When the possibility to obtain the next position in your career track comes available‚ what would you do to ensure that you at least get your resume in front of the human resources manager? Would you be willing to embellish your employment or education history so that you meet a certain criteria or to go above the preferred qualifications? While adding to your resume may sound like an easy thing that will not harm anyone‚ it is an unethical tactic that cheats the potential employers and is unfair
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Often in social activism people have to decide how they are going to work towards what they want. Baldwin‚ in The Fire Next Time‚ has to make the decision of how he will deal with racial inequality and from which side he would like to approach it. He considers either be apart of the Nation of Islam and fight for separate black and white nations‚ or continue to be apart of Christianity despite knowing that Christianity favors white people. Through this collision of culture Baldwin backs up the meaning
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In her book Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin informs the reader on many aspects of life in the 1950s. Recalling the details of her childhood‚ Doris describes the new and old technology of the time period. She also tells about the religion and social lives of the people of the fifties. While telling her story‚ Goodwin takes many glimpses into the world of technology in the fifties. One thing shown in her book is that medical technology was not very good. Remembering her father’s stories about
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The article “The Globe: Cracking the Next Growth Market: Africa” talks about the growing awareness of significant business opportunities in many African countries in the next coming years. Ever since the 2010 FIFA World Cup took place in South Africa‚ economists and executives all agreed that Africa would be the next big emerging market. However‚ companies have been hesitating to enter this new market due to undiversified production structure‚ low human capital‚ poverty‚ famine‚ and disease afflicting
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2/6/13 Technology in the next 100 years: the futurologist’s view ComputerWeekly.com Technology in the next 100 years: the futurologist’s view Futurologist Ian Pearson discussed technologies of the future to more than 200 IT‚ security and finance delegates on the Aurora cruise ship. He spoke of IT security threats from smart bacteria‚ gadgets which are installed in the skin‚ the soaring of tax rates precipitating the emigration of graduates to low-tax economies‚ oil at 30 dollars a barrel
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For this week’s post the poem I focused on is “Next to of course God America I” written by E. E. Cummings. E. E. Cumming is becoming my new favorite poet‚ I like his use of words both stylistically and for meaning‚ the way he makes them play together. This poem is not very forth coming with the 5w’. It’s only after reading it multiple times and looking up definitions that you start to have a slight sense of what is being illustrated. The poem is written in a way that it can carry multiple interpretations
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Research Paper on “Preparation for the Next Life” Preparation for the Next Life is a fiction book written by American author‚ Atticus Lish. It was originally published in 2014. It is a very deep and a meaningful book. It is about life‚ bad options‚ and love. The novel is mostly over a love story of Zou Lei‚ a young lady who is an illegal immigrant from Afghanistan‚ and of Brad Skinner who is a war veteran. Skinner suffers from some severe post-traumatic stress disorder which leads him to depression
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Based on my reading of Hasker (1983)‚ I believe the view of the mind or body problem that was exhibited by Piccard in the synopsis from Star Trek: The Next Generation was the Dualism view. Picard stated that‚ “Data has rights among them the right to refuse to undergo an experimental procedure such as this.” Here‚ Picard ascribes both physical and mental attributes to the robot (Data). This view correlates to Hasker (1983) statement that‚ “Dualism begins by taking quite seriously the fact that human
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In e. e. Cummings’ poem “next to of course god america i” cummings’ describes the heroic actions the military made for america. This claim is proved numerous times throughout the poem. For example‚ in line 9-10‚ cummings’ writes “what could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead”. When cummings’ mentions this‚ it shows that there is nothing more beautiful than the people who fought for our country and died. This can be shown as many military members are heroic as they are sacrificting
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IBM Institute for Business Value Optimizing distribution channels: The next generation of value creation Following a decade of above-market performance‚ retail banks are feeling the fallout from strategies that‚ while fueling growth‚ failed to leverage the rich potential of these institutions’ customer-facing channels — fertile ground for growing and sustaining profitable‚ long-term relationships. By shifting their focus back to the customer‚ banks can set off a new wave of value creation.
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