The company pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Huntsville Dec. 18, 2003 to nine felony violations of the Clean Water Act as a result of waste discharges into water at its McWane Cast Iron Pipe plant into Avondale Creek. It has agreed to pay a $4 million fine and also bear the cost of building Greenwood…
For example in 2014, in Huntsville, Alabama, the school thought it would be necessary to hire a retired FBI agent to keep the students and faculty safe because “the district received a tip about a social media post concerning a threat to a high school teacher, Ward said. The student…
protest getting so much publicity many may look at that and say that the publicity gained is amazing for Kaepernick's cause.While on the contrary, it has weakened both Kaepernick’s message and his impact. When examining President Trumps speech in Huntsville, Alabama there are many shared opinions, but the is a group targeted towards Kaepernick and his protest. Trump tells Americans that Kaepernick’s protest is used to disrespect the flag and viewer should turn off the TV and leave the stadium.…
Umpqua Community College, Santa Monica College, Oikos University, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Northern Illinois University, Virginia Tech, University of Arizona’s College of Nursing, University of Iowa, colleges since 1984 that were grounds for mass shootings. Harper Mercer, John Zawahri, L. Goh, Amy Bishop, Steven Kazmierczak, Robert S. Flores, Gang Lu, students and faculty that opened fire at those colleges. Mass shootings on college campuses are not fictional events, they are…
Salter). Also, both trials were heavily influenced by the nature and 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).…
Limitations within the Various Studies There are limitations within each study, especially when a topic has not been examined to the extent that other have. Much of the research that has been published is exploratory until further studies have been conducted. Exploratory research is important because it allows the researches to learn as much as they can about a particular topic to allow them to make hypotheses and allows them to set up their studies in a manner logical for the topic at hand.…
In 1977, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made known that fish and waterfowls from the waters in Huntsville Spring Branch showed high levels of DDT. This prompted the EPA to begin to investigate the effects of DDT in the water supply. Studies revealed that the pollutant came from Olin Corporation’s production of DDT on Redstone Arsenal. This prompted…
Don't say that he's hypocritical, Say rather that he's apolitical. Tom Lehrer – “Wernher von Braun” July 20, 1969, 10:56 p.m. Eastern Standard Time: Half a billion people watched with pride as an American airman from Ohio took the first step onto the moon. He and his two compatriots had traveled almost 400,000 kilometers through space––the culmination of two decades of research and 150 billion dollars. The American flag planted on the Moon proved a capstone moment in the space race. This…
From Space Race to Creating Space: Cold War Era Intersectionality of the American Civil Rights Movement. Ivanca Urecheanu (30102069) -. HTST 300 Dr.Ken MacMillan April 3, 2024 The Cold War era was characterized by intense geopolitical competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, crossing beyond political and military realms and extending into space exploration. This was a West versus East dogma disagreement, it went beyond the two superpowers and much of the world…
Imagine that day, all eyes on you in the courtroom. You have been through so much and you finally think you are going to be freed. Then you are told that you don’t even have a right to a trial because you aren’t a citizen. The anger you must feel to do so much and just be shut down like it was nothing. This is how Dred Scott must have felt when the Supreme Court ruled against him. Even though slavery was seen as an evil, The Dred Scott decision stated that no slave can be a citizen, they cannot…