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  1. Dec 2019
    1. Structural changes will also influence bio-diversity, driving alterations in habitats andresources for species at higher trophic levels

      i feel like we have been hearing about this for so long but hear worse things as time goes by. theres already a number of endangered species and we continue to not care. i really do hope it changes and we as humans work on climate change to help ourselves as well as other species.

    2. Europeand eastern North America experienced un-usually large temperature changes since theLGM, owing to depressed temperatures nearthe large ice sheets, and these regions showsubstantial compositional and structural changessince the LGP.

      this is really scary being that real drastic environmental changes are still occurring and will continue to worsen. temperatures like these are unusual and a cause of years mistreatment to earth

    3. Our results indicate that the magnitude ofpast glacial-to-interglacial warming was suffi-cientatmostlocationsacrosstheglobetodrivechanges in vegetation composition that weremoderate (27% of sites) to large (71%), as well asmoderate (28%) to large (67%) structural changes(Fig. 1 and table S3). These changes were par-ticularly evident at mid- to high latitudes in theNorthern Hemisphere, as well as in southernSouth America, tropical and temperate south-ern Africa, the Indo-Pacific region,

      this is also from what we discussed in class, theres no way to save the planet if not everyone is working together. it has to be literally everyone to fix damage done from many many years

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    1. Even though I assured participants that their identities would be hidden, one Uber driver emailed after an interview to reiterate the importance of not mentioning him by name. He explained, “Uber for me is a feeling like ‘when you get really drunk and regret whatever you did last night.’ That’s exactly it. I really don’t want to be associated as an Uber driver at any point of my life. I really don’t want it to come up when people search my name on Google.”Another driver, who had previously worked as a professional gambler, said that his embar-rassed wife told him not to tell people that he drove for Ub

      this saddens me because no job is less than another. i guess being embarrassed from being an uber driver is common but i feel . like it shouldn't be because work is work. people just raise the standards for themselves and that isn't bad but when it comes to being embarrassed about something you do then it is.

    2. For instance, Uber drivers are expected maintain at least a 4.6 rating (out of 5 stars) and to accept at least 80% of ride requests; failure to do so can result in deactivation (Hullinger, 2015). Airbnb hosts must respond within 24 h or their account will also be temporarily deac-tivated. For those sites where the client

      also, being an uber's user, a driver once told me that in uber pool they dont even get a say to whether or not they take an extra ride. it will automatically add it to his drive. this is add on of responsive requirement they have to maintain.

    3. t the same time, the sharing economy promises to transcend capitalism in favour of community. Supporters argue the shar-ing economy will reverse economic inequal-ity, stop ecological destruction, counter materialistic tendencies, enhance worker rights and empower the poor

      i feel like i understand why they think that the sharing of the economy with these companies is a form of helping the economy, but there are methods in which uber for example follows and takes place in even just being a member of the application. air bnb is another one with many regulations and penalties for not obeying these regulations.

  3. Nov 2019
    1. studies in the working-class schools is also largely mechani- cal, rote work that was given little explanation or connection to larger context

      these schools reflect on societies views on classes. it requires having money to processed to higher level of institutions

    2. The third school is called the Middle-class School , alth

      unlike the first class "working class" this class require just a little bit more skill. these would be the well-paid workers, more on the trade type of skills

    3. The first two schools I will call Working-class Schools. Most of the parents have blue-collar jobs. Less than a third of the fathers are skilled, while the majority are in unskilled or se

      the first type of school where it requires little to no skills professions. Its a role that doesnt need much skills unlike other ones. this is also being put into a class, being the lower class

    1. Walmart has done all it can to address these problems without impact-ing costs-which is to say, they have done almost nothing at all. Like its peers,

      it is not surprising that walmart did nothing to address and do any changes toward the problems they are facing. Its a very successful company where they feel it is not required to make proper changes. "they have done almost nothing at all"

    2. orporate solutions fail to address the problems and are a poor substitute for worker power and true supply chain transparency and accountability-longtime demands of the anti-sweatshop movement and global unions.

      i feel like its obvious, corporations won't address issues that need to be addresses because it will ruin an image. many corporations have faulted and wronged their employees in sweatshops and in many other departments, giving them no justice for their troubles.

    3. Conditions had gotten so bad at Phatthana that people were not earning enough to eat and were foraging for seafood that washed up on the beach.

      working people try to make enough to survive and at this point they are barely making ends meet. it saddens me that they can't even catch a break because they need this.

    1. Parents’ accounts of their children’s evolving and complex gender identities areinseparable from the lexicon with which they are equipped to speak, and the audi-ence who demands the explanation

      i feel like parents play a huge role and account in their child's life in many aspects. gender being one, of course, because sometimes a child seeks validation from their parents or acceptance and sometimes they arent always given what they seek for and in many cases the child rather not be their true selves.

    2. As families struggle to understand and support youngchildren whose gender identities and behaviors fall drastically outside conventionalexpectations, they labor to restructure their ideas of what counts as ‘gender,’ whatgender means, and whether or not atypical constellations of gendered experiencerequire medical intervention.

      i think that families supporting their children is important when they are going through a journey of understanding themselves. also for when their child is deciding to change their gender identities.

    3. here has been a proliferation within biomedicine, psychi-atry and popular culture, of the ways in which we can ‘know’ gender; and as aresult, individuals are called upon to understand and communicate our gender inever increasing detail.

      this is interesting. a way to know gender. im still not sure why gender has this high importance or why figuring someones gender is just a must

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    1. 38). In this regard, Agnes had to be continually alert to actual or potential threats to the security of her sex category. Her problem was not so much living up to some prototype of essential femininity but preserving her catego- rization as female.

      after being surgically constructed genitalia, a person fear threats and etc. society puts up invisible border that people must get through to feel safe and accepted in their own skin?? I feel like this is pathetic but so true to this day.

    2. r, human beings "themselves employ the term 'expres- sion', and conduct themselves to fit their own notions of expressivity" (1976, p. 75). Gender depictions are less a consequence of our "essential sexual natures" than interactional portrayals of what we would like to convey about sexual natures, using conventionalized gestures. Our human nature gives us the ability to learn to produce and recognize masculine and feminine gender displays-"a capacity [we] have by virtue of being persons, not males and females

      It has been nailed to the head since youngins to have to fit into a gender. its like "nature". we dont even catch ourselves enforcing these elements sometimes. It comes so naturally at this point

    3. ns. Competent adult members of these soci- eties see differences between the two as fundamental and enduring- differences seemingly supported by the division of labor into women's and men's work and an often elaborate differentiation of feminine and masculine attitudes and behaviors that are prominent features of social organizati

      there is definitely just two categories in society. it is also expected for one to fit into those criteria's.

    1. Research suggests that personalized attention is indeed an important ele­ment of creating customer loyalty.

      i believe this just adds to the customer service experience. to create a relationship especially with regulars is essential to keeping a good system going. it is also for first-timers because this is what makes someone want to come back

    2. he upscale hotel is also a good place to look at customers and class

      not only for customers but also for workers or just anyone. its a place where only certain class of people enter. the word luxury emphasizes who could even afford this.

    3. caring ser­vice is more important than the physical characteristics of the hotel or its amenities. Asked what differentiated the Luxury Garden from its competi­tion, for e

      its like giving good customer service. like in many of the retail places i have worked in, required to have good energy that translates as good service. what do hotels compete for other than being clean? it's being able to have people return and spend such high rates due to the genuine service. everything is definitely a plus, like the view, nice room but its all about the service

  5. Sep 2019
    1. written for the most part by men and women without broad historical or social back-ground, and all designed not to seek the truth but to prove a the-sis. Hamilton reaches the climax of this school when he characterizes the

      again expressing misinformation

    2. The North went to war without the slightest idea of freeing the slave. The great majority of Northerners from Lincoln down pledged themselves to protect slavery,

      there were defitently some well minded people helping for a good cause

    3. t is propaganda like this that has led men in the past to insist that history is "lies agreed upon''.; and to point out the danger in such misinformation.

      i agree with this statement, because of propaganda false information has been spread

    1. At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.

      the clash due to society and class

    2. The lower strata of the middle class—the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants—all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by the new methods of production. Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population.

      petty much only able to offer their labour. they didnt gain from what bourgeoisie would. they must sell their labour power

    3. When, therefore, capital is converted into common property, into the property of all members of society, personal property is not thereby transformed into social property. It is only the social character of the property that is changed. It loses its class-character

      capitalism is the form of establishing the type of power and social status your in.

    4. The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralisation. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class-interest, one frontier and one customs-tarif

      having people rebel against overpopulation develops anger then it turns to the government

    5. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

      making new type of classes establishes new agendas for change

    1. Troubles occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others;

      troubles happen when involvement in other relations

    2. The sociological imagination is the most fruitful form of this self-consciousness

      i think that sociological imagination is the root to understanding between history and the biography

    1. he choice is hardly ever as simple as one or the other, of society or individuals,

      i agree, i feel like if it is uncertain to find out who is to blame especially with such complex situations.

    2. It is not about us in the sense that we did not create the racist society we all live in.

      Im not sure i agree with this because i feel that in a sense we did create this racist society we live in by "allowing" it for so long. of course, many dont agree but nothing is changing other than the fact that it still exists and it is very much alive and we acknowledge it but do nothing about it. i dont supposed i have an idea in a way we can end it, i just feel it never will but i also feel it was created by no other than us, generally speaking.

    3. here people often work under conditions that resemble slavery in many respects or for wages that are so low they can barely live on them.

      they really do this out of necessity and though they can barely survive off the pay, they must because they are left with no other choice

    4. In short, bad things happen because of bad people.

      bad things happen because there are cruel people in this world but it doesnt seem this is something that will change