Reaping the benefits for families Benefits for employers and personal benefits for employees come together with the reduction in stress, greater work satisfaction and the achieving of a more positive home/work balance. ... Less time taken off due to family crisis. ... Employer can appeal to a large labor pool of disabled, those with young families, or the elderly. ... Ability to cope more easily with personal family matters. What was once commuting time is now available to make arrangements to cover school closings, minor family illnesses, and household repairs, services, etc. by outside co...

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During the mid to late 1800's, European public officials took note of a trend of some citizens focusing less on intercourse for family propagation and more as a form of simple pleasure. ... As in the post-Industrial Revolution days of Europe, many people migrated to big cities looking for work after the fall of the family farmer. ... Simply admitting to living a homosexual lifestyle was cause for a person to lose their job and be ostracized by families and communities. ... The Mattachine Society drew large amounts of support for the first time in 1952, when it supported and defended a ga...

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These were ruled by Frenchmen who were usually close to Napoleon as a family member or as a close friend, such as Jerome Bonaparte who was King of Westphalia and Joachim Murat who was King of Naples. ... For example, Napoleon appointed family members and close friends as leaders of countries within his Empire. ... The clan system was based on the principle of supporting family members or friends due to the fact their loyalty could be rarely questioned. ... However, the French soon began to impose heavy demands on the Belgians to support the French Army. ... Throughout Napoleon's military...

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Thus husbands are often heavily in debt to their wives, and the latter assume many of the financial responsibilities which should rightly belong to the men as fathers and family heads, such as finding bride-price for sons, paying for the children's educations, bearing the expenses of family fests, and the like. ... (p. 25) Unlike the Nupe, European women accused of being witches were not successful, family women who had prominent careers. ... During the 1600's in Europe, men controlled women with accusations and the public executions of women and Barstow (1994) demonstrates an...

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1. A. Environmental factors affecting McDonald's today are competition and eating habits. Competitors are entering the fast food chain more and more everyday and growing faster and faster. It's not all about hamburgers and fries anymore. There are chicken, salads, ...

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In many countries, alcoholism is a major health problem. The treatment method of controlled drinking as opposed to abstinence is a continuing cause of controversy in alcohol research to this day. The US is different from Europe in its acceptance of controlled drinking as a goal of treatment: "in the...

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Hence I see my philosophy of teaching reflected in and supported by the theoretical model of Mary Louis Pratt's "contact zone". ... The Context of the Activity The students I teach here at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh are of between 18-21 years, who are mostly from well-off middle class families (in Bangladesh practice) background. ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and n...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. At the close of World War II, the Allied Powers (The United States of America, England, France, and The Soviet Union) were faced with ...

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