Essays on Oakland

Part 1: Active Shooters

There has been an increase in the number of shootings in hospitals as well as other institutions around the country (Hospital Employee Health, 2013). The increase in these cases has made institutions to start preparing their employees on how to react if such a shooting occurred in their organization. There are similarities in some of the hospital shooting cases. In St. Vincent’s Hospital, the shooting was unpredictable and could not be prevented. This was similar to the case of the Western Psychiatric Institute shooting in Pittsburgh (Thomas, 2012). The Joint Commission agrees that there has been an increase ...

BYOD also commonly referred to as bring your own device refers to a policy where organizations allow employees to use their personally devices to access company information and applications. Keyes refers to the policy as a psycho-technical phenomenon in an attempt to understand the practical application of the concept psychologically. It help elaborate and analyze the social and economic problems that might be caused by BYOD policy (Keyes, 2013). Calling the idea a psycho-technical phenomenon help people understand the implication the policy can have on any organization. Psychological analysis of the policy is important as IT departments are being ...

Significant Facts

Oakland School District has a steadily growing numbers of orders as processed by the department. The restrictive School District accounting policies force the various departments to write an excessive number of requisitions to the supply management to write a detailed report as per the accounts plans.

Major Problem

Why is Oakland School District making a significant number of orders and unpredictable changes on the same orders? Another major problem is why are the accounting policies too strict? Possible solutions/Alternatives The first possible solution (A) to the biggest issue is to increase the number of suppliers. This solution will ease the workload ...

A billboard opens immense opportunities in marketing communications for any hospital. This is one of the best methods of advertisements as it is narrative and cost effective. Placement of its billboard directly adjacent to Brianwood Medical Centre gives an edge to Crestview hospital for many reasons. Firstly, the billboard will certainly influence many of the patients who patronage Brianwood Medical Centre. Some of them may tend to choose Crestview hospital for future medical services. This gives Crestview, a competitive advantage over its rivals. Secondly, there are many patients in Oakland who do not have relation with any hospitals. The ...

Bill Beane on Evaluation of Players

Bill Bean introduced sabermetrics in baseball, an approach that used data to capture players' performance, like hits, catchers and getting bases. He incorporated data from the industry, software developers, and the New York Exchange, over a long time, and generated relationships that guided his approach to signing players. He did not consider speed and strength (though he did not decant them), rather, he was looking at the qualities that made the player different. All major scouts went around the country, looking at high school players and stars, but Bill had noticed that players assigned straight out of high school ...

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Introduction The diversity of students in the elementary classroom posits concerns about providing instruction to embrace multiculturalism. Teaching standard American English takes precedence, and teachers should promote this way of African American students acquiring the language skills. Nonetheless, teachers should recognize their young students’ language peculiarities of Ebonics despite the negative connotations attached to it. Specifically, many people interpret Ebonics disapprovingly due to a corrupt form of English (Ramirez, Wiley, Klerk, Lee, & Wright, 2005, p. 41). This is the reason why both school teachers and ...

Business Law

Without the Supremacy Clause, there would always be overlapping and conflicting federal and state law. The Supremacy Clause ensures that federal law always preempts state law if there is a conflict. In the absence of a Supremacy Clause, there would be a floodgate of litigation regarding choice of law questions and which law applies to a particular case. In this case, Wyeth did act ethically because if a large drug-manufacturing company immediately admitted to liability every time a plaintiff sued, alleging negligence, the company would surely go bankrupt. In the face of a civil suit, the company is entitled ...

Standardized testing, or tests that are given uniformly across a given age and/or educational population are considered one of the standard measurements both of student’s capability and synthesis of material as well as a school’s ability to convey that information to its students. These tests differ depending on the location of the school in question, but are all very similar in that they tend to measure the same metrics, though in slightly different ways. Students are subjected to standardized testing as early as kindergarten in some states, and while those tests are relatively simplistic, they still are ...

Abstract

The direct effects of earthquakes could range from building collapses to the destruction of the infrastructure on the hindrance to water supplies and the water purification infrastructures. This paper highlights the details and the circumstances that followed the earthquake in San Francisco in the year 1906 and also the fire that broke out in the aftermath of the event. Further, we delve into how the earthquake later turned around to affect the environment, economy and the society of the area where the earthquake mainly struck and also the impact that it had on the surrounding areas.

How it all began

Early on the ...

Background of the Research

The successful companies of the world have recognized the importance of quality improvement of their products and services for competitive advantage. They have also improved their financial performance by reducing their manufacturing and delivery costs as they have limited their manufacturing and supplying processes according to the market needs (Meredith & Mantel, 2011). In this way, companies have also reduced their production cost and they have reduced the selling prices of their products or services for the customers. The customer’s perception of improved quality is enhanced when the selling prices of products or services are reduced and the conformance ...

Introduction

The strategy of quality management is the key survival challenge for businesses in 21th century. The phenomenon of total quality management as competitive advantage and added to the discipline that many elements of the total quality management can play a vital role in creating competitive advantage for a business. Proactive businesses understanding the need of quality management in current competitive landscape are employing greater tactics to avail the benefits of quality management as survival strategy. Some of the early practitioners of the concept have not only enjoying the sustainable growth due to cautious focus to the quality measures but ...

Is mandatory minimum wage hike to $15/hr good or bad for managers?

After a lengthy period of lobbying for increment of the minimum wage, Seattle became one of the first cities in the US to pass the law and begin its implementation on April 1 2015. The push to have the law passed for other places is gaining momentum with San Francisco adjusting its minimum wage to $11/hour and has plans to raise it to $15 by mid 2018 (ShiftWa). Other cities such as Berkeley are on course to increase the minimum wage to $12.53 next year. The law if passed in other states targets to increase the minimum wage from $7.25/hour ( ...

Organizations in the health care industry give an extensive variety of medicinal services and social administrations through healing centers, specialists' work places, nursing homes, outpatient surgery focuses, and different offices.

The WHO states:

“There are 9.2 million doctors, 19.4 million medical caretakers and birthing assistants, 1.9 million dental specialists and other dentistry staff, 2.6 million drug specialists and other pharmaceutical work force, and in excess of 1.3 million group wellbeing laborers across the globe.” (World Health Organization, 2011)

The worldwide health awareness framework is progressively overburdened, with climbing quantities of individuals experiencing perpetual maladies and lifestyle-related conditions. Use ...

Introduction

Quality assurance in medical facilities is sought so as to create satisfaction for customers by providing them with health care that is both appropriate and superior (Donabedian, 2002).This is achieved by the promotion of continuous assessment and ensuring improvement of the quality of healthcare, service quality, safety of patients and the quality of business components that support delivery of healthcare.

For the subject of my Session Long Project, I identified Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland, California. This is part of the Kaiser Permanente health care consortium. This group operates dozens of hospitals that offer acute care. The group ...

Suggested improvements to the initial system

A quality management system is a set of standards and requirements that should be followed in order to have quality products and services. It has various components that will have to meet. It has responsibilities of the staff, structures and processes that should be followed. The most important factor that should be taken into consideration is to have the quality standards integrated with the culture in the organization. The organization standards should not come up with a totally new concept. This will require that the culture that has been followed should be adopted in the quality model that the organization is ...

Introduction

The aviation industry is currently under rigorous public scrutiny due to its detrimental impact on the environment. The adverse environmental impact of air travel begins even prior to take off. The severity of damages to the environment caused by construction of airports is tremendous, such as cutting down massive number of trees to make way for the construction of runways. In addition, air travel consumes an enormous amount of carbon dioxide-based fuel that further contributes to air pollution and climate change. All of these detrimental environmental effects of air travel justify significant government intervention and active involvement of policymakers ...

Statistically speaking, a substantial gap exists between the cities of San Jose and Oakland in California. San Jose is one of largest cities of the state with a land area of about 176.5 sq. mi., while Oakland is one of the smallest cities in the state with an area of about 55.9 sq. mi. Aside from the land size difference the population of the two cities also places a marked distinction between them: San Jose has a population of 998, 5437 as of 2013, while Oakland has only 406,253 persons officially residing within its jurisdiction (US Census Bureau 2015). Despite its bigger ...

Assignment

The advancement of technology, whether it’s new or old has always been impactful in regards to human life. Whether it’s the invention of the wheel, the discovery of a new power source, the invention of utilized electricity, or even a modern day treat like the notorious Apple IPhone. All of it affects human life. With that being said, in this piece of writing I am going to discuss a proposal and possible solution in regards to some of the newest technology, like security cameras and government surveillance. As well as the problems for privacy rights that technology does, or does ...

Pros and Cons for Crestview Hospital

The billboard targets the main traffic corridor that runs by Briarwood Medical Centre and Crestview Hospital, but its situation within the close proximity to Briarwood creates the impression of Briarwood endorsing its competitor as the best medical care in Oakland. Effectively, this billboard is great for Crestview’s brand and sales. Given the facts given by Susan that 42 percent of new patients are influenced to visit hospitals because of advertising, especially those patients that do not have relationships with hospitals. The value of the influence that marketing communication has on elective services. In addition, the situation of the ...

No man is an island. This quote serves as a reminder that we do not live in isolation. As stated by Aristotle, human beings are social animals who need daily social interaction with other members of the community and that to be self-sufficient and not partake in the society is distinctive of either a beast or a god. Because of this frequent interplay among members of the society, creating laws and empowering legal authorities became a necessity in order to establish order. These laws are meant to impose control and limitations over what individuals can do to avoid interfering with the rights of ...

According to studies conducted on the wage gap between different races in the United States, there are disparities that make one race occupy most jobs than the rest. There are significant differences seen through the process of job application and employment. Whereas it is believed that the labor markets is supposed to be blind to the race of their employees or possible employers, it is proven beyond doubt that race plays a significant role in decision making when it comes to employment and recruitment. A person’s ethnicity plays a very big role in determining their career as well as the ...

Questions:

1). Based on the “Billy Beane: Changing the Game” case, explain how and why the Oakland A’s economic situation after 1995 shaped its: a) Compensation strategies: Oakland A’s disobeyed the laws of baseball economics in the world of most important league baseball. There was an expense of only $34 million by the team and they won 102 games and loss 21 only, in 2001. Moreover, they were the first ones to finish in their division and made the matches. The chief baseball teams preferred to hire players from high school rather than players from college. As a ...

There is a hot debate going round in a number of colleges in North America especially United States of America over college athletes’ pay. Some argue that college students who participate in sports deserve compensation while others are opposed to this idea. The main argument behind the opposition is the fact that college sportsmen are amateurs and not professionals (Mitchell, & Horace, 8). There is growing discontent among college athletes most of who feel their institutions take advantage of amateurism. As many people suggest that college athletes deserve pay, others still hold that situation should remain. The National College Athletic Association (NCAA), a ...

Literature Review

LITERATURE REVIEW INTRODUCTION Literature review involves a review of the secondary research literature to strengthen the theoretical concepts related to research and the insights provided by past researchers in the area. This section provides a detailed view of existing research literature on the topics related to the perceptions of employees on informal training practices and its possible impact on the job satisfaction. The literature review chapter develops the assessment of the information and research-based literature that was developed in the past that will guide the development of the research literature in the future. The section also provides a reference to ...

Introduction

There are many different extracurricular activities that are been dominated by adolescent youths of the same ethnicity compared to others in public school. There has been an increase in awareness on how children especially those from high school on the way they spend their time when they leave schools and how it affects the children’s development and education. This has caused many people to do researches about the issue. Some of the results found by the researchers are that there are different types of after school activities that students have due to their ethnicity and economic background that ...

Facility’s Continuous Quality Improvement program

Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland has continued to provide quality health care services in the state of California and other eight states across the country. It has quality assurance policies and practices that mainly touch on three major areas; processes, structures and the expected outcomes. The objective of Continuous Quality Improvement program is to ensure that there is a systematic and intentional improvement of services that result to increased positive outcomes to the patients (Gowen, McFadden, & Settaluri, 2012). The hospital provides health care services that are focused on the patients. It has quality assurance programs in the areas of risk ...

and Tumin’s Views on Social Stratification Theory There has been a growing controversy in San Francisco over corporate buses used by Google and other tech companies to shuttle employees from their homes in San Francisco to corporate campuses forty miles away in Silicon Valley. The buses have been described as oversized ominous looking limousines, with tinted windows, and WiFi. The shuttles are free, only for corporate employees and use the exact same routes and stops as the public transportation system. They also cause traffic congestion and delay public bus routes. After the city failed to restrict the shuttles, ...

Introduction

Criminal justice has since been a long-standing issue in the city of Oakland, California, not least because of its effectiveness in combating crime. In fact, Oakland currently stands as perhaps the most crime-ridden city not only in the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA), but also throughout California, with alarming rises in homicide and robbery cases. Such owes largely to the ineffectiveness of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) – a matter this essay seeks to elaborate through reviews on the articles written by Robert Gammon for the East Bay Express and Jonathan Mahler for The New York Times.

The Contemporary State of Criminal Justice in Oakland

The perceived incompetence of the ...

Introduction

Crime is essentially a part of the social spectrum in several urban conglomerations, as in the case of the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA). Cities within the SFBA treat crime as a major deterrent to their goals to instill social order, given the need to preserve the safety of their urban populations to stabilize their economic activities, which are focused mostly on services and commerce. However, recent trends show that crime in the SFBA remains a critical problem and are aggravated with the social effects of the great recession of 2008 and racial profiling, among many others. This essay seeks to expound ...

The following is a green ordinance for Cloak City. The city shall be one of the Greenest cities in the world and shall be a global leader in the development of green cities across the world. The city has a population of about 80,000 people and is in its inception stage with plenty of ground to set up new infrastructure for the Central Business District. Other amenities such as office blocks, entertainment areas, administrative offices and all other city infrastructure including the residential buildings to be set up in the outskirts of the city, shall all adhere to several green performance ...

When the issue of drug abuse is mentioned, it is hard to disassociate it with some common drugs. Some of the products that immediately come to mind include heroine, cocaine, and bhang. The later has been braded with so many names. These include weed, cannabis, and pot among others. The United States has very strict laws with regard to drug abuse. As such, they leave no stones untouched in making sure that the vice is totally controlled and eliminated from their land. While this is happening in the land, it so happens that there is some states that have ...

Abstract

The Black Panther Partywas an American black revolutionary movement formed in 1966 in Oakland, California. Its founders were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group was originally named Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.The Black Panther Party patrolled black ghettoes with loaded firearms and protected its residents from police harassment and brutality.The group, later, evolved into a revolutionary group pressing for black Americans equality andnon-exploitative environment.In 1967, the Party gained a reputation through its large membership reaching up to 2000 members. Like in a collective identity, the group was a forum through which they could articulate their needs. The party had engaged in persistent ...

Introduction

Since many kinds of sports are games, it is not surprising that examples from sports are often being used for illustration of classical problems from game theory, while game theory is, also may be applied to improve performance in sports (Chiaporri et al 12). Choice of direction of shots in tennis is often being used for understanding of mixed strategies, and, the other way around, mixed strategy have been used to explain how footballers might decide on where to spot the penalty kicks (and for goalkeepers – how to try to save them). At the same time, chess in itself ...

Introduction

Moneyball is a movie based on Oakland Athletic, a baseball team. The story revolves around manager, Billy Beane in his quest to bring together a competitive team. Billy Beane comes up with a new model, known as sabermetrics, which uses number analytics to scout for players. In his attempt to integrate his methods into the team, he faces has to overcome different types of conflicts. In a nutshell, Moneyball is about bringing about change and the conflicts that ensue when new thinking strives to replace old thinking. This paper defines the types and levels of conflict and how they may be applied to the ...

Martin Landau, Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap, 1969

THESIS: The main focus of the article is redundancy. Today the reformers are striving to achieve the goal of creating a smooth, efficient government with the exclusion of duplicative expenditures. The definition of redundancy is used by different authors with different perception. Landau explored the definition to get the right meaning by using it in government or political system context. The term redundancy generally has a negative implication. Landau gives his perception and considers redundancy a necessity when it will be used in the context government agencies and political system. Landau justified his perception by supporting its argument with some examples that ...

- In her speech, Nancy Reagan introduces the “Just Say No” Campaign, requiring the audience’s support and contribution for combating the drug use among youngsters; - Nancy Reagan uses all the three elements of the speech: ethos, logos and pathos in her speech, for determining people to adhere to the “Just Say No” Campaign; - Ethos is implicit in Nancy Regan’s speech, because the credibility is given by her name, and reputation being the first lady and a respected and trustworthy social activist; - The speaker makes use of logos by presenting a comprehensive and coherent ...

Billy Beane Case Study: Changing the Game

Oakland A’s economic Situation After 1995 Oakland A’s economic condition suffered a blow due to high wages. The leaders of the club managed a high compensation strategy for their players yet they did not win many trophies. The club had the highest compensation strategy in baseball prior to 1995. The death of the owner of the club, Haas, in 1995 saw the leadership under the hands of another team. The new owners of the club ordered the general manager, Alderson, to reduce the wage bill. The manager was tasked to field a competitive come back under a very tight and ...

Introduction

Politically, the national development orders complete state policy purposes through a method of residential development . Modern findings reveal that quality policy advanced within states with mandates for local planning, as well as upon those wherever formal power to evaluate indigenous tactics and enforce mandates is grander . Some states within America are, usually measured amid the sturdiest of particular sanction federations . For example, administered, is an exploratory of a level in which a few general public’s fulfill with government directives concerning, perhaps, seaside rainstorm deathtraps . So far, an essential new way of thought is in progress thru the biosphere regarding the ...

Introduction

The phrase “time capsule” was invented in 1937. The main significance of the phrase was to communicate with human beings in the future about a particular date. Nowadays, the phrase is used to describe intentional and unintentional discoveries. Intentional discoveries have meaning anchored to definite dates and times while unintentional discoveries define items that may not be defined on the dates and times that they occurred. San Diego , which is the largest city in California enjoys adverse time capsules which are used to mark various moments for the city. General Dynamics Astronautics Time Capsule (1963) The booklet 2063 ...

Business and Society

Citation: New York Times, February 4, 2012, Website. Facts: The cause of the conflict between the Occupy Oakland protesters and the police is due to police misconduct, the use of excessive force and concealment of name badges. This group of protesters has originated in Oakland California. The main cause of the protest had originated from the acts of the Oakland police which are in violation of their sworn duties and policies enforced by the police agencies (Walter & Glantz,“Occupy Protesters Stretch the Police, Leaving Parts of Oakland Underserved”). The first occupation was brought about by the death of ...

INTRODUCTION

The role of community banks is an important on the United States. In United States, there are a number of community banks; among these banks there are some that are very large banks however at the same time there are some banks that are smaller in sizes than others. This part of the report identifies and analyzes the competitors of My First United Bank and then the report analyzes the demand of the community banks and the changes that have occurred in the industry.

IDENTIFICATION OF IMPORTANT COMPETITORS

There are different banks that can be considered as the competitors of My First United Bank ...

Organizational testing and assessment tools are used frequently in the field of psychology. Business sometimes borrows these assessment methods to evaluate leadership, survey managers and their effectiveness, and critique employee performance. Since psychology incorporates the study of human nature, such applications are relevant and may help businesses become more transparent in their evaluation processes. Successful business leaders know that dedicated employees are a valuable asset. How does an employer determine which employees are valuable? How does an employer know which employees are the most productive? Some of the tools that have proven to be effective in the business marketplace ...

The purpose of this research will be compare and contrast the various laws that regulate the usage of marijuana for medical purposes in three American states namely Alaska, California and New Mexico

Background

Several researchers contend that marijuana is perhaps one of the most commonly abused drugs. Reportedly, more than 60 million Americans use the drug occasionally or regularly. Even though this is as drug whose parts have been valued at one time or another, the marijuana legalization debate still graces the list of the some of the most heated debated of all time. Marijuana is banned in most countries ...

Kelley Wagner

OPPS 571 Andres Carrillo Write a paper of no more than 1,050 words in which you explanation of the control limits, including the calculations and data used to determine them. (I expect everyone to use the data that they have collected and create a control chart for your process. I want to see your calculations for the upper and lower control limits as well as the raw data). In collecting data for 7 days between day 27 and 33, the following were observed. On day 27th, hair length was 15". 4 umbers of products were used that ...

The process improvement plan:

Statistical process control procedures help someone monitor the process behavior. The most successful statistical process control was the control chart. This helps a person record some data and lets him or her see when an unusual event occurs. This is for instance very high or low observation. They try to differentiate between the two types of the process variation. The common cause variation, which is always intrinsic to the process, as well as the special cause variation, which arises from the external sources and the process, is out of the statistical control. Various tests can help determine when an out ...

Introduction

This case study paper explores the shipping and transportation management of potatoes from distribution center to the retail center in a cost effective manner.

Statement Of Study

The purpose of this study is to look into the features, elements, problems, and challenges of transportation from production center to distribution center, and then from distribution center to retail center. Keeping this fact and challenges into account, it also needs to issue advices and instructions to the management professionals for effective and efficient management of raw materials.

Significance and Background of the study

There is always a challenge in the transportation of product from one place to another. So, this was exactly ...

Marijuana or cannabis are currently considered one of the most visible and mostly used illicit drugs recorded in various countries around the globe. Cannabis itself is capable of influencing not just the user’s brain function but also the entire body. Many governments have outlawed the production and distribution of this plant due to the reported cases of crimes and death tolls due to using this plant as a drug. However, many have argued that marijuana or cannabis could be utilized for other uses that do not curtail addiction or criminal activities. This plant, known for its 400 various types ...

Black Music

What’s happening? Black Music. 1. (a) Reggae artist, Duane Stephenson

Duane Stephenson is a non-dancehall reggae artist. The reggae sound and beat are not the up-front of the sound; they are the foundation on which his singing voice and his message comfortably perch. His voice is serious even when he sings; he sounds like an old man, probably because he is mature and thoughtful. His fans describe his voice as wise.1

Stephenson’s albums may be too mellow and well, boring to some. His lyrics are strong so he doesn’t let the music overwhelm his message. He ...

Introduction

Crime is a problem that persists in every society in spite of the advancements that the society has made socially and economically. The problem of crime is a reason for major concerns for both individuals and governments. For instance a survey carried out in 2008 in the United States of America showed that 50% of the respondents were at one time or another worried that burglars would attack their homes or their cars would be vandalized by criminals. They were also worried that the crime rates in the nation had gone up considerably over the past one year.

The concerns are justified ...

Introduction

Over the years, educators, psychologists, researchers and politicians have been arguing about the use Ebonics in both public and private schools especially its impacts to the African American students’ performance. The research has shown that for a long time there has been a large difference between the performance of the Caucasian and African American students in test scores as a result of the use Ebonics in schools. Due to these differences in performances, many African American students have been put in special classes where they can be helped to improve their performance in the Standard English language. The effects of Ebonics have ...