Chattanooga

There were many issues going on in the Komatsu organization. However, the main disputes include changes in leadership, a slow domestic market, global issues, and focusing too heavily on one competitor. Komatsu had 4 different CEO’s (Kawai, Nogawa, Tanaka, and Katada), in a span about 30 years because the changes that occurred in Komatsu and that they wanted to expand globally. Each CEO had his own strengths and weaknesses, but not all proved to be able to handle the problems inherited from the…

equipped to care for the health of others (Hagran & Fakharany, 2015). This implies that when people are able, they care for themselves and when people are unable to care for themselves, the nurse provides the needed care (University of Tennessee in Chattanooga [UTC],…

“Negro dogs” were scent dogs of various breeds. Usually they were trained specifically for pursuing escaped slaves. For some slaveholders, this training included having enslaved people simulate escape so they could be pursued by the dogs. Sometimes however the same animals were also used for fox chases. Slave catchers were often proud of the prowess of their dogs. They advertised the speed in which their animals could retrieve a runaway in local papers. Due to the level of training, a good…

This morning, an airman on Lackland Air Force Base (AFB) just outside San Antonio, Texas shot and killed his squadron commander, then killed himself. At this time, it is unclear on the reasons for the incident. But it once again brings up the question, should military personal be allowed to be armed at all times to protect themselves? The active shooter incident on Lackland marks the 10th fatal shooting on a U.S. military installation in the U.S. since 2001. Of the 10, 3 have been confirmed…

scale of the Great Depression for that particular time period in which the trials take place. For example, the two women in the Scottsboro case were hoboing on a train “returning to Huntsville from unsuccessful job searches in the cotton mills of Chattanooga” and to avoid “vagrancy and morality charges” for participating in a fight that occurred on the train, they “falsely accused the nine black men [of rape]” (Linder, Salter). This parallels the situation in which Tom Robinson found himself in,…

CARTOONS: AN ARGUMENT WITHOUT WORDS Rhetorical pieces convey powerful and persuasive messages in various textual or visual mediums. Two cartoons in “Marking A Visual Argument: Cartoons and Stereotypes” portray strong stances about social injustices. In the work by Barry Deutsch, a woman on the street sees an opportunity for a great job, but can only enter the building if she is a man, demonstrating the lack of equal opportunity in the workplace. Meanwhile, the cartoon by Clay Bennett…

want to go back to school. I do not remember the summers from elementary school very well. I do know that every year since the third grade I go to my grandmother’s house in Tennessee for at least a week. When my grandmother remarried she moved to Chattanooga Tennessee to live with my Grandpa Jerry. Grandpa Jerry’s property has many acres on it. The have a nice small house in the middle of a wooded area, so there was a lot of room to go and play. When I am there I sometimes help with work around…

tries at one point or another in their lives, but in this city, at my school, just about everyone was a heavy smoker, both cigs and weed, and we were all only fifteen to eighteen years of age, this is not okay. You should know, I’m from the city of Chattanooga, yes the one with the fastest Internet in the world, a city that also has a very high violent crime rate and drug use per citizen. You can find almost anything in my city from weed to meth and everything in between, something that isn’t…

Nearly all teens say they do not want to get pregnant, but most of them have never really thought about how getting pregnant or getting someone else pregnant would affect their lives (“About Us” 1). In 2009, MTV aired the documentary television show titled 16 and Pregnant for the first time. The show is about an hour long and focuses on the controversial subject of teen pregnancy. Each episode outlines a different teenage girl’s life in which they are faced with incredibly adult decisions…

A skinny church boy on the outside but, a brave soldier on the inside, Desmond encouraged people to stay true to what they believed in and do what was right. Among his fellow soldiers most of them called him a coward and didn’t believe he would be any help on the battlefield. Much their surprise in the future, he would save more than half of their lives. Doss’s childhood helped him become who he was and helped him through his time in the army and after. This fearless soldier was born on…