In the 1600s‚ when America was a mysterious land inhabited by even more mysterious people‚ a handful of brave souls ventured to this strange new world. These brave souls were known as the Puritans. This special group of people sought refuge in America to practice their religion freely‚ without the ‘corruption of the church’ back in their homeland. Puritans believed that the law‚ economy and social lives of the people should be completely controlled by their one God. These Puritans had a strong developmental
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Best Practices in Implementing Work-Life Balance Programs Srirang Jha Apeejay School of Management‚ New Delhi E-mail: sjha.asm@gmail.com Swarn Kant Mishra Footwear Design & Development Institute‚ Noida E-mail: mishra.swarnkant@gmail.com Abstract Work-life balance programs are important for contemporary organizations not only for ensuring long-term wellbeing and good health of the employees but also to attain long-term competitiveness. There have been a number of researches establishing relationship
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The Roaring Twenties is traditionally viewed as an era of great economic prosperity driven by the introduction of a wide array of new consumer goods. The North American economy‚ particularly the economy of the US‚ transitioned from a wartime economy to a peacetime economy; the economy subsequently boomed. The United States augmented its standing as the richest country in the world‚ its industry aligned to mass production and its society acculturated into consumerism. In Europe‚ the economy did not
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"The struggle for women’s rights‚ and the task of creating a new United Nations‚ able to promote peace and the values which nurture and sustain it‚ are one and the same. Today more than ever the cause of women is the cause of all humanity." Secretary General Boutros BoutrosGhali Iraq continues to show discrimination against women’s rights and gender bias by creating a bill that would lower the age of marriage for girls from age thirteen to age nine.
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Book: Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change The Way Think About Colleges‚ Loren Pope‚ 2012 (third revised edition)‚ Penguin Books 1. The summary of Loren Pope’s message In reading this extremely interesting book‚ I found three core messages from Loren Pope. First‚ is the importance of thinking critically‚ the process of selecting a college that means a lot in your life. Selecting colleges based on rankings or brand is easy‚ requiring no in depth research or thinking on your
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Justify the circumstances in a business situation in which you would use GEOS‚ LEOS‚ and MEOS. GEOs is short for Geosynchronous Earth orbits. The main applications it can be used for are signal relays for broadcast‚ Direct TV and cable‚ meteorology‚ and mobile maritime telephony. Leos which is short for Low Earth Orbits‚ are mostly used for data communications applications‚ including email‚ and videoconferencing. LEOs can also be used in pay per click advertisement‚ online analytics‚ and fraud
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Pope John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio: A Response to Atheism Ypril James F. Cabasag Introduction: When was the time and where was the place when the first races of humans started to believe in God? This question perhaps would trace us back to the point when these people built solid foundation about His existence and how He related to the world. These individuals might conceptualize a God because of their search for the answer about the questions pertaining about the beginning of everything
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The Forever changing Events of the 1950’s -1990’s Throughout the last fifty years there are many events that significantly shaped who we are today and changed America’s future greatly. Throughout these decades the American experience has greatly varied. There were several wars such as the Cold War‚ Vietnam War‚ and the Gulf War all which took its own toll on the American people and their economy. The civil rights movement‚ protest‚ and demonstrations throughout the decades
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There are many different advantages and disadvantages of different types of business ownership‚ such as being a sole trader‚ in a partnership‚ franchises and limited companies. Sole Trader The advantages of being a sole trader are as follows; They are easy to set up – There are very few complicated forms to fill in and sole traders can set up and run a business almost immediately. They are easy to run – The owner can do what they want‚ when they want‚ without consulting with colleagues
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Today’s youth is tomorrow’s nation. And today’s youth are our students. Students do pay a vital role in the society and how a society is shaped generation after generations. The formative period of an individual is during the student phase and hence it is known to be the crucial time of life. What is being sown today is what shall be reaped later. Education is where a student gets formed from. Education is in-fact character building in students. It through education that he understands the facts
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