geography‚ and numerous counties. Hillsborough County is one of the larger counties in the state‚ ranking number 4 of 67 in terms of population. An expansive area with large cities and a growing population‚ Hillsborough provides numerous opportunities for education‚ healthcare‚ and employment. Having a large population makes the county a great area to conduct research on significant health problems. For instance‚ there has been a dramatic rise in cardiac related deaths within the county over the years‚ placing
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William Faulkner William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County‚ with Jefferson as its county seat‚ is both a mythical and actual place. Yoknapatawpha county is 2400 square miles in area and has a population of 15‚611 persons. Jefferson has an actual jail‚ town square‚ old houses‚ and Old Frenchman’s Place‚ even a railroad. Faulkner’s "Yoknapatawpha County" is in reality Lafayette County‚ and "Jefferson" is actually Oxford. The Faulkner family lived there since before the Civil War. This is
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Loudon County Wheel Tax Why should we have to pay a wheel tax? In Loudon County‚ TN the government is proposing a 50 dollar wheel tax. Right now we pay 24 dollars per vehicle or item that must be legally registered; altogether we would be paying 74 dollars (Shaver‚ 2008). The wheel tax is going to be used for our road ways and education. A major issue with the wheel tax is there are people outside the county using the roads and their children use our schools‚ but pay no wheel tax. With the wheel
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Orange County Fire Authority is one of the biggest departments in southern California. It was founded as Orange County Fire Department in 1980 and declared bankruptcy in December 1994. Then three months later in March 1995‚ it reopened as Orange County Fire Authority with a new Fire Chief. It now has seventy-one fire stations‚ four helicopters‚ a wildland unit‚ and a hazmat unit. It has over one thousand full-time firefighters‚ two hundred reserve firefighters‚ covering twenty-three cities‚ and protecting
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Everyone is aware of the name Wake Forest University carries. Obviously‚ I too want to be part of the Demon Decan Community. Wake Forest embodies the community spirit that encourages intellectualism and promotes civic engagement. The biggest reason for transferring to Wake Forest University is the philosophy of educating the whole person. As an Aga Khan Foundation Youth Ambassador‚ I was heavily involved with sustainable projects that had a purpose of solving challenges the ambassadors identified
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For decades Emergency Management has focused primarily on preparedness. Since part of Wayne County is on the coastal plain‚ and is bordered by the Neuse River that extends up to Raleigh which is over 50 miles away the county is at a risk for flooding. Floods are the most common natural disaster in the U.S.‚ and nearly everybody has some risk of flooding. Wayne County preparedness to a flood is noteworthy. Virtually every U.S. state‚ and territory has experienced floods. The Federal Emergency Management
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patterns. The county is in the state of Texas‚ where a large percentage of the population is not classified as urban‚ yet a large proportion of the land area is classified as urban. The opposite‚ however‚ is true for Denton County‚ whose urban population percentage is even higher than that of the United States and while its urban area is significantly lower‚ than that of Texas‚ it still exceeds the urban area percentage of the United States as well. This is possibly because while Denton County is a metropolitan
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signs of farm labor have left their mark on the hardworking citizens of Harrison County for over 200 years. This year we celebrate the Bicentennial of Indiana and the tremendous achievements of our Hoosiers during the past two centuries. The history of Harrison County is inextricably intertwined with its history of agriculture. To this day‚ farming and agriculture are a crucial part of the economy in Harrison County; although‚ earlier in our county’s history‚ agriculture was not only a critically
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Research Product placement effectiveness: revisited and renewed Kaylene Williams California State University‚ Stanislaus Alfred Petrosky California State University‚ Stanislaus Edward Hernandez California State University‚ Stanislaus Robert Page‚ Jr. Southern Connecticut State University ABSTRACT Product placement is the purposeful incorporation of commercial content into noncommercial settings‚ that is‚ a product plug generated via the fusion of advertising and entertainment. While product placement
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Case Study The Leisure Products (LP) Company manufactures lawn and patio furniture. Most of its output is sold to do- it- yourself warehouse stores (e. g.‚ Lowes Home Improvement) and to retail hardware and department store chains (e. g.‚ True Value and JCPenney)‚ who then distribute the products under their respective brand names. LP is not involved in direct retail sales. Last year the firm had sales of $ 35 million. One of LPs divisions manufactures folding (aluminum and vinyl) chairs. Sales
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