On the Waterfront

Retrospective Analysis The following retrospective analysis provides a compressed summation of the first scholarly article available published in the Fall 1965 edition of the American Business Law Journal titled Rose Staub--Feminine Labor Leader and Her Involvement in a Brief Chapter of Labor Law Written in the City Halls of the Rural South by Dwayne L. Oglesby. The summary identifies events that propelled Rose Staub in the limelight of the labor movement and the impact of her involvement.…

gas production, and infrastructural development, the futures of coastal stability, conservation, and restoration are important environmental issues. America's biggest wetland is losing its marshes to the tide of the Gulf of Mexico. The wetlands of waterfront Louisiana are being changed over to open water at a rate of fifty square miles every year, due to human conduct, for example, maintaining shipping lanes, the digging of trenches, surge control levees, and the withdrawal of oil and gas. With…

Hailed as one of the worlds most futuristic cities, Songdo IBD is located just 40 miles southwest of Seoul, South Korea. The new development is scheduled for completion in 2018 and is being build on 1500 acres of land, “right along the Incheon waterfront.” Rita Lobo (2014) of World Finance claims the Songdo IBD, “is the largest private real estate development in history with a price tag of $40bn (para. 1).” Many believe the new business district will be one of the most advanced cities in…

Environmental protection was non-existent a hundred years ago and because of this severe pollution effected all aspects of the environment. Commencement Bay, located in Washington state is an example of the devastating effects associated with unregulated industries dumping toxic industrial waste into an unprotected ecosystem. Due to the nature of industries located along the shoreline severe contamination of the waterway affected marine life and had the potential to cause significant health…

Between 1763 and 1800 a social revolution occurred in America bringing attention to different groups of people. Many historians interpret the American Revolution having two major problems. Gordon S. Wood argued that radical ideas of liberty grew in the colonies and ultimately led to a successful break from England and establishment of a nation built upon liberty. On the other hand, Alfred Young points outs that the revolution meant different things to different people, and that the successes…

Answers for the Faslane case study Application of types of strategic changes to the managing change at Faslane Case study The term strategy is originated from the Greek word called “strategia” which means “generalship.” But, the concept of strategy is not originated with the Greeks. Strategy is the overall plan for deploying resources to establish a favorable position;(Grant, 2010). Concerning the types of strategic change there are two main categories to be considered. Those two main categories…

Yokohama’s history goes back to the pre-Edo period, back to the year 1859. Up to the end of the feudal Edo period, when Japan still had a policy of national seclusion, with little contact with foreigners, a major turning point occurred in Yokohama, when Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships, demanding the trading ports be opened for commerce. The shogunate then agreed by signing the Treaty of Peace and Amity. It quickly grew and became the base of foreign…

Geotourism is a concept of giving knowledge in protecting and recuperating the natural and cultural identicalness. It provides a designed approach to increase tourism benefits and constructs a responsible tourism strategy. The aim of this paper explains briefly about the elements of Geotourism, their strategies, how it helps to maintain integrity of local environment and finally it concludes by explaining its impacts on a region. By definition Geotourism is “tourism that sustains, or even…

Throughout the course of these 10 weeks, I recorded my experience regarding the worldwide phenomena, Pokemon GO. Released July 1st, 2016, Pokemon GO is a smartphone game that uses GPS and real-time tracking to allow users to virtually traverse the world of Pokemon, collecting new creatures, items, and real-life interactions along the way. While the game is based on the original game series started in Japan in 1996, making its way to the United States in 1998, the game play is quite different.…

The word 'Holiday' is very favourite to all of us. That means a lot of pleasure and brings happiness to our regular life. We all are very busy in this earth with our daily works. There are many people all around who have even no time to spend a while with their friends and family because of their busyness. Those kinds of situation can bring a lot of stress and unhappiness to their life. To overcome that boring life, people need a long break from the works. Making holidays with friends or family…