John Pappajohn was born July 31, 1928 in St. Luke's
Greece to George and Maria Pappajohn. His father was a U.S. citizen and thus he is a U.S. citizen by birthright. He immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 9 months with his mother and they joined his father in
Mason City. Iowa.
In 1961, he married Mary L. Limberis of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the two of them have a daughter, Ann Pappajohn, who resides in New York.
Mr. Pappajohn attended Mason City public schools and then attended the
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, and received a bachelor's degree in business in 1952.
Upon graduation from college, he started his own insurance business. In
1962, he moved to Des Moines and organized the Guardsman Life
Insurance Company. He was Chairman of the Board of Guardsman
Insurance from 1962 to 1969, at which time he sold his interest and dedicated himself full time to venture capital investments.
He organized Equity Dynamics Inc. in 1969 and continues as its President today. He also organized Pappajohn Capital Resources (a venture capital fund) in 1969. Pappajohn Capital Resources is well known on Wall Street as a venture capital fund primarily investing in high tech, medical and healthcare projects. He has over 35 portfolio companies in his fund and has averaged over 68% annual return on investments for over 25 years.
At the present time, he serves as director on the following company Boards:
Radiologix, Inc., Dallas, TX
PACE Health Systems Inc., Des Moines, IA
Allion Healthcare, Inc., Huntington Station, NY
Logisticare, Atlanta, GA
Patient Infosystems, Inc., Rochester, NY
MC Informatics, Inc., Irvine, CA.
He has served as director in over 40 public companies and also serves as a director for many private companies.
He is a member of many professional organizations including The Society of
Financial Analysts, Association for Corporate Growth, National Association of Corporate Directors and the Association for Investment Management and
Research.
He was a Horatio Alger Award recipient in 1995 and serves as a member of the Board of Directors and on the Executive Committee for the Horatio
Alger Association. He also is on the Board of Trustees for Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece, the University of Iowa Foundation Board of
Trustees, Iowa City, IA., and formerly a Trustee for Pine Manor College,
Chestnut Hill, MA. He was named Iowa Business Leader of the Year in
1992 and was inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame in 1996. He served as a member of the Advisory Board for the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. He was initially appointed by
President Ronald Reagan and re-appointed by President George Bush.
Joseph P. Reilly filed a complaint against Gwynne G. Zisko, Esq., on or about April 8, 2016. Reilly asserts that Zisko violated the Rules of Professional Conduct by serving a subpoena on his employer, the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department. The details of the case relating to the subpoena will be discussed further on in this report. Within the complaint, Reilly alleges that Zisko has violated Mass.R.Prof.C. 3.4, as well as 4.4.
In the year 1957, Canada elected its first Prime minister without English or French root, John Diefenbaker. While growing up in the city of Toronto, because of his German name, he was often teased. [1] He grew up as an outcast, and so he was able to relate to the discrimination and inequality many of the minorities in Canada felt. This essay will attempt to answer the question: To what extent did Prime Minister John Diefenbaker help promote equality to the minority communities. . The minorities in this time period were the women, aboriginals, and immigrants. During his time as the Prime Minister, he was able to help protect the rights of this group because many of their rights were being abused by the society. Diefenbaker also helped the minorities to stand up for themselves and other groups. Diefenbaker was able to bring positive change to the minority communities by making an official Bill of Rights and appointing people of discriminated groups to the parliament while other members did not.
John Wade “.It wasn’t just the war that made him what he was. That’s too easy to do. It was everything – his whole nature.” – Eleanor K. Wade. IS THIS AN ADEQUATE EXPLANATION FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO JOHN WADE? John Wade left America a human being, yet came back a human killer.
It was clear to the people of Rome that the concerns of the common man were now of little importance to the aristocrats that held positions in government. Additionally, new policies paid the army with gold and land instead of it being a public service for the good of the Roman Republic leading soldiers to be more loyal to the generals than the republic itself. Julius Caesar, a successful military leader, utilized the control he had over his soldiers to rise to prominence in Roman politics in 78-60 BCE. Caesar joined the 1st triumvirate, a mutual split of power between himself, Pompey, and Crassus for control of Rome, but after the death of Crassus and the defeat of Pompey in Northern Italy was the only remaining leader. Caesar then focused on social and economic reforms that addressed the class inequality that resulted from the aftermath of the Gracchi brothers, subsequently making him very popular with the commoners. Caesar most likely saw his popularity as an advantage, knowing that having the people of Rome on his side would make it much more difficult for him to be stripped of his title. Unfortunately, popularity would prove not to be enough to keep Caesar in office. Because Caesar’s initiative was focused around the concerns of the common man, some of Caesar’s senate did not approve of the way he was utilizing his power. In 44 BCE, Julius Caesar would be stabbed to death while in a senate meeting. Upon hearing that Caesar had fallen to the aristocrats, his followers, mostly commoners, were enraged and caused the Roman Republic to go into a state of disarray once
“His birth marked the beginning of a new chapter in roman history”. By 31, Caesar had fought in several wars and become heavily involved in politics; being appointed dictator and consul on multiple occasions (Biography.com, 2014). It was Caesar’s assassination and following events that ultimately brought an ...
How Reality TV affects the audience and the characters who were participating into it? Does it really give knowledge to people who were watching and supporting? Or is it just the sake of money and exposing their appearance on television? When it comes to watching television, people at home can choose which types of program they want to want for many reasons. Some people look to television for inspiration; others want to be kept informed about their surroundings and the world. In the article entitled, “Reality TV and Culture” by Jack Perry, he argues, there are some good points to how reality television are formed and offered. Perry explains that, not all of the shows are designed to encourage and promote dangerous and unrealistic. However,
The fall of the Roman Republic was an event that forever changed the face of the Roman world. It ushered in a new age of dictatorship. Men like Cicero did not want people such as Caesar to become dictators. His letters record the events of the day and his opinions of what was happening, and his thoughts on the events of that era. Cicero felt that the Republic fell because of Caesar’s lust for power, and it was his obligation as a Roman to do his best to challenge his ideas on changing the Republic into dictatorship. He worked diligently until his death to exact change in Rome.
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Julius Caesar was a great dictator and will always remain in the hearts of the people of Rome. His greatest skill was as a military commander. He conquered many lands and made many new reforms that benefitted many people. He changed many people’s lives. He became corrupt because of his own power and because of the jealousy amongst other senators. Caesar made plenty of mistakes, both as a commander and politician, but he at least admitted to himself that he had been wrong. Then, he recovered from setbacks and learned how to adapt in a new situation and somehow win in the long run. Despite his brutal death on the Ides of March, Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman ever to have lived.
There was a man called called Julius Caesar . He was the dictator of the roman people . But he was murdered by many of the senators, many who were his friends. What led to julius Ceasar death was the result of a conspiracy by many of the senators. Led by Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius, and Marcus Junius, they planned and successfully stabbed Julius Caesar to death in the location adjacent to the theatre of pompey on the ides of march. At that time he was the dictator of the roman republic, having been recently declared dictator perpetuo by the senate. This declaration made several senators fear that Julius had wanted to overthrow the senate in favor of tyranny. Which led to the assassination of the emperor. The conspirators were unable to restore the roman republic. The ramification led to the liberators civil war and, ultimately, to the principate the period of the roman empire.
Whether we watch a group of people live together in a house (big brother), or watch them build the house (the Block), reality television exposes that little peeping tom in all of us. Reality TV satisfies that instinct of prying into the personal affairs of others, and the reality of reality television is that as humans we enjoy this. Reality TV is not much different from normal programs, like any program, reality television has the essentials, it has a mix of characters, it puts those characters in situation, and the result is usually a failure or success. But the catch of reality television is that the characters are real people, the story is not scripted, and with any failure or successes comes emotion. But does this reality TV revolution present the viewers with real life? Or does it present what the TV producers want the viewers to see?
The Roman republic was an eminent system esteemed by most! The ideologies of the Roman republic were implemented into various governments around the world for it valued the opinion of the people. Yet, the Roman republic soon lost it’s importance when political, economic, and social issues arose; when the people of Rome prioritized greed and vanity over the values the Roman republic had established such as, being assiduous, dedicated to one’s responsibilities, and simplicity.
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Totalitarianism is when the government seeks to have control over all facets of human life such as what is seen in North Korea in present times. Orwell is against the idea of totalitarianism as it oppresses the lower classes and is oppressing the individuals for the needs of the state. This totalitarianism is what builds the Soviet Union scheme by lessening the working class and maximizing the “mind workers” power. The “mind workers” are the pig and they represent to core of the Soviet Union and more educated of the animal farm. Orwell first created the idea to criticize all acts of totalitarianism, as he believes in freedom for the working class. Since the working class did not have the power to step up against the revolution this idea worked as a governmental approach for many years and is still adopted in many parts of the world to control the public opinion and keep them