...Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was an American politician and attorney from Georgia, a member of the Democratic Party, at the age of 35 he was elected as the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and of any other southern city. He served three terms (1974–1982, 1990–1994), making him the second longest-serving mayor of Atlanta, after six-term mayor William B. Hartsfield. Jackson was born in Dallas, Texas, on March 23, 1938, the third of six children. His family valued education and politics. His mother Irene Jackson graduated from Spelman College, she was a Professor of French at the college. His father Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Sr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights leader. He was a founder of Democratic Progressive Voter’s League in 1936. At age of seven Jackson’s family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where his became a pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church....
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...prime focus being at the University of Mississippi. Peterson states his argument in the introduction of his book stating: “A key component of the Closed Society was the role of local journalism, which acted as an arm of organizations like the Citizen’s Council and the Sovereignty Commission to protect the way of life that segregation had built” (p.3). Throughout the text Peterson says that although there were a few journalists that spoke out against the unwritten law and the Closed Society, the majority of journalists were very conservative with what they would talk about as far as integration was concerned. Within his research, Peterson concluded that “The tone of newspaper coverage in the state was set by the Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Daily News” (8). The publishers and editor of these presses was the Hederman family. Peterson references to historian John Dittmer who claimed the Hederman’s “poured out a steady stream of invective against black activities and their white allies” (8). One factors that many historian agree upon is that tone of the only reason why the Hederman’s did not completely take over the newspaper business was because of the The State Times and J.Oliver Emmerich (8). He was one of the rare editors that would speak out against the Closed Society. In one incident, in 1955 a college out of Mississippi was given the chance to play in a Rose Bowl game. The team they played against was an integrated school. The press covered the matter in a very passive...
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...main job was doing things like collecting, publicizing, and organizing information on civil rights because of the abuse that was faced because of race. In Mississippi, boycotts were led by Medgar which went against the company's/ businesses that still were segregated. The boycotts occurred in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Many of the people that happened to be in it were the high school and college students that lived in or near the area of Jackson Mississippi. Two college students, named Charles Bracey, and Dorie Ladner were arrested for boycotting in the downtown area of Jackson, Mississippi. This caught the attention of civil right activist Medgar Evers who would then tell everyone else about the incident and how it was a successful boycott by 60-65%. Violence erupted with the white people in the town being against the boycotts of the downtown stores. “At first local whites didn’t know how to react. A few started to heckle …We were called a little bit of everything. A couple of local boys even made a hangman’s noose out of the counter’s rope. Eventually the heckling turned violent and “all hell broke loose.” -Girl that was apart of the boycott (One person one vote map: Jackson, Mississippi) Majority of the whites were against this boycott because it went against their company, they hated African Americans, or they thought the idea of them boycotting days before Christmas was ridiculous. With Medgar Evers he helped spread the word of the boycotting and was looked at as an...
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...In the story “A Worn Conflict” by Eudora Welty the story is of a woman named Phoenix Jackson who takes a Journey through the country into the city to take medicine to her grandson. An element that Welty used to show Phoenix journey to the city is conflict. She uses the 4 conflict styles to explore how Phoenix Jackson comes in conflict with society, herself, nature, and another human. The first conflict that Phoenix Jackson explores in the story is human vs. nature. This comes along as she starts her journey in the country to make it to the city she acknowledges the things that she may come across her path while taking her journey to the city. “Out of my way…foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons, and wild animals” (Welty 333). She acknowledges that these are things that she may encounter or come across while on her journey, but hopes that she doesn’t which explains her saying “out of my way”. Also another human vs. nature conflict that is explored in the text is when Phoenix comes across the scarecrow that she mistakes for a ghost. “… it was silent as a ghost … ghost she said sharply, who be you the ghost of” (Welty 335). “You scarecrow…dance, old scarecrow,…while I dance with you” (Welty 335). Once realizing that it was a scarecrow instead of a ghost Phoenix was relieved....
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...“The Worn Path”, by Eudora Welty tells the story of an elderly grandmother as she walks into the city to retrieve throat medicine for her grandson. Joseph Campbell describes the archetypal hero’s journey in A Hero With A Thousand Faces. Phoenix’s journey corresponds to the hero’s journey. Helpers along the way, entering the unknown, and tests that occur on the journey help to correspond Phoenix’s journey with a hero’s journey. One way Phoenix’s journey is similar to the hero’s journey is that she encounters helpers along the way. Campbell states that a hero will meet multiple helpers along his journey (69). One helper Phoenix encounters is the wagon track. Phoenix says “‘This the easy place. This the easy going’” (490). The wagon track is a helper because the barren path makes it easier for elderly Phoenix to walk. Another helper is the woman who ties Phoenix’s shoe. After Phoenix arrives to the town she asks a lady on the sidewalk to tie her shoelaces for her (492). The lady ties Phoenix’s shoes so that she can now travel further into town to obtain her grandson’s medicine. The next helper is the hunter. Phoenix falls into a ditch after an encounter with a dog (491). A hunter notices Phoenix in the ditch and helps her out of the ditch and back onto her feet (491). The wagon track, the woman who ties Phoenix’s shoe, and the hunter are all helpers who help link Phoenix’s journey to the hero’s journey. On Phoenix’s journey she has to pass protectors to enter the unknown, as...
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... The Gamma Lambda chapter of Phi Theta Kappa nominates Jabari Williams for a Distinguished Chapter Officer Award. He has served our chapter as Vice-President of Scholarship and College Project Coordinator. Jabari’s leadership, organizational and motivational skills encouraged our chapter to be successful. Early in our officer team’s existence Jabari implemented the idea of utilizing the GroupMe phone application. This gave our officer team the ability to communicate effectively and quickly with every one of the officers at once. The officer team was alerted to one another’s complications or changes in planned projects. In the early days of introducing this form of communication Jabari encouraged the officer team to become more familiar with one another through this app. This resulted in our team becoming stronger and more cohesive. Implementing this communication device improved our officer team’s overall level of communication while also allowing us to avoid one or two mishaps. Jabari was vital in several key aspects of both our chapter’s Honors in Action (HIA) and College Projects. Jabari was a team leader for the chapter and a key member in goal setting for the HIA project. A main goal, which Jabari was a committee leader for, was contacting and meeting with Mrs. Carley Dear, Director of Institutional Research at Hinds Community College. This meeting was an unreplaceable factor in our HIA project. Without Mrs. Dear’s help our chapter would have created a much less effective...
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...Maynard/Stow — “Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.” This was the concluding sentence of a short essay by Ian Frazier appearing in the New Yorker magazine, February 2011. You know – like mountain tops, the Grand Canyon, the Empire State Building or the bow of the Titanic (before it sank). Maynard and Stow offer remarkably few opportunities to be in a place where distant vistas are a view. Once upon a time Summer Hill, now tree-covered and trail-crossed, was open pasture. History Society pictures taken as recently as World War II show an expanse with few trees. Decades earlier, state surveyors installed an official stone marker atop Summer Hill, with the expectation that from that point, clear viewing was available in all directions. Marble Hill, at 440 feet, the highest elevation in Stow, is similarly tree-obstructed. Stow does offer a hill with a present-day view. Stories hold that ships’ pilots in Boston harbor used the stand of pine trees atop Pilot Grove Hill as a navigational landmark, suggesting that in the reverse direction a person atop the hill could see Boston’s skyscrapers. Alas, not so. Mayhap from a treetop, but not from ground level. However, Birch Hill Road, elevation 370 feet, does offer a glimpse of Mt. Wachusett, twenty miles to the northwest. Bridges can offer vistas. White Pond Road over the Assabet River, on the Stow/Maynard border, offers good views up and down river – albeit less than...
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...| The Abuse of Keynes’ Theory of Government Spending | And Why Government Spending Needs to Stop | | Chase Cooper | 12/13/2012 | Political Economy Dr.Ramos Abstract: The goal of my research paper is to analyze and present how John Maynard Keynes’ theory on government spending is being abused by the American government insofar that the American government is not following the guidelines and foundations that premised Keynes’ theory, and instead are picking the parts of the theory that allow them to spend at unsustainable levels, creating problems that, one way or another, eventually have to be resolved. My research will prove how the American government is conducting fiscal policy in a way that abuses Keynes’ theory on government spending, and, as a result, why Keynes would not support the American government in their spending endeavors, despite using his theory as their justification. I will be critiquing the application of Keynes’ theory from the Austrian, specifically the works of Friedrich A. Hayek, and Monetarist perspectives, supported by arguments given by Milton Friedman. Section 1: Keynes’ Theory on Government Spending John Maynard Keynes published his famous work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, in 1936, during the Great Depression. Economies all over the world were suffering severely from the Great Depression, and there was little hope of economic recovery in the near future. Keynes agreed with the classical economist’s notion...
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...The Reader’s Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom The Road to Serfdom FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK The condensed version of The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek as it appeared in the April 1945 edition of Reader’s Digest The Institute of Economic Affairs First published in Great Britain in 1999 in the ‘Rediscovered Riches’ series by The Institute of Economic Affairs 2 Lord North Street Westminster London sw1p 3lb Reissued in the ‘Occasional Paper’ series in 2001 This condensed version of The Road to Serfdom © Reader’s Digest, reproduced by kind permission The Road to Serfdom is published in all territories outside the USA by Routledge. This version is published by kind permission. All other material copyright © The Institute of Economic Affairs 1999, 2001 Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders associated with this edition. In some cases this has not been possible. The IEA will be pleased to include any corrections in the next edition. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. isbn 0 255 36530 6 Many IEA publications are translated into...
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...One of the most influential economists in twentieth century-John Kenneth Galbraith asserted that there are two forms of wants exit in consumer demand. First is the individual’s want that never going to be reduced, although it always satisfied. Like a man is physically satisfied by fulfilling his stomach by eating food, but then he may want to watch TV to relax after finishing eating. The other form of consumer demand is that the consumer role that human plays. Human in this role always want to buy production to satisfy themselves. However, the two forms of wants will not exist as the modern advertising and salesman were brought into the economy, which brings in the theory of Galbraith-“The Dependence Effect”. He expounded that “As a society becomes increasingly affluent, wants are increasingly created by the process by which they are satisfied” (Galbraith, John Kenneth, p. 293). He thought that advertising manipulates human’s needs and create artificial needs for people, or in other words, modern advertising is used not for serving human’s needs purpose, but for creating new demands for them. For example, fancy jewelry always appears on the TV screen. The shinning appearances of the jewelry with the romantic background music, advertisers utilize the perfect visual effect and auditory effect to introduce how perfect their product is, so that attract consumers to buy it. Do people really need jewelry? The answer would be no. The need that people have on jewelry is because of the...
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...Definición Keynesiano. Teoría económica basada en las ideas. Corriente de pensadores que siguieron el pensamiento de John M. Keynes. El modelo Keynesiano se basó en la consideración de la renta nacional como dependiente de la demanda efectiva. En consecuencia, el ingreso pasaba a depender de los componentes de dicha demanda. A su vez, el primero estaba determinado por la renta personal que se destina al mismo, mientras que la segunda estaba influenciada por la propensión a invertir, el multiplicador de la inversión y la relación entre la eficiencia marginal del capital y el tipo de interés. El tipo de interés toma su valor de equilibrio entre la preferencia por la liquidez y la cantidad de dinero en circulación. Cuanta más alta fuera la diferencia entre la eficiencia marginal del capital y el tipo de interés, mayor será la propensión a invertir. De este modelo se desprendía pues, como medidas para la disminución del paro permanente involuntario, la adopción de una serie de políticas económicas intervencionistas, lo que provocaría un descenso del tipo de interés, aumento en el gasto publico especialmente en inversión en infraestructuras, con el fin de potenciar la demanda efectiva, una activa redistribución de la renta y, por último, una política comercial proteccionista, para defender los empleos de las industrias nacionales. Algunas características de esta corriente pueden resumirse de la siguiente manera. Características. • Es una teoría macroeconómica. • Su teoría es...
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...Cody Hudson Professor Michelle Grady Communications Cluster 21 March 2013 Brave New World: Technology and the End of Jobs “Brave New World” is a phrase said many times by people, since Aldous Huxley wrote the novel Brave New World in 1932, every time a greater technology, for anything, comes about; not necessarily referring to Huxley’s book, but more referring to the fact that modern technology is becoming so great that it will/or has downsized companies by replacing the human element. Sure jobs are lost, but is this a bad thing? One would have to really dive into the question and do some in-depth research and analysis to figure out the answer, but maybe there is not a right answer? Whether greater technology advances are better or not, one thing is for certain; people will lose jobs because of it. Auto plant workers, factories, coal miners, farming, telephone operators, cashiers, tollbooth collectors, and bankers: These are just a few examples of jobs that are being replaced by greater technology in our present day, even some earlier on. Yes, this is a bad thing for the people employed by those jobs, but maybe for the “greater good,” whatever that term, used by many optimistic people, is really supposed to mean, the same technology that ended those jobs will create more jobs or even better jobs--who knows? Maybe the advances in technology aren’t needed, but created because of corporate greed, to minimize a company’s cost to employees and fatten the wallets of the suits...
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...“It is More important to discover new ways of thinking about what is already known than to discover new data or facts”. This great dilemma, which the question is based on, is in choosing between discovering new ways of thinking about what is already known and discovering new data or facts, is quite a complicated task. Before I begin, the terms “new ways of thinking”, “facts”, and “data” must be defined. According to various dictionaries, data is defined as a series of observations, measurements, or facts; information is defined as an event which is known to have happened that can be verified through experience or observation. The phrase “new ways of thinking”, seems more ambiguous because how can there be new ways of thinking? However, for this essay, the definition of thinking from a different perspective or thinking in a way that is different from all previous ways of thinking is used. This, however, allows different people to have different new ways of thinking. A new way of thinking to one person would no longer be the same to another person. Most often, people would firmly say that new ways of thinking are innovative and new advances are advantageous; for example, in Economics, advances in technology would lead to a greater productive and allocative efficiency, which would result in greater levels of economic growth for a certain country, which, of course, it’s a great benefit for the society. However, there is also a need for discovery new data and facts to broaden our...
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...Abut the Author Name: Thomas Gasuku Email: gasukuthom@gmail.com Political Cartoons In public discourse, political cartoons play a critical role on important issues that are historically facing the country. Through a formal analysis, the paper looks at political cartoons in three levels; individual, state and system level. 1. Individual level From the cartoon, a man in a black suit is seated. A lady peeps eagerly waiting to hear from the boss. The man instructs the lady to write a press release aimed at stopping Pope from touching issues to do with scientists. The above cartoon depicts an event which took place recently where republication leaders order Pope Francis to stop discussing issues to do with climate change. Practically, Jeb Bush, the Florida governor claimed that scientific experts are the online people who can give reliable information regarding global temperature changes (Iserbyt & Charlotte 2011). They have designed crooked ways of shutting down the utterances of Pope Francis one of which is to hire scientists to disapprove the Pope’s utterances. 2. State Level The Hart City Council has introduced Hartford commuter tax whereby business owners must book a ticket costing $5. In essence, the council looks forward to punish Hartford residents who supported dearly Luke Bronin’s Mayoral Campaigns. It remains symbolic as they claim that this is a fine for investors who established large businesses with more 70 employees...
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...In that part, it was more focused on the battle of ideas between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek, two of the most well-known economists of their time. Keynes could see the faults of free market in the time after the war and that all of those errors could be fixed if the government regulated the economy. However, Hayek thought that the free market would fix itself, with no government control. World War I laid a whole continent to waste and drew attention to the problems of political organization. People were looking for something better during this time and that something came in the form of socialism and communism. Western civilization was fascinated by this idea and started owning or regulating the so-called ‘commanding heights’ of the economy. During the period between two World Wars, the world experienced the collapse of capitalism and each part of the world tried to manage through by adopting either socialism or communism. Socialism promised a more just society, Hayek was more concerned for the poor and equity. He believed that people needed to be free from government interference and that markets work and governments don’t. His ideas were based on a fully functioning function free market system without regulations, which were also the ideas of Ludwig Von Mises. Mises was a libertarian who believed that markets always needed to be free from government meddling and he argued that socialist states cannot be successful because they lack a functioning price...
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