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Pynes (2013) states “the public sector relies on volunteers for an assortment of purposes and in a variety of environments.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 64.3 million Americans volunteered at least once between September 2010 and September 2011. (2013, p. 377-378). As a State of Florida employee, this organization depends heavily on a volunteer to accomplish our mission, vision, and value of the community; a vision to become the healthiest State in the Nation, which takes many hands

Sally Ride: A Name to Remember When growing up, a lot of kids say they want to be an astronaut when they are older. This was not the case for Sally Ride. She claimed that she did not want to be an astronaut and knew that there were little to no women in that profession. Then one day, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent out flyers looking for women to become apart of the program and that changed Sally Ride’s life forever. NASA mainly recruited white males who were in

Many people believe that basketball and football can be the best sports in the world. Basketball can be known as the best sport because it’s played all over the world and tons of people like to play/watch it. For football tons of people love to play the sport and tons of people like to watch football every Sunday. In my opinion, I think baseball is clearly the best sport in the world. The great sport of baseball was invented in 1839 in a town called Cooperstown, New York. Many of you might know

because of a war back in France then the settlement struggled, “the colony at Charlesfort fell on hard times. A lack of supplies threatened the settlers ' lives, most of whom followed René Laudonnière south to establish Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St. Johns” . The Spanish built fort San Salvador when they first arrived on the island they were ordered to quickly build a fortress for protection from Native Americans or other attack, a few months later during summer 250 reinforcements showed up from

¨Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.¨ This quote by the author of The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams, describes both The Glass Menagerie, a memory play, and the life of Tennessee Williams himself, for whom memories played a large role in his life. Within the play, many parallels can be drawn between the life of Williams and the life of Tom, the main character, such as a disdain for factory work. In addition, several characters

Whether pride, fear, or peace, art is intended to make the viewer feel an emotion. The visit to the St. Louis Art Museum had me excited to discover a new revelation. Being the second time that I had visited in two semesters, I was looking forward to a new angle to take, writing about some of my favorite pieces I was unable to include in my last paper. This semester we have been focusing on the Renaissance era (1300-1700), also known as the Rebirth. During this time, scholars and artists looked back

CHAPTER 13 SHORT-RUN DECISION MAKING: RELEVaNT COSTING 1 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Tactical decisions are short run in nature; they involve choosing among alternatives with an immediate or limited end in view. Strategic decisions involve selecting strategies that yield a long-term competitive advantage. 2. Depreciation is an allocation of a sunk cost. This cost is a past cost and will never differ across alternatives. 3. The salary of the supervisor of an assembly line with excess capacity

Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly into outer space. She was born on May 26th, 1951 in Los Angeles, California and she passed away July 23, 2012 at the age of 61 (Dunbar, 2014). Sally attended and graduated from Westlake High School in Los Angeles, California, in 1968. While Sally was in high school, her dream was to be a professional tennis player, however soon after graduating she took her success to Stanford University. Sally graduated from Stanford University with bachelor’s degrees

Rudyard Kipling's Kim Kim gives a vivid picture of the complexities in India under British rule. It shows the life of the bazaar mystics, of the natives, of the British military. There is a great deal of action and movement, for Kipling's vast canvas painted in full detail. The dialogue in the novel makes use of Indian phrases translated by the author, they give the flavor of native speech in India. They are also touches of the native behavior and shrewdness. Setting: The time the novel

In 1983 Sally Ride was the first woman astronaut is the American history. She set the base for all young girls and women to think about all they could do even though they were “just girls” She was one of the primary sources of women empowerment in that time. Sally Ride was a very important person in the 1980s and was important to the US, her becoming an astronaut has led to many realizations of what women can do now. Sally Ride was the first woman to join NASA in the United States. Ride worked