...purpose for this project is to improve overall usability and to enhance the reader's experience. Project schedule Framework – 4/11/2015 to 4/13/2015 Design – 4/16/2015 to 4/20/2015 Styling – 4/21/2015 to 4/27/2015 Content – 4/28/2015 to 5/4/2015 Scripting – 5/5/2015 to 5/11/2015 Start and completion dates Start date for the project is April 11, 2015. The estimated completion date is May 11, 2015. Project deliverables Newly designed website and improved usability Major activities Framework, Design, Styling, Content, and Scripting Resources BootStrap framework, various JS and CSS libraries The Brownsville Herald is a fairly well-known news provider here in the valley. I read it on a daily basis and have opted to work with their design for my project. Currently, the website lacks that “wow” factor; there's nothing that really draws the eye of the reader at first glance. Also, the content is relatively difficult to get to and some links are actually broken. As a current web developer working in the field, I can absolutely confirm that actual web developers/designers regularly complete breakdown documents for their projects. I have to complete one of these documents for every single project that hits my desk, whether small or large in scale. Given, I am the sole developer for the company I work for, the breakdown document is highly beneficial to me and upper management. At the company I work for, the...
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...Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement D i s t i n gu i sh i n g f e a t u r e s – Rio Grande Valley, Texas Organizational Background – – Substantial financing from local sales tax, bridge receipts and general revenue Regional collaboration and impacts Outcomes measured through Return On Investment The Valley Initiative for Development and Industries Advancement, or VIDA, is a nonprofit organization – Allied Health founded in September 1995 by Valley Interfaith,1 a – Manufacturing grassroots organizing group, working in partnership with community and business leaders in the Rio Grande Valley at the southern most tip of Texas. VIDA’s mission is “to formulate new institutional relationships in the Rio Grande Valley that simultaneously address employers’ needs for skilled workers” and help low-income, unemployed and underemployed residents in the Valley get the skills necessary to secure a high-skilled, high-wage job. VIDA works with employers, education institutions and community-based nonprofit organizations to provide services in six locations, and its work spans four counties. Today, its board of directors consists of five leaders from Valley Interfaith and five local business leaders. The Valley has a diverse economic and employment base, with the mainstay agricultural and livestock sector interspersed with urbanized centers that have developed, along with the manufacturing and assembly industries. Much of the manufacturing...
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...events in my life comparing the two. In August 2004, I graduated from TSTC with an Associate’s Degree and my daughter was born the week before graduation, and for about a year I worked in the Valley until I was presented with a job offer in Kingsville. I relocated my family and worked in a chemical lab for a year until I was laid off. Being laid off, brought sudden change to our lives, financially and emotionally. In 2006, I was offered a job position in Houston with higher pay and benefits. I relocated my family and from 2006-2009 we were finally financially stable and our marriage better than ever, until another life event would change it. In 2009, my wife and I were having marital problems, by the end of 2009 we separated and she eventually moved herself and my daughter back to the Rio Grande Valley. We tried to make it work but the distance was just too much. Our divorce was finalized in 2011 and that put a strain in all our lives, financially and emotionally. My daughter wasn’t the same happy child as she was when we were together and I was depressed for a period of time, thinking, what I could have done to make it work. One turning point was when my ex wife told me my daughter needed me and that she was having trouble with her, so by the end of 2011, I moved back to the Rio Grande Valley to be closer to my daughter. My relationship with my daughter has been stronger ever since, and I have accepted the divorce. Financially, I knew I couldn’t find a job in my Career field, so...
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...Community Assessment and Analysis - Rio Grande Michele Foster, Chelsea Simpson, Cinimol Teju, Ann Brennan, Jessica Ramaley Grand Canyon University Community Assessment and Analysis - Rio Grande The lower Rio Grande Valley is located along the United States and Mexican border. The lower Rio Grande Valley consists of four counties along the southernmost tip of Texas (Migrant Health Promotion, 2012). These counties include metropolitan areas such as Rio Grande City, McAllen, Harlingen, and Brownsville (Migrant Health Promotion, 2012). The Rio Grande Valley is nestled right along the Rio Grande River which is why the area is so abundant in agriculture. In phenomenological communities, place is emphasized more by the sense of belonging among the members (Maurer & Smith, 2009). The lower Rio Grande Valley has over one million people in which 90 percent of the population is Hispanic (Migrant Health Promotion, 2012). The Valley is known to be home to one of the largest concentrations of farm workers in the United States (Migrant Health Promotion, 2012). A considerable amount of farm workers travel from Mexico to work in agriculture in the United States and because of this, the members of this community can relate. Four counties in the southern tip of Texas along the Mexican border make up the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Over 1 million people make up this population with 85 to 98% being Hispanic. It is made up of over 2,000 colonias and most of residents. Colonia is a...
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...debutant ball honoring the first United States President and his wife. In an effort to “gin up patriotism along the border” (p.4) the pageant celebration can not only remedy the town’s struggles with their history and multicultural background but also show Laredo’s present struggles with lineage and class structure in a changing modern world. Swartz makes evidence of her claim by giving historical examples behind Laredo and how the town became so famous for its debutant ball. Understanding the unique challenges this border town in Texas was facing, the author paints a picture of how its existence came to be. “After the U.S. defeated Mexico in 1948 in a bitter war for control of Texas, the boundary between the two countries shifted to the Rio Grande, and Laredo jointed the Union”(p.4). Once territories were drawn and many of its citizens came from across the border and even “drawing immigrants from Europe and other parts of the U.S.” (p.4), the town was becoming multicultural in nature. In an effort to cement itself in the country, the citizens of Laredo had created a celebration for George Washington “…to prove that Laredo’s loyalty was to the U. S.” (p.4). Understanding these historical facts, the author is able to support her claim about the importance of history, concluding that it is relative to understanding the importance of these annual pageants. The author begins to show a town consisting of many backgrounds was able to form their own celebration; unique and special only...
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...most difficult times in school which was learning how to read. Learning how to read fluently in English was one of the most difficult things for me to do in school. A reason for this is because when I was little my primary language was Spanish, because I had lived here in the Rio Grande Valley for most of my life, and English was never really spoken in my family. All this changed though because when I was in second grade we moved from mostly Spanish speaking community, to a community were English was dominant. This was probably the most difficult times in my life because I felt almost as if I was behind everyone else and I couldn’t catch up. Reading to me felt impossible at the time because even when I did manage to read something I would have the hardest times trying to comprehend what I had read. Although it seemed helpless at the time I was able to overcome this challenge and later get commended on the reading TAKS test that would later come. While learning to read may have been one of the most challenging times for me in school it wasn’t the only one either. For me school became a lot easier after sixth grade and remained that way until the day I graduated but starting my junior year in Rio Grande City High School got me thinking about one question. That question was, “What was I going to do after high school.” I had never thought about it until my junior year mainly because I always thought that by the time I graduated I would already have an idea about what I was going...
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...Demont Campbell AP English 4 Borderlands / La Fonterra After reading this poem I have opened my eyes to more than staying one typical direction. I believe a lot of people have tunnel vision and don’t take the time to look at the whole picture. I have become interested in prose after reading this book because it reads just like music. It has an easy rhythm I guess you could say. Honestly I don’t think this poem is for everyone especially at a high school level because it has to deal with such a contrasting subject. This book has shown me the hardships that people have to go through and that everyone should have human rights. Borderlands/La Fonterra, Gloria Anzaldua paints a moving portrait of the search for her missing identity in a world that refuses to allow one. The physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico helps create the psychological "fence" that a she is put through when she is denied a culture and a place in society. "She has this fear that she has no names… that she has many names…that she doesn't know her names." This quote shows the rich nature of her writing and the amount of energy she feels while writing this poem. Anzaldua, who as both a woman and a Chicana, grew up in an atmosphere of oppression and confusion. "It's not a comfortable territory to live in, this place of contradictions,", "Hatred, anger and exploitation are the prominent features of this landscape." It is also a landscape where the question "Who Am I?" is not readily or easily answered...
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...La Union Del Pueblo Entero also known as LUPE is a community-based union that serves the low-income neighborhoods of Hidalgo County through community organizing and social services. In 2003, LUPE was established in the Rio Grande Valley by Juanita Valdez-Cox who now is the executive director of the organization, and the speaker at a presentation held at South Texas College on November 11th 2015. This public presentation was open to the general public to raise awareness and educate people about the migrant workers who are often oppressed or forgotten down here in South Texas. Juanita Valdez-Cox elaborates on this in her speech; she talks about how she used to be a migrant worker, and how since LUPE they have been able to increase the benefits of the farmworkers, and are currently working towards installing streetlights in colonia communities. This presentation had many different strengths and weaknesses, Ms. Valdez-Cox is able to establish strong credibility with her own personal history, she is also able to effectively evoke emotion in others with her touching stories of those living in the colonias, but she uses faulty logic because all her numbers are exceedingly outdated. Juanita Valdez-Cox starts off with by introducing LUPE, she talks about who they are, how the organization works while also informing the audience about the many accomplishments LUPE has had since their founding in 1981. Throughout the presentation all of the victories, the main focus of the entire...
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...Rio Grande Supply Co. Objective: To determine the appropriate action of Jasper Hennings as the president of the company to the two employee, Henry Darger the chief of operations and the female employee that Henry Darger fired. Statement of the Problem: How does Jasper Hennings the president of the Rio Grande Supply Co. handle the issue of Henry Darger by firing the female employee by following the company’s values it adopted: integrity, honesty, and a respect for each individual employee? Analysis of the Problem: Jasper Henning can fire Henry Darger but it is costly and it is hard to find another employee that could fit the position of Henry Darger. But I suggest not to fire Henry Darger but send him in a counseling procedures in order to give him the correct punishment. Also I suggest to hire the female employee and send him also to counseling. Questions: 1) What environmental factors have helped to create the situation Jasper Hennings faces? What factors does Jasper need to consider when deciding on his course of action? 2) Analyze Rio Grande’s Culture. In addition to the expressed cultural values and beliefs, what other subconscious values and beliefs do you detect? Are conflicting values present? When values are in conflict, how would you decide which ones take precedence? 3) Assume you are Jasper. What are the first two action steps you would take to handle the Henry Darger situation? How would your role as a cultural leader influence...
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...that the border has harm the environment physically and economically. My opinion on the border fence is that the government of the United States should not waste money on making the border fence bigger and should focus on other important situations. The placement of the barriers was to keep illegal border crossings into the southwest part of the United States. The voices of the people have raised and claim that they are a drain on taxpayers’ money and more of a political gambit. They see the Mexico-unites states barriers as an ineffective production to illegal immigration that ultimately jeopardizes the safety and health of people seeking their homes and safety in the United States. As well as concerned about the environment and animal habitats. In the uninhabited areas of the border and urban areas is where drug-trafficking and illegal crossings have taken place. Crime has taken place in cities like El Paso, Texas and San Diego, California. Border patrol agents through a system of cameras and sensors monitor the border fences. In the last 13 years, over 5,000 migrant deaths occurred along the border according to documents from the human rights national commission of Mexico. In 2005 a representative Duncan hunter from California proposed a plan to construct reinforced fencing along the entire border including a 100-yard border zone on the United States. An anti-terrorism and illegal immigration control act in 2005 was passed that called for a mandatory fencing along 698...
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...Comparison of establishment of Cottonwood and Saltcedar Cottonwood (Populus spp.) is native to several temperate and boreal regions of North America where decrease in floodwaters exposes minerals in the soil surfaces. Cottonwoods are ecologically important to arid regions of western and southwestern North America because of the absence of other native tree species as their replacements (Rood and Mahoney, 1990; Cooper et al. 1999). Cottonwoods are prone to high invasion in riparian ecosystems as a result of large amount of hydrological disturbance in such areas (Tabacchi 1995). Cottonwood trees can be either male or female both of which contain flowers clustered in catkins (Braatne et al. 1996). Seeds produced by both flowers are reported to be greater than twenty five millions per tree annually (Schreiner 1974). Since the seed viability is very less lasting for 1-2 weeks under natural conditions and 2-3 days under wet conditions germination of seeds must occur in short period of time. Cottonwoods can also reproduce asexually through crown breakage and tree fall during wind storms and flooding events. The broken branches after being buried in sediment sprout and develop strong shoots. Species, climatic condition and drainage basin of the area determines whether the seedlings are established more from sexual reproduction or asexual propagules may outdo seedlings in growth and competition (Braatne et al. 1996). Cottonwood seedlings are poor competitors and their establishment...
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...attraction with which the images are featured in the painting seem to draw my feet and eyes closer for a more critical view and my hands for a reach to feel its surface. The size of the frame is pretty large and towering if one faces it. Images in the painting include a beautiful, young lightly made up lady gracefully leaning by a majestic, strong looking, white saddled stallion as if for support. These two figures were standing under a four branched rich green leafy oak tree. A little farther behind them were a high twin- like rocky mountains. I admired the natural and wholesome appearance the painting exudes. The lofty mountains which form the main background of the painting stand imposing over a flowing stream by its foot, and a green valley. They seem to call a viewer’s attention from a distance father away from the woman, horse, maize field, house and tree. I was mostly attracted to the figure of the woman. Her figure to me is an embodiment of gracefulness and tenderness. She radiates strength and confidence. As a woman I took away from the picture a feeling of completeness. The entire landscape of the entire painting looks lively and healthy. Although Edmund uses more of dark colors for the vegetation, his mixture of red, yellow, and a shade of orange on the woman’s gown and face, and the patchy flower bushes at the stump of the tree, and his use of purple on the mountains and tree barks gave the painting its vibrant appearance. I understood that the painting is one...
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.... | Country Analysis | Brazil | | . | [Pick the date] | AHMEDABAD MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION | Submitted to Prepared by Dr.P.V.Desai Sagar Sakariya CONTENT Introduction | | Brazil annual report: Economic Indicator | | Government and Politics | | Foreign Relations | | States and Municipality | | Geography | | Climate | | Component and Energy | | Transport | | Demography | | Main Drivers for Doing business in Brazil | | Mani Challenges of Doing Business in Brazil | | Summary of Indicator- Doing business in Brazil | | List of Procedure | | PESTLE | | Political * Political system * Change in government * Lula administration focus area * Law | | Economic * Economy of Brazil * Industrial output * Key industries * FDI | | Sociological * Culture * Language * General attitude * Personal appearance | | Technological * Technology research * Information technology * R & D * Technology policy of Brazil * Brazilian industry and Technology | | Legal * Legal system of Brazil * Municipality * Court and justice | | Environment * National * The Future | | Introduction Brazil is the largest and most powerful country in South America and has become one of the world's most...
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...Trees in lower elevations and bottomlands include sycamore, elm, basswood, pecan, walnut, persimmon, willow and hackberry. In the uplands away from the river, the limestone terrain is typical of the Edwards Plateau. Oak and juniper woodlands fill this area, with some grasslands. The Balcones fault line, near New Braunfels, marks the switch to the coastal plains. (TPWD) An area of virgin Ashe juniper woodlands provides nesting habitat for the endangered golden-cheeked warbler which is also known as the Gold Finch of Texas (American Bird Conservancy). In addition to numerous species of birds, the park supports a wide variety of wild animals. These include white-tailed deer, coyote, gray fox, skunk, raccoon, opossum, bobcat armadillo and many other species. (TPWD) The Guadalupe River has several dams along its length, the most notable, Canyon Dam, which forms Canyon...
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...1) a) Resource used I. Exotic plant management teams II. Integrated pests management b) Number of results * Over 6,500 non-native invasive species have been documented on park lands * More than 650 invasive species have been found in marine parks c) Number of full text results Invasive species include all taxa of organisms, ranging from microscopic insects to 100 lb sheep. d) 70% of documented invasive species on park lands are invasive plant species around 5% of park lands are dominated by invasive plants. 2) Texas Today: A Sea of the Wrong Grasses “I In the ’60s when I bought this place and moved Here from Houston, we had so many quail that You didn’t even need a bird dog to find them,” Mused my 85-year-old hill country neighbour. “Then,” he Paused, his satirical glance drifting toward the mantle to A dust-covered 20-gauge double-barrelled shotgun and a Faded John Cowan Print of a quail hunt on a shin oak Mountaintop of the Texas hill country, “by the early ’80s, The quail were gone.” “Well,” I interjected in a smug biologist’s refrain, “what Changed?” “Hell, I don’t know, but just before that time everybody Planted all the maize fields to coastal (Bermuda grass), and That damn KR bluestem came in from the highway when They redid it.” “I’ll bet that’s part of it,” added the old man. What ran through agronomist Nick Diaz’s mind on a Hot, dry Gulf Coast summer day in 1939, when he first laid Eyes on the...
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