Baton Rouge

Cane’s Chicken Fingers. The restaurant offer many meals but chicken meals are their main food. Todd Graves, who is the C.E.O of the restaurant and Craig Silvey who was Todd’s partner founded the restaurant in 1996. The restaurant was founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which was the location for the first restaurant. Today, Raising Cane’s can be found in over 250 locations in the United States and other countries. The restaurant’s main…

Although Baton Rouge’s population is relatively less than Atlanta’s and significantly less than Houston, Baton Rouge face a lot of the same issues these two cities face when it comes to their pedestrian bicycle systems. Walkscore.com does not have a transit score for Baton Rouge’s but I believe it would fall in the same high 30’s to high 40’s category. I attended Louisiana State University…

agency or association determined by the Secretary of Education. Southern University is a system and it is the only HBCU system with 5 different systems. The first system is what everyone knows as the original Southern University, that's located in Baton Rouge, and it is a 4-year university. The second system is actually the Southern University located in New Orleans Louisiana. The third system is Southern University located in Shreveport and this one is a 2-year college. The fourth system is the…

Ever since the beginning of our nation, we have found a way to bounce back from our government’s perpetual mistakes. There have been many cases of civil disobedience in which people have stood up to fight for what they believe in - not a physical fight, but a mental one. Peacefully resisting a law benefits and positively impacts a free society. People such as Henry Thoreau and Rosa Parks are common examples of civil disobedience. A modern day example of civil disobedience could be a protest walk…

having the desire to want to help people in a special type of way. Then, I quickly realized that I was not quite ready for graduate school. I wanted to do something more, something that was not about me – so I did. I spent two years after college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana participating in National Service. I served…

Growing up a Caucasian, upper middle-class child in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I remember experiencing a sense of perplexity every time I visited my neighborhood grocery store. While one side of the store served a demographic population similar to my own, the other side catered to the low-income, predominately African American population located in the adjacent neighborhood. My grocery store represented the diversity of my city, causing me to question why such diversity did not exist in my…

The Horse Soldiers The movie is set during the American civil war. The fight was not going well for the northern as the southern had inflicted a heavy loss on them. To avert further losses, the railway engineer Colonel Marlowe comes up with a plan. This plan was to avoid fighting until they arrived in a new town station which would translate to an average of 35 miles a day. Later on, a military doctor by the name Major Henry Kendal shows up. He appears to be torn between performing his duty…

Republicans supported most of FDR’s New Deal programs except the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the National Recovery Administration. The AAA basically gave the government the authority to dictate what farmers could grow or raise in order to balance supply and demand. By the end, the Supreme Court did away with it, but Roosevelt reinvented it and Congress passed it again in which it is still used today. The NRA controlled the prices and wages of the industry, but the Court ruled it…

Our Lady of the Lake College is a Catholic institution that was created in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, who firmly believed that all of creation spoke volumes of God’s love for us. St. Francis was raised in a fairly wealthy family, and it was not until he was captured at battle for two years, that he decided to embark on the glorious journey of knowing Jesus Christ. He began preaching to word of God, and embraced others that were not of his kind. Students who attend Our Lady of the Lake…

As a healthcare leader I have learned to appreciate the peaceful, yet nerve-racking moments of making the right decision for others. As Teri Fontenot, president and CEO of Baton Rouge, La.-based Woman's Hospital says, “The essence of leadership is having the ability to alter what people think is possible, convince them that effort would be worth it and show them how it was their idea all along”( Gamble, 2015). In my days of college, I can only imagine the difficultness as a healthcare leader;…