GLSEN specifically has a campaign against saying homophobic slurs called Thinkb4youspeak. They realize that people may not mean to be offensive when they say words like gay, fag, and dike, but they still say that it’s unacceptable and that people saying these words don’t
Distractions of Student Life It can be quite difficult to manage both an academic life of study and a life of joy. While there are many joys to be found within the arts of academia, having a social life is also sometimes necessary in order to help a healthy mind to function at its best. Focusing one's self solely on responsibilities to their school work can lead to one quickly burning out, but paying too little attention to them can also prove detrimental. There are many distractions in college such as environmental, financial, medical, sexual, and technological. The key, as with everything, is balance.
A ton of individuals from the outside came in and took temporary positions to fill their roles in the factory, making a hostile environment in the area. Cars were vandalized, and people were threatened. Luckily this all ended, and there came to be an agreement granting them their rights. It was interesting to read into both sides of a similar story such as this one, and maybe I’m somewhat biased, but I still can’t help but side with the union in this particular case. The company had accomplished multiple unfair practices, from interrogating employees to not recognizing their bargaining rights.
June Tangney, psychology educator and researcher born in New York, believes that there’s another way to punish a person rather than putting them behind bars. She believes that jail time does not make a person feel guilty, where he’s obliged to feel bad about his/her actions and would want to change those behaviors but it makes him/her feel humiliated which automatically gives a false sense or certainty that person is a bad person and there is no changing that. She states that, “Punishment aimed at public humiliation certainly appeal to our sense of moral righteousness” (570) and “rather than fostering constructive change, shame often makes a bad situation worse” (570). For starters, Tangney emotional appeal was strong. Right off the back she acknowledges the opposition.
People do not see the harassment in the same perspective, because what may come as an inappropriate to one person may be viewed as appropriate to another. Our society has many questions regarding sexual harassment: what can be considered sexual harassment? What is it exactly? Some doubtful acts or behavior may be perceived as normal to one individual while it is unwelcome to the other. A sexual harassment can be defined as “uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature” (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 2004, 252).
As he spends time with her family, they make racial comments that alarm him, but he does not show it because he is putting up a different persona to get them to like him. He tries his best to keep his shadow a secret and not reveal his true feelings towards them. In the middle of the night, he escapes the bedroom because he feels constraint and is forced to act like someone else other than himself in that house. While he is outside, he witnesses Walter, one of the workers, acting strange as if he was someone else. However, this was not the only scenario he saw one of the workers acting strangely.
It is becoming clear that custody evaluators tend to approach these cases with a culturally insensitive approach toward sexual orientation. This phenomenon is similar to the “color-blind” approach, which ignores differences between various racial groups, often times stripping them of their identity and unique needs. While it may seem politically correct to treat cases involving a same-sex parent as you would treat cases involving two heterosexual parents, failing to acknowledge and address critical differences in these cases violates our ethical responsibilities not only to our profession, but also ignores what is best for the children involved. The continuation of this research is vital in creating appropriate guidelines for custody evaluators and developing the proper training for psychologists to become competent to work on these specific types of cases. Moving this research forward as a dissertation project combines my passion for issues of diversity with my interest in the legal system.
Many whistleblowers remain at their place of employment after coming forward since it is illegal to fire someone for it. However, those people often experience symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia and headaches. In these types of situations, there are sometimes retaliatory acts against the whistleblowers causing them heightened stress and discomfort in their job. Stress can also be caused by being closely supervised or alienated by fellow employees. Termination • Some people have been terminated for whistleblowing even though it is illegal.
Courageous people will even decide for not taking an action if there are certain impulses which press them to do unethical things. In this case, “no action” is an action too. Conversely, a procrastinator in the sense of urgency may choose forced or brutal or blind bravery without sufficient mental shrewdness, and does not care about the impact of his/her actions, because he/she lacks of good assessment of faced fear and
I believe that the main reason for this erroneous behavior is to “save face”. In layman’s language it may refer to the act of avoiding the angry thrashing of parents due to bad results and in the process averting embarrassment of being labeled an academic flop. However, this is not the only reason why they cheat. Historically, this type of behavior has been traditionally studied by sociologists as either being abnormal or unusual behavior. Theories of aberrant or unusual behavior have been time and again used as possible explanations as to why they cheat (Lathrop & Foss, 2000).