The Pursuit of Happyness

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In 1981, in San Francisco, the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner invested the family savings in Osteo National bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice more expensive than x-ray with practically the same resolution. The white elephant financially breaks the family, bringing troubles to the relationship with his wife that leaves him and moves to New York. Without money and a wife, but totally committed to his son Christopher, Chris sees the chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, disputing for one career in the end of a six month training period without any salary with other nineteen candidates. Meanwhile, homeless, he has all sorts of difficulties with his son.
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Work-life balance

Work-life balance is a broad concept including proper prioritizing between career and ambition on one hand, compared with pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development on the other.

As the separation between work and home life has diminished, this concept has become more relevant than ever before.

Making the best use of your time and being effective in what you do are essential prerequisites to a balanced, well-designed and fulfilled life.

What about you? Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a fairly ordinary personal life, or have a very happy private life and only an ordinary professional life?

The New World of Work

As the workplace becomes increasingly demanding, diverse and dispersed globally, the leader at the top will have to throw away the textbooks, un-learn the leadership styles of the 'command and control' era and embrace a radical, new world approach to leadership - 'co-ordinate and cultivate' today's new workforce.

Pathways to the world of work

Being a teenager

Teenage years, as you all already know by experience, are probably the most complicated and confusing years of your life.I am writing to you as one of you, a teenager, a friend, who knows how it is like.

These are the years when you start making your own choices and define your personality. The person you become might well be the person you will be for the rest of your life.

At school, you can feel the pressure, that’s for sure. Besides having your peers trying to force you to do something, you also have to concentrate on school itself. Because if you are planning to be a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, all those professions require a high average, so you know that slipping even once can make your life harder. When you’re finally home, and you think you will get some rest, your mother comes home screaming at you because you didn’t answer the phone, or you let the fridge door opened. And you don’t really care; you just want some peace and quiet. And the reason may be different for everyone: you received a bad grade on a test, the person you have a crush on didn’t look at you during the entire day, or you’re simply tired. It doesn’t really matter, the bottom line is, everyone gets tired of their parents once in a while.

You may start wondering who you are, and what you are doing in this world. But that’s only temporary, and you will realise that your life isn’t that bad. Everyone has their ups and downs.

Don’t give in to peer pressure, be that person in the group that can proudly say that stands up for what they believe in. Stay focused during class, and then afterwards you can have fun with your friends. Nobody’s asking you to be a “nerd”, just to be responsible.

Last but not least, give your parents a break; they only want what’s best for you. And you can also speak to them if something is bothering you. After all, they will love you unconditionally. I hope that when you’re feeling down, and it seems like the entire world is against you, you will find strength in my words to carry on.

By Carlos Fernandes (2008/2009)

Cyberbullying

First of all, what is bullying?BULLYING is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen.
BULLYING implies calling people names, saying or writing nasty things, leaving people out, hitting or kicking them, taking or damaging their things, not talking to someone, making people do things they don’t want to, threatening them, ...
Why do people bully?Bullies are often motivated by anger, revenge or frustration. So, people may bully to be popular, to look tough or in charge, to get attention or things or to make other people afraid of them. Sometimes it is just because they are jealous of the bullied person or because they are being bullied themselves.
Why are some people bullied?These people are different in some way (the colour of their skin, the way they walk, their size, their name, their outstanding marks at school ...) but mainly because they look like they won’t stand up for themselves.
Why is bullying harmful?Bullied people feel frightened, unsafe, unhappy and lonely. Their self-confidence and their self-esteem are harmed, because they feel that there is something wrong with them. Furthermore, they can get sick and, in extreme situations, they may commit suicide.

What is cyberbullying?
CYBERBULLYING involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, which is intended to harm others. School bullies say hurtful things and post photos on Websites, e-mails, cell phone text messages and photos to torment their classmates. In short terms, bullying occurs in the real world and CYBERBULLYING in the virtual/interactive world (e-mail, chatrooms, instant messaging, SMS, Web sites, blogs…).
How can you stop cyberbullying?Don’t be a victim or a Cyberbully!
Stop, block and tell someone! Don’t respond to the bully, block the person sending it to you and tell a trusted adult.
ThinkB4UClick! Check what you are sending before you do it… think about it from other teens’ point of view.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Use good netiquette and respect the feelings and bandwidth of others.
Keep personal information private! The more information someone has about you, the more easily they can bully you.
Google yourself! Conduct frequent searches for your own personal information online and set alerts… to spot cyberbullying early.
Take 5! Walk away from the computer for 5 minutes when something upsets you, so you don’t do something you will later regret.

What about you?
Have you ever bullied someone? Have you ever been bullied? Have you ever seen someone being bullied?

For further information, visit the site

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/

Don’t stick it, stop it! Make the difference!

Teenage years

Teenage years can be the hardest thing ever but you have to step out of it and turn it into the best years of your life! Don’t worry, I’ll tell you how.

These are the years when we try to figure out who we are, and it can be confusing sometimes. You try to act like those popular kids, dress like them, but nothing seems to work. And I don’t believe it will ever work. The best thing you can do is to be honest with yourself and with others. Just be yourself!

Another thing you might have to face is the pressure about what you are going to do in the future. You just can’t seem to find anything that really suits you. Guess what? You will have to work, so you had better choose something that you really like and that you’re good at. But take your time; the best choices don’t come quickly.

School is one of the biggest responsibilities you have right now and in my opinion it’s sometimes the most frustrating one. Once in a while you just want to give up because you don’t have the patience to study or because you think this is probably good for nothing. Well, you can give up, but believe me, you’ll regret it later! School is so important for your future, your future career… You can’t rely on your parents forever, sooner or later you’ll need to start working to afford the things you need and want.

I know it can often be hard, but you have to focus more on the fact that you don’t have a lot of serious responsibilities like grown-ups do, you have a lot of friends, a lot of free time, you fall in love easily… Now that you think about it… Isn’t it good to be a teenager?

By Natacha Brandl (2008/2009)