1. Look At Our Life Today
In addition there are new laws, which don't allow to employer to dismiss a person so easily as it was once (recall O"Henry's hungry girls buying socks for their last few pennies). It's all to provide us with benefits, training, and a secure future. .
Many firms have gone over to the five-day workweek. We all have thirty minutes for lunch law. To avoid different health problems we can enjoy orthopedic chairs, keyboards and some other of professional equipment, smoke-free environments.
New technology has raised productivity growth and it has also improved the quality of jobs in organizations with high performance work systems. Computerized offices provide us with economy of time and place (no need in dusty archives anymore) in preserving and finding information. In short, the combination of technology and high performance workplace practices leads to more skilled work and high quality jobs for workers in different fields (Eileen Appelbaum, 2001). But there is a dark side as well.
The matters are not perfect, as they seem to be at the first sight. For each advantage there is a "but" point, like for each beautiful decoration there is an ugly back stage. Let's look briefly at the back stage of things. .
Working in our enchanted palaces, everyday we are revealed to countless stress situations, we are working a lot and without any "stress filtration", never stop to think, never stop to breath. (I remember my best friend discussing important matters, one secret project, with her client, silently drying her tears: some minutes before her boy friend broke up with her by phone. She didn't have a chance to stay for a moment with her bitterness). In every country, family hours of work have increased and lack of control over work time and work schedules has raised stress at home and at work. Work-related stress has been shown to affect millions of European workers across all types of employment sectors.
The idea of a corrupted government has only a historical significance. ... It will improve the quality of life for the people it is supposed to govern. ... Women were not to be looked at as equals. ... Economics and sociology were problems during his life, for Bellamy to make such predictions as he did he had to have some idea of how our economy would run. ... Again everybody has credit and is considered to be equal. ...
That is an issue that a lot of Americans deal with today. ... Things like the way we talk about this issue in our culture, how our values shape the messages about this issue, and how socialization processes influence how we understand this issue. ... Some people can look at poor people and how they live and not think anything of it at all. ... There are many different ways that we change our culture and fight poverty. ... In conclusion, poverty has been a long standing problem in America and action has to be taken in order to change it. ...
Looking Backward A Novel by Edward Bellamy How would you feel if one day you woke up and you were in a completely different world from what you were used to? ... I think some of the main things that I would have to get used to in my life would be school, school activities, family life, social life, and how I would react to my new lifestyle. ... In our society today teachers don't get the credit they should or get paid like they should. ... In Bellamy's world there really is no competition so that would change my school life drastically. ... Our society today is based large...
Has technology shaped our society? ... This, evidently, changes the way society works. ... But how did we come to live in a consumers society? ... And even today, when we look at cars, cellular phones and computers we still want the best to make an impression on the people around us. ... It has shaped our society into a consumers society. ...
History has been rewritten to accommodate the frail minds of the passive masses, and other than advances in an entertainment industry, science has been deemed a mindless hobby. ... You cannot fathom how the world could ever turn to that. ... How often do you sit with your family and ask more than, "How was your day,"? ... Our classics' histories are being changed to lessen the hatred and hardships endured, but is that not an even greater insult in itself? ... A portrait of who we are painted the way we wanted to look, despite our real emotions or demeanor. ...
Nine years ago, when I decided to choose cheerleading over basketball, I would have never expected how drastically cheer would change my life. ... There are nine seniors here so there is no reason why no one has stepped up and been a leader.... It took me a second to realize today is the day. ... I thought some how this might give us a better chance of winning. ... " My team and I look at each other with tears in our eyes and at that moment we realized our dream was about to come true. ...
Change is a factor of life. ... Without change we wouldn't be here right now, it has allowed us to evolve into the everyday normality as we perceive it today. ... This shows us how much our world has changed in the span of almost 150 years, we have shaped and changed our country to something totally different to what it used to be. ... We all have our own history of changes, and also our own future. ... In perspective of the whole world we are either directly or indirectly affected by change, if we are unhappy with it we can try and make our own changes, but in the end all that matters i...