Jill Biden

Whether people travel for business, vacation, or simply for pleasure, they must decide on what mode of transportation to take. Sometimes, they decide that the best form of transportation is to take a plane, and each time they enter it, they are placing their lives in the hands of a company, air traffic controller, and most importantly, the flight crew. Although airplanes are the most convenient and quickest means of transportation, accidents occur due to the failure of one of these three components

Save the Children is a charity that helps children globally with many issues and help give them new opportunities. Save the Children focuses mostly on helping children in developing countries. The charity is a non-governmental organization and gets most of their fundings from donors. Although all of the profits do not go straight to the charity’s programs, Save the Children is a credible charity because it uses money to help with education, health and hunger, natural disasters, and child protection

American Council On Exercise/Joining Forces Chelby Calhoun University of New Orleans American Council on Exercise (ACE)/Joining Forces The initiative/program I chose was the American Council on Exercise working with Joining Forces. ACE, founded in 1985, is a non-profit organization out of San Diego, California. This initiative started due to a group of individuals believing that preventive measures were the way to approach the obesity and chronic disease epidemic. Thirty years

Home of the Wildcats, Villanova University is known for being a pleasant, welcoming, private, four-year university. According to U.S. & World Report, Villanova is also ranked #1 for North Regional Universities. Not only do they participate in twenty-four varsity sports, but they can also provide up to 220,000 hours of community service within a year (Villanova University), with the most popular event being the Special Olympics. From an exceptional amount of financial aid to an immense amount of

Women have been active since the beginning of the early 1800’s and struggle until today’s day, to fight for equality. There were two women movement waves. The first wave was focused on the equality of the women by working on voting rights. The second wave from 1963 to 1982 concentrated on social issues. As in “Collective Action for Social Change”, Aaron Schutz and Marie Sandy stated in their book “women were tired of being second class citizens”. The civil rights movement spillover inspired women

From the 18th Century to the 21st Century, First Ladies evolved right in front of American eyes. From the First Ladies before Eleanor Roosevelt’s time signaled the unspoken women who did not stand up for what she believed in. First Ladies after Eleanor Roosevelt’s time now represent a modern woman who encourages and embraces the American people. Eleanor Roosevelt was the turning point in an age of First Ladies to comprehend the ideas of America’s people. Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the

Assignment 1 : FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Learner Profile Juan Carlos is a 50 year old native Colombian student, currently residing in Switzerland. He has an intermediate level of English. He works as an Information Technology (IT) engineer and has acquired the necessary English vocabulary to function effectively within this sector. He would like to improve his everyday English fluency in order to interact more effectively with the Lausanne immigrant community, which uses English as the primary language

Wal-Mart Case Study 1 What threats and challenges is Wal-Mart currently facing Wal-Mart "Wal-Mart, is an American retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores. The company is the world's second largest public corporation, according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2013, the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees, and the largest retailer in the world. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated