Center for American Progress

Client Service • Organized Multitask • Project and Change Management • Detail Oriented • Analytical Thinking • Team Player • Motivational Support PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AMERICAN RED CROSS (ARC), Vicenza, Italy (1200+ volunteer hours) Health Center Chairman 2014 – 2015 • Served as Liaison between ARC and US Army Health Center – Vicenza (USAHCV) Command Team. Coordinated placement of and supervised 90+ medically credentialed volunteers into the USAHCV resulting in cost savings of >$750,000…

In an act to affirm the idea that America should claim ownership of the wrongdoing that they have committed against African Americans for centuries, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote A Case For Reparations. “Reparations” are essentially the executive decision proposed by a government to alleviate all wrongdoings by granting monetary benefits to the victims that were affected by such wrongdoings. Ta-Nehisi Coates presents the argument that until America recognizes the hundreds of years of enslavement,…

Catholics believe love is a sacred bond between a man and women and anything other than that is a sin. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and has the freedom of speech but I firmly believe that all humans deserve respect. According to the American Catholics “The Vatican and Pope John Paul II are speaking out against the growing number of places that recognize same-sex marriages.” In addition according to The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints ““Homosexual behavior violates the…

surveys that show how serious gun violence in Arizona is, like how the rate of Arizona’s gun-death ratio is 40 percent higher than the U.S. average. The Law Center to prevent Gun Violence gave Arizona an “F,” ranking it 49th out if 50 states, even Arizona had the eighth-highest rate of women killed by men and so on (Center for American Progress, pp. 1). For example, one very serious…

illegal immigrants who work, and gets paid less than the minimum wage (Hoffer, Rytina, and Baker 1). So legalizing illegal immigrants will help those people who works hard to get an opportunity to improve their life. Also according to the Center of American Progress (CAP) article “The Economic Effects of Granting Legal Status and Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants” legalizing illegal immigrants will also help to grow the economy in in terms of earnings, tax revenues, and jobs (Lynch, and…

"President Obama on Inequality" Barack Obama said “I believe the defining challenge of our time: Making sure our economy works for every working American.” (para.6) In his speech he states that “America is supposed to be land of equal outcomes but instead we strive to be a land of equal opportunity” (para.7). We try and prosper to make sure every American gets an equal right to jobs, healthcare and schooling in the United States. We have struggled with that for years and in Obama’s speech he…

resources to either maintain or obtain housing. Even if people can find work, it is still will not enough to provide an escape from poverty. Housing is considered affordable when it accounts for 30 percent or less of monthly domestic income. Many Americans are spending at least 50 percent if not more of their income to maintain housing throughout the month. This does not include the cost of food, household products or clothing. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, families…

I had read episode one and episode two. The American Old West has always been the center of a romanticized view people had in the 1800 's from all over the world. The West is an eight-part television documentary regrading the American Old West. In it, the West is presented as a vast and beautiful landscape where many people from different parts of the world come to purse a prosperous life. A new world for some and the center of the universe for others. Stretching from the Mississippi to the…

America… . World War I, deemed by President Woodrow Wilson “the war to end all wars” left the United States traumatized as tens of thousands of American families were left without sons, husbands, fathers, and friends. The war ended the recession that had been occurring prior to the start of the Great War, and increased financial prosperity allowed Americans to live lavish lifestyles teeming with cars, moviegoing, speakeasies and jazz. Every attempt was made to fill the voids of human loss with…

United States” (CDC). According to the CDC, “2,200 Americans died every day” from heart disease and stroke, this situation becomes so prevalent that many health organizations decide to take part in the Million Hearts campaign which has for ultimate goal “to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017” (CDC). This campaign focuses on finding ways to decrease the occurrence of heart attacks and stroke among the high-risk population, African American and Hispanics, by facilitating access to…