For a Few Dollars More

In lecture, Dr. Schweingruber defined meritocracy as a social system where success is earned. The more effort you exert, the more you are rewarded from your actions. While this is a factor that could influence one to reach their goals, it is not the only path to success. Dr. Shweingruber identified a few traditional ways that one may reach success which included having good moral, a can-do attitude, and determination. The combination of these enabled me to reward myself just recently. One…

sales, luring spectator’s into the stands or whatever it may be. On the other side of the story, many of these big named athletes are on full scholarship for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Does this count as a form of compensation to the athletes? Some agree and say yes, but some say no, claiming the athletes deserve more than credited for. In large colleges, big named athletes are often exploited with intent…

The Mardi Grass Video demonstrated two different cultures know so little about each other. In the first part of the video, it demonstrated how the simple colored beaded necklace that we can easily find at a local Dollar Store, are being used as a reword after individuals physically exposed themselves to the public. When random individuals were asked, where the beads came from and who made the bead they had no idea and I also had no idea or had never really thought about it. The film then takes…

blame him for having to struggle like we did. My dad did the best he could scarcely he had enough money for rent and Shurfine brand food for the month. Not to mention the money he had to save so I could wrestle, which he probably spent at least $600 dollars a year on.…

like a burden or a painful reminder that they must share their income with the government it is in many ways an act of understanding the idea of common good. Taxes pay for our roads, they pay for our schools, they pay for our health care and so much more, these are all areas that help to enrich us as…

mirandized a few hours after he was arrested. These are a few exceptions to Miranda rights. While many people today believe that anytime a law enforcement officer talk to they must invoke the Miranda rights, but this is just a short list of a few exceptions to what some of the people of society believe. An abundant deal of people believe they are not obliged to talk to a police officer at all or show requested document such as name, date of birth, age, gender,…

increased substantially. Robber Barons were known as businessmen who robbed people of their money. People such as Andrew Carnegie, who was very successful in the steel industry and John Rockefeller who came up with the Standard Oil Company are just a few examples. Andrew Carnegie wrote the “Gospel of Wealth” which justified the methods of their management. Although some of their methods were questionable, “Robber Baron” is not an appropriate label for the industrialists who dominated American…

abused his power and did not respond well to critique. Before his death Huey Long worked on a tax reform in Louisiana. In this time America was in the Great depression where one dollar is equal to twelve dollars today. This helped families lower taxes. According to http://www.hueylong.com “By 1936, the average family saved more than $425 a year in living expenses (or $5,100 today)” (Huey Long’s Programs). Thats a lot of money they could spend on other things like food. This made it much easier…

the community interested in the game and to bring in more for the company to put into their next series of games (The Elder). People were astonished that they would make a game that lets the user break all sorts of laws that the user would not do outside the game. Grand Theft Auto was released in 1997 and has been rising in popularity ever since. Lately, Grand Theft Auto 5 was released on September 17th 2013. It brought in over a billion dollars in the first 3 days (Grand). It takes a lot of…

in the 1920s from the Houston Oil Company. InterNorth began in 1930 as Northern Natural Gas Company in Omaha, Nebraska. InterNorth was one of the nations premier pipeline networks and bought out Houston Natural Gas in May of 1985 for 2.4 billion dollars. The New company name was know as HNG-InterNorth with a new CEO named Kenneth Lay who then renamed the business to Enron. Enron was now the second largest natural gas and electricity company in the United States; which stretched over 36000…