School District History and Description: When deciding on a school district that would best fit for this proposal, I decided to debate which one would be best suitable for study in contemporary issues? Chapel Hill-Carrboro City school district is located in Orange County, North Carolina and is the host of over ten thousand students from the ages of Pre-K to 12th grade education (Wikipedia, 2006). This school system has also been known to be one of the top thirty seven school districts in North Carolina
1. Introduction Big companies such as Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) is characteristic of the capitalist economic system which have a role as non-state actors. However, it is shown to have an important role and can determine the direction of the economy of a country that these companies invested. Multinational enterprises have developed since the early 19th century. In the 20th century, with the growth of information technology and transport, causing the expansion of international trade is increasing
American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation was founded in 1875 as an arrangement between Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders. AT&T’s core business is all about communication between individuals connecting the world, bringing individuals closer together. Their mission is to “exploit technical innovations for the benefit of AT&T and its customers by implementing next-generation technologies and network advancements in AT&T 's services and operations” (AT&T). In recent years
Background on Coconut Telegraph Coconut Telegraph Corporation (Coconut) is a developer and provider of specialized customer billings and management software and systems. On February 1, 2012, Coconut entered into an arrangement with Buffett Worldwide Inc. (Buffett) to deliver the Volcano System and provide one year of post contract customer support (PCS) beginning March 1, 2012. Buffett paid $12,000 on February 1, 2012, for the Volcano System and the related PCS. On May 1, 2012, and in a separate
PCS should be accounted monthly over the 12-month period. There is no “vendor-specific objective” because the product and the service are not sold separately. 2. The items should be accounted separately. In example 4, section 605-10, 55-26, the company that sells the car with lifetime maintenance services has to account the two items separately because of the standalone value of the car and the lack of refund rights. Similar to the car and warranty example, the hardware for Volcano System has standalone
known as The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was incorporated on March 3, 1885 in New York as a wholly owned subsidiary of The American Bell Telephone Company. Its original purpose was to manage and expand the burgeoning toll (long distance) business of American Bell and its licensees. It continued as the long distance company until December 30, 1899 when it assumed the business and property of American Bell and became the parent company of the Bell System. For most of its history, the company
Throughout the course of American history, the usage of gangs has always been embedded in the striving desire to be rebel, such as defeating the overhanging stature of the British empire. However as the 13 colonies formed a colonial gang in an effort to eliminate British influence in America, the definition of the word gang has transformed into an entirely different meaning. One common definition of a gang is a group of three or more individuals who engage in criminal activity and identify themselves
electric telegraph is a now outdated communication system that was used to transmit electric signals over wires from location to location that translated into a message by people at stations. The non-electric telegraph was invented by Claude Chappe in 1794. This system was visual and used a semaphore, an alphabet based on flag language, and depended on a line of sight for communication. This “optical telegraph” was replaced by the electric telegraph, eventually. In 1809, a crude telegraph was
such an eye-catching blog post title like that. Apparently Marc Gamayo beat me to a blog post of National History Day District competition (I should have done it early, aaaaa) that took place at Ewa Makai Middle School where participants would be interviewed for their projects and to know who are going to state competition. Warning! Super long schedule of what I did on Saturday for NHD district competition. Skip to end for a recap of what I did and thoughts from the experience. For my group 's interview
Overview and History of Area: The "Prison District" of Baltimore, Maryland, is located primarily in an unincorporated community called Townson. With a population of just under 60,000 it is the second most densely populated unincorporated county seat in the United States. The community is located just north of Baltimore City, inside the I-695 and I-83 beltway and has several major neighborhood areas. In the larger area of Townson, the per capita income is about $32,000, but almost 10% of the population