global world of work has seen radical changes in recent years‚ among which telecommuting‚ or working from home‚ stands out as the most remarkable brainchild of this technological age. An increasing number of people choose to complete their work from home and communicate with their offices using computers or telephones. While this may seem like a better option for workers and their employers‚ there are a number of drawbacks lurking behind the benefits of this development. A major disadvantage is
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that humans only dreamed in the past to become reality‚ such as predicting natural disasters. Remote controled satellites are mainly used for meteorology making accurate weathher forecasting. With these natural disasters being predicted before they do harm to humans. People can be warned and they can escape from danger. However‚ we have to admit that cost of space research is extremely expensive. It is risky when investing money in fields with unclear future in years. While there are
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2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at Stanford‚ this renowned citadel
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Ray Mrs. Bailey English 092 20 February 2013 A Change in My Life I have endured many changes in my life and many of them have happened over the past six years. Here are some examples of the changes I have gone through that lead up to the greatest change of my life graduating high school‚ getting married to the love of my life‚ loosing my grandfather‚ and having my son. But none of those changes could prepare me for the greatest change in my life that I had to go through‚ and that happened on November
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‘It is Eve’s ruthless pursuit of ambition that leads us to dislike her. Do you agree?’ In the film‚ ‘All About Eve’‚ Joseph Mankiewicz presents a world of contradictory standards between the forces of a man and a woman that transcends back in 1950s‚ where women‚ such as Eve Harrington‚ are conceive as cold-blooded and merciless as they pursue differently from the society’s expectations‚ by the means of chasing their ruthless ambition. To an extent‚ Eve’s immoral actions is what may have influenced
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Post-1914 play Educating Rita- To what extent do you agree that Educating Rita is a feminist play? The play ‘Educating Rita’ is set in Liverpool during the 1970s‚ with only two main characters: Rita White and Frank. Rita‚ a vibrant and bubbly twenty-six year old‚ uneducated‚ working class woman enrols at the Open University‚ her real name is Susan‚ but she changed it to Rita in honour of Rita Mae Brown‚ a junk novelist. Frank‚ however‚ is an educated‚ middle class man with a drinking problem
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What makes a good statement (or claim)? Jose Leon HUMN 210 Professor Miriam Abbott February 24th‚ 2013 1. You are given the following ten short claims to analyze. Identify which ones are good or bad statements. If they are bad statements‚ indicate why. a. Nobody in the world today is really good. b. The world is not flat. c. I will need an extended period of laborious cogitation to assimilate the missive. d. The number 2 is
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It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you Simon Armitage writes an adventurous comparison poem to show how powerful imagination is by comparing life long dreams to one’s mundane memories in the poem‚“ It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you”. The poem displays three imaginative pinnacle-like events and with those events‚ there are three events juxtaposing them. The poem is presented in a manner where the story is based on the experiences of a first-person speaker. The poem follows
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Life is full of problems. The more you solve them‚ the more new ones come up. And you can sweep problems under the carpet or run away from them. Wherever you go‚ sooner or later there will be problems for you to solve. Since this is a fact of life‚ you may as well develop some skills on how to handle problems in life. Here are some insights on how to deal with problems in life so that you may achieve success and happiness. One of the best ways to handle problems is to have the right attitude
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Difficult Childhood After reading “The Sanctuary of School” by Linda Barry I figured out that we share some similar life experiences. Our similar experiences include growing up in poor families‚ crowded households‚ and positive educators that shaped our lives. At the same time‚ there are many differences in our background. She grew up in an urban place‚ and I grew up in a rural area. Linda’s childhood was very unhappy while mine was happy. She was neglected and I was well taken care of as a child
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