Brandon Schlichting Michael Street English 101 CA October 23‚ 2011 Word count: 1‚032 My opinions of the workforce based from “No long Term” To find a job today requires thinking outside the box and being creative‚ like finding a unicorn. People become more desperate to find work in today’s economy‚ making it a job itself to make sure the bills are paid on time. The difficulty of finding a nice paying job isn’t the only thing that’s changed though. The hierarchy of the work environment
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Chapter 3‚ Flexible‚ by Richard Sennett‚ “The Corrosion of Character” As a whole‚ Richard Sennett’s book The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism discusses the effect of the flexible capitalist economy on the lives of workers during the 1990s. Chapter 3 focuses mainly on flexibility. Sennett compares the flexibility of a human being to that of a tree‚ whereby‚ the tree has the capacity both to yield and to recover‚ from both the testing and the restoration
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Recreation: Organization over spontaneity are the three developments that have brought about the change in leisure time. The Decline of Public Life is a development in which Richard Sennett argues that modernity has seen the fall of public man‚ as people more and more seek refuge in “ties of family or intimate association” (Sennett 1977). Leisure has been affected in far-reaching ways. Migration to the suburbs and the progression of the television keeps people home to entertain themselves. Not only
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article “No Long Term: New Work And The Corrosion Of Character” Richard Sennett discusses the work ethic of two generations‚ and explains how the modern work ethic is corrupting peoples character. Richard Sennett met Rico at the airport‚ Sennett had met Rico fifteen years ago when he had interviewed Rico’s father for his book The Hidden Injuries of Class. Which was about blue-collar worker in america. When Sennett first met Rico’s father Enrico had been an janitor for twenty years. Sennett stated
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908 Draft 1 Richard Sennett‚ the Sociologist basically states in No Long Term: New Work and the Corrosion of Character" that even though Rico has been prepared by a good disciplined background and solid education‚ the unstable economy and modern work arena in which he exists‚ has uprooted him four times (Sennett 152)‚ causing him serious problems in raising his family‚ establishing long term relationships‚ and in existing as an upstanding‚ trustworthy individual. I agree with Sennett: Migration is
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benefits and dangers. Warren Buffet states‚ that ‘Growth benefits investors only when the business in point can invest at incremental returns that are enticing – in other words‚ only when each dollar used to finance the growth creates over a dollar of long term market value.’ We can say that it worked for Starbucks in the beginning‚ when growth also meant growth of the share price‚ and even though no dividends were paid‚ the company was still profitable over the years‚ but with the emerging of new competition
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A Comparative Study of Long-term and Short-term Memory between Athletes and Non-Athletes ABSTRACT Physical exercise has demonstrated to considerably affect stimuli in the brain to increase an individual’s memory. Athletes will have better long-term and short-term memory compared to those who are not athletes. The intent of this study was to evaluate and compare the long-term and short-term memory of athlete and non-athlete. Twenty participants were tested‚
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Whenever thinking of my short and long-term goals‚ five total goals come clearly to my mind. Three of them are short-term goals‚ and two of them are long-term goals. My first short-term goal is getting a leadership position in Sigma Alpha.There are multiple officer positions‚ and I want to apply to one. My second short-term goal is to get a job as a Summer Staff member at Gasper River Catholic Youth Camp & Retreat Center. I have volunteered as a counselor for Gasper River in the past‚ but this year
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Long term goals "Goals are as essential to success as air is to life." One of my favorite sayings‚ It’s ironic that would be my favorite saying since I’ve always been a planner. I always had a plan. Planning for our futures is very important even if those plans may change. One way in which we plan for the future is by setting goals. defines a goal as "the end toward which effort is directed." Part of the career planning process involves setting goals. These goals‚ both long and short term‚ will
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Continuum of Care- Long-term Care Long-term care has and is continuing to become an important part of the continuum of care. Years ago Long-term care (LTC) was considered only to be for the elderly‚ but as time passes it is for anybody and everybody who needs it. Barton (2006) stated‚ “Regardless of the length of time (i.e.‚ from weeks to years)‚ long-term care is an array of services provided in a range of settings to individuals who have lost some capacity for independence due to injury‚ chronic
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