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In this article, the writer looks at the Dallas works and presents a case study. The writer discusses that this is a facility that is owned by AT&T. The writer describes the efforts made to change the facility from a marginal facility to a world class operation.

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"The Dallas Works facility is disorganized and fundamentally in disarray. At this time AT&T does not have a plan or a process to correct even the most basic problems. The new senior manager has put together an ad hoc committee with a mandate to correct the problem. This committee has received limited guidance but virtually unlimited authority to make the necessary changes. AT&T's Dallas Works is a dysfunctional facility and is poorly organized. Stock outs in critical parts result in ... "

Tags:At and T, Dallas Works, Deregulation, reengineering, layoff, downsizing, TQM, total quality management, dysfunctional organization-

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This paper examines the experiences of being Hispanic-American in Dallas, Texas. Among other things, the paper looks at how Hispanic-American community leaders view their own people as well as non-Hispanics and how the community at large views insiders and outsiders. In addition, the paper assesses the treatment of Hispanic-Americans in the media and what inequalities are most obviously in need of attention in this great city. Finally, the paper concludes by looking at what can be done to make Dallas a better city within which to work and live.

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Tags:dallas, hispanics, issues

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The premise of this paper is that the program of welfare reform has done more harm than good in the Dallas, Texas area. The purpose of welfare reform is to reduce the number of people in the United States that receive public assistance. The paper focuses on the effects that welfare reform has had on the children in the Dallas, Texas area and supports the hypothesis that a more comprehensive approach is more effective than programs in the past that only concentrated on one aspect of the problem. The paper concludes that addressing one aspect of the poverty problem does not represent long-term solutions. The culture of the neighborhood has to be changed before the problem can be effectively addressed.

Outline:
Scope of the Problem
Solutions for the Children
The problem of Housing
Welfare to Wwork
Conclusion
Works cited

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"After the implementation welfare reform, poverty in the Dallas area grew to almost 2% of the nearly 632,676 families living in the Dallas area (Appleton, 1A). One must remember that this number only reflects the number of families, and does not tell us anything about the number of children and its effects on them. Over the past ten years and the number of persons living below the poverty line in the Dallas area has grown by over 17% (Appleton, 1A). Welfare reform did have an effect of reducing the number of households on public assistance from 4% in 1990 to 2% in 2002 (Appleton, 1A). However, it did nothing to reduce the number of persons actually living below the poverty line. For some it made this situation worse because they were still below the poverty line, only now they had fewer means of support."

Tags:gautreaux, pta, annie, e., casey, foundation, distressed, neighborhoods, poverty, ocbf, lower, income

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This research proposal suggests the conduction of a quantitative research study through cluster sampling, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of the state of Texas, specifically related to testing correlation between the factors of the adult abuser of cocaine and violent crimes in the area. The literature review in this work provides an overview of the drug trade environment in the Dallas-Fort Worth area as well as statistical data for factors in the cocaine drug business and the lives of those who abuse cocaine in that area. Recommendations of this study are that more research should be conducted relating to the links between violent crimes and adult cocaine abuse in Dallas-Fort-Worth Texas.

Outline:
Abstract
Objective
I. Introduction
Background of the Study
Statement of the Problem
Research Questions and Hypotheses
Purpose of the Study
Rationale
Significance of the Study
Study Variables
Definition of Terms
Assumptions and Limitations
II. Literature Review
Precise Pharmacology of Cocaine as Related to Violence
Review of the Literature of this Study
Summary of Literature
III. Methodology
Population and Sampling
Gathering of Data
Instruments to be Used in the Gathering of Data
Data Analysis
Statement of Consent of Permission
Recommendations
Appendixes
Bibliography

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"AADAC reports in Developments Vol. 18 Issue 9 Cocaine that: "Over the last 10 years, AADAC has seen a gradual, steady rise in the proportion of clients who name cocaine as their primary drug of concern. In 1997-98, over 3,600 AADAC clients (11.1%) said cocaine was the drug they used most frequently during the previous year." (Developments, 1999) The AADAC reports that: "Cocaine is a fast-acting drug with effects of short duration. It has a half-time for elimination of about one hour (the body has lost half of it an hour after administration). While most drugs are broken down by the liver, cocaine is broken down in the blood. Breakdown by the liver happens gradually: only about 15% of the blood passes through the liver each time the heart beats, thus the remainder of the blood still carries the unmetabolized drug. In contrast, breakdown in the blood happens constantly. This means that cocaine is quickly converted to an inactive form." (Developments, 1999)"

Tags:fund, addiction, intravenous, gang, violence, narcotics, smuggling

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This paper aims to study images of New York in the works of Henry James. It uses a non-fictional work ("The American Scene") and four fictional works ("The Jolly Corner", "Washington Square", "Crapy Cornelia" and "An International Episode") to argue that there are discernable patterns to James' images and that they appear to develop over the course of his literary career.

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"It is interesting to note that the monster images are applied at a number of levels. First, they are applied at an overall level, where James asks overtly "Had New York, the miscellaneous monster, a heart at all"? Secondly, they are applied at the level of the greedy producer and consumer that James so despises as "monsters of the mere market". Lastly, they are applied at the level of the new immigrants into New York "in their monstrous, presumptuous interest, the aliens, in New York". What these various levels show is the far-reaching range of distrust that James harbored towards all of the various factors undergoing change in New York at that time."

Tags:american, cornelia, corner, crapy, episode, imagery, international, jolly, scene, square, travelogue, washington

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The paper relates that Robert J. Marzano is an educator and researcher for ASCD. The paper discusses his book "Reflection on What Works in Schools: Translating Research Into Action" that summarizes educational research over the past 35 years relative to what works in schools. The paper focuses on his first section of this work which summarizes and condenses five sets of factors which have been demonstrated to impact reform on a school-wide level.

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"Author Robert J. Marzano writes from a basic premise that schools which "implement what is known about effective schooling" (p.1) can and do have a major impact on student achievement. He organizes 35 years of research into three groups of factors, which he defines as the school, teacher, and student levels. (p.10). Unit One reviews five school-level factors (in descending order) to reveal what research demonstrate as qualitatively impacting achievement without increasing costs (p.15). Marzano's list is a synthesis of a number of studies and involves his grouping of previously..."

Tags:curriculum, research, education

Abstract
The paper examines Ulrich Bonnell Phillips' "American Negro Slavery",
Stanley M. Elkins' "Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life", John W. Blassingame's "The Slave Community" and Nell Irvin Painter's "Soul Murder and Slavery". The paper critically analyzes these works and totally discredits Phillips' work while highlighting the strengths and weaknesses in Elkins' and Painter's works. The paper concludes that Blassingame's work seems to be the most interesting, well-researched and factual account of slave life.

From the Paper
"The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of American slavery. Specifically it will contain a historiography on four works written by four different authors. Each of these works depicts a time and place in the history of American slavery, and each makes unique and valid points regarding this "peculiar" institution. Each of them uses strong research and writing to make their points, but their points differ greatly and indicate how different people can view the diverse aspects of slavery in far different ways. In the end, John W. Blassingame's work seems to be the most interesting, well-researched, and factual account of slave life, it creates a balanced view of the community of slaves and how important that community was to their overall survival."

Tags:plantations, sambo, myth, blacks

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This ten-page undergraduate paper discusses several artistic works from the Renaissance to the Neoclassical period in terms of their socio-historical context, considering the major social, economic, religious and/or political developments that inform the period, including patronage. The artistic developments and merits of each work are examined and all of the relevant terminology is used in the correct manner.

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This paper will discuss the art of Mondrian. By examining his painting "Place de la Concorde", we can see how he approaches painting stylistically.

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This paper, which includes a picture of the painting itself, begins by examining the contents of the painting. It then discusses why the inclusion of this painting in the Dallas Museum "10 Treasures" collection is problematic for several reasons, ranging from the fact that Gauguin is called a representative of European art and that the selection of this particular work of Gauguin was not his best.

From the Paper
"Paul Gaugin was born during the 1848 revolution, and in 1883 (a stockbroker with five children and a wife with whom he had difficulties) met artist Camille Pissarro, one of the central figures in the Impressionist movement. This meeting marks one of the seminal influences in his life, one that took him away from the stockmarket and into the world of art collecting, and thence to collecting. This writer's interest in Gaugin was fired by viewing the recent Van Gogh touring exhibition and gazing at some of the paintings on display and wondering what about them created a desire to pay millions and millions of dollars for such works. In the tape recorded "tour" that went with the exhibit, there was some mention of the relationship between Van Gogh and Gaugin."

Tags:museam, dallas, van, gogh, european, art