Essays on Houston

Chapter 5

The Texas education system raised concern since the declaration of independence in 1836 following the failure of the government to begin the public education system. However, in late 1983, a constitutional amendment that advocated for the provision of bonds by the school fund was passed through voting. Currently, school funds generated an income of approximately $756 million dollars thus, making education facilities more available to the students (Champagne and Edward 16). The dropout rate is the indicator of the holding power of various schools in Texas during that period. Data indicates that 106 counties recorded a reduction in the ...

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Introduction

Technology advancement is a requirement for all public systems where users come in large numbers. One such critical functioning system is the Air Traffic Control system of the America. America’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) system had been running for the past 40 years and catering to the burgeoning traffic at the airports. At any given time in the United States, approximately 7000 aircraft are flying in the country’s airspace. The country’s air traffic system had been catering to the ever increasing demand. However, it ...

Abstract

Chunking, the technique of grouping similar concepts together in order to aid memory, has long been associated with better working memory performance. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of chunking on the memorization of words. A total of 18 participants were given a list of 18 words to remember, with nine of these being informed about the technique of chunking before attempting the memory task. The results of an independent samples t-test show that chunking has a significant (p=0.05) effect on the word memorization skills of the participants (t=8.390). This supports previous research that suggests ...

Everybody is addicted to something; addiction is a disease that does not discriminate. According to the latest research done by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 22.7 million Americans require treatment for certain drug and substance addictions (Patterson).Addiction surely does not discriminate and for years celebrities have fallen prey to drug and substance abuse. In spite of the status, fame and fortune addiction plays a very fair game and this is evident in the very common reports of famous celebrities who have publically struggled with drug and substance addictions, others even experiencing a public relapse ( ...

Innovation stems from learning new things and learning stems from education. The many professionals we have at this day and age are products of good education. Over the past weeks, I have gained exceptional knowledge in the field of ethics. In my journey to becoming a dental hygienist, I intend to apply on all my endeavors everything I learned from EDUC 1300. The world of dental hygiene has greatly transformed in various aspects – from controlling infection, controlling pain, widespread use of ultrasonic and periodontal treatment (Milling, 2016). A dental hygienist profession provides a great variety of challenges. And these ...

The standard operating procedure for security department has been prepared to provide a response framework to different emergencies at the Phillips 66 Company. The purpose of reporting Crisis Management (CM) Notifications is to ensure that the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) is aware of crisis incidents and potential impacts to the company. It delivers complete information about standard operating procedure of security department of the company. It identifies the strengths of ELT and shows the team’s approaches and capabilities to control the security system effectively.

Procedure

The team has created efficient plans to take immediate actions against any emergency situation ...

Abstract

The study seeks elaborate on the nonprofit and for-profit hospital joint venture and giving growing similarities in their operation capacities. The growing need for improvement by nonprofit hospitals regarding healthcare delivery requires high capital generation and more funding. Overdependence on sponsors and well-wishers for grants do not support the community benefit fully. This makes nonprofit hospitals not to deliver high quality health care, and unable to settle bills and outsourcing high technology to support medication. The conversion from nonprofit to for-profit hospital, and joint venturing with for-profit hospital help in improving performance, delivery, and high-quality health care. The paper ...

Values Clarification and Ethical Legal Case Analysis

Values Clarification Values dictate the way people function both personally and professionally. In nursing practice, having clear values is essential in achieving moral competence (Jormsri et al., 2005). In completing the value clarification exercise, forty-two items were answered. Of these forty-two items, 15 responses were “mostly agree” and another 15 responses were “mostly disagree.” Six responses were “somewhat disagree”, three responses were “somewhat agree”, and the final three responses were “neutral.”

In a cluster that relates to issues raised by advanced technology, I had some agreements and disagreements. Giving extraordinary medical treatments to patients is essential, particularly when the ...

QUESTION A

Definition of Credit Default Swaps A CDS is an instrument used to transfer the risk of default or credit exposure between two or more parties (Fabozzi and Kothari, 2008). It protects the lender from the possible loss of default by the borrower. The lender (protection buyer) pays premiums to the CDS seller. In return, the CDS seller guarantees to pay the lender the face value of the loan plus interests due in the intervening period if the borrower defaults.

Cash flows

Annual CDS premium = 4% × 1,000,000 = $40,000 Quarterly payments = 40,000/4 = $10,000 The borrower does not default ...

Discounted cash flow is one of the valuation methods of performance used by a company to pick on a favorable and attractive investment opportunity (Baker and Powell 105). This evaluation analysis method uses future cash flows that are to be discounted to find the estimated present value of the project’s potential to invest. Business evaluation entails a well laid out set procedures employed in the estimation of the owner’s interest economic value in business. Financial market participants use business valuation to arrive at the price they are willing to receive or pay out for the sale of ...

Institutions

Immigration is one of the debatable issues in the United States. It is worth nothing that legal and illegal immigration affect the health care system. One of the impacts is the burden on taxpayers. This is because of the increased costs that are absorbed by the healthcare system. Centre for Immigration Studies asserts that the cost of treating illegal immigrants is on the rise. The cost increase is transferred to taxpayers and the U.S citizens with insurance. This is because insurance companies increase the rates to meet the increasing costs of health care. Also, lack of insurance means that ...

Daytime TV reality shows have become an important part of our society’s entertainment, legal and education system. They give us an impression of how exactly the real courtroom would look like and what we should expect in case we get embroiled in similar law suits. While some of the TV court shows are not real and involve fictitious characters such as judges, litigants, and court clerks, most of them like The People’s Court and Judge Judy involve real characters. The People’s Court TV Show, for example, has real parties who have instituted a civil case in ...

Reference 1

Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). Exploring the Correlates of Perceived Job Dangerousness Among Correctional Staff at a Maximum Security Prison. Criminal Justice Policy Review. 00 (0). DOI: 10.1177/0887403415623618. The signs of mental health disorders do not reveal themselves at work most of the time. Only in rare and isolated instances, will the potency of the problems manifest. In addition, the other correctional officers and staff might not have adequate knowledge to corroborate evidence. Hence, this peer-reviewed paper will provide the parameters for testing. The variables, components, variances, and ...

Nashville Predators

Nashville Predators hockey team based in Nashville - the capital of the state of Tennessee. The team entered the NHL in 1998 and since that time show good results as “NHL’s top on-ice performing teams” (Dunkan, 2009). The most important information about the team include the location of home stadium - the Sommet Center, with a capacity of 17,133 and 70 luxury suites, the average ticket price – $45,75 what is a bit lower than average NHL ticket price.

The revenuer per game in 2008/2009 – $600,000.

The financial situation of the team seems to be dramatic. In 2007, the team occupied 23rd place in ...

The institutional affiliation

MEMORANDUM INTRODUCTION Medical marketing has grown an increasingly complicated cause of the fast developing business of healthcare organizations. The old model of focusing on just patients and physicians stopped working. So, it has become incredibly important for doctors to market their medical practices in order to build their own brand, gain new patients and improve business from the current ones. Nowadays, marketing teams need to broaden their consideration horizons and focus on the following criteria: Patients, Physicians, Professional Healthcare Administrators, Payers and Policy Makers (Mycek, 2015). The Texas Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and New York-Presbyterian Hospital will be analyzed ...

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Personal Statement

I am confident that I have a future in promoting and enhancing the extent of human relations within the business sector. I have been employed by the City of Houston’s anti-gang unit since December of 2015. I previously worked for Brazoria County Pain Center in Angleton, Texas. These work experiences have provided me with skills in leadership, mentoring, and community collaboration. In addition, these employment opportunities have allowed me to acquire technical, interpersonal, and time management competence. I am currently enrolled at the University of Houston-Downtown. I am in the process of completing ...

The means of production defined by Karl Marx mainly comprises of capital invested, labor and land used. Labor consists of the physical and mental contributions made by workers in the production process. Land consists of natural resources used in production. Finally, capital is another means of production and it includes investment, factories, and machinery. Overall, the means of production available to a society includes physical elements, apart from human beings. Physical elements comprise of several materials such as natural resources, tools, machines, and offices. In addition, means of production also include distribution means such as the internet and the ...

Annotated Bibliography

Introduction The correctional system in the United States is a complex and overcrowded problem in recent times. The staff in these facilities is often undertrained and overworked. They lack the professional experience and due to heavy attrition rates, are unable to operate any reliable mentoring programs. This gap increases the stress which exceeds the paradigm of work and invades the private lives of the correctional staff. This paper unlocks the psychological problems that fester correctional staff in the United States. Annotated Bibliography 1. Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). ...

Stress is a state of emotional or mental tension or strain in human lives that result from very demanding or adverse life situations (Taylor, & Asmundson, 2004). It is part of people’s lives and it affects people in different way depending on how it is managed thus the need for effective stress management. Different persons can management different levels of stress. Usually when stress gets at points where the victim is impacted largely in a negative way, then stress management becomes a necessity. The management interventions can be of two different forms, that is, through self-taught and through a ...

The primary goal of every investor is to maximize his returns. To determine the right company to invest in an investor require analyze the performance of a company using various tools which include the financial ratios analysis, cash flow analysis, risk analysis, stock valuation and time value of money. This paper provides a detailed analysis of an investor who has 100,000 and is in differenced between saving the money in a saving account or investing it in stocks of 3M company which is a manufacturing and mining company producing over 55, 000 products.

Use of Financial Ratios

The liquidity ratios shows the ...

Leadership & Body Language in Hospitality

INTRODUCTION Hospitality is a service-oriented industry. By definition, service is hospitality's most fundamental component based on which needs of customers, internal or external, are met. In order to better serve customers, hospitality organizations invest in every possible means to make customers satisfied. This covers changes from as broad as B2B strategic partnerships, international expansions and segmentized promotions) to small-scale as dress code, menus and decorations. In so doing, hospitality companies endeavor to add value in an industry growing more competitive, particularly by recent adoption of ICT platforms and applications enabling immediate peer-to-peer, B2C and B2B feedback. The case for ...

The government of Texas helps its residents through the following ways; by building and maintaining roads, through the creation of recreational facilities, by building airports within the county, the construction and operation of jails, in commission of the judicial system, storing and maintaining municipal records, through collection of taxes, through registering voters, through issuing of voter registration and transfers, they conduct and ensure peaceful elections, they offer health as well as communal services to the less privileged population of the district, also the local government has a fundamental role in economic development of their area.

How the Houston Community College serves its residents

It acts as the ...

After view the video that Campaign for Houston made about Proposition 1: the Bathroom Ordinance a lot of things came to mind. It is a very emotion video that makes the viewer actually think about the implications of allowing anyone to use whichever bathroom they want. When analyzing the video from an ethos standpoint Campaign for Houston did an excellent job. Ethos correlates directly with the authority and credibility associated with the presenter. The video is made and distributed by Campaign for Houston. This is a well respected political group that claims its core value to be protecting and ...

A reading of Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar and Melba Pattillo Beals’ Warriors Don't Cry reveals that racial prejudice in the twentieth-century societies of the United States was against anybody who was not Caucasian. In other words, while Houston’s work focuses on the Japanese-Americans’ experiences after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment that came after, Beals talks of black segregation and the laws that declared black people inferior to the whites. Hence, there are similarities between the two books as they revolve around ideas of white supremacy that placed persons of African and Japanese descent ...

Introduction

The report presents a guideline proposal for the configuration and set up of windows network infrastructure for a company named Shiv LLC. Shiv LLC is an organization that operates by manufacturing and distributing solar panels for the consumer market. It is imperative to comprehend the physical location and the physical structure of the organization so as to provide a configuration that is pertinent to the needs of Shiv LLC. The company has three branches in three different locations. Its branches and offices are spread all over the country; Houston, Dallas and Los Angeles. It is significant to point out ...

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Houston, Texas 77019

One Main Street Houston, Texas 77008 Dear Mr Morales: It is with a mixture of pride and sadness that I offer this letter of introduction and recommendation to you for one of my employees, Miss Jennifer Drake. Miss Drake has been in my employ at the Landmark Theatre, River Oaks for 5 years as a film projectionist. It is with great pride that I recommend her, as she is an exceptional and reliable employee. The endorsement is also provided with some sadness, however, as I realize if Miss Drake is successful in obtaining the Robert A. ...

Abstract

Financial analysis is an essential tool in the hands of the manager, as it is with its help the decisions related to the company’s finances are taken. Without the analysis and grounds for making such management decisions, the firm cannot achieve the desired level of income, or the lack of financial settlement will lead the company to bankruptcy. The purpose of the assignment was to perform financial analysis of a company listed on the Bursa Malaysia. Dominant Enterprise Berhad was chosen for the completion. The Malaysia-located company turned into public listed organization with thirteen subsidiaries, operating on production ...

Introduction

With every institution, team and or organization, there comes a time when there are wrangles. This is because people get competitive and ambitious hence seek to serve their own interests. In addition, cultural differences may also arise because of the variety of talents from different ethnic backgrounds. This is the same scenario Houston Texans baseball team management are in. In order to demystify the reasons behind the occurrences, there is need for a research. This paper focuses on how that research will be conducted. The research topic refers to what will be discussed during the research in this case ‘ ...

Division I A Football Powerhouse

As the first athletics assistant at the Big Private University, am writing to you regarding the eligibility of some students who are being eyed at by our coaches and few others who are continuing students regarding their eligibility to participate in our University team as well as those who are continuing. The primary concern here is on bylaws that govern the freshmen enrollment and their academic qualifications, eligibility issues for continuing students, and involvement of agents by any player which leads to any face to face encounter or even reaching an agreement whether verbal or written. My view on ...

Museum of Fine Arts Houston; compare and contrast an Italian Renaissance painting with Greek vase painting.

In this work, I will analyze two works from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, from different epochs and of different styles. Even the means involved are different. It may seem that these artworks can only be contrasted; however, it is an interesting challenge to compare them. “Black-Figure Amphora Depicting two scenes: - Theseus slaying the Minotaur - Gods in array departing for Olympus”. Date 530-510 BC. Attributed to the Antimenes Painter, Greek  Greek ceramics is the most common finding in the archaeological studies of ancient Greece; you can find it all over the areal settlement of the ancient ...

Segregation in the South during the 1960s And 1970s

Abstract Segregation in the south was mainly by race and resulted to distinctions with regards to income, education, residence, and employment. Segregation in the south brought forth the ancient and even recent societal and organizational segregation. Segregation took many forms including, gender segregation, residential segregation, employment segregation and even educational segregation among other types. Some actions which portrayed the highest degree of these segregation included Africans enslavement in huge plantations, involuntary blacks emigration, forced relocations to reserves, the internment of minorities including the Japanese Americans, setting up of immigrant enclaves and forced displacements among other actions which were inhumane. ...

Evaluation of franchise investment

The franchise investment project is evaluated based on the net present value and the internal rate of returns. The available information is used to determine the NPV and IRR of Schneller Zug and Kyuko Densha. The two measures are used to assess whether each project is viable. NPV and IRR also help in choosing the better project between the two. NPV and IRR are determined using the cost of capital for Javelin Railway Co.

Determination of the cost of capital

The cost of capital is the return investors require from investment to secure funding. It is the minimum return projects must generate to be funded ...

My name is Rochelle and I was born and raised in Houston, Texas as an only child. This does not mean that I was ever spoilt and I helped with the chores at home whenever possible. I was always a good student and I have always been caring about the environment and about the benefit of other people, which is what got me interested in healthcare. I got married on the 22nd of November, 2015. We still do not have any children because starting from January, I will pursue a degree in Healthcare Administration at University of Phoenix. I ...

Introduction

The business planning and formulating is not as easy and simple as it seems just like to run operations and deal with staff. To start a new business, it is very important to understand the nature and role of entrepreneurship. Many entrepreneurs have succeeded, and many have failed in the past, it means that there is something exist that can differentiate the successful and failure entrepreneurs. Before conducting a plan for the new business of wedding planner services, it is needed to understand the needs, challenges and risks in the development of new business and how these challenges and ...

Comparison of the Performance for Vodafone Group Plc. and BT Group Plc. Comparison of the Performance for Vodafone Group Plc. and BT Group Plc.

Introduction

The objective/aim of the current paper is to evaluate the performance of two competing telecommunication companies in the United Kingdom. Vodafone Group Plc. and BT Group Plc. are the companies selected for the comparison. Both the companies are rivals to each other in the United Kingdom and are considered as two of the top enterprises in the technology sector. Ratio analysis and financial highlights from the annual report of 2015 are the basis of the ...

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The article refers to the descendants of the ancient Indian tribes in the Florida Everglades. It is a really interesting account of the history and the lives of the tribes. The hero is a person called Houston Cypress (Funcheon, 2014). He recounts his early years and how he was scared of being looked down upon since he was ‘two spirited’ (gay). Many of the early tribes in the area had different names and references to people with different gender choices. It clearly shows the way how the ...

Net Present Value

The Net Present Value is used in estimating the potential value of every project by applying the discounted cash flow valuation that requires an estimation of the size and time of all cash flows that increases from the project (Ehrhardt & Brigham, 2016). However, NPV is affected greatly by the discounting rate. Therefore, making a selection on the proper rate that is sometimes known as the hurdle rate is essential during decision making. Moreover, this should make a reflection on the riskiness of the investment because it is typically measured by the unpredictability of cash flows. Therefore, it must take ...

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. It is a term given to a series of diseases in which the cells within human body grow at an abnormal rate, thereby damaging healthy tissues . While normal cells grow and die at a specific rate according to the requirements of human body, the growth of cells is extreme when compared to the death of cells in cancerous patients. Such an abnormal growth in turn leads to tumors, which consist of a huge mass of tissues. However, in patients suffering with cancer related to the blood, there ...

Introduction

The nationwide pipeline system in the USA has been constructed to transport the natural gas, oil, and refined petroleum products. This constitutes about 71% of the refined products and oils are being transported with about 100% natural gas of the consumption in the USA. The three sectors that are involved in the transportation of these energy products are; operators of the gas transmission pipelines, operators of hazardous liquids in the pipeline and the distributors of gas utilities. An approximate of 299,000 miles and 171,000 miles are offshore gas transmission and liquid onshore pipelines respectively. This operates in ...

Introduction

Many people classify white collar crime as a crime of opportunity and the statistics of the offenders show that they are mostly individuals entrusted with a positon from which they illegally syphoned personal gain. The two areas of white collar crime to be discussed in this paper are the health care fraud and the weights and measures crimes. These two are the most common and used by millions of people each day. You may only see a burglary in your area once or twice in a lifetime or hear of a shooting very seldom but the health care fraud ...

Through my own personal development and skills, I have worked alongside children that are in the upper-elementary age bracket. When I was younger, I served as a tutor and mentor to youth. I have also worked in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program which helped me to connect with children of all different ages and many of them were youth who could potentially be at-risk if they did not have a mentor there to help them. Through the mayor’s anti-gang task force in Houston, it has been designed to help children off of the streets and become better ...

The Road to Brown documentary describes major events of the 20th century that helped to end up racial segregation in the American South. It is a story on how African Americans managed to legally pave the way to equal educational opportunities and, thus, contributed to the death of Jim Crow era. Charles Hamilton Houston, a legendary black lawyer and the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, is a central figure of The Road to Brown (The Road To Brown). He is presented as a mastermind of this anti-segregation movement due to a brilliant strategy he developed and ...

Rural Resource Management: Economic and Health Care Community Public Awareness

Given that Texas has the largest rural population in the nation with 3.6 million residents, less than 50 percent of the total population is not aware of the different resource and development strategies that the government is said to be doing in terms on the economic and health needs of the community. The purpose of this research is to discuss the economic and social issues that concern the government and the community which can give an impact in the community in Texas. Recent surveys will be discussed, showing how the people felt that the government has not done enough ...

Houston Fire department has a vision for the future which is well articulated in their vision statement. The HFD’s vision statement states that, “HFD will be recognized as a premier public service organization, respected and admired by our peers and the community as the most diverse, innovative, and public safety provider in the world (City of Houston, 2015).” The department is looking forward to continued improvements in the future to better respond to and address the needs of the community they serve. Contrary to the belief that a fire department only exists to attend to fire calls, HFD ...

Richard Wright had every reason to consider himself an outsider. He was born in 1908, an African American in the segregated South, and as he grew up witnessed lynchings and other manifestations of racial prejudice. In the segregated South at that time, it was commonplace for African Americans to feel themselves to be outsiders. It could be argued that as his life proceeded Wright continued to find himself, either through circumstances or his own actions and beliefs, in the position of an outsider. His childhood was deeply unsettled with his family often moving house, and at one point Wright ...

Dread

In the first part of Richard Wright’s The Outsider we are introduced to the central character of the novel, Cross Damon, an African American. Damon works is a postal worker in Chicago and his life is fill of problems. He does not eat enough and he drinks too much, because he claims he has terrible problems sleeping. He is separated from his wife, Gladys, with whom he has fathered four children. He has a girlfriend called Dotty and he is also under pressure, because of the way he lives and has treated Gladys from his elderly mother, who disapproves of ...

Abstract

Cultural sensitivity is an issue that is central to health and ethnicity, and also to creating programs for disease prevention and health promotions for varying ethnic and racial populations. The rationale, under which programs for promoting health are build, is based on three basic observations; the varying patterns in the predictors of the behaviors of health, different groups show; the differences in the rates of disease prevalence as indicated by various ethnic and racial groups; and the patterns exhibited by the same groups in the prevalence of risk factors imposed by their behaviors. The differences between the prevalence rates ...

In Houston, the management of solid waste is manned by the Solid Waste Management Department (SWMD) whose main functions include the provision of services to over 408,000 households in Texas through collecting, disposing and recycling of waste material in a way that is efficient, safe, cost effective and environmentally friendly (City of Houston, n.d.). MSW recycling in Houston is carried by Greenstar Recycling Company, which offers recycling solutions through commodity upgrades, recycle processing, commodity trading sectors of the solid waste market and managed services (MSW Management, 2010). Thus, it is a major recycling company in North America. This company uses a ...