Ed Koch

Jonathan Mahler, writer of the book, “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning,” discusses the political, economical, and social fall of New York in 1977. The term originated in 1972 after a documentary series episode of the same title was aired. The term became more socially recognized during the 1977 World Series game where the New York Yankees faced the Los Angles Dodgers. Helicopter camera views show video clips of actual fires during the arson breakout caused by the economic fall of the…

Chapter 10 Feedback “If you don’t get feedback from your performers and your audience, you’re going to be working in a vacuum.” --Peter Maxwell Davies Lesson 10: Boards must invite feedback to improve performance The late Ed Koch, outspoken Mayor of NYC from 1978-1989, was famous for his question, “How am I doing?” Every board should be asking a similar question, “How are we doing?” Unfortunately, most boards have no formal or informal reporting mechanism. Neither do most boards have a way to…

Dunlap, Riley E., and Aaron M. McCright. "Organized Climate Change Denial." The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Ed. John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg. Oxford, U.K. ; New York: Oxford UP, 2011. 144-160. Print. Oxford Handbooks. The tenth chapter of the book, The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, is titled “Organized Climate Change Denial”, and was written by Riley E. Dunlap and Aaron M. McCright. In this chapter they argue that much of corporate…

Human civilization has found innumerable ways to put down other humans beings with logos that seem to be harmless to those who created them, and during the ages it has come as a habit for other to simple dismiss this logos as harmless option that were there from the beginning of time. This prejudices view that are like poison to the mind of those in our society continue to be a problem during the centuries, this nation has put down for more as it time females and their roles in society making…

Study of Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) in Alloys Jiang Jingxing 1. Introduction of Stress Corrosion Cracking Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) is the growth of cracks with a under the combined effects of a static stress and a specific chemical environment. All SCC failures involve a macroscopic brittle performance, and the ductility of the material is reduced. It is universally acknowledged that there is no single mechanism for stress corrosion cracking (Ford, 1984). Stress…

Rent Control Rent control happens mostly everywhere, but how does it work? When rents of the rental properties are held down below the market rate is called rent control. The government tried to protect poor in high rates of housing from landowners by setting up the rent control (Brownfield, 1975). Thus, the government sets up a maximum rate for the rental properties that landowners can charge to their customers to help people in poverty. When city government “imposes rent control, it means the…

2016). In 1876, Robert Koch was triggered to find the cause of anthrax because there was an epidemic of farm animals. When first experimenting, he used slivers of wood to infuse healthy mice with splenic tissue from an infected cow. This procedure would be done by their tails (Chu, ?). By performing this experiment, he was able to describe how the microbe he injected into the animal caused the disease. Also, he discovered the life cycle of the anthrax bacteria. Koch used anthrax to help…

adresses not only the U.S but also the rest of the world The legalization of drugs will lead to an idea that since its legal everyone should do it. It will increase in use not only in adults but also in youths, according to Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch. People will start to use and abuse drugs like never seen before. When something is illegal it is much harder to find than when it is available to all. The same principal applies here because not only will more adults be abusing drugs…

Gore Vidal, an American writer, once said, “At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.” Since the beginning, society has created prejudices based on false information and untrue judgements. These unfair conclusions are often referred to as stereotypes: “standardized mental pictures that are held in common by members of a group and that represent an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment” (“Stereotype”). Today,…

pulmonary aspiration ranges from silent aspiration, where the patient does not experience any symptoms, to the development of acute lung injury (ALI). The mortality rate after development of ALI reaches 44% (Richter, Bergmann, Knels, Hofheinz, Kasper,…Koch, 2013). Patients that undergo emergency surgery should be considered to be at risk for aspiration, due to decreased gastric motility, as a result of pain, stress, and opioid administration.…