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In the environments of local government and non-profits, management is a key asset that can build partnerships in order to deliver bold solutions to underlying problems. Thus, each manager is assessed based on the results he or she delivers to their respective organization(s). Over the last few decades, increased levels of scrutiny have been placed on public managers. This development has greatly changed the world of nonprofit management education, especially as the growth of the nonprofit…

special district elections in Texas are nonpartisan, or not biased, elections. These elections have two negative consequences; voter turnout is low and people take it more personally and are less issue oriented. In Texas’ elections, there is less representation for ethnic minorities and the working class than there is for the rest of the population of Texas. With…

Institutional barriers have been identified when it comes to addressing climate change across a large range of South African studies. Studies have shown that there is a lack of capacity in the amount of people and their expertise in the area, as well as there being high staff turnover rates within government departments, the stance that climate change is an environmental issue instead of a developmental issue, poor communication and coordination between various levels of government departments…

Just east of the Brazos River, lies the land now known as Sugar Land. It was originally owned by the Mexican government and was acquired by Stephen F. Austin after Texas won its independence from Mexico. As a reward, Austin gave the land to Samuel M. Williams in 1828 for his dedicated service (Anhaiser). The land was rich with tall sugar cane, which explains the name. Williams brother, Nathanial, purchased the land from him in 1838 and at some point, built the Oakland Plantation. There he began…

parents can become challenging at times. It can be difficult to meet the demands from the parents as well as the administrators. She stated that she would like to incorporate more counseling into her role. However, I realized that there will be a district for me where I can incorporate counseling into my role because this is a role I would like to follow in the near future. When I asked the LSSP how she decided to become an LSSP, it seemed she was very unaware of the career. In my case, it…

Charting the path of ideas to writing can be similar to a scatter plot in math, as the dots are mapped sporadically on the chart, inference must be used to find the correlation between the haphazard points. It is the same for writing, as ideas bounce around, seemingly unrelated, the writer must be able to allow these random thoughts in order to draw the “line of best fit”. Prewriting, if done incorrectly can stifle the writer in the creative thinking process. Often they try to create direct…

As summer reaches its peak, many Australians are firing up the barbecue more than ever so they can escape from the heat of their kitchen. However, as a newbie barbecuer, you may be unaware that some of your actions are damaging your plumbing. It is time to become more knowledgeable on which barbecue foods could be causing issues so you can mend your ways before you need to add the expense of a plumber visit to your summertime spending. Which Two Barbecue Foods Damage Food Disposal Units? Some…

If you want customers to find your business online you want to be ranked on the first page of the search engine results when they do a search for your services or products. With all the millions of other web sites and competing firms out there this may seem like an insurmountable task. And it may be. But my guess is, that for most of you it is not only possible, but perhaps even relatively easy. This is especially true for small and medium sized firms serving a local area, such as the…

Red, yellow, and orange blended into a single swath of color as I drove north along the Blue Ridge Parkway on an autumn day in Appalachia. I slowed down as I passed by a row of trees noticeably smaller than the rest, reflecting back to what was visible before their growth. Six years ago, as a high school student, I used a graphical information system (GIS) to conduct a viewshed analysis of undesirable vantage points on this scenic byway. Alongside this data I created before and after imagery in…

Some scientist didn’t believe that the popping noise had anything to do with gas bubbles. To follow up on this hypothesis, some scientist used an MRI to prove the “gas bubble theory” wrong. First, scientist had studied 10 joints by using volunteers’ fingers into a tube. They did this so they could apply traction to the joint. They had specifically used the metacarpophalangeal joints because those were the most common joints that people crack. Then, they took images before and after cracking the…