I used to be the co-owner of an automotive repair facility, The Penn Garage, located downtown in Capital Hill on the corner of 13th and Ogden St. It certainly was not in my "plan", but when you marry a mechanic and you have the smarts to make it happen, you do. I had only paid medical and life insurance claims, as well as bookkept for a racing organization up until that point, but for some reason, I was really good at the business end of things. It just fit like a glove, and things were instinctual to me. I actually found that many of my friends that had accounting degrees, who would call me with questions on Quickbooks, made things way more complex than what the problem really was. They were over thinking the issue instead of taking the straight line to the answer.
My ex-husband (X) and I sort of fell into business together, and it is an interesting story. The X had been working for Penn Garage for 7 years for a man named Lou Weiner, who was in his 70's at the time, who had owned it since the 1940's. Lou took it over from an old man that owned it since the building opened in the 1920's. Lou had promised X that he would sell him the building and business which was then located on the corner of 13th and Pennsylvania, next to the Molly Brown house, hence the name The Penn Garage. Lou was getting ready to retire and X had been tooling up for when we took over. We just had our second child on January 3, 1997 when Lou shocked us on February 14, 1997 that he sold the building to
One Spanish official remarked that “the maxim of the conqueror must be to settle.” Explain what you think he meant by this statement. Illustrate the various ways conquerors settled the New World, commenting on what worked, what did not work, and the consequences of those methods
Have you been asked to perform an accounting function that you were not comfortable with?
This video is about a 5th-grade social studies teacher named Miss Kelsey’s personal experience with the method of inquiry and her reason on why the inquiry method was a great way to help her students learn Canadian history. In the video, Miss Kelsey demonstrates the positive effects of historical inquiry in her 5th-grade class by describing how it not only sparked the interests of her students, but also herself and not only that but both her and her students learned something. Not mention the fact that Miss Kelsey had also helped spark the interests of her students even more by creating a scenario where they had to present the information that each of her students found in their assigned important figures to her where she will decide which
The planet that we reside on has a long, enduring history. Today, remnants can still be found that tell the history of the land, and of its inhabitants; many of these remnants, however, have been destroyed over time. The Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan has a rich and complicated history that continues up to the present day. The residents of Bamiyan live neighboring a wall of cliffs, speckled with caves. Bordering the city on each side, two abandoned niches are carved into the cliff face, each towering over 100 meters. These great niches once held two Buddha statues that looked out over the Bamiyan Valley, but now stand empty. Once a witness to the history of the area, these Buddhas were destroyed in 2001 when the Taliban, a terrorist group, destroyed them due to their religious imagery.
The Articles of Confederation was our countries first Constitution. It was a black and white agreement drafted by the Second Continental Congress. It was agreed upon and signed by the thirteen colonies in 1781. The Articles were mainly aimed at the state governments. The Articles had many weaknesses, but it also accomplished many things. The Articles of Confederation were able to keep the state together until the Constitution was written. I was because of the Articles that the Revolutionary war was ended with Great Britain. Many states gave up their claims to land west of the Appalachians. This land was given to the government. It helped to create a feeling of national security. Under the Articles, congress enacted laws to
This also helps in explain the last usage of waterways and bodies and their economic effect. In the transport industry, before the railroads came, people used water bodies to transport heavy and large cargo. Water bodies were the only linkage between continents and specifically, these three that traded in the Atlantic Ocean. This interconnectivity is even what led to the discovery of the Americas by the first person from the West. It is self-evident that ships have a huge capacity that the human caravans of beasts of burdens. Ships, on the other hand, had huge capacities and could
Are you and your spouse currently in business together? Or are you considering opening a business with your significant other? One of the best ways to avoid potential problems brought on by being in business together is to develop a plan to avoid financial conflicts. Couples who are proactive in their approach to sound business financial planning tend to have fewer fights over business matters and a better work/life balance. If you want to avoid fretting over business matters, consider integrating the following financial planning tips for spouses into your modus operandi.
At the time, he had just moved back to the Houston and was happy to land a great job. He was able to gain new knowledge and perfect his already acquired skills from previous employment involving supplies chain management. The workload involved scheduling shipments and delivery along with the various demands of being a manager at the company. Starting the beginning of 2015, he began to notice a decrease in numbers of workers under his management as the oil prices dropped. Approximately six months later, he had a meeting with his supervisor and afterward given a notice stating that he is no longer employed with the company. Although he was devastated at the fact that he was just laid off after five years with the company, he was not upset because he knew was good employee and that the reason for his termination was beyond his control. The drop in oil price in 2015 affected the economy and as a result thousands of Americans lost their jobs. By using “social imagination”, even though he’s not aware of the sociological term, it enabled him to see the bigger picture of the issue in the economy. The oil price drop cost my brother his job; however, he was not the only one affected. Shortly after he moved back home and stayed with my parents and I until he can get back on his feet. At the time, I had recently graduated from nursing school, but I was not a licensed nurse and was in the process of preparing for my NCLEX licensure examination. With another person in the house and extra bills to take care of, my mom started working extra hours and I picked up a part time job to help out until my brother can get back on his feet. With the economy picking up slowly, he’s currently employed as a manager at a warehouse and I’ve been working a nurse for about 6
The history of journalism in the United States has spanned from the first colonist crossing the Atlantic Ocean to today’s mass media. Even before we were a country we had printers and journalists writing and printing stories for the people. Looking back, we can divide journalism history into different time periods and see how news reporting developed over time. Some of these time periods include the Colonial Period which spanned from when the first Pilgrims came to America in the mid 1600’s till the 1760’s. Other periods include the Revolution period which picked up from the colonial period till the early 1780’s. The period of Westward Expansion lasted from the 1800 to the 1830’s, then there was the Civil War Period which spanned from the 1840’s till the 1860’s. Finally, the Interpretative Period which lasted from 1930’s and continues to today. Looking back at these time periods we can see what was considered “news” and what was “newsworthy”, the dominate issues of the periods, and how far we have come as a society from those issues.
There was an opening in one of the apartments and my grandma's sister decided to get her own apartment instead of both cramming into their tiny apartment that was no more than four hundred square feet. They worked in that bakery for the next four years and by that time Karin was almost 80 years old. Karin told my grandma and her sister that she would let them handle day to day operations and give them a raise. They handled the day to day operations for almost ten years and then tragedy struck, Karin had passed away. Karin had a husband named Richard and no children, but she basically considered my grandma and her sister children. After Karin died Richard owned the bakery and gave ownership of the bakery to them but he still owned the apartment building. My grandmas sister ended up meeting her husband and leaving New York city so my grandma was the sole owner of the bakery. Move forward to 1986, my grandma was 58 and had been running that bakery half of her life, than she
Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to participate in the group discussion in person on the day we were on campus. I have since emailed both particpants in my group, Anna Guzman and Tara Rhodes, who both responded promptly that everyone was submitting short answers to the questions in our discussion group, to compare and analyze. I have since compared and reviewed their answers with mine and we have similar opinions on Shackleton’s leadership traits, the meaning of the great achievement of failure to us all seemed to be that his greatest achievement was successfully keeping his team of men alive for two years.
When a candidate is running for president, they tell us what we want to hear; to get our votes. It is very understandable the reasoning behind it but at the same time we start believing all their word. By the time they are elected our new president of these United States, they have the support of everyone they fooled into believing their blind promises. We fall into their guarantee of topics they claimed they were going to address, and problematic issues they stated would change as soon as they were elected into the White House. As soon as they get inaugurated they still have no idea what is in store for them, the promises made to the public are suddenly pushed to the end of their priority list. Maybe they really wanted to fulfill the
Traditions have always played a large role in Sweet Briar College’s long and rich history, it’s a part of what makes the college so unique. These traditions do not appear today in the same forms as those in the past. The pressures of external and internal forces have changed them. Some of the most extensive changes have come from strife at Sweet Briar during the Vietnam war and integration of the college. A recent paper written in 2007 but Alaina McKee argues that a change in the nature of traditions happened in the early 1940’s but research I have conducted suggests otherwise.
January-March: First parliamentary session; Acts for the Submission of the Clergy, in Absolute Restraint of Annates, forbidding Papal Dispensations and payment of Peter’s Pence. Succession Act.