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    Do you know how many children run away from home every year? According to societyandculture.com "Every year‚ more than one million children in the U.S. run away from home. Kids as young as 10 are among the one in seven who leave their homes‚ although most runaways are between 15 and 17". From these statistics‚ I am beginning to wonder why this happens every year and it seems it isn’t stopping anytime soon. In a complicated society‚ not all families are the same. Children are affected by their family

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    U.S. History Lowell Mill Girls In 1832‚ Lowell‚ Massachusetts was little more than a factory village‚ until the development of the water powered plant like the on in Waltham‚ Massachusetts. Soon Lowell started to grow and help was in great demand. News of the new water powered factories and the high wages they were offering to all working classes of people traveled to all parts of New England. The stories of the Lowell mills gave new life to lonely and dependent women in distant New England

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    tell their stories and to do so in a creative way. These poems were chosen as they exhibit the theme of the Home as well as Journeys and other things that relate which revolve around those two main words. Covering four parts that include Home‚ Going or Being away from home‚ The Journey‚ and The Return. They do not connect directly but all revolve around any of the four categories. The home is a sanctuary of love and peace. It is the place where one feels rooted upon. We do not talk of a structure

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    Working Girl: The Obstacles Within Corporate America Introduction In the movie Working Girl‚ the star Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a hard working woman who is determined to reach the top of the stock market world by hard work. As she turns 30 she is still stuck in clerical work so when she starts working for Katherine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) she is glad that Katherine is willing to accept input and ideas from her. However‚ when Katherine goes on a skiing trip

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    Employee misbehaviour at work: a home away from home As Vardi and Wiener (1996) point out‚ Organisational scientists and practitioners are becoming ever more conscious of the increasing instances of organisational misconduct and the resulting significance of it’s consequences for organisations. With this in mind‚ I will examine the factors which are making the workplace a home away from home. These include internet misuse‚ telephone conversations‚ social conversations etc‚ and are potentially

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    Not too many people keep the friendships they made growing up or often end up moving away from family‚ thus causing loss to a supportive relationship. Perry Patetic in his excerpt discusses that having such an open and mobile society can cripple relationships. The author supports this claim by first generally referencing negative effects of being able to fly‚ drive‚ or potentially move long distance. Patetic continues by declaring that there are more downfalls to mobility than benefits. The author’s

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    LIVING ATE HOME AND LIVING AWAY FROM HOME Nowadays‚ most young people are choosing to live away from home. At some moment in life you have to decide between staying at home with your parents as you have always done or starting a new life alone that means being independent. At the moment that you want to make a choice between these two styles of life. You should know that living at home and living away from home has some similarities and some differences that you have to consider before

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    The film “Working Girl” illustrates the feministic fight and struggles of women in the work force in the 1980s to the present‚ every contradiction relates to the main problems that women face. The two main women characters in “Working Girl” represent the two types of stereotypes of women that establish themselves in the corporate world‚ Kathrine Parker and Tess McGill. Despite the film being an inspirational feministic story‚ the writer Kevin Wade created a love plot between the main character‚ Tess

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    One of the first and significant industrial cities in America was Lowell‚ Massachusetts. Wealthy men from Boston built massive factories on the Merrimack River in Lowell‚ MA. These factories created cotton and wool which soon produced more than the leading mills in Britain. America was gradually shifting into a nation of big factories where many Americans would find employment as laborers in these factories. Many men and women were employed at the mills for a variety of responsibilities such

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    their work from home instead of working in offices every day. Working from home should be encouraged as it is good for workers and employers. Do you agree or disagree? Whether or not working at home is more productive and convenient than at regular offices has arisen a controversy among the general public. Numerous individuals reckon that traditional mean is still overwhelming in the new era whereas others hold a firm belief that the telecommunication generates better results from home. From my perspective

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