McWhirter (1991), empowerment refers to helping individuals and groups develop an awareness of the role of power and privilege in their lives, helping them develop knowledge and skills for appropriately taking control over their life situations and helping them empower others in the community.
It leaves you questioning if this young girls mother is having a talk with her daughter about how to represent herself as a classy lady because she hasn 't done so in the past. Her mother states many times throughout the text that she 's trying to help “prevent you from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming” (Kincaid 120). The text ends with the girl simply asking “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread”? (Kincaid 120). In which her mother scolds her “You mean that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread”? (Kincaid 121). The young girl barely rarely speaks through out the story leaving the question of weather she took what her mother was saying to seriously. Her rare remarks have a slight condescending tone to them almost as if she 's not phased by her mothers
...within their organizations as the primary factor for success. Although empowerment has become somewhat of a “buzz'; word within the business arena, it’s power is nonetheless stronger than any other tool used by leaders to get results from people. Because in its most simple form, empowerment is sharing the decision-making process with others, it is closely related to courage. Those companies that have stood the test of time, such as Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Nordstrom, and Wal-Mart have infused into their organizations the practices of empowering their employees.
The short story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid deals with being a young female in a poor country. This can be seen because Kincaid’s complicated relationship with her own mother is illustrated with the mother-daughter dynamic in the story. As I continued to read the story, I saw bitterness and worriness from the mother grow towards her daughter as she became a teenager. Throughout the story, the mother would tell her daughter, “this is how you do this… and you must act like this,” forcing the young women to act and be someone she did not want to be. It was like she was protective of her daughter and did not want her to ruin her life. Throughout the whole story, the mother was telling the daughter how to do chores a certain way so when she grew into a woman she knew how to do them
George decides to avenge Myrtle’s death. And with this Tom tells George it was Gatsby’s car, “…What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy 's, but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you 'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car…” Whereas Myrtle ran into the middle of the road, “A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting-before he could move from his door the business was over.” (Fitzgerald. 111). Gatsby’s murder is a setup, or at least pre meditated, Myrtle’s was a result of running into traffic, and even a deserved killing as Daisy is driving the car. Still earned or not, Daisy committed manslaughter by her careless driving. “…there was no need to listen for the heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.” (Fitzgerald. 111) and even proceeds to drive away, “… Anyhow-Daisy stepped on it. I tried to make her stop, but she couldn 't, so I pulled on the emergency brake. Then she fell over into my lap and I drove on.” (Fitzgerald. 111) Leaving Gatsby to hide his car and take the fall for her
Empowerment is about decision-making and autonomy, personal and professionally. Nancy should have empowered her staff’s nurses with the opportunity to be involved in the organization decision-making process. When nurses can influence and control their nursing practice, their autonomy, confidence, and commitment to the organization increase (Manojlovich, 2007). Organizations that empowered nurses to act and guide their everyday challenges using their professional skills, knowledge, and own judgment, shows positives patient outcomes, and less nurse turnover, burnout, dissatisfaction, stress, and powerlessness among their staff (Rao,
Empowerment is another feature of post bureaucracy. It represents organizations awarding power and authority to those lower in the organizational hierarchy (Knights & Willmott, 2007). To some extent empowerment could be beneficial to a organization because empowerment would allow the workers to work...
...ht. Hiring the right people and training/developing them into the role of an empowered employee takes time and patience, but the result can be very successful if done correctly. Many companies in very different industries have had great results because of their abilities to motivate and empower their staffs. Although companies may have different ways of going about motivating employees, if they follow their core philosophy to the point, the employees could buy into it as well. As a result, the companies will be more profitable in the end.