...humanitarian in my heart. One example that has made a significant mark on my career was a donation shipment received from a United States military installation in Germany to be distributed to centers for children with special needs in Bulgaria in collaboration with the Bulgarian Red Cross. As an employee of the United States Embassy in Bulgaria, my responsibility encompassed the coordination of the customs clearance and distribution of the donation following the donor’s intent. Not long after the project finished, I received a phone call from the director of one of the centers to thank me for my work and express her gratitude for my help. Later on, I received a thank you card in the mail handmade by one of the children in the center. This event helped me realize the satisfaction that comes from the positive impact on people’s lives through a career in humanitarian logistics. I feel very privileged to have gained invaluable work experience in the shipping and logistics field working for the United States Government, the private industry, and non-profit sector for the past 12 years. Living through transition while growing up, I learnt to adapt to uncertainty and instability. As a result, I can easily relate to people in developing countries whose lives have been abruptly interrupted as a result of armed conflict or natural disaster. As a citizen of both transitioning and developed countries, I sincerely care for people who are less fortunate and believe that through my work in...
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...My journey began at a private school. Because of this education, I learned discipline, respect, and how to love others at an early age. Throughout my middle school and early high school career, I put maximum effort into my grades and extracurricular activities. I was fully involved in church activities, academic clubs and sports. I excelled in these areas and was rewarded by participating in the honors program, becoming the captain of the first track team at our school, and seeing my relationships and community positively affected by my involvement. When these areas of my life flourished, I became aware that all these experiences were helping me to prepare for my later responsibilities and adult life ahead of me. Realizing that that adult...
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...the government predicts how much many a family may be able to contribute to their children’s higher education. Bridget Terry Long, author of “What is Known About the Impact of Financial Aid?, Implications for Policy” summarizes how FAFSA will take two students who are considered identical, but somehow will have two different outcomes depending on the colleges he or she may attend. Also, according to the article the amount of need, along with a combination of the student's EFC, will determine the type of government grants and other loan programs he or she will be eligible for (6). It seems as though FAFSA does not dig deeply enough to truly determine if the aid given to families is realistic enough to be considered...
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...Program Combating Child Trafficking and Exploitation through Education by Richard Geeves (VIAfilm) World Education UNICEF 28 September 2007 1 CONTENTS Tables 3 Links to documentary video 4 Acronyms 5 Foreword 7 A note on the OPTIONS evaluation report and documentary video Executive Summary 8 1. General background, evaluation method and coverage 18 2. Identification of vulnerable children 25 3. Improved formal education opportunities 29 Scholarships, Life skills, Student Support Network, Improved quality of teaching and learning, improved professional support to teachers 4. Improved non-formal education opportunities 43 School re-entry, My Better Future, NFE programs for out-of-school youth 5. Tracking and follow up of vulnerable children 52 Formal education, Non-formal education, Referral children 6. Impact on children and their families 56 Impact on children, Impact on families 7. Impact on communities, society and local institutions 60 Community attitudes to girls and education, child protection, Commune Councils, CEFAC/CWCCs 8. Capacity building, Cost effectiveness, Advocacy, Accountability/feedback, Sustainability 65 9. Findings and recommendations 73 Interviews and observations conducted 81 References 83 Attachments Attachment 1 Attachment 2 Attachment 3 Attachment 4 Attachment 5 Attachment 6 85 Terms of Reference for the Evaluation ...
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...Katie Higgins Mr. Mishou English IV 12 April 2013 Title IX “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” (Primer). These thirty-seven words make up the civil rights law Title IX, which is widely known for reforming athletics, although it is never directly mentioned. First, the detailed history shows how many people worked rigorously to get the law passed. Furthermore, Title IX’s numerous tests show how verify schools complying with the law. Lastly, Title IX has increased the participation of women in athletics significantly over the past forty years. Title IX, the controversial federal civil rights act, has shaped athletics to how they are today by creating equal opportunities for female athletes. Flashback forty-one years to before Title IX changed the lives girls and women forever. Girls were not encouraged to play sports at a young and scholarships were not available for women to play athletics in college. People like Pat Summitt, arguably one of the best women’s basketball coaches ever, was not receiving fair treatment while playing collegiate basketball. In 1972, before Title IX was signed, Summitt played basketball for the University of Tennessee-Martin. The team was given uniforms that were used in the Physical Education classes and placed numbers on the back with tape....
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... In my opinion, everyone is born with a blank slate. No one’s personality is predetermined. I don’t believe any baby can be born evil, just like dogs can’t be born evil. This has been proven inaccurate after several cases of people being evil although they were raised in a good family. Every person has their own opinion on this topic and is yet to be discovered fully. I was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but raised in a Hispanic household. I was conceived in Colombia but my dad moved to America after receiving a scholarship for soccer. My family is very different compared to any other Hispanics. I would consider us very Americanized. I was raised by parents who are very open minded and smart and live a healthy lifestyle. We are all about being eco friendly. We are the definition of tree huggers. It’s very difficult to say whether we are born with these traits and interests or they grow upon us depending on our environment. My dad was a great athlete. He was great at most sports. He’s very agile and coordinated. I have loved playing soccer since I can remember. I started kicking around a soccer ball with my dad since I was 5 and I’ve carried the passion for it just like my dad all along. I remember at only 10 years old, I was very good with my feet. I was a lefty just like my dad and I had the same style of playing. Although it might have been in our blood to love soccer, I do believe I carried this talent on from living with my dad. My dad has...
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...athletes who are mostly undergraduate students. While most believe these athletes exit school early and join the professional leagues due to the large amount wealth they could earn. In my opinion I do not feel these student-athletes should be paid above and beyond what any other student should receive. However, I can appreciate and empathize with the viewpoints of both sides. College athletics, more specifically men’s basketball and football, provides an enormous amount of revenue for schools. However, this is not a true statement for many schools. The more prominent universities, such as Duke, University of Kentucky, and Florida State University, will receive the income and the smaller colleges struggle to just maintain their programs. This is one reason for the conflict. College athletes believe they should reap the benefits of their efforts (Gregory & Fulton, 2005). First of all, attending college and playing sports is a choice not a requirement. The choice of playing athletics is part of the experience of attending a college or a university. As such, they become student-athletes with the emphasis on student. Student-athletes are in fact paid to attend the university or college of their choice. Student-athletes, in return for their participation in sports, receive scholarships and other financial aid with which to cover their tuition, room and board and any other expenses (Cooper, 2011). In all actuality, these student-athletes, if they remain in school, will...
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...Returning Wrestling to the University Imagine this, you are in the gym waiting for the first practice of the season to start. Your excitement is overwhelming. You have spent your entire life working up to this point; you are a college athlete. You are being paid to attend school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling...
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...HCM City Chapter AMCHAM Scholarship Directory 10 10 Anniversary AmCham Scholarship 2001 - 2010 th th Anniversary 2001 - 2010 We dedicate this directory to our Advisors, Sponsors, Scholars, and anyone else who has helped us along the way. Thank you. AmCham Scholarship Management Team December 11, 2010 Table of contents Directory Introduction 10 Anniversary Message 10-year AmCham Scholarship Photos AmCham Scholar Alumni Information AmCham Scholarship Management Team Special Thanks to Sponsors AmCham Scholarship Review Interview with Nguyen Ngoc Ha and Le Tran Anh Dung (AmCham Scholars 2009) Facts and Figures AmCham Scholar Alumni Activities AmCham Scholars Profiles Index th Directory Introduction 02 AmCham Scholarship Directory - 10th Anniversary HERB COCHRAN Executive Director AmCham Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City Chapter Mr. Cochran has lived in Vietnam for about 10 years, in various cities such as Can Tho, Hanoi, and now Ho Chi Minh City. Previously, Mr. Cochran worked for the US State Department, US Commerce Department, and US Embassy in Japan and Thailand. “I would like to see AmCham Scholarship expand to other cities such as Can Tho, Da Nang and Da Lat.” AmCham Scholarship started out as an idea for community development. From there, we created a selective program to find the most outstanding Vietnamese students. Through this process, we hoped to find the best employees for AmCham companies. We thought this investment would generate...
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...Identifing the rights of the individual as well as the best services for them has been an ongoing task since the early 1900’s. Several organizations have been started to assist in the care of individual populations such as the poor, children, mentally ill, and developmentally disabled. The ultimate goal of these organizations is to create a manageable and fully functional society. President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the Social Security Act of 1935 to assure the well-being of the unemployed. The Social Security Administration assisted all unemployed be they disabled or elderly, and continues to provide financial support to qualified individuals. Prior to the 1900’s, the mentally and developmentally disabled populations were considered outcasts. Due to no known cause or treatment, hundreds of individuals were institutionalized in an attempt to remove them from normal society. The conditions of these institutions were atrocious and the habitants received no individual rights. Society’s solution to manage behaviors was to over-medicate and restrain which ultimately resulted in several unnecessary deaths. It wasn’t until the 1950’s that society called for institutionalized patients to be released to the community for outpatient care. The deinstitutionalization movement brought about a drastic change in the culture of society surrounding disabled individuals. By the 1970’s, mental health treatment had moved from isolated institutions to community based group homes...
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...: Compensation Practice BUS 409 Janine Przybyl Jan 31, 2015 Scott A. Wattai Briefly describe the company you researched, its compensation strategy, best practices they are applying and compensation-related challenges they are facing? For my paper I choose to use Ford Motor Company this is a Company that is based in Dearborn, Michigan. They are the second largest industrial corporation in the world, with revenues of more than 144 billion and about 370,000 employees. Ford Motor Company conducts Operations that are expanded to 200 countries. Although Ford obtains significant revenues and profits from its financial services subsidiaries, the company’s core business remains in the design and manufacture of automobiles for sale on the consumer market. Since Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, incorporated in 1903, the company has produced over 260 million vehicles with very high customer satisfaction ratings some of with are the best in the market (www.ford.com). In the last couple of years some of the companies have been dealing with some of the most difficult economical climates as the world’s economy continues to change rapidly. This continues to demand increases in the charges of compensation benefits packages. This has pushed them into taking preventive measures to ensure there compensation policies and Business strategies flow together failure can result in losing valuable employees. If you look at the growing improvements in the economy and the Businesses...
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...Compensation Practice BUS 409 Cheryl Smith July 26, 2015 Professor Stacey Flood Briefly describe the company you researched, its compensation strategy, best practices they are applying and compensation-related challenges they are facing? For my paper I choose to use Ford Motor Company this is a Company that is based in Dearborn, Michigan. They are the second largest industrial corporation in the world, with revenues of more than 144 billion and about 370,000 employees. Ford Motor Company conducts Operations that are expanded to 200 countries. Although Ford obtains significant revenues and profits from its financial services subsidiaries, the company’s core business remains in the design and manufacture of automobiles for sale on the consumer market. Since Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, incorporated in 1903, the company has produced over 260 million vehicles with very high customer satisfaction ratings some of with are the best in the market (www.ford.com). In the last couple of years some of the companies have been dealing with some of the most difficult economical climates as the world’s economy continues to change rapidly. This continues to demand increases in the charges of compensation benefits packages. This has pushed them into taking preventive measures to ensure their compensation policies and Business strategies flow together failure can result in losing valuable employees. If you look at the growing improvements in the economy and the Businesses the...
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...Negative and Positive Effects of Facebook Use Facebook has taken the world by storm with more than 500 million users. The use of Facebook has many implications on self-esteem and personal relationships both positive and negative. 93% of college students have a Facebook account and spend on average 47 minutes a day on Facebook. My research on this topic is to inform the general user of the risks and rewards of Facebook. I believe this research is important as a Facebook user myself to know what potential risks I am taking and what potential rewards I can expect. The research question was what is Facebook and what are the positive and negative ramifications on self-esteem and social relationships as a result of using Facebook. My research is based on the literature review of scholarly articles. This research paper will show that Facebook use has many positive and negative effects on self-esteem and personal relationships. Review of the Literature Definition of Facebook Facebook as defined by Tokunaga (2011) is a social networking site (SNS) created in 2004. Facebook since its origination has grown have the largest number of users with more than 500 million active users. 30% of Facebook users are within the age 18-25 demographic. Social networking sites are web-based services that allow people to create a public or semi-public profile within a limited system, formulate a list of other user with whom they share a connection and view and navigate their list...
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...aquarium visits and camping trips, my father would take me fishing where I would spend more time sitting in the water looking at the fish than trying to catch them, and that is when my admiration for natural resource grew into much more than that. Initially I took a different path by going to the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM), which was a preparatory school centered around advanced math, physics, and chemistry courses. However, while it was centered around non-biological sciences, it was there that I realized I wanted to work with natural resources. Even though I was limited on my opportunities to participate in many activities I started an environmental committee. The committee was centered around conservation, preservation, and getting people...
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...Personal Essay Waking up in my boarding room bed at 2 AM on a warm summer day in 1988, I distinctly remember being worried about my 6th grade algebra test scheduled later in the day. I craved for my parents’ guidance and moral support but they were thousands of miles away living in another country. Years later, when I recounted this experience to my father, he confided to me, with tears welling up in his eyes, that not a day goes by without him feeling remorse for not having been around to guide me during my youth. While my parents showered me with material comforts and love, it still did not compensate for their physical absence. Experiences such as these motivated me to mentor a team of four at ZZZ, an organization aimed at preparing high school students for college. The students were mostly from broken homes with very little means of sustenance. My responsibility, when I joined ZZZ in summer ‘09, was to guide my team to conceive a product, create a business plan and present it during the business plan competition at the end of the school year. During the first few meetings, we discussed numerous product ideas, few practical and many impractical. Though taken by their enthusiasm, I had to help them focus on a feasible product taking into account time and logistical constraints. Doing so with teenagers took considerable patience, but eventually, given our collective craving for desserts, a great product idea - “Customizable candy wrappers” was born! We soon got to work after...
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