Working from Home: It’s in the Details The benefits include lower costs and greater productivity‚ but figuring out how to communicate with off-site employees is crucial Traffic surrounding Microsoft headquarters in Redmond‚ Wash.‚ has become so congested that Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire nearly missed a 9 a.m. speech at the company’s main campus one recent morning. Roads leading to the software maker simply weren’t designed to handle the 35‚000 commuters who report for work there
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Christine Sinclair born June 12‚ 1983 in Burnaby‚ British Columbia‚ Canada is a Canadian soccer player. For Christine Sinclair‚ January 6‚ 2006‚ was a day to remember. First‚ the Canadian Soccer Association named her the 2005 female player of the year. Then‚ later in the day‚ came the announcement that the British Columbia native had won the 2005 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy as the top female Division 1 college soccer player in the United States. The MAC Hermann Trophy is U.S. soccer’s
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Kiyana Aldin Aldin 1 Mr. Trotta/ Mr. Connor World History 1 Honors F Block 29 October 2013 Christine de Pisan Christine de Pisan displayed the Renaissance ides of opportunity in her poetry. Epistre au dieu d ’amour‚ published in 1399‚ openly expressed her dissatisfaction with the way that women were treated in the medieval times. She opposed the way that the women were looked upon causing her to rebel against the traditional role of women as foils for literary and social
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Jeremy Harper Women In Renaissance FRQ Cheeeman-Meyer 9/16/14 The Renaissance is known as a time of great learning‚ achievement‚ and the flourishing of the arts. However this common view of the renaissance conveniently overlooks about half of the population‚ women. While many men of the era did indeed make great strides‚ the women were left behind still languishing in a relative Dark Age. While there were a few notable exceptions women’s involvement in the renaissance was almost non existent and
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Christine De Pisan was “born in Venice‚ Italy‚ in 1364‚ Christine de Pisan is considered a pioneering feminist writer and one of the[most famous female] writers of Medieval times.” Christine de Pisan’s father helped her at the age of 13 to learn about subjects such as Greek and Latin‚ also becoming very strongly minded in great literature. “Around the age of 15‚ [Christine]de Pasin married Etienne du Castel‚ a member of the French Court.” Etienne supported Christin de Pasin through her writing
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ages‚ women have been portrayed in literature as vile and corrupt. During this time‚ Christine de Pizan became a well educated woman and counteracted the previous notions of men’s slander against women. With her literary works‚ Pizan illustrated to her readers and women that though education they can aspire to be something greater than what is written in history. Through the use of real historical examples‚ Christine de Pizan’s‚ The Book of the City of Ladies‚ acts as a defense against the commonly
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Stephen King is perhaps the most widely known American writer of his generation‚ yet his distinctions include publishing as two authors at once: Beginning in 1966‚ he wrote novels that were published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. When twelve‚ he began submitting stories for sale. At first ignored and then scorned by mainstream critics‚ by the late 1980’s his novels were reviewed regularly in The New York Times Book Review‚ with increasing favor. Beginning in 1987‚ most of his novels were main
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For millennia‚ women have left their mark on the world‚ at times changing the course of history and at other times influencing small but significant spheres of life. Only in the past century‚ however‚ have concerted efforts been made to represent women’s contributions more fully in history books. Consequently‚ changes in status for many women in modern times—the right to own property‚ to vote‚ and to choose their own careers—may obscure the accomplishments made by women of earlier eras. In selecting
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The purpose of these essays is to inform people about the dangers of cell phone use. Not that the cell phones are physical dangerous‚ but a warning of the effects on human behavior. As I began reading the essays “Our Cell Phones‚ Our Selves‚ by Christine Rosen and Disconnected Urbanism by Paul Golderger‚ I knew which direction the authors were heading. Within the first few sentences Christen Rosen‚ talks about how the cell phone is changing our behavior and how we are becoming disconnected with society
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“Connecting the Dots” has a very adaptive and realistic approach to dealing with this newfound digital literacy. People of the Screen Digital Literacy While Christine Rosen does not present a set definition of what she means by digital literacy‚ she is generally referring to any text on screens and the digital world that encompasses them. This includes Kindles‚ ebooks‚ and anything on a screen. This argument was
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