...Income Mobility: Up & Down the Economic Ladder by Tom Thompson Dr.Walker Senior Seminar 7/29/2009 Thomas L. Thompson Dr. Christopher Walker Senior Seminar July 29, 2009 Income Mobility: Up & Down the Economic Ladder People always say they do what they do to make life better not only for themselves, but for the future well-being of their children and hopefully those actions will get passed on to their children. This is my way of thinking of the paying it forward theory; giving all I have, to make the lives of my children better than the one I grew up with and the one I currently live. One of my most favorite quotes about getting ahead in life came from a philosopher and pastor Russell Conwell that is hand-written by my grandmother in a Bible that was given to me some years ago. It goes like this, “For a man to say, I do not want money, is to say, I do not wish to do any good to my fellow men" (Conwell). Everyone wants money, only if it is to do good for your family’s future. From the rich business professional perched high in their penthouse to the lowly street peddler on the corner, everyone has a story on how and why they ended up in that position. The United States is seen as the place where everyone has the opportunity of the “American Dream”. That includes the opportunity for one's children to grow up and attain to their fullest potential in which they are capable of, and seen for what they are and not what they are born with. It is the opportunity...
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...monkeys and a ladder thought experiment? If not, stick around. This is going to be an interesting post. If nothing else, it’s a modern-day parable. People usually fail to mention this is actually a thought experiment and pass it off as a real experiment. It’s not. It’s a thought experiment based on an actual experiment published in a 1967 paper by a researcher called G.R. Stephenson (cited below), and it goes like this: Five monkeys were placed in a cage. In the middle of the cage there was a ladder with a banana on top. As one might expect one of the monkeys raced toward the ladder and as he started to climb, the researchers sprayed the monkey with cold water. In addition to the monkey climbing the ladder, however, the four monkeys at the bottom of the ladder were also sprayed with ice cold water. A second monkey attempted to climb the ladder and the same thing happened: the researchers sprayed all 5 monkeys with cold water. After a while none of the monkeys dared to climb the ladder to get their hands on the delicious banana, regardless of the temptation. Once the researchers made sure none of the monkeys was going to climb the ladder, they replaced one of them with another monkey. The newcomer, unaware of the situation, ran toward the ladder to get the banana. But once he started to climb the ladder he was brought down and beaten up by the other four monkeys. After several beatings, the inexperienced new guy learned his lesson: Climbing = Getting beat up. Although he...
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...Criticism of Ladder For Booker T. Washington, by Martin Puryear This is an essay to criticize a piece by master woodworker Martin Puryear titled Ladder For Booker T. Washington, created in 1996 from ash and maple wood, displayed at The Modern in the City of Fort Worth, Texas. Made from smooth, light wood the ladder appears to extend great lengths, but when viewed from a different angle the ladder is much shorter. The purpose of a ladder is to reach greater heights with ease and safety, but the ladder appears bent and crooked in different areas making for a difficult climb. The lighting in the room also stood out, making the ladder going upwards towards a large fluorescent fixture. The most obvious element of design Martin Puryear uses is shape to create a one-point perspective illusion, making the ladder appear infinite. Another interesting choice of design was the use of smooth, rounded texture of the wood emphasizing a difficult climb. Lastly the artwork uses the value from actual light to make the ladder recede into a bright light. The main principles of design I see are the use of movement and balance. First he uses curving lines and repetition to show movement. The way Puryear repeats the curves of the steps make your eyes move up. Secondly he uses asymmetrical balance making one side of the ladder different than the other, which is different from a normal symmetrical ladder. Booker T. Washington was an African-American teacher, author, advisor to presidents, and...
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...LOGIC CONTROLLERS Topics: • PLC History • Ladder Logic and Relays • PLC Programming • PLC Operation • An Example Objectives: • Know general PLC issues • To be able to write simple ladder logic programs • Understand the operation of a PLC 2.1 INTRODUCTION Control engineering has evolved over time. In the past humans were the main method for controlling a system. More recently electricity has been used for control and early electrical control was based on relays. These relays allow power to be switched on and off without a mechanical switch. It is common to use relays to make simple logical control decisions. The development of low cost computer has brought the most recent revolution, the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). The advent of the PLC began in the 1970s, and has become the most common choice for manufacturing controls. PLCs have been gaining popularity on the factory floor and will probably remain predominant for some time to come. Most of this is because of the advantages they offer. • Cost effective for controlling complex systems. • Flexible and can be reapplied to control other systems quickly and easily. • Computational abilities allow more sophisticated control. • Trouble shooting aids make programming easier and reduce downtime. • Reliable components make these likely to operate for years before failure. 2.1.1 Ladder Logic Ladder logic is the main programming method used for PLCs. As mentioned before, ladder logic has been developed to mimic relay logic...
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...[ADVANCE Clinical Ladder Program for Nurses Other educational opportunities For clinicians who wish to advance in their careers and increase or further develop their skills at the patient's bedside offers an innovative, cutting-edge clinical ladder advancement program. ADVANCE (achievements demonstrating versatile accomplishments in nursing clinical excellence) nursing clinical ladder program for registered nurses who serve as clinicians. Registered nurses can progress from registered nurse (RN) 1 through 4 by demonstrating superior clinical expertise and completing a combination of continuing education courses Advanced training or professional certification, participating in research and by demonstrating continued development clinical practice. Through self-development activities, continuing education and professional development, you have the opportunity to move up the clinical ladder, achieving greater responsibility and accountability as you progress. Applicants are reviewed and approved by your peers. Clinical ladder promotions are rewarded financially at each step in the ladder. ADVANCE program eligibility • registered nurse (RN) clinician • Budgeted and benefit-eligible employee • RN that has successfully completed the probationary period (first 90 days of employment) • RN that is not in the positive discipline process • Performance appraisal at present level is rated competent (3) or above in each performance standard Application...
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...Date: April 12, 2015 Subject: Ladder Accident Incident Report- April 2, 2015 INCIDENT On April 2, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Nancy Smith was working the truck shipment shift putting the new shipment of product away alone in the backroom before store opening hours. While Nancy was on top of a ladder putting shipment away on one of the higher stock shelves, she had slipped off the ladder, falling 12 feet to the ground, and sprained her right ankle. CAUSE Nancy was alone in the backroom putting shipment away on top of a 12 foot ladder during her shift at work while a co-worker Gina Stevens was putting product away on the sales floor. Music was playing in the backroom and Nancy was on top of the ladder, dancing to the music. While holding product in her left hand and the ladder in her right hand while dancing, Nancy let go of the ladder to reach up to put the product on a higher shelf. This caused Nancy to lose her balance and fall off the ladder, spraining her right ankle. RESULT Gina who had been putting product away on the sales floor heard a cry from the back room. When she went in back to investigate the noise, she found Nancy sitting on the ground, holding her right ankle. Gina called for an ambulance at 9:23AM which then arrived at 9:28 AM, taking Nancy to Sherman Hospital in Elgin, IL. EVALUATION EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: All employees who stand on 12 foot ladder or taller must have a spotter. No employee should use a ladder alone in a room. Please use safety...
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...damaged by mobs. Notch has even added a splash text to this effect. It is always safer to mine in a staircase pattern or find an open-mouth cave on the surface. It is also safe to place ladders as you go so you don't fall off the block and get killed. A 2×1 hole straight down is still not advisable, but is much safer, since you don't have to stand on the block that you're removing. If you want to dig straight down, another method consists of mining 4 blocks in a 2×2. Stand on one and break the one next to it, hop onto the block below, and repeat. Make sure you don't dig two down from the one you step onto; you have to be able to jump back up. This will consume more resources but constructs a staircase back to the mine entrance. A safer method is to dig a 3×1 hole with a ladder down the middle. (Multiple ladders may also work.) It's worth re-adding some side blocks every 5 to 8 levels, in case you fall off the ladder. You can also pour water at the bottom to protect you from fall damage. The wider hole gives you room for both those side blocks and torches, and means you always have someplace safe to stand when digging. Such a shaft is also a good start for shaft mining the area. Another way is to dig down 3 blocks from the surface, place a ladder on the bottom block, stand on that ladder and mine the blocks below and repeat. This method isn't particularly fast, but can be useful if say you are in a small extreme hills biome and want to mine for emeralds without accidentally...
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...The American Dream can be defined as every citizen having an equal opportunity to obtain success or security through hard work, determination, climbing the social ladder, and undergoing social mobility. I disagree with the idea of social mobility being achievable for most Americans and The American Dream being attainable. There are different types of social mobility. Intergenerational mobility is the change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next. Upward and downward social mobility which is the movement up the social class ladder or down the social class ladder. Structural mobility, movement up or down the social class ladder that is due to changes in structure of society. Finally exchange mobility, the large number of people moving up the social class ladder, while a large number of people move down. Social class is a large group of people who rank closely to one another in property, power and prestige. People tend to believe that there is the rich, the poor and people who are in the middle. Carl Marx argues that there are two classes, capitalists and workers, while sociologists have denounced this view by arguing that these...
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...Ladder 49 Prepared for Comparative Religion By Alice Jahneke December 11, 2014 Ladder 49 is a fictional film written by Lewis Colick, directed by Jay Russell, and produced by Casey Silver. Ladder 49 was released in 2004 and grossed a little over $22.1 million. This is a story about the heroic Baltimore City firefighter, Jack Morrison. Jack is trapped by a blazing, four alarm fire, inside the belly of a 20 story grain warehouse. While waiting for his brothers from Ladder Company 49 to come to his rescue, Jack struggles to remain conscious. His life plays like a movie, as flashbacks take him back to his first days with the department, up until the present day. This movie is action packet, and full of emotion as it celebrates the firefighter profession and their lifestyle. As the movie opens, Jack Morrison (played by Joaquin Phoenix) is saving a man from a massive four alarm fire, atop a 20-story concrete grain warehouse. Just as Jack gets the man to the safety of his fellow firefighters, the grain that is being stored explodes. Jack gets caught in the explosion, and winds up several floors down with a broken leg. The rest of the movie follows the endeavors of the other firefighters in Ladder Company 49, led by their commander, Deputy Chief Mike Kennedy (played by John Travolta) as they try to rescue Jack. Interspersed with rescue efforts, we see Jack experiencing flashbacks of his life. How he joined the fire department, the first time he met the woman that...
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...The Coconut Grove Fire On November 28, 1942 a fire in Boston broke out in a night club called “Coconut Grove” killing 492 people. Before the fire broke out, the Boston Fire Department received a call for a car fire at 10:15 PM, 3 blocks from the Cocoanut Grove. After rapidly extinguishing the fire, a firefighter noticed smoke coming out from the night club. The fire fighters went over to investigate it and saw heavy smoke coming from the entire structure. The Fire Chief at the scene ordered to skip the second alarm and request a third. By 11:02 PM there was a fifth alarm transmitted. Stanley Tomaszewski a 16 year old busboy was told to put a light bulb back into the socket, however, the boy could not see the socket to tighten the bulb. He...
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...Honestly I didn't know but I had heard of this thing that they contained on the Internet. It was like a time bomb like a literal time bomb you set it to whatever date and it sets everything in the radius to that time except for living things like humans. I had no idea what the date was and it was worrying. I sat in the chair and thought about it for a second. Then the house started to shake and shudder and rise I immediately got out of my chair and to the door as I opened it I almost fell off the steps to the door. I looked over the edge and it was already to high to jump off so I ran back inside and and trapped a ladder to hang off the edges extended it to the highest setting and hung it off the stairs. And led my mom down the ladder first as she went down the ladder grew farther away from the ground but is a safe distance to drop from when she fell from the ladder at the bottom I sped...
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...operation. First due engine company should be positioned to perform one or more of the following functions: 1. Attack fire from front of building using pre-piped deck gun. 2. Attack fire using ground mounted deck gun. 3. Attack fire using 2 ½” hand lines with 1 ¼” tips. 4. Position apparatus to supply Tower Ladder. 5. Supply sprinkler system. b. Force doors to adjacent stores using “K”- Tool to keep control of doors. Do not break glass. c. Stretch hand lines to exposures if manpower is available. II. 2nd Arriving Engine Company a. Provide water supply to first due engine. (800 GPM Minimum) b. Stretch hand lines into exposures. III. 3rd Arriving Engine Company a. Provide second water supply from large main. b. Stretch hand lines into exposures. Assist with truck company functions. IV. 1st Arriving Tower Ladder a. Position Tower Ladder in front of fire building to use master stream device from bucket to reach the interior of the store. 1. Tower ladder should be positioned to access the cock loft of the building for anticipated fire travel. Use a smaller tip at higher nozzle pressure to get penetration. 2. Tower Ladder should be able to flow 1000 + GPM. 3. Tower Ladder should be positioned to operate into...
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...rigorously to scrutiny. Today, my partner, Joyce and myself will share one principle, and one tool that can help us uncover our mental models : The Ladder of Inference & The Left Hand Column Ladder of Inference To share a non-work scenario first - Case Scenario 1 - Part 1 A taxi driver had a son who is serving national service in Lim Chu Kang and he usually checks in by 2359hrs, or just before midnight. One day, he decided to send his son to camp. On the way back, after he dropped his son, the taxi driver had to pass by a cemetery just up ahead from the camp. When driving, he saw a lady wearing a red dress and let down hair, extending her hand, seemingly calling for the taxi to stop. She was alone. The taxi driver, thought, why would a lady, some more in red, at that moment in time, doing on the road side near the cemetery? Without giving a second thought, he quickly decided to drive off. Case Scenario 1 - Part 2 1 week later, the taxi driver received letter from his company of a complaint by a lady for not picking her up. She had snapped the license plate number and lodged a formal complaint. Apparently, she had followed her boyfriend back to Lim Chu Kang camp in his bike, and after she booked in, she wanted to take a cab along the roadside near the cemetery, thinking it’s easier to get one. (Show ladder of inference) – Only shoe Observable data + Actions. Use icon as per video....
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...maintenance team (rakes and ladders)measure team performance against goals and objectives. In my opinion rakes and ladders have clear goals and objectives this makes it allot easier to fur fill them. At times, the objectives of one department and another conflict but we still need to work together to achieve the overall objectives of the organisation Rakes and ladders carry out a self-service evaluation every six months to see how the teams are performing this takes into account all of our complaints and positive feedback The down side to this is that when the December service is carried out rakes and ladders haven’t been as visible as they are in the summer because during the winter period rakes and ladders help out the maintenance department carrying out fencing and guttering work. This also causes conflict because I believe rakes and ladders provide a very good service for the maintenance team. during the winter this is when most of the repairs need carrying out on the repairs side because strong winds brings down fences and leafs block many gutters so when rakes and ladders are working hard on the maintenance side the satisfaction survey shows them to be not performing to organisation needs We also conduct a survey but this is based on all the maintenance team and isn’t a true reflection on the rakes and ladders team because during the summer months the repairs team hold back a large amount of the fencing work for rakes and ladders to complete in the winter months...
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...Dr. Seuss illustration. It was that time of year again, my mothers’ favorite holiday – last Thanksgiving. As my mothers’ precious holiday arrived, so did the baggage, the stress and chaos of preparing. There was so much to do but so little time. It seemed as if every year there would be a preplanned agenda to conquer the stress of the holidays. However, every year that so called “plan” would fail. Every member of my family knew what to do, just sit there and wait patiently for the inevitable. Sitting there like a stenographer in a court room, my mother made list after list of errands. “Damn it,” murmured my sister, as she was the first victim of my mothers’ dispersal of errands. She was in charge of running to the store and picking up the rest of the groceries my mother needed to complete the dinner that she had planned. As my father seen the exchange of the grocery list, he without hesitation, snuck...
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