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The methodology selected for this article involves a collective case study of hyper-segregated public elementary schools in Connecticut from 2010-2014. The cases selected for analysis consist of 131 elementary schools identified as hyper-segregated using the Sheff Standard. The Sheff Standard considers a school hyper-segregated if less than 10% or more than 90% of a school’s student body are Minority. For the purpose of this research, the 131 elementary schools identified using the Sheff…

The time period was the early 17th century. A group of people traveled on a ship to the New World. They all came over looking for a new way of life and religious freedom. Religion is what drove them all out of England to North America. The all left England to escape religious persecution. Massachusetts back in the early 1600’s wasn’t like it is today. It wasn’t a small state that had a land area of approximately 10,000 square miles. It stretched across most of the north eastern part of the…

Phineas Taylor Barnum was Born on July 5, 1810, in Bethel, Connecticut and was a natural salesman, peddling lottery tickets and Cherry rum to Soldiers as a young boy around the age of 12. As a young man Barnum moved to New York City and got into a variety of businesses including newspaper publishing and running a boarding house and much more.. Barnum hated working with his hands so instead he made his fortune using his mind and using the gullibility of the public in his favor by almost tricking…

In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a novel written by Mark Twain, the issue of slavery is extremely prevalent. Twain correlates the sixth century and nineteenth century through the idea of slavery. Hank Morgan, the protagonist of the novel, romantically travels back in time and perceives that people of lower class, especially those without a title, were treated horribly. Hank attempts to resolve the idea of slavery in the sixth century by bringing King Arthur on a journey as a…

The American Revolution was caused by much more than the simple concept of no taxation without representation; its roots can be found dozens of years prior, in 1763 and the years that followed, as well as back to the early history of colonial North America. Two authors and historians, Colin Calloway, who wrote The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, and Eric Foner, who authored Give Me Liberty! an American History, offer two comprehensive viewpoints into the origins…

Allocation of the state’s resources has shown a concentration in the city schools as a result of the influx of need required from the staff and students. In the Connecticut Constitution, the amendments guarantee citizens to their right to an equal education free of segregation. For the defendants, they presented an argument focused primarily on the interpretation of the Federal Constitution. Justice Peters’ ruled in favor of the plaintiffs due to the inability for the principles of the Federal…

To form a more perfect union, “We the People” need to fight to restrain the size of the government to prevent encroachment on the rights of individuals and families by an unrestrained and massive centralized governance system. This great nation found its beginnings in separating from the excessively powerful and abusively controlling government of Great Britain, proving that a big government society is destined to fail. The 13 colonies, starting in 1607, when Jamestown was founded in Virginia,…

In this response, I will be talking about the argument of Christoffer Guldbrandsen in his documentary Stealing Africa. Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s intention of this film was to show the world of Zambia’s extinct copper mining tax return. He is informing us that Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, which owns Mopani Copper Mines, is cheating the government of Zambia and not supplying that country with the tax funds they rightfully deserve. Zambia is known to have the third largest copper reserve in…

family-operated farms and business economy was dependent upon small farmers and merchants. Families provided most labor on their farms and in their businesses; they would sell any surplus in the market. The Northern colonies soil was good for livestock. These New England colonies also had small commercial ventures, lumber, fish and shipbuilding. The…

The Panama Papers is a series of documents leaked in 2016 that exposed the fraudulent activities of many individuals throughout the globe. Its name results from the origin the firm Mossack Fonseca, which originates from Panama, who kept secretive documents, which often concealed fraud , money laundering, bribery, and in essence many white-collar crimes around the world. The law firm was founded in 1977 in Panama by Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca. The firm’s success has allowed it to spread…