Ottawa Public Library Essays and Term Papers
345 Essays on Ottawa Public Library. Documents 26 - 50
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The War Years and the Publication of the Prophet
The War Years and The Publication of The Prophet (1914-1923) During one of Gibran's art exhibitions in 1914, an American architect, Albert Pinkam Ryder, paid an unexpected visit to the exhibition, leaving an impression on Gibran who decided to write an English poem in his honor. The poem, which was first edited by Mary, became Gibran’s first English publication, when it went out into print in January 1915. Meanwhile, Gibran became more actively involved in
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Public Relations
Brittany F. Dunn Introduction to Public Relations CM 227.01 Newspaper Story Synopsis #1 15 September 2005 Extreme Makeover: School Lunch Edition With American being in this crazy diet phase, the issue of school lunches has become more and more prevalent in recent years. Daily lunches served in our nation's schools range from soggy pizza and glazed chicken to overcooked vegetables and french fries. As a result, children are opting to spend their lunch money on
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Public Relations
How many people really do dream? Everyone dreams, whether the dream is remembered or not. Throughout the night, there are many stages of sleep that everyone goes through. These stages include light sleep, deep sleep, and dream sleep. Nightmares are also considered dreams, just caused by different emotions. Scientists also have many electrical appliances and have done many tests to study dreams. Dreams are very complex things. Scientists have a hard time trying to
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Public Inquiry Reports in the Construction Industry
Public Inquiry reports in the construction industry Table of contents Cover Page 1. Introduction 2. The Dutch construction fraud 3. Royal BAM Group and the Dutch construction fraud 4. Advice 1. Introduction In the first part of this paper there will be a short explanation of the construction fraud and the relevant stakeholders involved. In the second part the relevant changes, interests and strategies will be described for Royal BAM Group. At the end of
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Libraries Should Use Software Filters for Internet Access
Libraries Should Use Software Filters for Internet Access Public libraries provide us with a large amount of information. Residents can borrow books from libraries. Libraries also provide Internet access for everyone, including children. Since parents cannot control what then children are seeing on the Internet in libraries, children can access pornographic or violent sites easily. So, public libraries should restrict Internet access by utilizing filtering software to prevent children from seeing those inappropriate sites. The
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Teaching World Religion in the Public School System
Teaching World Religion In America, the idea of teaching world religion inside the public schools is often seen as reprehensible. This, unfortunately, is caused by the many different interpretations of the separation of church and state in the Constitution of America. This program of study has helped many children in other nations to have a greater awareness and understanding of the religions that surround them in the world. We believe that the teaching of world
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The History of Public Relations
The History of Public Relations The act of public relations dates back to 52 B.C.E. in ancient Rome and continues on today all around the world. Public relations is defined as the controlling factor that searches to form and maintain relationships between organizations, profit or non-profit and the public that are beneficial for both parties (Bates). The age of public relations as a profession evolved in the 20th Century, mainly in the United States, but
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Responsibility of Designers to the General Public
As this topic could in most cases be considered controversial, this paper is simply the written with views and opinions that I feel about this specific topic. According to Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary the term “responsibility is defined as “1 : the quality or state of being responsible : as a : moral, legal, or mental accountability.” (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=responsibility&x=0&y=0 ) The question raised in this topic is what, if any, responsibility do graphic designers have to the
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The Illinois Department of Public Health Agency and Its Role
Public health involves a very broad range of services that impact many societies throughout the country. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is comprised of various fundamental programs that provide community services such as vaccinations, food, water and drug safety, health care licensing, infectious disease control, statistical health analyses, genetic screening, and programs for special health needs of women. All these systems put together allow the IDPH system to assume major responsibility for the
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Art Education in Public Schools
Art Education in Public Schools One morning, a fifth grader took in her hand a violin, and it changed her life forever. Her fingers grasped the bow, and drew it across the strings creating a beautiful sound. She developed the patience to learn to play and continued to play the violin for the rest of her life. The girl had found something, not only in the instrument, but in herself. Ever since that day, her
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Advantages of Public Company
Access to Capital A public offering of stock can vary from $500,000 to over $1 billion. In 1999, 544 companies completed an IPO(Initial Public Offering). The total capital raised from these offerings was $23.6 billion. By offering stock for sale to the public a company can access a substantial source of corporate funding. If a company needs to raise capital, it can sell stock(equity) or it can it issue bonds(debt securities). An initial equity offering
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Higher Education Fundraising Using Public Relation Practices
Higher Education Fundraising Using Public Relation Practices The Excellence Study of public relations is studied in public relations courses throughout the United States. A variety of organizations were involved in the study including both for profit and non-profit organizations. However, there were no organizations from the higher education setting included in the study. In fact, very few studies have used the Excellence theory to examine how public relations is practiced in higher education. A true
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The Great Debate: Are Private Schools Really Academically Better Than Public Schools?
The Great Debate: Are Private Schools Really Academically Better Than Public Schools? Introduction Education is a major topic of controversy in this country. People often wonder if private school is worth the money it costs and if public schools have what it takes to produce well educated, disciplined young adults. There comes a time in every parents life when they must decide what is best for their child and what school will prepare them
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Public Speacking
Yvonne Sanchez 800112219 Public Speaking 1301 Persuasive outline Final speech Legal Driving Age Debate Attention Getter A. Is premature driving killing our teens? B. Headlines read “Teen driver killed in wreck” “ High school student dies in car crash”. C. In South Carolina 2% of the states drivers are under the age of 18. Those teens make up 4% of the drivers involved in fatal collisions and 7% of all accidents. D. The reason all
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How Children BeCome Indifferent to Public Education
In our world today schooling and learning are two separate entities, which need to become one if America wants to better its educational system, there needs to be more flexible classroom settings that allow students to engage in the learning experience. When you read about the problems with American education, you usually read statistics about literacy and dropout rates. But those statistics don’t do the subject justice because the problem with American education is a
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Defining Public Relations
Defining Public Relations My personal definition of public relations is a function used to make organizations, people, products, services or places etc. that are despicable (in a general way) and useless appear somewhat decent and useful to others whose opinions matter. Public relations basically sugar-coats the truth and might go so far as to blatantly lie about something for a means to an end. The end may be higher sales in business or even to
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Public Relations
Public Relations Public image is important to corporations, individuals and the government. Individuals in the public eye such as Condoleezza Rice and Paris Hilton often hire public relations firms to monitor their public image. Large organizations such as Smith Barney and Delta Airlines monitor their public image and use public relations to inform the public and their shareholders about new developments and positive information about the company. They often hire public relation firms to spin
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Public Relations Emergency: Shaw's Supermarkets
Public Relations Emergency: Shaw’s Supermarkets Assignment A • Civil Disorders: o Fighting in the store o Massive looting and shoplifting • Labor Unrest: o Union strike (Supermarket Worker’s Union) • Crime: o Any criminal action taken against the company  Arson  Theft • Government Actions: o Raising cost of food prices o Tariffs on foreign foods • System or Product Failure: o Contaminated foods or products o Outdated foods o Sub-par foods • Acts
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A Broad View of Public Relations
A Broad View of Public Relations Many individuals, reference manuals, companies and firms have their independent thoughts and ideas on what Public Relations can be defined as. The definitions range from concise to lengthy and also border on different industries. Fraser Seital defines it as a “planned process to influence the public opinion, through sound character and proper performance based on mutually satisfactory two-way communication.” (Seital, 2004) Edward Bernays states that public relations “is providing
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Public Education as Satire in the Simpsons
The Simpsons are one of the longest running and most popular television shows. This popularity exists because "the Simpsons [have] always operated on two levels. On one level appealing to children as a fast paced cartoon and then for the older audiences for its wit and [satire]" (Batscha). Satire is the common thread with binds all of The Simpsons episodes. The writers show the absurdity in ordinary everyday situations including religion, politics and other
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Article Review - Big Debts Keep Law Grads out of Low-Paying Public Service Jobs”- James V. Grimaldi
http://www.ourpublicservice.org/pressroom/pressroom_show.htm?doc_id=147617 “Big Debts Keep Law Grads Out of Low-Paying Public Service Jobs”- James V. Grimaldi For many college students the idea of working in the public sector is fascinating. The thought of having first hand knowledge of how the United States government is run is an appeal to many; however it is not enough to include these students in the workforce. Perhaps the number one reason why many potential employees do no choose the
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Abortion as a Public Health Issue
ABORTION: Safe or Unsafe ABORTION AS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE In 1973, the United States Supreme Court struck down every federal, state, and local law regulating or restricting the practice of abortion. This action was based on the premise that the states no longer had any need to regulate abortion because the advances of modern medicine had now made abortion "relatively safe." Therefore, the Justices concluded, it is unconstitutional to prevent physicians from providing abortions
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Prayer in Public Schools
The first few English men to settle the Americas came to this continent for various reasons. They wanted to find a place where they could farm and raise a family with financial prosperity, but mostly they came to the Americas to have the freedom to worship God in their own way. They had hopes that this new land would be a place where all people would have the right to serve and pray. Unfortunately,
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Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making
Public participation in environmental decision-making is an area that will always raise questions on the relevance and of the advantages that can be gained by allowing public participation. Decision making by experts, which is often characterized as ‘technocracy’, is an area where experts sometimes make key decisions themselves, but more commonly advise policy makers and interest groups including governments and corporations. The advantages of using experts in the field are their specialist knowledge is fully
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Funding of Public Schools
Public education in the United States is a very important aspect. It is the education that is offered to our children to hopefully create a better future. Being that we are a country that offers education to anyone who enters the states. Public education has built a great deal over the years for the better. A family now that would have never been able to afford a private school can send their children to get
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