...Kent State Massacre Demonte Wesley May 4th, 1970 will always be remembered as the day America killed its children, when a group of student protestors were fired upon. This terrible event took the lives of four students and injured many others. The Kent state massacre was a devastating and tragic event that shook the U.S. on the day of May 4th, 1970.The invasion of Cambodia was one of the things, which lead to the protesting of students, which then lead to the Kent State massacre. President Nixon ordered the Cambodia invasion. He ordered our troops to clear out the North Vietnamese and Vietcong supply centers. This didn’t go to well with about 1.5 million college students around the U.S. Students protested outside there colleges for a few days which caused about 1,200 campuses to close down. Kent State was one of the colleges that had students protesting. The protest started out as students innocently gathering around the campus. Then they started to get out of hand. It all began when students tried to burn down the R.O.T.C. Building. This forced the mayor to call in the National Guard. Then on May 3rd officers were forced to throw teargas into the crowd to calm them down. Two people wound up being stabbed because they lunged at the guards. The next day, which would be May 4th, was the day of disaster. Students were throwing rocks at the guards and would shout curses at them. The guards threw teargas into the crowd but it just didn’t work .The wind that day was very strong...
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...There were two major events that took place in the 1970s which made the American citizens distrust their own government. One of them was the Kent State shootings, which took place on May 4, 1970. The citizens of the United States were against the Vietnam War and the President Nixon promised the citizens that he will end the war. Even after his promise, the president Nixon made an announcement on the national television about his approval of the Cambodian incursion, which broke the trust of the citizens of the United States. Therefore, they began the anti-war protests, which took place on various college campuses. The protestors launched a demonstration and set the ROTC building on fire. Furthermore, when the meeting held on May 4 in the Kent...
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...Carol R. Blaine Kent State University Mission / Purpose The Salem Campus of Kent State University recognizes the dignity and worth of all human beings, believes post-secondary education should be available to all who can benefit from it, and accepts responsibility for offering educational programs and supportive services responsive to the needs of its community. Consistent with this responsibility, the mission of the Insurance Studies degree program is to prepare individuals for productive and progressively successful employment in the insurance industry, one of the Ohio's top employers at nearly 200,000 jobs statewide. Goals and Student Learning Outcomes/Objectives, with Any Associations and Related Measures, Targets, Findings, and Action Plans G 1:Prepare Individuals for Career Success in Insurance Industry Prepare traditional and non-traditional students to enter the insurance business world with: • the knowledge and understanding gained through a broad-based liberal arts education, • the specific knowledge and skill sets associated with a thorough understanding of risk management and insurance, and • true respect for the role these disciplines play within our economic system. SLO 1:Achieve Liberal Arts, Risk Management and Insurance Comprehension Both in terms of liberal arts competencies, such as writing, mathematics, science, and communication, and business-specific knowledge, such as management, finance and operations, ensure program...
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...announcing that the United States would expand the boundaries of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Students across the country wondered how long this action would extend the war and, even more important, the draft. Riots erupted on college campuses, the riots at Kent State University became especially violent and spilled into the streets of the town of Kent, Ohio. After 3 days of turmoil—students broke windows, fought with police, and burned down the campus ROTC building—a peaceful protest turned into a tragedy when the National Guard fired into a crowd of students, only some of whom were demonstrating against the war. After thirteen seconds of shooting, four students lay dead...
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...The Kent State Massacre is basically about the protest during the Vietnam War. It has rashly gotten under control when the United States military forces bombed Cambodia. Kent State University students started an anti-war protest for various reasons, including the bombing by the United States military forces. When the Ohio National Guard on Kent State University got involved to stop the protests, they killed four students on May 4th that became a focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. National Guard soon enough injured 13 students, including the four students that died that day. The ethical dilemmas that were facing the National Guard that day was the issues that caused the anti-war protest that the Kent State University Students started. The protest was about the drafts occurring during war, including the bombings and the troops that was sent by the United States. Middle and upper students, as well as well-educated student intended the protests to stop all drafts and bombing attacks in their area. Several incidents occurred during the protests; students throwing rocks, bottles, and bonfires at police officers. Some places in that area such as the bar had to close to eliminate any students to get...
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...Wallis’s father was also named John Wallis. His father worked as a minister and then became a minister. When John was born, his mother was Joanna Chapman. Joanna Chapman was his father’s second wife. John had four other siblings, and was the third born. However, when John was only six years old his father died. His first form of education was in Ashford, however, a plague there caused his family to move. When his family moved, he went to a grammar school in Tenterden, Kent. At the grammar school, he learned a lot of Latin. When he was only thirteen years old, he said that he thought he was ready to go to college. In 1631, he went to another school called the...
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...For the reasons which have determined the existence of Sussex as a county of England, and which have given it the exact boundaries that it now possesses, we must go back to the remote geological history of the secondary ages. Its limits and its very existence as a separate shire were predetermined for it by the shape and consistence of the mud or sand which gathered at the bottom of the great Wealden lake, or filled up the hollows of the old inland cretaceous sea. Paradoxical as it sounds to say so, the Celtic kingdom of the Regni, the South Saxon principality of AElle the Bretwalda, the modern English county of Sussex, have all had their destinies moulded by the geological conformation of the rock upon which they repose. Where human annals see only the handicraft and interaction of human beings--Euskarian and Aryan, Celt and Roman, Englishman and Norman--a closer scrutiny of history may perhaps see the working of still deeper elements--chalk and clay, volcanic upheaval and glacial denudation, barren upland and forest-clad plain. The value and importance of these underlying facts in the comprehension of history has, I believe, been very generally overlooked; and I propose accordingly here to take the single county of Sussex in detail, in order to show that when the geological and geographical factors of the problem are given, all the rest follows as a matter of course. By such detailed treatment alone can one hope to establish the truth of the general principle that human history...
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...2. What should Morales recommend? What should chairman Ben Fisher decide? While Morales is the president of Kent Chemical International(KCI), the international arm of Kent Chemical Products (KCP), Ben Fisher is the CEO of KCP as well as a board chairman. This gives them different constraints and incentives. Ben Fisher also had the additional complication of dealing with the familial relationship with his son, Kent’s vice chairman. Given the first two failed attempts to change, Morales should recommend ways to overcome the initial problems he was faced with: the company could not manage changing pressures and demands; overseas subsidiaries’ long history of independence led managers to protect their self-interests; and even within his international division, the regional organization had difficulty coordinating issues with global implications. The suggestion of Sterling Partners to use the Decision Matrix is a step in the right direction, whose advantages can be seen in the previous answer. Furthermore, Morales should make sure that all stakeholders (overseas included) need to be engaged in the change. A solution which has become increasingly popular for dealing with resistance to change is to get the people involved to “participate” in making the change. But as a practical matter “participation” as a device is not a good way for management to think about the problem. The key to the problem is to understand the true nature of resistance. Actually, what employees resist is usually...
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...KENT CHEMICAL: ORGANIZING FOR INTERNATIONAL GROWTH Introduction: Kent was founded in 1917 as a rubber producer. The Fisher family, which founded the company, was the largest stockholder; and family members held a few key positions. The company is still headquartered in Kent, Ohio. In the 1940’s, Kent expanded into plastics and became one of the country’s largest producers and marketers of plastic additives and specialty chemicals. In 1953, Kent opened a research laboratory, and by 2007, Kent was a leading global specialty chemical company with revenues of $2.2 billion (See Exhibit 1). It held minority and majority stakes in more than two dozen businesses in the U.S. and overseas, employed 4,200 people including 1,200 off shore, operated thirty manufacturing facilities in 13 countries, and sold its products in almost 100 countries. Kent sold a wide variety of products focusing on niche market needs in construction, electronics, medical products and consumer industries. They had six business divisions, three of which had significant international sales. In consumer products, they sold Grease B Gone, the leading degreaser in the U.S., and expanded into other specialty household products such as drain openers, rust removers, and surface cleaners. About one-third of this business’s $522 million sales were outside of the U.S. In the 1950’s, Kent entered the fire protection business by acquiring a company that had developed fire retardant chemicals for apparel...
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...Managing Competitive Advantage 2nd Half – Spring 2013/2014 Write Up 2 “Kent Chemical: Organizing for International Growth” Sara Alves Ribeiro Goulão Nº1937 On the “Kent Chemical: Organizing for International Growth” case you assume the role of the consultant reporting on what is going on in the company as a previous step to assess the assignment that they have given you. Please, answer the following questions: a) What were the problems facing Luis Morales as he began implementing Ben Fisher’s international expansion strategy? Kent Chemical Product’s result show that 35% of its sales are from overseas operations and these international activities seem to be a potential source to increment sales. Due to these facts, Ben Fisher, the firm’s CEO, decided to design and implement a strategic approach to successfully expand the organization’s operation internationally. To implement this “vision of a global integrated company”, Fisher hired Luis Morales. Morales knew he had to organize the company for international growth. However, he assumed that the new strategy would fit perfectly with the organization structure, which did not since several problems started arising after the implementation. In the first place, as a strategic issue, there was some competition between subsidiaries, which arose from both long competitive history and long history of interdependence. So, Kent Chemical International’s subsidiaries ended up tackling the same market and managers turned...
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...Case Brief: Kent Chemical 1. What were the problems facing Luis Morales as he began implementing Ben Fisher's international expansion strategy? * One of the main problems Morales had to face was the individualistic position of each subsidiary. Until then, each subsidiary operated as a decentralized federation, but with few or non-connection with an interconnected global strategy. * The entrepreneurial independence of offshores companies complicated the coordination and integration of activities. Allocating capital became more complex as well. * Historically, manager tried to protect their self-interest instead of cooperate with other subsidiaries. * Conflicts between regional structure of international division and product-based structure of subsidiaries. * Subsidiaries did not collaborate with GBD’s 2. How would you evaluate the organizational changes he made in response to those problems? Why were they unsuccessful? * He took many reactive responses, with no clarity about how to organize the company effectively. He went back and forth from trying to implement centralized hubs and then moving to a decentralized federation model where integrating functions was the focus. * He lost credibility with all the changes that seem not work. Moreover, he did not identify the local competences of the organization and its strategic importance in order to take a more logical decision. 3. What do you think of the Sterling Partners recommendations...
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...Background Kent Chemical Products and its international arm, Kent Chemical International, is a global leader in chemical additives and polymers used in consumer products, fire protection, and medical plastics. The company traces its roots to 1917 when it was established by the Fisher family. Originally founded as a rubber producer, decades of success allowed Kent Chemical to expand its business to plastic additives in the 1940’s and in 1953 began using technology-based research to drive product development. By 2007, revenues exceed $2.2 billion and the company had a presence in 13 countries with minority and majority stakes in over two dozen businesses. Kent Chemical sells its products in nearly 100 countries as well. Problems with International Expansion of KCI One issue Morales faced was that KCI only had minority stakes in the Joint Ventures. This gave KCI little control over finance and operations. Without a majority stake, it was difficult to have a decisive impact on the projects. Additionally, some JV’s called for combining companies that historically were competitors, such as FireGard and SicherFeuer. Because these companies competed with one another for decades, Morales’ regional directors had trouble coordinating activities and integrating operations. Even after taking a majority stake in projects, Morales was still faced with additional challenges. One example was the consolidation of financial reports and operational reports. Morales staff would second guess...
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...1. What are the ethical and legal issues? A: In the research, Kent knows the target markets for Broadway’s video products are children aged 5 to 12 and teenagers aged 13 to 19. Males constitute 75 percent of the market. In the game designing, they keep using the sex, violence and gambling. Be a game designer, he cannot use people’s weakness to make the factor to illegal things to expand their incomes. 2. What are Kent’s options? A: Kent should give up his idea for the “Lucky” with develop the factor of sex, violence and gambling. And then look forward the new market with video game. He can focus in other game market. Arcade game target market is children. They cannot accept these factor to attract people to enjoy the game. But he can use other plant, like net game. They can control the people who want to play this game and set the game limited when they login the game. 3. Discuss the acceptability and commercial use of sex, violence, and gambling in the United States. A: In my opinion, the one of the most important thing is age. In United States, there have many relative legal about the age. For example, some video games have these factors. But they have age limit to accord with the legal. Also there are some other commercial can use of sex, violence and gambling. For example, the target markets aged are higher than 21. So they can use this factor to attract the people. 4. Are marketing sex, violence, and gambling acceptable in other countries if they fit their...
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...People Leadership Board of Directors Operating Group Leadership Functional Leadership Innovation Company History Company Reports Email Alerts Awards and Recognition Our Company's leaders share ideas during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (Video).Leading the Industry & Refreshing the World Responsibly Since our first soda fountain sales in 1886, we have been a driver of marketplace innovation and an investor in local economies. Today we lead the beverage industry with more than 500 beverage brands -- including four of the world's top-five sparkling brands. But while our business opportunities are enormous, our commitment to our consumers and the communities in which we operate is even greater. Muhtar Kent, our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, leads us into the new century with a firm commitment to the values and spirit of the world's greatest brand. In our journey to become a sustainable, profitable growth company, our management structure has evolved to sharpen external focus on the marketplace with greater speed, productivity and effectiveness. Get to Know Our Leaders Muhtar KentHerbert A. AllenRonald W. AllenCathleen P. BlackHoward G. BuffettBarry DillerAlexis M. HermanDonald R. KeoughMaria Elena LagomasinoDonald F. McHenrySam NunnJames D. Robinson IIIPeter V. UeberrothJacob WallenbergJames B. Williams Muhtar KentAhmet C. Bozer Eurasia & Africa GroupDominique Reiniche Europe GroupJosé Octavio Reyes Latin America...
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