Essays on Boulder

All Americans are afforded freedom and safety to live their lives, but unfortunately, this is not the case for the LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual and Transgender) community, specifically speaking the use of public restrooms. It is all too common for them to endure harassment and even violence while attempting to live their lives in peace. We owe it to ourselves to discuss a way forward in public policy and our societal norms, so they do not have to continue to live in fear. The originators of our constructed surroundings have made open offices that are isolated by sexual orientation, ...

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.0 Introduction The phrasal word ‘Big Data’ means literally an enormously huge volume of data. In the present information era, terabytes of data are generated and petabytes of data are processed everyday with the outreach of ubiquitous social media, online shopping and many other mobile and internet based applications. The traditional methodologies became inadequate to process, analyze and extract information from these huge data volumes from diverse sources and of new and different data types. So, new ‘Big Data’ methodologies have been developed in dealing with this barrage of data and to help governments, businesses and industries in taking ...

Introduction

Making sweeping social changes in any educational system is a hard and often-times very long process. The changes are made even harder when they are indirect, and not necessarily institutional. The way students are taught and awarded for achievement has evolved over time in order to create a more balanced structure for them. Yet, even with these changes, bullying still occurs at all grade levels in primary school. There are multiple ideas on how legislatures can handle this issue, by introducing bills that incentivizes anti-bullying programs, by requiring schools to have specific programs, by ensuring that bullying can be ...

Introduction

Summerlin is a 22,500-acre master-planned community on the west side of Las Vegas and next to Red Rock canyon National Park (Summerlin, 2016). This property is under development by The Howard Hughes Corporation in multiple phases. Summerlin North lies within the city limit of Las Vegas but Summerlin South lies in the unincorporated Clark County. Summerlin’s population has almost doubled in last 15 years. Close to 120,000 people currently leaves in Summerlin currently. Summerlin was named as “Best Places to Live in America” by Money in 2014 (Summerlin, 2016). Figure: Summerlin: Near Read Rock Canyon and ...

The folklore refers to the wisdom, information and the human expression that is passed on anonymously from one generation to the other or circulated and transmitted as the traditional cultural behavior. The Canadian folklore includes the legends, songs, rhymes, songs, proverbs, superstitions, weather lore and the practices like the traditional craft-making and food making To become the folklore, the story, belief or custom must undergo the process of the ‘folklorization’ and meet the criteria approved by the community intended. The item may undergo the process many times to qualify. In Canada, the anonymity with the general recognition, variation and ...

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Greystone Technology Group Wins Top Work Places 2015 Award Greystone Technology has not only shown tremendous revenue growth but the award is a testament to its leadership in HR practices. It plans to hire 50 new people this year. Denver, Colorado – March 7, 2016 — Denver-based Greystone Technology Group is a proud winner of the Top Work Places 2015 Award conferred by The Denver Post. The results were based on employee surveys and The Denver Post has named 150 companies in ...

Brent has long been an evangelist. In his more recent roles as data analytics consultant and acclaimed speaker and his former marketing functions, Brent remains passionate about spreading data-driven words using cutting-edge innovations he helps evangelize collaboratively for clients of all walks. In his current role as Analytics Evangelist at Adobe, Brent crowdsources collaborators, speaking event participants and, not least, broader users and/or stakeholders in his unique storytelling style of evangelizing data analytics solutions developed by Adobe, particularly flagship product Adobe Analytics. The engagements, speaking events and webinars are, for Brent, multichannel data analytics platforms aimed at evangelizing solutions ...

Article Review

How to prepare the future generations of professional singing teachers? What special voice pedagogy programs are the most successful? What are their curricula, educational philosophies, facilities and special feature? Darelene Wiley and Patti Peterson as the representatives from eminent graduate voice pedagogy programs share their experience with the readers about the important issue, how to teach a voice teacher in the Teaching Voice Teachers article published in the Official Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Nov 2008. The first part of an article is written by Darelene Wiley, who is a highly recognized voice teacher who ...

The Award. Eligibility

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was established in the 1987 by the U.S. Congress in order to recognize the companies that managed to implement well-functioning quality management systems. An underlying aim of the Award is to raise awareness about quality management programs and promote their introduction by the U.S. companies. Importantly, the Award is part to the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program that is implemented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology that represents a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Baldrige Program is public private-partnership that promotes companies’ performance excellence (NIST, 2016). The activities, run ...

Defining Terrorism

Defining terrorism is a very complex issue, the importance of which cannot be overstated in the world today. The problem with declaring a “War on Terror” is that there is no catch-all definition of what constitutes terrorism (O’Kane, 2007). Most people have a very general idea of what terrorism looks like; it is easy to describe an act as terrorism once it has occurred, but it is very difficult to define terrorism as a whole before it happens.

A good definition of an act of terrorism is, arguably, an act, often a violent act, whose purpose is to terrify, scare, or otherwise ...

Introduction

One of the major issues that the world is constantly facing is the growing number of the world population. Due to the increasing population, other problems such as house spacing, food supply, water supply, and other basic needs supply arises. In relation to the continuous increase in population, population change is governed by different population processes including migration, fertility and mortality. Furthermore, world population can be further explained through qualitative and quantitative aspects as well as the demographic perspective which is further explained by the demographic transition theory. This paper will cover the discussion of choosing different sources ...

According to Albert Camus in his work The Myth of Sisyphus, man is engaged in a futile search for meaning, as the world itself is completely devoid of significant and universal truths. He compares life to the myth of Sisyphus, the Greek figure who was doomed to roll a boulder up a mountain, only to never reach the top. Instead of giving up and embracing oblivion, however, Camus believes that "The struggle itselfis enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy" (Camus 1955, PAGE). Sisyphus becomes the embodiment of Camus’ absurd hero – a man who attempts to persevere in a world that ...

Labor Market

Labor market is a form of the economy that functions through demand and the supply of labor. Labor demand is the companies demand; labor and supply focus on the supply of the labor workers. The bargaining power is likely to have high influence on both supply and demand. Majority of the nation is aware that the labor market institutions that have equalizing effects tend to encounter challenges (Peitchinis, 2005). Policy change is required in relation to equality since it ensures that the status quo focuses on both national and international change. Labor market comprises of employees searching for work, employers ...

Introduction

Globalization is a process that relies upon strategies internationally with the aim of expanding business operations on the face of the world. This is with the help of global communications, which have been made possible due to advancements in technology, developments in the political front, socioeconomic, and the environment. Another definition to globalization is cross-border interactions being intensified and countries depending on one another. This definition shades light on how the international system has changed. Relationships have changed in individual states due to depending on one another and whatever events are ongoing outside their boundaries are more likely to have ...

Internet Encyclopedia of Garbage

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Human behavior is influenced by both their environment that encompasses the socialization aspect, and their genetic composition. From a scientific perspective in genetics, the genes of a person capture most evolutionary responses of previous populations to specific selection on their behaviors (Breed, 16). The environment, through socialization, gives a person the chance to adjust to ongoing changes in his or her own lifetime. If human behavior is solely determined by genes, an individual might be trapped in drug addiction, violent behavior and bad parenting. Most of the cultures harbor the belief of self-determination, ability to make choices and free will (Breed, 18). ...

Abstract

The Altar basin found in the north western Sonora of Mexico, is a known subsidiary basin forming the present inactive part of the Colorado River delta. The sedimentary records of this basin show how the delta upgraded over a late Miocene. A structurally distinct aquatic basin at the northern end of the Gulf of California is found. Our interpretation of outcrop data, and information from exploratory wells, as well as analog seismic lines of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), and magnetic and gravity explorations from various sources pointed to the existence of three sedimentary sequences, which can be related at regional scale ...

(Institute affiliation) In this paper I will be discussing Joan Didion’s essay written on grief. Joan Didion begins by speaking about grief that a human being feels at the loss of a loved one. Didion speaks about there being two types of grief – one is the actual grief that we feel, the other being the one in our mind. The actual feeling of grief comes from the heart whereas the made up version is all in the head. She expresses her feelings by saying that grief actually strikes a person after the event has occurred and during other times the ...

Introduction

The last decade has seen numerous changes in the political and social systems of the Middle East and North Africa. There is a common factor among the various nations in the Middle East and those of North Africa. They both share the Islamic religion, and they share common ideological and political views. Their leadership systems have also been directed by dictatorship rule and inheritable political positions for years. It has been a common incidence to find government coups and political unrest in most parts of North Africa and the Middle East. Numerous political governments have been ousted in the last ...

Western Australian museum

The western Australian museum was established in the old Perth goal in the year 1891. It consisted of geological collection and was therefore known as the geological museum Biological and ethnological exhibitions were added and in the year 1892. It was pronounced the western Australian museum and art Gallery in the year1897. The Museum was recognized under the Museum act 1969. Within the art portfolio, Western Australian museum is a statutory authority. It is the premier organization of the state. It houses western Australian’s cultural and scientific collection. For the past 120 years, the museum has been making the ...

INTRODUCTION

When we think of our fast-paced society with its short deadlines, fast food, and the need to be in two places at once, it is no wonder that Americans are constantly stressed. However, when we look at all of the technological and scientific innovations that have truly changed the American paradigm and facilitates this modern lifestyle that we covet; the automobile is one of the first on the list. Regardless of what you call it, vehicle, ride, wheels, or car, the automobile has played a huge role in the development of the society we live in today. From where we ...

US History

In 2012, critical acclaim, academy awards, and millions of box-office of dollars went towards the film Argo.1 A movie about the Middle East and terrorism, Argo touches upon this familiar topic in the United States. The film portrays a segment of the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981; a tense period of 444 days in which fifty-three American hostages were seized from the American Embassy in Tehran.2 Argo chooses to ignore those fifty-three victims, and focuses on the successful escape of six Americans from the embassy in November 1979. Tony Mendez, the CIA operative who came up with the ridiculous, yet successful ...

Introduction

Orthodox Jews in Denver are similar in their nature and characteristics. They have their own sets of values and traditions unique to their historical origins. Being familiar with other cultures and subcultures helps us in becoming culturally sensitive and globalized individuals. Extensive research and exposure are required in order to gain such familiarities. One of the most popular Judaism institutions in Colorado is the Denver Academy of Torah. Jews may differ in the way they worship from other religious denominations since their beliefs differ from one community to the other. The institution aims to teach Orthodox Jew in ...

Medical wastes are liquids and solid wastes that arise during the treatment, diagnosis, of human beings or animals. They may also arise during research while testing biological material. They are classified into two different categories that include communal waste, and biomedical waste. When the wastes are poorly managed, they result to economic and environmental costs for residents of a certain geographical area. These wastes have adverse effects on the environment and require being disposed safely through a well defined medical waster management system. The defined waste management system entails the number in which the medical waste is collected, sorted, processed, recycled ...

Effects of Forced Layoff

Layoff has become a frequent strategy for organizations competing with others. However, it hardly assists organizations to achieve their objectives like cost reduction, competitiveness, profitability, increased productivity and efficiency levels. Layoff therefore, refers to the planned removal of roles or jobs so as to save cost (Gruenberg, Moore & Greenberg, 2010). This essay seeks to explain the effects of layoff on the survivors and organization. Employees who retain their positions after layoffs experience increased stress. Furthermore, the growing concern among these workers on further layoff reduces their performance since they are preoccupied with how the layoffs would affect their security ...

The Jon Benet Ramsey murder is one of the many unsolved cases which troubled the nation for many years. In 1996, six- year- old Jon Benet Patricia Ramsey was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her body was found in the basement in which she had been struck on the head and strangled. The Colorado police primarily suspected Jon Benet’s parents and her brother but were completely cleared in 2008. However, in 2010, Colorado police re-opened the investigation and as new developments arise, the investigation was focused on the ransom note which was unusually long and which ...

In terms of ethnicity, the shift from dominant minority to dominant majority is noticeable on an international level in recent times. A major principle of the pre-modern organization is domination by minority groups, usually an ethic minority, but in the modern era, the ethnicity of dominant majority is on the rise. The focus on popular sovereignty, democracy and the intermingling of politics and culture has made the principle of ethnic dominance more untenable. The latest example of this change is evident in Iraq; it is easy to spot the vulnerability of societies dominated by minority groups like Bahrain and ...

Introduction

The first interview session involves Michael Blake, my friend from childhood of 22 years. Blake has been schooling for the most part of his life but is currently working in an esteemed IT organization as a network administrator. He grew up in a middle class family, and lived and schooled in the city of Boulder, Nevada. Blake was raised by his mother after losing his dad at the age of three. Blake schooled in the Boulder Valley District School and advanced to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he graduated with a degree in Information Technology at the age of 21. Our ...

The complete failure of the Arab nations to form a national narrative for the purpose of unification and the establishment of contemporary egalitarian polities happens to be the primary cause behind the ongoing socio-political explosion in the Arab world in recent times. Unity is no longer the major goal and the construction of a society that is capable of mobilizing its resources to combat backwardness and enhance the financial condition of the state has taken a backseat. The elite class has instead tried to enforce a brand of unity via Islam and Arab nationalism that has alienated portions of the population not present ...

Kapiolani Community College

ABSTRACT This paper will go in detail as to how beneficial it is to teach children sign language at an early age as opposed to not teaching sign language at all to younger children. This paper will also discuss the facts as when, how and why baby sign language should be taught and used. Also this paper will discuss how the teaching of sign language to young children as early as six months of age can improve their communication with their parents and other caregivers as well as helps them develop at a quicker rate than children who hasn’ ...

In December of 1996 the United States fell in love that was never to be requited. Six year old JonBenét Ramsay, the beautiful and talented child beauty pageant contestant was found murdered in the wine cellar of her parent’s Boulder, Colorado home. Lying on the floor of the wine cellar, covered in her blanket, JonBenét’s wrists were bound above her head, duct tape covered her mouth and a nylon cord was looped about her throat. For more than a decade after her murder, the case of JonBenét Ramsey’s homicide remains an unanswered question in the ...

Life knowledge and its application are acquired – in each and every respect – via a form of education. That has always been the case. A quotation attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479 BC) advised: “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.” That philosophy, emphasizing the tremendous importance of education in planning for the future, is every bit as true today as it was over two thousand years ago – probably more so in this rapidly evolving technological age, in which “ ...

Conclusion and Summary of Results

The focus of this study was to explore a Black woman’s resiliency after her exposure to a physiological and psychological toxic work environment. The work environment surrounding an African-American woman can often be a source of distress because of the way her colleagues and others treat her. For example, many Black women are treated as if they are a stereotype; a caricature of what people assume is a “black woman.” Micro-aggressions experienced each day become magnified as emotional assaults on the woman increase; or, as her ability to deflect the inappropriate behavior decreases or as the intensity of both becomes greater. The stereotyping and ...

Geographic Soil Study of Boulder County Area in Colorado

The area of interest for the study of this case is the Boulder County Area in the state of Colorado. It is located on the north-central part of Colorado. It is approximately 241,920 acres of land which lies on the eastern part of the Boulder County (Moreland & Moreland, 2008). This part of the survey consists of rolling plains as well as valleys, and the larger section of the acreage is an irrigated cropland. Boulder County is numbered as second in dairy operations in the state of Colorado. On the other hand, the western part of the boulder ...

The Boulder (Colorado) Open Space and Mountain Parks program commenced to preserve the natural environment and open space of the area. This is a program driven and supported by the immediate community. In short, the provisions in the Boulder city Open Space and Mountain Parks Charter allow for the limiting of urban sprawl as well as preservation and restoration of water resources, scenic environment, flora or fauna, terrain and geological formations, historical sites and arable land. As admirable as Boulder City’s efforts to preserve and expand open spaces is, this limits the availability of land for human habitation. ...

Essay on Evaluating the Two Models for Less Developed Countries

This paper will discuss the two important approaches in improving the level of poverty in less developed countries. Institutions like International Monetary Fund (IMF), The World Bank and Grameen Bank are trying their best to take part in this initiative. The first model is the Top-down which IMF is implementing by means of granting loans to governments to aid programs related to poverty improvement. The other model is called Bottoms-up which Professor Muhammad Yunus is implementing for Grameen Bank. His initiative is similar to what IMF follows but his programs are more focused on the specific area of the ...

There are many reasons I wish to attend George Washington University, not the least of which being my commitment to a good education and to attending a diverse university. Given my intercultural experience, I feel I would be a very good fit for the George Washington University community. Being from South Korea, and living there most of my life until very recently, I have a great deal of knowledge regarding this unique and vibrant culture. I would consider it a great honor to offer this information and knowledge about my culture to those who would be interested, furthering the collective understanding of those who ...

Analysis of People Like Us

Analysis of People Like Us

It has been claimed that the world is the smallest it has ever been in the history of mankind, thanks largely to liberalization of society and culture, the rise of globalization and the internet, and due to the ever increasing mingling of sub-cultures. However, it is easy to dispute this when we review the work of marketing experts who are happy to subjugate society into a variety of clusters and cultures (Brooks, 2003, p308). It is through this work that people seem to lose their humanity and can be equated with others in terms of ...

The Ethical dilemmas of WikiLeaks

Wikileaks is an international company that publishes unidentified submissions and leaks the information in the document while still hiding its source. A self-described nonprofit making organization was initially launched in Australia, in the year 2006 under the sunshine press. The organization has released a considerable number of documents, which have become indispensable news items. The first document to be released was the equipment expenditure and holdings of the war in Afghanistan and the Kenyan corruption. In April 2010, they published footage on the Baghdad airstrike that left many Iraqi reporters killed by an Apache helicopter. In July, the same year, ...

The Arab Gulf States are general Islamic countries governed by the Islamic law (Shariah). The ruling family in most if not all of these Gulf States controls basically all aspects of the government including the media but not in its entirety.

There are national television stations whose content is controlled by the government. These though have been curtailed by the introduction of computers and social media (Sean 87). National television channels in the Gulf States have been used by the governments for political advancement and self defense (Al –Kasim 98). This phenomenon has been changing with time as more ...

In the beginning paragraph of this chapter Lamert (2010) advances the impression that while Durkheim‘s theory of anomie denotes a state of disorder, strategies linking modern division of labor structures seemed to emerge in response to annomie. I am in total agreement with this concept and line of thinking. Further, Lamert (2010) actually points readers towards understanding the way social order in contemporary patterns of task distribution can eliminate the anomie posited by Durkheim. This is wonderful! Precisely, I embrace interpretations of the concepts ‘anomie’ and ‘modern division of labor’ because they can be interpreted as antonyms in a ...

Weber M; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in Lemert, C. (Ed.) Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings. 3nd ed. (104-108) (2004) Boulder, CO.: Westview Press Quote: “In order that a manner of life well adapted to the peculiarities of the capitalism… could come to dominate others, it had to originate somewhere, and not in isolated individuals alone, but as a way of life common to the whole groups of man” (para 1 lines 1-3) In this quote, Weber focuses on capitalism which eventually can grow to dominate other people’s lives and eventually forge a way ...

Introduction

In a democracy citizens take for granted many things that legitimate democratic institutions make possible such as the right to vote, being able to check out a federal law book from the library, or being able to run for city council. Discussions about legitimacy in coffee shops or over kitchen tables are mostly about laws or some politician’s social behavior.

The legitimization of coercive power of democratic institutions may be thought of as an academic philosophical concept but its importance in practical, everyday governing cannot be ignored. Democratic institutions are actors in the justification and legitimization of coercive power because ...

C. Wright Mills; The Sociological Imagination p. 355-358 in Lemert, C. (Ed.) Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings. 3nd ed. (37-41) (2004) Boulder, CO.: Westview Press.

“Underlying this sense of being trapped are seemingly impersonal changes in the very structure of continent-wide societies. The facts of contemporary history are also facts about the success and the failure of individual men and women. When a society is industrialized, a peasant becomes a worker; a feudal lord is liquidated or becomes a businessman. When classes rise or fall, a person is employed or unemployed; when the rate of investment goes up or down, a person takes new ...

I started my Master degree at the Colorado University of Denver on Spring 2008; after taking 3 classes there, I applied to continue my studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I was accepted into the Masters program, and transferred 9 credit hours that I earned from the previous institution. I began my work at Boulder in Spring 2009, and since that time I have taken all necessary classes to complete with the program, up to this current semester where I am taking my last two classes.

Three weeks ago, I got an email about the graduation application ...

Executive summary

Sustainable development has been defined by the World Commission on Environment as development that meets the needs of a generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (OECD, 1987)

In this age and era, the world is faced with many challenges including economic crises, global warming, poor health and loss of diversity. Sustainable development is thus employed to reconcile human developments and the earth’s ecological systems. Public policy all over the world and especially in Canada has been centered on sustainable development and environmentally centered decision making. Sustainable development is thus centered on ensuring ...