Fairfax County, Virginia

Case Description The Merrifield Commercial Realization Area (CRA) projected started on April 2009, which it is known as The Mosaic District as well. Because this project, the first Community Development Authority (CDA) was created, and it made sure that the CRA’s principles provided a coordinated approach to address the needs and opportunities of a changing development environment, while ensuring that public dollars are contributed only when essential to realize revitalization. Also, the CDA was created to help financially the public infrastructures that were development in Fairfax, and the Merrifield Commercial Realization Area was one of them. With 32 acres and a value of $65,650,000 Mosaic District Community Development Authority is…

This sum includes purchasing 27 new buses and hiring the new bus drivers. While this may seem as a small sum for such a large county, Fairfax County Public Schools are currently facing a deficit of over $14 million, and are expected to see a deficit of over $100 million in the 2016-2017 fiscal year (“FY”). This means that pushing back school start times accounts for nearly 5% of the downfall, leading to teacher being laid off and extracurricular activities being cut. Another reason pushing back…

There’s a student acrostic poem that I have heard in the past for the word school; “Seven Crappy Hours of Our Lives.” It’s not a very appropriate saying, but I can comprehend the feelings of its creator. Imagine school felt long enough only to get another hour and a half added. I believe the way classes are distributed is reasonable, so how would adding another hour function? A longer school day would just mean complicated compromises and sacrifices would have to be made, students who dislike…

The Patriot Team is working to complete packets for the 22 August boards, which could allow us to close two additional AOCs (AECP). Our Current mission posture is AMEDD Vol 375/381 (98.4%) and AOC Precision 25/79 (31.6%). In the last two weeks we have closed four additional AOCs (RA, 72B, VC 3Y HPSP; AR, 66H, 67E). Our CH mission posture is currently Vol 34/65 (52.3%) and AOC Precision 0/3 (0%). This last week our operation section has been focused on MAVNI interviews, though the efforts of the…

Did George Washingto really cut down a cherry tree? Times were tough for men and women like George Washington. I will be talking about times before the wars. George Washingtons contubution to the war. Also my evaluation to the war George Washingtons times before wars. George Washington was born febuary 22nd 1730 in west Morland County Virginia. His father died when he was 11 years old. when he was 20 his oldest brother died. At age 23 he got a job as a cernal. when the Revouloutionary…

The Fires of Jubilee The novel, The Fires of Jubilee, written by Stephen B. Oates is a well- crafted biography of Nat Turner and his rebellion. Throughout the novel you will realize how brilliant Nat Turner really was. You will also come to the conclusion that his experiences shaped him into the man he eventually became. Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 in South Hampton County Virginia to his mother Nancy, on a plantation owned by Benjamin Turner, a wealthy man. Nancy did not…

George Mason was born on December 11, 1725 in Fairfax County Virginia. He had his mother Ann Stevens Thompson, and his father George Mason the Third. George Mason’s mother Ann Stevens Thompson is an at home mother basically raised her children. George Mason’s father George Mason the third was a politician and a farmer he owned a lot of land. George Mason the third died in a ferry accident on 5 March 1735 on the Potomac River. Sadly when George Mason was only ten years old. From there on he was…

Occupy Denver Eric Brandt is a white male in his late forties. He is 5’8” and 200 pounds, dressed in black shorts and a yellow shirt, with black font on it that reads “Fuck Bad Cops.” He is single and homeless. Eric is a former U.S Navy nuclear engineer. He has been to many countries and speaks four languages. Eric chose to leave his veteran house and be homeless so that another homeless veteran can have a place to live. After he left his housing, he rented a backyard from a lady in Westminster…

At the age of twelve, he was sent away to Donald Robertson’s School. There, he learned many things including Latin and Greek. He had an early career in politics by 1776 when he attended the Virginia Convention. At the Constitutional Convention, Madison proposed the Virginia Plan, which was the first plan to be reviewed at the convention. In order to get everyone on board with the Constitution of the United States, Madison wrote twenty-nine of the eighty-five essays that were anonymous in The…

City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…