Fortune 500

all around. A unique case that involved a rich man, his driver, and his lawyer. The question in fact was, did Mr. William Rice get murdered by his driver or was he instructed to do so by a lawyer. William M. Rice was a very rich man that lived on 500 Madison Avenue, New York City. He had an estate of seven million dollars. He was widowed and childless and died at the age of 84 in his Berkshire apartment. He was in the apartment alone with his driver, Charles F. Jones, whom was also his…

The DOJ issued a warning stating that: “Among children and teens living on the streets in the United States, involvement in commercial sex activity is a problem of epidemic proportion” and claiming that “Child sexual exploitation is the most hidden form of child abuse in the U.S. today.” Yet, it is an epidemic that has gone largely overlooked and untreated. The truth is, there is no way to be sure how many are forced into prostitution every year here in America. The estimated figure is that…

Cocoa Child Labor in Ghana In Ghana, African-American children, ages five to seventeen, are in poverty because cocoa is a cash crop so human traffickers need slaves to harvest and plant it. As a result, the human traffickers easily manipulate the children of Ghana to work for them is because they are in severe poverty and they start working at a young age to try to support their family. On the other hand, other children are ¨sold¨ to the human traffickers by their own relatives because they…

Society has mastered the art of masking social issues. With female presidential candidates, entrepreneurs, and moguls surfacing in the media, many believe that women have already gained equal opportunities and are no longer subjects to sexual discrimination. However, sexism is deeply embedded within society incessantly restricting females as opposed to eradicating the stipulation that is the glass ceiling. Sexism is ingrained in all aspects of humanity, including the workforce creating a…

Introduction My goal over the course of my four years at Butler University is to grow and learn as much as I can. This semester will be one where I hope to grow the most. I will be working nearly 30 hours a week while taking 12 credit hours and trying to maintain a high grade point average. This will only prepare me for the future ahead where I am short on time but need to meet the deadline. I am excited about how much I can learn and grow throughout my time at the Butler Business…

Katarzyna Zdrojewska, FLN5_IB, index no. gd22943 1 Glencore plc is an Anglo–Swiss multinational company. It was established in 1975 under the name of Marc Rich & Co. in Switzerland. In 1994 company has been rebranded into Glencore. In 2012 Glencore acquired Xstrata, a large british company, thereby making the biggest takeover that took place in mining industry. Less than two years after the merger Glencore have announced that the Xstrata brand will be phased out. Currently the company is…

Be Aware Introduction ‘In a hundred years [...] women will have ceased to be the protected sex. Logically they will take part in all the activities and exertions that were denied them.’ Virginia Woolf wrote this in 1929. Almost a hundred years have passed so the time has come to ask ourselves: Is Virginia Woolf going to be right? Do women now participate in every area of society that was once forbidden ground? A few weeks ago the headlines in the Dutch papers shouted that ‘we’ had failed to…

For instance, in recent years, results of several studies display that a majority of authoritative figures at companies are males. In fact, one of the studies showed that “A mere 4.2 percent of chief executive officers at Fortune 500 companies are women” (Waber). Almost 96 percent of America’s most elite establishments are managed by men (Waber). This means there are fewer opportunities in the nation for ladies to claim high-ranking positions. Many believe successful corporations…

In Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre, her unexamined, culturally conditioned definitions of ‘success’ and ‘happiness’; shape the narrative through their contradicting definitions. According to Bronte, women have the same capacity for success and Independence as men. However, her subconscious cultural belief that a woman’s success is to be married is a contradiction of her first definition of success. This results in a struggle between these two beliefs in Jane Eyre. Furthermore, the culture…

Having an internship at a fortune 500 company has defiantly prepared me for the professional world and I am grateful to come out of school with knowledge of the business world. I feel that this experience gave me the confidence and determination to succeed in any job I have coming out…