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- 20001: Stress In The Workplace
- STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE 1. In today s fast paced Air Force, it is very common to hear someone in an office saying "I m so stressed out". With the big drawdown of personnel in all the armed forces, the Air Force was ... into a positive challenge. Therefore, stress with computers can become a thing of the past. 2. You will find computers in just about every office, regardless of the type of business it is. In today s world, computers have become the way to do business, communicate with the world, or just having one for personal recreation. Office work in general is full of potential stress, from not enough light and noisey ... just adjusting you daily routine. Maintaining good health habits by exercising regularly, eating right, getting enough sleep are just a start. Using your time wisely by not trying to do everything all at once, don t procrastinate, but pace yourself. You will see that you get a lot more done, and with fewer headaches. You can improve your work environment by doing a few simple things like adjusting your chair ...
- 20002: Personal Writing: Sponsoring of Our Race Car Design Team
- ... establish the credibility of the design team. Without establishing the idea that we were capable designers, it would have been futile to continue on with my presentation. If the gentlemen felt that we either weren't being realistic, or not using sound engineering principles, it would have been impossible to persuade them to donate any money. Therefore I had to convince the audience, that we, as a design team, had used ... my audience on the benefits sponsorship would have for them. Some of the tangible benefits were things such as: the ability to have their company name and logo prominently displayed on the car and driver's suit, access to the car for purposes of display at their regional or main location, display of company name and logo on all team promotional materials, including T-shirts, and a copy of the monthly progress report. However, it is the intangible benefits that are most rewarding. By sponsoring the team, the company would get its name spread around the department in ...
- 20003: Foxwoods (gambling)
- ... the casino is still expanding. The Pequots are building a 17- story hotel and a $200 million museum. The tribe also plans to build an Asian theme park, with a monorail and replica of China’s Great Wall, golf courses and a campground. Already, the tribe has built a community center, a child development center and new housing for their tribal members. Their staggering profits have removed the Tribes worries about ... tribe will reimburse the state for regulatory expenses required to fulfill duties as stated in the compact. Since the casino opened in 1992, the Pequots have become a major contributor to the state of Connecticut’s economy. It has also become a major success regarding tourism, jobs and entertainment in Connecticut. On a good weekend, Foxwoods resort Casino brings approximately 80,000 people to the area. As a whole, American Indian ... windows or clocks. The idea is to have gamblers not look at the outside world and concentrate on what is going on inside the casino. Without clocks, and with alcohol, how can someone who doesn’t have a watch know what time it is? Casinos are very tricky when it comes to “customer relations”. They allow their customers to forget about the world around them and concentrate on winning, when ...
- 20004: Red Badge Of Courage
- ... his mother would not like to see him go to war, but it was his decision to make. He dreamed of the exiting battles of war and the thrill of fighting glorious battles. He didn't want to stay on the farm with nothing to do, so he made the final decision, to enlist. After enlisting he finds himself just sitting around with nothing to do. He manages to make friends ... Henry started rationalizing his behavior after running from the enemy. At first he feels he was a stupid coward for running, then he feels he was just saving himself for later. He felt nature didn't want him to die, even though his side was losing. He believes he was intelligent for running and hopes he will die in battle just for spite. The same time Henry met Jim, he also met a tattered man. In the next charge, Henry and the tattered man see Jim die a slow and painful death. After Jim's death, and a little talking, Henry, though not realizing it, leaves the tattered man alone on the battlefield, hurting inside, and dangerous to himself. In the charge ahead, Henry starts asking the soldiers why ...
- 20005: Peer Pressure Around Us
- ... major part of our decision and thoughts. When you are growing up you always feel like you are a little different from your friends. When you see your friends doing certain things that you don’t do, you feel and or want to be doing the same things. Friends will always try to get you to do things that they are doing even if its wrong. An example of this is ... on us. Our family brings us up to think and do certain things to better us. We all feel a sense of living up to certain standards that our family puts upon us. In today’s society we all want to be better than everyone else. When we see families which are better, we feel the pressure either from parents or from ourselves to try and improve. We don’t want to compromise the integrity of our family. School is important to all of us and the pressures that come from the schools are high. We all have the pressures of achieving good grades, ...
- 20006: The Miracle Worker: Kate Keller and Helen
- The Miracle Worker: Kate Keller and Helen Kate Keller loves Helen so much that all she can do is pity and indulge her child. Kate’s kind of love is the cause of some of Helen’s problems in The Miracle Worker. By the end of the play, Kate learns that real love also means losing the one you love. Kate felt bad for Helen because she was blind and deaf. Kate tried to get some help for Helen numerous times so she could be like all of us. The operations and teachers didn’t help. Kate then just pitied Helen more, it was the major problem why Annie had such a hard time disciplining Helen because Helen did not know wrong and right, no one taught her that. ...
- 20007: Personal Essay on Hamlet
- ... story that in some way or another related to the magic trick he showed us. Then, as he finished the trick, he would tell us the moral to the story. Now a days I don't have someone there for me constantly saying what I should or should not do. I often find myself in situations in which I must be the one to decide if, for instance, I should go to a party or to the bars, or stay home and concentrate on the massive amounts of homework that have piled up. It is at times like these when Mr. Anderson's words of advice float though my head. The one I hear Mr. Anderson saying most often in the back of my mind is one that, until now, I always thought he created. I say this ... about the line, "brevity is the soul of wit," in which Polonius is talking to the King and Queen. When I see "brevity is the soul of all wit," I translate it into Mr. Anderson's words: "Brevity is the heart of success." As a fourth grader, this was difficult for me to understand. I would listen to each moral, and memorize each one with such determination, that sometimes that ...
- 20008: Native American Virtues
- ... would have succumbed to the elements of winter had Squanto not aided them. Squanto, like many of the tribes that encountered whites, expressed trust and fellowship toward the strangers who had journeyed into the Native's homeland. Among other survival skills, Squanto taught them to plant and harvest crops in soil foreign to the settlers, how to hunt animals with the most protein (to get maximum energy from the food), and how to build shelter and clothing necessary to endure the harsh climate of what's presently Massachusetts. The very act of the Natives caretaking for the settlers created the possibility of the Indian Nations' downfall. If the the settlers weren't given food and friendship, they surely would've died off and Indians would have been free to continue their successful way of life. Many Indians lived by a strict code of conduct. Though the ...
- 20009: Helen Keller
- ... a revelation. . . . I felt joyous, strong, equal to my limitations. Delicious sensations rippled through me, and sweet strange things that were locked up in my heart began to sing.”(qtd. in Brooks 14) In Helen's later childhood she was asked to give speeches on her dis¬ abilities and talk to the president. She even made a motion picture based on her life in her later years.(Lash 81) She was ... in the world. She always did have the potential to be something though. This would all soon change as Helen would come to know the meanings of words and things in the world. Helen couldn't grasp the concept that words had meanings, and so be¬ cause of this Anne took the direct approach and first taught Helen what words stood for when she stuck Helen's hand under a faucet and stressed to her that this meant water. This enlightened Helen as to what words meant. As Helen realized this she soon started to know express and what the meanings ...
- 20010: A Portrait Of The Artist
- ... this, the fourth chapter, Stephen confesses to the director that he has been thinking about becoming a priest. During this he thinks about the power that he could obtain from being part of the church's clergy. At the end of the meaning however a dark warning that he must think of his decision. "you must be quiet sure, Stephen, because it may depend the salvation of your eternal soul." It ... leaving the meeting James Joyce uses imagery as before in the novel to compel the reader to think of Stephen the artist. "A quartet of young men ….. stepping to the agile melody of their leader's concertina". This is where Stephen starts to think of the dull "passionless life that awaited him". These troubles lead him into thoughts of the symbols of the church especially that of the Virgin Mary and ... other sections of this book another contradiction is made. Right after Stephan decides that he wants to be a priest he turns the tables and finds his true calling to be a artist. I don't however truly believe that he is so much contradicting himself as much as it seems. As in most choices of life a series of events has to be set into motion to achieve a ...
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