Thomas C. Durant

Oftentimes these corporations even interfere with the government. In 1862, Thomas Clark Durant tricked Congress into passing the Pacific Railway Act, which gave the Union Pacific Railroad company 10 square miles of land for every mile of track it laid (Credit Mobilier Scandal). Two years later, Durant and his associates formed Credit Mobilier of America which carried out the Union Pacific’s track construction. Credit Mobilier charged the Union Pacific twice as much that the later estimated for Congress. The Union Pacific was driven into debt, and the government sustained financial losses from its investments, the owners of Credit Mobilier from the Union Pacific pocketed millions (Credit Mobilier Scandal). Durant proceeded to bribe Congressmen to prevent any investigations, and the scandal remained in the shadows until 1872. Despite this, Durant went…

The Chevrolet Motor Company was founded in 1911, in a Flint, Michigan garage. It was an agreement between partners Louis Chevrolet, a Belgian race car driver and William Durant, who was an entrepreneur and the founder of General Motors. The company was a result of Durant trying to find a way to compete with Ford Motor Company and their ever so popular Model T, and this was done by Durant needing more models of cars to go against the single model vehicle of Ford. Chevrolet’s first model cost…

Kevin Durant otherwise known as “KD” is a well-known NBA basketball player. KD was born in September 19,1988 in Washington D.C. He grew up in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, a small town near D.C. KD was raised by his mother, Wanda and his grandmother, Barbara. His father, Wayne Pratt left KD’s family and divorced his mother. It was when KD was ten that he decided he was going to start playing basket ball. It was then, that his father returned to support KD in his games. Kevin Durant relevantly has two…

Kevin Durant is a high scoring American professional basketball player, who played for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder and signed with the Golden State Warriors in 2016. Kevin Durant was born just outside of the nation's capital, in Suitland, Maryland, on September 29, 1988. As one of four children of Wanda and Wayne Pratt, Durant grew up loving sports with his sister, Brianna, and two brothers, Anthony (also a basketball player) and Rayvonne. His grandma, Barbara, was a strong influence to…

WHAT IS OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING? Object oriented programming in a methodology of software development that allows for the designation of functions to be applied to data structures such as classes, these classes are referred to as objects, hence the name. Object-Oriented coding is one of multiple major programming paradigms. These include but are not limited to; Imperative, Logical, Functional and Object oriented. Problems that can be solved by one of these paradigms can normally be solved by…

There are different types of programming such as object-oriented programming (OOP), event-driving programming (EDP), and procedural program, (PP). Some people may agree that there are advantages of using OOP instead of only using PP. A class may have one attribute and one method, in which the class represents an event, the attributes the class stores and the purpose of the method. The class, attributes, and methods share a relationship. Visual Logic is used to learn about programming but lacks…

When I started this course, I was unaware of the different types of writing and the massive amounts of research behind it. Prompts given to me were thought provoking and interesting, so I took a lot of interest in various types of arguments and assignments. What caught my interest in this subject is how, as a writer, one has to argue from both sides, include research data to support them, and then conclude them with a winning argument. My collection of persuasive writing demonstrates that I…

One of the objectives of this research is to develop a tool in Java programming language. Following the stated objective, CBPTT was developed in Java language and integrated using the NetBeans IDE 8.0.2 software. In order to show how pairwise combination strategy and constraints strategy was implemented in CBPTT let consider the example illustrated in Table 1.1. There are three parameters with quantity of 2, 3 and 3. These parameters are input as string which is presented as {2,3,3}. From this…

Visual Basic can be used to create UI and UX rich programs for Windows platforms in a very short time. Whereas, C++ can be used to write complex programs that needs to computer faster without using much hardware resources. C++ is command line based language, on the other hand, Visual Basic is IDE and event driven language. For example, creating a pop up box in C++ is a tedious task. If the programmer is writing from scratch, making a window appear in C++ will take you 15 minutes to program…

(“cplusplus.com” n.d.). Primitive data types, such as int, float, and char, are nearly indistinguishable, and arithmetic operators, such as addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), and division (/), are carried out in the same manner. Control constructs, such as if statements, for loops, while loops, and switch statements, are also shared among both languages(“cplusplus.com” n.d.). Both languages support classes, and single inheritance in C++ is comparable to Java (“Cornell.edu” n.d.).…