...SUMMARY In 2000 Oklahoma National Bank was founded with $11 million in capital but the bank has developed over $ 127 million in asset thanks to strong organizational culture and the bank’s ability to maintain high asset quality. However, there were some important factors that affect negatively bank industry. The first one is to over spend household and business debt levels. The expenses of household and business caused debt rapidly increasing. The second is fierce competition in banking enforced business strategies in order to hold loan growth and encounter funding need. Third is that shocking news from financial market instability affected negatively the economy and the banking system. In these years, while so many financial services company...
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...The Oklahoma Regional Food Bank was created on the 15 of May 1980, which was the 21st food bank to be created in the United States of America and the first in the region. It was formally known as the Oklahoma City food bank. The Food Bank serves a total of 53 counties in Oklahoma. The majority served are children, working poor and senior citizens. In its first year of operation, the Regional Food Bank distributed 280,000 pounds of food, which is now distributed every three days. The nonprofit provides enough food to feed more than 116,000 people every week with administrative and fundraising costs of less than four percent. Since its inception in 1980, the Regional Food Bank has distributed nearly 590 million pounds of food to families who find themselves in need. The food bank also offers programs such as: Backpack Program: Provides chronically hungry elementary school students with a backpack full of kid-friendly, non-perishable, nutritious food every Friday to sustain them over weekends and school holidays. Kids Café: Provides a safe haven, tutoring and nutritious...
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...an Oklahoma outlaw during the 1930’s. He robbed several banks in Oklahoma and the surrounding states during the Great Depression. Growing up in poverty lead Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd to live a life filled with shoot outs, bank robberies, and killings. His ruthless time was cut short when he was shot and killed by two FBI agents. During the dark days of the Great Depression, an outlaw by the name of Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd emerged into a life of crime. Pretty Boy Floyd moved to Oklahoma later after his birth where he grew up in extreme poverty. Due to The Great Depression, Floyd had to find an escape from his impoverished path. Floyd started doing criminal acts to fill the...
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...SERVICE LEARNING REPORT Nursing Program Service Learning Report SERVICE LEARNING REPORT 2 Poverty is one of the major issues that any country in this world has to deal with. Currently, one third of the Oklahoma population is enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. With the ongoing cuts in state budgets and increases in unemployment, the percentage of the population receiving assistance is growing larger. Many hunger-relief organizations are working together to help people in need and Food Bank is one of them. Established in 1980, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of helping local charitable communities feed people in need. With the motto of “Fighting Hunger…. Feeding Hope”, this organization provides support in the form of food for children, the elderly, and families who cannot afford food. The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma acts as the central collection agency for receiving all donation, which are further distributed to the different charitable programs. More than 700 charitable feeding programs in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties receive goods from the regional food bank. Food Bank serves two categories of program: emergency and non-emergency program. The emergency program includes food pantries, soup kitchens and emergency shelters. For non-emergency program provides food for children, senior citizens on fixed incomes...
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...Volunteerism Katie Burdick Southern Nazarene University Personal & Professional Development OL L 13 Professor Pamela McCoy July 24, 2015 Volunteerism Concrete Experience The nature of my learning experience encompasses volunteering from two different perspectives. When I first started volunteering it was because I was directed to by someone in my chain of command. And today I volunteer because I enjoy the positive feeling of giving back to the community. Over the years I feel I have grown personally by helping others. One of my first volunteer experiences was while I was stationed on Whidbey Island, Washington in October of 2009. During March 2009 I was afforded the opportunity to help clean up the Child Development Center on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. My initial reason for going was to get out of the office for a day, however renovating the outdoor play areas turned out to be hard work. After spending hours getting everything cleaned up and in order, it was emotional seeing the happiness it brought to the children to be able to play outside again. It was at that point in time that I realized giving up some of my free time to the community leaves me with a great feeling of accomplishment. My second volunteer experience in Oak Harbor, Washington a group from my command set up a volunteer day with Habitat for Humanity H4H. At first I did not want to go because I did not think I would be able to provide any valuable help as I do not have any experience...
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...Penn Square Bank had problems with ethical issues on how document contract, extend credit to clients and incompetency. Dow Corning used bankruptcy as way of avoiding its obligations through deceit and fraud. Ethical Pressures Penn Square Bank was a small bank in Oklahoma City with $35 million (UOPX, 1985) in assets. In the late 70s there was an oil boom in Oklahoma State. Penn Square Bank was not going to be left out; they hired Bill Paterson to head the energy lending department with connections, and some hard work Bill was able to succeed momentarily. Penn Square Bank was making multimillion dollar loans to local energy prospects and selling the loans to large bank (UOPX, 1985). Large banks such as Chase Manhattan, and Continental Illinois Banks were purchasing unsecured loans from Penn Square Bank. The price of oil fell drastically from 1981 through 1982 and Penn Square Bank was facing bankruptcy. Penn Square Bank officials were approving loan contracts without checking the credit of these potential lenders; they would even extend credit to oil companies and accept drilling rigs as collateral. Penn Square bank should have done more research on the oil business; this would have given the bank some inside on how the oil business operates. There were no considerations of professional ethics bankers were not requiring clients to make a substantial down payments for their loans. Penn Square Bank was becoming the laughing stock of the banking industry until the FDIC...
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...THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING CONSPIRACY The Oklahoma City bombing which occurred on April 19, 1995 has gone down in history as the worst domestic terror attack in the history of the United States. The attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured over 500 others. The front of the building was blown up with a fertilizer bomb hidden in a rented truck. Timothy McVeigh aged 33, a Persian Gulf War veteran, was responsible for the attack. He has since been convicted and was executed with Potassium Chloride injection on June 11, 2001 at the Federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Two other persons indicted in the case were Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, friends of McVeigh and fellow veterans....
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...into the Stock Exchange which caused the shares to become overpriced (Stein 7). Then speculation had went around about a the stocks are going to crash. Many people became skeptical about the stocks crashing, spreading rumors around, and worrying citizens about their money which led to the selling of millions of shares (Fremon 23). On the day of “Black Tuesday” people rushed to the stock market and around 16,410,030 shares were sold making the stocks go down (Gow 27). Money has been a very important item in the American economy. With millions of shares being sold, businesses ended up losing money. When people sold their stocks they went to banks to get all the money that they assumed they had but in reality the banks didn’t hold hardly any of it. A lot of people swarmed the banks demanding money causing banks to fail (Peterson). In 1930, 1,350 banks shut down due to the lack of money and in 1931, 2,300 more had failed (Stein...
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...Betty Waltermire Critical Issues in Criminal Justice JUS-250 April 3, 2014 Capital Punishment: Private or Public The earliest settlers in the colonies always had public open trials and executions. The public executions did have some offensive aspects in addition to sometimes rowdy, drunken men in the crowds. In 1608, Captain George Kendall of the Jamestown Colony was executed by firing squad for a crime of mutiny, thus becoming America’s first official execution (death penalty). During a 32 year span of time there were 1,188 persons executed during the period between 1 January 1977 and 31 December 2009. There were 1,016- lethal injection; 156 electrocutions, 11- gas chamber, 3- hanging and 2- firing squad (death penalty). There are currently only 32 states that allow the death penalty and 18 states that do not have a provision for the death penalty. Currently in most states there are very few that are allowed in to view an execution; a few members of the family, witnesses, few member of victim’s family, prosecutor, defense attorneys and a few members of the press. For anyone else an announcement will be made by the warden, a person with the public information office or the news will come out in the morning paper or newscast on television. The details of the last hours of the executed inmate’s life will be written for all to see; his last meal, who he talked to and what he did with his last day. ...
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...overall satisfaction with this organization is very positive in both the community and among its employees. The positive reputation and transparency of INTEGRIS have made it a reliable source of care for the communities it serves. INTEGRIS relies on its vision, Most Trusted Name in Health Care to continue to work toward a higher level of excellence and accountability to its customers. A 19-member board of directors enables the organization to construct and execute its goals in order to provide better care. INTEGRIS had been involved in many recent projects that will enable it to be more innovative and technologically advanced; one of these is INTEGRIS Health Partners, which is a clinical integration program led by physicians in the Oklahoma City area. It has been created to bring more unity to the health care system, to control costs, and improve quality of care....
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...restructuring for success, overcoming resistance to change internally and across other units of a larger corporation, building support with powerful sponsors, and the importance of communication and persistence where authority is limited. The case has a difficulty level appropriate for undergraduate seniors and graduate students, and is designed for courses addressing organizational change, leading change, and leading teams. It can be covered in a one hour class. Preparation for the case is expected to require 3-4 hours. CASE SYNOPSIS The case begins with the recognition by a senior vice-president that the inadequacies of a seemingly insignificant compliance unit could jeopardize the overall growth strategy of BOKF, a large regional bank holding company. Paula Bryant-Ellis agrees to take on the transformation of the CRA department into a modern Community Development Banking Group (CDBG) that will contribute to the overall strategy of BOKF, the parent banking company. The case covers the first two years of significant organizational change, with emphasis on creating a vision, restructuring the organization, and shared leadership at the unit level. For the first three months, Bryant-Ellis is learning the existing, inefficient and archaic process while she studies benchmark...
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...Oklahoma City Bombing and the Media Before September 11, 2001 America was attacked April 19, 1995 by one of its own citizens, the attack is now known as the Oklahoma City Bombing. The attack claimed 168 lives, which 19 of them were children and several hundred were injured, (FBI). By definition this attack was terrorism; terrorism is the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or government, often for ideological or political reasons, (Barnett, Reynolds). From researching and studying terrorism and the media this paper will include; the background on Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City Bombing, how it was reported, how it is different from now and the speculations of how the media helped or harmed the situation. Timothy McVeigh grew up living a ‘normal life’, with loving parents and childhood friends but he felt unloved. In third grade he witnessed a neighbor boy drown a bag of kittens in a nearby pond he was so disgusted that day forward he could not bear the sight of death to the point he stopped shooting bull frogs with his bb gun. That all changed when he joined the United States Army and was deployed to the Gulf War. In basic and deployment training his mind set was changed to killing was an act of war, he even declared the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building an act of war, (Michel, Herbeck).It was just a mission and solider are...
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...Introduction Written by John Steinbeck in 1939, “The Grapes of Wrath” is an in-depth look at how economic forces of the time had a tragic effect on the lives of the working class. The story and examples of the five economic structures are told, as the Joad family travels to seek a new life in California. The novel details how the economic changes that were taking place impacted the Joads and the people of Oklahoma, making them desperate to find a new life. Forced from their homes and land, they hoped that migrating west would allow them to find work, allowing them to provide for their families. Steinbeck shows in detail how economic forces and externalities, can affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, and the nation. While...
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...Purty Boy Floyd was a famous bank robber in the 1930's. His real name was Charles, and he was born in Georgia, but he grew up in Oklahoma after his family moved there in 1911.Floyd was in and out of prison for most of his life and even though Floyd pledged never to steal again when was 18, he could not resist and went on to become notorious for robbing banks throughout the Midwest. Floyd was often protected by the locals and was similar to “Robin Hood.” He was finally found and killed by FBI agents in 1934. Through the story of Purty Boy Floyd, John Steinbeck uses his novel The Grapes of Wrath to illustrate that the prison system hurts the individuals instead of rehabilitating them. The story of Floyd is connected to the allegory of the prison system in a variety of ways throughout chapter 8. Ma Joad begins speaking of the prison system by asking Tom if prison made him “mad” like Floyd. She asks him, “You ain’t poisoned mad? You don’t hate nobody? They didn’t do nothin in that jail to rot you out with crazy mad?”(98) This is indicating how her fear of prison changes a man and Ma Joad also tells Tom that she knew Floyd's mother and according to her, prison made Floyd worse than he was before. Ma loved Tom and feared that his prison stay may have changed him into someone she didn't know at all. Ma Joad’s speech to Tom clearly had a great deal of pity and some admiration for Floyd. She says he was treated like an animal, “They shot at him like a varmint, an’ he shot back,...
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...Wanted Rose Dunn “Every time I watch you open those beautiful eyes, I gaze with awe just thinking of how blessed I am to spend the rest of my life with you.” One may say that Rose Dunn was a rebellious teenager but others say that she was a western outlaw. Rose Dunn was born in September 5, 1878 in Ingalls, Oklahoma and was as beautiful as diamonds. She was known for her good looks and her love for outlaw George “Bittercreek” Newcomb. Growing up, her family was very poor, but she still learned to ride, rope, and shoot from her two older brothers. In 1897 when she was 19, she married her first husband George “Bittercreek” Newcomb. After her Bittercreek died she married her second husband in 1946. All though her family was very poor she...
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