...Travis Weaver English 112 June 1st, 2012 Primary Research Essay Lake Wylie is located on Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties in North Carolina and York County in South Carolina. The lakes water supply primarily comes from the Catawba River. The lake is man-made and used to create hydroelectricity by Duke Power Company. Lake Wylie is a large lake and offers an abundance of space for recreation and activities including: boating, fishing, water skiing, sun bathing, swimming and numerous other activities around the lake. It is enjoyed by many people during the summer time. Safety on the water becomes a problem with so many people participating in water activities. Several People die and many others are injured each year in association with the lake. The first thing that comes to mind when being around water is being able to swim. Many people die each year while being on the lake because they cannot swim or not very strong swimmers. Some people think its not cool to wear a life jacket so they jump into the lake without wearing one. They can swim for a short while but they become exhausted and are not close enough to grab on to anything and they struggle to keep their head above the water. Other children were never taught how to swim at all and they think they will be fine hugging onto a float or noodle but they can lose their grip and down they go. The water is dark and by the time someone notices it is to late. The lake water itself is a safety concern. There have been reports...
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...Executive Summary Green Investments (GI) is a financial service company that focuses on stocks of environmentally responsible companies. The Washington-based L.L.C. is lead by Sarah Lewis and Steve Burke. GI uses financial research purchased from Bear Stearns and in-house environmental responsibility analysis to make recommendations to clients. Services GI has developed a criteria-based marker system which is easy and effective in evaluating a wide range of different companies on their environmental impact. Only financially prudent/performing companies are evaluated, ensuring that its recommendations make both financial and environmental sense. Competitive Edge GI will leverage the proprietory evaluation system to quickly gain market share. The system is convenient and based on extensive research, providing a streamlined overview of the environmental performance of the companies. Market GI will concentrate on the unserved niche of environmental investing within the financial services market. GI faces indirect competition from environmentally responsible mutual funds, which do a similar job in assessing a company's environmental performance but do not allow for investing in individual equity. Management Team GI is lead by two experienced managers, Sarah Lewis, and Steve Burke. Sarah has a masters degree in environmental studies and has worked for the Environmental Protection Agency where she was responsible for preparing environmental impact statements. Steve has an MBA...
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...SIOP Lesson Plans: Seeing The Trees for The Forest Kimberly Kidd, Kristen Martin, Mandi Moody, Cara Goff ESL 434 8/24/2012 Amy McDonnel Kimberly Kidd, Kristen Prater Mandi Moody, Cara Goff ESL 434 8/24/2012 Amy McDonnel CLC Lesson Rationale These lesson plans enhance student achievement by presenting the content in several ways, giving the students tools to help their language use, using content that is relevant to the student’s life, encouraging group participation, and using an assessment that not only measures their understanding of the topic, but also meets both the both 6th grade content area standards, and English Language Learner (ELL) standards. By implementing these lesson plans in a unit format, the students are ensured to receive quality instruction under the following standards: Determining the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source, and providing an accurate summary; writing narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences; Understanding the influences of individuals and groups from various cultures on various historical and contemporary societies; understanding the impact of interactions between people and the physical environment on the development and conditions of places and regions; summarizing numerical data sets in relation to their context; identifying the mean, median, range and mode; Throughout the writing...
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...prosthetic leg, and now he walks unaided. Through my brothers story it has showed to me and many people around him how much we take for granted. Just by having a leg removed can change so much in your life. Also you never understand how important something is to you until it is really gone. By seeing how much one person can do in just 3 years I have been inspired to research about amputees and people with disabilities. In this paper I will be looking at other ways people have lost their limbs and how much everything has improved historically. Every amputee has a different story on how they lost their limb including cancer, accidents, disease, or diabetes. {VISUAL AID} The website limbs4life had many inspirational stories about how some people lost their limbs. One story that really caught my attention was about Scott Reardon, age 12. Scott was working on his farm when his shoelace got stuck in the tractor causing him to have his right leg amputated right below the knee. Before his accident he was involved in sports and was into water skiing. Because of the support he had from his family Scott was skiing 6 months after his surgery. Scott has now competed in two World Championships where he has placed in the top three. Also about 6 months after Tyler’s surgery he was able to get back up on a wake board. He borrowed someones left prosthetic foot so he had to wake...
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...Executive Summary Travelling is some sort of way that people do to enjoy, relax and forget about all their problems for a while. It is some kind of serenity. To become a tourist, a person must have the time and money in order to travel and touristic leisure is often more expensive as compared to other type of leisure. Besides that, travellers travel to different places and countries in order to satisfy their socio-psychological motivations. Based on Richardson & Fluker (2008), other than perception, learning, beliefs and attitudes, motivations is also one of the most critical psychological variables in deciding the travelling destination as it is the influential force for all the behavior. There is also the push and pull factors and form of tourism that affects the likeliness of a person to travel. Push factor can be of socio-psychological in nature and the motivations that are linked to the socio-psychological state are escape, relaxation, play, strengthening family bonds, prestige, social interaction, romance, educational opportunity, self-fulfillment and wish-fulfillment. Japan is chosen as the travelling destination. There are many ways to satisfy the ten socio-psychological motivations stated when visiting Japan such as by relaxing at their famous hot springs, enjoy their cultural and historical places and attractions, visit the infamous Mount Fuji and many more. 1- Introduction Japan, with an area of 377873 square kilometers is one of the big forces in Asia...
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...com/1755-4217.htm WHATT 1,3 Is tourism with a low impact on climate possible? Jonathan Chenoweth Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of a range of different travel and tourism options, and quantifies the carbon-dioxide emissions resulting from international vacations, breaking down emissions categories into those resulting from transport, accommodation and recreation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses summary data to review a range of possible vacation scenarios and examines their relative carbon-dioxide emissions in order to compare the relative climatic impact of different forms of tourism and vacation options. Findings – The paper concludes that intercontinental flights and cruise ship travel are particularly carbon-intensive, which suggests that these two forms of tourism will be particularly vulnerable to any policy initiative to curb or price carbon emissions. Ends by considering whether climatically responsible international tourism is possible, and outlines some low-carbon options. Originality/value – The paper relates data on carbon emissions to the implications for tourism arising from climate change. Keywords Climatology, Tourism, Global warming Paper type General review 274 The nature of the challenge While much of the discussion about the climate change impacts of international travel focuses upon international aviation, all forms of transport result...
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...that you write no more than a two-page application essay. The application essay is difficult to write because you must pitch your candidacy to a few department faculty members who read through hundreds – or sometimes thousands – of other essays. In this handout, you will learn how to show these busy readers that you will contribute meaningfully to the university and their department. 1. Relate your past and present experiences to the future. In their application essays, many applicants make the mistake of underemphasizing the future. But it’s important that you show how your past experiences have informed your present work, and how your present work can be extended to the future or raise new research questions. Admissions committees assess many qualified applicants based on whether their research will reflect positively on the university and their department. Committees will think your past and present work is relevant only if it relates directly to your plans for the future. If you don’t know exactly where your current work will take you, you should at least mention how you could develop it. Committees want to see that you have a sense of direction and motivation to pursue issues specific to your field. Note: Your application essay is not a binding contract, and you don’t have to list your qualifications in chronological order like a résumé or CV. It may be better to order them according to importance....
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...of Service Providers Opinion Manjual Chaudhary and Surjeet Kumar Abstract Meeting, Incentive, Conference, Exhibitions (MICE) is a niche business for the specialized clientele and services it offers. Globally it is growing at fast rate and India too is following at 15% to 20 % annual growth. Promotion of a destination; a city, hotel or resort as a MICE venue requires infrastructural facilities backed by support services. Infrastructural facilities involve connectivity, water supply, power, telecommunications etc. at macro level and at micro level facilities such as technical services, display, manpower, computer & audiovisual etc . The facilities at the macro level are provided by the government, when it identifies a city as MICE destination. Government of India (2007) plans to develop golden triangle cities of Delhi, Agra & Jaipur as MICE destinations. Further micro level facilities are created by hotels, travel agents, airlines, event management companies, convention centres, transport companies etc. This paper attempts to assess MICE venues and services of NCR region through a survey of hotels, travel agents, event management companies, conference venues and airlines as these are the prime players in the organization of MICE events. Key Words: Business Tourism, MICE, Event Management. ---------------------------------- Congress Tourism in North Cyprus: Analyzing Current Situation and Planning for the Future Kashif Hussain, Erdogan H. EKIZ Neethiahnathan Ari Ragavan and Evren...
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...Development, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190006, India Research Scholar, Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Kashmir, Srinagar190006, India Abstract: Conflict and instability in Jammu and Kashmir have been a major hindrance to its development and progress levels. Tourism is identified as the engine of growth and Development of Jammu and Kashmir economy in general and Kashmir valley in particular. The development of tourist industry can have a significant impact on the overall growth of the state, because of its ability to create direct and indirect employment, as well as growth in allied industries. Tourism will likely contribute to the growth of secondary sectors such as handicrafts, which have historically benefitted from visitors to the state. As tourism is widely recognized as a major mechanism of employment generation, especially in the service sector, holds significant role forpoverty alleviationand unemploymentin thestate.Kashmir being animportant tourist destination in India has witnessed downfall because of theongoing unrest especially during the last two decades which has hindered the smooth growth oftourism industry. The valley of Kashmir has been engulfed in a violent situation since 1989, which has threatened the sustainability of tourism industry. The political instability in turn has greatly altered the direction, flow, patternand volume of tourists to the destination. The present paper investigates the temporal changes in the flow pattern...
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...and Tourism? Cambridge AICE (Advanced International Certificate of Education) Diploma How can I find out more? 2. Teacher support .............................................................................................................. 6 2.1 Support materials 2.2 Resource lists 2.3 Training 3. Assessment at a glance ................................................................................................. 7 4. Syllabus aims and assessment objectives...................................................................... 9 4.1 Aims 4.2 Scheme of assessment 4.3 Assessment objectives and their weighting in the exam papers 5. Syllabus content ........................................................................................................... 12 5.1 Paper 1: Core paper 5.2 Paper 3: International business and leisure travel services 5.3 Paper 4: Specialised tourism 6. Coursework...
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...ADRA AC&H AC&H H&S ADRA HA HA H&S OI REC NAT NAT OI VOC VOC SGO&H REC SGO&H pathfinder honor book 2014 revision general conference youth ministries department -1- ADRA AC&H H&S NAT HA OI SGO&H REC VOC pathfinder honor book 2014 revision general conference youth ministries department -3- General Conference Youth Ministries Department Director: Gilbert Cangy General Conference Associate Youth Director/Pathfinder World Director: Jonatan Tejel General Conference Honors Committee: Jonatan Tejel, Chairman Vanessa Correa, Secretary Gennady Kasap: ESD Youth Director Busi Khumalo: SID Youth Director Mark O’Ffill: NAD representative John Sommerfeld: SPD representative Paul Tompkins: TED Youth Director Jobbie Yabut: SSD Youth Director Udolcy Zukowski: SAD Pathfinder Director Copyright © 2014 by the Youth Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist® Church All rights reserved. Published 2014 First edition published 1998. Second edition 2011. Third edition 2014 Rights for publishing this book outside the U.S.A. or in non-English languages are administered by the Youth Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist® Church. For additional information, please visit our website, www.gcyouthministries. org, email youthinfo@gc.adventist.org, or write to Youth Ministries Department, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists® Church, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904, U.S.A. Cover and inside design by Jonatan Tejel Printed in the United...
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...Kathy to explain the chemistry notes. (D) Ask Kathy for the man’s notebook. 4. (A) The walk is shorter than the woman thinks it is. (B) The lecture has already started. (C) They won’t have a problem getting seats. (D) The lecture may be canceled. 5. (A) The woman should have studied French in Paris. (B) He didn’t study French in high school. (C) Living in Paris helped improve the woman’s language skills. (D) The woman must have had a good French teacher. 6. (A) Apologize to his roommate. (B) Give the notes to the woman. (C) Call the woman tonight. (D) Take the woman’s notes to his roommate. 7. (A) She doesn’t have time to talk to Dr. Foster. (B) She needs the additional time to finish her paper. (C) Dr. Foster hasn’t finished grading the papers. (D) She wants the man to help her with her paper. 8. (A) Phone the Cliffside Inn for a reservation. (B) Ask her parents to come a different weekend. (C) Call local hotels again in a few days. (D) Find a hotel again in a few days. 9. (A) Main her some information about the conference. (B) Drive her to the conference. (C) Attend the conference in her place. (D) Collect her main while she’s at the conference. 10. (A)The man should stop by the bookstore on the way to class. (B) The man can return the books he doesn’t need. (C) The man should have bought his books earlier. (D) The man won’t need books on the first day of class. 11. (A) Help the man...
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...wrote about diabetes for my biology research paper. I need someone to proof read for me. It is in APA style. Thank you! =) In America, the fact that fast food restaurants are located at every corner many people becomes obesity leading to huge risk factors. The various issues of unhealthy living lead to multiple life threatening diseases, such as diabetes. When people hear the news that they have been diagnosed with diabetes, it makes them feel frightened. In 2011, statistics show that in United States 25.8 million of children and adults has diabetes (American Diabetes Association, 2012). American Indians and Alaska natives have a higher percentage of adults with diabetes than other ethnicities (Collazo-Clavell et all. 2009). Diabetes is a serious life-long illness caused by high level of glucose in the blood. This condition is when the body cannot produce insulin that is located in the pancreas. Insulin is a hormone that moderates the blood level. Diabetes affects the process of how the body uses blood sugar (Collazo-Clavell et all. 2009). Glucose is significant since it is “the main source of fuel” (Collazo-Clavell et all. 2009). There is no cure for diabetes but there are ways to lower the risks. Although diabetes is a disorder, it can also lead to other factors such as heart attack, kidney failure, or death. A person with diabetes has to maintain a healthy lifestyle including eating the right food, exercising, controlling their blood sugar level, and be optimistic. Diabetes...
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...TEACHING MODULE THE FUTURE OF FASHION DECEMBER 2010 This teaching module was independently written by the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program with the generous support of THE FUTURE OF FASHION: SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH THE LENS OF THE FASHION INDUSTRY* By: Jennifer Johnson & Gina Wu Companies across all industries are facing the challenges of business sustainability, debating how best to address these risky issues while also embracing their opportunities for competitive advantage. This Teaching Module uses the context of the fashion industry to discuss topics that are shaping the future of all industries. These topics include sustainable resource management, the challenges and opportunities of global growth, workforce management, and the role of ethical consumption in business. The fashion industry offers a compelling case study for exploring business sustainability issues. In the fashion industry, as in many industries, success requires highly developed sourcing, design, manufacturing, and marketing chains. Increasingly, success also means incorporating sustainability in resource and labor management, as firms realize that long-term corporate survival will depend on new ways of doing business. Climate change, resource challenges, new technologies and dramatic shifts in the global economy are already impacting the industry. The nexus of these concerns allows students to explore sustainability challenges while providing a framework for discussing new business...
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...monuments, resorts, beaches, picnic spots, forest and wildlife. Bangladesh offers opportunities for angling, water-skiing, river cruising, hiking, rowing, surfing, yachting and sea bathing as well as brining one in close touch with Mother Nature. In Bangladesh, kuakata is one of the largest and popular sea beaches. Kuakata is one of the two beaches (other one is in Japan) from where we can see the blood red Sunrise and Sun set. This beach is 18 km long and 3 km wide. People came here to see the sandy beach slopes into the Bay of Bengal, also the huge expanse of water, the ever green forest in surrounding areas, rows of coconut trees, boats of different kinds and their colorful sails, and surfing waves. Kuakata is also a sanitary for migratory winter birds. Many people visiting Kuakata find interest in Buddhist temples located at nearby places such as Keranipara, Mistiripara, and Kolapara. While many others find the place interesting because of the unique customers and traditions of the Rakhain community. 1.2 Objectives of the Study: As a student of Tourism and Hospitality Management, we should have to gather more experience beside our study. The major objectives of this term paper are to highlight the real picture and description of the different tourist spots in Kuakata and to identity the present situation. A clear objective help in preparation of well decorate term paper in which others take right type of decisions: 1. To know about KUAKATA as a tourism destination ...
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