Maryland Company Initiative
Initiatives Undertaken by a Maryland Company
A Wider Circle is an award-winning company that provides support to families that struggle with poverty. The company's subtitle, "A unique, holistic approach to ending poverty," testifies to its altruistic sensibility, as well as the wide range of initiatives associated with A Wider Circle. Particularly in Maryland, poverty is a pervasive issue that is difficult for families to combat. The company assists over 1,000 adults and children on a monthly basis, and all assistance is conducted free of charge. Additionally, A Wider Circle provides relief to schools, recognizing the importance of education for combating poverty. This paper examines a number of the measures undertaken by A Wider Circle, including support for veterans and families living in shelters.
One of the foremost initiatives conducted by A Wider Circle involves assisting veterans. While it is true that veterans are ostensibly revered in American culture (there is,…...
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A Wider Circle: A holistic approach to ending poverty. Retrieved from http://www.awidercircle.org/whoweare.html
Collins, R. (2007). Strolling while poor: How broken-windows policing created a new crime in Baltimore. Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, XIV (3)
Taylor, R.B. (2001). Breaking away from broken windows: Baltimore neighborhoods and the nationwide fight against crime, grime, fear and decline. Boulder: Westview Press, Inc.
Maryland PT/PTA Code of Ethics…
Code of Ethics eview
Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners Code of Ethics for Physical Therapists and Physical Therapy Assistants
Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners Code of Ethics for Physical Therapists and Physical Therapy Assistants
This work will briefly review a sample code of ethics for the profession of physical therapy. The chosen sample code of ethics is a state adopted code of ethics for several reasons; one the code of ethics is focused on scope of standards rather than ideals, two the code demonstrates a realistic guideline on several important issues, and three it provides enforceable penalties. In comparison, on the second note above the American Physical Therapy Association Code of Ethics (APTA), which theoretically encompasses a national standard for all physical therapists is demonstrative of an expression of practice ideals, rather than on practicable standards of practice and offers no guidance for enforcement and/or penalties.…...
mlaRegulation .01H -- L adopted effective March 18, 2002 (29:5 Md. R. 504)
Regulation .02 amended effective November 7, 1994 (21:22 Md. R. 1877)
Regulation .02 amended and recodified to Regulation .03 and new Regulation .02 adopted effective September 6, 1999 (26:18 Md. R. 1376)
No Child Left ehind
Letter of Transmittal
Impact of NCL on Maryland School Systems
Request for specified action
Federal and State Restructuring Options
Maryland State School Improvement Grant udget Application,
Allowable and Non-Allowable Expenditures
No Child Left ehind (NCL) is the re-embodiment of President Lyndon Johnson's Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). The primary purpose was to raise the standard of education and bridge educational boundaries. NEA certainly supports these aims and works solely in order to provide children equally standardized public schools.
The paper discuses impact of NCL on Maryland schools and what effect the state takeover had on the schools present in the district. Several recommendations and strategies are discussed in order to improve the management of the schools and a detailed request to Mr. Delaney has also been made in the paper to further improve and implement the strategies for the improvement of the schools.
Prelude
No Child Left ehind Act was signed into law…...
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Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. (2011, Septmber 19). Retrieved from Education Week: http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/no-child-left-behind/
Ellis, C.R. (2007). No Child Left Behind -- A Critical Analysis. Excelsior. Retrieved from: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.vlib.excelsior.edu/eds/detail/detail?sid=13942473-32f0-4108-a965-c3a784d24d3d%40sessionmgr112&vid=0&hid=102&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d
Issues and Actions: No Child Left Behind Act. (2011). Retrieved from National Education Association: http://www.nea.org/home/NoChildLeftBehindAct.html
Health Policy Analysis for Maryland AC (Affordable Care) Act
McLaughlin, & McLaughlin (2014) rank 11 areas of health innovation based on their impact on costs and quality of healthcare delivery. The process improvement is the highest ranking item. However, the authors identify data analytics, disease management, "non-physician delivery alternatives," and "alternative to fee-for service" (McLaughlin, & McLaughlin, 2014 p 335) as other innovation items that can enhance quality and reduce costs. Additionally, the authors point out that innovation in electronic medical records, diagnosis, and pharmaceuticals can also assist with quality and cost.
Objective of this health policy paper is to evaluate the items that can play important role in the health policy process of Maryland's ACA (Affordable Care Act).
Healthcare items for Health Policy Process for in Maryland Affordable Care Act
The ACA (Affordable Care Act) is a federal government legislation focusing on healthcare coverage for small groups and individuals. The government of Maryland…...
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Abrams, M. Nuzum, R. Mika, S. et al. (2011). Realizing Health Reform's Potential How the Affordable Care Act Will Strengthen Primary Care and Benefit Patients, Providers, and Payers. The Commonwealth Fund.
Chin, W.W. Hamermesh, R.G. Huckman, R.S. et al.(2012). 5 Imperatives Addressing Innovative Challenge. Harvard Business School.
McLaughlin, C.P. & McLaughlin, C.D. (2014). Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach.(2nd Edition). Burlington, Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Resnik, D.B. (2007). Responsibility for Health: Personal, Social, and Environmental. J Med Ethics. 33(8): 444-445.
Loans in Maryland
1. What is the maximum possible rate of interest for a loan made in Maryland, by a Maryland-based creditor?
Answer: 6%
2. Assuming that an unsecured consumer loan falls within the Interest and Usury subtitle, what would be the maximum rate of interest for a loan made by oral agreement?
Answer: There is no absolute maximum because there is no cap on rates for some kinds of loan.
3. Assuming that a loan falls within the Interest and Usury subtitle, which of the following would be FALSE?
Answer: To have an interest rate higher than 6%, all loans must be in writing.
4. Which of the following would NOT be covered by the definition of Creditor under TILA?
Answer: A store which allows an individual to buy a $500 computer, with the price payable in one month, on the condition that the individual also purchases a $50 extended warranty on the computer.
5. Suppose that you…...
Maryland Prison System
Crime is expensive. But so too is punishment. The state of Maryland, like the majority of states across the nation at the moment, is facing a period of slow economic growth and shrinking economic resources even as it continues to have to meet the needs of its citizens. This paper examines the effect on the state's overall budget of the cost of incarcerating prisoners.
The treatment of prisoners causes few legal problems for the government of a dictatorship. A government that refuses to acknowledge the human rights of even its law-abiding citizens is not likely to show too many qualms about shoving its criminals into overcrowded and unsafe prisons - or even to worry about whether the niceties of due process were considered in getting the person to prison to begin with. But the rule of constitutional law changes all that. Because we live in a country in which…...
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Feely, M. And Edward, R. (1998). Judicial policy making and the modern state: How courts reformed. Cambridge: Cambridge University.
Hafetz, J. (1995). Tough justice. New York Empire State Report. http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:5haT4coRUqgJ:www.mdgreens.org/montgomery/pdf/schoolsnotprisons.pdf+maryland+state+budget+prison&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/prisons/Estelle_v_Gamble.htm
Walton suggests that increasing reports of crimes on campus is one way to resolve the seeming conflict between FEPA's dictates of student privacy and a university's legitimate concerns about the ability to exercise authority over students, since FEPA only addresses educational records and does not speak to criminal records (Walton, 2002).
Method
In addition to using a literature review to examine this problem from a global perspective, this researcher engaged in two types of evidence-gathering to investigate attitudes towards FEPA. The first type of evidence-gathering involved surveying students at Maryland State University to determine their attitudes towards FEPA and whether they believed it helped or hindered their success in college. The second type of evidence-gathering involved an interview with a representative at the Office of the Dean at Maryland State University to ask his opinion about the utility of FEPA.
Evidence
The results of both the survey and the interview reflect some of…...
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The College of New Jersey. (2010, October 4). Student privacy rights for students, parents, and college officials. Retrieved April 7, 2012 from http://www.tcnj.edu/~recreg/policies/privacy
Daggett, L. (2008). FERPA in the twenty-first century: Failure to effectively regulate privacy for all students. 58 Catholic University Law Review 59.
Friedman, S. (2002). Andy's right to privacy in grading and the Falvo vs. Owasso Public
Schools Case. The Clearing House, 76(2), 62-65.
Coleman V. Maryland Court of Appeals
There has always been a fine balance between the Constitutional power of Congress and individual State rights. At the heart of the Constitutional Debate and even the Civil War was the question -- are states sovereign in their dealings with matters of government and culpability and to what degree does their sovereignty remain solvent. Congress has both Constitutional power and applied power, and is expected to evolve with the cultural situation of society to protect the constituency and enact fair and reasonable legislation.
One seminal question becomes whether Congress constitutionally abrogated the State's 11th Amendment immunity when it passed the self-care leave provision of the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act? This act required employers of over 50 individuals to allow for up to 12-weeks leave for varying circumstances of family need. Case law, for instance in Nevada v. Hibbs, held that Congress intended the FMLA…...
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Blatchford v. Native Village of Noatak, 89-1782 (U.S. Supreme Court 501 June 24, 1991).
Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland, 10-1016 (U.S. Supreme Court 566 March 20, 2012).
Nevada Department of Human Resources v. William Hibbs, 01-1368 (U.S. Supreme Court 538 May 27, 2003).
Family and Medical Leave Act. (2012). United States Department of Labor -- Wage and Hour Division. Retrieved from: http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/index.htm
colonial transplantation that occurred in Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts Bay. What were the major sources of friction between the Indians and the English in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay? Also explain the impact of the Glorious evolution on British rule and describe the policy of 'salutary neglect' and what it did for the government within the colonies. Be specific in your essay.
Colonial transplantation in Virginia, Maryland and the Massachusetts Bay
The colonization of Virginia, Maryland and the Massachusetts Bay represent crucial points on the history of the modern day United States. In the three regions, colonial transplantation processes were developed and these were characterized by distinctive elements. In both three regions, the colonization process was marked by a shortage of financial resources and the need to receive more money from London.
In Virginia for instance, the colonial transplantation effort had a grim start. Striving to protect themselves against the aboriginals, the colonists…...
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and borderlands
Chapter 3: Society and culture in provincial America
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If I were on the jury, I would work out the substantiality of the nature of the defect and the reasonableness of the number of attempts allowed by the consumer by following the guidelines of Maryland’s lemon law. As the Council of Better Business Bureaus (2009) shows, “the lemon law covers any defect or condition that is covered by the warranty, presently exists, and substantially impairs the use and market value of the motor vehicle to the consumer” (p. 1). Moreover, there is legal precedent for these parameters, set by Laing v. Volkswagen of America, Inc., 180 Md. App. 136 (2008), Zitterbart v. American Suzuki Motor Corp., 495 A.2d 372 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2008), and Evans v. General Motors Corp., 459 F.Supp. 2d 407 (D. Md. 2006).
In other words, to determine whether or not the nature of the defect is substantial, it should first be determined whether the defect…...
" (McCullough v. Maryland, 1819). Doherty's response to that statement is:
Ah well, the constitution is not a suicide pact, after all; nor is it a shopping list, a condominium agreement, or any number of other things. But it was meant to be a document that defined in a strictly limited way what government could do, and also to a significant degree how it could do it. (Doherty).
Obviously, Doherty recognizes that the Constitution is different than a mere law, but he is concerned that an overly liberal interpretation could give the Federal government too much power over the states and, ultimately, over the people. Such an argument is the prime reason that some people continue to question the doctrine of Federalism as outlined in the case, and why people debate the merits of the decision to this very day.
orks Cited
Atkins, Chris. "Important Tax Cases: McCullough v. Maryland and the Sovereign Power…...
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Atkins, Chris. "Important Tax Cases: McCullough v. Maryland and the Sovereign Power to Tax." Tax Policy Blog. 2005. Tax Foundation. 5 Oct. 2006 http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/1002.html .
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Look." ReasonOnline. 2006. Reason. 5 Oct. 2006 http://www.reason.com/links/links030906.shtml .
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Healthcare Data Compare Healthcare Grade of Maryland to Florida
Healthcare grades: The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund grades all states on access to healthcare, avoidable hospital use and costs, healthy lives, and prevention and treatment. For example, Pennsylvania ranks 12 on access: nearly
percent of nonelderly adult patients are insured and 92% of children. Florida has around 74% and Maryland around 83% of adults insured and 82 and 91% of children, approximately. In Pennsylvania, 86% of at-risk adults have had a checkup within two years versus 87 and 88% in Florida and Maryland respectively; 90% of patients in PA have not had to forego seeing a physician within the last two years because of cost versus 84% in Florida and 89% in Maryland (approximately). The low rates of insurance coverage in Florida reflect higher unemployment and poverty rates, combined with a higher percentage of workers who labor part-time and do not receive employer-provided…...
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State scorecard. (2011). Maps and Data. Retrieved September 26, 2011 at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Maps-and-Data/State-Data-Center/State-Scorecard.aspx
All figures are rounded up or down, based upon the available data
In "The Annapolis Report" -- a review of the 2010 legislative session -- the MPPI explains that due to the governor taking funds from the HUR all the counties' share and the Baltimore City share will be "significantly reduced" (MPPI). In fact the counties' share will "have been all but eliminated" the MPPI continues, quoting from an article in the ashington Post that asserts "…counties will have to contend with almost no 'highway user' revenue."
Moreover, through 2015, the Post is quoted suggesting that Maryland counties "will have to make due with less than 10% of the hundreds of millions they have typically received each year over the last two decades" (MPPI, p. 9). The actual dollar amount that the counties and Baltimore City will lose due to this dipping into funds by the governor is around $400 million, the MPPI explains.
Included in O'Malley's budget moves -- the legal term…...
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Fauf, David Saleh. (2011). I State Transportation Fund Being Raided? A Challenge to the
Rhetoric. Columbia Patch. Retrieved February 19, 2011, from http://columbia.patch.com .
Kilmer, Marc. (2010). O'Malley's big spending hurts Wicomico. The Maryland Public Policy
Institute. Retrieved February 18, 2011,
HOMELESS SOLUTIONS POGAM Outcome Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Marylands Homeless Solutions ProgramNAMEDEPATMENTINSTUCTO NAMEMarch 9th 2023Methods DescriptionThis an outcome-based evaluation seeking to assess Marylands Homeless Solutions Programs (HSP) effectiveness in realizing its intended objectives (Schalock, 2013). The HSPs concept map indicates that the program seeks to reduce the number of homeless people in the state, increase participants awareness about financial literacy, and increase participants access to mental health professionals. This evaluation pursues three objectives: to assess whether the HSP has effectively contributed to reduced homelessness in the state of Maryland, to determine whether participation in the program increases knowledge about financial literacy, and to determine whether participation results in improved mental health for participants. The variables of interest for the first objective are homelessness rates and the number of HSP program beneficiaries who have managed to secure and maintain stable housing. The variables of interest in objective two are knowledge…...
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Figure 1 portrays the state of Maryland, the location for the focus of this DR.
Figure 1: Map of Maryland, the State (Google Maps, 2009)
1.3 Study Structure
Organization of the Study
The following five chapters constitute the body of Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Review of the Literature
Chapter III: Methods and Results
Chapter IV: Chapter V: Conclusions, Recommendations, and Implications
Chapter I: Introduction
During Chapter I, the researcher presents this study's focus, as it relates to the background of the study's focus, the area of study, the four research questions, the significance of the study, and the research methodology the researcher utilized to complete this study.
Chapter II: Review of the Literature in Chapter II, the researcher explores information accessed from researched Web sites; articles; books; newspaper excerpts; etc., relevant to considerations of the disparity in access to health care services between rural and urban residence in Maryland and the impact of the lack of financial resources. The…...
mlaPotter, S. (2002) Doing Postgraduate Research. London: Sage.
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While people often lump the American colonies together, there were significant differences between the New England colonies, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies. These differences were not only geographical, but also based in who had the grants for the colonies, their favor in the British government, and who eventually settled in the lands. These differences initially impacted how successful the American colonies were and how prosperous they would become. They eventually impacted industrialization and, in many ways, could be cited as one of the root causes of the eventual American Civil War and even some of....
Impact of the Catch-Up Fridays Program on Reading Proficiency in Junior High Students
The Catch-Up Fridays program is an intervention program designed to improve reading proficiency among junior high school students who are below grade level. The program provides extra instructional time and support on Fridays, outside of regular school hours.
A number of studies have evaluated the impact of the Catch-Up Fridays program on reading proficiency. One study, conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found that students who participated in the program for one year showed significant gains in reading comprehension and vocabulary. The study also found that....
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People
Introduction
Harriet Tubman, a woman of unwavering courage and determination, stands tall as an iconic figure in the annals of American history. A former slave, she dedicated her life to guiding countless individuals to freedom through the perilous Underground Railroad during the tumultuous era of slavery in the United States. This essay aims to delve into the remarkable life and legacy of Harriet Tubman, examining her formidable spirit and profound impact on the abolitionist movement.
Early Life and Trials
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in the state of Maryland in approximately 1822. Her childhood was marked....
How Does Personal Reflection Enhance the Overall Impact of an Essay Conclusion? Introduction The conclusion of an essay serves as the final opportunity for the writer to leave a lasting impression on the reader. It is a chance to summarize the main points, offer a final thought or insight, and potentially inspire or persuade the audience. Personal reflection can play a pivotal role in enhancing the conclusion's effectiveness by adding a touch of authenticity, vulnerability, and depth to the writing. Authenticity and Credibility Personal reflection allows the writer to share their own experiences, perspectives, and emotions in relation to the topic at....
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