A Comparative Analysis Between Three Types of Meeting & Event Planners

Purpose: The purpose of this professional paper is to provide a comparative analysis of the skill sets needed for association meeting planners, corporate event planners, and independent meeting and event planners so that recommendations can be made on ways in which these planners can transition from one type of meeting planning position to another. More specifically, this paper was created for those who are looking for information about meeting and event planning careers to help determine a future career path for themselves for which they would be well suited

Leonard Suryajaya Interview

Bio: BFA, 2013, California State University, Fullerton; MFA, 2015, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibitions: Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA; Expo Chicago, IL; Chicago Artist Coalition, IL; The Center for Fine Arts Photography, CO; Roy G Biv Gallery, OH. Publication: Lenscratch; Chicago Magazine; South Side Weekly. Lectures: Society for Photographic Education 2014 National Conference, MD; Society for Photographic Education 2016 National Conference, NV. Awards: New Artist Society Award; James Weinstein Memorial Fellowship; Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artist

Out of Despair, Into the Wilderness: A Study of Annie Dillard\u27s \u3ci\u3ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u3c/i\u3e and Gary Snyder\u27s \u3ci\u3eMyths & Texts\u3c/i\u3e

Annie Dillard and Gary Snyder are both contemporary American writers. Though Dillard\u27s and Snyder\u27s styles, concerns, and preoccupations differ, the narrators in Dillard\u27s narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Snyder\u27s long poem Myths & Texts undergo spiritual progressions that are astonishingly similar. Each narrator moves out of the dualistic world view of modern science into an experience of the world\u27s paradoxical nature. Dillard and Snyder both create, through metaphor and mythopoeia, visions that offer an alternative world view from that of the despairing modern wasteland. I call my theoretical approach ecological criticism, and after performing close readings of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Myths & Texts, I explore Dillard\u27s and Snyder\u27s understandings of themselves as writers in a modern world. I find that Snyder makes the ethics implicit in his vision real in the political world and sees his poetry as sustainable, passing through him, while Dillard burns herself up by attempting to hold her powerful vision in her hands without doing anything with it

Social welfare in South Africa : a legal-philosophical analysis

A large portion of the population of South Africa is made up of people who, due to poverty, disability, old age and/or lack of education, rely solely on social assistance provided by the government for their survival. The issue of the welfare state in terms of responding to these issues has been subject to increasingly heated debates especially with regard to long-term socio-economic improvements, moral obligations and economic sustainability. This dissertation generally explores the status of social welfare in South Africa, and more specifically, South Africa’s socio-economic status as a welfare state against the backdrop of selected philosophical arguments used to justify and criticize existing social welfare laws in South Africa, whilst keeping South Africa’s unique history in mind. Although South Africa already has a detailed set of social welfare laws and policies, the social and economic needs of the country are ever evolving and therefore it is important that these laws and policies be constantly re-evaluated in order to ensure that they are effective in addressing and meeting the changing socio-economic and other demands.JurisprudenceLL. M. (Jurisprudence

Visualization of auditory masking for firefighter alarm detection

textAn essential piece of firefi ghter equipment is the Personal Alert Safety System (PASS), which emits an alarm when a fire fighter has been inactive for a specified period of time and is used to find and rescue downed firefighters. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) firefighter fatality reports suggest that there have been instances when the PASS alarm is not audible by other firefighters on the scene. This thesis seeks to use acoustic models to measure the sound pressure level of various signals throughout a structure. With this information, a visual representation will be created to map where a PASS alarm is audible and where it is masked by noise sources. This thesis presents an initial audibility study, including temporal masking and frequency analysis. The results are compared to auralizations and experimental data. Some other potential applications will be briefly explored.Mechanical Engineerin

Defying the odds: A research based reading program project guide

Despite a wealth of past studies investigating summer reading loss, summer reading programs, and the contributions of public libraries to reading promotion, school libraries lack a reading promotion guide using research based elements derived from best practices in public libraries\u27 summer reading programs to be used throughout the year in a school library context. For the months of August through May, promotional pieces were created and collated to provide teacher librarians an online guide for implementing a research based guide to reading success in a school library context. Activities were created to match at least four of the eight qualities identified in research as having contributed to a successful summer library reading program: Building relationships with students and caregivers, encouraging reading accountability for students and parents, encouraging positive independent reading habits, ample opportunity for library use, collaboration between the public librarian and teacher librarian, access for all students, including those of low socioeconomic status, informational and educational opportunities for caregivers, and providing program opportunities that appeal to male students. Questions addressed included how the public and teacher librarian can collaboratively encourage students and parents to become summer and lifelong readers and how teacher librarians can apply research based best practices of public library summer reading programs in a school library context. The documents are accessible through an online website for immediate and widespread access. Documents are organized on a monthly basis for ease of use and user-friendly navigation

An evaluation of curriculum-related specialties in grades five and six

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Single-Event Transient Testing of the Crane Aerospace and Electronics SMHF2812D Dual DC-DC Converter

The purpose of this testing was to characterize the Crane Aerospace & Electronics (Crane) Interpoint SMHF2812D for single-event transient (SET) susceptibility. These data shall be used for flight lot evaluation, as well as qualification by similarity of the SMHF family of converters, all of which use the same active components

RH1021BMH-10 Precision 10 V Reference Total Ionizing Dose Test Report

The purpose of this test was to validate the Analog Devices (ADI) RH1021BMH-10 flight lot for use in the fabrication of Europa Clipper Propulsion subsystem flight hardware. This test shall serve as the radiation lot acceptance test (RLAT) for this flight lot with wafer lot number 769658.1 and lot date code (LDC) 1430A. Low dose rate (LDR) irradiations were performed in this test so that the device susceptibility to enhanced low dose rate sensitivity (ELDRS) could be determined