Comminity Risk Assessment MPH 651 Occupational & Environmental Heath Kaitlyn Ward March 3rd‚ 2017 Introduction Tacoma Washington is a port city with an estimated population of 207‚ 9488. It lies on the Puget Sound‚ 32 miles southwest of Seattle and 31 miles northeast of the capital city Olympia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma‚_Washington). The median age of it’s citizens is 35.7 years old (http://www.areavibes.com/tacoma-wa/demographics/). It is estimated that 23% of
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Discrimination is the wrongly unjust treatment of different groups of people based on certain characteristics such as race‚ sex‚ and/or religion. Discrimination has been around for centuries and has become a very big problem in today’s time. With the United States being so diverse and being home to many different groups of people‚ discrimination is a very common problem that happens amongst the different groups of people. Discrimination has been a long standing problem in the history of the United
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and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest’” In this essay “The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest” Timothy Egan begins his essay by introducing himself that he was born in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington and he is the Pulitzer Prize. He views Seattle as a new and interesting city which has changed a lot in the last century. Declining hills‚ losing salmon stream‚ building new skyscrapers by month‚ and the forested edge of the city is deforested for
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Martin Luther King was August 28‚ 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington before a sea of people‚ when he introduced himself with the first sentences of his "dream" speech as a debt collector of the black race: "A hundred years ago‚ a great American‚ in whose symbolic shadow we stand‚ the Emancipation Proclamation‚ "King began. "This momentous decree came as a ray of hope for millions of Negro slaves ... It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. In a way‚ we
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world‚ he worked hard to make his ideas become reality despite that he was already wealthy‚ and he founded Microsoft which is one of the biggest tech companies in our world today. William Henry Bill Gates was born on October 28‚ 1995 in Seattle‚ Washington in a wealthy family of his father William Henry. - A successful attorney and his mom Mary Maxwell Gates - a former school teacher‚ who later became a member of the Board of Directors of the
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The United States’ federal government‚ formed at the birth of a nation‚ relies on systems and balances established in the wake of the Revolutionary War‚ during the birth of a nation and was shaped by a handful of influential men. Benjamin Franklin‚ a founding father of this beautiful nation‚ emerging from a brutal rebellion to fabricate a democratic system of government. Around the same time‚ Thomas Jefferson established the Democratic-Republican party‚ a major political party for the time‚ and served
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Company Profile Neiman Marcus is a luxury department store retailer offering upscale assortments of apparel‚ accessories‚ jewelry‚ beauty‚ and decorative home products to the affluent consumer. As of January 28‚ 2012 the company operated 41 Neiman Marcus stores‚ 2 Bergdorf Goodman stores‚ and 30 Last Call clearance centers‚ as well as a direct-to-consumer business with catalog and internet operations under the Neiman Marcus‚ Horchow and Bergdorf Goodman brand names. Company Overview Internet
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power‚ begins with the thoughts and quotes of other American presidents. Each explain their thoughts about Jefferson as if he was thought of in a different way than the rest. He was a founding father who playing several significant roles throughout history that have helped shape this great nation. This work written by Jon Meacham is a biography that depicts Jefferson as a very educated man. One who put the interests of a new nation ahead of his own desires. Meacham has
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Autumn of freedom and equality” (King). This little quote was from the famous “I Have a Dream” speech that was made and spoken by Martin Luther King Junior. The speech was spoken on August 28‚ 1963. It was taken place at the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The speech is about having freedom for all Americans‚ though this was mainly pushed for having the Blacks become officially free since they were the main target by the inequality. All the hundreds of thousands of Americans that had gone
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Des Dearlove Doing Business the Bill Gates Way 1. Explain what you think is interesting about Bill Gates and his career. William Henry Gates III was born on October 28‚ 1955 in Seattle‚ Washington. Bill Gates was born into a very intellectual and well educated family. Throughout the book‚ we receive an impression of him as a very curious person who always seeks for new knowledge. At the age of eight or nine‚ he began to read his family’s encyclopaedia and his interest in technology at a very
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