over 13,000 outlets and franchises in about 80 countries, in Asia, Europe, Americas, Middle East and Africa. The headquarters is located at Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It started out as “Insta-Burger King in Jacksonville, Florida” (Daszkowski, 2015) in 1953. In 1959, its founders, Matthew Burns and Keith J. Kramer, sold it to its Miami, Florida franchisees, David R. Edgerton and James McLamore, and was subsequently renamed Burger King. The staff are highly trained in customer…
massive complex ecosystem at the southern tip of the Florida peninsula. It is full of diverse flora and fauna, and the natural watershed and wetlands once covered nearly 47,000 sq km. The Everglades once made up about 10,000 sq km of this watershed, but today the Everglades span around 5,000 sq km. The area experiences seasonal weather, with a wet and hot summer and relatively dry and mild winters. To the east of the Everglades is the urban Miami metropolitan area, with around 6 million…
The Electoral College is a system whose constitutionality has been disputed for years; especially since 2000. The Electoral College is founded in Article II of the United States Constitution. The number of electors for each state in the Electoral College is equal to the number of representatives that state has Congress (U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3). The people of the United States vote for their electors, but the electors vote for the president. Thus, under the…
I interviewed 20 students at Miami Dade College, 10 male and 10 female at random. The broad question that I asked was, “Do you think graffiti is art or vandalism?” 60% of people believed that graffiti was art. I noticed that there were a higher percentage of Blacks and Hispanics that…
ethnic backgrounds such as African American, Hispanic, Caucasian and Asian. It is diverse with well-rounded people who nourish my mind and creativity every day at work. We are ranked number one in UPT (Unit Per Transaction) with 4.9 in the state of Florida and ranked second in ATV (Average Transaction Value) since I began working there. The duties of my position include updating marketing, working overnight floor sets, managing business hours, making schedules, counting registers, deposits,…
This unfortunate epidemic has caused some to lose their homes, businesses, and hundreds of thousands of dollars. One such case reported in 1998, in three separate counties: Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach, in Florida, made South-Florida history. This case, which was reported by Sun-Sentinel, helped bust one of the most tremendous check washing gangs ever present in this area. According to Learning to Live with Crime, “During a 14-month period, the…
This paper will investigate a local brownfield site here in Broward County, reveal state and federal funding to remove the toxicity, provide a Florida based brownfield remediation case study, and propose the benefits on many different levels to carry out brownfield redevelopment. First I would like to introduce you to my site. It is the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop off of Sunrise Blvd. and NW. 31st Ave. The site was originally created back in 1963 by Betty and Preston Henn, it was called the…
Correlation of Understaffing and Patient Safety Based on the research proposal discussed in the previous section, highlighting the issue amongst competition and other firms in the same industry can exploit the serious nature of the problem. With the Nursing staff at a minimum, patient care is depleting at a rapid pace. The nurse to patient ratio should be at a sufficient level to where the patient is getting optimal care and the nurse is not struggling to do his or her job adequately.The drain…
ValuJet Flight 592 Crash The ValuJet Flight 592 plane was a regularly scheduled flight from the Miami International Airport to Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In the cockpit was pilots Kubeck Candalyn and Richard Hazen who had over 20,700 flight hours total between the too combined. On May 11, 1996, the McDonell-Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Everglades after shortly taking off from the airport. It crashed as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment…
the name of Elois Hollingsworth Hayes. After a great family dinner my aunt I had a chance to sit with each other and reminiscence on her life and different aspects that described her life. We began by discussing her occupation where she was Miami-Dade County public school teacher, were she enjoyed most teaching students English and found most satisfying in instructing the students literature that most students found hard or less interesting and making it fun and attention-grabbing. Ms. Hayes…