... entering into the organization. 3. A successful job analysis draws clear boundaries between the employer and employee regarding qualifications, job responsibilities, lines of authority, and ways of preventing or dealing with grievances. 4. It allows employers to hire qualified candidates by linking applicants' skills to the job analysis. Employers can also prove that their requirements for selection are related to the job. The ADA defines a qualified applicant as "one who can perform the essential functions of the job." A job analysis provides the employer with justification of why they chose a particular applicant. Other areas to note: 1. The most common rea ...
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... Yet, at the same time what he learned about the untamed wild and its harsh ways affected him like no other thing in his life. As Buck started to learn, he began to lose that aura of house pet. He started to behave like a wolf. An untamed beast from the wild. His long- time lost instincts given to him by his ancestors from generations ago started to come to him. In the end of the story, Buck is leading a pack of wolves through the forest and stops at the top of a cliff and howls,along with his other companions, to a silvery full moon. I think that the point of this story, is that you learn from life and you can never forget or change who you really are deep insi ...
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... insanity. He tries in vane to comfort his friend and provide solace, however to no avail. When Roderick's only remaining kin, his sister Madeline dies, Rodericks insanity seems to have gone to a heightened level. Shortly after his sister's death, Roderick's friend is reading him a story. As things happen in the story, simultaneously the same description of the noises come from within the house. As Usher tries to persuade the narrator that it is his sister coming for him, and his friend believing Roderick has gone stark raving mad, Madeline comes bursting in through the door and kills her brother. The narrator flees from the house, and no sooner does he get aw ...
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... for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes is colored on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. It is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic. ORAL BOOK REVIEW "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your whil ...
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... because women could not travel alone with slaves. To pull this off, they covered her face with a handkerchief. They felt that her smooth skin wouldn’t look very convincing. She also had her arm in a cast, so that they could use the alibi that the master (Ellen) was traveling to Philadelphia for medical reasons. They traveled through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland before they reached Philadelphia on Christmas day. At one point while traveling, Ellen was seated next to a friend of her owner, who knew her from childhood. To avoid him, she looked out of the window and played deaf (Craft 43). Even though Running a Thousand Mil ...
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... fact that the Indians were in their way of expansion and development, the white man feared what they found. They feared an unknown language that they had never heard before and could not understand. They feared rituals and ceremonies that seemed strange and suspicious. They feared a social unity of sharing and togetherness that they found alarming and intimidating. The Indians woke up one morning to find that the lands they once belonged to were no longer theirs. The deeds and papers said the land now belonged to the white folk. It was taken away from them by sheer physical force, stolen, and they were sent away to live on reservations. Tayo was a part o ...
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... the town’s racist ways through the injustice of the court trial, and finally determining the identity of and becoming friends with the mysterious “Boo” Radley. To Jem and Scout, Mrs. Dubose was a mean old lady who carried a pistol in her shawl and never had a nice thing to say about either of them. Mrs. Dubose would make snide comments to them because she assumed that they were trouble and were always up to no good. She would point out Scout’s unlady-like appearance with, “What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! You’ll grow up waiting on tables if somebody doesn’t change your ways . . . ” (101). Jem and ...
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... for his work. Other peoples' stories of everyday life became issues for Steinbeck. His writings spoke out against those who kept the oppressed in poverty and therefore was branded as a Communist because of his "voice." Although, it did become a bestseller and receive countless awards, his book was banned in many schools and libraries. However, critics never attacked The Grapes of Wrath on the artistic level and they still consider it a beautifully mastered work of art. More than any other American novel, it successfully embodies a contemporary social problem of national scope in an artistically viable expression.1 In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck u ...
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... this symbolizes a change. He is slowly realizing that he is really invisible to everyone. When the narrator was speaking with Mr. Emerson about a job, Mr. Emerson said "…I happen to know of a possible job at Liberty Paints. My father has sent several fellows there…You should try--" and the narrator's reply was a shut door. This shows that the narrator knows he is not entirely visible or important to everyone. He had then realized that he is just a player in a game. In the end of the novel, the narrator sees that he is visible only to certain people. Nobody cares what he does, as long as he does what is expected. Towards the end of the novel, the narrat ...
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... and out of their share pay for the necessities of life. As a result of this status, Ab and his family know from the start what the future will hold -- hard work for their landlord and mere survival for them. No hope for advancement prevails throughout the story. Sarty, his brother and the twin sisters have no access to education, as they must spend their time working in the fields or at home performing familial duties. Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room where they would presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-afternoon meal” (PARA. 55). As a consequence, poor health combined with inadequate opportunity results in low mora ...
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