...NAME: Madam C.J. Walker (birth name Sarah Breedlove) DATE OF BIRTH: December 23, 1867 PLACE OF BIRTH: Delta, Louisiana DATE OF DEATH: May 25, 1919 PLACE OF DEATH: Irvington-on-Hudson, New York FAMILY BACKGROUND: Sarah Breedlove, who later became known as Madam C. J. Walker, was born into a former-slave family to parents Owen and Minerva Breedlove. She had one older sister, Louvenia and brothers Alexander, James, Solomon and Owen, Jr. Her parents had been slaves on Robert W. Burney's Madison Parish farm which was a battle-staging area during the Civil War for General Ulysses S. Grant and his Union troops. She became an orphan at age 7 when her parents died. To escape a yellow fever epidemic and failing cotton crops, the ten year old Sarah and her sister moved across the river to Vicksburg in 1878 to obtain work. At the age of fourteen, Sarah married Moses McWilliams to escape her sister's abusive husband. They had a daughter, Lelia (later known as A'Lelia Walker, a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance). When Lelia was only two years old, McWilliams died. Sarah's second marriage to John Davis August 11, 1894 failed and ended sometime in 1903. She married for the third time in January, 1906 to newspaper sales agent, Charles Joseph Walker; they divorced in 1912. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Madam Walker was an entrepreneur who built her empire developing hair products for black women. She claims to have built her company on an actual dream where a large black...
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...Autobiography My name is LaQuinta Walker and I was born in the Spring of April 4, 1987 in Atlanta, Georgia. I was born to, high school sweethearts, Sharon and John Walker from a small town called Aliquippa, PA. My parents are currently still alive and has been married over 35 years. I am the youngest of five children, and whose name means "The Fifth" in Spanish. Some cool facts about my birthday are that I share it with the late poet, Maya Angelou. April 4th occasionally falls on Easter and is the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. These cool facts help reminds me that Greatness was born and ended on my great birthday and I have been passed a torch that will burn on. Soon after I was born, my family uprooted to Phoenix, Arizona, where my mother's family migrated too. My early childhood was pleasant growing up in the late 1980's. We were an average middle class family. My father enlisted in the Air Force Reserve, while working at Crystal Bottle Water Company. My mother was a Register Nurse most my life. Arizona was a good time! The climate there was great or could be extreme heat. Every house appeared to have a pool, which was really cool to own. We owned a golden retriever, who we adopted into our family and named Sassy Frassy Goldy Walker. She was my dog! Sassy had two set of litters prior to coming to live with us, she had a very protective, motherly instinct and I loved her. Sassy was a very good dog, until we made pound cake. As...
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...Madam C. J. Walker or Sarah Breedlove (her birth given name) was born a slave in Delta, Louisiana, United States on December 23, 1867. She is known as the first American (and African-American) female self-made millionaire as well as an entrepreneur, philanthropist and political, social activist. Madam was born as the 3rd child of former slaves Minerva and Owen Breedlove to a family of sharecroppers. Following the Emancipation Proclamation (freeing of slaves, except states under Union Control) Madam was born a slave, but became first in her family to be free while her siblings were born on the other side of emancipation/states under Union Control. Although free, Madam still had to work rigorously in the cotton fields even while orphaned at seven....
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...The purpose of this paper is to describe how the SWOT analysis applies to Madam C.J walker. The SWOT analysis is an analytical tool for determining a firm’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Madam C.J Walker was born Sarah Breedlove on Dec. 23, 1867 near delta Louisiana. She created and specialized hair products for African American women hair and was one of the first American women to become a self mad millionaire. From being the daughter of two formal slavery, going through the trails of her mistreatment as a young adult to her being a widow and single parent causing her to stress. Like most women in that time her hair started to fall out and fast. After suffering from a scalp aliment that resulted in the lost of most of...
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...Madam C.J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867 on a cotton plantation near Delta, Louisiana. Before she inherited the name that would be well known along with her business, Walker was born Sarah Breedlove to Minerva and Owen Breedlove who were recently freed sharecroppers. In 1874, her mother passed away and her father passed the following year making Sarah an orphan age seven; Sarah went to live with her sister, Louvenia, and brother-in-law, but in 1877, the three moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi where she picked cotton and was most likely employed doing housework. Eventually, when Breedlove was 14, she married a man named a Moses to escape from her oppressive working environment and the frequent mistreatment from her brother-in-law. When Sarah was 18, she gave birth to her daughter, A’Leila, but two years later, her husband, Moses, died. Afterwards, Sarah and her daughter moved to St. Louis where her brothers had established...
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...You’ve heard of Madam C.J Walker right? How about Oprah Winfrey? Who hasn’t? How many have heard of Annie Turnbo Malone? No one correct? Well, Annie Turnbo Malone was before Oprah Winfrey and Madam C.J Walker. Malone is recorded as the U.S.’s first black female millionaire. While Annie was coming of age, the popular style among Black women was having straight hair. She decided to make a chemical product to straighten African Americans hair. Annie was the first to do this. Annie was an role model to many women, but was an great inspiring role model to Madam C.J Walker. Annie was born August 19th, 1869 in Metropolis, Illinois to former slaves. Her parents were Robert Turnbo, a poor farmer, and Isabella Cook Turnbo who had 11 children. Annie was the 10th child of the 11. Because her parents died while she was young, Annie was raised by her older sister. She was a sick child...
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...recognized for their great achievements. What kind of life did they lead? What was some of the problems they faced? And what did they do to make them well known. So, What does define a Hero and Heroism in today’s society? Black History month has often spoken upon famous African-Americans such as Martin Luther King Jr., Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman and George Washington Carver. Those legendary figures are certainly worth celebrating, yet there have been many other African-American men and women who achieved significant milestones for their race, and made significant contributions to society, but get little attention today. Such people as: Hattie McDaniel, Guion Bluford, Edward Bouchet, Fritz Pollard, Oscar Micheaux, Madam C.J. Walker and James “Cool Papa” Bell. Hattie McDaniel was actually the first black person to win an Oscar in 1940. Halle Berry who is well known made headlines in 2002 when she became the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actress, for her role in Monster’s Ball. McDaniel’s Oscar winning performance was as the character Mammy in gone with the Wind she was also regarded as the first Africa American to sing on the radio in the United States. McDaniel has two stars on the Hollywood walk of Fame honoring both her singing and film careers. Guion Bluford became the first African American astronaut to reach the space with the liftoff of a 1983 mission aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. Bluford had a lot of experience...
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...and grows into a swan, the most beautiful bird of them all. In this story the ugly duckling is shown as an outlier and as an outlier he rises above the rest. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, another successful outlier who rose above expectations was Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C.J. Walker. As an African American woman during her time she wasn’t given many job opportunities....
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...Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT Manila EN BANC G.R. No. L-9637 April 30, 1957 AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, plaintiff-appellant, vs. CITY OF MANILA, defendant-appellee. City Fiscal Eugenio Angeles and Juan Nabong for appellant. Assistant City Fiscal Arsenio Nañawa for appellee. FELIX, J.: Plaintiff-appellant is a foreign, non-stock, non-profit, religious, missionary corporation duly registered and doing business in the Philippines through its Philippine agency established in Manila in November, 1898, with its principal office at 636 Isaac Peral in said City. The defendant appellee is a municipal corporation with powers that are to be exercised in conformity with the provisions of Republic Act No. 409, known as the Revised Charter of the City of Manila. In the course of its ministry, plaintiff's Philippine agency has been distributing and selling bibles and/or gospel portions thereof (except during the Japanese occupation) throughout the Philippines and translating the same into several Philippine dialects. On May 29 1953, the acting City Treasurer of the City of Manila informed plaintiff that it was conducting the business of general merchandise since November, 1945, without providing itself with the necessary Mayor's permit and municipal license, in violation of Ordinance No. 3000, as amended, and Ordinances Nos. 2529, 3028 and 3364, and required plaintiff to secure, within three days, the corresponding permit and license fees, together with compromise...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 PREAMBLE One constant variable that permeates through man’s entire life is uncertainty. Uncertainty and man are inseparable. As man builds organizations and institutions that he utilizes to make his existence easier, uncertainties also creep into these organizations and institutions. All human transactions carry these uncertainty traits. These transactions are many and varied but arise essentially, as stated above, as inherently of man and the institution created by him. One of the ways man has tried to manage and control the damaging effects of uncertainty in his institution especially as it relates to his financial transaction in use of budget. These are many varied definitions of budget, according to Obazele (2000:127)in his book titled Accounting for public sector Activities in Nigeria. Budget is defined as a “statement whish express future plans in financial terms.” It is also defined by Okoye (1979: 301). In his book titled Cost Accounting Management Operational Application, as “plans prepared and approved before The of use. A budget is defined in the institution of cost and management Accounting, 1966 edited of Terminology as a financial and/or quantitative statement prepared and approved prior to a defined period of the policy to be pursued during that period for the purpose of attaining a given objective”. Going by the above definitions of budget by previous authors, it could be deduced that a budget as an element of control in it...
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...any degree. Francis Kwaku Dogbe Name ……………….. Signature ………………. Date Certified by: S.A. Kyeremanteng (Supervisor) ………………… Signature ……………. Date Prof. I. K Dontwi (Dean IDL) ………………………… Signature ……………… Date. DEDICATION I specially dedicate this work to my lovely mother Petrina Yawa Adzimah and to all who inspired and encouraged me. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I express my deepest gratitude to my Father Almighty God in heaven whose grace and mercy, I could not have come this far in life. To my supervisor, S.A. Kyeremanteng, I owe you a special dept of thanks for excellent support and guidance that enabled me to produce this work on time. I also thank my colleague staff at MTN-Kumasi Nhyiaeso branch for their support. Madam Charity Armoh also deserves a special gratitude for her immense financial support throughout this work not forgetting my special friend and brother, Kojo Abiw-Abaidoo and his wife for their moral support. And to anybody who in one way or the other helped me out with this work, I say, God Richly Bless You All ABSTRACT This work sought to access and analyze customer satisfaction with service delivery at MTN Ghana. Kumasi MTN office, Nhyiaeso was purposively chosen for this work. The main problem for this study was to ascertain whether customers are satisfied with service delivery...
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