Is Business Ethics the Way Forward For Organisations? Examining the Advantages and Disadvantages

 When considering the use of business ethics in organisations big and small, which trade on a national and international basis; it is important to assess whether using business ethics is the way forward for organisations and businesses as a whole. This essay will assess this argument in a balanced fashion by looking at the … Read more

Communication Privacy Management Theory & Why We Disclose Personal Information

 The Communication Privacy Management Theory is a systemic research theory designed to develop evidence-based understanding of the way people make decisions about revealing or concealing their private information (Petronio, 2015). Privacy boundaries are created based on the advantages or expenses that come with information disclosure that draw divisions between private and public information (Petronio, … Read more

Banning Plastic Straws: The Battle for Freedom vs. Security

 Plastic straws have become an important part of today’s society and for this reason, these hollow, thin plastics are often taken for granted. The movement to ban straws focuses on plastic pollution and how it negatively affects the environment and our species. Plastics have become a huge part of everyday life as it has … Read more

Black Lives Matter Movement: Fighting Racial Profiling in America

 Black Lives Matter Movement and Racial Profiling Alisha Joseph Ms. Jenkins English 101-Monday 11/5/18 Black Lives Matter Movement and Racial Profiling African Americans have always been historically been treated as less than Caucasians in America. Black people have been enslaved since the beginning and founding of America. White people had used their power to … Read more

Uncovering Implicit Bias in America: Police, Judges and Society Impacted by Unseen Attitudes

 Implicit bias is defined as the the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner (Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity).  It is something that is learned from our surroundings: family, society, friends, etc. The issue with implicit bias is that it is not necessarily … Read more

Promtheus Bound: Aeschylus’ Support of Rebelling against Zeus’ Conformity

In Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus illustrates the clash between rebellion and conformity. Aeschylus heightens this confrontation by placing the mythological figures of Prometheus and Zeus at loggerheads over giving humans the use of fire. The stakes could not be greater and the personalities are vastly larger than life. However, this is no dry recitation of objective … Read more

Has the Public’s View on Black Dissent Changed Over Time?

Racism in America is dated back to have started when people from Africa were imported to be put into slavery without a choice since they were seen as inferior people. Since then African-Americans have expressed dissent against the social injustices they have faced socially, and politically. For example, Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and … Read more

White Prospects & Black Cultures in American Society by Toni and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Addressing the Influence of White Prospective and Black Culture on American Society In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison talks about the impact of white beauty ideals on the black community, while in Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates breaks down a return to African reverence and beauty in the black community. Toni Morrison provides … Read more

Exploring the Global Impact of Jamaican Reggae Music: Bob Marley & the Rastafarian Outlook

Nearly fifty years ago, Jamaica received independence from Great Britain, but that was not the only obstacle Jamaicans had to encounter. In the 1970’s Jamaica had experienced an urban social crisis where the poverty rate was at an all time high. Reggae music first emerged in Jamaica with the sole purpose of being the voice … Read more

“Understanding Black Lives Matter: A Civil Rights Movement Revived

The Civil Rights movement in The United States of America came to a closing around 50 years ago. While some may have thought that the United States would become less racially discriminating after the election of the first black president in 2008, there has been continued violence and oppression which has brought around a new … Read more

Ta-Nehisi Coates Writes to His Son: Combatting Racism in the US

Discrimination towards us is never over: many fellow African-Americans tell themselves and others every single day. One father/author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, published “Letter to my son” on July 4th, 2015 on The Atlantic, and he is writing a letter to his son discussing the discrimination they went through years prior and now. Coates builds his credibility … Read more