Factoring

Neighborhood context also shapes the outcome of parents, which in turn it may circulate back to their children incorporating environmental stress. For instance, factoring in the neighborhood conditions and financial strains related positively with psychological distress in parents (Gutman et al. 2005). Distressed parents are associated with economic struggles that can compromise the ability to effectively parent,…

Based on an IDC showing the traffic data for Officer Josiah Thompson, I scheduled a meeting with him. The meeting occurred on 04/04/2017 and we discussed, and evaluated, the results of the vehicle stop statistics. During our conversation, I explained to Officer Thompson the purpose of the meeting, and read the relevant parts of the racial profiling statute to him. I explained the statute's requirements and its intended purpose. We discussed the reason why his vehicle stop statistics do not…

Walt Disney World seems like an odd place to find an aspiring doctor. All of my fellow College Program interns were performers or business majors. When I told people what I was studying, they always had the same question: "What are you doing here?" My shadowing and prior experience with medicine during college convinced me that the most important skill physicians could have was the ability to relate to their patients with compassion and empathy. In pursuit of the ability to connect with people,…

2016 is all about startups, and anyone with at least a bit of entrepreneurial spirit is going to try and start their own business. However, starting a company requires a significant amount of money. In this situation, most people either save or borrow in order to get started. Still, it doesn’t have to be this way. There are so many other ways out there you can finance your startup. With this in mind, here are 10 most creative (and most rewarding) methods. Kickstarter If you have a great…

School has been a big topic this semester in my English Class. I have talked about General Education courses and my views on it. However, looking further into the topic, another question comes to mind. Are Standardized Tests worth the time of the student? Students have to take these tests each year for about 12 years. The tests have many different names and have been implemented for over 20 years. The state assesses these tests and labels these as ready for the real world, but what are they…

will actually use the skills we were learning in our lives. Their answer, most of the time, would be a job that involved heavy mathematics. Some of the time, however, she would simply admit that the skill wasn’t useful outside of the classroom. Factoring, for example, was, in my opinion, the single biggest waste of time of my high school career. I left high school with an otherwise worthless skill, yet I never learned how to balance a checkbook, or how to invest my money. I was totally…

interest now and taking this time at the beginning of the tutorial process should lead to great accomplishments throughout the rest of our process According to an article that focuses on the importance of student interest McCarthy (2014) states, “Factoring for student interests works well with instructional planning based on readiness and learning profiles. Readiness combined with interest leads to students doing work at a respectable complexity level with the familiarity of a topic that they…

Technology has become a big part of today 's society. Whether we are at our house, at work, outside, or even in the middle of nowhere, we are constantly connected to the outside world. One of the biggest contributions to this is the computer. Computers are becoming such a popular item that almost every household has at least one. However, while most people can use their computer efficiently and effectively, they don’t fully understand all that there is to know about it. One of the biggest things…

Cheating to act dishonestly or unfairly to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination. In the past there has been numerous amount of cases of people being caught in the act of cheating. Usually these situations are glamorized in the media when it involves someone famous. One example is back in 2013 when New York Yankee, Alex Rodriguez, was suspended by Major League Baseball (MLB) for violation of their Perfomance Enhancement Drug (PED) policy. It was repeorted that Rodriguez took…

of scale and government policies that hindered their expansion efforts originally. Low profit margins of 2% to 3% forced Wal-mart to increase the amount of product they produced in order to succeed in the long run. However, with Chinese culture factoring in, Wal-mart had to decrease number of units packaged into each finished product. Government policies also took a role in how Wal-mart China operated when first entering the market and throughout it’s existence in China. In 1996 when Wal-mart…