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for fresh water and food. In the mid 1960’s Lake Erie was so polluted that TIME Magazine declared it as “ In danger of dying of suffocation.” The Cuyahoga River was so bad that it caught on fire multiple times, the Mayor of Cleveland declared war on pollution! It was described as “... a skin-like substance on the water’s surface, so thick that people could write their names in it.” writes Heather Brady of The New York Times. In an immense act to clean up, People from all over helped to clean up…

just go out and buy whatever it is they want/need and call it a day. This can save them a lot of time and money but may rob them of the joy of producing something of their own and may cause them to have an inferior product. So is it better to make something or is it more advantageous to save both time and money to buy something that is mass produced? There is no question that there is a difference in quality when it comes to artisan made vs. mass produced. People often buy cheap items because of…

Child poverty is major factor that 's costing New Zealand millions each year. It is in the media often and conversation on the issue brings up the topics such as its effects on a child 's well being, education and how to tackle it. This paper seeks to address the following questions, what are definitions of poverty, how and what was is poverty measured and the challenges or tension that poverty poses. This paper will also critically examine poverty and how education is hindered, how it affects…

These were heralded as signs of human ingenuity at the time, however they came at a cost. According to the Hydropower Reform Coalition, a significant decline in water quality is one of the concerns. Organic materials from within and outside the river would build up behind dams and begin to consume a successive amount of oxygen as they decompose. This, in many cases…

century colonial sheep farmers on the Darling River. This area was ideal for colonizers because it served as a direct route through the region for trade, thus for a time housed the third-largest inland port for New South Wales. This growth however came at the cost of squatting on land that had been occupied by the Barkindji for such a long time that they have “Barka” (Forsyth, 2016), meaning river, right in their name and refer to the Darling River as their “mother” (Forsyth, 2016) because of…

Introduction For a long time, the experts of quality water are facing challenges in controlling a variety of conventional and non-conventional pollutants and toxic components that are high threat that can harm aquatic life in water bodies and the human health. The micro beads are of rising concern that are responsible for damaging the environment. Microbeads are synthetic particles mainly used in personal care products such as facial scrubs, shampoos, soaps, lip gloss, toothpaste. The reason why…

would be able to do. There are plenty of other brands out there for much cheaper, but the quality of a GoPro is un-beatable. I recently purchased a GoPro Hero 4 Black for $500 just to see what they are all about, the camera was small, versatile, and the picture quality was very impressive. The Hero 4 Black is the newest and the best camera GoPro has to offer. The hero 4 can shoot a mind blowing 4k quality video and take…

and challenges, especially with the Affordable Care Act. The policy promises to bring inexpensive health care to all American’s. Additionally, the act places further emphasis on the pay for performance model, which pays physicians, based on the quality, effectiveness and patients total care experience. For this reason, institutions are using Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics to aid with measuring process, outcome and patient fulfillment. Organizations are aware that accurate and…

Organizational Goals. According to their website, the organizational goals are to improve business through the continuous process improvement. They are committed to improving product cost, scheduling and quality and safety performance. This organization utilizes the Lean Six Sigma program to training their employees and to challenge highly trained people to solve the most complex problems. The Lean Six Sigma training is offered to all employees. They are…

organization to realize their strategic intent – to produce high quality products. Another program focused on increasing quality of “small and medium-sized bulldozers” was called “Project A” (Bartlett, 1988, p. 5). This project pursued quality at any cost (Bartlett, 1988, p. 5). Kawai junior understood that the sustainability of the organization was based building the core competencies needed to produce a competitive grade of high quality products (Bartlett, 1988, p. 5). “Sustainable,…