Frankenstein Essay -- Literary Analysis, Mary Shelley

Organic: A Very Lucid Concept Will it ever be possible for a machine to be an organic being? It is an interesting question and one that is addressed in Frankstein by Merry Shelly, RUR by Karel Capek and The Defecating Duck by Jessica Riskin. These three texts provide insight into what makes a creature an organic being. From these readings one may construe that the duck in The Defecating Duck, along with the robots at the beginning of RUR cannot be considered organic beings, while the monster in Frankstein and the robots at the end of RUR can. An organic robot is an oxymoron; a robot does not have the chemical capability to be considered biologically organic. Although a chemical process was alluded to in both it Frankstein and RUR, it was very brief, a short paragraph in each case, and did not give enough information to be able to classify either as an organic being. However, there is a definition of organic that can be applied to prove that robots have the capability to be organic,â€Å"[10th definition of organic] something as having a growth and development analogous to that of living organisms† (Merriam Webster Dictionary). In other words, to be considered organic one must have the ability and desire to live. To long for a companion shows that one has a desire to connect with someone in their life, and therefore proves that person has a longing to be apart of the world. The monster in Frankstein has a desire to find a person he can connect with, and ends up going on a journey to find one. This journey begins with the monster observing and eventually falling in love with a farm family. â€Å"I formed in my imagination pictures of presenting myself to them†¦I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanor and con... ...ple. They are mechanically more perfect than we are†¦ but they have no soul† (Capek, 9). This quote by Domin explains to Helena how robots are not human but just workers. Domin further expresses this point by saying that. â€Å"Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only what they enjoy† (Capek, 21). These robots, for the time being, are complicit with their place and show no desire to live. The robots, and duck fail to show a desire to live and therefore cannot be considered organic beings. The robots from the end of RUR and the monster in Frankstein, unlike the robots at the beginning of RUR and the duck in the Defecating Duck, can be called organic beings because of their desire to live. These three texts brought up interesting points to a confounding question of organic robots. Making one believe that only time will be able to solve this riddle.

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He went on driving. He didn't even pause. â€Å"We're almost home.† They were nearing the turn ontoMeadowcroft Road . Gillian tried to grab for one of the brown hands on the steering wheel, and then looked at her own hand, perplexed. Her fingers felt like blocks of wood. â€Å"You have to stop,† she said, settling for volume. â€Å"There's a kid lost in those woods. That's why I went in; I heard this sound like crying. It was coming from somewhere right near the creek. We've got to go back there. Come on, stop!† â€Å"Hey, hey, calm down,† he said. â€Å"You know what I bet you heard? A long-eared owl. They roost around here, and they make this noise like a moan, oo-oo-oo.† Gillian didn't think so. â€Å"I was walking home from school. It wasn't dark enough for an owl to be out.† â€Å"Okay, a mourning dove. Goes oh-ah, whoo, whoo. Or a cat; they can sound like kids sometimes. Look,† he added almost savagely, as she opened her mouth again, â€Å"when we get you home, we can call the Houghton police, and they can check things out. But I am not letting a lit-a girl freeze just because she's got more guts than smarts.† For a moment, Gillian had an intense longing to let him continue to believe she had either guts or smarts. But she said, â€Å"It's not that. It's just- I've already been through so much to try to find that kid. I almost died-I think I did die. I mean- well, I didn't die, but I got pretty cold, and-and things happened, and I realized how important life is†¦Ã¢â‚¬  She floundered to a shivering stop. What was she saying? Now he was going to think she was a nut case. And anyway all that stuff must have been a dream. She couldn't make it seem real while sitting in a Mustang with her head wrapped in a towel. But David flashed her a glance of startled recognition. â€Å"You almost died?† He looked back at the road, turning the car ontoHazel Street , where they both lived. â€Å"That happened to me once. When I was little, I had to have this operation-â€Å" He broke off as the Mustang skidded on some ice. In a moment he was in control again and turning into Gillian's driveway. It happened to you, too? David parked and was out of the car before Gillian could gather herself to speak. Then he was opening her door, reaching for her. â€Å"Gotta get all this ridiculous stuff out of the way,† he said, pushing her hair back as if it were a curtain of cobwebs. Something about the way he said it made Gillian think he liked her hair. She peered up at him through a gap in the curtain. His eyes were dark brown and normally looked almost hawkish, but just now, as their gazes met, they changed. They looked startled and wondering. As if he saw something in her eyes that surprised him and struck a chord. Gillian felt a flutter of wonder herself. I don't think he's really tough at all, she thought, as something like a spark seemed to flash between them. He's not so different from me; he's- She was wracked by a sudden bout of shivers. David blinked and shook his head. â€Å"We've got to get you inside,† he muttered. And then, still shivering, she was in the air. Bobbing, being carried up the path to her house. â€Å"You shouldn't be walking to school in the winter,† David said. â€Å"I'll drive you from now on.† Gillian was struck speechless. On the one hand, she should probably tell him she didn't walk every day. On the other hand, who was she kidding? Just the thought of him giving her a ride was enough to make her heart beat wildly. Between that and the novel feeling of being carried, it wasn't until he was opening the front door that Gillian remembered her mother. Then she panicked. Oh, God, I can't let David see her-but maybe it'll be all right. If there was a smell of food cooking, that meant it was okay. If not, it was one of Mom's bad days. There was no smell of food as David stepped into the dim hallway. And no sign of life-all the downstairs lights were off. The house was cold and echoing and Gillian knew she had to get David out. But how? He was carrying her farther in, asking, â€Å"Your parents aren't home?† â€Å"I guess not. Dad doesn't get home until seven most nights.† It wasn't exactly a lie. Gillian just prayed her mom would stay put in the bedroom until David left. â€Å"I'll be okay now,† she said hastily, not even caring if she sounded rude or ungrateful. Anything to make him go. â€Å"I can take care of myself, and- and I'm okay.† â€Å"The he †¦ eck you are,† David said. It was the longest drawn out ‘heck' Gillian had ever heard. He doesn't want to swear around me. That's cute. â€Å"You need to get thawed out, fast. Where's a bathtub?† Gillian automatically lifted a stiff arm to point down the side hall, then dropped it. â€Å"Now, wait a minute-â€Å" He was already there. He put her on her feet, then disappeared into the bathroom to turn on the water. Gillian cast an anguished glance upstairs. Just stay put, Mom. Stay asleep. â€Å"You've got to get in there and stay for at least twenty minutes,† David said, reappearing. â€Å"Then we can see if you need to go to the hospital at Houghton.† That made Gillian remember something. â€Å"The police-â€Å" â€Å"Yeah, right, I'll call them. As soon as you're in the tub.† He reached out and plucked at her dripping, ice-crusted sweater. â€Å"Can you get this off okay? Do your fingers work?† â€Å"Urn†¦Ã¢â‚¬  Her fingers didn't work; they were still blocks of wood. Frost-nipped at least, she thought, peering at them. But there was no way he was going to undress her, and there was also no way she was going to call her mother. â€Å"Urn†¦Ã¢â‚¬  â€Å"Uh, turn around,† David said. He pulled at her sweater again. â€Å"Okay, I've got my eyes shut. Now-â€Å" â€Å"No,† Gillian said, holding her elbows firmly against her sides. They stood, confused and indecisive, until they were saved by an interruption, a voice from the main hallway. â€Å"What are you doing to her?† the voice said. Gillian turned and looked around David. It was Tanya Jun, David's girlfriend. Tanya was wearing a velveteen cap perched on her glossy dark hair and a Christmas sweater with metallic threads woven in. She had almond-shaped gray eyes and a mouth with firm lips molded over white teeth. Gillian always thought of her as a future corporate executive. â€Å"I saw your car out there,† the future executive said to David, â€Å"and the front door of the house was open.† She looked level-headed, suspicious, and a little bit as if she doubted David's sanity. David looked back and forth between her and Gillian and fumbled for an explanation. â€Å"There's nothing going on. I picked her up onHillcrest Road . She was-well, look at her. She fell in the creek and she's frozen.† â€Å"I see,† Tanya said, still calmly. She gave Gillian a quick assessing glance, then turned back to David. â€Å"She doesn't look too bad. You go to the kitchen and make some hot chocolate. Or hot water with Jell-O in it, something with sugar. I'll take care of her.† â€Å"And the police,† Gillian called after David's disappearing back. She didn't exactly want to look Tanya in the face. Tanya was a senior like David, in the class ahead of Gillian atRachelCarsonHigh School . Gillian feared her, admired her, and hated her, in about that order. â€Å"Into the bathroom,† Tanya said. Once Gillian was in, she helped her undress, stripping off the clinging, icy-wet clothes and dropping them in the sink. Everything she did was brisk and efficient, and Gillian could almost see sparks fly from her fingers. Gillian was too miserable to protest at being stripped naked by somebody with the bedside manner of a female prison guard or an extremely strict nanny. She huddled, feeling small and shivering in her bare skin, and then lunged for the tub as soon as Tanya was done. The water felt scalding. Gillian could feel her eyes get huge and she clenched her teeth on a yell. It probably felt so hot because she was so cold. Breathing through her nose, she forced herself to submerge to the shoulders. â€Å"All right,† Tanya said on the other side of the coral-colored shower curtain. â€Å"I'll go up and get you some dry clothes to put on.† â€Å"No!† Gillian said, shooting half out of the water. Not upstairs, not where her mom was, not where her room was. But the bathroom door was already shutting with a decisive dick. Tanya wasn't the kind of person you said no to. Gillian sat, immobilized by panic and horror, until a fountain of burning pain drove everything else out of her mind. It started in her fingers and toes and shot upward, a white-hot searing that meant her frozen flesh was coming back to life. All she could do was sit rigid, breathe raggedly through her nose, and try to endure it. And eventually, it did get better. Her white, wrinkled skin turned dark blue, and then mottled, and then red. The searing subsided to a tingling. Gillian could move and think again. She could hear, too. There were voices outside the bathroom in the hallway. The door didn't even muffle them. Tanya's voice: â€Å"Here, I'll hold it. I'll take it to her in a minute.† In a mutter: â€Å"I'm not sure she can drink and float at the same time.† David's voice: â€Å"Come on, give her a break. She's just a kid.† â€Å"Oh, really? Just how old do you think she is?† â€Å"Huh? I don't know. Maybe thirteen?† An explosive snort from Tanya. â€Å"Fourteen? Twelve?† â€Å"David, she goes to our school. She's a junior.† â€Å"Really?† David sounded startled and bewildered. â€Å"Nah, I think she goes to P.B.† Pearl S. Buck was the junior high. Gillian sat staring at the bathtub faucet without seeing it. â€Å"She's in our biology class,† Tanya's voice said, edging toward open impatience. â€Å"She sits at the back and never opens her mouth.† The voice added, â€Å"I can see why you thought she was younger, though. Her bedroom's knee-deep in stuffed animals. And the wallpaper's little flowers. And look at these pajamas. Little bears.† Gillian's insides felt hotter than her fingers had been at their most painful. Tanya had seen her room, which was the same as it had been since Gillian was ten years old, because there wasn't money for new curtains and wallpaper and there wasn't any more storage space in the garage to put her beloved animals away. Tanya was making fun of her pajamas. In front of David. And David†¦ thought she was a little kid. That was why he'd offered to drive her to school. He'd meant the junior high. He'd been nice because he felt sorry for her. Two tears squeezed out of Gillian's eyes. She was trembling inside, boiling with anger and hurt and humiliation†¦ Crinch. It was a sound as loud as a rifle report, but high and crystalline-and drawn out. Something between a crash and a crunch and the sound of glass splintering under boots. Gillian jumped as if she'd been shot, sat frozen a moment, then pulled the moisture-beaded shower curtain aside and poked her head out. At the same instant the bathroom door flew open. â€Å"What was that?† Tanya said sharply. Gillian shook her head. She wanted to say, â€Å"You tell me,† but she was too frightened of Tanya. Tanya looked around the bathroom, spied the steamed-up mirror, and frowned. She reached across the sink to wipe it with her hand-and yelped. â€Å"Ow!† She cursed, staring at her hand. Gillian could see the brightness of blood. â€Å"What the-?† Tanya picked up a washcloth and swiped the mirror. She did it again. She stepped back and stared. From the tub, Gillian was staring, too. The mirror was broken. Or, not broken, cracked. But it wasn't cracked as if something had hit it. There was no point of impact, with lines of shattering running out. Instead, it was cracked evenly from top to bottom, side to side. Every inch was covered with a lattice of fine lines. It almost looked purposeful, as if it were a frosted-glass design. â€Å"David! Get in here!† Tanya said, ignoring Gillian. After a moment the door stirred and Gillian had a steamy distorted glimpse of David's face in the mirror. â€Å"Do you see this? How can something like this happen?† Tanya was saying. David grimaced and shrugged. â€Å"Heat? Cold? I don't know.† He glanced hesitantly in Gillian's direction, just long enough to locate her face surrounded by the coral shower curtain. â€Å"You okay?† he said, addressing himself to a white towel rack on the far wall. Gillian couldn't say anything. Her throat was too tight and tears were welling up again. But when Tanya looked at her, she nodded. â€Å"All right, forget it. Let's get you changed.† Tanya turned away from the mirror. David melted back out of the bathroom. â€Å"Make sure her fingers and everything are working all right,† he said distantly. â€Å"I'm fine,† Gillian said when she was alone with Tanya. â€Å"Everything's fine.† She wiggled her fingers, which were tender but functioning. All she cared about right now was getting Tanya to go away. â€Å"I can dress myself.† Please don't let me cry in front of her. She retreated behind the shower curtain again and made a splashing noise. â€Å"You guys can leave now.† Half a sigh from Tanya, who was undoubtedly thinking Gillian was ungrateful. â€Å"All right,† she said. â€Å"Your clothes and your chocolate are right here. Is there somebody you want me to call-?† â€Å"No! My parents-my dad will be here any minute. I'm fine.† Then she shut her eyes and counted, breath held. And, blessedly, there were the sounds of Tanya moving away. Both Tanya and David calling goodbyes. Then silence. Stiffly, Gillian pulled herself upright, almost falling down when she tried to step out of the bathtub. She put on her pajamas and walked slowly out of the bathroom, moving like an old woman. She didn't even glance at the broken mirror. She tried to be quiet going up the stairs. But just as she reached her bedroom, the door at the end of the upstairs hall swung open. Her mother was standing there, a long coat wrapped around her, fuzzy fleece-lined slippers on her feet. Her hair, a darker blond than Gillian's, was uncombed. â€Å"What's going on? I heard noise. Where's your father?† Not â€Å"Whass goin' on? Whersh your father?† But dose. â€Å"It's not even seven yet, Mom. I got wet coming home. I'm going to bed.† The bare minimum of sentences to communicate the necessary information. Her mother frowned. â€Å"Honey-â€Å" † ‘Night, Mom.† Gillian hurried into her bedroom before her mother could ask any more questions. She fell on her bed and gathered an armful of stuffed animals in the bend of her elbow. They were solid and friendly and filled her arm. Gillian curled herself around them and bit down on plush. And now, at last, she could cry. All the hurts of her mind and body merged and she sobbed out loud, wet cheek on the velveteen head of her best bear. She wished she'd never come back. She wanted the bright meadow with the impossibly green grass, even if it had been a dream. She wanted everyone to be sorry because she was dead. All her realizations about life being important were nonsense. Life was a giant hoax. She couldn't change herself and live in a completely new direction. There was no new start. No hope. And I don't care, she thought. I just want to die. Oh, why did I get made if it was just for this? There's got to be someplace I belong, something I'm meant to do that's different. Because I don't fit in this world, in this life. And if there isn't something more, I'd rather be dead. I want to dream something else. She cried until she was numb and exhausted and fell into a deadly still sleep without knowing it. When she woke up hours later, there was a strange light in her room.

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Throughout the play of Hamlet, one constantly questions if Hamlet is actually in love with Aphelia. His intentions are difficult to determine: it often appears as though he is not in love with her at all, but is in fact repulsed by her. Hamlet even insists that Aphelia leave him, and everyone else in her life, in his immortal line, â€Å"Get thee to a nunnery’ (Ill. We will write a custom essay sample on Hamlet Ophelia or any similar topic only for you Order Now L. Pl 25), thus sending her away to lead a life of solitude. However, despite these statements from Hamlet, his other actions give way to the idea that Hamlet not only loves Aphelia, but also cares for her so deeply that he sees her as a liability. He treats her terribly and insists that she leave him in order to protect her from being hurt or killed by his enemies. It is here that we see that, indeed, Hamlet really does love Aphelia. The closest that Hamlet ever comes to stating his love is in Act Ill. Hamlet says to Aphelia, â€Å"l did love you† (Ill. L. Pl 25). However, he then goes on to tell her he does not love her. During this conversation, Hamlet believes someone may be eavesdropping on them. This is proven by Hamlet’s question, â€Å"Where’s your father? (Ill. L. IPPP). Aphelia states that he is at home. Hamlet replies with, â€Å"Let the doors be shut upon him that he may play the fool nowhere but in ‘s own house† (Ill. L. IPPP-44). This quote suggests that Polonium, Aphelion’s father, is eavesdropping on Hamlet and foreshadows that he may be planning something as a result. Hamlet would never want to give away his true intentions for Aphelia to one of his enemies, such as Polonium, and therefore lies to Aphelia about his intentions for her. His love for her is so deep that he is willing to make her believe that he does not love her in order to rote her. Another example of Hamlet admitting his love for Aphelia is in the letter that he sends her. Hamlet writes, â€Å"Never doubt I love. † (11. 11. IPPP). He tells her that among and between everything else around her, his love for her is real. This is the one time before Aphelion’s death that Hamlet reveals his true feelings. He feels he can do this in writing, as Hamlet believes only Aphelia will read the letter, as opposed to one of his enemies, such as Polonium. Hamlet knew he had to hide his love for Aphelia and act in a different manner to protect her. His plan backfires however when Aphelia chives the letter, as she gives it to her father. Not even in writing can Hamlet admit his true feelings for Aphelia without the information of his vulnerability slipping into the wrong hands. Throughout the play, Hamlet’s love for Aphelia is questioned. Hamlet acts as if he does not love Aphelia in order to trick everyone else into thinking that he does not care about her. Hamlet does not want Aphelia to become involved with him because if Claudia decides to get revenge on Hamlet, she would die. Hamlet shows his love for Aphelia when he confesses to her that he â€Å"loved† her, when he sends her the deter, and when he finds out that she has died. But many could argue that Hamlet never loved Aphelia – that he fell out of love with her or he never loved her in the first place but was simply driven insane by his father’s death and attempted to use her feelings for him to his advantage. Needless to say, there is concrete information pointing to Hamlet’s love being true. Hamlet simply was not able to state it bluntly in order to protect Aphelia. Rexes Manchester Mr.. Lowe Is Hamlet a misogynist? If so, what might be the pathology of this vile disorder? Throughout the play Hamlet accuses women of being adulterous, uncaring and soonest creatures. Hamlet’s misogynistic feelings towards women come from his mother, Gertrude, and, unfortunately, Aphelia becomes part of his thoughts as well. Hamlet’s mother is the cause for his suspicion towards women. Gertrude hasty, and incestuous, remarriage to Claudia, within a week of the kings death causes anguish, suffering and distress for Hamlet. This leads him to question the true heartiness of all women; â€Å"O most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good, but break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. (1. 11. Up 56-157) As the story goes on Gertrude becomes a cruel, adulterous and insupportable woman in Hamlet’s eyes. â€Å"Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an misnamed bed, stew’s in corruption, honeying and making lovers the nasty In this climatic scene Hamlet finally shows an intense desire to save his mother’s soul by trying to convince her that she must repent for the marriage to Claudia. Hamlet attempts to teach Gertrude that celibacy becomes easier the more time goes on and the more one practices. As a consequence, it seems, the misogynist that is Hamlet egging to break down. Which is why Aphelia is so important with in the story, she becomes a victim of Hamlet’s anger that leads us to discover if he is truly a misogynist or not. It is Aphelia, the passive character in the relationship that has become the unlucky victim. Aphelia believed that Hamlet possessed real love for her, but so much to the point that he became â€Å"mad for her love. (2:2:84) She accepted his love letters and acknowledged his indications. However, Hamlet becomes so concerned with how vengeful women are to men, or that they are a considerable threat to myself, and that he cannot stop for a moment and realize the pain he is causing Aphelia because of it. In the end, classifying Hamlet as a misogynist does not suffice to the difficult and realistic character of Hamlet. For, as it turns o ut, the feelings of hatred towards women were only because of the moments that he was caring and concerned with Aphelia and his mother. Though it is irresolute that he would have ever trusted a woman again but at the end he does reveal his love for Gertrude and Aphelia. Does Claudia murder his brother for his throne or his wife? Claudia is Hamlet’s uncle, brother to king Hamlet. King Hamlet has been killed and a week after his death, Claudia became king and King Hamlet’s wife, Gertrude, remarries to Claudia. The murder of King Hamlet is much like what we see in the Bible. Cain commits the first murder by killing his brother Able while he is sleeping peacefully in a garden. Much like this murder, Claudia murders his brother by pouring poison in his ear while he is sleeping in his own garden. Throughout the story Claudia’ nerve is tested and finally he admits his â€Å"offense is rank and smells to heaven because it hath the primal eldest curse upon, a brother’s murder† (111. 11. 111). Claudia not only murdered King Hamlet for the throne but for his wife Gertrude as well. He always possessed the secondary role to his brother for quite sometime and because he was always second to King Hamlet, he became Jealous. The fact that King Hamlet was always busy in state affairs and fights could the reason for Gertrude loneliness, which brought her closer to Claudia. After the death of King Hamlet, support of Claudia gave Gertrude a way out to prevail over the situation and heartache. Weak moral strength in Gertrude made it simple for Claudia to convince her to marry him. After this it was simple for Claudia to have Gertrude become loyal to him, this also made him the father of Hamlet and brought his worries of revolt to a close as well as Hamlet’s royal right to become king. As Claudia took over the throne and married his brother’s wife, it also would make sense to say that he took over the throne so Hamlet would not be king. Also, Claudia had to ascend the throne nearly immediately since Denmark was on the brink of war with Norway. Finally, Claudia took the throne because if he had not, Hamlet would have become king and would have figured out that Claudia murdered is father and would have had him murdered anyways since that is the mandate of this story. Claudia married for two reasons. He wanted to solidify his image in the kingdom as king and he simply was in the dire need of romance. As the opportunity to do both of those came about he took advantage of it, but as he did that turned his newly owned kingdom into turmoil. Rexes Manchester The play opens in the dark. Two men a foot apart cannot see each other. A Ghost appears. Why has Shakespeare begun the play thus? What does it tell us about the nature of his audience? Shakespeare begins Hamlet in immediate suspense. There is no lighting and only two people on stage. The reason for this is to get the audience’s attention from the beginning, without a strong introduction of the play the audience will be bored and unhappy with the performance. The audience at the globe theatre is rather uncivilized. Throughout the play itself the audience is drinking, eating and standing. Everyone in the audience is mostly dirtying, smelly and not very intellectual. If the actors were not performing at their highest level, things would be thrown on stage, the audience would become irritated ND the situation would escalate very quickly to the point that there would be a riot. Shakespeare uses the tactic of introducing a ghost first because it conveys the overall setting of the play, which is suspense, mysteriousness, puzzlement and most of all, curiosity. Through this introduction there is no need for a narrator to come out on stage and say the play is beginning. Due to the mysteriousness the crowd becomes silent, as they are anxious to find out what the play is about. Without the beginning of the play starting as it does, there would be no way to have the audience cooperate for a long period of time. How to cite Hamlet Ophelia, Papers

Business Ethics Employment Discrimination free essay sample

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION Don A. Darden Jr. Employment Discrimination Professor Clay May 15, 2010 In 2004 a federal judge expanded a lawsuit filed by six California women to a class action against Americas single largest employer and the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart. Since then, the case has mushroomed to cover 1. 6 million women Wal-Mart workers, who were employed nationwide since 1988. This by far is the largest class action in U. S. history. The article looks at two important questions: How will liability be determined? And, What can other employers learn from this? Judge Martin Jenkins indicated that Wal-Mart had failed to dispute the plaintiffs evidence that women were paid less than men in every region and in most job categories; that the salary gap widens over time even for employees hired into the same jobs; that women take longer to reach management positions; and that the higher one looks in the organization, the lower the percentage of women. We will write a custom essay sample on Business Ethics Employment Discrimination or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page Other facts cited by the plaintiffs allege that two-thirds of the companys 1. 2 million U. S. orkers are women, but only one-third of all managers and only 14 percent of store managers are women. As a comparison, on average, 60 per cent of the managers in general merchandise stores are women. But although these appear to be facts, none prove that there was ever any intentional, systematic bias. However, Judge Jenkins stated that they support an inference that Wal-Mart engages in discriminatory practices, and that in itself is major. Wal-Marts defense is that the inequalities between its male and female employees have nothing to do with unlawful discrimination. What’s interesting is that typically most companies would argue that women were not interested in or at least on some level not qualified for the higher paying jobs, and that appears to be the defenses Wal-Mart has indicated it will use. It’s obvious that these women felt and even experienced some form of discrimination while working at Wal-Mart. Interestingly enough, the same team of lawyers and experts who represented the plaintiffs in this case, represented other plaintiffs in a gender discrimination class action against Home Depot, which the company eventually settled for $104. million and an agreement to make significant changes in its treatment of female employees. Like Wal-Mart, Home Depot argued that women were uninterested in and in most cases unqualified for the higher paid jobs. Talk about a strategy. The Home Depot case never went to trial because many experts were ready to submit that prejudice was the real reason for the difference in pay and positions bet ween men and women. It would appear within these types of organizations there are features of the organizational culture that allow gender stereotypes to influence job assignments, training, or promotions. Some of the investigations conducted revealed an incentive and motivational system that failed to promote or reward bias-free decision-making. These investigations also showed the existence of gender-segregated job ladders or career paths. That’s why there is such a strong effort to develop similar evidence, much of it depending on sophisticated statistical analyses, to prove gender discrimination at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is not the only one experiencing problems with discrimination. Home Depot, Lucky Stores, Smith Barney, and a number of other prominent employers who have chosen to settle gender discrimination lawsuits will eventually settle; this according to the prediction of many knowledgeable observers. Wal-Mart is famous for its tough stance in discrimination cases, and it remains to be seen just how long it will litigate this one. Its even possible it could choose to go to trial, if it cant get the class action declaration reversed. I discovered that although both sides prepare their evidence as if there will be a trial, very few class action cases ever go to trial. There are some lessons for employers. The most reliable way for an employer to determine its vulnerability to a class action lawsuit is to gather for itself the same statistical data that plaintiffs would use. Disparities in opportunities and outcomes may be due to lawful factors, such as differences in education. But employers need to beware of making assumptions about these differences that are unsupported by objective evidence. Employee surveys are another tool for discovering the potential risk of a class action lawsuit. Survey questions such as those that follow (when correlated to data on the respondents gender, age, and ethnicity) may uncover areas of concern. These questions in these surveys are intended to be answered on a scale of 1 to 5, from strongly agree to strongly disagree. There are those who would say that women employees do not encounter any barriers to opportunity or advancement due to their gender. Others believe that African American employees who have the same qualifications and experience are just as likely to be promoted as employees of other ethnic groups. If self-analysis uncovers indefensible disparities in opportunities and outcomes for women or any other group based on immutable characteristics, the company would need to make substantial changes in its practices and perhaps its culture changes which some organizations prefer not to make, regardless of the liability risk. On the other hand, audits and surveys can provide reassurance that the employer is fulfilling its obligation to provide equal employment opportunities and, most likely, also getting a higher level of productivity and performance from all its employees. One of the greatest tools available to employers is the ability to train their employees on discrimination through online resources for organizations. There are so many available to employers. That’s because training reduces exposure, and discrimination is a sensitive and costly problem that is becoming all too common in many workplaces. By providing discrimination prevention training to employees and managers on a regular basis, and managers reduce their organization’s exposure to this costly problem and creates a safer workplace. References Myron Curry, President and CEO of BusinessTrainingMedia. com, Copyright -2004