Work to live‚ Don’t live to work By Will Brady This is my response to a QCS(Queensland Core Skills) test. When we walked into the test room we had no idea what we were supposed to write about. We were give the theme of ‘Time’‚ for which we were given a stimulus sheet and 2 hours to write whatever we could. I came up with this. These days‚ most of us spend three quarters of our lives‚ working. And what is all of this work for? To save money so that when we retire‚ and were old and crippled‚
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wide‚ but now LEED is a internationally recognized environmental program that is changing the way we build today. Over 30 countries worldwide have started to adopt the program and make it apart of their everyday lives. What it does is‚ it provides that a building or a group of buildings were designed and built in a way that would improve energy savings‚ water efficiency‚ indoor environmental quality‚ and CO2 emissions reduction. This is important in today’s society since everyone is in the recession;
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become a public issue within a society. For example if one person became jobless‚ it is nothing but a personal individual issue. However‚ if thousands of people become unemployed‚ the issue developed into public‚ as it affects the society in which they live in. Public issues within today’s Australian society suggest that 660‚000 people are listed as unemployed as of 2013. (Australian Bureau of Statistics‚ 2013) The same goes for homelessness. People can become homeless for a vast of personal reasons
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Journal The Rookery Building One of my favorite buildings in Chicago is the Rookery Building‚ which was built in 1888 by Daniel Burnham and John Root on the South-East corner of LaSalle and Adams streets. Eleven stories tall and 181 feet high‚ it is the oldest high rise building still standing in Chicago. The building is commonly called the “Rookery” because of the crows and pigeons that roosted in the roof and walls of the temporary city hall that previously stood at that site and the corrupt
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Building a virtual team Saturday August 26‚ 2012 Building a virtual team A virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time‚ space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. Several key factors can cause a virtual team to succeed or to go down the drains such as lack of interest‚ lack of directions and difference of work ethic. We can describe the key challenges and pitfalls to virtual teams as such: Some virtual team lack of clear
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A Doll’s House A dominant style in theatre for the past 120 years‚ representing sexual romance‚ violence and domestic disturbances is the realistic style. “The live production “A Doll’s House” by The Young Vic’s effectively uses realism to address gender equality in the 19th century‚ foregrounding the idea that women are bound by the social conception of the duty of a wife‚ this is shown through effective use of the elements of drama”. A Doll’s House opens in the main setting of the play which
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Katelyn Gettys Questions – 15 – 29 – House on Mango Street "Darius and the Clouds" What is the significance of the sky‚ butterflies and the flowers? Well‚ the sky reminded him of his childhood. They’d make familiar shapes and just bring back the best memories which made him in a better mood. Since Darius is one of those guys that like to tease girls around the school yard‚ it kind of gives him a bad feeling about himself. He relies on the sky‚ butterflies
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Analysis Posted on March 10‚ 2013by daisyjacinto Strengths: 1. Reputation for producing highly secure mobile devices 2. Blackberry brand loyalty amongst niche market of corporate/business customers 3. Strong Brand Recognition 4. History of building sturdy award winning devices Weaknesses: 1. Losing brand loyalty amongst non-corporate customers 2. Market perceptions of devices being for “professionals” 3. Highly dependent on government and corporate contracts 4. R&D limited on innovation
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Lives on the Boundary Mike Rose’s Lives on the Boundary is an Educational Autobiography. The book begins at the beginning of his life and we follow him up into his adult years. The book focuses on the "struggles and achievements of America’s educationally underprepared" . The Alien In order to understand Mike Rose‚ and his book Lives on the Boundary‚ you must first understand where Mike is coming from and examine his past. Mike was born to a first generation immigrant family‚ originally from Italy
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The Rhetoric of Tom Bissell’s “Extra lives: Why Video Games Matter” Tom Bissell’s‚ a teacher at Portland State University‚ main idea was to indicate to his audience why video games matter to him by using various argumentative appeals. One must ask themselves‚ can this author be worthy of respect? Can he give his readers enough facts to get his argument across? Will he try to give us a soft story to buy his way into in his argument? Throughout most of Bissell’s book‚ he uses the logical appeal
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