Reading Response to "The Importance of Work" "The Importance of Work" is an essay from The Feminine Mystique‚ by Betty Friedan. It states that women should hold jobs equivalent to men‚ since "women‚ like men‚ can only find their identity in work that uses their full capacities (578)." Friedan wrote this to help inspire women to go into the work force and seek "self-realization‚ self-fulfillment‚ and identity (576)." She warns that if women do not put forth the effort to become all they can
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A More Perfect Union As inevitable as the U.S. Constitution feels today as the foundation on which the United States of America and its political system are built‚ it was not the first document ratified by the former British colonies to establish a union. During the years of the American Revolutionary War and the years directly following it‚ the newly formed United States of America were essentially a collection of thirteen more or less sovereign states loosely held together in an alliance by
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THE IMPORTANCE OF TELEVISION MANILA‚ MAY 25‚ 2006 (STAR) STARBYTES By Butch Francisco - With the exception of Nestor Torre and Edmund Sicam‚ reviewers who came before me looked down on television and belittled my efforts writing critiques on TV programs. As far as they were concerned‚ film was the superior medium and definitely more sophisticated. But look at local cinema now. While the Philippine movie industry is breathing its last (but I sure hope it gets resuscitated – and I’m positive it would
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The importance of music – Felix Jansson SA2 + Alicia’s comments Music has infiltrated every aspect of our society and culture during the course of thousands of years. In ancient Greece‚ music where everywhere from the slums to the palaces‚ today is no different. Music exists everywhere in our society and culture today and does an excellent job of reflecting it. Looking through the history of music‚ one can learn a lot since it reflects the time in which it was produced; the hardships of the
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to fulfill a mission as large as the one Army undertakes. That mission summarized boils down to national defense with the primary responsibility being the land domain. The focus of this essay being the importance of accountability in the scope of Army operations. We will discuss the importance of accountability as it pertains to personnel‚ equipment‚ and time. At the end‚
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Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? HIS 127: World in the 20th Century December 2012 While political dynamics played a large role in the collapse of the Soviet Union‚ economic breakdown was the main cause of its deterioration. Built on the Socialist ideology of state owned and run business‚ the declining Soviet economy was plagued by economic inefficiencies and corruption. The country suffered from decades of being tossed on the rough seas of inconsistent and capricious political leadership
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general. The importance of education is a none disputable matter. Education is the knowledge of putting one ’s potentials to maximum use. One can safely say that a human being is not in the proper sense till he/she is educated. This importance of education is basically for two reasons. The first is that the training of a human mind is not complete without education. Education makes man a right thinker. It tells man how to think and how to make decision. The second reason for the importance of education
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In organization Synergy becomes very important. Take an organization of your choice and bring out the importance of Synergy in making the organization more productive. Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In organizational terms‚ synergy means that as separate departments within an organization cooperate and interact‚ they become more productive than if each were to act in segregation. The concept of synergy is resulting from the systems approach in which the management
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WHY READING LITERATURE IS/IS NOT IMPORTANT? A Personal Definition of Literature There are a lot of things that come to mind when a person hears the word literature. Usually‚ one thinks of a book‚ story‚ classical work or some variation of the aforementioned but to ask someone to define the term literature‚ proves to be a much trickier task. Many are stumped when asked this question. People often answer by giving examples of literary works but fail to actually give an encompassing definition
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Katie Holland November 9‚ 2011 Psychology The Importance of Friendships Katie Holland Psychology Importance of Friendships Picture this‚ a young boy sitting alone at a playground admiring his peers from across the school yard enjoying a game of hide and seek‚ that he was not invited to. Now shift your attention to the other set of children who are engaging in a rigorous game of hide and seek‚ all laughing and playing with one another. Which side would you want to be on? How do you get to
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