intentions. The moderating role of working smart on the relationship between work overload and interpersonal conflict is also investigated. A model is tested using responses of sales employees working for four large financial institutions in South America. Findings indicate that work overload and interpersonal conflict mediate the impact of role stress on emotional exhaustion‚ job attitudes‚ and behaviors. Our findings also show that work overload plays a significant role in the stressor-strain process
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three hundred years before the American Revolution‚ the colonial South was a kaleidoscope of different people and cultures. Yet all residents of the region shared two important traits. First‚ they lived and worked in a natural environment unlike any other in the American colonies. Second‚ like humans everywhere‚ their presence on the landscape had profound implications for the natural world. Exploring the ecological transformation of the colonial South offers an opportunity to examine the ways in which
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The Puritans are best known for fleeing to America to escape religious persecution in England. They settled mostly in the New England area as our school books tell us‚ they landed on Plymouth Rock. They built their new society entirely on the belief that the "Bible was God’s true law" (Kizer). Consequently‚ education became an important part of Puritan life. According to the Puritans‚ "Satan was keeping those who couldn’t read from the scriptures" (Education in the Colonies). Puritan education
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identities. Post-colonial literature can be considered as a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial writers focus on issues such as de-colonization and the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. However post-colonial literature cannot be described only by the definition above‚ many other issues have to be considered in order to fully understand post-colonial texts. In order to understand post-colonial texts‚ one
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newspapers in the first six months of 1754 was not good. England’s long-time enemy and challenger for control of North America‚ France‚ had‚ with the assistance of Native American allies‚ scored a series of victories over English colonial troops from the backcountry of Virginia through New England. Fear that France would soon make a move to drive all the English out of North America seemed ready to become reality. A distraught Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie had warned the colony’s assemblymen
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an actual country‚ America began its long-lasting journey to becoming the renowned “mixing pot” of the world. People from all over Europe‚ especially ones originating from England‚ started migrating to this new‚ highly intriguing and unknown continent. The sudden migration has led to several historic controversies over the centuries – what was the chief incentive for the Europeans’ movement to colonial America? Although politics‚ religion‚ and the economy were all huge factors leading up to this
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of liquid (milliliters) 8.8 8.65 8.5 Mass of graduated cylinder and liquid (grams) 30.65 30.62 30.565 Part II: Density of Irregular-Shaped Solid Mass of solid (grams) 39.537 38.515 40.975 Volume of water (milliliters) 50.01 49.9 52.4 Volume of water and solid (milliliters) 54.9 54 57 Part III: Density of Regular-Shaped Solid Mass of solid (grams) 27.7 27.71 26.8 Length of solid (centimeters) 5.26 5 4.5 Width of solid (centimeters) 3 4 3.5 Height of
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THE WAY WE PERCEIVE THE WORLD IS SHAPED BY INTERNAL RATHER THAN EXTERNAL FACTORS Acclaimed playwright Tennesse Williams was a sickly child. As a result‚ he was heavily dotted upon by his mother. He was inherently sensitive‚ desiring to “shrink away in his own private oasis of poetry and writing”. This behaviour was a desperate attempt to escape the domestic conflict between his puritanical mother and bombastic father. His father‚ disapproving of his literary endeavours‚ labelled him a sissy instigated
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The Lives of Colonial Women The Lives of Colonial Women I. Introductory paragraph A. Early life in 1800’s B. Thesis statement-background‚ pressure and impact C. Hardships of group of workers II. Point #1 (Background information on the women’s life) A. Expected to sew‚clean‚care‚and raise children B. More than eight children C. Put permanently on household duties III. Point #2 (Pressures of being a women in colonial times) A. Social pressure to marry
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Colonial Fashion Fashion is built upon different‚ new and occurring trends. Some trends last for decades and others a few days. It all depends on society and the people in it. But where did all these trends come from and what did they build on? I believe that colonial fashion is the answer to that. Colonial fashion during the Revolutionary War is far from what fashion means now‚ in 2016‚ but statements such as how clothes were adorned according to social class‚ clothes of the workplace of men and
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