...English Composition II Interview, Writing Assignment January 16, 2013 Dan Micciche: Making a Difference Some attorneys in Dallas live in fancy houses, collect cars as they climb the corporate ladder and others use their professions to make a difference in the next generation. Most middle class Dallasites go about their business and never notice the crumbling middle school around the corner or the kids who go hungry before lunch. But Dan Micciche does. And Dan has made it his life’s work to help those very kids. Dan is a partner at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America by Texas Monthly magazine. Dan has lived in Dallas for 25 years. I first met Dan when he was canvassing our neighborhood seeking votes as he was running for DISD school board, district 3. Last year, Dan was elected to the Dallas school board with 64% of the vote, he was elated. He said “After three months of walking door-to-door it has been a real privilege to meet so many people who are so passionate about improving our neighborhoods and our schools. I have seen how a school can be transformed with the community joins together”. Dan is a man who is small in stature, serious and confident about his vision for Dallas. I asked him about the changes he made at Fannin Elementary and how much he knew about the BIC program; he seemed excited to discuss it. Dan told me he started and chaired his firm’s School Partnership...
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...Making a Difference Essay The song I chose was “Harlem Streets” by Immortal Technique. This artist is known for frequently speaking out against the government and addressing many issues in society. One of the topics addressed on the song is minimum wage, “And you can’t raise a family on minimum wage, Why do you think most of us are locked in the cage.” Immortal Technique describes how the minimum wage is so low it is not enough to raise a family so many people in the ghetto have to resort to illegal crime in order to survive and since it pays more. But the minimum wage in California will now rise to $9.00 on July 1, this year, and to $10.00 in 2016. Many people wonder whether this will eventually have a negative outcome on the economy instead of a positive one. I think it the outcome will be positive only short-term, because the price of good will have to eventually rise while jobs may lower because employers might hire less workers since they have to pay the current workers more money. Another topic he talks about in the song is healthcare, “A generation of babies born without healthcare, families homeless, thrown off the welfare.” He shows how healthcare is so expensive for families that they are not able to have any healthcare. But now Obamacare has taken into place this year and they now have another bill to pay, since it is required for everyone. One thing I disagreed with in the song was when he stated most of the army was either black or Latino. What he might’ve meant...
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...Lindsey Hedden NRS 4343 Community Health Paper How a Community Health Nurse Can Make a Difference According to Stanhope and Lancaster, community health nursing is defined as “nursing practice in the community, with the primary focus on the health care of individuals, families, and groups in a community with the goal to preserve, protect, and promote or maintain health” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2002). Throughout this semester, I have had numerous opportunities to witness a community health nurse in action. Throughout my nursing career, I have had the opportunity to experience the many different “hats” nurses wear. I have been able to see how nurses have the power to make differences in the lives of others. I feel as if community nurses have an enormous number of chances to do this. Because community nurse have more direct contact with individuals, groups, families, etc, there are more chances to make a difference. Before I became a nursing student, I was always a strong believer in showing compassion and love for others. I have always felt that by going the extra mile to show someone how much you care, you can help them more than anything money can buy. Now that I am near the beginning of my own nursing career, I am a much stronger believer in this personal theory of mine. Too often, I think we as health care professionals concentrate on what we can earn for ourselves rather than what we can do for others. We tend to get lost in the money, the protocols, and the advancement...
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...change it. Whether this is the first occurrence of the metaphor “to change the world” I do not know; it is certainly one of the most famous. It belongs in a tradition, by no means conned to Marxists, in which wanting to change the world is seen as a noble motive. It seems to invoke a distinction between those who are content merely to live in the world, taking it as they find it, and those who have the courage, imagination and energy to want to change it, or who see it as their obligation to do so and do all their best to change it. Consequently, making a difference to other people’s lives is very different from the above statement. Fortunately, it is easier; just make it simple and natural. We are all gifted with a unique set of skills and abilities. With those abilities we can make extra-ordinary things happen in the world around us, or not. It is completely up to you whether you want your life to make a difference and what difference you want your life to make. Many people set lofty goals for their lives and want to be remembered as visionaries, they want to change and save the world. Others want to be remembered as the kind man or women down the street who always helped and always listened if you needed help. In truth we might all be here to help each other, we might all be a part of a machine that fosters cooperation, or were not. We might just be here to make the best of the situation for ourselves. In any case, helping others brings happiness and...
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...EDU 644 Week 4 DQ 1 Making a Difference – Biotech Academy To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/edu-644-new/edu-644-week-4-dq-1-making-a-difference-biotech-academy At-riskchildren benefit from access to specific programs that support their success in a school environment. By providing opportunities that students can connect with, the probability of them staying in school and matriculating to a two- or four-year college or university will increase. Biotech Academy in San Jose, California is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on bioscience. The program and its faculty, however, provide supports for at-risk students that go far beyond academics. To prepare for this discussion, watch the nearly 10-minute video Biotech Academy: A catalyst for change. Note that this video can also inform your completion of the Week Four Assignment. Initial Post: Create an initial post that addresses the following: a. Share a minimum of three things you observed showing how teachers at Biotech Academy instigate and maintain student support and success. Be sure to consider what characteristics they have to have and what behaviors and practices they need to present to their students. b. Describe the impact collaboration between teachers, parents, and students has on student success as well as having a spirit of cooperation instead of competition between students. c. Discuss two to three observations you made that show relevancy between Biotech Academy instruction...
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...Based on the different gender and different culture, people will make their consumer decision in different way. For an international business manager, he has to know where the most suitable place for the company’s production to go is and satisfied the consumers. Besides, I think this kind of decision-making style difference has to be considered seriously when doing the negotiation. During the negotiation both of the negotiators want to know what others want and try to give their feature companion the right thing in a highly-profit way. So it is considerably important to know what they actually want. I think both of the negotiators can see others as their customers, during the first stages of the negotiation, they can try them best to get know of them, to know their preference, to know what kind of purchase style they are using, so the negotiators can give a win-win price to each other. From the article, except the knowledge in the passage, I also learned how to compare two different things. I was thinking about if I want to know two different countries’ customers’ behavior, I don’t know how to do that and I was thinking to compare almost every part of the behavior while the author only compare the customers by dividing the customers with different country, different gender and just using CDs and handbag to learn the insight knowledge of the behavior. Although this method can only draw a basic conclusion about the topic and it has lots of limitation, this is the first step to...
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...should make it more polar and harder to separate. I also predict that the element highest up in each group on the periodic table will have the lowest boiling point and then second, third and fourth. This is because as the molecules go down they get bigger meaning they have more atoms giving them more london forces making them harder to separate. Analysis: b) c) Group 14: - CH4 is a tetrahedral shape so the difference C and H have in electronegativty does not matter because the forces cancel out making this a non-polar molecule. Only having 10 electrons, CH4 has almost no london forces attracting it together, because of these two factors CH4 ends up having a very low boiling point. - SiH4 is a tetrahedral shape so the small difference Si and H have in electronegativty does not matter because the forces cancel out making this a non-polar molecule. Only having 18 electrons, SiH4 has very little london forces attracting it together, because of these two factors SiH4 ends up having a very low boiling point. It is just higher than CH4's because of having slightly more electrons giving it slightly stronger london forces. - GeH4 is a tetrahedral shape so the small difference Ge and H have in electronegativty does not matter because the forces...
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...Making a difference could be something so small or it could have substantial impact. Whether it is making a difference within your field, your community, and/or around the whole, how would you know when you are making a difference? Would it be personal a difference or making difference in your community? I am majoring in General Marketing with plans to graduate with a bachelors this upcoming May. Within the Marketing field, it is really broad with many tracks/concentrations you can choose from. I do not know exactly with what I plan on doing with this major. Wherever the life takes me, I will get to where I want to be. I would probably have detours and take the long road to get there. I am more interested in creative side within marketing, more towards Marketing/branding aspect of it. I would love to do Event Planning, and use my marketing/creative skills to use. The difference I would be making would probably be adding an extra set of creative flair. I am usually an out of the box thinker. I do not think I have much book sense but my organizational and attention to detail, not to mention my creative side is impeccable. One day I hope to do be an Event Planner, like plan events for special occasions. Whether it will be planning birthday parties, weddings or maybe one day, I will be help be a Marketing Director for the Grammys, who knows. People will be appreciative of my skills and my services. I am probably/hopefully making someone’s life easier and better whether...
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...Making a difference could be something so small or it could have substantial impact. Whether it is making a difference within your field, your community, and/or around the whole, how would you know when you are making a difference? Would it be personal a difference or making difference in your community? I am majoring in General Marketing with plans to graduate with a bachelors this upcoming May. Within the Marketing field, it is really broad with many tracks/concentrations you can choose from. I do not know exactly with what I plan on doing with this major. Wherever the life takes me, I will get to where I want to be. I would probably have detours and take the long road to get there. I am more interested in creative side within marketing, more towards Marketing/branding aspect of it. I would love to do Event Planning, and use my marketing/creative skills to use. The difference I would be making would probably be adding an extra set of creative flair. I am usually an out of the box thinker. I do not think I have much book sense but my organizational and attention to detail, not to mention my creative side is impeccable. One day I hope to do be an Event Planner, like plan events for special occasions. Whether it will be planning birthday parties, weddings or maybe one day, I will be help be a Marketing Director for the Grammys, who knows. People will be appreciative of my skills and my services. I am probably/hopefully making someone’s life easier and better whether...
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...Career Decision-Making among Students in Polytechnic of Port Dickson Nurul Izzati Asyikin Zulkifly 1219174 International Islamic University Malaysia PSYC 4999 Undergraduate Practicum Academic Supervisor: Dr. Nazariah Shar'ie Janon Site Supervisor: Mr. Jamaludin Suhaimi Career decision-making Among Students in Polytechnic Port Dickson Employment for a skilful and knowledgeable labour is highly demanded in the Malaysian labour market as the country is moving towards knowledge-driven economy (Abu Talib & Tan, 2009). Malaysian government had invested millions of Ringgit in order to fulfil the demand. Among the initiatives taken by the government is through the establishment of Polytechnic in the higher education system. Polytechnic Port Dickson (PPD) too aims to supply the labour market with skilful and competent labour through polytechnic education system. Align with the vision of this institution; “The main generator of innovative human capital through education and training to meet the needs of transformational global workforce” students of this institution are equipped with knowledge and skills taught by experienced lecturers (Politeknik Port Dickson, 2015). However, knowledge and skills that they acquired are not enough in the process of decision making for their future career prior graduation. Career decision-making is a complex process (Germeijs & De Boeck, 2003) and inability to make decision for future career is among the common problems faced...
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...Running Head: DECISION MAKING STYLES AND CROSS CULTURE Decision Making Styles and Cross Cultural Misunderstanding Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Abstract In an organizational setting, the employees might be of different cultures and therefore have different values. This is likely to bring about a clash in the operations in an organization. Managers normally have difficulties in making decisions based on the fact that those decisions mar rub a certain culture the wrong way. This Essay looks at the ways in which cultural differences could impact decision making in an organizational setting. It also determines whether there are any ways in which this cultural difference can be exploited for the benefit of the organization. These cultural differences do affect the company’s decision making process and therefore slows down business activities that depend on decision making in order to run. This is a great challenge in a business environment and might bring the performance of a business to a halt. This essay therefore looks into ways in which this challenge can be minimized. The distinct cultural differences between employees of an organization play out in the day to day running of the organization. These cultural differences may be in the form of dressing, values upheld, punctuality, overtime working, teamwork, etc. For example, we look at the Russian managers and the Chinese managers. Chinese managers are...
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...Roles of Administrators Paper Administrators provide key support across many fields with needs that are both demanding and ever-changing. These fields include areas such as human resources, budget making, and planning. Administrators work in both the public and private sector, where their similarities and differences exist among each, including across specialties. These aspects showcase the qualities that make an effective administrator, as well as one suited for his particular sector and field of specialty. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast these similarities and differences of administrators within each sector for human resources, budget making, and planning. Administrators in the Public Sector - Similarities In the public sector, administrators across various areas face the same elements and challenges to their work structure. They must work within the constraints of the regulation, funding, politics, and mission of their organizations for example, while balancing the daily objectives required for managing the goals for the short and long-term. In short, the organization must manage the organization’s priorities alongside the broader national policy agenda and larger socio-economic footprint (“Role of human resources in revitalizing public administration,” 2004). In the realm of human resources the administrators for the public sector, this case represents employees of federal, state, local, or nonprofit agencies and impacts them in the areas of...
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...Running Head: MAKING INTERNATIONALISM WORK 1 Making Internationalism Work Carol Brittain MAKING INTERNATIONALISM WORK 2 Making Internationalism Work How would you define the term “leadership?” Some may define leadership as the ability to influence others. Others may define leadership as one who inspires organizational members to want to achieve. (Munley, 2011) Leadership is directing a team through communication to reach the organizational goals. Leadership communication is essential to businesses and organizations especially when companies are opening branches overseas, conducting business through conference calls or working with a manager from another country. With this new era of business relations companies are facing cultural differences, and these cultural differences need to be taken into consideration. Dutch social psychologist, Geert Hofstede, pioneered a study on cultural differences and developed the five dimensions of culture. The five dimensions are power/distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty/avoidance, and long term orientation. This paper will discuss the cultural dimensions of Japan and Denmark. It will be interesting to see the differences and the commonalities of Japan and Denmark of their vastly different cultures. Power Distance Power distance, PD, looks at the degree of equality between individuals in societies. The degree of equality can also be expressed...
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...Making Differences Matter As with technology, the meaning of diversity has changed or even evolved over the years and to remain competitive in today’s markets, organizations must embrace new paradigms to enhance productivity, starting with top-down management. “Most people assume that workplace diversity is about increasing racial, national, gender or class representation – in other words, recruiting and retaining more people from traditionally underrepresented “identity groups”. (Thomas, D. & Ely, R. (1996, Sept/Oct) Making Differences Matter: a New Paradigm for Managing Diversity). This is where it starts, not where it ends. In order to reap the full benefits of a diverse workforce, organizations must transform themselves and their flawed, fundamental thinking into a broader understanding of how having a diverse workforce can enable them to penetrate niche markets that would have been otherwise impenetrable. This three-part diversity research efforts’ goal was threefold: one, to find out how diversity groups and middle management coincided, two, what role diversity plays in an organizations structure and lastly, how do company principals assumptions influence, positive or negative the direction of the organization. Before an organization can transform onto the emerging paradigm of learning-and-effectiveness, it must understand which paradigm state it’s currently in. The discriminating and fairness Making Differences Matter cont. paradigm focuses on implementing...
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...Used to show similarities and differences between things (people, places, events, ideas, etc.). Key frame question: What things are being compared? How are they similar? How are they different? In the attribute column, replace the words similarity or difference with the actual similarity or difference you have identified and then check each box that contains that attribute. You may insert or delete rows as necessary. |Attribute |Teleology |Deontology |Utilitarianism |Egoism |Relativist |Virtue |Justice | | |Assess the moral worth |Focuses on the rights of|important philosophies | important philosophies |Definitions of ethical |Based on an individuals |Based on perceived | |Similarity 1 |of a behavior by looking|individuals and on the |of teleology that often |of teleology that often |behavior are derived |morals of what a person |rights of individuals | | |at its consequences |intentions associated |guide dicision making in|guide dicision making in|subjectively from the |with good moral |when it concerns justice| | | |with a particular |individual business |individual business |experiences of |character would deem | | | | |behavior rather than its|decisions...
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