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pretty tall for incoming high school freshman. Quintin was African American, always had a fresh buzz cut and had a very distinguishable birthmark on his right forearm. Over the course of their time in middle school they had lost 6 classmates, mostly to gang violence. The numbers only got worse when you looked at the high school. Quintin and Malik were worried about becoming targets of gangs. As they began high school they tried to keep their heads down and just mind there own business. One day…

Thesis: The actors involved in the Great Recession as well as those that facilitated the current Chinese real estate bubble have yet to face any criminal prosecution; which stands in disproportionate contrast to the hundreds that were jailed in the better handled Savings and Loan Crisis that was significantly less impactful on the global economy. The recent 2008 Financial Crisis, dubbed the Great Recession, has been one of the worst financial panics to grip this nation since the Great…

On Tuesday October 20th, 2015, I went with my sister and dad to see Gidion’s Knot at Centre Stage. The play is about the course of a parent/teacher conference, where a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother's son, Gidion. Gidion may have either been bullied, or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion's act and…

Lowe’s Companies employs Job Family Structures to define job grades and compensation structures. Job families are divided into approximately seven to nine levels, which varies among job families. The levels determine the job’s requirements and job grades. Each grade has a fixed salary range with a specified midpoint, minimum, and maximum salary. The benchmarking of key Lowe’s positions occurs every two years. The purpose of benchmarking is to compare the company’s compensation and benefits…

Hello, Diana. It's been a long time to talk to you. How are you? I am doing good. Now, I am listening to Star 102.1 by using iphone's app, which is radio channel I used to listen to in TN. So, I was just curious how you are doing and miss you, Bruce and other there. I can't belive it has been more than one year since I had left TN. These days, I am looking for a decent company I can work for so I am very busy for preparing my resumes. There were many times that I stayed up all night to submit…

…For a moment, Carlton Hislop wandered down the twisting path that one calls life, and on that rambling route, he stopped at the door of his former employer, Gordon Stenberg, who was the first to recognize young Hislop’s potential in the movie world of Xanadu. Prior to this momentous meeting, Hislop was studying business at Stanford, and it was there, in those hallowed halls of academia, he learnt about the infinite possibilities of making money from movies. So impressed by the mercantile…

The 2008 financial collapse, also known as a “Business Recession,” “ Financial Crisis,” or “ Global Financial Crisis,” began with the United State and brought many countries to the edge of insolvency. In another word, the crash of September 2008 through the largest bankruptcies. The contagion, which began with low-interest rates drove housing prices higher and that made the mortgages backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDO). At that time, the investors were sitting on their…

Mary Ann has a passion for cooking and her greatest interest is to establish a catering business. Mary Ann is aware of the rate of failure prone to these new businesses. She is evaluating if she should purchase an existing catering business that is for sale. The present owner understands that the enterprise is vastly lucrative; however, Mary Ann has her uncertainties. She wonders why the owners would be so interested in selling the business if the business has the potential to create profit.…

Overtime careers, and the tasks asked of these careers, changes immensely. The most drastic changes can be the salary, education, outlook, and skills required. One career that has experienced all of these changes is a Food and Drug Administration employed meat inspector. Not to long ago, to become a meat inspector the only education required was roughly 9 weeks of training. That has now since changed. Now a bachelors in Biological, Mathematical, Physical, or Agricultural sciences. The…

In the novel “Orca Soundings” by Kristin Butcher, there is a group of boys who enjoy playing soccer in an abandoned parking lot. The group of boys all had tattoos, dressed in baggy clothes, and they only cared about themselves. Until one day when the group of guys were just sauntering down the street ready to play soccer, something made their stomachs drop. There was a newly constructed mall right where they played soccer. There was even a new convenient store next to it. They got filled with…