Essays on Uplift

A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through central Chile on the fateful morning of 27th February 2010. The epicenter was 100 kilometers north-northwest of Chile. The devastation was massive and economic and ecological impacts were debilitating. This paper attempts to present a detailed report on the aftershocks of the earthquake. A comprehensive discussion is expected to impart a holistic understanding of various consequences of this natural disaster. Chilean earthquake, marked as the 5th strongest earthquake since 1900, significantly altered geographical boundaries. The city of Concepcion shifted around three meters to the west, and the capital Santiago moved eleven inches ...

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Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Discussion 4 Conclusion 7

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Executive Summary Quality education is not always equals to a higher budget. This kind of education can be achieved by maximizing the readily available resources and optimizing human resource skills, and using modern technology at human advantage. When environment and human resources, and modern technology are properly used, an excellent quality of education is possible without the fear of workers’ strike and student protests. This study wants to present a possibility of a cost less quality education among the leaders and administrators of St. Vincent Community College. It is a ...

Angela Locke’s essay “Born Poor and Smart” offers a pointed critique of social stratification and the cultural divides between rich and poor that maintain these systemic inequalities. Detailing her poor childhood and the long, arduous road she took to becoming financially solvent, Locke offers a laconic, straightforward essay that speaks truth to power while also demonstrating the problems the poor have in being able to uplift themselves out of poverty. While Locke misses a few fundamental differences between the rich and the poor in her logic, “Born Poor and Smart” offers a significant sense of ethos and pathos ...

The Arabs Portrayal in American Cinema

Introduction The problem in the development of misconceptions about the Arabs can be traced largely on how they were portrayed in western movies. As people do not generally meet Arabs in their everyday lives, the films play an important role in providing conceptions about them. Unfortunately, stereotypes and other factors proved to have shaped the way that the Arab images are depicted in cinemas. According to Michalack, it is the American popular culture that offered the lushest and most comprehensive perception of American stereotype about the Arabs, and this started as early as the 20th century until today (Michalak, ...

In “The Fire Next Time” author James Baldwin provides a unique perspective inside the lives of African American and race in the 20th century. Unlike his predecessors he shows an angle of life as an African American male that is different from that of those who came before him. Baldwin’s story tells of the challenges and anger that he held against previous generations of black men who had not done enough to fulfil the freedom of the black people. Baldwin’s experience is one of a young black man looking for an answer in a sea of confusing ...

The struggle for equality in the United States never ceased for some activists championing the rights of African Americans. They advocated for equal access to education and representation in the state and the federal government. Various organizations were formed during the early twentieth century to combat racism and fight for civil rights. These organizations had missions that guided their agenda and had influential leaders who fought tirelessly to ensure that the agenda was met. The Niagara Movement was one of those organizations. It was formed in 1905, by W.E.B Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. The name signified a ...

It is worth noting that the Basin and Range Province that is located in the southwest of the US tends to be stretching. It is estimated that the gradual mantle upwelling as well as plate movements are prone to result in the faulting of much greater magnitude, thereby eventually contributing to rifting of the North American Plate. When it comes to the causes of Basin and Range topography, crustal extensions should be emphasized. Crustal movements tend to pull apart the Earth's crust and lithosphere, thus rifts make rocks drop down on one side and then rise on the other. ...

IQ test have been credited in many ways in psychological studied for a long time as showing differences between two or more groups of people or individuals. However, there are claims that this test may be biased. I understand that a test is said to be biased if the criterion score the regression lines predicts tends to be too low a consistently too high or low of the members of the subgroups being investigated. Therefore, bias is the differences in the accuracy of the predictions made about a performance using the scores obtained. Many psychologists argue that the mere difference in the scores ...

Trace the evolution of the legal status of the American unions. What activities were restricted by laws and courts? Did constraints increase or decline with time?

Many inhabitants particularly Workers faced permissible challenges. This created a good basis for the need to form unions. We have the formation of national war labor board -1918-which was created under one objective; to see vicious activities reduced such as strikes, vicious cruelty, assassinations and opinionated disruption. These brutal activities were completely restricted by laws and courts and hence the need for the introduction of this board-national war labor board. The courts were against ...

Introduction

Transgressive system tracts [TST]

It is formed by the rise in sea level over the shelf edge and the general conditions of the transgressions. Sediment deposited on the shelf and slope sedimentation moves toward the continent as a transgressive series. TST presented retrogradatsionnym package parasikvensov characterizing transgression as the shelf and in the coastal lowlands. In zashelfovoy area due to lack of precipitation formed clay-fused incision [condensed-section deposits]. The foot of the front surface is called transgressive [transrgessive surface]. It represents the maximum flooding surface, which marks the beginning of transgression, reflected in a shift of the coastline in the ...

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The debate between the differences and similarities of American and Japanese cartoons continous to divide the world while trying to answer which one is the best. American cartoon supporters claim that American cartoons are better than its Japanese counterpart because of its content and brand of comedy. On the other hand, Japanese cartoons or anime fans would argue Japanese anime is better than American cartoons not just because of its more diverse storylines, but also because of its embodiment of Japanese society and realism in its entirety. This paper will discuss the differences and similarities of American and Japanese ...

Currently, the geological time scale is divided into three kinds of geological units: rock, time rock and time units. The rock units describe the physical (lithologic) characteristics of the rocks while the time units refer only to the passage of time. In line with this, the Cenozoic era refers to the time between 65 million years ago and today. It refers to the rocks that were deposited during the last 65 million years, and these rocks may have been altered during breaks in this record. These alterations could be caused by erosion, nondeposition or even nonrecognition and are largely ...

In life people make critical decisions that define them, their personality, ego and integrity. Such decisions are subject of opportunity cost and trade off between maintenance of status quo and choosing an idea that leaves footprints in generations to come. After finishing my o-level, I felt the need to develop the spirit of intellectualism in me, this idea came to me after proper meditation and value addition in my mental faculty developed the thirst to be great philosopher who can prudently gather information, who can be precise in arguementation,fair-minded in reasoning and unbiased in criteria. In addition, I ...

Indian Poverty and slums: Government perspective

Republic of India is a biggest democracy and the second most populous country in the world. Geographically, it is situated in South Asia and with its vast area, it is the seventh largest country in the world. As a newly industrial state, the economy of the country is considered as eleventh-largest by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP) in the world (Ravallion and Martin, 2008). The economic progress witnesses the reduction of poverty to 21.9 percent. However, about 68 million people still live in slums (Census, 2011). United Nations report reveals that third of the ...

Differences between National and International NGOs -

A Case Study of the US, Bahrain and India (Author name) (Supervisor name)

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1 Introduction Non-Governmental Organizations or NGOs have become influential actors of societal development and change on a national as well as international scale. Beginning as non-governmental consultants to the United Nations, the number of NGOs across the world has witnessed exponential growth since the 1980s. Although most people understand what an NGO is - the name itself makes it very clear that these are organizations that are not government run – there is little consensus on what may be described as key characteristics of an ...

Human Resource Management

Abstract This study will provide a compensation package of consumer goods industry such as Procter and Gamble. The research will provide the salary, bonuses, health care plans, and different kinds of compensation for initial entry employees, middle management and senior management. The compensation package will include minimum salary, bonuses, health care, retirement plans, vacation, sick leave, holidays, and paid time off. The organization that was chosen as the subject matter of for this study is Procter and Gamble, which belong to the consumer goods industry. The mission statement of the company is to uplift the lives of global ...

Community engagement plays a major role in the community policing model. Unlike any other model or approach, the community policing model implies the contribution of the public in helping the police department maintain a peaceful order in the society. Also, this approach ideally comprises of partnerships in the community, problem solving engagements to produce great solutions, and conducting community policing activities with the help of different organizations (What is Community Policing? n.d.). In context, community policing is about serving the community in maintaining the best quality of life that community members deserve to have. It is also about implementing laws and ...

Management at JC Penney

Introduction JC Penney’s management style has been highly successful since the time of the company’s inception. But certain mistakes by the CEO, Ron Johnson led the company towards huge losses during from 2011 to 2013. But according to recent research, it has been analyzed that JC Penney is once again reviving as a successfully managed company in America’s intensely competitive retail industry. This paper will discuss how JC Penney has revived its growth and sales once again with the help of effective change management.

According to research, it has been analyzed that JC Penney initially had a ...

Counter Argument: America is a diverse nation, which has built itself up through various struggles and valor. People of America need to have best of the resources as the land of dreams promises it, and government cannot let jobs to be outsourced to other nations. There should be more job opportunities American citizens inside the country at current prices rather than being outsourced to Asian countries, and then only, America can compete with China. There should be encouragement for American industry and more buyouts be introduced by the government to uplift it better performance. However, this whole function does not ...

Introduction

Aeolian processes occur in environments such as deserts, agricultural fields, and coastal regions. The features of such environments include a nonexistent or sparse vegetation cover, strong winds, and a supply of fine sediments. In Egypt, the increase in human population has led to the lateral spread of human settlements from the Nile’s flood plains to various locations in the western desert land. Such areas include the Kharga Oasis, where the government has initiated land reclamation projects for agriculture and human settlements. However, the developmental plans have missed the issue of natural hazards such as dune movements. Hence, the success of such ...

The Sequoia and Kings Canyon in the United States is famous for having the highest and the jagged relief in the entire Sierra region. The rugged topographical nature of these parks is attributed to the formation of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in eastern California. According to Liu and Shen, the formation of this mountain range has been the subject of profound controversy (299). Huber suggested that the uplifting of the range, now approximated at slightly over 2800m above the adjacent lowlands, occurred in the past 20 million years (Liu & Shen 299). A number of subsequent seismic studies conducted ...

In the scene in Chapter 3 where Helga Crane confronts the principal after deciding to leave Naxos, Larsen in Graceland heavily discusses the idea of ‘black uplift’ – the notion that black people should work to better themselves in order to deserve the same opportunities as whites. The Naxos school is ostensibly meant to be one of those places where blacks are able to teach other blacks the ways of the world; however, as Crane notices, this just turns the environment into a stifling one, with little color or innovation provided. In essence, these ‘black uplift’ schools merely seem to be a ...

African Americans in various states experienced a harshly segregation and a wide range of oppression during the civil war. This led to civil movements that were meant to end the slavery life and fight for civil rights. The slavery was more evident in southern especially Georgia where more slaves were needed to work in the growing cotton plantation. In order to protect their interest, Georgians established political, social, and cultural boundaries that oppressed the African American. The paper will evaluate the meanings or boundaries of freedom change throughout Georgia history. The cotton boom not only revitalized slavery, but it also ...

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The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a child support organization which started functioning in 1973. It is chartered for other than money-making activities. CDF has made relentless contributions in child advocacy for more than four decades in order to make sure that every child has a level playing field. It supports and promotes policies and programs for the uplifting of children who belong to poor background and/or have experienced abusive behaviors. Thus, The Children’s Defense Fund makes the accessibility to health care, excellent schooling and an ethical and spiritual base certain for all children. CDF does so ...

The urge to tackle the reception of the arts is what differentiates the criticism Daniel Mendelsohn has on the United 93 film that depicts the happenings of September 2001 in the US. He has mastered the ability to pen down his reviews as commentaries in a cultural manner. His article September 11 at the Movies is one artistic response to the film United 93 that defines that day. Moments before the towers got hit; Daniel says his mind was on a classical Greek drama the Aeschylus’ Persians that is a true example of a real historical event (Mendelsohn, 43). This thought is what ...

Many cultural movements existed in the 1920s and the earlier and later years. Harlem Renaissance was one of them. It was first known as the New Negro Movement before it was renamed to the present name by Alain Locke. This movement involved many cities. However, since Harlem was the biggest city, the name originated from it. It was about new expressions by African Americans who lived in the urban centers of Midwest and Northeast states of the United States (Bloom 21). These people were also the ones who were affected by the Great Migration of African Americans. In addition, ...

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Innovation has been a topic of great concern to both the firms and the society at large. Through innovation business firms are able to increase its productivity, leading to increased output. Also, the cost of production is significantly reduced through technological innovation. Business firms must develop innovations that will be of great and significant to the society. The the success of the business completely depends on the society in which the business is located; the business firms must also develop innovation which benefits the members of the society. The paper starts by highlighting the thesis statement, it then introduce the ...

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The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are the two major wings of the political phenomenon in one of the world’s oldest democracy, the United States of America. Democrats and Republicans came together on doctrines of completely different ideologies and therefore their take on issues have always remained different, though agreements have occurred on small scale now and then. This article is a discussion of differences and rarer similarities between these two wings and the differences amongst factions within.

Introduction

The United States of America is, without a doubt, one of the oldest democracies in history. The political history of United ...

What is the function of art

During the Renaissance Period and Age of Enlightenment, the function of art became a political awakening for the people through the literary works of Martin Luther King. This emerged the period that became known as the Harlem Renaissance or the “New Negro Movement” since most of the artists and playwrights were inspired to include social barriers and transformations of the meanings of race and culture. It was the time when the American modernist movement was regarded as the “evasion of philosophy” (Hutchinson 30). As a result, the Renaissance Period and the Age of Enlightenment became the catalyst that fired American culture ...

Introduction

Version communications is the company that leads in the world for the provision of the innovative communications, entertainment, information and mobility. The company offers grander broadband among other wire-line and wireless services to the businesses, consumers, wholesale and government consumers globally. The company operates in the greatest 4G wireless network in United States and offers Wireless services in the advanced fiber optic network in America. The Verizon value is based on the vital role they play in the global telecommunication industry by enhancing the lives of their customers. The company undertakes creative technologies by opening and widening markets and ...

Classic English Literature

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Thesis Statement:Du Bois argued that people from African decent live through a special double consciousnesswhere there exists a psychological challenge of integration of African heritage to the European cultural background and education. Walker used the mule as the representation of black women who surpassed the abuses and oppression they went through to establish African identity, territory, class, culture and kinship with other nations. King’s letter was used as the medium to expose his sentiments against racism and human conflict where he expressed optimism in his battle despite the extreme prejudices committed against the blacks. Race is proven to ...

Perhaps, it is impossible for people to discuss on black history during the turn of 20th century without mentioning two key personalities, namely Washington and Du Bois. There way of approaching issues was differed, but their main goal was the same; just to uplift the lives of the black community. Arguably, Washington and Dubois were engaged in a debate on strategies to be put in place so that African Americans could attain equality. As a matter of fact, most of the people view equality as a relative phenomenon. The two debated on how African Americans could attain equality. Washington was the conservative ...

Reading about the Philippine president’s State of the Nation Address or SONA will make people realize especially the international community that the Philippines and its leader is serious about cutting down the abuse of authority of its government officials. One thing that I am very much interested with in relation to my area of interest is Politics and prevailing common policies. The state of the nation address is like a general status report of the president to its people regarding the things that the government has accomplished within the year of office as well as future initiatives. In the ...