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    What Motivates You

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    What Motivates You! There was a time where employees were known as just another input into the production of goods and services. What possibly changed the way of thinking about employees was research‚ referred to as the Hawthorne Studies‚ conducted by Elton Mayo. This study found employees are not motivated solely by money and employee behavior is linked to their attitudes (Dickson‚ 1973). Why is motivation so important in the work force and what should be done? Motivated employees

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    You Live and You Learn

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    You Live and You Learn Marriage is not always what you expect it to be. In today’s society‚ marriage is taken lightly and it doesn’t always end in‚ “happily ever after.” In the essay “Second Marriage”‚ the writer describes her learning experience with her first marriage and how she applied what she learned to her second marriage. The message that’s conveyed in the essay is that in marriage‚ it’s not only important to grow together as a couple‚ but also grow as individual people to strengthen the

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    behind the Prize. Alfred Nobel is known for starting the Nobel Prize. This prize is given every year to some of the greatest minds in the world who through their work‚ help to better society. In opposition to the improvement of society‚ is the fact that Nobel ’s other known inventions brought much death and destruction to the world (Frost). This combination of inventions helps to pose the question who was Alfred Nobel‚ and why did Nobel create this prize to help the world. In this paper I will

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    unhealthy for your body‚ or television hypnotizing the viewer into buying an unhealthy product? According to surgeon general‚ obesity has become a health epidemic that needs to be controlled and prevented. Almost a third of America’s population is obese and growing. Obesity is also now a wide spread topic that has caught the attention of journalists and health activists. Writers all over America have an opinion on the obesity epidemic such as Radley Balko who wrote the article "What You Eat Is Your Business

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    Chapter 2 Summary In the beginning of chapter 2 of Spradley’s‚ You Owe Yourself a Drunk‚ it talks about how many people went to jail for public drunkenness around the late 1960’s. It walks through the process of what will happen or what you can do if you went to jail for public drunkenness. The main character of this chapter is Mr. William R. Tanner. He is a 49-year-old Caucasian who has never been married. He was arrested nine times for public drunkenness‚ and served nearly two hundred days on

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    author n. (ôth-au-r) - One who practices writing as a profession. 15 years is a long time and especially so for one who has not lived that long yet. Today teens like me are expected to know what they want do later in life. Maybe if it were not the twenty first century I could be imaginative but that would be childish (In case you didn’t know this is a CHILDRENS essay competition). However after a decade and a half I would like to be in a profession that is considered neither here nor there in terms

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    What Defines You

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    What defines you? Adam Woodworth 23 April 23‚ 2013 Composition 1 Instructor: David Flannery As you might guess‚ being in the military can be one of the most boring jobs you will ever have. After all‚ you are being trained to kill people and break things‚ but how often do you really get to do that? You train in the sun‚ rain‚ and sleet and pose the possibility you’ll wind up pushing paperwork and dealing with politics down range. You’ll also waste more ammo shooting at paper targets than you

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    Did you ever wonder who was the first black man to win the Nobel peace Prize? Well it was Ralph Bunche. Bunche is the Noble Peace prize winner in 1950 for a arranged cease-fire between the Israelis and Arabs during a time of war. The Arab-Israeli war broke out in 1948‚ when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate (“Office of the Historian” 1). This war lasted till February of 1949‚ when the two sides reached an agreement‚ and Bunche was a major key in stopping fire

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    Life is what you and you alone make of it! What is your view? I believe that we can make our lives into what we want them to become if we have enough drive and reserve to achieve our goals. Our lives are our own‚ waiting for us to take them and mold them into exactly what we want. However‚ our lives are very much influenced‚ affected‚ and controlled by the people around us. Friends‚ parents‚ society‚ and even ourselves‚ can inhibit our hopes and dreams just as much as they can help us achieve

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    The quote‚ “If you educate a boy‚ you educate an individual but if you educate a girl‚ you educate a nation” originated from an African proverb. It might have originated because of the societal roles of men and women‚ society’s expectations‚ and the contribution each gender has made to the community. Both men and women have educated the nation in many different ways‚ either by contributing to the society‚ or to their families. Hence‚ I disagree with this quote‚ as not all men have never educated

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