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Welcome to Bella Salon!

Hi Jen, welcome to the Bella Salon family! We are happy to have you as part of our team. On your first day, you will learn how to schedule appointments. Please follow these steps every time you confirm an appointment.

Scheduling Appointments: Step-by-Step

1. First, when you take a call: Ask the client in a friendly voice what day and time they want to book an appointment for. Remember, most of our openings are during the workweek; weekend spaces are very limited.
2. Next, ask the client: Which stylist they would like to see. Always consult the appointment book to see which stylists are available.
3. What if a stylist is completely booked? Ask the client if it would be possible to make the appointment for another date or time. Tell

Why People Love to Travel

I am going to talk about the reasons why people love traveling and the benefits we might get when we travel. Have you been on a trip recently? Let me tell you a bit more about the reasons why people decide to travel. Nowadays, people travel mostly for pleasure. Travelers typically choose destinations where they think they’ll feel relaxed in different ways. Other people instead prefer traveling for deeper, more conscious motivations. For example, if you have lived all your life with the comforts of western society, it’s easy to forget that life is not as easy for everyone around the world. In this case, traveling to a different country might help you put your life in perspective and find relaxation in a different... Continue reading "The Joys and Benefits of Traveling" »

Key Motivational Theories

Theory X and Theory Y

• Theory X: Focuses on physiological needs, safety, and security needs.
• Theory Y: Focuses on love (social) needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

ERG Theory

• Existence Needs: Encompass physiological and physical safety needs.
• Relatedness Needs: Encompass interpersonal safety, love, and esteem needs.
• Growth Needs: Encompass self-actualization and self-esteem needs.

McClelland's Need Theory

Manifest Needs: Learned or acquired needs that are easily perceived.

• Need for Achievement: Encompasses excellence, competition, challenging goals, persistence, and overcoming difficulties. People with a high need for achievement perform better.
• Need for Power: Concerns the desire to influence others, change people

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Agenda Setting

Agenda setting describes the news media's ability to influence the salience of topics on the public agenda. *Agenda-setting theory* was formally developed by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw in a study on the 1968 American presidential election. When the media focuses on just a few issues and subjects, the public tends to perceive those issues as more important.

Priming

Priming is the process in which the media attend to some issues and not others, thereby altering the standards by which people evaluate election candidates. A number of studies have demonstrated that there is a dimension of powerful media effects that goes beyond agenda-setting.

Framing

Framing is related to the agenda-setting tradition but expands the research by focusing... Continue reading "Understanding Media Influence and Voter Behavior in Elections" »

Scarcity

The limited nature of society’s resources.

Economics

The study of how society manages its scarce resources.

Efficiency

The property of society getting the most it can from its scarce resources.

Equity

The property of distributing economic prosperity fairly among the members of society.

Opportunity Cost

Whatever must be given up to obtain an item.

Marginal Changes

Small, incremental adjustments to a plan of action.

Market Economy

An economy that allocates resources through the decentralized decisions of many firms and households as they interact in markets for goods and services.

Market Failure

A situation in which a market, left on its own, fails to allocate resources efficiently.

Externality

The uncompensated impact of one person’s actions on... Continue reading "Fundamental Economic Terms & Definitions" »

Common Homophones

• I'll, isle, aisle
• Eight, ate
• Bear, bare
• Be, bee, b
• Blue, blew
• Break, brake
• Buy, by, bye
• Sell, cell
• Sent, cent
• Dear, deer
• Die, dye
• Fair, fare
• Flee, flea
• Flower, flour
• Guest, guessed
• Heal, heel
• Hear, here
• Hole, whole
• Our, hour
• In, inn
• Its, it's
• New, knew
• Not, knot
• No, know
• Made, maid
• Male, mail
• Meet, meat
• Night, knight
• Pear, pair, pare
• Pale, pail
• Pray, prey
• Rain, reign, rein
• Real, reel
• Write, right, rite
• Road, rowed, rode
• Peace, piece
• Roll, role
• Sale, sail
• Sea, see, c
• Site, sight, cite
• Sore, soar
• Sole, soul
• Sun, son
• Stare, stair
• Steak, stake
• Steal, steel
• Tale, tail
• Through, threw
• To, too, two
• Vein, vain, vane
• Waste, waist
• Wait, weight
• Way, weigh
• Week, weak
• Would, wood
• Chord, cord

Globalization and Culture

• Americanized/global brand: A word known worldwide.
• Way of life
• Brain drain: Fuga

Deception as a Thematic Tool

In life, we learn not to judge people solely by their appearances, as many who seem trustworthy are not. Authors often use deceptive appearances as a tool to drive the plot forward. In the plays Macbeth and Death and the Maiden, this device conveys the thematic struggle between personal ambition and moral integrity.

Macbeth's Façade and Duncan's Blindness

Macbeth masterfully uses the distinction between appearance and reality to hide his true intentions. This theme is introduced early by King Duncan, who, reflecting on the betrayal of the previous Thane of Cawdor, laments, “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” This statement tragically foreshadows Duncan’s inability to see the truth... Continue reading "The Tragic Façade: Deception and Downfall in Macbeth" »

Vowels and Consonants

A vowel is a sound produced without any closure in the mouth or throat. There's no obstruction in the buccal cavity. A consonant, conversely, involves at least one stoppage of airflow during vocalization.

Places of Articulation

The place of articulation describes where the obstruction occurs in the vocal tract. It's the point of contact between an active articulator (usually part of the tongue) and a passive articulator (typically part of the roof of the mouth).

• Bilabial: Both lips.
• Labio-dental: Upper lip and upper front teeth.
• Dental: Tongue tip/blade and upper front teeth.
• Alveolar: Tongue tip/blade and alveolar ridge.
• Post-alveolar: Tongue blade and back of the alveolar ridge.
• Palatal: Tongue front and hard palate.
• Velar: Tongue