Greater Houston

The Au Bon Pain Company was founded in 1981 by Ron Shaich and Louis Kane. (“Panera Bread Company: Our History”, 2014) Au Bon Pain was a successful bakery-café company throughout the 1980s into the early 1990s. (“Panera Bread Company: Our History”, 2014) In 1993 Au Bon Pain purchased a bakery café company called the Saint Louis Bread Company. (“Panera Bread Company: Our History”, 2014) This newly purchased company consisted of 20 bakery-café locations in the area of St. Louis, Missouri. (“Panera…

an analysis of the same institutions revealed that 483 of a total of 3,330 leadership positions, or 14.5%, are held by members of visible minority groups. This represents a gradual, but significant, increase (8%) in the diversity of leaders in the Greater Toronto Area over the last three years. RESEARCH QUESTION 1. Is racially discrimination evident in Toronto’s workplaces? And if leadership positions in public or private sector represent the racial diversity in Toronto. 2. How do language…

A Short Man With A Big Heart “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.” (Helen Keller). Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston are the authors of Farewell to Manzanar. There are twelve main characters in the novel and some characters who are more notable than others, such as Papa, Mama, Jeanne and Woody. Woody is the third and the oldest son of Wakatsuki family who has a strong character in this novel, Woody is born in California. Papa gets arrested in…

Have you ever felt that people judge you based on your looks or have you gone through things you thought were harsh to you at the moment ? When in reality you do not exactly know what harsh is unless you were a Japanese during WWII. Take a look, more of a consideration the way the U.S. made the japanese ethnicity/ancestry feel. For a while we have been reading many articles about what happened in the internments and how japanese felt and many of them have themes that they share. The texts…

USC’s purchase of Verdugo Hills Hospital Located in the heart of Los Angeles in Southern California lies the home of the USC Trojans. In the year eighteen eighty the city of Los Angeles opened the doors of its first university to a total of fifty three students. USC began its journey in a city just as underdeveloped as the university itself. Since then they have blossomed into a nationally known institution and have graduated hundreds of thousands of students who have gone on to make a huge…

In Southern California there is a period commonly in the fall that produced winds that are known as the Santa Ana Winds.because This wind comes from the desert and then travel around the Southern California area. The Santa Ana Winds are known for being hot and extremely powerful. Due to the conditions of these winds they bring destruction to the areas that they affect. In the passages “The Santa Ana” By Joan Didion and “Brush Fire” by Linda Thomas real life experience of the Santa Ana are…

The classroom was noisy, students were passing notes, and talking loudly until I emptied my brown lunch bag of multi colored condoms on the teacher 's desk. Starting in my sophomore year in high school I worked with the Red Cross in a peer HIV/AIDS education program that lasted for three years. I visited classrooms and businesses to talk about HIV prevention and dispel many of the myths associated with the disease. I taught hundreds of my peers and presented at many local businesses. I…

“Unspeakable Conversations” by Harriet McBryde Johnson and “An Animal's Place” by Michael Pollan are both amazing stories about life and death. With the question, to what extent is it possible to define what makes a “good life” for humans and other animals, it’s difficult to find the right answer if there is one. There is no doubt that animals don’t have rights in the traditional sense, or in any other sense. Should we live with the same concept for humans born with mental illnesses? Singer’s…

Paul Piff and Dacher Keltner, two professors of psychology at UC Irvine and UC Berkley respectively, both believe that the sensation of “awe,” (the strong emotion of respect, wonder, and inspiration), can boost peoples cohesiveness. In their 2015 scientific essay “The Uses of Awe,” they describe awe as the “ultimate collective emotion” that contains the ability to create a more positive outlook on life and transcend ones’s perspective of the world. The professors have faith that awe can be the…

Haile Selassie, who wrote Appeal to the League of Nations, was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. Both Ethiopia and Italy were members of the League of Nations. Italy was the founding member in 1920, and then Ethiopia joined in 1923. Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party, and he ruled Italy as the Prime Minister from 1922 until 1943. Haile Selassie wrote Appeal to the League of Nations to get justice for his people and his country, making…