Bureau, 2013). According to Rosenbloom, many older adults in the United States prefer to drive instead of using public transportation system. According Rosenbloom only eight percent of older adults over the age of 65 uses the transportation system in comparison to sixty percent of older adults in the same age group that drives (2009). Some of the challenges that seniors face when using public transportation is safety concerns. For instance, older adults complain of not having even sidewalks…
about how someone that I serve in my work may use public transportation to obtain resources within our community, I chose to visit a local hospital using the local bus system. I thought long and hard about where to go and what type of public transportation to use. I then researched the internet to find some local community resources. I also did some research about local transportation in my community. In planning for my trip, three types of public transportation came to my mind, the local bus,…
Introduction: This report is an observational summary of the Landlord and Tenant Board in Mississauga Ontario, located at 3 Robert Speck Parkway suite 520. The office was on a main route and had a bus stop nearby. Despite the available public transportation, the location might have been inconvenient for those who had to travel far, especially considering that there are only 4 Landlord and Tenant Boards in the greater Toronto area (GTA). In addition, to the long travel, the cost of commuting…
work of 45 minutes of more reported feeling stressed every day as compared to 23 percent of workers whose commuting time was 15 minutes or less (Turcotte, 2010 pg.34). The other day that I experienced a lot of stress due to bus times was Sunday. Bus service on weekends is not regular and this makes it a challenge in terms of timing. Often there is a long wait for a bus as I experienced after work. It made me very grateful that I do not have to use transit every weekend. It also made me recognize…
Quality is the customer’s understanding of how goods and services fit for their reason and how it fulfills stated and unexpressed description. Excellence is a talent or skill that surpasses ordinary standards. Quality and excellence goes hand in hand, as one cannot function without the other. Quality and excellence are defined as delivering a high standard of care to patients, providing for their needs using a clinical approach, which abides by safety standards and is supported by scientific…
accepted that, for a democratic society to merely exist, let alone effectively function or flourish, the media and government must co-exist, while retaining independence, and healthy levels of scepticism. This symbiotic relationship informs the general public of significant issues, and, theoretically, safeguards against power or influence corrupting either of these institutions. Politicians rely on the media to relay their policies, values, and actions, to wider audiences, while the media need…
Putting Public First First off, it was smart of Pepsi to look at the situation from the consumer point of view. As a corporation, Pepsi knew it was not their fault as their filling facilities were top of the line, leaving no room for these syringes to enter the can. The general public on the other hand was not aware of the technology that Pepsi uses which can lead to a sense of uncertainty and fear. By putting the public first, it shows that they care about this crisis seriously in order to…
Of the many similarities and differences between the Gettysburg Address speech and the I Have A Dream speech, there are a few that stick out. For example like the purposes of their speeches, or their appeals and how they change and lastly, the different rhetorical devices they use. Both speeches were written, produced, and performed by well known people, and performed in front of thousands of citizens. These speeches both had a powerful meaning to them, which had also contributed to never being…
Today, in many countries, there are numerous sorted out organizations of individuals or composed people who have met up with a common cause and a sense of identity, for which they look to influence public policies without political control, furthermore influence the political process. These are called interest groups. Interest groups are said to have come in regards to because of responses in issues in the societies we live in. When these problems come in normal routine of the social,…
Proquest, google scholar, and youtube. I used the restrictions; image of nurs*, and stereo*, and I set the databases to find peer reviewed articles within 2008 to 2015 in the English language. The media portrays nursing in a negative manner and the public fails to regard what the job of nurses are in the real world. The media has portrayed the image of nursing in a negative way, a current example of this is the Dr. Pepper commercial that aired in 2009 worldwide (Canada Dry Mott’s Inc). The…