Bored Out Mind

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    Item Returns: A Short Story

    the glass, and there wasn’t a single scratch on the golden casing. It was his own piece, one he was proud of, so he was more than a little miffed when someone walked in and declared it be destroyed. “What’s the problem, ma’am?” Kyle pulled a notebook out from under the desk, twirling a pen from the stained-glass vase oh the countertop. The customer, a middle-aged woman a little older than his mom, gawked at him like he was sprouting a second pair of eyes (which

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    Business Strategies

    master student through guidance by only learning what you have experienced. Every student is already a natural learner because we learn everything new everyday without realizing it sometimes. Even being bored generates interest in anything because you can begin by asking yourself why you are even bored. This can lead to more questions and to even more answers. When huge amounts of information is being thrown at you, you could shift through all the data and organize it into different categories so you

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    Common Business Plan Mistake

    Things to All People You cannot expect a business plan to appeal to every possible audience. With this in mind, try to pick one business model, and to focus on one industry or one problem. Otherwise, you risk spreading yourself too thin, and potentially creating a sprawling plan that makes a bad first impression. Being Boring If a potential client gets two pages into your plan and is bored, that's a terrible sign. It is important to have the reader interested right from the executive summary on

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    Neil Postman Research Paper

    A typographic society could be described literally as a society that uses written or typed words to express ideas that the reader could then create a mental imagery of it. In contrast to the modern era, the image is presented to the consumer through various form of devices which were not even imaginable some years back. Before the age of technology today, people still received and send messages of vital information and even entertainment through print, in the form of newspapers, the Boston Gazette

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    Up the Organization Book Review

    Townsend is a rare being—a man who succeeded in corporate life, becoming a director of American Express and then president of Avis, a car rental company, this book that has become a classic, the extremely interesting (and still relevant today, though now out of print) “Up the Organization”. In it the author make us clear about many of the holy commandments of corporate life. The book’s subtitle is kind of an exact short resume of its contents: “How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling

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    Job Satisfaction

    I chose to do this essay on job satisfaction, since I have had a very tough time over the years finding a job I like, I thought it would be a good topic to discuss. Since I went right to work after high school, I basically took a job paying decent money to make ends meet. I ended up taking several years off before returning to school due to financial issues, but not am realizing I should have pursued my degree earlier so I would have had better chances at a satisfying job. Job satisfaction

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    Eulogy For Alasko

    which for me really helps to grab my attention and keeps me interested. Yet, it did slow down enough throughout that you didn’t feel like you were just jumping from one scene to the next (I absolutely hate when that happens). Don’t worry about getting bored though, there’s so much to the story that it will keep you turning page after page to see what happens next! Alina. Where do I even begin? She’s the

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    Student Learning Success

    foundation of a successful life. Being that positive role model for my son. Being the loving husband for my wife. Doing all the little things that need to get done to have a happy home. Even the mundane day-to-day things like mowing the yard, taking out the trash and cleaning the cat box. In order to be a success at home I have to ensure I take the advice of a famous poet, philosopher and author, Ralph Waldo Emerson; He said, “The future belongs to those who prepare for it”. Great-Quotes (n.d.) I heard

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    Comedy Conventions

    there; you are sitting at home, bored and decide to pick up the remote. What kind of show do I want to watch? you think to yourself. There are countless types of television categories. Are you in the mood to laugh? To cry? To get so sucked into the plot that the next thing you know you have finished a twelve episode season in one sitting? There are lots of television genres, and the most popular are comedy, drama, and science fiction. The comedy genre has one goal in mind--to make you laugh. Shows like

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    that the main character is annoyed with. It is the same thing every day, over and over again and the factory is similar to a giant mechanism operating non-stop. This is another thing that is aggravating our main character: “[…] where similarly bored and unhappy workers attended daily … “ (p. 3, l. 51-52). He seems very discontented about his job and is noticing everything that he thinks is wrong with the factory. Even the smallest things are annoying him. The hairnets, the cold tomato-slices,

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