Trustee

To quote the late Scottish poet Robert Burns: “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” This quote never meant much to me until I watched all of my dreams come crashing down around me on a cold, snowy day in December. I’ll start from the beginning. Since I was young I’d wanted to be in the military. My mother and father always told me stories of their time in the Pineville High School JROTC, (Junior Reserved Officer Training Corps, a type of military training for highschool students)…

Nuer Lives Nuer Journeys is an ethnography about African Nuer who have migrated to Minnesota. The author of the book is the anthropologist Dr. Jon D. Holtzman. The Nuer are an African people, specifically from Sudan (Holtzman 2008: 2). The Nuer base their way of life around growing crops and raising livestock. Additionally, they belong to the Nilo-Saharan cultural/linguistic group and are a sizable ethnic group in southern Sudan. The Nuer became refugees during the second civil war in Sudan, a…

What is it like to feel truly invisible? Sometimes we believe we feel that way when we are not getting the attention we desire. However, what would it be like to feel like nobody in society truly notices you? Ralph Ellison gives us a glimpse of how this life would feel through his novel Invisible Man. This book portrays the life of a young black man living in the late 1920’s to early 1930’s American south. Through the novel, we witness the narrator travel from the South up to the North and face…

they fight for fake coins on a electrical rug and causes the men to jump as the electric current runs through their body. Three years later, the narrator is a student at the college he got to scholarship for. He is asked to drive around Mr.Norton, a trustee of the school, around the campus. Mr.Norton constantly is talking about his daughter so when hearing the legend of Jim Trueblood, the man who impregnated his daughter, he feels drowsy and ask for a drink. The narrator takes him to the Golden…

Exxon Valdez Table of Contents Introduction: (Skinner, S.K. and Reilly, W.K., 1989)[1] A catastropic event taken place on March 24th 1989 at Prince William Sound, Alaska. An Oil Tanker known as Exxon Valdez owned by Exxon Shipping company was transporting 53.09451 million US gallons of crude oil. At 12:04 am the ship struck the Prince William Sound, Bligh reef. This caused 10.8 million US gallons of crude oil to spill hereby creating a huge environmental disaster and it was known that…

The characteristics of different business markets are dependent upon what product or services an organization produces or provides and the type of buyer they want to attract. Business to business, businesses sell to each other e.g. accountants specializing in business accounts. Consumer markets; products and services are sold by businesses to consumers e.g. supermarkets and cafes etc. A service market is where a business sells its services directly to individual consumers for example…

The LBHI bankruptcy filing on 15 September 2008 set off a chaotic sequence of events around the world, including the filing for administration by Lehman Brothers International (Europe) that same morning and the subsequent appointment of a SIPC trustee for Lehman Brothers, Inc., on 19 September 2009. Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008 triggered panic on the money market that provides short-term loans, because businesses around the world are funding there daily spending, including…

Television as almost everything in life has had an evolution. The way we think of television is very different than the way our ancestors did. Television has been around since the late 1920’s. However, back in the day it was a very expensive luxury that only the elite could afford. With the passage of years television became more accessible and as a consequence more popular. In the 1950’s television was considered to be the primary medium in which many families gathered their information.…

A feminine culture has a higher share of working women in professional jobs. Of the five board of trustee members, four are women. Also, the head of the organization is a woman, and six out of ten of her leadership team members are women (“Library administration,” n.d.). This aspect of the KCLS organization culture is consistent with the occupation of its employees. According to Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov (2010), the occupations that are high in masculinity include sales representatives,…

However, during the last four decades – especially since 2001 – the national government’s role in education has grown significantly as a result of initiatives by Republican and Democratic administrations. Use the assigned resources to inform yourself about this role and the arguments of its supporters and critics. In your initial post of at least 200-250 words, briefly summarize the national government’s education policies. Explain the main pros and cons in the debate about these policies.…