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Unit 7 Workplace Privacy

     There is a great controversy regarding the monitoring of jobs. Employers regularly feel the need to monitor their employees, because they are paying a time that must be used for the tasks for which they are paying. Sometimes workers are intentionally delayed, and they can also use the company's resources for personal tasks. This motivates owners and / or bosses to use certain forms of surveillance, which can range from security cameras to blocking certain content on the network to maximize productivity. On the other hand, there is the fact that surveillance can have an opposite effect on employees. The sensation produced by knowing that every action you take will be monitored, can create great tension, even anxiety in people. The boundaries between surveillance and stalking are very narrow and can be enclosed from time to time. For this reason there are certain statutes dedicated to supervising and guaranteeing privacy in workplaces, such as The Electronic Communic...

Unit 6 Spiritual Renuval

     In the time we live, people have hundreds of goals that lead them to enroll in hundreds of activities. To fulfill a goal such as buying a car, a house, a new telephone, filling people with satisfaction, the accumulation of material goods has become the way in which society measures success. But there is a very important aspect that has been left aside, and it is the spirit. This is like a container that is filling as we live. It is like filling a container with figures of different shapes, even if it is completed to the top it will always have empty spaces, but if water is poured, it will fill it completely. The spirit is the same, you have to fill it with things that do not leave empty spaces.      When we reach that point where we feel empty inside, a spiritual renuval is necessary. There are many ways to refill the spirit and each person must find their own way. Some read the bible, others go to places in search of peace and fleeing from the b...

Unit 5 Feng Shui

     In ancient Chinese beliefs there is a flow of energy that circulates around everything and everyone called "Chi". The correct flow of this energy causes harmony, peace, well-being, abundance. This is achieved with a good organization and / or disposition of the physical space around us. The science or art that studies the correct flow of this energy is feng shui.      According to what we saw in class, feng shui is becoming an extremely essential tool for architecture in recent times due to the expansion of oriental Chinese culture towards the west. Both in homes and offices take into consideration feng shui to organize furniture, some notions that preaches feng shui are, do not place desks back to the doors, because the person is off guard in case of surprise attack , another important point when balancing the flow of "Chi" are the mirrors. These can help or obstruct the flow of chi depending on where they are placed in the bedrooms are not reco...

Unit 4 The Tipping Point

     In this interesting unit we saw the meaning of tipping point, which is a point in history where something happens that drastically changes the people of a demarcation. We also saw some examples of events that impacted our society in a way that caused a change in the way of living and thinking in our country, as was the independence of our nation on February 27, 1844. Another fact that marked an earlier and a later for the Dominicans was the execution of dictates Rafael Leonidas Trujillo on May 30, 1961.