...Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Essay A. Summary The author of the article begins the essay in an extremely captivating manner. The story revolves around the prominent character named saguaro. The writer defines the large cactus found in deserts as funny objects that make the desert look less tedious a dry than it should be. Throughout his description of saguaros, the writer shows some extensible knowledge and understanding while giving facts on how long they can grow and live before falling. The writer then shifts from talking about the saguaros and introduces the real picture of where he is. In his narration, the author focuses on the olden days when apaches used to attack citizens forcing them to run to hide in the mountain until they (the apaches) had left. The writer also focuses on the desert and the experiences while sojourning. In the end, he mentions a hotel with a hot-tempered woman and another town with no life in it (Moon 111) A. Questions set 1 1. Surgeons are large cactus that looks like trees. They grow to be about 200 years old. However, most of them fall of with half the age to full maturity. They grow arms after forty to fifty years. The rate of maturity is six million to one. (Benson, 122) 2. Cactus wrens use the surgeons as their nest. The birds curve their nests in surgeons. In the nest, they are safe from all things expect the black raisers which swallow eggs whole. 3. The sentence show how empty and hot Arizona was where the only place...
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... | |3. What is the productivity of an ant colony in warm vs cold temperatures? | |4. Which is the best fertilizer to help keep tomato plants alive longer and foster better growth? | |5. Do purple flowers or pink flowers attract more hummingbirds? | |6. Do ladybugs keep insects from eating leaves on plants? | |7. Does beer or tomato juice keep bugs away from eating tomato plants? | |8. What type of soil causes saguaro cactus grow the highest? | |9. What is ant food preference for proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates? | |10. Does sunlight affect the growth rate of strawberries? | Select the two best inquiries from above and complete the following table: |Selected inquiry: |1. What should the optimal water frequency be for a |3. What is the productivity of an ant colony in warm vs cold | | |tomato plant?...
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...Saguaro Cactus The Saguaro is a giant cactus native to Mexico and Southeastern U.S. You can find the cactus almost anywhere in Southeastern California. The National Park is home to the cactus. This cactus is also found in the rocky terrain in Southern Arizona and in the Sonoran Desert. In addition, you can find them in Northwestern Mexico. The Saguaro cactus can be found on the warm south facing slopes. The cactus can live for more than 150-200 years. Some cacti grow very long arms and some never grow one at all. If the cactus does grow an arm it takes 75 years to develop. Their arms are 15-50 feet long. A 100-200 year old cactus can grow 40-60 feet tall. However, a ten year old cactus is 1.5 inches tall. The stem is 18-24 inches. Surprisingly, the spines of the cactus are two inches long. They are located on the vertical rib and are covered with waxy skin. When the cactus grows the spines reach full size in their first season. The older spines are found on the base of the cactus and the new spines are near the apex. The spines always grow from aureoles (which are holes in the cactus) .The aureoles move to the side of the apex and continue to grow upwards. The Saguaro Cactus has a great root system. It is very shallow for such a heavy plant. It has one tap root and two sets of radial roots. The Saguaro Cactus contains lots of fruit. The ruby red fruit are 2 ½ inches long. They ripen in June. This night blooming sweet ruby red fruit contains 2000 very tiny seeds...
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... Anti-Drug Legislation Matrix Complete the matrix by selecting three states to add below Federal. Then, answer each question listed in the first row for each corresponding law. | |Is marijuana |What are the |What are the |What are the |What is the |Is there extreme | | |illegal? |penalties for |penalties for |penalties for |blood alcohol |DWI or DUI? If so,| | | |possession of |possession of heroin?|possession of |level for a |what is the | | | |cocaine? | |prescription drugs?|driving while |punishment? | | | | | | |intoxicated | | | | | | | |(DWI) or driving| | | | | | | |under the | | | | | | | |influence (DUI) | | | | | | | |crime? | | |Federal |No. |Title 21 1st |Title 21 1st |Title 21 1st |In the...
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...have potential to be promoted to a higher position. Many organizations promote from within their organization instead of hiring an outsider only because of their familiarity to the company’s operations. But internal promotions have their drawbacks and do not always end up benefitting the organization. Federal Companies is one of these companies who inform new candidates during the initial interview process that they offer internal promotions. However, there are multiple instances when they do not promote the right individual to a management position, which causes negativity not only in the department but causes distrust with their subordinates. Federal Companies is a moving company that is headquartered in East Peoria, Illinois. They have been in operation since 1913 as an agent for Allied Van Lines. They offer widespread services in residential relocation, international moving, office moving, warehousing and distribution, delivery services, and custom logistics solutions to data backup and record storage services to motorcycle transportation. They have multiple locations throughout Central Illinois, St. Louis, MO, Milwaukee, WI, and Chicago, IL (Federal). The Federal Companies corporate headquarters is where the marketing, accounting/finance, billing, human resources, executive management, and information technology departments are located. The key decisions regarding personnel and promotions are decided by the human resources manager and his or her superiors when a...
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...same. The inspectors and investigators both get paid $25.11 per hour. This pay was for the year of 2010. For their education and related occupation they both must have a high school diploma or equivalent and also have more than five years of experience. Both the inspectors and investigators work in the field and in an office. Inspectors in the field examine public buildings. In addition to the investigators surveying the scene where the fire had occurred. What the fire inspectors and the investigators do on their jobs. While the inspectors goes and inspects buildings and other kinds of structures such as arenas, shopping malls. They also search for things that can be a fire hazard and to ensure everyone that the federal, state, and local fire codes are met. They also make sure that all of the fire extinguishing equipment works correctly. That is if a family needs there fire extinguishing to put out a fire then they will have a working one to do so. However the fire investigators go in and determine the cause of the fires by searching the area and collecting evidence and taking photographs of the scene. Most fire inspectors, and investigators have had to work in a police or fire departments for their experience. I would like to say that fire inspectors and investigators will always be there to figure out what caused the fires and they will make sure that there are no hazardous things that will cause a fire when they go in and inspect...
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...THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, IDAH ADMISSIONS OFFICE ACADEMIC AFFAIRS (REGISTRY DEPARTMENT) REGISTRATION GUIDELINE FOR STUDENTS OF THE 2014/2015 ACADEMIC SESSION 1. The Admitted candidates are expected to visit the school portal www.fepoda.edu.ng enter their JAMB registration Number (for ND) and Admission Form Number (for HND) into the spaced provided to enable them print their Admission Letter and the Acceptance Letter. Candidate should go to any of the following banks to pay the sum N5,000.00 (non-refundable) as the acceptance fee. Bank UBA Zenith ECOBank Mainstreet Unyogba Account Number 1000499115 1012030663 5832002553 6000095228 1014400035 Account Name Federal Polytechnic Idah Federal Polytechnic Idah Federal Polytechnic Idah Federal Polytechnic Idah Federal Polytechnic Idah 2. Candidates should visit the Admissions Office for the Clearance Certificate and collection of undertaking form with the copies of the admission letter, the acceptance letter and the receipt fot the payment of the acceptance fee. 3. Candidates should go to their departments with their original documents for departmental screening. 4. Admitted candidates who are successful in the Departmental Screening can the go to any of the banks specified above for the payment of school fee.Then they are also expected to go to the Head of Students Accounts Office (Bursary) after payment with the bank teller and the receipt of the acceptance fee for documentation. 5. They should take the completed undertaking form to...
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...Grant Writing FOR DUMmIES 3RD ‰ EDITION by Dr. Beverly A. Browning, MPA, DBA Grant Writing For Dummies® 3rd Edition , Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should e addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201)748-6008, or online at http:// www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/ or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and...
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...Pick an administrative agency of either the federal or a state government. Find where the current and proposed regulation changes for that agency are located on the Internet. (i.e., the Federal Register or the State Administrative Agency website.) Regulations.gov is a good place to begin your research. Pick one proposed regulation change currently under consideration (if you find one that has already closed out but interests you, you can use that instead) and write the following regarding it: 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) a. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)– I plan on traveling for work and this could affect the safety of my airplane travel 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) b. This AD was prompted by findings of chafed power wires due to flexing of the MDC rack panel. We are issuing this AD to prevent damage to power wires, which could cause...
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...transport review policy for new employees by conducting a record review. In order for me to present my presentation I had to get a better understanding of the guidelines as well as the workflow of the record. For one week I followed the flow of a medical record by training with each team that handles the medical record. Regulations According to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), rotary and fixed wing air ambulance services are covered when a patient is transported to the closest appropriate facility that is inaccessible by ground, great distances, or obstructed by obstacles such as heavy traffic. The Ambulance Fee Schedule was originally implemented in April 2002 based on a Final Rule published in the Federal Register. The elements of this final rule allowed for payment for various air and ground ambulance services. The payment for these services is based on the type of service provided and on the...
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...information is useful so that employees and employers understand employee qualification for benefit programs. The Department of Labor enforces the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA), which sets basic minimum wage and overtime pay standards. These standards are enforced by the Department's Wage and Hour Division. This law was enacted in 1938. It protects workers by setting standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping and youth labor. FLSA covers full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. The law may apply to you because of the type of company or organization for which you work, known as enterprise coverage, or the type of work you do, called individual coverage (Roseburg, 2013). Minimum Wage Non-exempt employees must be paid a national minimum wage established by the US Congress. As of July 24, 2009 that wage is $7.25 per hour. Some states have set their own minimum wage. The employer must pay federal or state wages-whichever is higher. Overtime Pay Employers must give overtime pay to non-exempt employees who work over 40 hours per week. They must pay these workers at a rate of at least time and half of their regular rate. The second feature is Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation (COBRA) frequently asked questions. The Frequently Asked Question is a good tool that employees can use as a reference guide to monitor their benefits. The site list questions as well...
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...Compare and Contrast an Agency Protest to a General Accounting Office (GAO) protest" Abstract Bid protests enhance the integrity and transparency of the federal procurement process by providing offers with an effective tool to challenge federal contract awards and thereby determine whether they conform to federal procurement law and regulation (1). Therefore, when a protest is brought, successful offers must be prepared to intervene in the protest to defend their contract award. A protester is typically a third party aggrieved by the actions of a government agency which result in a contract going to an awardee viewed by the protester as non-deserving. The law permits protests to be resolved through formal as well as informal procedures. The three protests are the procuring agency, the GAO, and the COFC, which all differ considerably as to their rules, procedures, scope of review, and available relief, and being well versed on each forum’s unique aspects can be essential to a successful outcome. Created by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, the GAO became the first external forum for federal bid protests. The GAO was established as an independent governmental agency under the control and direction of the Comptroller General for the United States. Even though the statutes giving GAO jurisdiction to hear bid protests were not enacted until the mid-1980s, the GAO has been hearing bid protests since the 1920s. So what exactly is a bid protest...
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...Australian Education Regulation 2013 Select Legislative Instrument No. 195, 2013 I, Quentin Bryce AC CVO, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation under the Australian Education Act 2013. Dated 25 July 2013 Quentin Bryce Governor-General By Her Excellency’s Command William Richard Shorten Minister for Education OPC50306 - A Federal Register of Legislative Instruments F2013L01476 Federal Register of Legislative Instruments F2013L01476 Contents Part 1—Preliminary Division 1—Preliminary 1 2 3 4 5 1 1 Name of regulation ............................................................................ 1 Commencement ................................................................................. 1 Authority ........................................................................................... 1 Definitions ......................................................................................... 1 Meanings of approved system arrangement and approved system authority ................................................................................. 4 6 6 Overseas students .............................................................................. 6 6 Levels of education that constitute primary education for schools other than special schools ..................................................... 6 Levels of education that constitute secondary education...
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...The Effects of Subsidizing Education Education subsidies can help many people, but with government regulations certain standards must be achieved, which may not necessarily benefit the whole. On an individual level, education subsidies can be like fertilizer to a garden, and help that person grow. Because a subsidy for education can have an amazing lifelong impact on the beneficiary, the United States would do well to take a lesson from Canada’s subsidy program and find a better balance for when subsidizing education becomes ineffective. Unfortunately due to the federal government’s involvement, priorities have shifted the focus to numbers instead of individuals. Like all externalities, subsidizing education across the board will have positive, as well as negative side effects. Regardless of the increases in federal funding to elementary and secondary schools over decades, “the percentage of students who had completed high school within four years of entering ninth grade is 75 percent today, about the same as it was in the mid-1970s” (McCluskey, 2009) This proves that the ever increasing amounts of government funding to schools below the college level is mainly ineffective. “Congress has increased funding for the schools while imposing layers of rules and regulations on local school districts.” (McCluskey, 2009) According to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) 2001, “by setting standards, measuring progress, and holding states accountable for their students’ achievement, states...
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...consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife was created as a part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Department of the Interior on November 6, 1956, by the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (70 Stat. 1119). That act was amended on July 1, 1974, by Public Law 93-271 (88 Stat. 92) to, among other purposes, abolish the position of Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife and designate the Bureau as the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService” (www.fws.gov/help/about_us.html).The U.S. fish and wild life service is the principle federal agency that provides information to the public on the amount and status of the nation wetlands. This bureau has always sparked an interest on me. I learned the magnitude of why state and federal rules and regulation are necessary in order to preserve and conserve natural animal habitat and that law are imposed that keep certain species form being scarce. Some of this proposed regulation...
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