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    Friend in need is a friend indeed There are people who like to have many friends. But this should not be so. We should have only a few friends‚ but they must be our true friends A friend is one who can share your joys and sorrows Rich people may have many friends in their prosperity. All like to enjoy themselves at the expense of those who are rich. Most of them are only fair- weather friends. If the rich man loses his money‚ all his friends will leave him. This shows that they are not true friends

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    Dealing with Adversity Telicia Hood English 125 Brendan Praniewicz 9/25/2011 Dealing with Adversity In the mid-1960’s‚ going from a girl to a woman was hard‚ but if you were black and going through‚ it was much harder. In the poem “What it’s like to be a black girl” Smith (1991) depicts this transition as very challenging. In comparison‚ “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker (1970) depicts life through the eyes of a black woman. This paper discusses the content‚ form‚ and style of each poem

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    for a day DeVry University Let’s be lefties for a day We’ve all heard the cliché “walk a mile in my shoes”‚ this week I had the opportunity to participate in an experiment that allowed me to experience adversity as a left handed person. The experiment correlated with our lecture on diversity and it was a challenge! It gave me a new perspective on the simple conveniences that I take for granted as a right handed person. It also allowed me the opportunity

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    PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR PERSONALITIES MAKE THE BEST FRIENDS Have you ever had a friend? Do you think your friendship would be everlasting? Well‚ everybody has had friends. Friends are who always beside us; share the joy or the sadness with us. But‚ do people with similar personalities make the best friends? I don’t think so! First‚ if we have friends with different personalities‚ we could learn something new about ourselves and about the others. You would never know what you really best at

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    Table-1. Profession of the respondents profession | number | percentage | Student | 2 | 8 | Service holder | 8 | 32 | Business | 9 | 36 | other | 6 | 24 | I interviewed a total of 25 account holders of the Bank and checked their profession. From the above table ( tabe-1) ‚ it shows that majority of the respondents belong to business group and this is 36%. The next group close to business group is service holder and their percentage is 32% which also seems significant. Only 8% of the

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    avoiding the high turnover is by hiring the labours who fix the positions. In this case‚ the education of the labours is not the most important thing however they have to have knowledge related to their jobs. On the contrary‚ the first qualification for them is their skills in performing their jobs such as skills in cleaner spotters and presser so before Jack and Jennifer hire the employees‚ they have to do skill testing. In conclusion‚ they screen the

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    Globalization: Prosperity or Poverty Introduction Globalization is a word that has recently become a commonplace in two different ways. Firstly globalization inspires visions of global village‚ a place where by all citizen of the world is linked together with high technology system. On the other hand‚ globalization is the one of the consequence that local factory closed down and re-open at another corner of the world where the country with cheap labor and weaker environmental law. Globalization

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    better methods? 3. Beauty Contests * Do they serve any purpose in society? 4. Cell Phones * How have they changed us socially? 5. Civil Disobedience * Is breaking the law for a cause justifiable? 6. Divorce * Should we reform laws to make it harder to get a divorce? 7. Electronic Information Preservation * Does the Information Age mean we are losing important historical information? 8. Exams * Exams often do little more than measure a person’s ability to take exams. Should

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    Horace’s quote‚"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."‚ simply means that people behave differently in the face of adversity. Facing adversity‚ it usually brings out the best in people or it leads for them to discover something that they knew not they could do. This quote helps in building a person’s character and may also lead to self-discovery for the person while facing adversity. I noticed how people react differently while

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    a health psychologist did a TEDTalk “How to make stress your friend‚” in June 2013 at TEDGlobal. She talked about stress and stated that although it is considered a public enemy because it makes our heart pound‚ and our breathing faster‚ it may not be bad for us. She explains that if you think stress is negative‚ only then will it be bad for you. She further says how when we are stressed‚ our body prepares for action‚ and stress is actually our friend‚ and not an enemy. Moreover‚ she states that

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