3rd Sethe

Power Harassment in the Workplace https://www.peoplematters.in/article/culture/bullying-and-harassment-at-workplace-14882?media_type=article&subcat=life-at-work&title=bullying-and-harassment-at-workplace&id=14882   I am sure we are all aware of physical harassment, sexual harassment, and verbal harassment, but have you ever heard of power harassment? According to the Industrial Relations and Labour Law Newsletter, power harassment is “a form of workplace bullying by those who are in a higher work position.” Think conventional playground bullying manifesting itself within the workplace.  Imagine you work in an office, and your boss threatens to fire you if you cannot meet impossible deadlines. Imagine you work in the same office, and your coworkers leave you with all their work while they go out and get drinks. Imagine your coworker steals your ideas and presents them as their own. Imagine you are pregnant and your boss purposely decides to smoke a cigarette within close

In the 1950s,  Solomon Asch conducted a series of conformity experiments showing the human tendency to follow the majority. Asch’s experiments consisted of seven individuals: the test subject and the six undercover actors. During the experiment, the participants had to choose which lines had the same length but the test subject always answered last. Additionally, the undercover accomplices always gave the same incorrect answers. The experiment showed ⅓  of the test subjects followed the group’s incorrect answer knowing it was wrong. It’s human nature to join a group for safety or shelter, but at what point do humans question their morals in order to agree with their peers? Our recent reading of The Crucible opened my mind to the dangers of groupthink and the backlash outliers get for speaking their mind. For example, when Abigail and the girls worked together to condemn, they became powerful and convinced others that were invisible evil spirits. Mary Warren is an example of a character

Emily Nguyen Week 9 We are all aware that the words we use can often have lasting impacts on others; either negative or positive. However, we don't often think about the impact they have on ourselves. From our perceptions of ourselves and reality, perhaps to a deep psychological level . In a neuroscience experiment Maria Richter found that hearing negative words often "increase Implicit Processing (IMP) within the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sACC)." In addition, another study found that higher levels of anxiety in children were linked to higher rates of negative self talk. So yes; words do hurt; and they do much more than we think. Even without such statistical data, you could probably relate from personal experience, finding that negative words towards yourself and your self-deprecating humor haven't exactly posed any benefit in the past. I've personally found that using such language on myself has greatly hindered my performance on several occasions. Sa

Riddhika Parmar Week 9 - 1/19/22  The Power of Empathy Which type of communication would you prefer? Version 1: “You BETTER get this assignment turned in to me by Friday OR ELSE heads will roll!!!” Version 2: “Please turn in the assignment by Friday because we need to review it in class to have the most time to edit and take feedback into account.” What gets you working? Okay, what gets you to work successfully in the long term, doing your best work? For me, the choice is clear: version 2. Version 2 makes me feel like we are working together towards a common goal and we want to do our best together. Version 1 makes me feel closed off, irritated, and threatened. This can be harsh to deal with, especially in the workforce, where people may feel like their manager doesn’t really care about them as people. And, they may become overwhelmingly terrified of losing their job. If people had to constantly deal with version 1 on a regular basis, they’d probably have anxiety and eventually shut do

    A World Without Power      During the pandemic, not having to physically go to school every day allowed sophomore year to be less overwhelming. I was no longer in a race against time in the mornings to get to school or in the evenings trying to get work done. This sudden drop in academic anxiety prompted me to question how much our lives depended on transportation. Even when traveling was limited, technology allowed most businesses and schools to continue online. The internet connected us to the rest of the world. But what if. . . we lived in a world without power? Would our lives still continue then? Could we even survive without power?  Image link:  Our National Parks » Nightskies are at best in national parks      When the power goes out, it becomes dark, electrical devices do not work, refrigerated food spoils, and we lose connection with others. A couple hours without power are manageable, however the long-term consequences can become exponentially more detrimental and anxiet

Rishi, Week 9: Power in the Most Unusual Places It is just before dawn, and Mark Court wakes up early to catch his morning tea. There is a long day ahead of him but he is looking forward to it. His days excite him—much more than the common man—but they haven’t changed in over 18 years. He dreads weekends, they pull away from his focus to his passion. Court works for Rolls Royce, a luxury car manufacturer based in England, owned by the multinational conglomerate BMW.  He has an unusual job: painting a pinstripe down the end of a Rolls-Royce vehicle. He is the only person in the whole world that is qualified and tasked to complete that unique challenge. The “iconic” pinstripe is “equal parts timeless and contemporary,” as defined by the Rolls-Royce website , attracting the richest and most powerful clientele.  Despite Court’s seemingly excessive and meaningless job, it represents the immense power that he and the Rolls-Royce brand hold. One mishap, one slight tilt of the paintbrush can d

Who Controls the Internet?                            In today’s world, there isn’t much that is more essential in one’s daily life than the internet. Without the internet, Youtubers can’t publish any videos onto Youtube, my dad can’t login to his meeting on Microsoft Teams, and students in a certain AP English class can’t submit their Blogger assignment. The internet holds so much power in running the world, essentially, so I find it interesting who holds that power. You might think it’s Google, maybe some International Corporation, but definitely not Bing. Anyways, these thoughts are what compelled me to click on Half As Interesting’s video on the “The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet.”   Your computer goes through many servers to get to one website and the final server will return the IP address of that website. This is their public key, a bunch of numbers essentially. But to authenticate this public key, a private key is needed. For example, twitter.com’s public key, 199.

Merriam-Webster defines a protest as “something said or done that shows disagreement (“protest,” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary). Throughout history, there have been both violent and non-violent protests that have accomplished incredible feats. Some of the most famous violent protests include the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution​​—both of which have succeeded and significantly impacted the world. However, people are often bewildered by the effectiveness of just using one's voice to seek change.   Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist who collected data on all major violent and nonviolent campaigns involving overthrowing a government from 1900 to 2006, explained that violent attempts had a success rate of 30% with a failure rate of 70% (Fisher). In comparison, non-violent movements had a success rate of above 50%, a failure rate of just 20%, and a partial success rate of 30% (Fisher).  In addition to the low failure rates, Chenoweth also found that non-violent

  Watching Power Fall Into the Wrong Hands Power. Isn’t it insane how power can so easily fall into the wrong hands? How if it falls into the wrong hands that it can destroy a lot for us? It could possibly hurt millions of people in life changing ways, and yet people are handed power like it’s ice cream.  One of the most heartbreaking times where I believe power fell into the wrong hands and nothing could have been done about it was on 9/11. 9/11 is a date remembered globally as the attack known as ‘911’ was a planned terrorist attack on the United States as 4 coordinated planes struck the Twin Towers and watched it collapse, unfortunately several workers going down with it. This entire disaster happened under the nose of George W. Bush, the president at the time. George W. Bush was sitting in an elementary school in Florida when he heard about not the first, but a second attack that had taken place on top of the first and struck both the twin towers. It’s incredibly sad and scary that

 Urvi Bhuwania  "Cockroaches" PC: bbc.com           Throughout history, political leaders and other authoritative figures have cleverly manipulated words to gain power and achieve their aims in the most efficient way possible. If there is one lesson to be learned from history, it is that there is much more power in making people truly believe and align with a cause than to coerce compliance through mere physical force. This is the approach that the Hutu majority in Rwanda in the 1990s employed to bring about the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis.      Rwanda is a country in Africa that was taken control of by Belgium in the early 1900s, and since Belgium leaders took favoritism towards Tutsis for political positions, tensions started rising between the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Hutus revolted and overtook the Tutsi monarch, and the country earned its independence in 1962. Hostility was gradually rising between the Tutsi minority, moderate Hutus, and Hutu extremists,

Carolin Pan  Benedetti 18 January 2022 Girl Powered Recently, I have been working on an online challenge with some other members of one of our school’s robotics teams and one of our topics was to write about how we interpret the phrase “girl powered.” At first we were thinking of all sorts of ways to make our writing as appealing to the judges as possible; however as we spent more time brainstorming and reflecting on the significance of the phrase, we began unearthing deeper meanings. According to the United States Census Bureau "women made gains – from 8% of STEM workers in 1970 to 27% in 2019 – but men still dominated the field. Men made up 52% of all U.S. workers but 73% of all STEM workers'' (Martinez). It is known and also has been said over and over again that females are underrepresented in the STEM field, so the statistics should be something that everyone is already somewhat familiar with.Though there are progressively more women entering the STEM field, I have se

What's the Hype Around Having Power? https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/literary/george-orwell-quotes-1984-animal-farm     Over the summer, I read the dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell and was confused more than anything after finishing it. The book was written by George Orwell in 1948 as a way to demonstrate what the world would look like controlled completely under a totalitarian regime. It follows the life of Winston Smith, a middle-aged man who is responsible for changing documented history for the government, known as the Party. The main goal of the Party is to control not only history, but also the actions, language spoken, and even thoughts of its civilians. Naturally, this calls for some sort of policing, and the Thought Police are the ones responsible for catching traitors of the government. Consequently, when Winston starts taking stealth action against the Party and their end goal of absolute power over their citizens, he is caught and tortured to cleanse his sou