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than 50 percent at Gogebic Community College; Zielak, 2017). Local funding accounted for 34 percent of all revenue, again with variation across institutions. At the low end, Alpena Community College received less than 20 percent of all revenue from local property taxes in FY2015-16. At the other extreme, West Shore Community College received approximately 50 percent of all revenue from local property taxes (Zielak, 2017). Differences in local revenue amounts are the result of differences in the…

The telephone was first created just to teach deaf students how to visualize sounds. Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone for a specific reason, and ever since the telephone was created it has been a very important object to society and has evolved throughout the course of history. Society did not think that transmitting speech electrically was possible until Alexander Graham Bell created the first working telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invented the original telephone with his…

Cleveland. His narcissistic personality can be seen from certain remarks he utters, the negative attitude he has when he faces the failures or criticisms and last but not least, his self-centeredness, disrespectful attitude to the sports reporters and the locals in his…

driving when my mom received a call. Sitting in the backseat, I could hear the entire phone call. He’s dead, hit by a distracted driver, while he was driving home. A young, bright eleven year old boy lost his future, dead due to someone’s negligence. This boy, Nikhil Badlani, was one of my best childhood friends. After his death, his parents established a foundation in honor which strives to raise awareness about traffic safety through education and work with local leaders and share Nikhil’s…

1. What are two major setbacks or shortcomings of the UCR? The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) which is a compilation of criminal statics that has been submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) by local law enforcement agencies. The UCR is divided in two crime Indexes, Index I and Index II. Index I is commonly referred to as Index Offense, which consists of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. The crimes of arson was added to the index…

roles, many issues call for cooperation among local, state, and federal governments. A good example can be seen in the nation’s roads and highway systems. Today every state has a network of roads built with local, state, and federal funds. Today more than “46,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System connect almost all parts of the country” (History.com Staff, 2010). The federal government pays 90 percent of the cost of building and maintaining the system and assists state and local governments…

goes all the way back to my teen years. I have always made myself available to help someone else by learning all I can, which if someone did not know how to get something done, and they knew that they could call on me. At the time, I did not know the name for being place to heed someone’s call until my adulthood. My family has always referred to an act of kindness as being a missionary worker, but I had to tell them that there is another name for the work that I do and it is called a social…

Current legislation dictates that children who participate in cyberbullying could potentially face charges or jail. It is crime to use a phone or the internet in to threaten, harass, or seriously offend somebody example a text message, email, phone calls could be considered offensive if it is likely to cause anger, outrage, or humiliation. The maximum penalty is 3 - 4 years in jail. One of the examples of cyber bullying; In 2010, a 20 year old guy in Queensland Australia sent threats and…

by some local residents to show their appreciation for the Coast Guards recent life saving mission, rescuing a capsized boat crew. Can you imagine how the local citizens would have reacted if the cookies were not accepted because of this policy? In this scenario, the Coast Guard and citizens are able to build a relationship and form a bond by accepting the cookies.…

Discuss and list the relative merits and disadvantages of law enforcement’s shifting priorities and focus after the 9/11 attacks. The terrorist attack on September 11 gave a wake-up call to America regarding threats. It also created numerous challenges for the government and law enforcement that proved greater than any natural disaster from previous years. In the aftermath, several agencies shifted resources, developed counter-terrorism capabilities, increased spending to improve security, and…