...in the Bristol Harbourside area over the last twenty years and evaluate their social and economic implications for local communities. Bristol’s Harbourside overall redevelopment aim was to provide a fresh new creative area of the city consisting of leisure facilities, housing and offices; becoming one of the largest redevelopment projects in the world. The following text will examine Bristol’s Harbourside transformation and the knock on implications for the local community socially and economically. Bristol's Harbourside area was once the original sight of the Port of Bristol. The Port of Bristol was once the central hub of Bristol’s economy, exporting woollen and additional manufactured goods as well as imports in sugar cane, tobacco, rum and cocoa. During the late 1700’s Bristol’s Port business was affected due to the River Avon’s tidal range of 35 feet. This large tidal range meant that the ships were beached in the mud of the River Avon for hours awaiting for the tide to come back in, in order to unload and load cargo. This had a knock on effect of the Ports business causing many ships to move trade to the Port of Liverpool. In an attempt to overcome the challenge of the second highest tidal range in the world the floating harbour was put forward as a solution. During the next two centuries the harbour flourished as a lively profitable port. (Visit Bristol. 2015) The floating Harbour was constructed to sustain a more or less constant water level along the Bristol Dockland...
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...Bristol Bay, Alaska "Salmon or Gold" Can you imagine living in a geographical area in which traditions, language, rituals, and economic sustainability hasn't changed in over 1,000 years? A place inhabited by indigenous people that have lived in harmony with nature only taking what is needed to sustain their lifestyles and having the innate wisdom to keep this resource in balance to ensure continued prosperity? Did you realize that there are still people living in areas here on earth that live without the modern day conveniences such as fast food, malls, and outlet stores? People that rely on bartering and exporting their resource to trade for clothes, shoes, and other items to sustain their way of living and to ensure that their traditions and way of life will continue for generations to follow? As the world becomes smaller, even people that have remained unchanged for thousands of years are being forced to deal with changes that will alter their future and their traditions because of living near valuable resources that are in high demand in our modern day world. And, like so many indigenous people from history, they are desperately praying, advocating, and becoming very political with their fight so that their way of life can continue without disruption to their ecosystems. Native to the area of Bristol Bay, Alaska for thousands of years, the Yupik people have depended on salmon, along with pike, whitefish, beavers, caribou, moose, berries, and plants. Bristol Bay still...
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...policy because humanitarian groups will always help the impoverished and spending money on foreign aid to help corrupt leaders needs to stop. Foreign aid is a controversial subject because many people have different opinions on how foreign aid should be used and if it is actually beneficial to countries. The American public for instance does not realize that only 1.1% of the U.S. Federal Budget goes towards foreign aid, rather the public believes a quarter of the U.S. budget is spent on foreign aid (Bristol, 2011, p.532). Foreign aid is also controversial because it is hard to measure the success of the aid, since most foreign aid goes to countries that have instability within their government. Foreign aid is important because the U.S. strives to be humanitarian when dealing with impoverished countries. This humanitarian effort, while seemingly good is still controversial because in 2010 humanitarian groups spent more money in their efforts than the United States (Bristol, 2011, p.544). Government action is needed when dealing with foreign aid because there is a responsibility of the United States as one of the most powerful countries in the world to be influential in foreign politics. Giving aid to poorer countries is a way for the U.S. government to have power in foreign politics because the government can choose whom...
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...Case Study: GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AIDS in Africa In this case study analysis paper, I shall argue that it is morally acceptable for Indian drug companies to copy and sell the AIDS drugs developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb. The reasons and evidence that support this moral judgment are as follows: Utilitarianism states that an action is morally correct if the sum total benefits produced by the action is greater than the sum total of benefits produced by any other action that could have been performed in its place. In other words, does the action maximize benefits and minimize injuries to those affected by it? In this case study it’s known that AIDS is a major global problem, and by the Indian drug companies selling the drug developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb would help the 28 million people infected with the disease in sub-Saharan Africa where the epidemic is at its worst and most of the individuals affected by it cannot afford the GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb made drugs. Since GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb will not provide a reasonably priced drug cocktail and the Indian drug companies will, the Indian drug companies will be able to save tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands (possibly even millions) of lives. Preserving life is the ultimate benefit that any action can produce. By preserving life many benefits subsequently follow. The individuals who will now live longer due to the availability...
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...About Me I was born in Sussex in 1954 - far too long ago. I was an extremely dreamy and shy child, and I used to used to wander round muttering to myself and playing games with imaginary friends. My parents had to shout - "He's in the land!" to explain to people why I apparently couldn't hear what they were saying to me. I did very badly at school - I was daydreaming too much to concentrate on anything much.. It wasn't until I was pretty nearly grown up that I started to think that the world around me might be at least as interesting as what was going on in my own head. I did poorly at school, although occasionally teachers would think I had a lot of promise. In those days we had an exam called the eleven plus, which you did just before you went to High School. If you were a clever kid with a good brain, you passed and went to Grammar School to learn brainy things, and if you were a dumb kid, you failed and went to Secondary Modern School and learnt how to do things with your hands. I was a kid with hands. I went to Secondary Modern School. I wasn't very happy at my new school. I remember having a lousy teacher there, who bawled me out for doing a story in a way she hadn't ordered - I'd done it as a diary. She was furious! - called me out in front of the whole class and made a fool of me. So, she got no good stories out of me. My parents moved again, to Reading in Berkshire. This new school was going comprehensive - children of all abilities were to go there. I got on...
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...SWOT Analysis STRENGTHS 1. Private Limited Company – more freedom in investment, always been profitable 2. Britain’s most centrally located deep sea port – most economical location, closest to UK container markets 3. Heritage / history as dominant in Bristol City centre 4. Both docks have good access to main motorway and railway 5. Strong motor vehicles sector (import and export) (p. 8) 6. Critical point for entry of a quarter of UK aviation fuel 7. Cost-effective, efficient and sustainable service lead of marketing mix (p.11) 8. Diversity of services (shipping, distribution and logistics) and products offered in different sectors (containers, motor vehicles, bulk energy products, animal feed and grains, fresh product, cargo) 9. Large adjacent sites for industrial use allow multiple purposes and variety of clients + large product portfolio 10. They have the support of the local community, bring value to local environment – good perception 11. Also support of local community for the expansion plans 12. Above average warehousing + storage facilities + wholesale distribution space – cost effective and favour retail activity 13. Accredited ISO 9001:2000 – TQM 14. Diversity of services and products offered (containers, motor vehicles, bulk energy products, animal feeds and grains, fresh produce, cargo) 15. 5th on vehicle import and export [table 3], despite cars only being 4% of cargo type tonnage at BP [table 4] – double their total vehicles...
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...BA English Literature and Community Engagement About your application For entry in October 2013, there will be two deadlines for applications. The initial deadline will be Monday 26 November 2012. Interviews for those who apply by this date will be held in December 2012. Assuming there are still places available after this date, we expect to have a second deadline for applications of Monday 1 July 2013, with interviews to be held later that month. These dates are designed to acknowledge that some applicants are also pursuing other options for further study, and may need to make decisions early in the academic cycle, while other mature students may prefer to complete a prior course of study in 2012/13, such as the English Department’s Reading English Literature course, before applying to the degree. You are advised to read the information in this pack carefully before completing your application. Please address any questions about the application process or the degree to Gareth Griffith on gareth.griffith@bristol.ac.uk Aims of the course: The undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement is offered part-time over six years and is taught one evening per week plus occasional Saturdays. It aims to develop a student’s interest in, and knowledge and understanding of, a full range of literature in English. The programme reflects the English Department’s wider commitment to maintaining a balance between established traditions of literary study and...
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...Book Review I. NAME: Abdel Ahmed DATE: 11/25/2014 BOOK TITLE: When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order AUTHOR: Martin Jacques PUBLISHER: Penguin Books DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2012 PLACE OF PUB: New York, NY II. AUTHOR’S THESIS: China is reshaping the global economy and becoming more of a challenge to the West, but if it cannot advance culturally and institutionally, it will not replace the US. III. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: The book covers an extremely broad period of history when it discusses the rule of China. Before Jacques mentions China’s current global status, he goes over China’s past global situations, mentioning the major rulings of the Xuanzong, the Tang, the Song, the Yuan and the Ming Periods. During the Xuanzong period (712-756), China lead the time period called the “Rise of the East” and took center stage in the Global Economy. During the Tang Period (618-907), China was economically successful and politically dominant. Foreign trade was fully established by that point and territory expansion had gone to dramatic rates. The Song period (960-1279) included the most remarkable economic transformation for commercial, technological and urban economies. At this point, China had let go of some of its militarism and political domination. Shortly after, however, the Yuan era (1271-1368) restored National Unity, political strategy and militarism. Jacques argues that China and the “West” were neck...
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...Colleen White ENG 101 –B104 Professor Mowry Research Essay April 4th 2013 Neonatal Intensive Care Have you ever walked by a nursery at the hospital and saw the babies lying there? Have you ever wondered who is responsible for being the caregiver for the babies while in the hospital? The neonatal intensive care unit is responsible for that. Neonatal intensive care is one of the most crucial jobs in the nursing field due to its roles, requirements, intensive challenges and rewards that it provides. Neonatal nurses have the responsibility of providing the care for babies when they are first born. Neonatal nursing has many education requirements, an outstanding job outlook, as well as great benefits. Neonatal nurses care for newborns for the first 28 days of the babies’ lives, the children’s most helpless stage. Nurses specialized in this field are required to focus not just on healthy infants, but also on ill or premature babies. They monitor the condition of babies, check for signs of distress, and manage medication when necessary. Neonatal nurses are also responsible for providing all kinds of basic care, like changing diapers and feeding babies. “A neonatal intensive care unit often caters to babies with complex medical needs. Invasive treatments like ventilation, repeated blood sampling, invasive catheters are common. Caring for very sick neonates is compounded by the uncertainty that surrounds the immediate outcomes (survival) and the long-term outcomes (disabilities...
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...Over the course of time, there has always been an occupational job for earth scientists. The astronomer studies celestial objects like stars and constellations, while oceanographers study the ocean and what is in it. Other careers consist of studying rocks and minerals (geology), examining fossils to know what life was like during the prehistoric times (paleontology), and seismology, the study of earthquakes. The area of science that stood out to me the most was oceanography. One area in the field of oceanography is marine biology. By the end of this essay, you will know the expectations and obligations it takes to be a marine biologist, what marine biologist would find in this field and the unique tools found in the field. The obligations and expectations of a marine biologist are a major requirement. One duty or expectation of a marine biologist is that he or she must study animals and their habitual state. According to http://www.oceancareers.com/, a responsibility of a marine biologist is to inspect the features of animals and classify them.Lastly a marine biologist is required to create and conduct experiments to creature in its habitat. These are of the tasks and obligations of a marine biologist....
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...this, money plays a big factor in the divide. Being born into a rich family gives you a lot more opportunities than being born into a lower class family. You can go about in life, not worrying about financial problems and focus on the luxuries in life. This includes having higher education without worrying about financial costs. A research project done by Bristol University and UWE Bristol found that once at university, working class students faced considerable economic hardship while middle class students were cushioned by their parents' financial support. Also middle class students were able to draw upon family resources and had influential social networks to help them get work experience or internships while they studied which is crucial in accessing employing. This example shows being working class has the influence to change your future, no matter how hard you try. This is a good way to show how money divides society as the middle class students are more likely to get higher paid jobs and so the wealth will continue to grow generation to generation, while working class students will most probably get lower paid jobs and stay as they are. Detailed statistics in the Human Development Report published last week demonstrate that inequality has grown sharply during Conservative rule and that the poor in Britain now have to live on much the same incomes as their equivalents in Hungary and Korea. The report shows that the poorest 40 per cent of Britons share a lower proportion...
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...mba business Business Ethics assignment Written by: Laurel Hubber Written for: University of Bristol Graduate School of International Business MBA in International Business Date: March 3, 1997 Professor: Henri-Claude de Bettignies "People who think they will be true to their ethics have probably never examined their ethics". 1 ______________________________ 1 Badaracco, J. & Webb, A., Business Ethics: A View from the Trenches, California Management Review, Vol 37, No.2 Winter 1995, p 21 How do you differentiate between "Doing what is right" and "Doing the right thing"? "If all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?" Children often find themselves faced with this question after having been caught doing something that, at the time, seemed right to them; probably because "everyone" else i.e., their peers, was doing it. And, much to their chagrin, children know that the answer to the above question is "no". Even at an early age, they are expected to have the ability to separate their own values from those of their friends. Without defining or analyzing, they are expected to know the difference between "doing the right thing": according to the values of those around them and "doing what is right": according to their own set of values. How does a child know when something is right or wrong? What guidelines does he or she use;...
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...and Administrative Information Charity Name: Charity registration number: Company registration number: Registered Office Operational address: BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ms Cleo Lake Ms Katy Noakes Ms Judith Davis Mr Michael Thaxter Mr Clive Smith Mr Colin Watson Mr Angus Brown Ms Rebecca Gibbs Ms Mary Slattery St Pauls Afrikan Caribbean Carnival 1136561 06116890 The Coach House, Upper York Street, St Pauls, Bristol, BS2 8QN The Coach House, Upper York Street, St Pauls, Bristol, BS2 8QN Elected 26/9/12 Chair from 6/12/12 Elected 26/9/12 Elected 26/9/12 Re- elected 26/9/12 Elected 12/10/11 Re-elected 12/10/11 Elected 26/9/12 – Retired 9/11/12 Retired 26/9/12 Retired 26/9/12 Trustee Colin Watson retires in rotation in accordance with the Memorandum & Articles of Association. Clive Smith, offers himself for re-election this year. Company Secretary Katy Noakes Staff Steve Hunt – General Manager Abdul Hamid – Finance Freelance Staff Jasmine Loveys – Schools co-ordinator Norma Stephenson (Rubba) – Lead Artist Bankers Unity Trust Bank Independent Examiner Richard Maule FCA, 12 Picton Street, Bristol BS6 5QA Structure, Governance and Management The Trustees must meet at least 12 times a year, as per our governing document. In practice however, they meet 14-15 times a year. The quorum is 3 members....
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...Resume Amarjeet Singh Balloo 6, Plume street Norlane, Victoria 3214 Cell: 0414558864 E-Mail: amarjeet_balloo@yahoo.com Summary Reliable and friendly Personable Customer Service Associate dedicated to providing the highest level of customer service. Outgoing, and efficient with the capacity to multi-task. who quickly learns and masters new concepts and skills. Passionate about helping customers and creating a satisfying shopping experience. Highlights Shorting Letters quickly Cash handling accuracy Inventory control procedures Excellent Customer Service Good in team work. always recognized for my hard work. time management skills Leadership Quality always achieved target Accomplishments Got promoted to supervisor in 2 weeks of time.Contributed to a [5]% drop in shoplifting through increased awareness and intervention measures.Received [6] 兎 xceeds expectationsratings on performance reviews. Always got appreciation for my hard work and excellent customer service Experience July 2014 to Current 7-Eleven Norlane, VIC Customer Service Associate Got 3 weeks Training as a Customer service associate. main duties are Processed an average of 300 Answered customers' questions and addressed problems and complaints in person and via phone.Opened and closed the store, which included counting cash drawers and making bank deposits.Helped customers select products that best fit their personal needs.Offered exceptional customer service to differentiate and promote the company brand.Collaborated...
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...As states in “Elizabeth Blackwell: Physician and Health Education,” Blackwell graduated first in her class, a class which consisted of only herself and other men. She successfully proved that even in a hostile environment, even when considered the odd one out, one can excel in her studies. Additionally, she refused to back down in the face of aversion. Many different hospitals outright refused to grant Blackwell a job because of her gender; a few well-meaning colleagues suggested that Blackwell disguise herself as a man for interviews and job opportunities, but she dismissed the proposition (Peck). Elizabeth worked tirelessly to get to her position as a female doctor, and she refused to resort to tricks and costumes to earn respect. She proved the men of her era wrong by opening a multitude of different clinics and infirmaries. As said in an article by Women’s Suffrage in America, “[In New York City], she founded the New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children in 1854 and, with her sister Emily Blackwell, the New York Infirmary of Indigent Women and Children in 1857” (Cullen-DuPont and Frost-Knappman). Blackwell managed to travel around the prejudices of her time by starting her own practice and infirmary. She...
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