Essays on Chavis

Undefeated is an inspiring movie about the football team of Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tennessee and how a special coach was able to turn their poor performance around through his transformational leadership. As a volunteer coach, Bill Courtney gave so much of himself to the team because he believed they could do much better. Not only did he build up their skills and changed their attitude for the better, but more importantly, he built their self-esteem, discipline, commitment, and character. The film takes the viewers to a journey of change in the characters from nonchalant boys who ...

Whether by force of stereotypical perception or the prevalence of such interpretation I the political discourse, people have always perceived racism through the prism of economic and legal mistreatment of black people. However, people can maltreat their own fellow countrymen with skin color other than white by disposing of hazardous toxic waste in immediate proximity to their area of residence. It is disturbing how Americans exploit their own endangering their physical wellbeing. Since coming to surface in the 1980s, the notion of environmental racism has not lost its relevance for what is now 3.5 decades. While some US locations ...

Executive Summary

Nike has been a world-class manufacturer of sports footwear and apparel for the past few decades. With immense marketing campaigns and celebrity endorsements, Nike has been able to establish a strong public image. With operations in more than 30 countries, Nike is truly a global operator. Most of these operations are concentrated in the developing countries – mainly Asia. However, the last few decades have seen a tarnishing of this giant’s reputation. Beginning with the labor practices issue in Nike’s Third world countries sweatshops to an inappropriately responding forecasting and ordering software, Nike has had its share of international problems all resulting ...

King Brothers and Lionel Tate

Background King Brothers and Lionel Tate: Lionel Tate, was convicted of the July 28, 1999 murder of 6 year old Tiffany Eunick who was punched, kicked, stomped, and thrown to death (See Wrestling, 2001). The injuries Tiffany suffered as a result of the beating included “a fractured skull, a lacerated liver, and more than 30 other injuries” (Wrestling, 2001). At the time of the incident Lionel Tate was 12 years old and weighed 170 pounds. As a result of his role in Ms. Eunick’s death, Lionel Tate was charged with first degree murder. A part of his defense, his attorney tried ...

Management

Introduction Family is one of the most important aspects of personal life. Happy life of a married couple creates a strong foundation for personal well-being of both partners as well as for health, social development and happiness of their children. With increasing rate of divorce in modern society, the most common misconception about marital conflicts is that existence of those conflicts in a family indicates unhealthy relationships. In fact, marital conflicts are present even in the best marriages. But outcomes of the conflicts vary; and every married couple has all the capabilities to learn how to deal with negative emotions and direct ...

The environmental justice movement in the United States was led by the civil rights churches which poured much of its resources and efforts into the environmental movement. This was as a result of the realization by the Church that environmental protection and justice were just but expressions of some of their social engagement. This movement was known as the religious environmental movement since the church was a central figure in the whole movement. Indeed, in recent times, theologians have developed the term” eco-justice” to mean or reflect a universal aspiration for the right relationship between man and earth. This has been so ...

- Introduction Whilst there have been many space missions – the majority either under the auspices of the National Science and Aeronautics Administration (NASA), or the European Space Agency (ESA) or the Russian Aviation and Space Agency – famously including manned landings on the moon (NASA), the most successful mission of all time in terms of space travel must surely be the creation, construction and the successful continued existence and operation of the international Space Station (ISS). A key purpose of the ISS has been to evaluate the effects on humans of lengthy exposure to conditions in space – an essential ...