school setting. My current position as of four years as an Assistant Principal as well as my previous position as Special Education Administrator(six years), my education and my 1348 total professional development hours, has significantly contributed to my preparation for the position I am seeking in the Dekalb County School District. Through my journey, I have learned and grown my skills as to what it takes to be an Assistant Principal through my day to day responsibilities, my education and…
Pros and Cons of Geothermal Energy The principal source of geothermal energy is from beneath the surface of the earth. During the formation of the earth, there was an accumulation of heat, as a result of the vigorous process. The heat energy amounts to billions of joules, which needs to be tapped by human beings to generate geothermal energy. The earth’s crust retains this heat. Additionally, many materials under the earth's surface undergo dynamic decaying process. These procedures play a…
CIMB-Principal Asset Management Berhad (CIMB-Principal) is a premier asset management corporation with local investment abilities. Established in 1995, it is one of the largest asset management corporations in Malaysia with local footmark covering Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. CIMB-Principal aims to be Southeast Asia’s most valued investment management company offering whole asset management solutions. It manufactures and allocates a comprehensive range of unit trust funds, and achieves…
The Writing Assignment (WA) contains the following four chapter topics: The criminal act, co-principals equally guilty, attempts to commit a crime, encounters and detentions. This WA also contains the following three classroom activities: Pomona video, Nicaragua Court video, and “Gonis gang bank robbery.” Four Chapter Topics: The first chapter topic is the criminal act. According to the authors, an act is simply defined as “an effect produced through conscious exertion of will” (Hunt and…
A gap-filling method was developed based on the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method. PCA is a widely used dimensionality reduction method to find a new set of variables as linear combinations of original variables, capturing most of the observed variance in the original data (Storch and Zwiers, 2002). It has been used in various climate studies for decomposing dominant mode (Storch and Zwiers, 2002) and time-series gap-filling (Beckers and Rixen, 2003; Kondrashov et al., 2014). The…
It has been discussed fervently in many occasions whether slavery was the principal cause of the American civil war, also known as the Secession war. A bloody rift that took place from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America and that divided the nation in two opposite parts each one defending an ideology clearly opposed to the other’s, affecting at the same time the economic, political and social structures of the nation. Well, was the question of slavery at the heart of that ideological…
Law and Social Change that principal-agent theory is a sub set of political corruption. The principal-agent theory of corruption is categories into two; the principal (one which is corrupting) and an agent (one who is corrupted). The principal-agent model is used to political corruption in representatives democracies yet not limited to bureaucratic corruption. According to Handbook of Dispute Resolution by Michael and Robert (2005), who categories Agents and principals are different in three…
Todd Whitaker provides techniques for principals to evaluate their personal leadership style against highly effective principals in his book, What Great Principals Do Differently. Dr. Todd Whitaker states that this book is about what great principals do that sets them apart. Clarifying what the best leaders do, and then practicing it ourselves, can move us into their ranks (Whitaker, 2009). The goal of a great leader is to help teachers understand and improve their practices and to gauge the…
Agency or principal-agent problem arises because: Different interest and principal-agent Unequal or asymmetric information Principal-agent problem occurs in a number of different business relationships, but is a common problem in large joint-stock companies, because of the separation of ownership from control. Owner-managers to engage shareholders in their name make decisions and manage the company. The owners-shareholders are the principals and managers are agents. Managers are better…
The agency theory (Jensen, 1976) is a presumption that explains the relationship between principals and agents in business. The agent represents the principal in a business transaction and is expected to represent the best interests of the principal without regard for self-interest. An agency relationship is fiduciary in nature, and the actions and words of an agent exchanged with a third party bind the principal. Agency theory is concerned with resolving problems that can exist in agency…