Essays on Railroad

1. Douglass’s main point stated that Independence Day cannot be considered a holiday as the problem of slavery has not yet been solved. This speech discovers the conflict between the slave mentality and human formation, between the state of mental, spiritual emptiness and longing for freedom. I agree with his speech because Douglas preached the idea of unity and indivisibility of the country, which is necessary for a true patriot and a loyal citizen. He believed that every citizen should be interested primarily in the development of the nation and the state as a whole which is incompatible ...

It is one of the ironies of history that the “old west” was actually the last area of the north American continent to be settled. By 1860, for example, San Francisco, California was a booming city of 56,802 persons making it the 15th largest city in the nation (San Francisco Population). Kansas City, meanwhile, had a population of 4,418 (U.S. Census Bureau). Denver, Colorado was already the “Queen City of the Plains” with a population of 4,749 (Population of Denver, CO). These three communities are important since Denver and Kansas City represent the western and eastern ...

I. Introduction A corporation is a common type of business organization in which its owners have the ability to use it as a separate, and distinct legal entity. One of the primary differences between a corporation and other types of business organizations, such as a sole proprietorship or general partnership, is that a duly formed corporation is, legally a person. Moreover, under the law, a corporation is a legal person who the owners, in essence, can control and direct to carry out a range of activities. To be sure, corporations are deemed to have a personality or personhood, including ...

Essay Questions

Essay Questions Q. 1 One of most successful and fastest growing railroad firms in North America, the Union Pacific Corporation’s activities and operations are affected by a host of social, demographic, technological, environmental, geographic, economic, and political or legal factors external to its business environment. The technological factors that are likely to affect the company’s future operations are advancements in railroad and transport technology in general. The company will need to its operations, systems, and processes to keep up with these technological changes, such as the CAD III which is a computer-aided dispatcher. The demographic factors that ...

Migratory History It is said that ethnic Chinese first appeared on the western shores of North America during the period of the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, which is about between 1521 to 1815. They had accepted commissions as being businessmen, sailors and fishermen on the Spanish galleons that traversed the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico (Brownstone, 2). Several numbers of ethnic Chinese were able to reach California as this state was still the territory of Mexico until 1848. Future expeditions to Vancouver by John Meares, a British fur trader, brought more Chinese into Vancouver around ...

Define and discuss time and space utility

Products must be transported from the place where they are produced to the place where customers demand it to be delivered. The value-add that the product gains due to its transport is called space utility. The time utility is the length of time before or between the product deliveries, which consists of mostly storage and inventory time. When the organizations are able to deliver the goods at a time they are needed, then their time utility increases.

What is the Total Cost Analysis and how does is affect logistics?

Total cost analysis provides the methodology for integration of logistics, manufacturing, and procuring costs across the network. This is done to achieve ...

St Louis and New Orleans were the furthest points in the West in 1860. San Francisco was not in existence, and the whole of the population was composed of native tribes that were cut out from active participation in the national economy. There was no transport system, and the farthest point of the railroad was in St Louis while the area between Chicago and San Francisco was largely untapped for economic activities like mining and agricultural production. There were more than forty native tribes, but their population did not cross the 100,000 mark. The population grew very fast ...

Industrialization after the Civil War

Industrialization after the Civil War

Part 1

Industrialization after the Civil War had both positive and negative effects on the U.S society, economy, and politics. Like in other countries that had experienced it, industrialization improved transport through the introduction of the railroad. Goods and people could now move from one place to another faster. Business communication was enhanced by the invention of the telephone. Business deals could now be discussed and closed faster using the telephone. Laws that targeted African Americans unfairly were adopted and were collectively termed as Jim Crow laws. These laws sought to subject African Americans to treatment ...

Many Americans today tend to believe that Chicago is among the top cities that have developed and used its territory wisely to create not only comfort for its residents but also amazing and great possibilities, with the new era of technology and architecture. Windy City, that is how Chicago is nicknamed, had extended its territory drastically, especially the territory of downtown. The city now is full of amazing glass skyscrapers which may be seen almost from all parts of the city. This amazing city annually welcomes millions of tourists, who come to see and discover the best Chicago attractions ...

The Civil War which lasted from 1861-1865 was caused by a number of factors. Most of the reasons for the Civil War were economic, political and social. The economic reasons for the Civil War were as follows. The economic disparities between the North and the South. The South had a plantation system that consisted of growing numerous crash crops including tobacco, indigo and cotton which were extremely profitable and depended on slave labor. The North’s economy was more industrialized which meant that it depended more on people working together rather than a class system. An economic-political reason for ...

Identify the three branches of Texas government and describe their functions.

Texas was admitted as the 28th State back on 29 December 1845. This was nine years after its secession from Mexico in 1836. The current constitution of Texas was adopted in the year 1876 (“Texas State Government at a Glance, n.d.”). As a result, the Texas’ government operates under its Constitution, which comprises a type of unitary democracy for its state government, one that uses the Dillon Rule in addition to governments both at the municipal and county levels (“Abbott, n.d.”). The Constitution of Texas divides the power of state movement into three specific departments namely the legislative, executive ...

Andrew Carnegie and the Making of US Steel

Background Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835, to his parents William and Margaret Carnegie. They moved to the United States of America in 1848, when Andrew was aged thirteen years. On arriving and settling in the Allegheny City, near Pittsburg, Andrew's father secured a job in a cotton factory, with Andrew playing the role of a bobbin boy in the same organization. One year after arriving in the United States, Andrew got a job with the Pittsburg Telegraph office as a messenger, a job he did very well, so well that he was promoted to the position ...

Anderson, J. “Letter from a Freedman to his Old Master,” New York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1865, p. 7. After the Civil War, numerous former slave owners tried to contact their slaves and convince them to return and work on the plantation as tenant farmers. In 1865, Jourdan Anderson received such invitation and decided to write a letter back to his former master where he explains the terms on which the ex-slave would return. At that time, Jourdan was residing in Ohio, working on a decent job, free and quite independent. Anderson writes a remarkable and brilliant letter, which ...

Six Key Team Behaviors

For the existence of any effective team at Union Railroad, there are certain behaviors that have to be exhibited by all participants in the project. These behaviors include; collaboration, adaptability, integrity, the ability to accept feedback, enthusiasm, and empathy. Collaboration refers to the ability to cooperate with other members of the group. Collaboration ensures that solutions to problems are easily arrived at since members join heads in trying to come up with solutions. Adaptability refers to the ability to respond positively to change within the team. Adaptable people easily adapt to the situations around them. Integrity refers to the ...

INTRODUCTION

Mongolia is located to the north of China and is said to host 10% of the world’s known coal reserves which is estimated to be equivalent to 162 billion tons. Coal export accounts for the largest chunk of total Mongolian gross domestic product (GDP) at roughly 22%. This is equal to approximately 80% of the county’s exports (Voroshilov 34). In the country, production and exportation of coal, specifically coking coal, is primarily undertaken by the Mongolian Mining Company (MMC). Coking coal refers to a type of coal that is absolutely essential to the process of steel production. ...

RAILWAY EXPANSION AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, 1860-1890

The late nineteenth century in America was marked with the progress of industrialization. During this time, the country experienced changes and developments that would have a lasting impact on various aspects of life as new industries began to produce an urban working class. One of the most important developments from this time was the railroad, which allowed for major expansion across the country. From 1860 to 1890, railroad networks were built across the United States, connecting the country from coast to coast in ways that had never been imagined before. The railroad was arguably the most important development that ...

Abstract

The slaves in the Southern part of US faced inhuman treatment where they were by law, the property of their owners. The slaves were subjected to harsh treatments including working for long hours in the fields while returning at night only to be met by meager food to fulfill their hunger needs. The husbands were taken from their wives with professional slave catchers tasked with tracking the runaway slaves and torturing those who were suspected to have the intentions of escaping. To be able to save the slaves and make them see the light of freedom, it was necessary ...

Ethical oil: Choose your poison

Oil from both the Canadian sand fields and from the Middle East is tainted one way or another. Oil from the Middle East is tainted in the essence that not only do these countries have poor human right standards, also some are known to be outright supporters of terrorist activities. Oil from the Canadian sand fields on the hand pollutes the environment and changes the ecosystem hence making climate change a reality in addition to destroying livelihoods that are dependent on the environment. From an ethical standpoint, these two are both unethical. As far as consumers are concerned, oil ...

The due process clause appears in the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution. The primary objective of this element of the United States constitutional framework is to protect the people from arbitrariness of the state in administration of its law enforcement functions. Yet, before the due process system took it present form, this concept underwent a series of evolutionary permutations, before the Supreme Court of the United States developed contemporary boundaries thereof. This essay investigates major historical milestones of its development. The first appearance of the due process appeared in Magna Carta, where the lawmakers expressly ...

Annotated Bibliography: African American History

Mayer, R. (2000). "Africa As an Alien Future": The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworlds. Amerikastudien / American Studies, 45(4), 555-566. Palmer, C. A. (1995). From Africa to the Americas: Ethnicity in the Early Black Communities of the Americas. Journal of World History, 6(2), 223-236. According to Ruth Mayer’s Africa as an Alien Future (2000), there remains a connection between the African Diaspora community and the motherland. In the author’s words, African culture remains evident even in contemporary works such as “literature, installation art, [and] pop music” in which the passages between Africa and ...

Nature in city; seed bank; ecosystem and social-urban development.

The terms “ecology” and environment” have different conceptual meanings which often overlap with the concept of “nature” in the context of academic and scientific research and analysis. For instance, ‘Natures and Ecologies’ studies explore the environmental dimensions of ecosystems which includes both physical parameters and biotic attributes of a particular region. The “environment "includes the physical world, the social world of human relations and the built world of human creation. [Ankers 2005] Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geology and wildlife. Nature can refer to the general realm of living plants and animals, ...

McKissack P C & Mckissac F (1995) “ The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa” and The Gale Group Inc (2003) “Middle Passage”. Dictionary of American History In the first article by the McKissacks, the authors illuminate important aspects of the African American heritage by introducing three main kingdoms of medieval Africa. Songhay, Mali and Ghana were the main countries. Based on contemporaneous accounts, folklore and modern scholarly research, the authors’ discussions covers the customs, people, political history and origins of these civilizations. The authors provide insightful information about the world history and also Africans particularly ...

Post U.S. – Mexican War through 1870s

After the Civil War, the situation in the United States was chaotic, as the time for radical changes had come. The goal of the Reconstruction (1865 – 1877) was to restore the society, although, it was a great challenge. First of all, the war ended with a significant human loss – “over 600,000 people” died during the Civil War (YouTube). Secondly, the largest slavery system was still present, and it was extremely difficult to put an end to the division of race, as the blacks were still considered to be slaves and the majority ...

When a person does a thing that can help many people, he or she is remembered even after he or she is dead. Many people like Harriet Tubman are always remembered for what they did when they were alive. To those who do not have a clue as to who Harriet Tubman was, she was a woman who faced many challenges from when she was a child to the point when she was an adult; however, she helped many people despite the challenges. Araminta Ross was the name that Tubman was given just after she was born. She was ...

In his narrative, Douglass recalls hearing his master state that he was seventeen in the year 1835. Consequently, that would make 1818 his approximate year of birth and Tuckahoe, Talbot County, in the State of Maryland his birthplace (Douglass 1). Subsequently, while informing readers that his mother’s name was Betsey Hailey, the man goes on to state his suspicions of having a white father. Apparently, while he never managed to discover whether rumors of his white master being his father were true, it remained evident that he was half Caucasian (Douglass 2). Now, the issue of Douglass’ parentage ...

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In the years 1807 -1912 people settled in the western areas of the United States, and all points in between the east coast and the Pacific Ocean. This period is known as the Westward Expansion. The expansion began on the east coast and continued to the Pacific Ocean, where the pioneers settled and began to colonize the areas in between. It seemed that the land was available to be claimed and thousands of natives were pushed off their ancestral lands to make way for the white settlers. Although white civilization had been established in the Eastern United States ...

History of Sleepy Hollow Sleepy Hollow, Hudson River village defies the passage of time and has managed to preserve both its history and natural beauty. The village is known for its fabulous legends and great history and has a wide range of outdoor adventures and activities for the locals and tourists.The Village of Sleepy Hollow belonged to the larger province of the Native American tribe, Weckquaesgeck Indians, who are described as a Mohican Tribe or a Delaware Tribe1. The Sleepy Hollow countryside is made famous by the author Washington Irving. The village is located in the lower Hudson River ...

Introduction

The real name of Harriet Tubman at birth was Araminta Ross. She was one of the eleven children of Benjamin and Harriet. She was “hired out” as a nurse of a small child by one of the masters. She used to stay awake throughout the night to ensure that the small baby did not cry and wake the mother. When Ross fell asleep, the master would whip her. The brutal suffering she went through since young made her determined to gain freedom. She is remembered as one of the conductors who freed many slaves through the "Underground Railroad." In ...

Antitrust Law: The Great Northern Railway

Introduction One of the wonders of the free market is that there are no restrictions when it comes to buying and selling products and services. However, this advantage comes at a cost as well. Due to total freedom, people and companies are theoretically free to impose whatever prices they dictate for the goods they sell, without regard to the welfare of their customers. This is exactly what happens in monopolies, wherein only one company holds the control of a certain commodity or service. Monopolies are usually seen as bad because they do not adhere to the laws of supply ...

The Name of the School

My Life as a Slave My name is Elijah Johnson and I was born a slave. I say I was born a slave because that was what became my identity for the first fifteen years of my life. It did not matter that I was a boy, a child, a brother or a son. I was looked upon as a slave and treated like one all through my formative years. I was born in the year 1850, on the 23rd of October. I know because like every other child born on the plantation my birth was recorded too. Even ...

Canada is known for its breathtaking landscapes and mountain views in the West. These views have been accessible to tourists, migrators, and businesspeople alike thanks to the introduction of railways across the country. During a time when people did not own cars and air travel was virtually nonexistent, railroad travel was revolutionary. This was the first time that people could freely travel across the country and explore the world outside of their home. Canadian nationalism has increased thanks to this railway, as the country is now united by train tracks from east to west. The Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) ...

Introduction

As the nineteenth century was ending, many of the noble men in America were not in politics but private business. The profitability and allure of money attracted most American individuals into the private economy. The industrial revolution had just hit the high gear. Ingenious and talented men opted for profits rather than politics. The growth of the American economy through the industrial revolution, however, carried a myriad of challenges as well as opportunities for the American people. For one, the Americans experienced an increasing demand for labor as the economy continued to boom. Consequently, unprecedented growth was realized in ...

The objective of this paper is to analyze and examine, through words, Ernest Hemingway’s style of writing. When it comes to analyzing a literature author’s writing style, the critic can pertain to a lot of things such as, but may not be limited to the choice of words, syntax and sentence structure, rhythm, point of view, emotion, rhetorical strategy, purpose, tone, and the use of figures of speech. Ernest Hemingway is one of the most remarkable American authors. In this paper, evidences from two of his most popular works namely the Hills like White Elephants and A ...

What is the most important thing you learned about the American west?

According to history, the American West has been accumulated by people of all races. However, their relationship has not been easy (Lamar, 1998). One of the major things that can be learned from the American West is that it was a crossroad for many cultures. After Christopher Columbus had discovered Americas, many European nations were able to enter the land. It is also claimed that the European settlers were building their communities based on their ethnicity and religion. History shows that the first African Americans to move to the West were cowboys, cooks, saloon workers, and farm hands (Deverell, ...

Annotated Bibliography

Douzart, A. (2012). The Changing Image of Abraham Lincoln Among African Americans. Quarterly Journal Of Ideology, 23, 2000(3 and 4), 5. This article argues that the views of African-Americans on Lincoln changed with the end of the civil war. This change resulted because the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The slaves saw the document as a symbol of hope and freedom for equality. The document indicated that individuals of color would no longer be enslaved people. However, despite the decree of Lincoln being celebrated by many black Americans, not everybody was grateful. For instance, the Newspaper from the ...

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Thomas Alva Edison is one of the most prolific American inventor and innovator of all time and he accomplished this feat despite the fact that he was not formally educated in science and technology. According to observers, Edison was able to secure more than 1,000 patents in his lifetime, which includes significant inventions such as the utilization of electricity for lighting, the camera, the motion picture, and the phonograph. Apart from his work, Edison’s personal life is also as remarkable as his inventions. Thomas Edison was of British and Dutch origin. His father being a ...

The Telegraph: Its Technical, Social, Cultural and Economic Impact in the Mid 19th Century Samuel Morse is credited with inventing the electromagnetic and chemical recording telegraph and a code of dots and dashes that became known as the Morse Code (Mayeux 301). In the middle of the nineteenth century, the telegraph changed American life dramatically. Most of the western United States was uncharted wilderness. Mail service was sporadic and uncertain. Packet ships took four to six weeks to bring news of world events. Electricity had not been incorporated into ...

White Americans expanded their settlements into the western part of America in the late 1800s ("How The Western United States Was Settled"). The West was special to the White Americans as it provided a land of opportunity for many of them. For instance, the West provided lots of land to the growing population of America (Ushistory.org). According to "The American West," the key opportunities in the West included farming, mining, ranching, and railroad construction. The picture below shows settlement in the West and unoccupied land at the back. The empty/unoccupied land is what attracted the White Americans to expand ...

Introduction

The struggle by employees to have better terms of engagement with the employer has characterized the American industrial history. It is the constant conflicts between these two parties that have made the Congress develop legislations to protect the interests of either party. Employees have formed unions that have ended up shaping the working environment in the nation. The American Congress, which is a representative of the people, has developed the labor act which helps arbitrate labor disputes. The labor act referred to as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) defines the minimum wages and the overtime pays. The act ...

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Political and economic situations have a great influence on the life of every person. America in the late 1800s was the country of great possibilities and people who were born in poverty were able to create their own business and become millionaires in a short time. After the Industrial Revolution, big businesses were getting bigger and large corporations made a heap of money, thus, business owners became very rich. Andrew Carnegie is one of those who managed to go the hard way from poverty to wealth. He was born in a very poor family and had to work since ...

Union Pacific Corporation

Union Pacific Corporation is an American holding organization with the leading subsidiary in railway industry, Union Pacific Railroad Company. Established in 1862, the company has occupied 168th position in Forbes 2000 ranking and 86th position in Forbes ranking of market value in 2015 with market capitalization of almost USD 94 billion. Additionally, the Railroad’s expanded operation mix consists of Agricultural Products, Automobile, Chemicals, Coal, Industrial Products and Intermodal (Forbes, 2015). Union Pacific Corporation’s major subsidiaries include Insight Network Logistics (automobile logistics amenities and technology distributor focusing on wide-ranging vehicle supply schemes), PS Technology, Inc. (company’s staff ...

Summary of the Paper

Dave Donaldson and Richard Hornbeck’s work entitled: “Railroads and American Economic Growth: A ‘Market Access’ Approach” reveals the historical impact of railroads on the American economy. The work relays the extent to which railroads impacted the market accessibility of various counties, especially in the late 19th Century. From the paper, it is evident that railroads had a major hand in determining whether or not a specific piece of land was valuable. The impact of railroads on every county has been captured through assessment of the changes in the county’s ‘market accesses. The ‘market Access’ of each county ...

The Second Sino-Japanese war was a conflict between the military forces of China and Japan which lasted 1937 to 1945, following the first Sino-Chinese war of 1895. It has been claimed by some historians that were it not for military and economic assistance or support from the allied forces and states of United States, Germany, and Britain, Japan would have won the war even before it began. However, this was not to be as Japan was forced to surrender after the US-led troops dropped atomic bombs one of its cities, Hiroshima in 1945. This second Sino-Japanese is considered to ...

The Gilded Age, the period in American History directly following the Civil War was a departure from other earlier periods in the young country’s history. Mark Twain in the book by the same name tries to make this abundantly clear, the new age was one that was driven not by military expansion nor for the need for land but for the need for investment and goods. TWealthy Eastern families and tycoons made their fortunes in the Gilded Age by joining in the spirit of the age which was a call to the great wide open frontier. The spirit ...

The first chapter of Leo Marx’s book ‘The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Idea in America’ is named Sleepy Hollow. This name is derived from one of Nathaniel’s Hawthorne’s writings whereby he describes a small space scooped out among the woods which is used for farming Indian corn and which according to Hawthorne “is like the lap of a bounteous Nature, filed with bread stuff”(Marx 12). Hawthorn observes various elements of nature and appreciates the ability of nature to provide a calm and serene environment to think and be imaginative. The nature ...

Industrialization after the Civil War

Industrialization after the Civil War Thesis: Immediately after the civil war, the US experienced a period of unprecedented growth, which affected the economy of the country, the people and the approach to politics. The country became connected through railroads, which opened up many areas. Cities were also established along the rail lines, and many people moved to the cities in search of jobs. Transportation facilitated smooth movement of goods and people. It also facilitated trade as finished products could be sold in distant markets. However, the gap between the rich and the poor continued to rise. Industrialists paid workers ...

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Abstract The following pages will discuss the reasons for the great migration of the black population to the northern United States, discussing the reasons, risks involved, long-term social and cultural impacts, and the impact on different aspects of American life. Although the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the majority of the African-American population in the United States continued to reside in the South through the early 1900s. The difficulty and the expense of travel left most of the population with little choice but to remain in the region that had just years before sought to keep them enslaved. ...

In 1854, Elizabeth Jennings was forcefully thrown out of a whites-only streetcar in New York (Anderson 28). The only reason for being ejected out of the horse-drawn streetcar was that she was black. At that time, segregation was common in the public transit systems of New York City. Black people had to travel in different public transport systems from white people. However, on that material day, Elizabeth Jennings remained adamant when the conductor ordered her out of the streetcar. With the help of a police officer, Jennings was evicted out of the car (Anderson 28). The most significant challenge ...

<Class Name> <Professor Name> <University Name> <Geographic Location> In the news article by Don Davis “Officials want better communication with railroads” there are two examples of ineffective communication found in this article. The first form of ineffective communication is with the physical capabilities of the railroads to communicate with public safety officials due to poor radio equipment. The second form of ineffective communication found in this article is with the safety message two U.S. senators are trying to communicate to the railroad company. In this article ineffective communication is hazardous to a community in Minnesota. ...

The West underwent through an era of prosperity after the Civil War. It is worth noting that the population growth in states, especially California led to tremendous consequences. Some of the key areas of focus include farming, living standards, western landscape, the growth of India reserves, subjugation of Indian people, as well as railroad constructions. On the same note, America was involved in the Pacific region in the late 19th century due to commerce. There is a relationship between the population increase, Civil war, and economic growth. In the general perspective, it is evident that after the Civil War ...

Need for a passenger railroad

There is a need for an inclusive passenger railroad in the US. This need is grounded on the need for a very high speed rail system. A passenger railroad will be required to accommodate the need for intercity transportation within the US. In addition, the need for urban transportation will be accommodated by the passenger railroad. The transit centers in the US will be crowded, hence the need for a passenger railroad (McMahon, 2012). Other transport modes such as highways and aviation are constrained in capacity, and they are starved of capital. Therefore, with expected business and population growth, there will be a ...

Introduction

Throughout history, Chinese people have been migrating to USA in search for greener passage. From 1826 to 1950, they were booking their passage on ships like occidental and oriental steamship company, and pacific mail Steamship Company to travel. The money that they required to fund their journey was mostly borrowed from family members, commercial lenders or district associations. The first Chinese people to arrive in Los Angeles were men, who specialized in manual work. Their work mainly included gardening, laundry, road builders or ranch work. The migration of Chinese people from china was localized and controlled through parts of ...

Some historians consider the industrialists of the late nineteenth century to be captains of industry while others argue they were robber barons. Be sure to discuss both sides of the argument when writing your paper.

Some historians consider industrialists of the late nineteenth century to be robber barons because many industrialists during this time were able to manipulate natural resources to their advantage, have unprecedented access to the government and destroy any competition in order to pave the way for monopolies. However, other historians consider industrialists of the nineteenth century to be captains of industry because the fortunes ...

Discrimination Lawsuit: Disparate Impact and Treatment

Unfortunately, discrimination can take place in the workplace affecting the employees. To try to prevent these occurrences, federal laws have been enacted that prohibit such behavior. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin; it prohibits both in disparate treatment and disparate impact. Disparate impact refers to rules, policies, and practices by an employer that appear to be neutral on their face, but have a disproportionate impact on members of a protected class. Disparate treatment, on the other hand, is intentional discrimination (See EEO). If someone is the victim ...

- Is Andrew Jackson a hero or villain? Gives examples or reasoning’s to support your answer. In my opinion I would label Andrew Jackson as a villain. First and foremost, after the battle of New Orleans, President Jackson was viewed by the majority of Americans as a “hero”. This didn’t last long however. The reason I see him as a villain is because he often acted as a king instead of President. President Jackson sought to eliminate the US bank, and eventually contributed to its down fall decades later. Jackson also sought political policy that would make the role of ...

The history of American economy has been a long battle since the time of the Gilded Age through the Progressive era and into the Great Crash or Depression of October 1929. During these years, from 1877 to 1929, class conflict was largely observed. The Gilded Age and the Great Crash were the notorious periods in which poverty and economic inequality skyrocketed reaching all-time highs in the American economy. The Gilded Age came at a time when there was widespread greed, corruption in the political systems, and speculative elements of the market. Of great interest is the absence of government restriction in ...

Around the World in Eighty Days is an early example of an adventure novel written by Jules Verne (1873). Although now best known for his science fiction, this adventure novel set at the time of its publishing was Verne’s most popular work during his lifetime (Lottman, 1995). This story glorifies the recent advances in transportation and brings the newly opened world, now made smaller and more assessable, to the attention of a popular readership. It is difficult in this time of globalization and instant ability to communicate anywhere in the world to try to perceive how adventuresome and amazing ...

1. a) The Second Industrial Revolution, which was also referred to as the Technological Revolution, occurred during the later decades in the 19th Century. This was the time where mass production and electrification was booming. During this time, the production line was also created, making factory work faster and more effective (Stearns,).

It was during this time that the countries involved in the revolution saw much economic growth, over a short period of time. The living standards of each country greatly improved, especially after the Civil War in the United States. Due to the increase in productivity, the price of certain ...

Just the same way as music plays a significant role in Native American culture, art has a very special place as well. Native Americans have traditionally used art as a way of expressing their culture for many years. Most of the art was created as a symbol such as eagle, bear, walrus, or people. On the other hand, the Victorian art depicts the cultural belief of the time about romance and beauty.

In native American art, basket weaving served as a very popular form of artwork that served two functions. Cornhusks and reeds were woven together to make complex baskets. The finished basket would ...

Why is the Renaissance considered the Age of Rebirth?

OR, if you are so inclined, watch this video and, combined with the material you read from the text, consider Machiavelli's Prince and tackle one of the following prompts.

1. Consider legality vs. morality as expressed by Machiavelli and any other ideologies present at the time, discuss how it is similar or different than political/legal practice today, and explore any legal issues/themes that strike your interests about it or related works.

2. Consider the impact that Machiavelli's theories and their practice might have and/or did have on the economic climate, explore the economic pros and cons of a ...