Boston High School Education Four Year Plan for High School When applying for the Ivy League schools and other top schools, the applicants are required to submit not only their GPA, class ranking, and SAT scores, but also their extracurricular activities and community service, all in a detailed statement paper to the college’s admissions office. If one is thinking about applying for an Ivy League schools, they must be ready for whatever high school can throw at them, and come out on top of the heavy workload of their four years. Usually, some students and parents consider and start research college applications in junior or senior year. It is definitely too late if he or she did not start preparing as a freshman. Even though GPA, and SAT scores are…
In most readings, facts and recommendations are given by the writers, to convince the readers to contribute in making a change. In the book, “Sustainability” by Carl G. Herndl, there are different readings by different writers, and these writers all give facts and recommendations on how to help solve the problems of wastes around us. In these reading, facts are given on where trash and the recycles of people really end up and how it is harmful to humans around them. Suggestion are given on how to stop pollution in our world with all these wastes and the chemicals released by some of them. Making these changes will require the sacrifice of some things, which can be hard for some people.…
Provide a brief introduction about the city and why you chose it. The city of San Jose is in the heart of Silicon Valley in Northern California. San Jose has the third largest population in California. San Jose is unique because it has a very congested high rise city area as well as suburban and small communities within the city.…
They trained and provide support for people in the team because they believe that even though living in a high technology era, machine and technologies still can’t replace the people who execute strategies. Second, “Honesty, trust and integrity” are necessity for financial institution to survive in long term. They conform to the highest ethical standard for the stakeholders and these values are portrait through decision-making, execution, and maintaining relationship. Third, as a customer focused business, they aim to develop personal and life-long relationship with the customers by providing the very best for each of them based on their best interest. Fourth, integrating diversity into their business models can ensure attraction and retention of teams with best quality.…
My current employer’s sustainability is based on people continuing their education. This has helped me with my decision on returning to school. I want to improve my skills and abilities which will in turn improve my employer’s. However, obtaining this degree is not only to improve my well-being and my employer’s, but to help others better themselves too.…
Elizabeth Diller, the designer of the Roy and Diana Valegos Education Center, wanted to design a building that was not only a structurally powerful building, but an innovative, sustainable building that worked toward the goal of minimizing CUMC’s carbon footprint while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2025. The project was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfio, an interdisciplinary design studio that mixes the knowledge from different areas of expertise like architecture, visual, and performing arts. DS+R goal is to modernize cities in an innovative way that will make institutions more efficient. This design studio is led by four partners: Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro, and Benjamin Gilmartinlocated.…
The Stain of Sustainability Sustainability is discussed in “Attention Whole Food Shoppers” by Robert Paarlberg and “Sustainability by Christian R Weisser. Christian R Weisser speaks more about the idea of what sustainability is and how is important for society to be aware of it. Robert Paarlberg explains in his article the way the Earth is more and less sustainable because of everyone 's actions around the world. Both articles touch on the ideas that there are people out there helping change Earth for the better, and want to make earth sustainable for the future. The authors both explain how there are also harmful situations happening that hardly balance out the help from others trying to make a difference.…
Introduction This paper will focus on the sustainable aspects of Marriott International, the issues this organization faces in its daily operations and with meeting ecological operations in around the world across all of their brands. Marriott International is an iconic brand within the hospitality and tourism industry that includes 18 brands with nearly 4,000 properties around the world (Marriott.com, 2015). Marriott Corporation (became Marriott International in 1993) was founded by J. Willard and Alice Marriott in 1927 when they started a small root beer stand in Washington D.C. which developed into a chain of family restaurants by 1932, and they opened their first motel in 1957 (Wikipedia, 2015). Tourism Operation Marriott are leaders in…
Sustainability is often claim as the core to any company success. The word sustainability means an ability to continue doing or having something for a long period of time. In business, sustainability is measured according to the triple bottom line. The triple bottom line assess companies through three factors: people, planet and profit. This essay will discuss Rio Tinto Group’s sustainability by using triple bottom line and give recommendations on the company’s weaknesses.…
Moreover, Banco Santander has signed with the following international institutions to achieve a more sustainable business model: United Nations Global Compact, Banking Environment Initiative (BEI), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), UNEP Finance Initiative, The Wolfsberg Group, Equator Principles, Round table on Responsible Soy, Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), Working Group on Sustainable Livestock and Carbone Disclosure Project (Santander “Sustainability report 2015: We want to help people and business…
In September 2016 the United Nations General Assembly held its 71st anniversary in New York when the heads of states delivered their speech on the current global issues. This year’s theme was focused on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiated in 2015 which included seventeen significant goals to be reached by 2030 in order to push transforming the world! However, this year’s agenda was also overshadowed by other crises such as overflow of immigration from the Middle East, Syrian Crises or the Islamic State presence in the Middle East or the prolonged unresolved crises between Israel and Palestine.…
Besides that, Maybank want to achieve become Regional Financial services leader in 2015, they search international banking opportunity in Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand. Last but not least, growth in internet banking of Maybank also leads growth of customer…
Sustainability is Gold Gym’s ability to continue their operations indefinitely or for as long as possible. The audience background necessary for this is the board of members at Gold’s Gym because they are responsible for creating policies and projects that could boost the company’s potential for sustainability. There are different kinds of sustainability and we will cover why social sustainability works best for Gold’s Gym. The kind of sustainability that Gold’s Gym should be aiming for is social sustainability which involves maintaining a healthy relationship with their current or potential clients. Gold’s gym has had problems with numerous fraudulent cases and they need to fix their operations and policies before it becomes too late to fix their reputation.…
Keeping all these touch points in mind our final step of action was to communicate a definitive five year strategy for the success of WW’s business from 2015 to 2020, with metrics for social, environmental and economic performance as well as providing a comprehensive financial plan with estimates of inflows and outflows, identifying all the cost, investment and expected income for 2015 - 2020. In order to carry out this plan of action we as a board team got together to…
Social sustainability has gained increased recognition for being key aspects of the sustainability debate in recent years. Previously, the concepts of environmental and economic sustainability were dominant in the social sustainability debate and it wasn’t until the 1990s that social issues of society were added into the subject of sustainability (Drexhage and Murphy, 2010). Social sustainability is defined by “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (World Commission on Environment and Development,2009:40.) A combination of the increasing population, rising levels of consumption and a limited amount of resources creates issues in the ability to meet the…