LA TROBE VENTURE CAPITAL PROGRAM La Trobe University’s envisions itself as being one of the top 300 schools internationally. To do this, it needs to improve on some aspects of its business to get a higher score from international university ranking publishers. One of the most influential publishers is the British Quacquarelli Symonds, issuer of the QS World University Rankings. The university’s QS world rank is in a steady decline from its 205th rank in 2007 to its current rank which sits just outside the top 400 (Quacquarelli Symonds, 2014). To stop this trend, all of La Trobe’s faculties should improve in the six criteria QS use to rank universities. Two of these criteria rely heavily on the quality of graduates as perceived by employers and academics (Quacquarelli Symonds, 2014). The university is taking action on this and has included in its Strategic Plan 2013-2017 the creation of a relevant framework that will attract creative and independent thinkers with a passion for challenging the status quo (La Trobe University, 2014) The La Trobe Business School is leading the way in improving the perception of employers and academics to the quality of La Trobe graduates. This is evidenced by being awarded a 5-star rating from 2011-2014 by the Graduate Management Association of Australia, holding the prestigious EPAS accreditation, and is ranked in top 200 among business schools globally since 2010 (La Trobe University, 2014). These awards and rankings are indications that the…
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born on August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey. She was an award-winning singer. She was also the youngest child and had two brothers. She began to show signs of her talent at a very young age. It was like the talent of singing ran in her blood because her mother, cousin, aunt, and godmother were all amazing singers. She started her singing career at a church singing side by side with her mother. She was signed to a record label at the age of nineteen and…
Whitney Houston, the women who inspired others, the women who made breathtaking music, and the women who was loved by many. She was born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Houston had an amazing childhood and grew extremely close with her family through music. Whitney grew up in a musically inclined background, so she learned to sing at a very young age, and even by the age of 11 she was preforming and focusing on her music career. When Whitney was young her mother taught her to sing…
Whitney Houston was a legendary singer from Newark, New Jersey. The daughter of Cissy Houston, a famous gospel great singer, Whitney Houston shot to stardom in the mid-1980s with her first album titled “Whitney Houston”. Before being discovered by Clive Davis of Arista Records, Whitney was singing and performing with her mother as well as in church in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey. Whitney, with a voice that would make the pages of a telephone book sound like a hit record, was destined…
Whitney Houston was born August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Whitney was an American actress. Whitney was also a singer who went from gospel to pop stardom. Houston started off singing when she was 15 with her mother while trying to get a record deal of her own. At age 19 she was discovered in a nightclub by Clive Davis. Houston passed away February 11, 2012 at a suite in Beverly Hills, California. Whitney was found death by her assistant that afternoon. The assistant found Whitney face down…
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time.[1] Houston is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide.[2][3] She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover…
“Whitney’s Legacy” Imagine, standing on stage, thousands of eyes just on you, the spot light on you, the rush of performing on stage in front of thousands of crazy fans. That’s exactly how Whitney Houston felt, every time she stepped on stage, or was acting in a movie. She is not only a singer, actor, or performer, but she is a legendary artist. Whitney is one of the most recognizable female artists of 2001. She has so many accomplishments, including her songs, movies, and awards. Whitney’s…
Alexus Fields Ms. Wernersbach and Mrs. Spears English II April 4 Modern Day Tragic Hero Research Paper:Whitney Houston Born on August 9, 1963, Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress. Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, and amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies. Whitney Houston began singing in church as a child. Whitney Houston is a modern day tragic hero because she was an amazing singer. She had…
Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 9, 1963. She was the youngest of three children. Her mother, Cissy Houston, was a blues backup singer. Their home was structured around music and with strict and loving discipline. Whitney started performing in front of an audience at a young age, in her church with the choir. She then started performing with her mother at the age of 15. Whitney struggled trying to get sign to a record label, until one day she got discovered at a…
Introduction Postulated to be the result of either a long-runout landslide, or a structural pop-up, the Poverty Hills present a unique problem in the geologic community. Located on the western-most edge of the Basin and Range Province in eastern California (Fig.1), and within the Owens Valley basin, flanked by the Sierra Nevada and Inyo/White mountain ranges to the west and east, respectively. The hills are of particular interest as they represent an unusual combination of lithologies,…