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- I happen to be doing some research on work for a paper I'm writing. All the studies I've come across so far point to a serious loss of efficiency and increase in number of accidents with increases in the number of hours worked. It's a health and safety issue. Point out to them the high likelihood of an increase in workers comp claims, and a consequent increase in their insurance rates, if they keep it up. Email me if you need specific citations.
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Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,First, there are laws about breaks and lunch hours. Second, there are many studies showing that productivity and accuracy go way down if too many hours are worked without a break. Many accidents, including nuclear power plant accidents, are due to people working long shifts without a break. You can find more about this by looking for 'human factors' research.User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,It depends on how you define feminism, and who you are looking at. Do we define feminism as the struggle for women to get paid as well as men for the same job? That's still ongoing. Do we include the struggle to get taken as seriously as men, by both men and women? That's still ongoing. I suspect that people still in high school don't see a lot of the day-to-day stuff of feminism because there aren't active demonstrations and struggles in the daily news or on TV. That's because it's reached the point of everyday life now, instead of being news. Let me tell you a little about high school when I was your age: all the girls had to take Home Ec, and all the boys had to take shop. The only girls' sports teams were softball and field hockey. Very few girls took chemistry or physics, and the teachers for those classes never called on the few girls in the class. Counselors gave very different advice to boys applying for college than they did for girls. In phys ed classes, boys got to wear shorts and t-shirts, but girls had to wear special romper-style uniforms. Aptitude tests had, I kid you not, pink-colored answer sheets for girls and blue-colored ones for boys.Is your high school like that? If not, then feminism is still alive. If your girls' basketball team is playing in tournaments, your health sciences prep classes have equal numbers of girls and boys and the part-time jobs at fast food places that you hold after school pay equal minimum wages to guys and gals, then feminism is alive.
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Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,Yeah, girls sometimes still want guys to do the heavy lifting. And guys have their lazy moments, too, expecting girls to do the dishes. We all secretly want to have all the perks of being an adult human being while doing the minimum amount of work/responsibility. Some of the excuses we use to get out of doing something are gender-related because that excuse happens to be handy. My spouse says: 'Can't you sew on this button? You're better at it,' even though he is in the same house with the same needles and thread in the cabinet as I am. For each time you hear a female saying, 'But can't you do it, you're the guy?' look for an equal number of times that you expect someone else to do the work because they're a girl (your mom to do the laundry, etc.) - see if it balances out. And see if you don't hear a lot of other excuses that aren't really indications that someone doesn't want to do something regardless of gender.User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,Maybe you just notice them more in some areas. Around here in Austin, there are sneakers hanging off telephone wires in every neighborhood in the city, especially near the high schools. All of them, even the whitest ones, even the rich neighborhoods. It seems to be a high school thing. So I don't think it's a black/ghetto thing; I think you are just more likely to be observing your surroundings in those neighborhoods, whereas you take for granted your own neighborhood and don't observe it so closely.User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,That would vary by state. You can leave home even earlier than 17, if you can become 'emancipated' - that is, prove to a court that you can support yourself at least as well alone as your family can support you and will not be harmed by living away from your family; I have seen cases where a minor of 15 managed to convince a psychologist, and then, with the psychologist's help, the court ruled she was better off without her family than with them.User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,I've never tried passing as a Canadian. And both my spouse and I have done our best to be good tourists - learning enough Spanish to be polite and to shop when visiting Mexico; brushing up on high school German so that we could be polite in Germany; I even learned some French before visiting Quebec. Among other things, this bit of what I considered basic tourist preparation led to our being asked for directions by both American and French tourists in several cities in Germany! We've never worn shorts into a museum, church, or historic site; never demanded American food at a foreign restaurant. We know how to read maps, we know how to change currency; we know how to use the post office and the telephone booths. So what's your problem?User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,I don't like excessive amounts of any physical feature - I don't like excessively muscled bodies, or excessively hairy, etc. A moderate amount of hair is fine. I also find that if I get to know a person and like them, I stop noticing how much hair, or muscles, or anything else, they have - even weight sort of fades into invisibility once I know a person.User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,By 'pampered,' do you mean 'educated'? What are your reasons for thinking of NPR announcers, or listeners, as pampered? I'm certainly not- I work two jobs, and am paying my way through graduate school at the same time; I've been working and paying cash for college, undergrad and graduate, since I was 16. I don't believe I've ever had the chance to be pampered. Have I missed some benefit I was supposed to get by listening to NPR, other than the benefits I know about, such as coverage of topics no other news medium covers?User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,I think that for many people - certainly for me - there are two major reasons for abandoning 'faith' - (1) Becoming educated enough to notice and compare the contradictions within religions and between religions, and (2) becoming observant enough of daily life to notice that religion doesn't work - that prayers are not answered, that people who follow a religion are not happier, more successful, or anything else that indicates religion is doing anything for them. The more I learn about religions, including the one I was brought up in as a child, the less I like about them. And yes, I do read about them, and have read the 'bible' and other religious works; I do not abandon religion out of ignorance, but out of knowledge.User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,My experience is that in general, elderly people of any race are more polite, except for a few very very very cranky ones, than young people. I suspect that if you observed as carefully the white, hispanic, etc. people you serve, as you do the black people, you would notice this too about every race. In other words, it's a generational thing, not a race thing.User Detail :
Name : Kelly, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, City : Austin, State : TX Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,
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