Essays on Shrinking

How to Use Policy to Change Public School’s Funding and Resources Allocation

Ph.D. in Education-Leadership, Change, Policy in Education

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the funding disparities deprive many minorities and low-income families of the opportunity for education success. The research endeavors to explore different ways policy can be used to equally allocate educational resources and use them to the advantage of the less fortunate sections of the society. As one of its important goals, this prospectus paper informs the research as to how to weigh the options available to the school managements and the education policy makers. The paper provides a purpose to the proposed study by dwelling upon ...

Liu, T., Moeller, S. K., Ode, S., & Robinson, M. D. (2013). Neuroticism as Distancing: Perceptual Sources of Evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(5), 907-920.

Which perspective of personality did the authors take?

In both study 3 and 4, the researchers focus on how neuroticism (one of the five traits according to Eysenck) influences individuals’ perceptions of stimuli with positive or negative valence. A biological perspective is also evident in the fact that high neuroticism is dependent on an individual having an overactive sympathetic nervous system, thus a higher tendency for anxiety. The biological factor influences how each participant responds to the stimuli presented in ...

How the world shrinks

The primitive era saw the world coming together in the 15th and 16th century whereby there were a shift and movement of kingdoms all around the world. The example of Angola stands as an important one as it saw a movement of the Europeans into Angola and the surrounding areas. There was a better system of administration, judiciary, and management in the country after the Europeans entered the country, and it led to its betterment. To name the areas as primitive only means, there was a lack of available options for improving the societal conditions, and when the country ...

Dr. Steven Pinker states, that there is an obvious decrease of violence in all spheres of human life that is observed throughout the history. This decline of violence is gradual, and has been dropping until nowadays, when our time is named the most peaceful in the history (Pinker, 2013). Yet, this shrinking of violence has not been constant, has not reached zero point and the period of peace is not guaranteed to stay. His main arguments are documented signs of humans becoming less violent. That is decreasing of number of wars, number of deaths per war, shrinking the length ...

Abstract

This paper explores the different elements of business, specifically in the case of Apple, Inc. This company has been selected in view of the numerous material that is available on the Internet with regard to past and present empirical data on Apple, Inc. The elements of business – legal environment, social environment, economic environment, management structure, operational issues, financial issues, and potential change factors – are crucial issues that are discussed in this paper. Each of these elements must be appropriately addressed since weakness in any one of the elements would create problems for the entire business organization. Compliance with policies ...

Introduction

In spite of the contribution of urbanization to the economic growth in Zhejiang, its adverse effects far much outweigh the positives since sustainability of the ecosystem and the society is at stake. Environmental concerns, particularly air pollution, are real threats to the ecosystem since they lead to increased atmospheric temperatures which in turn result in climate changes. Urbanization contributes to pollution through higher energy consumption and motorization that have resulted in higher volumes of greenhouse gasses emitted in the air. The shrinking of natural resources is another consequence of urbanization where there is the rampant destruction of natural habitats, ...

The American dream has become a fabled idea to everybody around the world envisioning a better life. It represents something that can be attained if a person is willing to work hard enough. The only question today is, does it still exist? While economic and employment disparities will argue whether it does or not, the American population holds on to the dream. Seemingly, it depends on who you talk to. Ephraim Polsky, 89, a Polish immigrant, moved to America with his family when he was six. He did not speak English, and had to be homeschooled by his mother ...

Chapter 18: Florida State Officials

Chapter 18: Florida State Officials

County Commissioners Miami-Dade: Jose Pepe Diaz Broward County: Marty Kiar, Mark Bogen, Chip LaMarca, Lois Wexler, Bean Furr, Tim Ryan, Barbara Sharief, Dale Holness Pinellas County: Kenneth Welch, Dave Eggers, John Morroni, Janet Long, Karen Williams Seel Hillsborough County: Toni PAPPAS, Sandra Ziehn, Carol Holden Duval County: Alejo Garcia, David Garza, Rene, Gilberto Uribe Brevard County: Andy Anderson, Jim Berfield St. Lucie County: Kim Johnson. Fire District Commissioners: Rufus Alexander, Michele Berger, Johnson Kim, Chris Dzadovsky, Shannon Martin, Mark Gotz

Collier County: Georgia A. Hiller, Donna Fiala, Tom Henning, Commissioner Penny Taylor, and Tim Nance

Representatives Debbie Wasserman, Alan Grayson, Patrick Murphy, David Jolly, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Corrine Brown, Ted ...

Introduction

The history of Haiti immediately after the revolution period was not an easy one because of the preceding events. This country was literally in shambles and everything was in a mess starting from the farms together with the crops. Skilled labor from other countries had either left, dead, or had fled due to the way they were treated at this time as slaves while others might have gone into hiding. Those who were former slaves and were now free were not ready to work on other people’s farms. At the same time, there was great fear that France ...

PROESSOR

Penalty Rates Penalty rates refer to the compensation paid to employees for working unsociable hours in the Australian employment sector (Craig and Brown 2015). Penalty rates have been adopted in the Australian service industry for over a century, as they have been considered instrumental in promoting the Australian way of life and business growth through opening the shops on weekends. The adoption of penalty rates in the Australian service sector has been considered instrumental in influencing the business operations on Sundays, which has developed into a peak day of activities (Knox 2009). The study seeks to integrate an analysis ...

Instituiton

JAPAN’S LABOR MARKET Martin in a 2015 article reported the lack of workers was hobbling Japan’s growth. He noted that the aging workforce and education gaps coupled with immigration curbs stunted the economic development of the country. Although many nations may envy Japan’s 3.4% unemployment rate, it has caused the state problems, and it could have already led to a recession. The GDP has been shrinking over the years, and no remedies have helped the country regain economic growth. Loosening rules for the skilled workers to come to the country have not had any significant effects. ...

1- "My World of the Unknown"--background

- What sorts of background information might (Western) readers need to make sense of Rifaat's story? Some helpful background information might include some scaffolding about the role of the snake in different mythologies as well as its role in the culture under study. While many cultures view the snake as a source of temptation, it is fairly clear that the snake here is a positive sign, as the sheikh calls its appearance a blessing and the snake spirit has the only fulfilling relationship with the woman that she has ever found – no wonder Aneesa didn’t want to leave! ...

The World Bank shows that the GDP of China has been reducing since 2011. In 2011, the GDP growth was 9.5%, 2012 at 7.8%, 2013 at 7.7%, 2014 at 7.3%, and 2015 at 6.9%. These figure shows a shrinking economy despite many policies to stop the downwards trend. There are doubts about the truthfulness of the data because China is not a controlled state and, as a result, the data may be inflated. It follows that economic situation might be worse that it is. Last year, the country devalued its currency significant causing a major panic across the globe ...

1. Introduction Global warming consequences have been mainly focused on the impacts they have and will in the future have on the global human population. The less focus is on the impact on the animal and plant species that are even more vulnerable, since they cannot adapt to quick changes as humans can. They are not the main culprit for the climate changes and yet they will suffer the most. One of the animal species that is being threatened by the global climate change are also polar bears that inhabit the polar region. They are playing an important role ...