...Being in a nursing profession, I believe that nurses should join in an organization that gives them a voice in the community as well as in the legislative body of the country. I am a member of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the local Vermont State Nurses Association (VSNA). The ANA not only become the voices of nurses in the country, but also provides continuing professional development for nurses and keeping them involved, informed, and up-to-date of the current nursing practice (ANA, 2016). Aside from that, these organizations offer opportunities to network with colleagues through local and national meetings, seminars, and social media. Since I became a member of these organizations last December, I have taken advantage of the...
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...expression globalization represent the international organization that is influential almost all cultures at present time. It is a system that is great alleges the communication and incorporation of societies, government, industry and academic essentials around the world. Motivated by knowledge, and technology, information and finance, a full range of observations exist, some admiring some disapproving, as to connect the superior from globalization and avoid the bad lies. Today, dealing out knowledge and having the ability to use knowledge in a world-wide ground is critical to personal and public development. Just as we having skilled and globally focused workers is perhaps the most important to any organization’s competitiveness in a world. As, Herb Childress, director of liberal studies at the Boston Architectural College, disagreed for an entirely special approach to development of our efforts to teach. American students that are need to learn a new set of talents, including...
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...1028. One indicia of independent contractor (rather than employee) status is when the individual performing the services is paid based on tasks performed (rather than time spent). *a. True b. False 1029. In some cases it may be appropriate for a taxpayer to report work-related expenses by using both Form 2106 and Schedule C. *a. True b. False 1030. The IRS will issue advanced rulings as to whether a worker’s status is that of an employee or an independent contractor. *a. True b. False 1031. Jake performs services for Maude. If Maude provides Jake with a helper and tools, this is indicative of independent contractor (rather than employee) status. a. True *b. False 1032. A statutory employee is not a common law employee but is subject to income tax withholdings. a. True *b. False 1033. For tax purposes, a statutory employee is not treated the same as a common law employee. *a. True b. False 1034. If an individual is subject to the direction or control of another only to the extent of the end result but not as to the means of accomplishment, an employer-employee relationship does not exist. *a. True b. False 1035. The work-related expenses of an independent contractor will be subject to the 2%-of-AGI floor. a. True *b. False 1036. After she finishes working at her main job, Ann returns home, has dinner, then drives to her second job. Ann may deduct the mileage between her home and second job. a. True *b. False 1037. After...
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...Palmer Cutbacks in Music, Art and Physical Education School is where we all gain basic knowledge. It is where we learn what we need to live and then get interested in what we will excel at later in life. Many students want to grow up to be a lawyer, doctor or a teacher but for some students, it is the dream of being a famous musician, artist or athlete. With education budget cuts and the motion for higher standardized test scores on the raise, many schools have been forced to cut some of their programs. Those hardest hit are music, art and physical education classes. The issue is that cutting these programs may do more harm to students than good. Studies have shown that music, art and physical activity have many positive effects on student development and learning. Physical education has become especially important today. With childhood obesity become an increasing problem, physical health and proper nutrition has become a great concern. Music and art also have also shown to have an impact on physical development. These are the classes and programs that promote creativity, self-expression and individuality, and for many students are the classes that they look the most forward to and are often the highlight of their day. By taking them away are we not robbing our students of the opportunity to learn through different mediums? What about the future musicians, artists and athletes? Are we not robbing...
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...Billionaire Assessment This is a scatter graph based on a data collected and gave to me by Mr Francis, my Humanities class teacher. The data shows that in the life expectancy in years, in a specific country, the life expectancy is decreasing according to the best fit line. According to the data collected, different countries have different life expectancy. This is because each country has different level of richness which affects the life expectancy, percentage of rich people in the country, and also the level of inequality including social problems. The Adult Literacy (% of population) graph means that the percentage of people in a country that can read. As we can see, different countries have different percentage, the question is why? I think this is because when the percentage of people was young, they didn’t have enough money to support their lives to get the education or they didn’t get enough time to get education while busy working to earn money and livestock to support their family. As for poverty they don’t have enough places to work. Most of them work as a fisherman and sell what they get from fishing, crops, and teaching in school. This is because it is hard to find jobs in a specific country especially a poor country. For the Goss Domestic product in US dollars, the product of all the work is counted in US dollars. This is high according to each currency of each country. I want to give it a press on the word poverty. Poverty is the state for the majority...
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...Introduction to marketing Report for the local council on the use of marketing by HNC and Kellogg’s Marketing is the management process for classifying and anticipating and satisfying the customer needs cost-effectively. In a business, to recognise where marketing is involved is by three steps. 1. How well you know your customers and how to satisfy now as well as the future 2. For the business to produce and provide what the customer wants 3. A business should be able to make profit. The three steps I have mentioned is vital to have and also carried out daily in order to run your business successful and that why marketing makes such a huge impact on a business. From marketing it allows the business to have an understanding of the customer needs and attempting to make sure the product which they are creating, the quality is outstanding. The role of marketing is crucial for a businesses, as in every business market there are aims and objectives. Objectives are specific when it comes to the role of marketing as they are decided from the business objective, this is how the business framework it overall aims which they are achieving for. Marketing objectives are ways in which marketing will help meet corporate objectives, the marketing strategy is the specific way in which the market will contribute towards marketing mission. Finally, the marketing tactics are where the elements of the marketing mix are used in the marketing strategy. As well as objectives, the business...
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...Ministry of Education and Science Stockholm, Sweden The Development of Education National Report of Sweden by The Ministry of Education and Science and The National Agency for Education Spring 2001 2 NATIONAL REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION – SWEDEN ........................................................................................................3 1 The Swedish education system at the end of the 20th century ..................... 3 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Major reforms and innovations introduced in the education system during the past decade...................................................................................................... 6 Major achievements attained over the past decade ............................................ 16 The lessons learned in the process of changing and reforming education systems............................................................................................................... 21 The main problems and challenges facing national education as we enter the 21st century .................................................................................................. 22 Curriculum development, principles and assumptions ...................................... 24 Changing and adapting educational content ...................................................... 26 2. Educational content and learning strategies for the 21st century ......... 24 2.1 2.2 References..................................................
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...Public School District is one school district that has shown a disservice to teachers and ultimately to its students. As public employees, the Detroit school teachers advocate for their jobs, respect, and cost-effective training opportunities. This paper examines the financial and benefit challenges of Detroit Public School District and the salary components of Detroit Public School Teachers. According to analyst and state education officials, the financial challenge with Detroit Public School District is tied to “declines in state aid, falling enrollment, caps on cash-flow borrowing, and the districts' unwillingness to make deep cuts, (Devitt, 2013). Additionally, the employee benefit challenges of Detroit School Teachers is that teachers were denied retirement benefits and given low salaries compared to teachers in other districts. Information has been obtained from Devry University Library articles, journals, educational websites, and a documentary. Strategies detailed in this paper emphasize theories to improve the educational system and compensation of Detroit School Teachers. Also, the present paper gives an example of another public school district with turnaround success. Recommendations are focused on the need for community and state support of Detroit school teachers, so that the teachers are not poorly compensated and undervalued. In addition, the conclusion provides reasons why teachers should pursue a National Board Certification to increase job performance and compensation...
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...Standardized Testing; Worth it or Not? “When teachers talk about high school ‘standardized tests’ these days, they're not talking about the SAT. They mean federally mandated, timed, 'one set of multiple choice questions fits all' tests designed to measure students' performance in basic subjects like math and reading. Each state decides how to define educational proficiency, and tests use a minimum of three scores: Below Basic, Proficient, and Advanced” (Kumeh). These tests are put together not only to test the students comprehension in these subjects, but to also see if the teacher is meeting the specific objectives for each subject. States were not federally mandated to give their own standardized tests until 1994 when the Clinton administration changed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. In which, it stated that every state receiving federal money must test third through eighth grade students in math and reading yearly. However, when President George W. Bush passed the “No Child Left Behind Act” in 2001, it requires that not only do these schools need to test their students annually, but they must improve their scores from the previous year or government regulations will be put into place. “Testing has been a valuable part of the educational process since the days of Socrates. There is nothing new or scary about it. It lets teachers and parents know how kids are doing and lets students see the rewards of hard work” (Spellings). The US Board of Education is...
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...point in the history of the partition of Ireland and the relationship between England and Northern Ireland. 14 people had been shot and another 13 wounded by British soldiers during a protest in the northern Irish city Derry for civil rights and against the British occupation policy on this very Sunday. The Events that took place on Bloody Sunday had been the initial phase for the conflict in Northern Ireland to escalate. As a result, the conflict got worse. Shortly after the declaration of the happenings in Derry, an enraged crowd of northern Irish citizens occupied the British Embassy in Dublin and burned it down. To simplify the enormous amount of the subject matter “Ireland”, in the following lesson, there is going to be a didactical cutback. To begin with, the students are supposed to get to know some basic facts about the divided Ireland. In this one lesson, it is not about representing the topic in all of its details. To a greater degree, it is about approaching the topic particularly with regard to war and peace. The children shall know, what happened on Bloody Sunday and they should be able to classify the events into the historical-cultural background.1 1.2. The Song “Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2” One of the most famous Bands in the World, U2, was founded in 1983. The Single “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” is the reason for the breakthrough of the band. To this day, “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” is considered as one of the most political songs published by them. Even though the...
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...MGMT 301; Exam 2; Spring 2012Fall 2010 Dirty Dozen Review Just a quick little review for Exam 2! Remember, all of Chapters 3, 5, and 9 are on it AND the SWOT we did on the Ski Shop Engagement Sheet (SWOT is found in Chapter 6, but we’re only doing the things we did in class …) Here’s a dozen to try. Don’t forget … you might see these questions again! Directions: Please read the following scenario, then answer the questions that follow. “Managing a Ski Shop” Your best friend’s sister and brother-in-law run the local ski shop near campus in your college town, but they have recently bought another type of business in another town. They want you and your friend to take over managing the ski shop. If you run it successfully, you and your friend will gradually be given substantial equity in the shop and eventually would own the whole business. So far, the shop has been only marginally profitable. Although the shop carries ski equipment and ski clothing, it has habitually run out of both during the peak skiing season. Extra merchandise hastily ordered to meet the demand has often arrived so late that it could not be sold until the next season, if at all. In addition, the shop does very little business from March through August. Due to a dispute over the size and prominence of the outside sign displaying the shop’s name...
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...The Role of Human Resources Management XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX BUS303: Human Resources Management XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX 27 XXX 2014 Human Resources – better known as the backbone of all businesses – leads the way for company success. This brainchild is not just responsible for recruitment and payroll; they are accountable for every employee within the organization, to include training, mentoring, and guidance. Plus, they maintain incredible amounts of knowledge in order to ensure compensation and benefits, affirmative action, safety and health, equal employment opportunity, and employee and labor relations all work in harmony. Human Resources is continually evolving on many diverse levels, facing challenges – both internally and externally – that cause them to constantly engage, adjust, realign, and/or refocus to safeguard associate morale and confidence in the company they work for. After all, “human assets (HR associates) are the only ones capable of managing all the other assets (employees) to accomplish organizational goals” (Youssef, C.M. 2012). We’ve learned how HR planning is “the process of managing an organization’s most valuable asset – its people”. HR must ensure there are not too few – or too many – workers; and they must assist managers with employees and jobs so that the organization works harmoniously in reaching its goals. HR must carefully analyze and review jobs, fill those positions with talented individuals that come from a pool of applicants, continually work...
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...I S S U E S A N D IN N O V A T I O N S IN N U R S I N G E D U C A T I O N Nurse educators’ workplace empowerment, burnout, and job satisfaction: testing Kanter’s theory Teresa P. Sarmiento MScN RN College Nurse Educator, George Brown College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Heather K. Spence Laschinger Canada PhD RN Professor and Associate Director Nursing Research, School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Carroll Iwasiw EdD RN Professor and Director School of Nursing, School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Submitted for publication 22 May 2003 Accepted for publication 21 October 2003 Correspondence: Heather Spence Laschinger, School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada. E-mail: hkl@uwo.ca SARMIENTO T.P., LASCHINGER H.K.S. & IWASIW C. (2004) Journal of Advanced Nursing 46(2), 134–143 Nurse educators’ workplace empowerment, burnout, and job satisfaction: testing Kanter’s theory Background. Empowerment has become an increasingly important factor in determining college nurse educator burnout, work satisfaction and performance in current restructured college nursing programmes in Canada. Aim. This paper reports a study to test a theoretical model specifying relationships among structural empowerment, burnout and work satisfaction. Method. A descriptive correlational survey design was used to test the model in a sample of 89 Canadian full-time...
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...individuals: Herb Karr, a practical and visionary businessman, and Harry Markowitz, a programming intellect. These entrepreneurs procured an unsupported public domain software language, realized it presented a promising business opportunity and created a company to train and support its users. In a short period of time Herb and Harry went from doing business on a park bench to beginning a successful venture in the nascent computer industry. CACI continued to leverage trends and identify the most promising technologies and markets. In 1970, CACI pioneered easy-to-use database retrieval programs for the Department of Commerce. Leveraging this technology to projects for the departments of Defense and Justice. This solution expanded the development clients enabling CACI to keep both organizations as preeminent sources of business to this day. Following the trend lines, providing expertise and delivering quality client service became benchmarks of CACI’s culture. These ideals continued into the 1980s, when they faced a dramatic change in the federal landscape. As new rules and regulations went into effect hey had to retool their business to succeed and compete. CACI...
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...DEEP FREEZE International Trade Assignment Case Study of Iceland FinancIal Collapse MBA in Marketing&Communication “The most spectacular bankruptcy of the 2008 financial crisis was the collapse of Iceland's financial system. This collapse is especially intriguing as Iceland is not an underdeveloped country!” ---EHMAN BROTHERS Introduction Iceland is an independent Nordic European island country situated at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Its traditional industries are fishing, processing of fish, aluminum, and strong energy industry. During several years of economic boom, the Icelandic financial system expanded considerably. A nation with a slight population erected a banking system whose total assets were 10 times the size of the country's GDP. Greedy bankers, inexperienced upstairs, corrupt political elite, the deregulation of the financial system, make the banking sector grew faster than any other sector of the Icelandic economy. Following the global financial crisis in 2008, Iceland became the most dramatic economic meltdown. The key problem with the banks essentially owning all the bankrupt highly leveraged business (that were and are essentially good ocean harvesting fishing business) and the downgrade in sovereign debt rating led to capital flight. With the collapse of exchange rate of Krona, 3 main banks (Landsbanki, Kaupthing and Glitnir) are nationalized because of the serious liquidity problems of banks...
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