These are global competition, a renewed interest in personal lives and family values, and an aging workforce (Carey). ... Employees in global communities also want flexibility and control over their work and personal lives. ... Many have heard the term, and many people complain that they don't have enough of it in their lives. ... In addition, the impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11th has led many people to re-evaluate their lives and consider the meaning of work. ... A survey conducted in 2002 by TrueCareers states that 70% of more than 1,500 respondents said they don...

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The society that existed at that time had very different views on life and how it should occur. ... The horse highly affected the lives of the Native Americans by improving their hunting abilities. ... The Southern ideal was country life. Instead of a meetinghouse being the center of the community, the waterways and roads became a place of social life a brief moment for colonists to sit back and relax was very rare and very savored. ... In the 19th century, sexual lives of Americans began to change. ...

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The advances in technology in the 20th century have meant that the average citizen now has access to the lives of people all over the world. ... Or as the slogan for a magazine puts it, "Their lives in your hands." ... One year after gaining power, he started a conflict with Iran; a conflict that would eventually drag out for 8 years and cost the lives of over 1 million Iraqi soldiers. ... The sudden attention paid by America to the current Iraqi situation oozes further hypocrisy, further emphasising that any campaign would not be worth the life of a British soldier. ...

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Our lives are one of the most precious things in which we own. ... For this reason positive acts to end the lives of consenting persons, or life-ending actions taken by those persons themselves, are to be seen as absolutely unconscionable"(Weir 321). It is clear that allowing a society to take their own lives, legally, could have very serious side effects. ... They don't know what else to do and need others to guide and help them through this time in their lives. ... These treatments allow people to go on and finish up the remainder of their lives with comfort and ease. ...

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On September 11th, 2001 the lives of many changed around the world. ... Many Americans took that action personally even though they knew absolutely no one that lost their lives that fateful morning. ... We all wanted answers, and when we finally got them, even more lives were changed. The lives of these people were changed in a way that we can only hope never happens to us. ... They may have feared for their lives had they been completely honest about the way of life for women in Afghanistan. ...

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Another theme in Sleep Dealer is how technology becomes a huge problem in the characters' lives. ... Both Rudy and Memo now must navigate their lives without familial support far from their homes; this serves as the greatest negative impact of technology. ... " Memo's memory is the only way he can remember a life of truth. ... Now that Memo lives a life filled with technology (a life he once dreamed of), he considers the devastation it has caused. He looks back to his father's memory and thinks about how his life would have turned out had he chosen a different route. ...

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Along with all of the civilian lives lost in the blockade, the amount of troops lost would be even more unimaginable. ... President Truman, the President of the United States at the time, knew both of these facts and picked the easier, more life-conservative approach of using the atomic bombs. By using the atomic bombs, Truman "saved 'the lives of hundreds of thousands of Japanese boys and millions more of Japanese people" (Walker 4), not to mention all the lives of American men who had not seen their families since the first gunshot fired of the second world war. ... During t...

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"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes" - Hugh Prather Have you ever imagined the life of many U.S born children in the United States that have to change their life in the blink of an eye because of the deportation of their parents? ... The Immigration Law in America is undeniably broken and has emotionally impacted the lives of many Hispanic families, mostly the children's. ... Even if there is only one parent that has to leave the family, the child, or the children, suffer a drastic change in their lives, a change that sometimes is hard for them to u...

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From bettering human bodies, curing diseases, and saving lives is all due to animal testing. ... First, animals have a much simpler life span than humans. ... Secondly, animals usually have a shorter life span. ... The researcher decides what the animal eats and where the lives. Humans may not want to live under such a controlled life. ...

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In some cases children are left behind in the care of their grandparents or uncles, while their parents go in search of a better job and a new life in order to support their family, or go back to their home country to resume their lives while their children get a better education, which causes many children separation anxiety. ... Soon after her mother flew back, and subject A was getting accustomed to the fast pace American life. ... Because of her situation she was charged as an international student, when her life was very well seen as the "American one." ... Subject A felt as if her hands...

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New capital offenses include the murder of a federal prisoner serving a life sentence, and drive by shootings in the course of certain drug offenses" (Internet 3/8/95). ... Apparently certain sections of this society have been desensitized to the point that human life has no value whatsoever. ... Most criminals would think twice before committing murder if they knew their own lives was at stake. ...

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For those who get reconstructive surgery, they are literally and metaphorically rebuilding their lives. This latter type of surgery is important to the continuation and betterment of the life of the patient (Reconstructive Surgery). In America, it would be best if the more popular, cosmetic and unneeded medical procedures were limited so that funds, time, energy, and research could be better utilized by being applied to cases of plastic surgery which help people rebuild their lives after tragedy. ... In the article "The Empire of Images in our World of Bodies," author Susan Bordo ...

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The Japanese- Americans were at the mercy of the United States government for seemingly doing nothing wrong, besides being of Japanese decent (Life in Japanese Internment Camps). ... Life began each day with a siren blast at 7:00 a.m., with breakfast served cafeteria style and work began at 8:00 a.m. ... Despite being free and left to rebuild their lives as best they could, life for Japanese-Americans after the internment camps was going to be an adjustment. ... For some, the resulting mental, physical and emotional pains were too much and plagued them for rest of their lives. ... I think it ...

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These rights are life, liberty, and property. ... The purpose our entire criminal justice system is to protect the rights of life, liberty, and property for all its citizens. ... The death penalty can save lives by stopping repeat murderers, but does it deter murder? ... By increasing the use of the death penalty, thousands of lives could be saved. ... The death penalty is important because the lives of thousands of potential victims who are at stake. ...

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Medicines, household products, food, and basically everything involved in the life of an average person has to under go a form of testing before it is legal to be placed on a shelf and available to the public. ... The public dislikes the idea of testing on an animal that could be their pet, even if it could someday save their life. ... The results from these types of tests help scientists understand what harmful effect could happen to humans if contact with the chemicals that are in our everyday life occurs. ...

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Domestic violence against women is widespread phenomenon that has affected the lives and health of women's mental and physical health. ... Therefore, abuse not only effects the victim, yet is also negatively disrupts the lives of each member of the family. There are serious consequences to everyone who lives in a family where there is domestic violence on daily basis. ... Rape and incest have tremendous impacts on the victims' social lives and prevent them from experiencing the normal life course of a human being while in relationships. ... They feel life threatened and often d...

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Just as they have redefine every stage of their lives because boomers will be the largest generation of elderly, they will impact everything from housing to health care as the market and society caters to their wealth, longevity, and interest in new technology (Dytchweld K. 1999). ... They grew up with more education and high expectations, technology and medical research have blossomed throughout their lives and they have come to expect lifestyle improvements in every turn. ... The generation that thought mostly of themselves may find themselves living on their own with out any family support ...

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At that time, his wife was suffering from terminal cancer and because she felt that there was no quality in the life she had left, she chose suicide. ... This movement led Derek to found the Hemlock Society five years later and today the organization is well known as the "Compassion in Dying and End-of-Life Choices organization.... It has allowed the public to support the idea of having the right-to-die, favoring possible physician assisted suicide when appropriate and has led to patient legal rights including the ability, through medical directives, to refuses any further rather life-sav...

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In other words, to save one human's life another human would be sacrificed. ... Cloning will change the way people value life. People respect life because everyone gets only one chance. ... If we can get a chance to come back to life, as many times as wanted, we would not respect life as much as we do now. ... The fact of the matter in regards to human cloning is that we are playing with a human life. ...

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For many of the victims that fall to the pressures of the world, suicide is the method used to end their lives. ... It was a theory that criticized social life and diagnosed the ills of modern society by identifying the changes necessary in order to create a more democratic society (Layder 2000:186-187). ... The Muslims who sacrificed their lives for their faith, had too tight of a connection with their religion, their fellow people, and for their common cause of causing harm on the United States. ...

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Relative poverty describes people who are not able to receive and enjoy life like other people in society do. ... If a child cannot receive an education, they do not have hope for living a life out of poverty in the future. ... Parents usually do love their children no matter what, but living in poverty causes many life stresses for both children and the family. ... Poverty during the childhood and adolescent stages in life may have long-term health consequences. ... A family who lives in poverty may not be able to afford the right food for a healthy nutrition, so they will turn to the doll...

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These displays and marine lives are being destroyed each day primarily due to lack of respect for the ocean life. ... When either of these lives is hurt they both suffer. There are many benefits to keeping marine life alive and abundant. ... Ocean life is also used in the science of medicine, and many new discoveries are being made as research continues. ...

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Taking the first assumption, no one is saying the Government does everything wrong, but there have been countless times where mistaken identity on the part of the government has compromised if not totally ruined peoples' lives. ... Will the intelligence prevent the imminent loss of life? Many torture advocates cite the "ticking time bomb" scenario as the best justification for torture, meaning that if it is believed that a recently captured terrorist has information about an imminent attack on U.S. forces then torture is proper means at extracting this information as it will save lives (...

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Such inhumane enactment is initiated by the policy that disrespects human life and forces people of Mexican nationality to risk their life and struggle to come to the land of opportunity. ... And though this danger was recognized from the outset, life-threatening risks were created without the change in border policy tactics that was assumed (Navarrette A1). ... The wild life refuge also feels strongly about the operation because of the damage of native plants and trampled nests of endangered birds, as well as the illegal immigrants eating the eggs of the endangered birds (Ellingwood B4). A...

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These measures could also be influenced by factors such as culture person lives in and one's past experience. ... (Linsey 110) Perhaps these men and women had the idea that if they would have lighter skin color they would have better opportunities in succeeding in their career and personal life. ... Could this be a delicate move of British companies to make more money and brainwash Jamaicans that somehow if they will have lighter skin they would be appreciated more and have better life or was it Jamaicans who were simply trying to fit in because they saw the dream of having everything i...

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