The 1970s had increasing nonviolent activity (Civil Disobedience). In 1971, the Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds busing as a legitimism and sometimes necessary tool to achieve desegregation and integration. But, the court does not rule on segregation in public schools in northern states where it is mot imposed by statute. In 1973, congress passes Section 504 of the Vocation Rehabilitation Act barring discrimination against disabled people with use of…
1. What is the name of the case? Hollingsworth v. Perry a) What is the name held by the petitioner in this case? Summarize the petitioner’s key argument. Dennis Hollingsworth et al. with Charles J. Cooper speaking for the petitioners. The petitioner argued that a state is within its legal bounds to limit marriage to only between opposite sex, as marriage is a historical social institution whose purpose advances the state’s interest in childbearing. b) What is the name held by the…
a) IASB stands for International Accounting Standards Board. The IASB is a standard-setting board whose main role is to ‘develop and approves ‘International Financial Reporting Standards’ so that all financial reports and financial statements globally are detailed and can be easily read by all users. With constant regulation and development, it ensures all business’ financial records are formatted the same and easy to transfer information to and from them. To become an IASB member isn’t an easy…
referral credit as a marketing expense on its Income Statement, in accordance with FASB ASU No. 2014-09 par. 606-10-55-43. When Runway elects to convert to IFRS standards, Runway would refer to IFRS No. 15 for transaction reporting guidance. References Board, F. A. (2014). FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). Stamford. Bragg, S. (2013, January 25). What is a deferred cost? Retrieved from Accounting Tools:…
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson introduced the Separate-but-Equal doctrine. This doctrine established that African Americans could constitutionally be kept in separate facilities as long as they were equal. The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racially separated schools were fundamentally unequal. Therefore, the Brown decision was significant to civil rights because it gave a legal rationale to challenge all forms of segregation, led…
Kids should not be playing violent video games because of links to bad behavior. As many as 97% of US kids age 12-17 play video games, contributing to the $21.53 billion domestic video game industry. More than half of the top 50 selling video games contain violence. US psychologist Christopher Ferguson says an increase of violent films in the latter half of the 20th century coincided with decreased societal violence, while rising popularity of violent video games also came together with less…
Affirmative action, by definition, is an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. Using varying instruments and policies, Affirmative Action aims to help underrepresented groups have a better job opportunities or college admissions. Generations of people have been disadvantaged by institutionalized discrimination and one way to remedy this is to place a policy that evens out the playing field. There has been…
was for sure that there was no any children and any parent want that happened to their children or themselves, so there was any reason that segregation in school was necessary or even inhumanity. Moreover, there were many cases similar to Brown v. Board of education, black students were refused to attend a school because they were black even though there being no comparable “separate but equal”…
to the carrier. According to Deloitte’s Heads Up: Revenue Standard Finally Recognized: Boards Issue Guidance on Revenue from Contracts with Customers, “Under the ASU, a performance obligation is satisfied (and the related revenue recognized) when “control” of the underlying goods or services (the “assets”) related to the performance obligation is transferred to the customer.” CableCo is using freight on board shipping point so CableCo has control as soon as the cable was delivered to DeliveryAx.…
passengers, 8 of the 12 flight attendants, and 1 of the 4 flight crewmembers received serious injuries. The other 248 passengers, 4 flight attendants, and 3 flight crewmembers received minor injuries or were not injured (NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD [NTSB],…