O. Henry was a prolific American short-story writer‚ a master of surprise endings‚ who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. A twist of plot‚ which turns on an ironic or coincidental circumstance‚ is typical of O. Henry’s stories. Born September 11‚ 1862 as William Sidney Porter‚ he later changed to his pen name of O. Henry. ^ He spent his childhood in North Carolina. He was formally educated until he dropped out of school at fifteen and became a pharmacist at his uncle’s pharmacy
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Life is what you make it A little boy called Andy was asked to audition with his classmates for a part in the school play. His mother knew that he had his heart set on being in the play and she was worried about how he would react if he wasn’t chosen. On the day that the parts were given out‚ Andy’s mother went to the school to collect him feeling anxious about the outcome. Seeing his mother Andy rushed up to her‚ his eyes were shining with pride and excitement. "Guess what Mum‚" he shouted
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Balancing Work Life and Home Life The purpose of the article is to discuss what organizations can do to adopt more effective management of professional and private life. Organizations need to help employees define the boundaries between home and work. These boundaries should be more flexible than they currently are‚ the value of transition time between home and work should be recognized‚ and family should
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that the city of Alexandria in Egypt‚ where at the famous institution‚Musaeum of Alexandria‚he consorted with famous scientists like Conon the Samian‚Dositheos‚Eratosthenes of Cyrene and others with whom he kept regular contact with‚by sending his work to them and asking for their opinion before it was published. The exact time of his stay in Alexandria can only be approximately identified‚and that between 250-240 bc. During his stay he made a remarkable discovery:he invented the screw‚a pumping
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Managing work life balance Name: Sammi Leung Nga Yi login: sl389 Words: 2‚446 (excluding references) 10. Managing work life balance Introduction This essay is going to examine managing work life balance and how organizations are going to manage it in contemporary human resource management with relevant organizational examples. Moreover‚ we will look at the current issues and the problems of work life balance. Work life balance (WLB) is a term which refers to the concept
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Michelle Holliday’s research (2004)‚ the topic about work-life balance is popular among people since the beginning of a major UK campaign in 2000 (Changing Patterns in a Changing World‚ DFEE‚ 2000). What does the “work-life balance” mean? According to the explanation of Eurofound Website (2009)‚ work life balance refers to “a state of equilibrium between an individual’s work and personal life”. But the Economic Times website (2013) think that work-life balance does not mean an absolutely equal balance
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Jose Rizal: His Life‚ Works‚ and Writings Dr. Jose Rizal was born on June 19‚ 1861‚ in the town of Calamba‚ Laguna. He was the seventh child in a family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families. He was an excellent student‚ starting with formal schooling in Biñan then‚ attending the Ateneo Municipal de Manila later‚ the University of Sto. Tomas. He continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid‚ Spain‚ where he earned
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Research on Relationship Quality of Work Life and Work Engagement Selahattin Kantena‚ ‚ ‚ Omer Sadullahb a Mehmet Akif Ersoy University‚ Zeliha Tolunay Higher School Of Applied Technology and Management‚ Burdur 15000‚ Turkey b Istanbul University‚ School Of Business‚ Istanbul 34000‚ Turkey Abstract Literature on Quality of Work Life (QWL) is limited and several studies commonly correlates with some variables but no study on QWL has associated with work engagement. This research investigates
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ethnolinguistic groups that make up the Igorots. The other four are the Bontocs‚ Ibaloi‚ Isneg (or Apayao)‚ and Kalinga. “Igorot” is a term used to describe the indigenous people of the Cordillera Mountains located in the northern part of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. They inhabit the six provinces of Abra‚ Apayao‚ Benguet‚ Kalinga‚ Ifugao‚ and Mountain Province. Although Igorots are Filipinos “geographically‚” there are several factors in their culture that make them unique‚ like their own
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Work and Private Life Introduction In this essay I will be talking about work and private life. There have been significant changes to work and private life between 1990’s and 2010. This could be due to many factors such as technology‚ changes in law‚ improved way of working (Productivity and training) and intense competition. Main body Work and private life in modern times clashes in more ways than before. For example‚ one does not have enough time to concentrate on private life as
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