growth of Kaiser Permanente. As the Grand Coulee Dam Project was coming to an end in 1941, America was entering World War II. This meant that ships and other steel products had to be built and would require tens of thousand of workers. Henry J. Kaiser would employ these workers but also had the obligation to provide healthcare for them and their families. Knowing Dr. Sidney Garfield from previous projects, including the Grand Coulee Dam Project, Mr. Kaiser called Dr. Garfield to implement the prepayment
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On September 12, 2002 twenty at risk young boys from the dangerous streets of inner-city Baltimore left their homes in order to pursue better opportunities and to attend the 7th and 8th grade at The Baraka School. This school is an experimental boarding school located in Kenya, East Africa. At the Baraka school, the boys were faced with a strict academic and disciplinary program. However, it wasn’t just all work and no play, the boys were given the opportunity to be normal teenagers without succumbing
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Labor and Employment Relations Office hours: By appointment, LER 211 Andrew Weaver, PhD Email: aweaver5@illinois.edu Phone: (217) 265-5087 REQUIRED TEXTS (purchase prior to class) Brealey, Myers, & Marcus. Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (8th Edition) Note: please buy a version that comes with the online “Connect” access. We will use Connect for problem sets. HBS Press & SHRM. The Essentials of Finance and Budgeting (Business Literacy for HR Professionals) Link: https://hbr.org/pro
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the university of texas at austin ACC 358C, Introduction to Assurance Services (Cross-listed as ACC 380K.4) Course Syllabus Spring 2012 Times and Location: TTh 8:00 – 9:30 (unique no. 02320 for ACC 358C and 02405 for ACC 380K.4) TTh 9:30 – 11:00 (unique no. 02325 for ACC 358C and 02410 for ACC 380K.4) TTh 12:30 – 2:00 (unique no. 02335 for ACC 358C and 02420 for ACC 380K.4) TTh 2:00 - 3:30 (unique no. 02340 for ACC 358C and 02425 for ACC 380K.4) The morning classes will be held
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I stand atop the icy crest of the trail’s entrance, 3,200 feet in the air. The freezing wind is biting at any exposed patches of skin it can find. There is a trail mark sign to my left with its two black diamonds signifying its expert difficulty, and a beautiful view of miles of untouched Vermont wilderness to my right. I start my run down the mountain. I see an entrance into the glades. There is something dangerous about being hundreds of feet deep in the woods. I weave in and out of enormous snow-covered
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Brigance Diagnostic Inventories (For special needs children.) • Yellow Brigance: birth to developmental age 7 • Green Brigance: grade levels Pre-K through 9 California Achievement Test (CAT) Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) Stanford Achievement Test (This is not the College Board SAT.) PASS test (from Hewitt-standardized but not nationally normed) ???? Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) (Short but accurate; this brief test can be used for children
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today’s world. “There is also governmental legislation in place, such as the Enhancing Education through Technology program that requires all students to be technologically literate by the eighth grade. This is ensured by the Government Performance and Results Act program that assesses the percentage of eighth grade students who meet technology requirements.”(www.uscranton.com). There is a variety of technology that is being used in classrooms today. Kid Blogs Kid blogs is a great way to get the younger
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|Points |Assessment Tools |Due Date | |Quizzes | 2@25 = 50 |Online assessment |Oct 4th and Nov 8th | | | | |4:45 pm -4:45 pm the second day
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contact me – EMAIL ME ONLY at Keith.Baker@unt.edu Phone: 940.369.8156 Office and Office Hours: BLB 387C - Tue. & Wed. 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Required Materials: 1. Auditing & Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach. Messier, Glover, and Prawitt. 8th ed. 2012. Prerequisites: ACCT 3120 and ACCT 4100; BLAW 3430; must have a 2.5 GPA in all ACCT 3000 and ACCT 4000 courses taken at UNT or their equivalent taken at other colleges and universities to take this course. ACCT 4400 may not be taken more than
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Michelle Stockdale Wednesdays, 6:50-10:00 p.m., Room 1417 Email: MStockdale@fullcoll.edu Voice Mail: 714-992-7000 x28814 Course Materials: ▪ Kottak, Conrad Phillip, Mirror for Humanity, A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, 8th edition ▪ Ferraro, Gary, Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 3rd edition ▪ 2 Scantrons (No. 882-E) Course Description & Objectives: Anthropology, the broadest of the social sciences, is the study of humankind. One of the strengths of
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