Essays on San Antonio

Understanding health care utilization and the underlying processes, as well as attitudes from the point of view of patients and providers, is important in today’s complex health care environment. One of the principal objectives in the management of health care utilization is the reduction of practice variation through defined parameters that seek to ensure a cost-effective use of health care resources. However, factors related to individual determinants of utilization of health care services as well as the enabling factors must be taken into consideration in the discussion of health care utilization. Looking at the case of San Antonio, ...

Written Report for Project Procedure Manual for the Shoe Box Project for United Way

Introduction The Shoe Box project is a humanitarian activity that seeks to support homeless men in the United States. The project aims to collect objects from well-wishers after which they should distribute them to needy men. The complicated and demanding nature of the project requires a higher level of care and order for effective and efficient integration of the various activities of the program. Therefore, the paper presents a written report for the best procedures that the Shoe Box Project for United Way could adopt for maximum results. The intent of the written report is to formulate a feasible ...

Corruption has made its way into almost every city in the United States. There are news stories that air weekly about politicans, officers, and even lawyers falling prey to rigged elections, drug busts, and even money fraud. Sadly, it seems to become a part of the American way; to obtain a government job and then find a way to make easy money on the side. One city has seen more than its fair-share of corruption to last a lifetime. Brownsville, Texas is one of the poorest cities in America and a hotbed for corrupted city officals. Over the past ...

Overview of Rasquache

The term rasquache originated from Mexico. Initially, it had a negative connotation among the indigenous Mexicans. Most people perceived it as an attitude of being impoverished or of a lower class. The Low-class people often get considers as low-value individuals in the social ladder. Most of them worked as slaves and servants throughout history. However, the Mexican art movement reversed this definition. Their efforts and hard work gave the term a newer and more appealing meaning. They managed to transform this low-class sensibility into an art. "Rasquachismo" mainly focuses on the professional and material limitations that most artists face ...

Introduction

San Antonio Housing Authority was established in the United States to provide safe, decent, and sanitary housing for the low-income earners within the cities. The authority is committed to the mission of providing quality and affordable housing that is well blended with the status of the neighborhoods. It serves as a background for improving the lives of the people living in the cities by making them more independent. The San Antonio Housing Authority is considering developing a human performance technology plan to address the issue of human performance gap within its departments. Human performance technology plan is meant for ...

The Institutional Affiliation

The Professor's Name Abstract The report is aimed at providing the information about the Pilgrim Cleaners business locations in the Saint Antonio area. It discusses both the company and the clearing industry. The paper provides a short background and the history of the company. It also discusses in details the 4 P's of marketing, including the types of the services provided, the pricing, the places where the clients can use the company's services, and the advertising methods. The report defines strengthens, weaknesses, threats and opportunities of business by the Pilgrim Cleaners. It provides recommendations on how to improve and ...

Mexican Americans are Americans whose original homeland is Mexico. Ten percent of the current population of United States of America is made up of people from Mexico. Most Mexican Americans are descendants of early indigenous Mexican immigrants (De Leon 41). Mexicans have been migrating into United States of America for a long time and they still migrate into the country to date. Extensive migration of Mexicans into America however started in the 1880s when a rail-road network was built in the south-western sides of America that linked America to the northern part of Mexico.

Though the rail road transformed the economy ...