...Thresholds I had the opportunity to learn about a local agency in Kankakee called Thresholds. The program director of Thresholds is named Jeannette Tetreault and she present information about the agency and mental Illness. Jeannette explained that mental illness condition affects thinking, mood, social connection and behavior and it is indicated that it is very common 1 in 4 families will have someone who experience a serious mental illness. Further, people often have more than one condition and also mental illnesses can range from mild to severe. Also she explained the general aspect of symptoms which included psychotic symptoms that are delusion, hallucination, difficulty with executive function, and mood symptoms are depression and mania,...
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...operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance. 3. c. Its discrete financial information is available For SEC reporting purposes we find guidance from ASC 280-10-50-11 regarding aggregation criteria as well as 280-10-50-12 which sets forth the qualitative thresholds. The nature of the entire business in which the company operates in is very similar from the type of customer they serve to the service they deliver everything is very standardized. So after careful analysis I have determined that the aggregation criterion is met. The threshold requirements have been met by certain operations in the company; upon analysis of the information provided it was determined that Big Islands Georgia, Big Islands North Carolina, Big Islands Washington, Still Water Thrills Orlando, Island Adventure Cove, and Still Water Thrills Charlotte all exceed the quantitative threshold of ten percent of total profits and must be reported separately from the remaining parks. As for the other parks that do not exceed the quantitative threshold of ten percent they can be aggregated to meet the quantitative threshold. To conclude the Big Islands must report separately any segment that exceeds ten percent of revenues for the entire company, any park...
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...total of seven operating segments that are in accordance with the information listed about operating segments. The seven segments include Shampoo, Cosmetics, Diapers, Paper Towels, Jazzy Juice, Blasto Energy Drink, and Fruit & Granola Snack. According to ASC 280-10, a reportable segment is an operating segment or an aggregation of two or more segments that exceeds certain quantitative thresholds. In regards to Sell-It Products Inc., there are four reportable segments which include Cosmetics, Paper Towels, Blasto Energy Drink, and Jazzy Juice Juice and Fruit & Granola Snack. The threshold test that was performed was the revenue test which means that the segments revenue must be at least 10 percent of combined revenue of all segments. Although Jazzy Juice and Fruit & Granola Snack did not pass the revenue test, I made an exception for them because they have similar characteristics when compared to each other. I categorized them as aggregated. Together, they meet the threshold for the revenue and are now considered a reportable segment. As for Diapers and Shampoo, they did not meet the threshold for the revenue test separately and they are completely different. I could not combine them based on characteristics to consider them as a reportable segment...
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...Threshold Of Revelation By Christopher A. Johnson Scene 1 FADE IN on a long shot of New York City, approaching from the south. It is dusk, and the lights of the city are beginning to twinkle against the backdrop of the vibrant city. Quick cuts to street level scenes of well-known locales between title cards naming the cast. These scenes and title cards are cut with a moving shot of the George Washington Bridge (span, cables, deck, towers, etc.) from different angles and perspectives. . The credits end on one continuous shot as we approach a figure standing on the south side of the bridge, staring out over the Hudson River and the lights of Manhattan to the south. This is DECKER JONAS. He is tall and striking, wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and a hoodie. The camera then circles behind Decker going from left to right, catching Deckers view of the city at sunset. As the camera completes its half circle to the right and comes to a complete stop at DECKER’S ¾ profile we see he is holding a piece of paper, it is folded, he unfolds the paper and begins to read, a voice over begins. It is Decker’s voice. DECKER: Mom. Dad. I feel as though I’m losing myself again. [ 1. PAN to OS Right showing the letter] I know I am. I can feel life spinning away from me, and this time I have nothing to hold on to. Its as though I’m on one of those tacky carnival rides that Dad would take me on at Edgewater Days when I was a kid, although now he’s not there to hold...
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...Spé Anglais Texte 1: On the threshold of a new world This document is an excerpt from the novel Ellis Island and other stories written by Mark Helprin in 1976. The extract is entitled « On the threshold of a new world », the scene takes place in Ellis Island, which is a small island in the NYC harbor. It’s an immigration station where immigrants came from all over Europe to get their American dream, which means freedom and equality. The narrator comes from Eastern Europe and he describes his arrival in Ellis Island, which consists in a very precise medical examination. . The medical examination (l.1 to 21) -The immigrant is surprised, he asks the officer “why” (l.8) but then he has to obey to him; he’s at his mercy, the officer can decide of his future and he could ship the immigrant back to Europe -The narrator is young and a bachelor; he’s well educated (l.29); he might be a Jew from Eastern Europe since he speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian… -Must have emigrated for: political and religious reasons; persecuted for his beliefs; denied the right to vote; wanted to have a good job and a good life. -He hoped he could sell his books, find prosperity, have more freedom, better standard of living, better future, no social boundaries to climb up the social ladder. . The questioning examination: a suspicious immigrant (l.22 to 41) -The young woman is very wary about the narrator: “suspicious”, “sharply”, “disgust”, “commanded”, “shouted”, “cold eyes”. -He might...
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...This document is an excerpt from the novel Ellis Island and other stories written by Mark Helprin in 1976. The extract is entitled « On the threshold of a new world », the scene takes place in Ellis Island, which is a small island in the NYC harbor. It’s an immigration station where immigrants came from all over Europe to get their American dream, which means freedom and equality. The narrator comes from Eastern Europe and he describes his arrival in Ellis Island, which consists in a very precise medical examination. . The medical examination (l.1 to 21) -The immigrant is surprised, he asks the officer “why” (l.8) but then he has to obey to him; he’s at his mercy, the officer can decide of his future and he could ship the immigrant back to Europe -The narrator is young and a bachelor; he’s well educated (l.29); he might be a Jew from Eastern Europe since he speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian… -Must have emigrated for: political and religious reasons; persecuted for his beliefs; denied the right to vote; wanted to have a good job and a good life. -He hoped he could sell his books, find prosperity, have more freedom, better standard of living, better future, no social boundaries to climb up the social ladder. . The questioning examination: a suspicious immigrant (l.22 to 41) -The young woman is very wary about the narrator: “suspicious”, “sharply”, “disgust”, “commanded”, “shouted”, “cold eyes”. -He might be a danger, a threat because he writes books, he may...
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...In the galleries above, I was taken from room to room and looked over rather carelessly. After lifting my eyelids with a button hook, a young man with a military bearing saw that I had no trachoma. Someone else made me cough and breath. I had to take off my clothes and turn around several times. In another room, a big fat man asked if I could bend over. “Why?” I asked in turn, thinking that the only reason he wanted to know was because he himself would never be able to do such a thing. “Is it that everyone who comes to America has to be able to bend over?” “Yes,” he said. “What for?” “Because when we sing our national anthem, we bend over. Now do it or I’ll send you back to Serbia.” “I on’t come from Serbia,” I protested. “Exactly,” he said. “But if I want to, I can ship you yhere, so you’d better do as I tell you.” I bent over and was passed on to the next room. There, a pretty young woman with cold eyes asked me if I knew how to read and write. “Of course,” I said. “What languages?” she asked. When I replied, “ Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, German and French –and English, as you can seen,” she got very suspicious and asked me what I did for a living. “I write books,” I said. Little did I know that in America no one ever believes this. She looked at me the way one looks at a madman. “What kind of books?” she asked sharply, closing one eye and squinting with the other. “Stories,” I replied pompously, “essays, dissertations on Biblical poetry, political science, et cetera...
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...Threshold experiences in the novels My Antonia and The Age of Innocence In any a piece of literature setting is an essential pillar of narrative construction: it not only includes some factual information about time and place or provides the background in which the events take place, but also has the power to shape the habits and attitudes of their users, or characters. Both Willa Cather in My Antonia and Edith Wharton in The Age of Innocence create the particular narrative texture that implicates some dynamics, i.e. some shifts and changes – on the one hand, the setting of the novels continually changes, and this invariably entails the changing of the characters. Since the setting doesn’t remain static, each time it changes there should be some “turning point”, from which moment on the further development of events becomes completely different. But what exactly this turning point is, what are those “triggers” that help to create this dynamic picture, how can we trace the changes and the molding and development of characters’ personalities, the changes of their identities? The thing is that the authors of both above-mentioned novels create series of “threshold experiences” taking place at the most significant, climatic points in the lives of the protagonists, acting like triggers, indicating some transformations in the outer world of the characters that entail the changes in their inner world as well. These thresholds operate on all levels: separating the interior...
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...2009 Sheila Rogers SOC 402, Professor Henson The Social Problems of Poverty and Crime Every year the U.S. Census Bureau issues a report that details poverty in the United States. It provides statistics on how many people are poor and breaks the report down among age, race, region and by family type. Families are considered poor if their annual salary or income falls below whatever the federal measure of poverty is which is also recalculated each year. The institute for research on poverty stated that the poverty threshold for a four person family with two children in 2007 was $21,027. The threshold for one individual under age 65 was $10,787 and for an individual 65 and over the threshold was $9,944. (www.irp.wisc.edu) Poverty is most notable among blacks and Hispanics. The poverty rates in these groups of individuals greatly exceed the average. The rates remained near 30 percent in the 1980s and mid-1990s. In 2000 the rate dropped to 22.1 percent for blacks and 21.2 percent for Hispanics. For children under 18,18 percent or 13.3 million children lived in poverty. The poverty rate for families was 9.8% in 2007 which was equivalent to 7.6 million families who were living in poverty. The level of poverty is also affected by where people live. In 2007 the South was the greatest at 14.2 percent and the Midwest, Northeast and...
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...January 16, 2011 Challenges to Domestic and International Poverty Policy The most recent Census Bureau statistics on poverty rates in the United States calculate that 14.3% of Americans were living in poverty in 2009, up from 13.7% in 2008. That corresponds to 43.6 million people living below the poverty threshold compared to 39.8 million the previous year, the third consecutive annual increase. (US Census Bureau) These numbers increase even further when using new standards suggested by the National Academy of Sciences in a 1995 report. These figures, released as an unofficial “Supplemental Poverty Measure” set the 2009 rate at 15.7%, or more than 47.8 million people. (Short, US Census Bureau) The global rates are even more astonishing, with Globalissues.org reporting World Bank data that has roughly 40% living on less than USD$2 per day, and a stunning 80% living on less than USD$10 per day in 2005. UNICEF estimates that 22,000 children under five years of age die of preventable diseases every single day. These are all sobering statistics, making the ravages of poverty both more concrete and more difficult to accept. An exploration of poverty, both domestic and international, involves a variety of fields and methods, from statistics to sociology, political science to psychology, and more. Such a multi-disciplinary topic allows for a wide range of different perspectives, and an array of different approaches. As we see with the two different sets of data from the...
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...article reveals the critical effects that poverty has on children and families living in a wealthy country. How is it that poverty continues to increase in such an upper class country? What is Poverty? Researchers and policy makers have endlessly debated the precise definition of poverty. The description of the distinguished word has two inexact concepts: absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty insinuates a set of resources and individual must attain to reach some standard of living threshold. For monetary measures, objective income thresholds or poverty line deliberately mirrors the cost of food, housing, affordable healthcare, and other basic requirements necessary for survival. Relative poverty concerns how well off individuals are with the respect of others in the same society at a given time. Societal standards normally determined some threshold of resources that allows people to afford a considerably adequate standard of living by the community (Sachs, 2005). Defining, measuring, and interpreting inequality are...
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...Poverty can be defined as the state in which a person or family is considered extremely poor. A report provided by the World Bank, stated that the poverty line was a dollar per day. In order for a family to be considered poor, they must follow the poverty threshold. HFF states that a family of four must have a monthly income of 1,863. As I tried to budget a family with that income, I found it quite difficult as it seemed impossible for this family survive without sacrificing housing, groceries, and utilities. If this family were to live in a motel or some form of low income housing they would still be affected by the loss of their income. Food and transportation cannot be seen as a fixed rate because the prices vary monthly. Also, the poverty threshold is the same for everyone across the country, even though the cost of living determines on where the person lives. Unless this family is granted some form of assistance, it will not be realistic for a family to successfully live off this amount per month. Personally, as a single individual, it hard for me to live off one thousand dollars per month, so I could only imagine a family of four successfully surviving off this income. In the movie, Hard Times Generation, it focuses on children who are living in motels with their families in a town a few miles outside Disney World. One surprising fact that I learned from this movie is that the percentage of children in poverty is higher than adults. A lot of these families were not in poverty...
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...R. A E E 1 Professor Dr. L. Hamilton SOC 106 11/25/13 Section 1: Growing up in poverty Poverty is everywhere, It is in every race and every country. A child that grows up in poverty is largely at risk because he or she may speak another language, or be less healthy, or has even been abused in one way or another. When children are in the school system and they are labeled “at-risk” and that means that the student comes from a low-socioeconomic level or speaks another language. Today, there are more single parents, dual earner couples, and parents with more than one job living in both rural and urban areas in the United States than at any other time in history. Statistics show there is approximately one in five American children who live below the national poverty level (Causes of Poverty). In today’s society, many people live below the poverty line and those numbers continue to increase because of our high unemployment rates. The Census Bureau reported that 12% of Americans live in poverty. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the poverty level in 2009 for a family of four was $22,050. With today's unfortunate down turn of events in our economy, many families struggle to earn and still do not come close to that level. Welfare reform in the United States may pressure single mothers to be gainfully employed even though child care is extremely expensive and the mother may only have an income of minimum wage. At-risk children face so many seemingly...
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...poverty? Put yourself in their shoes, think about how it would affect you if you had grown up scared to go outside, or going to bed hungry. We will look at some of the causes and effects as well as possible ways to assist these children in improving their chances at a better future. Poverty is when a person or family lives with an income of less than the poverty line set by the government. In 2014, the poverty threshold for a family of four is $23,850 in 48 contiguous states and the District of Colombia (HHS, 2014). When broken down that is less than $6,000 per person in the family. Imagine that for a second; that is annual income. “About one in five American children-some 12 to 14 million” live below the poverty threshold (Brooks-Gunn/Duncan, 1997). Basic needs for these children are not met on a daily basis, things like clothes, food, and decent shelter are not available. Their education suffers from living in these conditions. Children living in under the poverty line are more likely to be dropouts of school, or repeat a grade, than children living above the poverty threshold. In most cases, they live in a single-parent home without a father and no monetary support from the absent parent. Although these children live in a class system in the U.S. and are considered low class, and have the opportunity to move to a higher class (theoretically), their social mobility is limited because of the negative environment they live in and lack...
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...Material Deprivation in Selected EU Countries According to EU-SILC Income Statistics Stávková Jana, Birčiaková Naďa, Turčínková Jana Abstract The article deals with issues of households at risk of poverty in relative conception. Income poverty means a situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty is based on identification and assessment of material deprivation factors, including: financial stress, housing conditions, availability of consumer durables and basic needs. Data sources are based EU-SILC dataset. Presented analysis is focused on selected EU countries, namely Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain and United Kingdom. The result identifies the problem areas that cause deprivation symptoms. Key words: EU-SILC, income, material deprivation, poverty 1. INTRODUCTION According to Delors and the EU (Marketing journal, 2011) competitiveness means a country’s ability to provide their citizens with a high and growing standard of living and employment to all who want to work. In the global definition of competitiveness, the three important and irreplaceable pillars are health, quality of education and the labor market, thus pillars dependent on labor force. Marketing and production oriented perceptions of competitiveness are based on the premise that consumers focus on competitive advantages of products in their shopping decision-making. Significant limitation to cosumers is presented by...
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