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Toronto Jobs

Customer Care Supervisor Location: Toronto Primary Purpose: To coach and develop a team of Customer Care Representatives and foster an environment that provides World Class service. For detail posting visit: http://www.jobbankplus.com/jobs/customer-care-supervisor Continue

Added by Jobbankplus.com on December 21, 2009 at 7:32am — No Comments

White Ribbon Campaign & The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women

What’s happening at Centennial for the White Ribbon Campaign? Centennial will conduct the White Ribbon Campaign on December 2-4, 2009. The first two days of the campaign are organized and lead by men as they seek to raise awareness and have others pledge their support of the campaign. On December 4th, Centennial w… Continue

Added by Centennial College on November 27, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Institute for Global Citizenship and Equity launches on Oct 20

Launch of Institute for Global Citizenship and Equity

Date: 10/20/2009 Time: 9:00am Location: Centennial College Join us for the launch of the Institute for Global Citizenship and Equity, which will be taking place on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 from 9:00 am- 12 noon at multiple locations. Listed below are the names of the Speakers and the topics.This launch is open to staff, facult… Continue

Added by Centennial College on October 19, 2009 at 1:50pm — No Comments

Poverty Rescue

I live in a city that has a 34% poverty rate. Our church has been hosting OPT (Overcoming Poverty Together) groups to aid in this dilemma. The circle groups are finding the largest challenges finding some sort of affordable Dental insurance. Perhaps even some sort of Short term medical insuran… Continue

Added by Cindy Fallsen on October 7, 2009 at 4:53pm — No Comments

Welcome GNED 500 Students!

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Added by Kisha McPherson on September 9, 2009 at 11:08am — No Comments

TVO's Best Lecturer Competition - Nominate Your Favourite Professor Now!

TVO's Best Lecturer Competition celebrates the most engaging lecturers in Ontario. The competition, sponsored by TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, allows anyone to nominate a professor in any Ontario registered post-secondary institution. Nominate your favourite professor between August 1 and October 12, 2009 and you'll automatically be entered into a draw to win one of two iPod touch devices. Click here for… Continue

Added by Centennial College on September 8, 2009 at 3:35pm — No Comments

Social Action Against Poverty in Third and Developing World

Student: Mahfuzul Haque Professor: James Harrison Course: GENED 500 Date: Aug 21st , 2009 Social Action I have investigated the social justice issue about poverty in third world and developing world. As you know poverty is one of the leading causes of death among poor peoples around the world, unable to eliminate this social justice issue could trigger world disaster many ways in terms of terrorism, disease, hunger and other severe problems. In this journal I am going to discuss who are work… Continue

Added by Mahfuzul Haque on August 24, 2009 at 5:06pm — No Comments

Poverty

Student Name: Jie Yang Student Number: 300501222 Poverty is common phenomenon in the most developing countries. Poverty is mainly present that people have no enough food and clothing, children can’t go to school, and medical equipment is very short. Although there are many rich people in the world, poor people also exist because wealth and poverty are relative. As my thought, if all of us are Bill Gates, we also should be ranked. Poverty is not a fault, but the problem is that poverty is not o… Continue

Added by Jie Yang on August 15, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

GAY MARRIAGE-GNED500

Gay Marriage Gay marriage is a term used to describe a legally or socially recognized marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender. Other terms used to describe this type of recognition include gay marriage, gender-neutral marriage, or marriage equality. Gay marriage is one of the main unnatural things which most of the people think and above all this s category of people are discriminated in many parts of the world. Gay marriage is now legal in India where this mean… Continue

Added by Nandita Das on August 7, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Gender discrimination Assignment #2

Gender discrimination 1, what is the issue? Gender discrimination refers to the females don’t have the equal opportunity with males to have education, significant career, political affection, social status and the advantage in economic. It also refers to inequity when men and women offer the same effort to finish some task, they receive different feedback. For example, when men and women do the same work, women always receive the less pay and fewer benefit. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimi… Continue

Added by Yang Shi on August 6, 2009 at 3:49pm — No Comments

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

GNED500 ASSIGNMENT INEQUALITY AND EQUITY PROFESSOR JAMES HARRISON BY:Sukrit Bhardwaj Introduction Human trafficking is a issue in which many people arent awrae of.Human trafficking is a type of commerece or trade that takes place in migration of people from one countr… Continue

Added by Sukrit on August 6, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

GLOBAL WARMING

SOCIAL ACTION: GLOBAL WARMING BY: JAYSON REID PROFESSOR: JAMES HARRISON

GLOBAL WARMING… Continue

Added by Jayson on July 23, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

GNED 500 Social Action Assignment- Unfairness of blue-collar unskilled labor

Student Name: Ayao XU Student Number: 300512642 Professor:James Harrison Course: GNED500 Description & possible causes of the isuue Everyone knows that things are "made in China" because manufacturing companies take advantage of the relatvely cheaper Chinese labor to produce goods at a low cost, but have you ever think about the unfairness of the blue-collar labor in those developing countries? The gap between the blue-collar unkilled worker in developed and developing countri… Continue

Added by Ayao XU on July 22, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Environmental Protection- GNED 500 Social Action Assignment

Student Name: Qianyao Li Student Number: 300524973 Professor:James Harrison Section: GNED500-302 The social justice issue that I am investigating is environmental protection. As the development of society and economy, environment suffers a great threat. Now people know more about environment, so we are trying to protect it by our ability. Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization for protection and conservation the environment. This organization attempts to using action, l… Continue

Added by Qianyao Li on July 21, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Lijun Ruan GNED 500

I’m investigating one of social justice issues-human right. Now, in the world, more and more people are concerned about human tight, it is basic and important part of social justice. Everybody has the right to religious, education, culture, work, food, freedom of expression, liberty, etc, but in developing country, many people begin to make their effort to struggle for their right just as done by developed country. They are admiring for the freedom and equality. So we must get together to fight… Continue

Added by lijun ruan on July 21, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Social Action Assignment Poverty in Africa Siham Hasan ID# 300519418 Professor James Harrison The…

Social Action Assignment Poverty in Africa Siham Hasan ID# 300519418 Professor James Harrison The social justice issue that will be explored here is poverty. In the world today there are approximately 1.2 billion individuals faced with poverty or poverty-related problems.… Continue

Added by siham hasan on July 21, 2009 at 12:08am — No Comments

Protect Animals---Gend500 Social Action Assignment

Student: Ying Lin Student ID: 300498157 Student: Ying Wang Student ID: 300514480 Instructor: James Harrison Identify and describe the Social Justice Issue that we are investigating is: protection of animals A Few months ago I saw videos on news… Continue

Added by Ying Wang on July 20, 2009 at 3:28pm — No Comments

SOCIAL ACTION ASSIGNMENT- GNED 500

Teacher: James Harrison VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN Violence is a major factor against women and children in Canada. Violence against women is defined in physical,sexual, and psychological harm including threats of such an act that occur in public or private life. Federal government has involved agencies to protect the women and children. On behave of federal government; health Canada coordinates the family violence initiative involving 12 departments and agencies. Looking at the macro… Continue

Added by kanika on July 17, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Social Action Assignment- Poverty by Manesha Mahamarakkalage (GNED 500 section 301)

A Social Justice Issue that I'm investigating is Poverty. Poverty is one of the main key issues in today’s society. Poverty is storage of common things such as food, clothing, shelter and safe water. There are so many poor people in all over the world and so many social justice issues have started to reduce this matter. They are; • Income redistribution- This is the moving income, assets or property from some individuals to others. The main concern from this redistribution is that the be… Continue

Added by Manesha Mahamarakkalage on July 17, 2009 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Sweatshop Inequality (Centennial College GEND500)

Introduction Sweatshop means employees who work under the bad environment and condition which include sub-minimum wages, no benefits, non-payment of wages, forced overtime, sexual harassment, verbal abuse, corporal punishment, and illegal firings. Furthermore, sweatshop workers often have three major and common types: long hours, low pay and unsafe or unhealthy working conditions. From the authority document, I find that ninety percent of sweatshop workers, whom are women, are youn… Continue

Added by Ying Lin on July 14, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments