Faced with the termination of his job, he begins to examine his past life to determine its value. ... In our society the biggest achievement is when you buy your own house, and live with a stable job, it does not have to be a high paying job but one that allows you to pay your bills and live a decent life, if you have this then you have achieved the historical dream. In the other hand if you have a high paying job in the corporate world; meaning a white collar job, and although you might or might not own a house but you earn more than enough for your living expenses then that is consider to ...

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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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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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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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Both men & women are supported by these laws such as Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO), enabling everyone fair & equitable access to jobs, employment conditions, training & promotional opportunities. ... Single parents may find this difficult to leave without pay for a certain period of time & may have to seek government payments to cope with the needs of the child and there self. ... An individual is limited to how much leave you can take on a certain leave & only a certain amount of leave is supported by pay. ... Job security may be risked if more time is needed then offered to overcome ...

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I was quite lucky to have done well with my limited knowledge and education which qualified me to have a job at my husband's food store. Despite this being the case I am prevented to secure a job even if I wish to due to the belief of many people that office work is only men's work. ... This is one of the most tiresome jobs that I am subjected to. The job does not pay quite well and hence forcing me to depend mostly on my husband as the bread-winner for my family. ... On the other hand, my husband occupies the top most office, luxurious and has a well paying job, even though he never...

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When the economy is low it leads to unemployment and most people loose their jobs. With no jobs or having to settle for lower wages, does not help a mother and her family out of poverty. This then leads to the parents not having a job that pays them well enough to take care of their family. ... After divorce, women in particular have hard times finding a decent job to support her family. ... After the break up they have to find a decent job to support themselves. ...

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At one point our money problem was so bad that we could not pay our bills on time. ... My older brother got a job at Sonic as a cook. My older sister started doing babysitting jobs. ... Since all the money was going towards paying the bills this meant that Steve had no money for his drugs. ... He even has a real job now. ...

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Happy is the youngest son and has a job working in the city with his own apartment. ... Willie is the protagonist in the play, he is the main character who is dealing with the issues of his family and his work that has stopped paying him and has him working on commission only. ... Now that he is older he can not seem to find a job that he fits into. ... When they get older Happy quickly gets a job and settles down, while Biff continues to wonder around and try to find himself. ... Instead he left home in search of a job and himself, which he never found either. ...

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By the end of my junior year, my dad already have a job and a place for us to live in El Sobrante. ... After two years I had to leave the job and broke up with my girlfriend. ... I tried getting back into his life and finding a job but I wouldn't get hired anywhere. My uncle offered to give me a job with him assisting him whenever he needed help. He would pay me cash because I can help him 3 days out of the week and not work for two weeks or something like that. ...

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Older children may be required to work long hours at a job to help bring money to the family. ... For boys, leaving school generally means a succession of low paying jobs or life on the streets. ... Society should pay close attention to what makes successful families and model ours after theirs. The public needs to recognize that marriage and parenting is a difficult job but can be oh-so-rewarding. ...

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These women have "low-paying clerical jobs with many demands on them and little control over their working place, who also have several children and little or no support at home" (Barnett, and Rivers, The Myth 185). ... Researches found out that working woman spend an average of 50 hours a week at the job place. ... It was also believed that they brought family problems along with them into working place and it had a huge negative impact on the quality of their job. ... It was assumed that women (especially married) were not committed to their job (Rosenberg). ... It means that there are even ...

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My father decided he had to leave his job to be able to take care of my mother and the children. ... My mother was not able to receive her job back and our family as a unit changed completely. ... I want to get a job.... I received my first job at only seventeen. ... I've been to her ranch at a very young age but, like I mentioned earlier, I didn't really pay attention to what I had and to what they didn't have. ...

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During the 1960's, women wanted more rights, power, and the ability to get higher paying jobs. ... Even though many women in the work force find raising children to be a very difficult task which leaves them feeling lonely and bored, they do a fine job of balancing their jobs with raising successful children. ... These attributes have helped to contribute to society in a positive way and leave me feeling as if I have done a good job. ... As tough as this unpaid task may be, this self-sacrifice of staying at home to raise ones' children can be the most society enhancing job a woman c...

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Post World War I the number of women involved in military services and jobs in the community slowly increased. ... With many more jobs opening up and the need for a more sensitive and caring personality in particular fields. ... With workers jobs came an awareness of environment and workers rights. ... Women pushed for closer equality in jobs and pay. ... Thanks to our freedoms in the United States, women have the freedoms to vote, speak, protest and make a choice for job and career. ...

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They were highly embarrassed by the fact that our mom received assistance from the government to help pay the bills and food stamps for food. The more fortunate kids at school would make comments regarding our clothes, saying stuff like "tell your mom to get a job and buy you a dress that isn't from the 1800's". ... She now has a great job and her job is getting ready to send her to school for her LPN. ... Some people believe that women should have equal access with men to all jobs, while others believe that while women are superior to men in a few aspects, in most aspects men are ...

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"Each year, more Mexicans move from farms to cities in search of jobs. This migration and Mexico's high rate of population growth have helped cause overcrowding and a shortage of jobs in the cities. More people fled from Mexico to other countries in search of jobs that were so scarce to find in the overcrowded cities. ... The robbers took all of the money, which meant they had to turn around and go back home since they had no money to pay for the paperwork. ... It is not easy and this country needs immigration as people learn and grow with this country there will still be jobs that peo...

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One time even for the possibility to cook, since Rosa Lee was not able to pay the bill for electricity and got therefore cut off. Since neither of the familiy members had a salaried, regular job, they lived on welfare. ... The family learned to cope with prison and drug-underworld life but not how to handle the regular, bill-paying world... They lead a "normal- life and both have jobs that let them earn enogh money to have a house and feed a family. ...

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Male slaves were in charge of preparing food but serving drinks was a woman's job. ... Marriage When a woman was going to marry another man, the soon-to-be husband had to pay "morgengifu" (a morning gift) of money or land to the woman. ... If a wife's husband committed the act of stealing and she did not know of it, the she would not be punished but by law the husband had to pay a fine of 60 shillings. ...

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As the family got less and less opportunities for good jobs, he got more agitated, and it finally came to a head. ... During the day, Pa, Al, and John unsuccessfully go to find a job, yet Tom does find one. ... Pa is forced to use all of the days wages to pay for dinner, which still leaves them hungry. ...

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Another examples are if the person is unemployed then the government would pay him unemployment allowances to sustain his family until he finds a job, a person living below poverty line is given certain exemptions and benefits to allow him to survive and sustain his family with his small income. ... For example if a person goes out of town in order to find a job to earn money, until then his family can be taken care of by the other earning members back at home. ...

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Poverty is what makes many of the people in Tom Joad's hometown to migrate into California to get jobs. 3. ... Many of the families are in such a hurry, that they are willing to pay any price for the vehicles. ... The man laughs and informs him that there are no jobs in California. ... Floyd also tells Pa that there are no jobs and that anyone who discusses going against the landowners, will be dragged off by police and labeled "red. " Men who attempt to go against them will be put on the "blacklist " and will never be able to find work. ...

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This would improve a job task, and result in increased productivity. ... My job of discipline and education may be a little less complicated than Frank and Lillian's. ... Whenever the family would go somewhere where they would have to pay the person, such as a toll bridge, Frank would take one look at the person and know that their nationality was Irish. ... The older children's job was to take care of the youngest, and the mother took care of the intermediate children and babies. ...

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At any rate, it has become standard procedure for parents to drop the younger children off at daycare, take the older children to school, and head to their own job for the next eight to ten hours. ... This means that parents could work part-time, share a job with another worker, work some hours at home, take parental leave, or even use "flex time." ... In fact, it is often the best-paid workers least interested in the part-time work, shared jobs, or other family benefits. Ironically enough, one-third of the participants in a recent study expressed the pay as the best part of a job. ... My daug...

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