Ferguson Enterprises

This included a modest dairy, an enterprise which occupied the childhood of his youngest daughter, Bessie. Her early childhood chores included bringing the cows in from the pasture for milking and gathering cow chips for fuel. Since she performed these tasks while barefoot, Bessie, in her…

In his famous dissent in Plessy v Ferguson, Justice John Harlan wrote that the law was "color blind." Recently, Harlan's phrase has found new currency among critics of government affirmative action programs that began to spring up in the 60s and 70s. May the government use racial classifications when it does so to benefit, not discriminate against, racial minorities that have historically been the victims of discrimination? The Supreme Court first considered that question in 1978, in the…

S. (2015). DoJ Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department. Docobo, J. (2005). Community Policing as the Primary Prevention Strategy for Homeland Security at the Local Enforcement Level. Homeland Security Affairs, Article 4, 1. Gaines, L. K., & Worrall, J. L. (2012). Police Administration…

Starbucks Organizational Diversity Diversity management in the workplace is a strategy to improve diversity and inclusion through policies, procedures, and programs (Cañas & Sondak, 2014). Starbucks is a corporation that sells coffee, tea, and food items within coffeehouses as well as in-store items. This paper will examine Starbucks Corporation’s diversity strategy and offer suggestions to improve the approach to increasing morale, revenue, and production. Background In 1971, Starbucks opened…

There is a widespread belief that NASA is struggling to maintain funding to accomplish its mission, but there might be hope through the political process within Washington that NASA will gain what is needed to press forward (Leahy, B., 2006). Consequently, what would it take to continue our planetary exploration agenda? The values behind the space exploration program in the United States is undermined due to the funding required to maintain the program with the public sector. The cause of this…

Booker T Washington was an astonishing individual who shaped the world in many ways, from his unorthodox views on racism and segregation to his focus on training and educating African Americans. Washington was born on April 5th, 1856, to a life of slavery in Virginia. His mother, a slave, worked as a cook for the plantation owner, James Burroughs, while his father was an unknown white man who was most likely from a nearby plantation. He grew up in a humble one-room log cabin, where as a child…

Throughout the vast majority of human history, governments have provided a multitude of services, protection and guidance to their citizens. These services have come at some sort of cost to citizens, while others are given (seemingly) freely. However, these services and protections have not always been available to all of a state’s citizens. Much has changed over the years in governments. Most of this change has happened in the last 100 or so years for the United States government. Women’s…

Slaughterhouse Cases In 1869, the Louisiana legislature passed down a law that formed and allowed control to the Crescent City Livestock Landing & Slaughterhouse Company to kill animals in the area of New Orleans. In order to trade for sole operating rights in New Orleans the Crescent City Company had to obey to several state conditions rulings, as well as, the facilities and product quality, production capacity, and the cost of livestock. There was also a set rate that was a prerequisite by…

The First Voyage Christopher Columbus was the first European to sail against the cultural winds and maneuver his ships west in an attempt to find a faster route to India. “I should not go by lands eastward, as had been customary, but I shall go by way of the west.” He relied on his experience as a sailor watching ships sail as a young boy sailed the Mediterranean Sea, he read books about about the sea and would make notations in the margins. He had a showed a passion for exploration early on…

The Importance of Cybersecurity for the Future December 25th, 2014, a DDoS attack lands on major companies Sony and Microsoft. The result? Their servers were shut down for time varied on ranging from twenty-four hours to a few weeks. A DDoS is a distributed denial of service attack, and it is illegal. These attack are meant to take down companies’ servers. All of this could have been prevented if these companies focused more on their security rather than their profits. The group responsible for…