...Writing 102 Section 97 11 April 2013 Casinos: The Golden Nugget of the Gulf Coast It was all started in June of 1990 when the state of Mississippi legislature legalized dockside gambling along the Mississippi Gulf Coast with the Mississippi Gaming Control Act. Then, in late August of 1992, the Isle of Capri casino’s first riverboats docked at the east end of Biloxi Beach in Biloxi, Mississippi to take in passengers to gamble on shore and since then Gulf Coast has never looked back. However, not everyone in 1990 was in favor of the newly enacted Gaming Control Act especially along the Gulf Coast. Many of the coastal resident families and others living near these towns have been living there for generations and were not ready to see their “sleepy town” transformed into “the nation’s hottest new gambling hub” (Myerson). Many of these residents and public officials believed legalizing gaming would promote “crime, higher rates of divorce, and poverty from personal bankruptcy” from residents spending their life savings (Myerson). Now more than twenty years later the exact opposite of oppositionist’s future predictions have occurred and casinos have been the greatest thing to happen to the Mississippi Gulf Coast since the seafood industry began. The coastal casinos do countless great things such as lower property taxes, fund public school projects, give back millions of dollars to charity, greatly enhanced the tourism market, drives the economical activity, and much more...
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...According to the information in the Encarta encyclopedia, many Americans, besides me, have asthma and that number has increased dramatically in the last 20 years. “ More than 17 million Americans suffer from asthma, with nearly 5 million cases occurring in children under age 18. In the United States, asthma causes 5,500 deaths each year… Among all Americans, the prevalence of asthma increased more than 60 percent between 1982 and 1994.” (1) The management of asthma is a health issue for many people besides me. As a result of my research I have found that I can manage my asthma and live a full, active life by minimizing the effects of environmental factors that can trigger asthma episodes, following my physician’s instructions about medications and by sticking to an exercise program Numerous substances can trigger an asthma attack of coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Allergens constitute the largest category of triggers (Abramowicz). According to Susan Berg, “Allergens are substances that produce an allergic reaction in people who are sensitive to them.” Common allergens are pollens from plants, animal dander, dust mites, mold and mildew (23). Dr. Anders said we would do a series of skin tests for allergies right away. If I am allergic to certain triggers, allergy shots will help by desensitizing me to them, making them less likely to trigger an episode (Anders). If I am allergic to certain pollens, I can reduce the chances of an asthma episode by...
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...Organizational Structure MGT/230 Organizational Structure Organizational structure is a necessary component for operating a business efficiently. There are five main types of organizational structure, departmental, functional, regional, product, and matrix. “Organizations are set up in specific ways to accomplish different goals. The structure of an organization can help or hinder its progress toward accomplishing these goals” (Writing ,2013, p.1) Each of these structures has components that contribute to the success of a company. Departmental and functional structure is defined as organizational structure divided and or grouped into areas of expertise, according to the specific function of managing thereby ensuring that a company operates more efficiently. (Tutorialspoint, 2013, p. 25). Grace Centers of Hope is a nonprofit organization based in Pontiac, Michigan. This organization is divided into several departments to handle different functions. Regional or geographical organizational structure is designed to provided goods or services to a vast number of individuals, all over the country and also globally. This structure is designed to meet the specific needs of a specific group of people based on their specific location. For example a company based in California that manufactures gutters for houses will provide one type of gutter for California residents and a different type for a resident of Chicago based on the climate that is unique to each location...
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...Apply Knowledge of Basic Skills “This year you will be doing a lot of creative writing.” Mrs. Phelps introduced her class with at the start of my junior year. I had always been keen to free writing for the single reason that it was easy to fluff up and fabricate. As long as it was in MLA format and grammar was correct, I could not lose. I had discovered early on in my academic career that I was a decent writer; I could establish main points and a theme as well as apply proper grammar. It speaks for my writing that I was agitable to misusers of “there, their, and they’re” to say the least. The only criticism on writing prompts I would get were technical ones, like using apostrophes incorrectly or writing the number rather than spelling it. Yet, marked in red at the top of my first paper junior year was something I had not expected, nor seen before-- “Where is your voice?” My voice? I was not mute, so what kind of question was that? I thought about it all class period and looked for the flaw within the paper. All i had to work with was that obscure note and I thought about the question again and again-- I even began...
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...SAMPLE I-SEARCH PAPER LIVING WITH ASTHMA What I Already Knew / What I Wanted to Know “Well, Annie, it looks like you have asthma,” our family physician informed me. I could not believe what I was hearing. I thought that I had been suffering from a very stubborn cold. Questions started going through my head as I listened to Dr. Davis explain my condition. I’m in high school. Aren’t I too old to get asthma now? How can I stay on the softball team? Will I still be able to go on camping and hiking trips with my family? I already knew that asthma is a chronic disease which affects the lungs and that certain medications help control the number and severity of asthma episodes. (That’s when the coughing and wheezing start.) I didn’t know much more than that. I needed to know more about what might trigger an asthma episode. Will I be able to keep up with other players on the softball team? Are there certain types of trees and plants that I should avoid? After much pleading and negotiating on my part, my parents had finally agreed that our family could have a dog. Will I be able to live with it? I made a list of the things I needed to know. From that list, I was able to form my research question: Can I effectively manage my asthma? Later, I was able to form an answer. The Story of My Search My search took about three weeks. I began my research by doing some background reading in the Encarta online encyclopedia. That site provided a definition of the...
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...going to use RTCA as my basis for this project. CURRENT PROGRAM School: Robert Toombs Christian Academy Location: Lyons, GA Grades: 3K thru 12 Enrollment: Approximately 350 – 100 Middle School Students 115 High School Students Athletic Department Budget: Approximately $60,000 Athletic Department Funding: Student Activity fee included in tuition of all students Home game gate Home game Concessions Sports Offered: Junior Varsity (Middle School – 5th graders are eligible to compete on JV teams, 8th graders allowed to compete in varsity level in all sports except football) Boys Girls Football Softball Cross Country Cross Country Basketball Basketball Wrestling Cheerleading (non-competitive) Baseball Soccer Soccer Track & Field Track & Field Varsity (High School) Boys Girls Football Softball Cross Country Cross Country Rifle Rifle Wrestling Competitive Cheerleading Basketball Basketball Soccer Soccer Baseball Track & Field Track...
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...Abstract In this paper, I will explain what CrossFit Training is and what the benefits are compared to a typical exercise program of isolated muscular training combined with a cardio workout. I will also examine the impacts that CrossFit Training has had on college athletes and athletic teams as a whole at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (UPB). I will look into what teams have the most athletes with experience with CrossFit training, how many UPB athletes have used it on their own time or during the offseason, and the general feeling towards CrossFit Training and its effectiveness in improving fitness. Introduction In the physical fitness realm, there are many different kinds of exercise programs. There are programs that focus on dancing, ones that focus on stretching, and ones that focus on core strength and conditioning. CrossFit Training is an example of a core strength and conditioning program. It was developed to enhance an individual’s overall ability to complete physical tasks by incorporating many different forms of exercise, from gymnastics to weightlifting (Glassman, 2002). CrossFit Training is different from the popularly accepted idea of a workout because it’s not just situps, curls, leg press, and a half an hour of cardio. CrossFit is all about combining movements and shorter, high intensity cardiovascular sessions (Glassman, 2002). For every long distance effort, a CrossFit athlete will do five or six at a short distance. This is implemented...
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...Personal Responsibility Christian A. Smith GEN/201 June 30, 2014 Jasmine Rojas Personal Responsibility Personal Responsibility, let’s think about that term for a minute… Done? In a 2009 article from the Brookings Institute titled “The Sequence of Personal Responsibility”, Ron Haskins, a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies writes: “Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards. But personal responsibility also means that when individuals fail to meet expected standards, they do not look around for some factor outside themselves to blame. The demise of personal responsibility occurs when individuals blame their family, their peers, their economic circumstances, or their society for their own failure to meet standards…”(Haskins, 2009) I think that is the best definition of personal responsibility that I have ever seen or heard. Personal Responsibility is of vital importance when attending college, especially as a working adult. So many things can happen in day-to-day life, that one could very easily be tempted to make excuses. Fortunately as a student at the University of Phoenix, I have been given a great deal of support resources to fall back on. These I will use to improve my Career Competencies, make ethical decisions, improve my teamwork skills, and set SMART goals for myself. Excuses will not be tolerated, and failure...
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...eliminate surplus words, and eliminate cluttering phrases. * Short sentences carry more emphasis than long involved ones: True * Using short sentences and communication increases miscommunication: False * Constructing clear sentences and paragraphs involves…?: True Chapter 18 * The following sentence does not have spelling errors: True * According to standards for punctuation whether the apostrophe goes before or after the “s” depends on if the possessive noun is singular or plural: True Chapter 11 * The objective quality report is an unbiased approach: True * The “purpose statement” is also called the studies objective, aim or goal. * When you look for relationships between sets of data during the reporting/writing process you should ensure the data sets are not comparable: False Textbook Review Chapter 1: * Communication is the most valuable soft sill, with “teamwork skills” and “analytical skills” following closely behind. * Operational Communication:...
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...Tiffany Houpt Professor Habbestad English 104 2 December 2013 The Pleasure Scale As we go through life we will experience different events that will help shape the scales that we use in life. Biss talks about how pain is our own experience and no one else can feel the same intensity of pain that we feel at any given point in the day. I believe that it can also be turned around no one can feel the same type of pleasure that I feel. There is no way that I can write a scale of pleasure that fits every person that is on the earth; the only scale that I can make is one where I use the pleasure that have happened to me during my life time. As we age we tend to go through events that will change our outlook on life. Something that may have been a pleasure to us when we were younger may not be pleasure to use when we are older. Take for instance playing on the playground as a young child, that was to time of the day we all waited for we got to go outside and play on the jungle gym. That would not bring me pleasure it would make me depressed just for the fact that I can no longer play on the jungle gym because I am not small enough to enjoy to the level that I would want to. 0 Imagine a world where there is no such thing as pain. Now that you have done that do you think that there would be pleasure in that world? If there is no pain there can be no pleasure they go hand in hand. If you have never felt pain then how can you know what pleasure is? Biss talks about how there is not...
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...Ensure those you hire succeed • Wages and benefits 2 Preparing to Recruit A) Consider Both External and Internal Environment • Understand the external environment • Develop a plan to adjust the internal business environment B) Know What You Want • Assess your situation and identify competencies • Develop or update organizational chart • Develop or update job descriptions • Match positions to job descriptions • Hire employees who fit job descriptions or who can be trained C) Make Time to Recruit and Hire You can’t hire well if you don’t take the time to recruit well All the leadership, supervisory and motivation skills in the world will not compensate for a poor job of recruitment and selection. 3 Writing Effective Job Descriptions Example Format The job description should clearly outline for a perspective employee the duties of the position and other details required to understand what the job is and how it is to be performed. Some employers resist using job descriptions because they feel it locks them in to a set of duties or performance standards. They fear...
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...The Essentials Series The University of Manchester Careers Service Careers Service Crawford House Booth Street East 0161 275 2829 For opening times see website. Write a great CV... from scratch ` This publication is available in alternative formats on request. Enquire at the information desk or email careers@manchester.ac.uk Last Updated: September 2008 www.manchester.ac.uk/careers Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Introduction ................................................................................................ 2 What are employers looking for? .................................................. 2 What do you have to offer-where is the evidence? ........... 3 CV types Content .................................................................................................... 5 6 ....................................................................................................... Presentation ............................................................................................. 8 Important mistakes to avoid ......................................................... 10 Words which make an impact ................................................... 13 An example of a chronological and skills based CV .... 14 Check your CV ..................................................................................... 18 Further help .......................................................................................... 18 ...
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...Multicultural Workforce In the past American business experienced few examples of multicultural workforce. Due to globalization large companies and small businesses are experiencing a growing multicultural workforce. These cultural changes are contributing to business success and at the same time affecting teamwork and communication. A multicultural workforce is one in which a company’s workers come from various ethnic, racial, religious, and gender backgrounds. In the past business leaders in the United States had limited experience working with a multicultural workforce and little was written or taught on the subject. However, today’s business owners, managers and corporate executives recognize that culturally diverse workforces contribute to success. A diverse multicultural workforce boosts a company’s success by bringing new ideas and ways to enhance decision making, creativity and innovation, marketing to foreign and ethnic minority communities, and distribution of economic opportunity. Researchers believe that most cultural challenges arise from three basic cultural preferences; how individuals approach work, how individuals share information, and how individuals view time. The researchers believe these three preferences have an enormous impact on teamwork effectiveness. However, cultural differences can be a factor contributing to increased costs when higher turnover rates, increased interpersonal conflict and communication breakdowns occur...
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...Republic of the Philippines Department of Education Region IV – A CALABARZON Division of Lipa City LIPA CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Lipa City Q3W4 Day 1 - 4 : Duration : 1 hour Resources : chalkboard, pentel pen, cartolina, chalk, copy Reading Reference : I’m Glad a Little Guy by Carlos P. Romulo, I am a Filipino by Carlos P. Romulo Objectives : At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to: Employ a variety of cohesive devices in composing short written personal discourse. Organize information gathered from primary and secondary reference. Compose a capsule biography of person interviewed using appropriate literary and cohesive device. Use predictive and anticipatory devices/tasks to activate prior knowledge about the topic reading/viewing selection. Respond to ideas, issues, and concerns presented in a reading or viewing selection in creative form. Arrange words in clusters. Use variety of expressions to affirm, to negate, to see further clarification and to summarize points in a dialogue or interview. Note specific details of text listened to. Formulate assumptions and predictions about the content of the narrative text. Prepare a list of available primary and...
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...My Memoir: “Special Forces” at Camp Theresa G. Hable Crown College My Memoir: “Special Forces” at Camp The morning breeze from Lake Waconia felt fresh and invigorating. Yesterday's rain settled the dust and gave everything a new look. The beautiful array of flowers from the neighbor's garden sparkled with the glistening of fallen raindrops against the sunrise. What a beautiful day for the Special Force Christian Ministry to leave for a camping adventure in McGregor, Minnesota. I jumped as I heard the door slam. "Hello? Hello? Where are you? We need to get ready; we leave for camp today! You said one more sleep night; then it's camping time!" screams Michael. I yelled back, "I'm on the patio near the Winkler's garden. Michael was about 13 years old and full of energy. Kelly, his sister, blind since birth, packed her bags the night before; she was not a morning person. Almost eleven years old with a forceful personality, Kelly did not let her deafness interfere with life. Learning sign language was a skill I had picked up to converse with her; but, she made sure I knew what she wanted. She demonstrated her eagerness and excitement signing, "I'll be able to pick my seat on the bus!" The Special Force Christian Ministry consisted of two group homes: one in Waconia, Minnesota, housing eight males with disabilities; the second one located ten miles away, in the small town, Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota, accommodating eight females. The disabilities ranged from...
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