Brendan is struggling to understand how to use the new reporting software his company has adopted. rather than asking the it director for , brendan keeps doing google searches to try to answer his questions. brendan is exhibiting what stereotype of men in the workplace?

The sturdy oak

Explanation:

The sturdy oak is a stereotypic view that a man or male person is a self-sufficient pillar of strength who can not depend on anyone but can do things on their own without any assistance. This makes a male person believes that showing that you have doubts about something will make you look weak and unmanly such that a person never express their doubts.

This put pressure in men and they suffer greatly in their work environment because they can not openly admit when they don't know something. This is the case with Brendan,he can't ask because it will make him look unmanly.

i have to go with a for this one

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)