probably the most substantial part of any big city family’s monthly budget. San Francisco, as well as many other US megalopolises, suffers from a lack of affordable housing. People in the area commonly blame computer industry for the problem. Indeed, world’s biggest IT marketplace, located in Silicon Valley, “continue to attract rich, smart people, who are willing to pay high prices”. This people’s flow in its turn boosts the region’s economy and allows the development of important infrastructures (Glaeser
capitalism’s economic cycles; more “equal societies have softer business cycles [while] more unequal economies are associated with more extreme cycles” (Lansley 754). Business cycles – both good and bad – are an integral part of capitalism. The size of booms and busts depends on wealth equality. Fortunately, the negative aspects of capitalism are manageable, and healthy capitalism can still hold its dominance over current economics. Even when considering capitalism’s flaws, its continued dominance in
Natural Gas Industry Employee Cover Letter I am currently working as a natural gas regulator assistant inspector on a full-time basis. Basically this position required me to work in a formal apprenticeship, and I was trained and became familiarized with all the important particulars of this job. What my trainers made very clear to me is the importance of workers in the natural gas industry having a deep understanding of all the implications relating to safety. There have been some catastrophic
Global Industry Project: Technology Sector Since the “Dot-com Boom” of the 1990s placed more emphasis and value on technology due to the exponential growth in the sector, making people rich quickly, and raising the Nasdaq Index by nearly 400%, technology has become more integrated into the American and global culture. In recent history, many technological advances have taken place from those that enable people to communicate with others using systems embedded with language translation software to
with other e-retailers during the information technology boom that took place in the 90s, with an aggressive business and supply chain management strategy, amazon was propelled among the ranks of other industry leaders. Amazon has created a reputation that is characterized by its innovation, supply chain management strategies, and the use of disruptive technologies. Distribution Amazon 's two largest competitors are EBay and Wal-Mart. Like amazon, E-Bay and Wal-Mart stores specializes in selling
which the company operated and continues to operate today. By 1912 there were 34 Golden Rule stores, but the following year the name was changed to JC Penney. In two years, from 1915 to 1917, the company grew from 83 stores to 175. This expansion made it the second-biggest retailer in the country by 1970.During the postwar economic boom of the 50s and 60s, many Americans moved to suburbs, and so did JC Penney. It took advantage of the retail space offered by the boom in shopping malls and became the
are on the verge of irrevocably damaging one of the country's most unique and diverse treasures - the Florida Everglades. This national park is now the only remaining patch of a river that used to span 120 miles from Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Bay. Dikes and levees created by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1940's drained this river to reduce flooding and increase useable water for the development of the region. This major diversion of water lead to a trickle down effect causing the continual
With technology nowadays, the production and use applications, or simply apps, have become widely popular. Being that I am a Computer Science major, and have myself created a mobile application and a handful of web applications, I know the power of this stuff and how they are able to reach and affect millions of people all over the planet. As wise ones once said: With great power comes great responsibility. We must create and use this technology boom and creation of applications to benefit human
Houston is one of the most active energy exporters in the United States and home to over 300 petroleum refineries, and over 200 private oil companies. Technological innovation has led to major developments in the upstream energy exploration and production and, as a result, has evolved into rapid business growth locally. Although this has seemingly boosted market capital and broadened energy output in domestic markets that didn’t exist a century ago, nationalized foreign oil dependency still represents
California High Speed Rail High speed rail transportation has become an important issue in California that could potentially help our current transportation system and other environmental issues that need to be dealt with. This is an important issue to look into because currently our transportation system could be a lot more efficient using high speed rail instead of just the current car and air system that we have right now. Because of this there are a lot of potential benefits from the economic