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  • Essay Topic: Drawing from Current Literature, Discuss the Relationship Between Pay and Performance Motivation.

    Essay Topic: Drawing from Current Literature, Discuss the Relationship Between Pay and Performance Motivation.

    The effectiveness of an organization leans on a lot of forces. One really important force is the work team. The work team is the people who work for the production. So, we can easily understand that to achieve an organization their goals have to collect the right workers (persons who have the right knowledge and skills) for a specific work position and to train them correctly, seeing that the organization use the right systems of

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Janna
  • Essay

    Essay

    Writing is easy, it's quality that's hard. Any idiot who knows 5 words can write a sentence (e.g. "Dufus big much Scott is"). It might be grammarless, broken, or inaccurate but it is writing. This means that when people can't start they're imagining the precision of the end, all polished and brilliant, a vision that makes the ugly clumsy junkyard that all beginnings are, impossible to accept. Good voice, tone, rhythm, ideas and grammar are

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Janna
  • Long Term and Short Term Causes of the Arab/ Israeli Conflict

    Long Term and Short Term Causes of the Arab/ Israeli Conflict

    The Arab Israeli conflict. The Arab/Israeli conflict is a conflict between the Arabs and the Jews over a small piece of land known as the holy land which is an area in the Middle East of the Arab world. The Arabs call the land Palestine, the Jews call it Israel but both religions have strong religious links with the land. There is conflict between the two religions because they both believe that the land belongs

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: regina
  • Martin Luther King Why We Can’t Wait

    Martin Luther King Why We Can’t Wait

    Analytical Essay on Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King Why We Can’t Wait written by Martin Luther King is a book that conveys the actual mind-set of many black Americans toward their freedom and emancipation. The social conditions for Blacks during the 1960’s were not that of freedom and liberty, but that of oppression and segregation. Martin Luther King makes use of a variety of stylistic, narrative, and persuasive devices to display his

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Short Stories

    Short Stories

    Would living forever without the prospect of falling ill or growing older be a wonderful thing? The notion of living forever has over the years become the focus of many. Early Crusaders of the Holy Roman Empire spent their lives journeying for the Holy Grail, an ancient cup fabled to bring immortality to its drinker. Men of Modern day likewise reach out to Science for answers to the aging problem. Though, is this search for

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Anylytical Essay on Schizophrenia

    Anylytical Essay on Schizophrenia

    Anylytical essay on SCHIZOPHRENIA Contents Page Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Impact on Family 4 Medication Adherence/ Non Adherence 6 Prevention through Risk Identification 7 Conclusion 10 References 11 Abstract Schizophrenia is a psychotic mental disorder that is defined by Alanen “as a serious mental illness that usually becomes manifest in adolescence or early adulthood” (Alanen, 1997). Spearing furthers this definition to note that schizophrenia is a socially, financially and emotionally crippling disorder for not only

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Wendy
  • An Inconvient Truth Essay

    An Inconvient Truth Essay

    “An Inconvenient Truth” “The time for procrastination and delays and excuses are over; we are into a period of consequences.” This quote from Winston Churchill rings true in today's times. Here in America, or better yet the world, we are in a situation where we need to start making changes. The changes we make can happen at individual, school, and state levels. The first and most basic level is what we can do as an

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Descriptive Essay on the 4th of July

    Descriptive Essay on the 4th of July

    The Fourth of July Giant flags of red, white, and blue, children shouting in parades, spinning noise-makers, streamers, and centerpieces: sounds like the perfect birthday celebration! But, the Fourth of July is more than just the nation's birthday. It is the countless number of friends and family, the perfect weather, the backyard barbeques, and the brilliant fireworks that light up the night sky. No other holiday makes people feel the same as they do on

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Andrew
  • A Christmas Carol Essay

    A Christmas Carol Essay

    A Christmas Carol Essay Many times in life, we do not realize the importance of something until it is gone and is too late to reclaim. However, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, we are told the story of a man who, although undeserving, is offered an opportunity to redeem himself, to receive a second chance. This man, Ebenezer Scrooge, is changed forever by the valuable lessons taught by four spirits: those of his

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Vika
  • Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X

    Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X

    Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were Civil Rights icons who seeked[sought] equal rights for everyone during the 1960’s. Martin and Malcolm grew up in different environments, different educational backgrounds, and different religious beliefs and had different views as to why blacks weren’t afforded the same rights as other Americans. Even though they had all these differences, they became Civil Rights icons in the 1960’s with one objective and that was equal rights for

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Fonta
  • An Academic Essay Relating to George Orwell's View of Capital Punishment

    An Academic Essay Relating to George Orwell's View of Capital Punishment

    The audience gets a glimpse into the hanging of a Burmese prisoner in George Orwell’s personal essay “A Hanging.” He employs techniques, such as the use of simile and imagery, which are effective in appealing to the emotions of the reader. By reaching out to the audience in such a way, Orwell is able to press upon them his negative attitude towards capital punishment. In the beginning of the passage Orwell discusses the cells of

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Vika
  • Beltane Essay

    Beltane Essay

    Beltane Essay Beltane is the last of the three spring fertility festivals. Beltane is the second principal Celtic festival (the other being Samhain). Celebrated approximately halfway between spring equinox and the midsummer (Summer Solstice). Beltane traditionally marked the arrival if summer in ancient times. At Beltane the Pleiades star cluster rises just before sunrise on the morning horizon. The Pleiades is a cluster of seven closely placed stars, the seven sisters, in the constellation of

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Bred
  • Essay on the Article How Organizations Can Overbalance

    Essay on the Article How Organizations Can Overbalance

    Essay on the article “How Organizations Can Overbalance” For my essay I read the article “How Organizations Can Overbalance: Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure” by David C. Wilson, David J Hickson, and Susan Miller. This article appeared in The American Behavioral Scientist, in August 1996. In this essay I will first objectively identify the thesis and how the authors supported it, and secondly I will give a subjective interpretation of how this article

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jon
  • College Essay Type B

    College Essay Type B

    Throughout the many ages that the world has partaken, several cultures have been contrived among the almost seemingly abundant human race. Due to this extravagant collage amongst the world as a whole, many different views of the world have been created. Things such as race, religion, ethnicity, language, and personality as well are all things that contribute to the division of individual philosophy and belief. If there is a place here on earth that signifies,

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Martin Luther King and Henry David Thoreau

    Martin Luther King and Henry David Thoreau

    By acting civil but disobedient you are able to protest things you don’t think are fair, non-violently. Henry David Thoreau is one of the most important literary figures of the nineteenth century. Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience,” which was written as a speech, has been used by many great thinkers such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi as a map to fight against injustice. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a pastor that headed

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Scarlet Letter Essay

    Scarlet Letter Essay

    This short excerpt from the beginning of The Scarlet Letter indicates that the story is being told from the perspective of someone who is perhaps a bit skeptical of the reliability of the Puritan religion. The overall sense of negativity throughout the passage informs the reader that whoever may be narrating may think of themself as being above the Puritan doctrine. It isn't unbelievable, as the Puritan way of life seems to be rather mundane

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Anna
  • Christian Versus a Nihilist Interpretation of King Lear

    Christian Versus a Nihilist Interpretation of King Lear

    Christian Versus a Nihilist Interpretation of King Lear Traditional, orthodox or dominant views are opposed by resistant, variant, dissident, divergent, subversive, aberrant or niche ones. King Lear arouses dialectical or polemic interpretations because it, like most of Shakespeare’s tragedies is a problematic play raising complex questions without providing neat pat solutions. Until 1962, the play was presented in either the sanitised and now totally discredited Nahum Tate’s version with a fairy tale “everyone lived happily

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • Essays

    Essays

    An essay - is a typically short piece of writing, from an author's personal point of view. Essays are non-fiction but often subjective; while expository, they can also include narrative. Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: David
  • King Lear

    King Lear

    Shakespeare: King Lear intentional 3a) From the text it can be seen that Edmund has been set as one of the Villains of the play. His inexorable position as a bastard in society has made Edmund bitter and resentful, “I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my basterdizing.” Edmund feels a desire for the recognition denied to him by his status as a bastard. There is

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Jon
  • Short Story:the Fall

    Short Story:the Fall

    Lisa walked down to the Powderhorn Falls. She always went there to calm her mind, and escape the world for a few mere moments. When her father hit her mother - Lisa ran to the Falls. When her boyfriend got shot during a drive-by, she ran to the Falls. The Powderhorn Falls was Lisa's place. She never told anyone about her secret hide-out. It was better that way. Then they wouldn't know how to find

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Robert Rodriguez's Essay the Achievement of Desire

    Robert Rodriguez's Essay the Achievement of Desire

    Journal 8: The Ambitious Mexican Before congregating with our groups on Tuesday, my views of Robert Rodriguez's essay "The Achievement of Desire" consisted mostly of annoyance and boredom. However, rather than a twenty page complaint, a second reading enlightened me into the life and hardships that Rodriguez endured to achieve his academic success. At first I felt that Rodriguez disregarded his family, and cared about nothing but his school work. Although this is somewhat true,

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Steve
  • Theme in an Essay on Man

    Theme in an Essay on Man

    Quinton Clark Professor Cain Int. Lit. 210.08 22 September 2005 Theme in An Essay on Man An Essay on Man strives to put into perspective man’s place in this universe, as well as God’s dominion over man. Man only knows what is possible for him to know. There is a God who has in His infinite wisdom created man and all else in all universes. He has allotted man a time and place in his

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Photography Essay: Artist Comparison

    Photography Essay: Artist Comparison

    Photography Essay: Artist Comparison. Three of the most influential artists of the century, known even to those outside the art world have made a huge impact on how we see our world. Two of these artists work together and one alone. Ansel Adams was a visionary figure in nature photography and wilderness preservation. He is seen as an environmental folk hero and a symbol of the American West, especially of Yosemite National Park. Adams' dedication

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Real King

    The Real King

    Riley B. "B.B." King (guitarist/singer, born September 16, 1925, Itta Bena, MS) The most touching bluesman of our time, and the most influential electric guitarist ever, the "King of the Blues" sums up his message with some simple advice. "I would say to all people, but maybe to young people especially--black and white or whatever color--follow your own feelings and trust them, find out what you want to do and do it, and then practice

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Compare/contrast Point of View in "the Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "the Lottery"

    Compare/contrast Point of View in "the Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "the Lottery"

    Point of View There are several perspectives from which an author can write a story. However, at this time we will only focus on the third person point of view. An omniscient view is told by a narrator whose knowledge is unlimited or it is told by going into the minds of all the characters, as in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (rpt. in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine's Literature: Structure,

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: David