Archive for November, 2008
Evolution of an individual is inevitable. However, the speed that this evolution takes place is completely dependent on the individuals who make up the race. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an advocate for evolutionary thinking, makes this point clear in his Divinity School Address. He makes his point by stating that there are laws that continually [...]
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Tags: 19th Century Literature, Divinty School, Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalism
Deparment of Early Learning
The Department of Early Learning (DEL) was created in 2006[1] as a means to combine all of the pre-kindergarten agencies in the State. It is the first of its kind, and therefore is deemed to be setting an example for the rest of the country. Statewide the DEL employs 180 people with satellite offices ranging [...]
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Tags: Bureaucracy, DEL, Department of Early Learning, Early Development, Gregoire
What’s up with DPS?
This is a paper I just finished up on the Department of Pipeline Security.
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The Department of Pipeline Safety (DPS), part of the Department of Transportation, is in charge of overseeing more than 2 million miles of underground pipeline in the US. Included in this total are 300,000 miles of natural gas pipeline, and 1.5 [...]
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Tags: Bureaucracy, Department of Pipeline Security, Disaster, DPS, Failure, Red Tape
I know that this is a little late in coming, seeing as Katrina hit in 2005, but I just had to say something. My first instinct was to say that Mr. Brown did an alright job for the position that he was in. I mean, FEMA wasn’t even independent at the time. When the Department [...]
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Tags: Brown, Bureaucracy, Disaster, FEMA, Katrina
