There are more than a few problems with Ibram X. Kendi, but a supposed lack of academic achievement isn't one of them. He went on to get dual B.S, a Masters, and a PhD.
In a non-quantitative way, with non-credible, non-data-backed, non-evidence-backed methodology.
Here's an example of a writing sample I did for a master's degree in an online college before leaving it due to it not being regionally accredited(Can't tell you which one but it's the lowest price university, and I did it to get ahold of their textbook which turns out to be from 2016)
Discussion Post 1 [683 Word Count]
by Gergar12
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While the 21st century has seen a green energy reformation (Rifkin, 2011), a renewal in the sharing economy (Rifkin, 2011), a biomedical transformation(
The Molecular Medicine Revolution 1998), a military technology evolution(
Network Centric Warfare 1999), a shift to globalization & free trade(Levin et al., 2021), and recently an acceleration in artificial intelligence(Acemoglu & Restrepo, 2018), the constant in all these transformations is the computer[Information technology] revolution which serves as the primary enabler of all other technological transitions(McClellan , 2006). The world’s workplaces went from fax machines, paper copies of important documents, file cabinets/filing systems, and paper forms to email (ROBERTSON, 2021), and later saving important documents to the cloud (Vidhya et al., 2016), SQL or structured query language usage and databases (Vidhya et al., 2016), and word processors like Microsoft Word and Google Docs (Kruse et al., 2023). This has resulted in increased productivity and alternative ways to work such as gig work, and remote & hybrid work.
According to the St, Louis Federal Reserve worker productivity has increased linearly in an upward trend since the 1970s (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024). This is due to a wide variety of factors, but chief among them is that information technology has enabled workers to work faster, smarter, and more accurately (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024). Emails are faster than fax machines (ROBERTSON, 2021), Copying and pasting and possibly printing an important document is faster than creating paper copies of important documents, and a database system is better than a file cabinet as the data inside them can be accessed better (ROBERTSON, 2021), is safer, and is more easily retrieved. Word processors/typing is faster and more efficient than typing machines and paper forms (Kruse et al., 2023). This has therefore meant workers’ workloads can be produced in greater quantities with high quality, and with more secure storage (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024) (Vidhya et al., 2016).
The world has seen three industrial revolutions with a possible fourth one that is ongoing (Bai, Dallasega, Orzes, & Sarkis, 2020). Since the end of the Cold War/1990s onwards the global economy and modern workplace have seen the dominance of digitalization in the form of information technology enter every function of the workplace (Bai, Dallasega, Orzes, & Sarkis, 2020) (
Network Centric Warfare 1999). This has affected the workplace in ways that have increased the output of almost every worker from the CEO of a Fortune 500 company down to the warehouse worker in a data warehouse of an SME business (Bai, Dallasega, Orzes, & Sarkis, 2020).
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When it comes to employee welfare and general happiness there are generally two cases in the business world we can refer to. One case is Costco, another example is Walmart (Basker, 2007). Walmart’s wages and treatment of employees have been seen as inadequate in the face of increasing government and media scrutiny (Basker, 2007), however, it charges no membership fees for inclusion into its stores and has low prices for its goods (Basker, 2007), meanwhile, Costco is regularly held as the exemplar of both high-quality goods, low prices, above-average treatment of its staff(Courtemanche & Carden, 2014), but there is a price floor or membership fee to entering the store and purchasing goods and services(Courtemanche & Carden, 2014). Yet despite this when we look at general productivity and quality of goods, Costco tends to trump Walmart due to its management of workers and unique business setup (Cascio, 2006).
The principal reason the average Walmart employee performs worse than the average Costco employee and the quality of goods is skewed towards Costco over Walmart is the consequence of low-quality Walmart wages, benefits, and work environment while Costco has the inverse qualities of Walmart with higher-than-average salaries, a generous benefits package, and a generally more favorable work environment (Cascio, 2006). And while Walmart and Costco compete in different markets with Costco marketing itself mainly to middle to upper-middle-class customers, and Walmart from the working class to the lower middle-class (Basker, 2007) consumers they are both retailers who sell similar goods (Cascio, 2006).
Sources Cited[Doing]
Question 1
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THE FILING CABINET A VERTICAL HISTORY OF INFORMATION. University of Minnesota Press.
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB
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Question 2
Basker, E. (2007). The causes and consequences of Wal-Mart's growth.
The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(3), 177-198.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30033740
Courtemanche, C., & Carden, A. (2014). Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse club entry and grocery prices.
Southern Economic Journal, 80(3), 565-585.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23809641
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Academy of Management Perspectives, 20(3), 26-37.
http://www.jstor.com/stable/4166249
And I was being lazy writing this.
Meanwhile
Who the fuck cites the Guardian in an academic book. Most of these citations are lazy. Here's a competent citation page by a competent professor.