Soon after the wedding, Ona and Jurgis have many great debts to pay due to both the wedding, and a large debt that Ona's father left them after he died. ... For months and months, Jurgis works very hard to pay for the families travel to Ona and Jurgis" new hometown, Chicago. ... Jurgis's father, Dede Antanas, is promised a job by a grubby worker, but only if he pays that worker one third of his wages. He takes the job despite the disgusting working conditions and his low pay. ... Marija, Ona's cousin and Jonas, Ona's step brother, both get jobs, but neither one holds th...

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When one parent loses a job it impacts the whole family. ... My husband Bucky works for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad; therefore his pay fluctuated. ... I succeed well in my job making a good income. I took several related courses to achieve the most in my pay. ... The effect of losing my job became a blessing really. ...

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Many of these exchanges are non-monetarized and are used to gain access to economic goods and services, such as jobs, money, labor contributions from others, or valuable information. ... For example, lets pretend that the arrangements for a son to get a new car are for him to maintain a 3.0 GPA and get a job to pay for half the car. If the son decides that after getting a job, the time spent at work is taking away from school, making it difficult to study, the parents can decide to make a new arrangement. ... Instead the parents and son can come to a mutual consensus to a new agreement that...

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In early American culture it was common for a women's job to be a submissive homemaker in clear contrast to the males aggressive breadwinner role. ... For example, woman in upper management should receive the same amount of pay as her male coworker receives for the same job. From a female perspective, I would say she deserves more pay than the male because chances are she still has to go home, prepare dinner, sit down and help both her children with their nightly homework, and work up a presentation she needs to give at this week's PTA meeting. However, I am not seriously asking fo...

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Staying at home with the kids is a very noble and thankless job that millions of women do everyday. ... Just those on a father's income that there is now way to pay all the bills and also by everything that a child or children may need in life, so mothers have to work to help out with the family bills. ... They have a good job that pays well and are happy with the career choice that they made in life and so they want to continue working after giving birth to a child. ...

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" This sentence makes a start of how we can do to take care of everybody's value, which is start by doing more to support parents and the job they have to do. In this speech, she mentioned several new laws to help this situation, such as Family and Medical Leave law, which protect the infant and women that can stay 48 hours long in order to make sure they are safe and make sure there are family members who can take care of them; the flex-time law which give parents option to take overtime pay either in extra income or in extra time off. This law makes parents pay more attention on th...

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Hopefully, this child can alleviate his parent's stress of raising the family in some way, such as cleaning the house, buying supplies, and paying his own expense. ... For that reason, some of the teenagers have a part time job, such as doctor assistants, office secretaries, cashiers, etc. There are ways that teenagers can pay their own expense, which is a good way to ease a single parent's stress. ... Definitely, an employee's responsibility is to be on time for the job, finish work on time, and gain more experience in order to move onto a higher-level position. ... Also, wh...

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Dede had to pay a man a third of his wages just to have a job, and even then it was a horrible job that caused him to die. In this situation, Jurgis sees that the bosses care nothing for the workers, only their own profit, taking graft from men to do jobs. ...

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When Nora asks Torvald to let Krogstad keep his job, he says that letting Krogstad keep his job would make his other workers laugh at him. ... Another example of this is that he pays Nora an allowance, just as a father would. ...

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To most it was a necessity, while some people considered reading a long book a job. ... It is possible to have fun while working, and that comes from pride in a job well done. ... I sat paying rapt attention to every literary feat J. ...

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He moved from job to job and received little pay. ... But all the conversations led down to one thing: Willy wanting Biff to find a good job. ... But Willy never pays any attention to him. ... Ironically, Willy still tries to help Biff and encourage him to a find job. ... Also, Willy lied about his job as a salesman. ...

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Six months later I was doing nothing but working, slaving away at my dead end job. ... As a result of this I was now expected to pay for my rent, car payments, phone bill, and car insurance. ... Attending here allowed me to keep my job, so my bills would be paid. ... I was still required to pay my bills, but the support from them gave me motivation. ... They even decided they would co-sign the loan necessary for me to attend school without a job. ...

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Functions Of The Family The ever changing family has responsibilities and duties to fill, to become a physical and emotionally stable family. In the past there were different responsibilities then there is today. The economic function is when the family provides the necessary goods that are...

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Ever since I became of age where I could identify what the president's job was, I never really saw the difference between all the political parties. Since I've never really payed attention, I've really just felt like there are a few issues that we all want to solve within the U.S., and all the disputes, silly arguments over sly remarks, dress codes and such, are very irrelevant. I do believe that politics are important to those of higher authority in the government, and it is imperative that they are prevalent, so I much rather pay attention to more of the more significant probl...

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They would have had to settle for a less lucrative job, like a waitress or a secretary. ... Younger people are now more open to women working in a "man's" job. Women are now specifically targeted by government job recruiters. Some careers like the California Highway Patrol that have an average pay of over $80,000 a year, are making workshops specifically to encourage women to apply. Women that hold jobs, like police officers, encourage other women to seek jobs that are not traditionally meant just for women. ...

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The government should not be able to regulate the family size, force abortions or sterilization among citizens, or require citizens pay a fine of $12,000 or higher after meeting the two-child mark. ... The population is beginning to age, and jobs are shrinking. ... Xinhua says that they will remain to have population control, but since the population is age and-and jobs are shrinking, they will allow their citizens two children.... Lastly, China's government should not be able to penalize people by making them pay fines of $12,000. It is unfair to the lower class families who would be u...

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He hated his job, and all the complications that came along with it, such as traveling, eating rather disgusting meals, and having to wake up early. ... Gregor opted to become the head of the household, in order to provide the family with a rather luxurious home, put food on the table, and pay off his father's debt slowly. ... Each member of the family had to take up a job, seeing as they could no longer rely on Gregor, but this took up their time, and Gregor's sister rarely had time to feed him food that he would actually eat, let alone any type of food. ... His family would learn t...

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That costs money and valuable jobs are lost. ... Children would often die young so the parents would need more children to ensure that a sibling would be left to care for them in their old age, but because of modern health practises children in China are at a less risk of dying If you do have a second child without consent from the government your children will be poorly educated and the government makes you pay a tax on your children. If you have only one child the government rewards you by allowing your children to get the best possible education and you get many other benefits such as all...

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For many people, this means huge houses and a job that pays great. ... They might have had more money than other people so they get the chance to do things other people might not get to do because they spend their time with a job paying for college. ...

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Not having my father around, my mother had to work, and even then she couldn't pay off the rent on the house. ... My decided we would live outside of the refugee camps, but it was hard; the welfare money wasn't enough to pay off our education, health care, and even the food we ate. ... Being ten years old, my sister shouldered my mother's stress; it was already hard enough being ten years old, she had to do a job that would take five men to do. ... My mother took the roll of two jobs; being my father and being my mother. ...

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Miller creates Willy to be a working man who, even with little job or pay, goes out every day and tries to succeed, disproving Witts point that Willy has no passion and fails to be the hero of the story. ... Linda reveals to her boys Willy's borrowing habit: "[H]e has to go to Charley and borrow fifty dollars a week and pretend to me that it's his pay[.]... ... Along with Willy borrowing the money, he finally tries to get a job in New York to make it easier on him and his family. ... Willy really tries to get a job closer to his family. ... Willy fails to keep his job at the com...

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IT IS BEST FOR COUPLES TO ARRANGE THEIR WORK LIFE SO ONE HAS A CAREER AND THE OTHER PERSON HAS A JOB. ... One of the most important reasons why women are primary the main ones to seek for a job or just stay at home instead of a career job is because they bear primary responsibility for home and family care. ... A part-time job allows mothers to basically get the best of both worlds. ... This alters somewhat in having the woman having a job also, but when the woman has a job, it keeps the marriage stable and happier than if she just sat at home while the kids were at school. ... Fami...

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Fairmont State College does a decent job expressing that to students in different way. ... One reason to be saying this is that Hispanics and African Americans are looked at to having the majority of the blue collared jobs. In Herndon Virginia, a couple of months ago the community decided they were going to complain about the Hispanics taking jobs from people. Just because they are Spanish speaking Americans and need a job that doesn't require and education, white man gets upset. Well, for one thing, a white man from the US who has an education would not take the jobs that they are doing ...

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This is evident when Dolly has her way with Lester as repayment for Lester paying off Sam's debt. ... As Dolly had no job to speak of, she would use her charm to pay for her drinking habits; this charm usually ended in her up against the fence along the back lane with "some sweet mouthed bloke whose name she could almost remember". ...

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I would sit and talk with my grandfather or go help my father color water closets on the job blueprints. ... He said that he had to go around knocking on doors over the weekend trying to collect bills so he could have enough money in the bank to pay the men on Monday. ... I continued in the sheet metal shop until I was old enough to drive, then Dad felt it was time that I started working out on the job. ... The start of my senior year I began working with my Dad in the office bidding and estimating jobs. ... When he felt I was ready he gave me a set of plans for a small job to estima...

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