...February 10, 2013 Abstract In this paper, I will explore the controversial question of whether teachers should be allowed or required to carry weapons on school campuses. The question of whether the topic should be entertained has come up time and again after tragedies occur, the timeline of which will be summarized herein. The recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that devastated the nation on December 14, 2012, has wrenched this debate crudely back into the spotlight. I will investigate different types of protective instruments that could possibly be used, as well as what types are used in schools that have such regulations. I will delve into the reasoning behind states that have implemented laws that allow teachers to carry guns in school and/or at school events. Included within are excerpts from this writer’s first-person interview conducted with Maria Otero-Ball, a kindergarten teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a teacher of children the same age as those involved in the Newtown tragedy, Mrs. Otero-Ball offers a first-hand view on the changes that she and the school have made following the tragedy, as well as her views on the practicality of weapons in the school. My goals in preparing this paper are to expand my thoughts on the subject, peruse the thoughts of others, and explore the statistics to provide a better overall understanding of the subject matter to myself and to my readers. During the research process, I found that a compromise...
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...MASTER SYLLABUS - DEVR 0320 Hybrid– Spring 2012 DEVR 0320: College Reading Strategies Instructor: Andrea Clark Course Name and Number: College Reading Strategies--DEVR 0320 Section: 053 Synonym: 45460 Monday 9:00am- 10:20am CYP 2221 Section: 054 Synonym: 45463 Wednesday 9:00am- 10:20am CYP 2221 Please note that I teach two sections of the DEVR 0320 hybrid. If you are unable to attend your regular class, you are welcome to attend the other section during the same week. (If you miss a Wednesday class, you must attend class on the previous Monday because we will be covering different material on Monday of the next week.) How to Reach the Instructor Email: andreac@austincc.edu Please send all emails to me from your ACCmail account. Office Location and Number: CYP 1103.11 (Near the student lounge in the one-story building) Phone: 512-223-2018 Posted Office Hours: Monday: 12:00 noon – 3:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12:00 noon – 2:20 p.m. Appointments: Appointments may be scheduled to accommodate students who are unable to meet with the instructor during posted office hours. Required Text Textcerpts, 2nd edition, compiled by Gene Wintner This text will be supplemented with required online learning activities and handouts the instructor distributes in class. Course Description: DEVR 0320 College Reading Strategies Emphasis on increased proficiency of comprehension skills, vocabulary development, and...
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...Positioning…………… 22-34 Competitive Analysis 35-42 SWOT Analysis 43-48 Recommendations 49-61 Conclusion………….. 62-64 Appendices Appendix A Online Survey Results 66-75 Appendix B Mystery Shopping Results 76-99 Appendix C Manager Interview 100-105 Appendix D Focus Group Description and Results 106-113 Appendix E Timeline 114 Appendix F Works Cited 115 Executive Summary Executive Summary Executive Summary Executive Summary After being in the retail business since college, Harley Hooper’s passion for retail, especially specialty men’s clothing, grew. This passion led to him opening his first store, Harley’s, in Tyler, Texas, thirty years ago. In 2009, Mr. Hooper decided to expand his store by opening a second store in College Station, Texas, which is the focus of our project. Even though the store will only be celebrating its second anniversary this May, they already have a large customer following that is continuing to grow. Our audit will be providing assessments of Harley’s current marketing strategies to show them not only what they are doing well, but how they can make further improvements to the company. In order to do this, we will first define both the stores current and aspirational target markets and analyze their position in the minds of the two markets. This will be followed by an evaluation of competitors to the men’s specialty store. This was done through a focus group of current and not current customers...
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...TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY McCoy College of Business Administration Department of CIS & QM – Spring 2015 CIS 5318 – Information Technology in Digital Economy Monday/Wednesday 6:30 – 9:15 pm Instructor: Dr. Vivek Shah Office: McCoy 457 Office hours: Wen: 4:30 – 6:00 (Round Rock Campus); TTH: 3:30 to 4:30; M: 4:30 to 6:00 (San Marcos Campus) or by appointment Phone: 512.245.2049 (My office) 512.245.2291 (Dept. office) 512.413.5419 (Cell) Email: vs01@txstate.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is directly concerned with the management issues surrounding information and telecommunications systems. It presents the ingredients of management knowledge necessary for success in the management of information technology. This course views information technology from the perspective of managers at several levels--from the CEO to the first line manager. It provides frameworks and management principles that current or aspiring managers can employ to cope with the challenges inherent in the implementation of rapidly advancing technology. The course presents fundamental knowledge essential to managing an information technology successfully within a larger organization. It considers strategic and operational issues, the significance of rapidly advancing technology, and human and organizational issues related to technology introduction and use. The course describes management systems and models of successful behavior that capitalize on opportunities...
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... Risk Management Mrs. Kerr The topic of discrimination can be a very sensitive one to discuss. The world has always, and probably will always be faced with this problem. In all countries there is most likely at least one type of blatant discrimination that affects different groups of people. There are several different definitions for discrimination. The definition given in class is: the denial of opportunity, and/or equal. Discrimination is the denial of opportunity or equal rights toward a specific group of people. Discrimination is not just towards blacks or any other minority groups specifically. I will also expand later in the paper that I believe discrimination can be toward any group of people: black/white, majority/minority, or man/woman. There are many causes for discrimination. Among those discussed in class is the size of the group. This simply states that discrimination may be a direst result of the fear of one group being so large that it "takes over the rest of the groups." According to this theory, people discriminate in order to keep their group of people in command. Another theory is that discrimination is a result of competition. It means that all groups are in continuous competition with each other, and that one group's success directly causes another group's failure. A power threat is another theoretical reason of unfair treatment. This states...
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...Division of Fine Arts, Speech and Commercial Music Northwest College ARTS 1303 – Art History I CRN 42838 – Spring 2015 SPBR Campus - Room 602 / 8:00-9:30am / T,R Credit:3 / 3 hour lecture course / 48 hours per semester Course length : 16 weeks/ Type of Instruction Traditional (Face-to-Face) Instructor: David Swaim Instructor Contact Information: Email: david.swaim@hccs.edu Phone: (713) 718-5674 Due to changes in the state core curriculum this syllabus is subject to change!!!! Office location and hours SPBR room AD4 hours: 7:15-8:00 am and as per class discussion Please feel free to contact me concerning any problems that you are experiencing in this course. You do not need to wait until you have difficulties or have received a poor grade before asking for my assistance. Your performance in my class is very important to me. I am available to hear your concerns and just to discuss course topics. Feel free to come by my office anytime during these hours. Course Description This course is a global investigation of the styles and methods of artistic production covering Prehistoric through Gothic periods. Media studied include: drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, and metal arts. Using this framework, universal themes are studied within their historical, political, economic, theological, sociological, and ethnic contexts. Prerequisites Must be placed into college-level reading and college-level writing Academic...
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...on achievement. All students appear to benefit from having higher achieving schoolmates, although the effect is quite small. The variance in achievement appears to have no systematic influence, and the effects of mean differences in peer achievement levels are roughly constant across quartiles of the achievement distribution – suggesting that ability grouping policies have primary influence on the distribution of performance and not the level. Moreover, ceteris paribus schools with higher concentrations of minority students lead to lower achievement for Black students but minimal effects on whites or Hispanics. Paper prepared for the Conference on Empirics of Social Interactions Brookings Institution January 14-15, 2000 * University of Rochester and National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Texas at Dallas; Amherst College; and Amherst College, respectively. Support for this work has been provided by the Spencer Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Packard Humanities Institute. Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? by Eric...
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...This article was downloaded by: [University of Texas El Paso] On: 09 August 2011, At: 13:50 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Bilingual Research Journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ubrj20 Language Learning in the American Southwestern Borderlands: Navajo Speakers and Their Transition to Academic English Literacy Gloria Dyc a a University of New Mexico-Gallup Available online: 22 Nov 2010 To cite this article: Gloria Dyc (2002): Language Learning in the American Southwestern Borderlands: Navajo Speakers and Their Transition to Academic English Literacy, Bilingual Research Journal, 26:3, 611-630 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15235882.2002.10162581 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/termsand-conditions This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently...
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...Active School Shooter Introduction The intention of this paper is to look at and present some issues and strategies that members of a school community think about when trying to create safer schools. Particularly when addressing an active shooter in a school setting. A major issue to consider when trying to keep all schools safe, is the simple fact that no two schools are the same. Understanding this can lead us to the conclusion that it is impossible to have one global plan or program that can be 100% effective in all schools. “Violence prevention programs work best when they incorporate multiple strategies and address the full range of possible acts of violence in schools. For any set of policies to work, it must be established and implemented with the full participation and support of school board members, administrators, parents, students, community members, emergency response personnel, and law enforcement.” (Kramen, 2008.) If these responsibilities were not shared, the success rate for safe school policies would be very low. Parents send their children to school and think that during that time they are studying and doing other productive, educational things. The last thing parents expect is something terrible happening to their child while at school. School violence is happening more frequently than it should and something needs to be done to stop it. Not only does an act of school violence, especially a school shooting, affect the individual student it reflects poorly...
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...AC 2012-3052: PREPARING TO USE RAPID PROTOTYPING: LESSONS LEARNED FROM DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING PROJECTS Dr. Hung-da Wan, University of Texas, San Antonio Hung-da Wan is an Assistant Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Director of Machine Shop of College of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of computer integrated manufacturing systems, Six Sigma and lean methodologies, and manufacturing systems engineering. He also manages two rapid prototyping systems at UTSA. His current research interests include sustainability of manufacturing systems and web-based applications in manufacturing. Mr. Firasath Ahmed Syed, University of Texas, San Antonio Syed Firasath Ahmed is a master’s student in advanced manufacturing and enterprise engineering at the University of Texas, San Antonio. He is a Graduate Research Assistant and helps with 3D Printing needs that arise in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He has experience in working with two rapid prototyping machines present in the university namely ”dimension SST 1200es” and ”Z Printer ZP450.” He received his B.S. degree from Osmania University, India, in 2010. His research interests include rapid prototyping, manufacturing engineering, system simulation, and lean systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Preparing to Use Rapid Prototyping: Lessons Learned from Design and Manufacturing...
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...|[pic] |MAN 383.20: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS | | |SPRING, 2009 | Professor John W. Burrows, Ph.D. Office ATT L084 Phone 232-5655 (office) 740-2839 (cell – emergencies only before 9pm) E-Mail John.Burrows@mccombs.utexas.edu Course Web Page via Blackboard Teaching Assistant Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan (sowmiya@mail.utexas.edu) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Course Objectives Technical competencies are not enough to ensure continued success in your career if you cannot leverage efforts. How do you motivate employees to go over and above the call of duty to get the job done? How can you ensure that decisions are not biased? What influence tactics can you use even if you do not have the formal authority to tell someone what to do? This course attempts to add to your understanding of life in complex organizations by covering topics including, leveraging culture to reach strategic objectives, motivating and rewarding desired behavior, designing organizations to fit with strategic objectives, selecting the appropriate leadership style to motivate others to perform, and using power and influence effectively. My approach will be managerial, focusing...
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...To what extent do you agree that learning is a social process? Everything we learn takes place in a social context. Social learning can be applied to many scenarios ranging from a group of children collaboratively trying to solve the question of how to make a kite, to a university professor writing a research paper with a colleague, both illustrate the case of a social side to learning. On the other hand some people believe that learning is an individual process, such as reading, researching and searching online, and the social element only occurs when you engage with your network. This essay will discuss both arguments, but focus strongly on the contention that daily observations and experiences, as well as many academic theories suggest that learning takes place beyond the confines of the individual mind, and is therefore a very social process. Learning and social process are defined in various ways. The Collins Dictionary (2012) defines learning as knowledge gained by study; instruction or scholarship, the act of gaining knowledge. It also provides a more specific definition with relation to psychology being any relevant permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a direct result of experience. Further to this both the Oxford and Collins Dictionaries (2012) offer the definition of social process as societal change. Some thinkers associate this with socialisation, socialisation is social learning. During different stages of our lives, we belong to different...
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... | | | | | |SOUTHWEST COLLEGE | | |Department of Mathematics | COURSE SYLLABUS MATH 1314: College Algebra INSTRUCTOR: Fatemeh Salehibakhsh E-MAIL: f.salehibakhsh@hccs.edu Office Hours T- TR 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm F 11:00 am – 1:00 pm By Appointment Only Location H. C. C. West Loop Campus Course Description Topics include quadratics, polynomial, rational, logarithmic and exponential functions, system of equations, matrices and determinants. A departmental final examination will be given in this course. Prerequisites Must be placed into college-level mathematics or completion of MATH 0312. Course Goal This course is designed as a review of advanced topics in algebra for science and engineering students who plan to take the calculus sequence in preparation for their various degree programs. It is also intended for non-technical students who need college mathematics credits to fulfill requirements for graduation and prerequisites for other courses. It is generally transferable to other disciplines as math...
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...Leadership Development Program 2001/2002 Student Portal Project May 22, 2002 Cecille Cabacungan, Goldman School of Public Policy Lesley Clark, Center for Organizational Effectiveness Rachelle Feldman, Financial Aid Office Paula Flamm, University Health Services Gail Ford, The Library Kati Markowitz, Neuroscience Institute Stacey Shulman, Department of Chemical Engineering Dan Sullivan, Haas School of Business Imagine a single Website personalized to meet all your cyberneeds – one that would keep you up-to-date on campus events and academic information and would be accessible from any computer. -- The Daily Californian, April 15, 2002 Table of Contents Executive Summary Main Report I. Charge and Methodology II. Findings III. Portal Development, Current Practices IV. Costs and Phased Implementation V. Conclusions and Recommendations; Criteria for Measuring Portal Success VI. Three Portal Interface Options for Look and Feel; Criteria for Evaluating Options VII. Portal Names Appendices Introduction, Charge, and Methodology Appendix I – Definitions Appendix II – Respondents Appendix III – Student Survey Instrument Appendix IV – Staff, Faculty, Administrator One-on-One Interview Questions Appendix V – Staff Focus Group Questions Appendix VI – Staff, Faculty, and Administrator Survey Instrument Appendix VII – Portal Developer Questionnaire UCB Student Response Appendix VIII – Undergraduate Affairs Focus Groups, Raw Data, 2001 Appendix...
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...Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood? The rich array of microbiota in our intestines can tell us more than you might think. By PETER ANDREY SMITHJUNE 23, 2015 Eighteen vials were rocking back and forth on a squeaky mechanical device the shape of a butcher scale, and Mark Lyte was beside himself with excitement. ‘‘We actually got some fresh yesterday — freshly frozen,’’ Lyte said to a lab technician. Each vial contained a tiny nugget of monkey feces that were collected at the Harlow primate lab near Madison, Wis., the day before and shipped to Lyte’s lab on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus in Abilene, Tex. Lyte’s interest was not in the feces per se but in the hidden form of life they harbor. The digestive tube of a monkey, like that of all vertebrates, contains vast quantities of what biologists call gut microbiota. The genetic material of these trillions of microbes, as well as others living elsewhere in and on the body, is collectively known as the microbiome. Taken together, these bacteria can weigh as much as six pounds, and they make up a sort of organ whose functions have only begun to reveal themselves to science. Lyte has spent his career trying to prove that gut microbes communicate with the nervous system using some of the same neurochemicals that relay messages in the brain. Inside a closet-size room at his lab that afternoon, Lyte hunched over to inspect the vials, whose samples had been spun down in a centrifuge to a radiant...
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