Acres Home Community Assessment and High School Dropout Rates Among African-American Residents Lujain Alshaikh Abdallah Strategies for Community Development Fall 2013 Introduction The Acres Home community in north Houston has a rich history and culture. The community began has a rural community and has maintained many aspects of its rural roots as the Houston Metropolitan area has expanded around it. However‚ there are several problems facing the current population of Acres
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The Spanish civil war is often seen as a fundamental divide between right and left- the first major struggle between Fascism and Communism. The Spanish civil war started distinctly as a Spanish civil war born out of Spanish disputes‚ but it was soon to take on an international character. The military situations were practically equal to both sides before the foreign intervention. However‚ after Germany‚ Italy‚ and USSR intervened the situation changed dramatically. In general‚ the decision by foreign
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The four important steps provided in the toolkit are Assessments‚ Identifying Resources About the Community‚ Designing Services‚ and Program Evaluation. While designing my assisted living community‚ I used the four steps process to create a plan that will focus on the housing needs of aging adults related to location‚ affordability and independence‚ because the number of baby boomers is expected
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the differences and complexities of Primary Care in underserved populations. I have come to know that practicing Primary Care in rural‚ underserved communities is limited by finances‚ education‚ and recourses available. Obtaining a Master’s degree in Public Health will better prepare me to understand and treat not only the individual‚ but also communities as a whole. The addition of knowledge in Public Health will equip my career as a Physician Assistant with the skills in epidemiology‚ education‚ and
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their surrounding natural resources which would be then used in trading‚ selling‚ and building ships‚ etc. Although both the British and the Spanish colonies existed for the profit and the power of the core nation‚ the two nations featured different systems of colonial administration.
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of emergencies can be positively amplified with an organized plan or preparedness technique. In “The Neighborhood” community‚ there was an emergency‚ forest fires‚ which left the residents to experience unfortunate residual respiratory effects. The many that suffered include patients and staff in the hospital‚ senior center‚ school‚ and the Bley household. According to the community news in “The Neighborhood‚” there have been forest fires “for over five days‚ while unable to contain.” The fire has
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historians state that the Spanish American war allowed the USA to expand its sphere of influence through strategic and economic gains. The link to political driven conflict appears in the abundance of amendments and doctrines created allowing the USA to intervene in Cuba in order to remove the Spanish‚ who were in violation of the ‘Monroe Doctrine’. The Spanish-American war is controversial due to the idea that the Americans had blamed the sinking of the U.S Maine on the Spanish in order to create a catalyst
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Fire Corps is one of five partner programs under Citizen Corps‚ the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s grassroots strategy to bring together government and community leaders to involve citizens in all-hazards emergency preparedness and resilience. Citizen Corps partner programs share the common goal of helping communities prevent‚ prepare for‚ and respond to emergencies of all kinds. Launched in 2004‚ Fire Corps is managed by the National Volunteer Fire Council and works with various organizations
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The immediate origins of the 1898 Spanish-American War began with the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894. The American tariff‚ which put restrictions on sugar imports to the United States‚ severely hurt the economy of Cuba‚ which was based on producing and selling sugar. In Cuba‚ then a Spanish colony‚ angry nationalists known as the insurrectos began a revolt against the ruling Spanish colonial regime. When Spain sent in General "Butcher" Weyler to stabilize the situation in Cuba‚ he put much of the population
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Discourse Community Analysis For the last decade‚ massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have been rising in popularity‚ with the total revenue of these games coming out to be about half a billion dollars. Since the year 2004‚ there is one game that has greatly contributed to this increase of interest in the genre: World of Warcraft. Since its inception‚ World of Warcraft has achieved over eleven million subscribers‚ as well as being referenced in mainstream media such as news
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