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    Boomerang Employees: Bring

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    Boomerang Employees: Bring ‘Em Back G.MURALI MANOHARI FACULTY‚ NEHRU INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLGY‚ COIMBATORE B.SUDHA VENKATALAKSHMI FACULTY‚ NEHRU INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES‚ COIMBATORE “Great Things are coming back” Employee turnover is one of the biggest expenses for organizations. Losing and replacing employees can cost one times the salary and benefits of the departing employee. One method of combating high turnover costs is to focus on bringing back boomerang employees

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    ‘A Song of Hope’ was written by Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal‚ at a time when Aboriginals were being distinguished against because of their skin colour and traditions. This poem speaks optimistically of a brighter future for the coming generations of people with different skin colour or traditions including the Aboriginals. The subject matter the poem is racism and freedom for the Aboriginals and others who have different colored skins from others or Native Australians. The theme the poem is the

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    Student Analysis: Boomerang Children The recession has affected most everyone in one way or another. Unfavorable job markets and high unemployment rates have increased the number of people moving back to their parent’s house that were previously in college or living alone. These people are known as boomerang children. However‚ the name may be misleading‚ as a new generation of “boomerang children” has arrived with almost 500‚000 adults aged 35 to 44 moving back in with their parents. They’re

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    Boomerang Generation/Moving Back Home (Course Writing Assignment) The NY Times‚ in It’s Official: The Boomerang Kids Won’t Leave‚ explores the trend of increasing numbers of young people continuing to live with their parents after college. The article notes that one in five people in their 20s and early 30s currently live with parents‚ and 60 percent of all young adults receive financial support from parents. In the prior generation‚ only one in 10 young adults moved back home and few received financial

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    Boomerang Michael Lewis

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    interactions with others‚ our customs and traditions and the way we go about completing specific tasks. We inhabit a world that has a multitude of language and cultures which bring about various ways of practicing both politics and economics. In his book Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World‚ Michael Lewis takes us with him to places like Iceland‚ Greece‚ Germany and Ireland to show us how the culture there influenced the bad decisions that brought about the financial collapse. He calls it the new third

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    burden: parenting their adult children.” (The Boomerang Effect. Marni Jackson. 2010) However‚ should the “forever young generation” be blamed

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    Belonging is explored in various modes‚ in particular the poem ‘We Are Going” by Oodgeroo Noonccal published in 1964. The text conveys the time of strife for the Aboriginal people as the white people colonised the land in the year 1606. The mode of poetry is used to express the voice for Indigenous people at the time of struggle and justice. Various techniques are used to convey the meaning of belonging and not belonging. The Aboriginal people have a sense of belonging as they have an original

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    It is through the enriched poem China… Woman Oodgeroo explores the aspect of life within different cultures and their inextricable link between their ancient cultures and their identity today. “the great wall‚ twins itself… like my rainbow serpent” It is through this imagery that places the audience to view the close connections each culture has to their ultimate ancestry. Comparing her aboriginal identity to China’s culture‚ explores story telling however‚ ultimately‚ allows the audience to make

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    ----- and today I will be exploring the particular aspect of Australian belonging or rather‚ not belonging‚ found in aboriginal poetry. The two poems where this lack of belonging is evident are both by Oodgeroo Noonuccal are The Dispossessed and We are Going. The dispossessed by Oodgeroo Noonuccal gives a nihilistic representation of the past and current treatment of aboriginals and insight into the ever-present feeling of not belonging in Australian society. The poem itself depicts the suffering

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    perceptions. Poets employ a variety of literary devices throughout their poems. These literary devices can serve to represent marginalised groups in ways that challenge their reader’ original perceptions. Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright are two poets who have applied this strategy. Although Noonuccal and Wright both share a passion for writing‚ they came from vastly different contexts. Judith Wright was born a white woman in Armidale‚ New South Wales‚ in 1915 – the eldest child of Phillip and Ethel

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