...Reid Weber February 6, 2016 Real Estate Principles Chapter 5 Essay In chapter 4 of the text, Real Estate Principles: A Value Approach- by David C. Ling and Wayne R. Archer, there is a discussion on having limited or no public real property zoning regulations. In this short essay I will discuss the pros and cons of pubic real property zoning regulations as well as the effectiveness of this policy as it relates to Houston, Texas’s overall real estate market. I will then relay my thoughts as to whether this is a model that other municipalities should adopt or not. Before we dive into the pros of public real property zoning regulations, first lets answer the question, what is the purpose of zoning? The main purpose of zoning is to use the land or a property for the common good of society. Zoning is also used to maintain the unique characteristic of the society, to protect and conserve the value of buildings, and to prevent new development from meddling with the existing uses. So what are some pros of these zoning regulations? One of the more important benefits of zoning is that it can give a community some control over its land uses, appearance, and quality of life in the future. This may help with implementing community goals and objectives such as allowing potential nuisance uses to be located away from residential neighborhoods or other sensitive areas as well as preventing the mixing of incompatible land uses (such as erotic...
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...Personal Responsibility and College Success Christina Anderson GEN/200 December 23, 2013 April Hankins Personal Responsibility and College Success Personal responsibility means taking responsibility for the choices you make. Personal responsibility is a choice that you have to make. Taking personal responsibility for something gives you something to measure up to. “Personal responsibility is the key to college success.” (Houston, 2011) If you want to be successful in college, your personal responsibility goals should include a preliminary plan that you will practice in your education. When it all comes down to it, personal responsibility is being held accountable for the choices and decisions you make in life. This also includes accommodating the significance of the results of what you do. (Swarmer, 2012) Personal responsibility means taking responsibility for your decisions. When talking about this term, you’re using personal responsibility as a yardstick to measure up to what you want to accomplish in life. Usually personal responsibility starts off with a task, a want or a desire. Sometimes you take care of these duties on your own, or you might work them out in a group. If you’re a good person, it means taking personal responsibility seriously. When you make a mistake or do something wrong, it also means you take responsibility for the choices that you make. Personal responsibility means you critique yourself and make things right when something goes wrong. The...
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...Name: Lisa Course: 1300 Date: Friday, October 11, 2013 My Library Experience Coming to Houston Community College was a huge blur for me. No one told me it was going to be a confusing mess. Also, no one told me the people working there were not friendly and were not helpful; I had to find that out by myself. I had no idea what college was going to be like. The only thing that I found helpful was going to The Leaning Hub class and learning about the library and how they work. Coming to The Learning Hub class showed me ways that I can get information on books, find books, and get a book transferred to a campus close to me. Upon going to The Learning Hub class, I though Houston Community College’s libraries were regular city libraries. Once I got into The Learning Hub class I found out that that was completely wrong. As I sat there listening to Mr. Hord talk about how to begin to look for a book, I found that being in a library at a HCC was going to be the most helpful place in college. When looking for a book at a Houston Community College Library you have to begin with what the title or topic the novel is written about, then go online at the Houston Community College library homepage and type the topic or title in. Once you find the novel you are looking for you can check and see which campuses hold the book, you can see if it is in transit, checked out or requested. If the novel is there at the campus you are at, there is a call number that you can use to find your...
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...editions of Windows. In this proposal, the major areas I will cover are Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, File Services, Remote Services, and WSUS (Windows Server Update Services). These major roles have features that will make Shiv LLC Company’s infrastructure run smoothly. Active Directory Shiv LLC will have sites across a large geographic location. Because of this, a regional domain model should be used. Domains will be broken down into where users are working. For example, currently Shiv LLC has three locations, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Houston. This means there will be three domains, representing each of these cities. This strategy will make sure the network can be maintained by regional administrators, who will only worry about users in their area of the network. With this style of deployment, it can be difficult to decide what will be the forest root domain. The main staff for the company is in two cities, Dallas and Houston. This makes it difficult to make one of these sites the forest root domain. To make this decision neutral, a dedicated forest root domain can be suggested. This domain will be created only to function as the forest root. It will not contain and users, except for service administrator accounts for the forest root. It will not represent any geographical region of the network, and the other domains (each of the three cities) will be the children. The dedicated root will not affect any changes that could be made to other sites, and it is neutral, meaning...
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...Houston is the largest city in the state of Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States. As of 2006, the city had a population of 2.14 million and anchors a metropolitan area of 5.5 1 million people. Houston is the economic and cultural center of the western Gulf Coast Region and southeastern Texas. Over the past several decades the city has rapidly added population and developed in a low density autocentric form. Houston is well known for being the largest city in the nation with no zoning. This laissez-faire government structure allowing for the market to dictate urban form is one of the reasons why Houston has remained an affordable and viable place for people and businesses to relocate. However, the loosely regulated growth throughout Metropolitan Houston is having many negative impacts on the quality of life and poses serious implications to the future viability and livability of Houston in the future. In most cities, zoning is one the most effective instruments used by planners to shape the built environment. However, since Houston and Harris County have no zoning powers, deed restrictions and ordinances are used as land use planning tools. Many planning decisions in Houston are made at the neighborhood level and are spear headed by non-profits such as the Gulf Coast Institute 2 . The Gulf Coast Institute (GCI) is an organization that seeks to create a livable community with a dynamic economy that revitalizes and protects neighborhoods, improves access, increases mobility...
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...Personal Responsibility and College Success Christina Anderson GEN/200 December 23, 2013 April Hankins Personal Responsibility and College Success Personal responsibility means taking responsibility for the choices you make. Personal responsibility is a choice that you have to make. Taking personal responsibility for something gives you something to measure up to. “Personal responsibility is the key to college success.” (Houston, 2011) If you want to be successful in college, your personal responsibility goals should include a preliminary plan that you will practice in your education. When it all comes down to it, personal responsibility is being held accountable for the choices and decisions you make in life. This also includes accommodating the significance of the results of what you do. (Swarmer, 2012) Personal responsibility means taking responsibility for your decisions. When talking about this term, you’re using personal responsibility as a yardstick to measure up to what you want to accomplish in life. Usually personal responsibility starts off with a task, a want or a desire. Sometimes you take care of these duties on your own, or you might work them out in a group. If you’re a good person, it means taking personal responsibility seriously. When you make a mistake or do something wrong, it also means you take responsibility for the choices that you make. Personal responsibility means you critique yourself and make things right when something goes wrong. The...
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...The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is full of opportunities. There is something for everybody including but not limited to art, rodeo sports, horticulture, and livestock. Rodeo Houston has played a huge role in my life. It has made a positive impact on me and my future. I gained lifelong qualities of leadership, responsibility, and career growth. My calf scramble experience allowed me to gain the leadership I need to influence others. Since I was five-years old, I have been attending the rodeo and dreamed of participating in the calf scramble. When the time came my freshman year, I took advantage of my opportunity. I had to write an essay about my future project including the care it would receive and the reason I deserved to be in the calf scramble. The night before my scramble date, I was diagnosed with the stomach flu. My devastating condition kept me awake and over the toilet the entire night. It was awful. My dream...
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...Food Bank Essay Experience at the Houston Food Bank My Exciting day all began Saturday afternoon at 1pm, I had just arrived on time at the main entrance of the “Houston Food Bank”. The food banks sliding doors parted as I walked in the direction of a young lady who was smiling and taking everyone’s queue code to enter as a volunteer. As I approached my 1pm group, our team leader was giving everyone insight about the food bank and a guided tour. Our group walked all the way to the doors in the back where we started unwrapping large pallets of food in boxes and started to break them down and sort them. Every single minute I was there, I witnessed everybody performing with positive attitudes. Everyone was willing to listen to one another’s advice and ideas as well as always engaging in the work. Service learning is a method of teaching that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service. This form of learning emphasizes critical thinking and personal reflection while encouraging a heightened sense of community, civic engagement, and personal responsibility. Volunteerism is the reliance of volunteers working towards helping a specific social, or educational duty in the community. This is similar to community service, because by definition of both terms, both groups of people take time out to help a community. Community service differs from volunteerism by catering to organizations which does not just benefit a community, but also an institution. Having been...
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...Professor Lee Harrison ENGL 1301, Tuesday 2:30p.m (Class Red) 30, September 2013 Language and its Meaning Language defines someone’s culture or character as a person, it is a means of history and ancestry. Without language it would be hard for people to communicate on a level to which they actually understand one another. In Amy Tan’s and James Baldwin’s essay’s they both go into detail about their aspects of what language is meant to them, and discusses it in detail throughout their stories. James Baldwin in his essay discusses a main and questionable factor of a type of English called “Black English” and it actually being a language. While, Amy Tans story is mainly about different types of English languages that she had to pursue her entire life whether it be broken, simple, or watered down English. Each author speaks of different perceptions on English, which should not be judged or ridiculed in any way. James Baldwin in his essay, “If Black English isn't a Language, Then Tell Me What Is?," he starts off by stating that Language isn't the main issue in his essay, it is just apart from what has truly evolved in international societies. He refers to the Americans as not recognizing that Black English is a Language, because it is a different kind of language and isn't necessarily acceptable to them. According to Baldwin Black English is a language, because slaves used it in order to communicate in a submerged society in which they lived. Language he states comes...
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...Dimitrula Velez Option 1: Recycling Your Old Computer Information Technology Center One Main Street Houston, Texas 77002 Re: Desktop Computing Project I’m writing in regards to the Desktop Computing Project at University of Houston-Downtown. According to the Project, full time faculty and staff members are provided with a desktop computer or laptop on a three year rotating basis determined by the department. The computers that fall behind minimum standard are upgraded based on the departments upgrade guideline. The project did not state what happens with the computers that can’t be used. There are millions of computers that are being thrown out in the waste land. “Companies Financial Corp. in Baton Rouge, La., was able to sell about 400 PCs to employees for $5 each” (Nash). “The rest went to recyclers that dismantled them and sold the scrap copper, gold and glass” (Nash). . We currently have over 14,000 students at the University of Houston-Downtown; out of 14,000 student we can determine how many students are in need of a computer, and offer them one. "People are much more interested in giving an old computer to a non-profit than seeing it recycled." An Institution of higher learning such as University of Houston-Downtown, should start a program that donates computers to students who do not own a computer or donate computers to a nonprofit organization. “In the U.S., even if you made a well-intentioned effort to properly recycle your computer, there's a 50...
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...Jumper's Knee As the basketball player leaps into the air and slams the ball through the hoop he falls and land on the ground, he tries to get up but it is hopeless he has been diagnosed with jumper's knee. Jumper's knee is important to avoid and learn about. Especially if you are athletic and or using your legs to lift or running and jumping. Jumper's knee is a serious condition and should not be taken serious. Jumper’s knee happens in the knee which happens when jumping and running,this essay will focus on symptoms, treatment, and overall causes of jumper's knee. The causes of Jumper’s knee talked about in this essay are internal, and external causes, also improper footwear. But the one that will be talked about first is improper foot. Having bad footwear can affect balance and...
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...EDUCATION ESSAY My purpose for seeking a Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership is to expand my knowledge of theory and research methods as it pertains to education. I especially want to fine-tune my research skills as I feel that the importance of gaining research skills is imperative to becoming a lifelong learner and developing intellectual self-actualization as I prepare myself for a career in Education. I realize the importance of gaining credibility among my future colleagues and people that I will be serving in the field. My view of Education is that of a reformist. I have a particular interest in the improvement of homeless individuals, single mothers and women of color. Because of my own experience with both homelessness and single motherhood, I know the feeling of helplessness as you are sinking deeper and deeper in desperation that you feel that you will never recover from it. I have seen how generations of these people have become prisoners by being illiterate and /or insufficiently educated around our city with little or no hope of getting free from their bondage. Although I have struggled hard to get myself out of this situation I refuse to forget. I have strove to make a difference wherever I can. As volunteer at Christian Assistance Ministry I witnessed the overworked conditions that the social workers and volunteers faced. Worn from these conditions these dedicated workers had no respite from their daily work of feeding, clothing and providing funds for...
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...Essay Mistakes Since attending the University of Houston, I have written ten essays for English. In the beginning I was a little nervous about writing for college; however, now I am more relaxed about my writing. Reviewing those essay I have notice several errors I continuously made; comma splices and using there and their incorrectly. “A pregnancy at a young age, could rob you of your youth, the phrase, a baby with a baby, comes to mind.” This an example of one of the comma errors I have made on essays. Common splices occur when you use commas when they are not needed. To correct the example above; I would rewrite the sentence to read as follows: A pregnancy at a young age could rob you of your youth, “A baby with a baby” comes to mind. Using the words “there and their” in the incorrect form is another error I continuously made. The essays I have written thus far I have used these word incorrectly twelve times. To correct these errors, I should first know what each word means. There, is at or in a place. There is also used in clauses which the real subject follows the verb for example; Burning calories isn’t easy but there are soothing exercises available. The definition for “their” is belonging to, made by or done by them. The boys went with their father is an example of their used correctly. Other errors I have made during essay writing are fragments and run ons. A fragment is an incomplete part. Michael Jackson began performing at age thirteen is...
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...Century, also known as the Gilded Age? In the book, Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson the author describes how greed and corruption by the United States government ultimately leads to poor decisions after a horrific disaster in 1900 [Larson]. In addition, well-researched essays by Henry Demarest Lloyd and Emma Goldman back up Larson’s theory that the Gilded Age was actually a very dark time for the United States. Isaac’s Storm describes the historical aspects of the national weather service, weather forecasting, and hurricane predictions. Larson gives insight into the personal tragedy of a destructive storm in September of 1900 and how it affected Galveston, Texas and its position as a major city in the United States. Teemed with devastation and arrogance, the book follows Isaac Cline who was one of the first meteorologists at a time when there really was not a true science connected to weather predictions. He showed a real aptitude in this new field and eventually found himself assigned to the weather bureau in Galveston, Texas [Larson]. At the beginning of the 20th Century, a great confidence pervaded the United States. Isaac Cline was one of the era’s new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. This type of confidence was matched with the wealth and power of industry leaders acting as robber barons and not captains of industry [Foner]. According to Larson and essayists Lloyd and Goldman, there was an imbalance...
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...Apollo 13 Essay Apollo 13 was one of the most terrifying and suspenseful events that happened in history. Directors and authors try their best to create an environment where the reader or viewer can feel they were there when it happened. The author or director creates suspense in many ways. In text the author may use descriptions, vivid verbs, phrases that cause fear, and frightening facts. In movies, directors can create suspense by using music, different angles with camera shots, lighting, and characters emotions. In the book “The Race to Save Apollo 13” the author Michael Useem created suspense in multiple ways. One of those ways he created suspense was the phrases that would cause fear. One of the phrases is when Kranz was on the phone with Chris Kraft “…It seems there’s been an explosion.” This phrase creates suspense because it’s not specifically telling the reader what happened. It also makes the reader wonder what will happen next. In the movie, Apollo 13 directed by Ron Howard, there are different ways of how suspense was created. When astronaut Lovell tells Houston “there is something leaking into space”, the director used camera angles to create suspense. Ron Howard, the director, used a camera shot that showed the oxygen leaking into space. This makes the viewer be on the edge of their seat because they will want to know what will happen next. At both of these parts the author and director used different techniques to keep drawling in their audience. Another example...
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