...was having a DCHealthLink Health Fair outside of the Martin Luther King Library and they had invited several diverse radio stations and food vendors in order to attract those passing by. These food vendors, all food trucks, included Senor Taco, DC Sliders, Dolci Gelati, Hala Grill, and Jerk@Nite. A month before, Jerk@Nite hadn’t been established. It was more of a thought. Denville Myrie, CEO of Jerk@Nite, never pictured a a year ago that he would be cooking his thoughts in a truck and serving them to real customers. Background Myrie, a Physical Therapy/Health Science student at Howard University, came here from Jamaica with an I’m-going-to-be-somebody attitude. He made plans to be a health professional dealing with health administration with the long-term goal of owning a hospital. He is a interesting guy with a hustler’s mentality. Not knowing anything about the culture of the university, he quickly adapted and a found a way into the culture’s infrastructure that would better prepare him for the future he planned. He realized early that the campus housing situation wasn’t a fit for his lifestyle and during his second year, he and some friends found a place not too far from campus. This is where the idea of Jerk@Nite was created. Myrie was tired of the selections offered during the late night hours, and being that he was entering into a health industry, it just killed him to have to make unhealthy decisions about the food that was entering into him. During that same...
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...as a guide for behavior in a specific situation (p.227). Groups may be classified according to a number of variables. Four criteria are particularly useful: membership, strength of social tie, type of contact, and attraction. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide assistance and support through established programs in local communities throughout the world. A sisterhood of more than 200,000 predominately Black college educated women, the Sorority currently has over 900 chapters located in the United States, England, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Republic of Korea. The Sorority was founded in 1913 by 22 students at Howard University. These young women wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic excellence; to provide scholarships; to provide support to the underserved; educate and stimulate participation in the establishment of positive public policy; and to highlight issues and provide solutions for problems in their communities (Delta Sigma Theta, 2010). Delta Sigma Theta’s website is about heritage. This site speaks volumes about how these women wanted to be a part of an organization that consists of excellence. These women have a lifetime membership within the sorority. The influence that this organization has, as well as the site, is remarkable. The information on this site will allow younger women that have the desire to go to college and...
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...Brief History of General Oliver O. Howard General Oliver O. Howard, a Civil War hero was born on November 8, 1830 in Leeds, Maine and died October 26, 1909 in Burlington, Vermont. He served as organizer and head of the Freedmen’s Bureau in (1865-72) and founder of Howard University. He used his position in the Freedmen’s Bureau to fight for, protect, and create educational possibilities, and a better way of life for the freedmen. Howard University gets its name from him and the Howard University Hospital, as we know it today was called "Freedman's Hospital.” He became the third president of the University, but resigned to go back to the military. The military was his love and in his blood. General Howard is described as a “Christian man who stood up for his beliefs and convictions, and who used his position as head of the Freedmen’s Bureau to fight for the well-being of Negroes in the South.”1 The General took pride in his position to defend race relations, education, and the general welfare of people. He felt that “no aspect of freedom for the newly emancipated was quite as close to his heart as that of providing educational facilities.”2 The General’s dedication and commitment to the freedmen was recognized by President Andrew Johnson, who in 1865 appointed General Howard to commission the Freedmen’s Bureau. As a result of his new appointment the General moved to Washington. Being a deeply religious man, The General’s religious roots lead him to “join others in...
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...Course Syllabus MGT/445 Version 1 1 Course Syllabus School of Business MGT/445 Version 1 Organizational Negotiations February 14, 2012 – March 19, 2012 Augusta Inniss, Facilitator Copyright © 2009, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides an overview of negotiations in an organizational setting. Students learn negotiation processes and strategies, the role of stakeholder interests in negotiation, and how to apply these concepts to the workplace. Students also examine conflict management techniques and emerging negotiation trends in globalization and technology. Policies Students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Cellich, C., & Jain, S. C. (2004). Global business negotiations: A practical guide. Mason, OH: Thomson/SouthWestern. Coltri, L. S. (2004). Conflict diagnosis and alternative dispute resolution. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Lewicki, R...
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... | | |MGT/445 Version 1 | | |Organizational Negotiations | Copyright © 2009, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides an overview of negotiations in an organizational setting. Students learn negotiation processes and strategies, the role of stakeholder interests in negotiation, and how to apply these concepts to the workplace. Students also examine conflict management techniques and emerging negotiation trends in globalization and technology. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Cellich, C., & Jain, S. C. (2004). Global business negotiations:...
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...In the book “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a large emphasis was put on how the oppression of black life has impacted him as well as others in the black community. In a letter to his son, Coates begins with his experience on a talk show where he was asked about his body, to which he responds honestly that American history is to blame. He feels as though there is a palpable distinction between the hosts’ body and his own as a result of the history of oppression black people faced at the hand of white america. Ultimately, the most prevailing message of this book is that the success and progress of white america was made possible at the expense of black bodies. Coates mentions the racist murders of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, John...
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...THE MAN OF STEEL AND THE DRAGON: AUSTRALIA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA DURING THE HOWARD ERA PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION On consecutive days in October 2003, President George W Bush of the United States of America and President Hu Jintao of People’s Republic of China addressed joint sittings of both houses of the Australian Parliament. This historic occasion symbolises how Australia conducted its foreign relations with ‘East’ and ‘West’ during the Howard Era. The pragmatic decision to allow Hu Jintao to become the first non-American foreigner to address both houses demonstrates how Howard viewed Sino-Australian relations. It showed the world that it was possible to have warm relations with both the United States and China. By the end of the Howard Era in 2007, China had become Australia’s major trading partner. This was a far cry from 1996, when in the first months of the newly elected Howard Government a series of events caused severe tensions in Sino-Australian relations, as described below. This culminated in the Chinese response of banning visits to China by Australian ministers, a serious manoeuvre in the nuanced world of diplomacy. From these frosty beginnings, the relationship between the two nations strengthened considerably, for a variety of reasons, some of them outside Australia’s control. Paul Keating may have sown the seeds to Australia’s ‘pivot’ to Asia, but it was the Howard Government that undertook the most significant shift in orientation, cumulating in...
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...“I wonder why my best friend is more intelligent than I?” Some often wonder why others are smarter than them. That is not the case, everyone is relatively different and “…there are many ways to be smart.” (Coon & Mitterer, 2015) Three of the theories used to describe the different levels of intelligence are Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Environmental intelligence, and Heredity Intelligence. First, according to Howard Gardner of Howard University, there are eight distinctly different kinds of intelligences which are Language (linguistic abilities), Logic and Math (numeric abilities), Visual and spatial (pictorial abilities), Music (musical abilities), Bodily-kinesthetic (physical abilities), Intrapersonal (having and underlying understanding of oneself), Interpersonal (understanding of other people), and Naturalist (ability to understand the natural environment). These intelligences are the different mental “languages” that people use for thinking (Coon & Mitterer, 2015, p. 338) . The drawbacks of this theory are no researches or assessments done to prove this theory. This theory is also contradictory....
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... Politics: Howards Government [Victoria University] Table of Contents Thesis Statement 1 Introduction 1 Discussion 1 Political Culture 3 Economic Rationalism 4 Social Conservatism 7 Conclusion 8 References 9 Annotated Bibliography 11 Politics: Howards Government Thesis Statement The changes brought by he Howard’s government in social, political, and economical landscape are substantially different from previous regimes and tend to move away from welfare state to free market system. Introduction This paper discusses the changes that have been brought by the 11 year era of 25th Prime minister of Australia, Mr John Winston Howard. This era saw economic expansion that is characterized as longest in the history of Australia. Howard’s policies, practices, philosophies, and decisions have been widely debated specially over the issue of abolishing welfare system, treatment of asylum seeker after the 9-11, and such. This paper discusses the changes in the era of Howard and its consequences. Discussion The 25th Prime minister of Australia, Mr John Winston Howard, was born on July 26th; 1939.he is the longest serving prime minister of Australia after Sir Robert Menzies. His era of Prime Ministership started March 11th, 1996 and ended in December the 3rd 2007. After 1980, it was the first Federal victory of coalition of the National Parties and liberals. The first terms was 1996 to 1998, the second term of the Howard was 1998-2001...
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... | | |Organizational Negotiations | | |Puerto Rico Campus | Copyright © 2009, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides an overview of negotiations in an organizational setting. Students learn negotiation processes and strategies, the role of stakeholder interests in negotiation, and how to apply these concepts to the workplace. Students also examine conflict management techniques and emerging negotiation trends in globalization and technology. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Cellich, C., & Jain, S. C. (2004). Global...
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...between the company and its patrons. Suggestions like these and others have helped to contribute to the success of Starbucks. The success of Starbucks is not only local but also a global success. Success of any company has a foundation in the organizational culture of a company. Overview of Starbucks The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington in 1971 (“Our Heritage”). Starbucks prided themselves on fresh brewed coffee from the world’s best and freshest coffee beans. Ten years later, Howard Shultz became the CEO of Starbucks. Howard Shultz was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Northern Michigan University on a football scholarship. After graduating, Shultz sold kitchen appliances before landing a job with Starbucks as a marketing representative (“Forbes 400”). A year after joining the Starbucks, Shultz visited Italy where he was exposed and inspired to a coffee shop that featured some of the aspects such as a espresso bar. With these features in mind, Howard returned to Starbucks with the idea of adding an espresso bar but was denied the opportunity to include the feature in the Starbucks shops. Motivated to have an espresso bar, Shultz went and opened his...
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...The art world is composed of all the people involved in the production, commission, presentation, preservation, promotion, chronicling, criticism, and sale of fine art. Howard S. Becker describes it as "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produce(s) the kind of art works that art world is noted for" (Becker, 1982). In her book, Seven Days in the Art World, Sarah Thornton describes it as "a loose network of overlapping subcultures held together by a belief in art. They span the globe but cluster in art capitals like New York, London, Los Angeles, and Berlin."[1] Other cities that can be classified as "art capitals" include Beijing, Hong Kong, Miami, Paris, Rome and Tokyo; due to their large art festivals, followings and being centers of art production. The notion of the singular art world is problematic, since Becker [2] and others have shown, art worlds are multiplicities, they are globally scattered, constantly in flux, and typically operating independently of each other: there really is no center to the art world any more. In her analysis of the "net art world" (referring to network-aided art or net art Amy Alexander states "net.art had a movement, at the very least it had coherence, and although it aimed to subvert the art world, eventually its own sort of art world formed around it. It developed a culture, hype and mystique through lists and texts; it had a centre, insiders, outsiders...
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...In Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, he describes Howard University as Mecca a place of guidance for his life.During his time in college he came across with many kinds of African people who made him believe that power was restore to them by seeing students diversity.He was admitted in the institution where his grandfather worked and family members who assisted graduated from Howard.Throughout his time in the institution he learned more of the history of African American lives.For most of the part he expressed his ideals through his favorite readings because it allow him to explore more about black history. Coates describes that classrooms were not for him because he was not interested in his classes , and he was only to be in the libraries were he enjoyed reading to expand his vocabulary and learning. In addition, I find it interesting how he explains Mecca becomes part of his body and how he figures out his identity in college. For example he says“And really what it showed me is, even within what seems like a narrow band, which is to say, you know, black life, is in fact quite cosmopolitan, is in fact a beautiful”.In Howard he learned a lot of many cultures and religion that allow him to thinking critically . It became something good...
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...Howard Florey, Ernest Chain and Norman Heatly helped make Penicillin the anti-biotic that it is to this day. World War II had a great effect on the development of the anti-biotic. World War II caused Penicillin development to speed up and caused the anti-biotic to become produced more rapidly because of the large number of soldiers who needed the anti-biotic. Penicillin helped keep soldiers alive in World War II, unlike in World War I. This was a big difference between the two wars, and helped save soldiers lives. Without Penicillin in World War II millions of soldiers would have lost their lives to infections and bacteria, but since Penicillin was discovered by Dr. Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, Ernest Chain and Norman Heatly the lives of the people were able to be...
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...A Tale of Two Managers Andy King COM/170 Elements of University Composition and Communication I April 23, 2012 Charlotte Babb A Tale of Two Managers I have worked with my company for 24 years, and except for the past six months, I have had one manager, Howard Johnson. Unfortunately, Howard passed away last November. The gentleman who replaced Howard as my new manager is Pete Sullivan. Even though they have different management styles, both managers are effective, well liked, respected by their peers, and achieve the same results. Howard and Pete shared many physical similarities, such as age, race, gender, and body type. Howard was a White male, and at the time of his death he was 62 years young. His pot belly usually arrived well ahead of the rest of his five foot ten inch frame. His blond and gray hair was cut short to his scalp and faded into his pale white and freckled complexion. He had crystal blue eyes that could pierce right through anyone when he was serious but could also make someone feel appreciated and truly cared for when he gave praise. I always called him Popeye because he had tremendous forearms. He seemed much too young to die. Pete is a White male, and he is 63 years young. He also has a pot belly that usually greets me before the rest of his six-foot frame can catch up. Pete is bald on top with light brown and gray hair that circles his...
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