Essays on San Francisco

Lyft’s Profile and Background

Lyft is an American online transportation firm it is a car-hiring company that grounds its services on a mobile app. The San-Francisco-based firm is the second-best in online transportation industry behind Uber. However, Uber outshines Lyft in almost all facets of online transportation network ranging from marketing to revenue generation. For instance, while Uber is swiftly running internationally with even successful operations in developing countries, Lyft is still contained in the US but expanding on the scale of cities (UPI NewsTrack 1). Nevertheless, the company is showing immense efforts to improve and maintain its competitive edge. One of the ...

On January 27 Donald Trump has signed the executive order about the restriction of entry of refugees into the USA. According to the order, reception of all refugees stops for four months. Besides, the document forbids entry into the country to citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, including that who have visas, for three months. Restrictions extend also to holders of "green cards" — that is the people authorized to live and work in the United States of America permanently. The document, contrary to an ordinary procedure, has been prepared without participation of specialists of Ministry ...

4 Immigrants Manga is written by the Japanese author Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama. Manga is the name given to Japanese comic books that focus on adults and children. 4 Immigrants Manga revolves around the experiences of the author and his three friends who arrive in San Francisco as immigrants. “It is one of the first modern-format comic books ever published in the United States, especially with all-new material and a documentary, autobiographical theme” (L, 2013).

Section1: Context

Born on January 9, 1885, in a little village called Neu, in Western Japan, Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama was a good artist and a story teller. ...

Leadership cannot be fully exercised without self-awareness. To be conscious of oneself is to have self-knowledge and to be mindful of others. A leader who has introspection is more likely to practice social change in the society. I believe I am becoming more conscious of myself because of a series of actions that I partake from time to time. There are various ways to become more aware of oneself, and it is entirely necessary to establish it since it will lead to social change in the long run. Firstly, keeping a journal is one way of becoming self-aware; this ...

Introduction

The economic and social wellbeing of the society depends substantially on an effective and efficient performance of organisations. Management and leadership activity in the United Kingdom organisations becomes necessary, and the weakness and opportunities that exist should get addressed to realize a further advantage based on enhanced performance (Goetsch & Davis, 2014). Thus, excellent and adequate management and leadership skills are essential tools to achieve the best in organisations. The current ideas of the nature of leadership and management have evolved significantly over several decades to encompass new ideas including emotional intelligence, especially in organisation and planning (Giacalone & Rosenfield 2013). ...

Nielsen (2016) submitted an abstract titled Improvements of colorectal cancer screening by development and implementation blood-based biomarker concepts to the 14th Annual Conference on Translational Medicine and Oncologists Meet which was held in San Francisco, United States of America starting on the 28th day to the 30th day of November, 2016. The theme which the conference was based was cancer could be treated if it was detected. This resonates with the increased push for increased screening for colorectal cancer, the theme upon which my project is based. Nielsen (2016) presents the use of biomarker concepts that are based on ...

It is one of the ironies of history that the “old west” was actually the last area of the north American continent to be settled. By 1860, for example, San Francisco, California was a booming city of 56,802 persons making it the 15th largest city in the nation (San Francisco Population). Kansas City, meanwhile, had a population of 4,418 (U.S. Census Bureau). Denver, Colorado was already the “Queen City of the Plains” with a population of 4,749 (Population of Denver, CO). These three communities are important since Denver and Kansas City represent the western and eastern ...

Summary

Different people from various backgrounds hold diverse beliefs on the origin of the world. Lewis, for instance, had the belief that the root of the world was from the darkness and beautiful distant sounds like those that emanate from far away singers. The Ohlone individuals in San Francisco believe that the head being was Coyote who created the world. The people influenced by Genesis hold that the world came being from the fall of refinement. Bestowing to the Pomo on the other side, a tribe in Northern California, the sphere was molded when a god set rolling the wax ...

Migratory History It is said that ethnic Chinese first appeared on the western shores of North America during the period of the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, which is about between 1521 to 1815. They had accepted commissions as being businessmen, sailors and fishermen on the Spanish galleons that traversed the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico (Brownstone, 2). Several numbers of ethnic Chinese were able to reach California as this state was still the territory of Mexico until 1848. Future expeditions to Vancouver by John Meares, a British fur trader, brought more Chinese into Vancouver around ...

The Social Issue: Homelessness.

Who is affected by this issue? How large is it? How many people does it affect? Homelessness affects both adults and their families. In the United States with the latest survey indicates 71 percent of the homeless population has lived in San Francisco Areas before losing their homes

What indicates that this is a problem? Is there evidence? 

Homelessness has become among the top issues affecting both adults and children in our society with latest official count conducted in 2015 placing the adult homeless population to more than 7000 (Kilgore 594).

Explain the reasons you identified this particular problem?

This problem is highly pressing given that an increase in homelessness leads to increase in other social problems ...

Business administration jobs offered in San Francisco

The business administration jobs that are provided in San Francisco include the summer associate in the investment bank as the bank has the programs in which it wants to equip the personnel with knowledge as well as train them so as to be productive in the team and establish the long-term career. The entity is hiring the professionals who have the international perspective on the future concerns of the banking and who want to make a significant impact on the commercial level. The entity is looking for various values in the professional because it values diversity and therefore it ...

St Louis and New Orleans were the furthest points in the West in 1860. San Francisco was not in existence, and the whole of the population was composed of native tribes that were cut out from active participation in the national economy. There was no transport system, and the farthest point of the railroad was in St Louis while the area between Chicago and San Francisco was largely untapped for economic activities like mining and agricultural production. There were more than forty native tribes, but their population did not cross the 100,000 mark. The population grew very fast ...

Business Problem Statement

Climate change is an issue that is evaluated just as any other business issue and thus it has to compete at some stage with other investment opportunities. In business, it is important to focus on projects that are compliant with applicable environmental and resource protection laws (Kubba 2). This has driven the focus of project managers to green initiatives in businesses. There are various programs in existence that seek to outline the important green criteria by highlighting sound practices that protect the environment as well as operations that are cost effective. One of the widely recognized programs is the ...

Examination of Performance Review Conflict

Examination of Performance Review Conflict Performance review conflict can create serious problems in the public sector. In reviewing an employee’s performance, the supervisor considers self-reported performance assessment, his/her observations of an employee’s work, and feedback from other supervisors and peers who had the opportunity to oversee or observe the work of the employee. However, ratings for each criterion depends, in part, on the subjective interpretation of the supervisor. Rater bias and favoritism based on gender, race, age, physical appearance or attractiveness, personality, and personal relations or interests may influence supervisor ratings. Evaluation results become the basis of ...

Introduction

An ecosystem is defined as the interaction of the organism and other nonliving factors in a certain community. The living components of an ecosystem, such as plants, animals, and other organisms, can be classified as the biotic component of the ecosystem, whereas the environmental conditions such as water amount, humidity, soil nourishment, temperature, and the like are termed as the abiotic factors. In an ecosystem, both the existing biotic and abiotic factors determine what kind of species live there. For example, turtles, which require a large amount of water to live in cannot possibly hope to survive in arid ...

People used to think that if you killed a gay person, you were doing a service to the community. In my opinion, I also agree with this statement since this is evident in the history of Milk Harvey and Dan White in Francisco. This is also apparent today as the gay practice is seen as a state of mental illness. White served as a soldier in the war Vietnam War before returning to the United States to operate as a law-enforcement officer and later as a firefighter in Francisco. White was bothered by the increasing official’s tolerance of ...

Introduction

In fact Chinese have landed to the US already in 1848. The main reason behind their resettlement in American soil was golden mines that have lured thousands of Chinese people to the States. Yet, as soon as the economy in the States declined Chinese workers were seen as a significant issue for the majority of Americas’ working population. As a result, a severe law was adopted to hold back the Chinese and forced them to move to the shelter that later turn into one of the most popular tourist attractions for the visitors of San-Francisco (Chinatown Resource Guide). This ...

The Museum of Asian art in San Francisco is one of the must-see museums in the town. It is situated quite near to the Civic center and more than eighteen thousand pieces of fine art are exposed permanently in the arranged collections. Some of the exhibited articles are about six thousand years old. The arts and objects are collected from the entire Asian continent. Entering the museum, visitors can enjoy beautiful objects as paintings, furniture, sculptures, armor and textiles, and also there are represented objects from China, India, Turkey, the Philippines and Japan showing the culture of these countries ...

I. Introduction The Incredibles is a 2004 Superhero computer animation film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was based on comic books and spy films from the director Brad Bird’s childhood. It tells the story of a superhero family forced to hide within society and try to blend in. Led by an altruistic father, they end up in a battle with the antagonist of the story, Syndrome, who appears at first as Mr. Incredible’s number one fan. The overall theme of the movie revolves around unity and family as being the two ...

The lights say nothing of their purpose. The city splits the view as a narrow band in darkness fractured by the lines of light from its houses, from its streets, life contrasting with black emptiness but conveying no meaning. From far away the details evaporate. Personal existences, millions of them, in all their action, all their dreams, signal their presence anonymously. The clouds above, barely perceptible, present as much to the camera in their transient passing as these millions of people reduced to mere light present as signifiers, place marks, splats on a map, splats that barely rise above ...

Menlo Park is a city on the eastern side of San Mateo County, San Francisco Bay Area in the State of California. The city was founded in the 1850s by Dennis Oliver and D.C. McGlynn who bought a 1,700 acre piece of land and placed a wooden arch with the name “Menlo Park” as the name of the property. The current town grew up from a railway station under the same name and it became popular with businessmen in San Francisco. The city was incorporated in 1874. It borders Redwood City, Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, North Fair ...

The preferred entity for analysis in this assignment is Bell Investment Advisors, which is a large independent financial advisory company and operates as a fee-only company. It has been in operation for the last 25 years and offers both financial planning and investment management through life coaching services. The company has a long record of success and has been active in advising and monitoring the investments owned by its clients. This company has a strong link to my career interest area of a finance advisor. The company is located in Oakland San Francisco in the United States. Its offices ...

Abstract

Team based approach is considered to be one of the main concepts that may lead to positive developments in an organization such as increased productivity, high levels of efficiency in operations and reduction in the cost of operations. The San Francisco General Hospital is contemplating to use the team based approach in order to attain these objectives. Therefore, the organization has to embrace specific training programs such as on the job training technique, the instruction training technique and the job rotation techniques. Despite these techniques being associated with different training issues, effective measures can be put in place to ...

Introduction

Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education, written by accomplished and known scholars, highlights the fact that students can acquire effective and useful learning only when educational institutions across the United States focus on transferring knowledge to students, rather than administer instruction with the sole objective of complying with state and donor funding regulations (Kuh et al., 2014). To this end, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of teachers in ensuring that their students are actively engaged in the pursuit of real knowledge that will help them in their career and future studies, as opposed to ...

Introduction

Love is an integral aspect of human nature because it defines human nature and reflects the state of humans among other creatures and creators. Diverse theologians and philosophers have studied love and have come up with different views, which have become the cornerstone of the modern religions, particularly the Christianity. Among Christians, it is common knowledge that there are different types of love. There is love between humans and God and there is love between humans and humans. Philosophers and theologians who regard love as being directional classify love as being love from God to humans, love from humans ...

Gold was the first metals to be mined and is held with great value. It plays a major role in the global economy and has caused wars, myths and mass migrations. This was the case for California when the first traces of gold were discovered in California. Isolation, struggles and alcohol led to the numerous incidences of violence such as homicides and lynching among other violent crimes. The fortune seekers had to endure miserable conditions for shelter and pay exorbitant prices for supplies. California is an example of a ghost of the many gold rush cities in history. The ...

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to assess the impact of Airbnb, the company that makes it possible for people from different countries to hand over their property to strangers, on the hotel industry. It is known that Airbnb is the third by cost value private IT-company in the world as its value is $25.5 billion. It is estimated that flow of orders of rooms for the night to Airbnb may increase from 79 million in the current year to 500 million over the next five years (and up to a billion within 10 years). In general, from a ...

CONTENTS Background..3

Environment Scan4

Internal Operation Environment7 Strategies & Justification8 Organizational Change: Reflections..10

Conclusion.11

Airbnb: A Strategic Analysis BACKGROUND The hospitality business is changing. In contrast to a conventional model of corporate-controlled business model offering a broad range of hospitality services to consumers largely defined within limited geographical spreads, peer-to-peer hospitality enterprises are disrupting hospitality business into an innovative model. The peer-to-peer model cuts across different hospitality services but, for current purposes, main focus remains on accommodation services. Of all short-stay, peer-to-peer companies, Airbnb is probably most prominent and, for that matter, most controversial. Founded based on limited property offerings in specific areas ...

Everyone loves a good opportunity that could change his or her life. The discovery of gold in California by James Marshall in 1848 led to one of the greatest and most profitable such situations in recorded history: the Gold Rush. With the hope of radically changing their lives, many people flocked to this State, in particular to San Francisco. The people that were closer got there quicker and profited more from the situation. Nevertheless, as connections were not the same at the time, others got wind of the situation later, and took even more time to actually get there; ...

Introduction

Sharp Park, which is named after George Sharp, has a long, rich history. Mr. Sharp owned a more than 400-acre estate that he established with a vision for the San Francisco residents to enjoy recreation in a natural setting. When he died together with his wife, the property was left to the San Francisco City Council under strict instructions that it would only be used for recreational purposes. Sharp Park is in California off Highway 1 along the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco. It has existed since 1917; the golf course was established in 1930s. In 1941-internment camp was established ...

Investigative Study: Hotel Industry in Singapore

Abstract The hospitality industry, which has become today one of the largest industries in the world economy continues to grow rapidly. There is strong competition among the enterprises of the hotel industry, the hotel and each enterprise seeks to gain its market segment. In order to not only keep their business, but also to develop the company in this sphere needs money, which can be obtained only from the client. Therefore, the hotel should be able not only to attract, but also to encourage the client to purchase their services, and to return again and again. The success of ...

I attended the San Francisco District Courthouse in California where I had the opportunity to see and hear the process of divorce proceedings. I have chosen to report on the Divorce Petition No. 547 of 2016 between Naomi Jenkins Brown and Trevor O’Brien Brown, as heard on 19th May, 2016 before Justice Richard Seeborg of San Francisco District Courthouse, California. The matter was coming up for the first hearing of the Petitioner’s Petition as against the Respondent

Brief Facts:

Naomi Jenkins Brown and Trevor O’Brien Brown were married on 28th August, 2008 in California. The couple have lived ...

Introduction:

Healthcare professionals work in the community and members of the community have diverse cultures. There are practices that are acceptable in different cultures and those that are not. It is important for a healthcare professional to be aware of the cultural factors of healthcare professionals so that they can remain respectful of the consumer’s culture as they provide their services. Furthermore, according to Lie, Lee-Rey, Gomez, Bereknyei & Braddock (2011) it helps improve patient outcomes. Description of the relevance and relationship between culture/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and cultural competence: Cultural competence is the awareness that a person possesses about different ...

Lean Manufacturing

The article is very informative in terms of lean manufacturing. Due to its thorough literature review the process and principles of lean philosophy seem clearer (“Principles of Lean”). Firstly, it explains what forms waste or muda. The activities that absorb resources, but create no value should be referred as to waste. It can be defined only by identifying customers and defining value of a product to them. For every process this waste may be composed of different activities from different spheres. Secondly, the process mapping is crucially important for being able to see a product or service from the ...

Introduction

A family business is a profit-making entity that entails the significant roles of decision making, ownership, and leadership of the business being undertaken by several generations of a family. For a firm to be considered as a family business, the multigenerational element, and the unique family is fundamental (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Florent-Treacy 12). Family businesses vary from size to industry; there are corner shops with a history of family ownership and leadership and similarly publicly listed multinationals, which share a similar foundation (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Forest-Treacy 17). Internationally, there are numerous examples of family-owned businesses; ...

The obsession with gold in California started in January 1848 when James Marshall found gold at approximately 40 miles from the Sutter’s Fort. All that followed after James’ find was extreme obsession to find the precious commodity not only in California but the rest of America. From the period henceforth, the prospect for gold became dramatic as everyone else was seeking to lay hands on the commodity (Brands 56). It is hard to imagine what could have happened if a whole population stopped their usual economic activities only to look for gold. James’ find not only transformed people’ ...

Modern day streets in our urban settings are named after historical figures, and they bear immense significance. One of such streets is Clement Street in the Richmond District of San Francisco, California. San Francisco is the smallest county in the state of California. It covers an area of under 50 square miles, with a population of more than 200, 000 people. Part of California City is the Richmond District. The focus of this paper, Clement Street is at the heart of Richmond District. In the 1800s, Adolph Sutro moved into an arid area filled with shrubs and sand dunes. ...

There have been far too many headlines lately regarding a dangerous phenomenon that has become all too common. Police Officers caught in the act of treating suspects in abusive, inappropriate and lethal ways without any reasonable provocation. This shocking problem has existed for some time, but as technology increases and video is difficult to avoid, it is now only making it to the general public. Instances like these have inspired horror, anger, protest and, in many cases, retaliatory violence against random officers. The people all across the United States are losing their trust and faith in their police forces ...

Part One: Primate Observation Field Notes

The observations of the primate took place at San Francisco Zoo. The following information provides the comments on the field notes made about the two primates – the Colobus Monkey and the Western Lowland Gorilla. The Colobus Monkey – a medium sized monkey of moderate build at San Francisco Zoo is found in the Doelger Primate Discovery Center (DPDC). Together with other species such as the pied tamarins, black howler monkey, siamangs and the squirrel monkeys, the colobus monkey is managed at DPDC under the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plans. These plans are designed to protect those species ...

Human Resource Management

Comparison among San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York’s Provisions on Grievance Procedures A grievance can simply be defined as a concern, complaint or problem related to the working environment. Due to the diversity at the workplace, people have different beliefs, opinions and thoughts about how to approach work and as a result they often have grievances relating to issues that arise from the workplace procedures. The Las Vegas collective bargaining agreement defines a grievance as a dispute or a difference of opinion between the employer and the Union with regard to the meaning, interpretation and application of ...

Dear Friend, I am deeply interested in an interesting art work “Woman with a hat” by the famous artist Henri Matisse, who is one of my favorites. The canvas was done in the year 1905 and first exhibited at Salon d'Automne in Paris. However, as I intend to see the artwork, I am traveling to San Francesco where the artwork is displayed at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Femme au chapeau 2016). I want to know more about the artist and his work. Fortunately, I live close to San Francesco and drove there on a weekend. I stayed ...

After The War is considered to be one of the most iconic and ground breaking works of influential playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, who was appointed as a tenured faculty member at the University of California Berkeley's department of theatre, dance and performance studies in 2014. The staging of Gotanda’s play at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum that I viewed recently was markedly different and unique from how the play was first enacted on stage at the American Conservatory Theatre in the 2006-07 period. The play was renamed After The War Blues, and instead of being presented as ...

Introduction

The decision to either shop online or offline depends on the consumer preferences based on a variety of factors. The challenge to the online industry is to ensure that the supply chain is satisfying the demand chain, therefore, enhancing its efficiency. The amount consumers who are willing to pay for the services depend on how they become satisfied with the services that are provided for by the offline or the online industry. Since the online industry in a recent development, it has to apply new selling and branding techniques to convince consumers to buy from them. Proper considerations have ...

Introduction

The issue of high rental prices has not only been a challenge in New York, but also in other cities across the United States and other parts of the world. Cities such as San Francisco have also been associated with challenges emerging from high rental prices (Barro, Josh). In fact, the high rental rates have elicited debates among concerned stakeholders, including local governments that have seen the need to engage in the formulation of intervention mentions. Other regions such as the Manhattan as well as Brooklyn have been associated with challenges of high rental prices. In an annual report ...

Every literary epoch has its own features. However, they have some common and different characteristics. Romanticism and Beat Generation are two different generations and the brightest representatives are William Blake and Jack Kerouac. It is important to look at both literary directions in order to understand the authors who belonged to these movements. Romanticism was an artistic development that cleared through practically every nation of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that kept going from around 1750 to 1870. Nonetheless, the Romantic Movement did not achieve France until the1820's. Sentimentalism's crucial soul was one of rebellion against a ...

Music

Harry Partch Introduction Every other music genre has its own outstanding representatives. Singers and musicians who raise a particular genre to whole a new level of recognition. Those who made this genre worth speaking about. Those who write down their own names between the lines of their eternal compositions. These people will live as long as there will be at least one person who admires their input into the development of the musical industry. One of such memorable musicians was Harry Partch. In this research paper, we will talk about his life, career and a road to success which ...

Diversity Management in Contemporary Organization

The contemporary business environment is a complex mechanism of relationships on organizational, group and individual levels, where the trend of internationalization and blurring business and economic boundaries between the countries places more emphasis on adaptability and unique competitive advantage, based on intangible assets. For many companies, growth and profitability mean organic and inorganic expansion to foreign markets and, thus, there is an increasing concern about diversity and management of cross-cultural differences within and outside of the companies. The reality of such retail giants as Tesco, Walmart, Starbucks Coffee Company and many others demonstrates that in order to build on ...

The advent of modern technology has led to development of many industries. Technology has changed the way things are done traditionally. New technology has simplified life for most of it users. The transportation industry is one such industry where new technology has revolutionized how get a ride to work or home. The rise of transportation Network Company simply referred as TNC has helped connect passengers and drivers. The technology allows the parties to use websites and mobile apps to connect to each other. Examples of this TNCs include Uber, Lyft, Wingz and Didi Kuadi. Transportation Network Company is defined ...

More than a hundred years ago, it would have been hard to find a clear association with San Diego. In fact, it was a small town that did not differ much from any other city in the south of the USA. It continued until citizens started to take care after the oldest recreational park in the country. They put in a great deal of effort in order to keep a fragile beauty of nature and open special places for the needs of the community. In 1909, a City Council committee decided to take advantage of the former devotion to ...

Conflict of interest – Every manager within the company shall act in the best interest of the company and all other conflicts of interests avoided. The code of ethics looks at cases where managers might have conflicting interests with the ones that they are assigned to as managers. Managers are to ensure that they perform their duties to the later within the company that they serve and avoid any situations that will compromise their center of focus (Bryson, 2016). Internal relations – The sections looks at the relations between the company and its managers in terms of expectations from the employees ...

Section

Executive Summary In this study, the city wanted to determine the economic value of the Sharp Park and the surrounding coastal trail. Instinctively, one may think of lost revenues, or possible income which may be generated by keeping the golf course. However, in the study, it has been determined that the amount earned from the golf course is actually much lesser than the amount required to maintain such. In fact, the city does not even earn from such property. The expense is greater than the revenues generated. But in the course of the research, it has been ascertained that ...

Sharp Park named after George Sharp has such a long history. Mr. Sharp had more than 400-acre estate that he established. When he died together with his wife, the property was left to the San Francisco City Council under strict instructions that it would only be used for recreational purposes. Sharp Park is in California off Highway 1 along the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco. It has existed since 1917; the golf course was established in 1930's. In 1941-internment camp was established in the park that provided medical service, food, shelter and employment opportunities to San Francisco residents. When Pearl ...

Introduction

The NFL is an interesting game for both the fans and the players. The game attracts many people across America due to its competitiveness. The NFL thus acts as one of the factors that contribute to tourism in the United States since people move from different continents to feel the experience. A visit to the Moscone Center presents a person with an attention getter through the photos of NFL players displayed showing through the history of the game. An NFL fan would automatically captured attention through the photo set up at the top of the NFL site visited. I ...

Introduction

Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer with more than 4,300 stores in the United States and over 8,000 worldwide, with global sales topping $400 billion in 2009. It is the largest retailer in the U.S., where more than half its revenue comes from grocery sales. This paper considers some of the retail giant’s negative impacts. Since opening its first store in Bentonville, Arkansas in 1962, Wal-Mart has steadily spread from its base in the South and Midwest to dominate the suburban and rural retail market across the U.S. Wal-Mart is addressing the first obstacle – store ...

Introduction

Sharp Park and Golf Course is located on the sea front in San-Francisco. The park has a beach front view with holes 3 and 4 located right at the beach and a coastal trail passing adjacent to these two holes. The golf course in Pacifica is under the ownership of the government of San-Francisco. This prime piece of property generates a modest amount of revenue for the state. There has been a recent debate on whether the golf course should remain in operation with rising sea levels and erosion of the beachfront property threatens to engulf the whole course. ...

The Buchla’s Box is probably one of the most important innovation in the electronic music scene in the 1960’s. The musical instrument named after its creator, Don Buchla, is no doubt one of the greatest addition to the achievements of the music composer and instruments creator. Buchla, born to a test pilot for the air force and a teacher, always had a passion for music but put it aside to pursue a career in physics as an electronics engineer (Pinch and Trocco 33). Buchla later dropped out of UC Berkeley at the height of the Cold War ...

Introduction

Real estate in the world is considered a good target for investment. Organizations and individuals willing to acquire residential and commercial property, as compared with other forms of investing money in real estate investments have a number of indisputable advantages. Investing in real estate is profitable to the investor as a result of the growth in real estate prices, as well as from property rental. In the long term real estate prices tend to rise, despite the possible local fall during various economic crises. Risks associated with investments in real estate, as a rule, lower than the risks associated ...

Phil Mark Consulting

Harris Jackson Dear Sir, RE: Decision regarding the choice of contract between San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys I am writing this letter regarding the contract decision for Mr. Harris. Based on the cashflows that Mr. Harris will receive from either of the teams, I used the Net Present Value method to determine which contract will serve Mr. Harris’ financial interests. I chose the San Francisco 49ers contract over the Dallas Cowboys one based on the expected cashflows from either of the teams. I forecasted the cashflows at the given current discount rate of 8% which factors in the ...

Anti-Asian agitation is a general sentiment that refers to opposition, discrimination or hostility against the Chinese people or rather people of Asian origin. This topic is interesting because it has somehow gone unnoticed over the years until the modern days. It involves discrimination of the Asian traditions, culture, and even politics. One may tend to think that this sentiment is a modern day issue. However, it began in the 19th century, in the yellow peril, and was further extended to the Cold War times and even more heightened by McCarthyism. The Asians, precisely the Chinese, thought they had found ...

The question of minimum wage introduction for low-skilled workers offers conflicting research findings. Some theorists suggest that the introduction of minimum pay for low-skilled labor may affect the whole employment. However, the general model of competitive market for labor assumes that the introduction of minimum wage will cause job loss among the low-skilled employees. This report is dedicated to the economic analysis of this model.

What Economic Theory Predicts Will Happen

The simplest approach includes the analysis of one separate labor type. In such market, the minimum wage that overshoots the competitive equilibrium in the market causes harm to employment from two standpoints. First of ...