The Cookout

There are often times where conflict occurs within an organization, and it can’t be prevented. If it cant be prevented it must be managed. Managing conflict looks to be easy but it is often misconstrued and shrugged off by individuals within an organization. As first time mangers many don’t look at conflict as being a big deal but there is much more to it than it seems. Conflict can do as little as cause someone to quit the job or as big as ten employees quitting. As a manger it is your job to…

side of a house where his family could live. Even though they were poor and had to go without some time, they did not let that stop them from celebrating the life that they did have. One of Mrs. Baham’s fondest memories is when her family would have cookouts and would spread the event by word of mouth. Everyone was invited and people would bring a dish with them to show their appreciation for the family. While the friends and family were eating, her father would play Zydeco music and everyone…

Fairborn Wal-Mart. Van Jonas, reporter for CNN news writes, “Crawford was 22 years old when he and his girlfriend went to the Wal-Mart last month in Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. They planned to pick up the ingredients for s 'mores for a family cookout. Crawford had two young children. While browsing, he picked up an unpackaged BB gun from one of the store shelves, and continued shopping. A man named Ronald Ritchie saw him and called 911. A black man was "walking around with a gun in…

“'Time management' is really a misnomer; the challenge is not to manage time, but manage ourselves. The key is not to prioritize what is on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities,” philosophized Stephen Covey. Time management is all about delegation. One of the most difficult things I have ever undergone thus far in my twenty-one years of life is to efficiently find a healthy balance among my Penn Foster studies along with my job, family and other activities and responsibilities. I am a…

Academics McDaniel college offers an exceptional and personalized education. The McDaniel Plan provides students with a liberal arts education that incorporates an inclusive program of general education with courses in the major (“The McDaniel Plan,” n.d.). The English Department allows students to think creatively as well as explore various aspects of literature. Choosing to pursue a major in English will also give the student the option to minor in journalism, education, or literature and…

In 2010 a fraternity associated with the University of California, San Diego sponsored a themed party and dubbed it, “Compton Cookout” which was intended to honor Black History Month. The uproar from this incident broke out from both ends of this so-called perspective—students were gathering in numbers to protest, while some were scheming and continued to escalate the problem through…

Traumatic Brain Injuries in athletes and CTE, Chapter 2 Brain injuries can be as mild as a concussion, and as severe as a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. A traumatic brain injury is diagnosed when a person’s normal brain function has been negatively altered after receiving a forceful trauma to the head (Hockenbury, Nolan & Hockenbury, 2015). Although it is not something we often think about, our brains are highly vulnerable to injury (Hockenbury, Nolan & Hockenbury, 2015). Fortunately most…

Family Resiliency Assessment Defining my Family System My mother, Ana Lucia Sanin Cano, was born on July 26th, 1945, in Medellin, Colombia. My father, Tulio Cesar Martinez Salazar, was also born in Medellin, yet I am not aware of the date of his birth. My parents met when they were both 19 years of age. They married in early 1965, within three months after meeting. I was their first child and came into this world on December 25th, 1965. My sister Maggie was born next, on March 6th, 1967.…

Food pantry (vocab words) As we walked into the well done church empty except for the basement teeming with life a food pantry of people all in discolored clothes with different needs and wants. I was uncomfortable and anxious I talked to a lady who loved to talk about her life and had so many stories that they seemed to be fake. As i walk into the pantry a man with is 6 kids pick out food exchanging various amounts of banter rummaging around. I felt so bad there was no mother with them I…

Sykesville The town of Sykesville in Carroll County Maryland may be a small town; however it is rich with history and culture. Location According to the textbook, the absolute location of a given area is defined as “the position reckoned by latitude and longitude on the globe and also includes site and situation.” The absolute location of Sykesville is 39.37 11° N, 76.97 25° W. The relative location of the town of Sykesville is situated 21 miles Northwest of Baltimore, 24 miles East from…