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Racial discrimination by police officers may have also affected the behavior of recent mass shooters. Shooters like Johnson, and also Gavin Long, the Baton Rouge police shooter, may have been affected by Black Lives Matter, a movement that seeks to right the wrongs against African Americans perpetrated by society as a whole. Having prior military experience, Johnson and Long decided to take the worst action…

The question of whether or not we should abandon Louisiana has been recently brought up due to the flooding in Baton Rouge killing at least 13 people and evacuating tens of thousands of people. This question has people on both sides of it that feel strongly either way. Louisiana has many reasons why it should and should not be abandoned. There are many people say that Louisiana should be abandoned. The storm should have never happened. According to the National Weather Service the chance of…

Who Is Kevin Gates? Kevin Gates is a Down- South rap artist born in New Orleans but raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to Kevin he grew up living with his grandmother because he was too much for his mother to handle. Kevin wasn’t the best kid growing up being in and out of jail since he was 13 but was still able to get his Masters in Psychology while incarcerated. Not like other rappers Kevin doesn’t consider his music rap but rather “Reality Music”. Dealing with different cases of…

I’m writing about the navigation lock in the Atchafalaya River. In 1977, Sidney A. Murray Jr., the mayor of Vidalia, questioned the use of hydroelectric power to help reduce rapidly escalating electricity rates. It ended up with the construction of the world’s largest prefabricated power plant structure. Construction of the 192-megawatt, $520-million power plant began in 1985. Earlier plans allowed the foundation and associated works to be built in the dry at the actual project site, just…

Unlike other hospitals, St. Jude does not have an emergency room. The majority of St. Jude’s funding comes from generous donors. It costs about $2.4 million per day to operate St. Jude. The public donations provide more than 75 percent of the necessary funds to operate the hospital. Mr. Thomas began raising money for the hospital in the early 1950s (St. Jude, 2017). By 1955, Mr. Thomas and the Memphis business leaders began local fundraising efforts. Mr. Thomas also wanted to get the word out…

Imagine being an African-American in the 1900’s, where the white citizens were treating their fellow black citizens with hate, and ignoring their problems because they thought they were superior to them. Envision yourself as a black student that can’t go to the same schools as the whites, share a water fountain, or even share a bathroom, and not even get the same rights/opportunities as the whites, this all because of the hate and ignorance from the white folks that believe they are superior.…

Gaillard, Frye. The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina 3rd ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. This mongraph is helpful because it discusses the battle of integration in Charlotte’s history. Gaillard begins her analysis in the 1950s when Charlotte chose to begin voluntary desegregation of its schools in 1957. However, like most “New South” cities, over the next decade it made extremely slow progression towards full…

testing positive for Cannabis. It was alleged that they placed the baby in a bag. The client a 27-year-old African American Female who lives with her boyfriend. The client reports having four children ages 10, 8, 5, and 2 months. The client is from Baton Rouge Louisiana and graduated from community college in 2012. The client reports that she is employed by REM services. The client denies any legal concerns. She denies any medical and mental concerns past or present. She denies any forms of…

Introduction 40% of the world’s population today or more than 3 billion people are internet users. ("How to manage crisis communications in a digital age - Baton Rouge Business Report", 2016) With that in mind, today’s business minds must adjust how they handle crises in the digital space. The internet has called significant shifts in traditional crisis management. Audiences now have instant access to information because of the internet. Stakeholders being inclusive of employees and individuals…

In this case the apparent theme of how important a home is shown here. The narrator talks about Kathy, “IN Baton Rouge, Kathy was again driving to kill time, her car full of children.” (Eggers 105) At this point of the book Kathy is missing home, and this shows how important a home is. Although Kathy stays with her relatives at the time it is not the same as being…