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Sylvia Likens was 16 years old when she died on October 26, 1965. Her death was not just a fast painless death, it was long and torturous. Sylvia’s death could have been easily prevented and stopped many times. Many people knew what was going on in the house she was boarding in, yet they did nothing. This situation is a phenomenon known as Bystander Effect. Bystander Effect is when individuals that are involved in a situation do nothing to help the victim. To put it in simplest form, they stand…

States and the stopping of companies from outsourcing their product. This company in particular was a perfect problem for him to executive his plan of stopping outsourcing. The company, Carrier which is owned United Technologies and located in Indianapolis, Indiana, is responsible for the manufacturing of heating and air-conditioning equipment. In addition according to article “ Trump deal in Indiana saved 1,000 jobs — but can and should it be…

The 1920’s in American History was known as the Jazz Age. It was an influential period in which the United States experienced a major economic boom and changed many attributes of American life, including women’s roles, technology, entertainment, gang culture, African American roles, and politics. The decade preceding the 1920’s was politically charged as 4 amendments were passed, and many coalitions formed in the 1910’s. The decade proceeding the 1920’s was an economic downfall; inverse to the…

Salesforce.com is a website that provides services for businesses that can help businesses to conduct sales. Salesforce.com provides a very wide variety of services for businesses. “You can develop your own custom business processes. You can automate email campaigns. You can purchase or lease applications to do billing, or create your own automated billing fairly easily.” (Carothers 2014). This is a business that is very ahead of its time and is very unique. There is no other business that is…

Thomas Alva Edison possessed a tremendous amount of skills as an inventor and dedicated a great amount of time and efforts in his laboratory. Edison realized at a young age that creating and inventing intrigued him. He drafted a great amount of notebooks containing sketches, ideas, and explanations for his inventions. His ambitions and aspirations led Edison to own many companies and accumulate over 1,000 patents for his inventions. As an inventor, Thomas grew up with a mindset that he would…

Many people use the internet to play paid online gambling sites, while easy and fun it has many negatives to it. Addiction and theft are the most common causes of online gaming, but also hold many black market dealings. Stricter policies should be set on these sites such as a law that covers online casinos, the "European Union 's Third Anti-Money Laundering Directive" (Banks 120,) law could bet set on online gambling casinos to help stop money laundering, currently this law is only set in…

The only REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) in the S&P 100 Index is a self-administered and self-managed largest mall landlord in the United States. Simon Property Group, Inc (NYSE: SPG) established in Indianapolis, Indiana, during 1993 when the shopping center division of Melvin Simon & Associates became a publicly-traded company that owns, develops, manages, leases and acquires primarily regional malls and community shopping centers. With a market cap of $60.8 billion, they are more than…

A professional sports team would be beneficial to the city of Birmingham, Alabama. A professional sports team could boost the city’s tourism substantially and possibly grow its population. The team would need to be from one of the country’s 5 biggest sports: Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, or Hockey. There are reasons why Birmingham never had a professional sports team. The State of Alabama has always been dominated by the two college sports programs, Alabama and Auburn. These two…

Dance Marathon in 1991, after the loss of Ryan White; a young boy with aids (Ryan White). The lack of knowledge about his condition, inspired his fellow peers to start raising money for the pediatric research program at Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. Since then, countless college and high school students have stepped up in taking a role to change the lives of the sick youth and their local hospitals. These kids and young adults are activists fighting against pediatric illness. All…

Growing up in the big city of Indianapolis, Indiana seeing multiple people starving and on the search for food. Homeless men and women lounging around at the end of the highway ramps, in front of corner stores, or creeping around in back alleys begging for money to feed their families. It’s devastating knowing we have millionaires that's filthy rich over the dumbest things. Dumb things like making a phone application such as a tic-tac-toe game, therefore, they shouldn’t be rich. We have people…