...The city of St. Louis has suffered from a deep rooted history of racial tensions, issues and inequalities for years. Businesses that once thrived within the city have left the city for suburban areas. The events in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Mo on August 9, 2014 forever changed the face of the city and a Nation. In this paper, the author would like to delve into the economic effects that the city has dealt with prior to, during and after the events of August 9, 2014. This paper will evaluate and examine the economic effects that the events has had on this city and community. This paper will explore the decisions made by government officials during and after the riots that affected businesses in the immediate and surrounding areas. This paper would also look at how and if the city can recover. History of St. Louis St. Louis is a metropolitan city which has 92 suburbs that make up the St. Louis County. The city of St. Louis is divided up into the north side which is predominately African American, the south side which is predominately Caucasian, the central west end which is a mixed group and East St. Louis which despite the fact that it is in Illinois is predominately African American. The counties of St. Louis are also divided by race with North County being predominately African American, South County predominately Caucasian, and West County predominately Caucasian. There are twenty four county school districts and one large school...
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...After being shot, officer David Muniz stated “I know you shot me, but I’m not going to shoot you” (Gass 1). This confrontation ended in the suspect being shot and killed. Officer Muniz was proven innocent because the footage from the body camera showed he didn’t do anything wrong. But in some cases, privacy is an issue in the release of footage. Because the trust in police officers is becoming non-existent, police body cameras are a rising solution that may have pros and cons. The attention of police body cameras has increased since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August of 2014. Darren Wilson, a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, was found not guilty in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown and Michael's family is begging for...
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...Michael Brown and the 1st Amendment “A shot rang out in the Ferguson sky”. Although this line resembles a line from a song, the events that unite the two are real. Happened August 9th Michael Brown was shot by an officer in Ferguson named Officer Wilson. Michael Browns case didn’t go unheard from the, the main story, violate protests and witnesses comments and the prosecutor’s story will be mentioned in this paper. Officer Wilson violated the first amendment by not reading Michael Browns rights so the situation was not dealt with appropriately. The main story has so much detail that makes it sound so true. Michael Brown was an 18 year old teen and was unarmed and this event happened or occurred on August 9th. Wilson left an apartment he...
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...As we all know; we have had a lot of tragic incidents happening between the police and citizens. The huge number of incidents over the years have caused the world quite a significant amount of pain and suffering. It seems like the police have forgotten their moral values as being someone who is to stop crime and ensure safety in our neighborhoods, towns and cities; not become those who create crime and break the law knowing the only thing that is saving them from being incarcerated is their badge. It should be a heavy requirement for police officers to wear cameras on their person because without them; it’s our word against theirs and if someone is wrongfully pulled over, beaten or killed; there will be solid proof of what really happened at the time of any incident whether if it’s wrong or right. Police officers have always abused their authority for many years. We have a few officers out there that know how to handle their authority and actually go by the guidelines of what their job description states. Then we have those officers who just don’t know to act when it comes to their job and the amount of authority that they have. With that being said; those are also the kind of officers who make it their business to harass certain people; talk to them any kind of way, write out bogus tickets and let’s not forget the “American all time”: racial profiling. Most of the stories out here today and from years ago are resulting in racial profiling towards African Americans. ...
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...Acts of Civil Disobedience | Violating the law to change the law | Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. | | Acts of Civil Disobedience(s) By: Team C CJS/211 - ETHICS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Instructor: MELISSA ANDREWJESKI Schedule: 10/27/2015 - 11/30/2015 Campus: ONLINE MAIN Group ID: BSHB1IZ706 Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline. Fifty-two environmental activists were arrested Monday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project, which would deliver Canada tar sands oil to refineries in Texas, and rather focus on developing clean energy. An estimated 2,000 people have signed up to hold sit-ins and commit other acts of civil disobedience outside the White House every day for the next two weeks — 162 have already been arrested since Saturday. Also joining the protest are indigenous First Nations communities in Canada and landowners along the Keystone XL pipeline’s planned route. An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times joined in calling on the State Department to reject the pipeline, noting that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production. Meanwhile, oil-industry backers of the project emphasize what they say are...
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...Running head: PROBLEM SOLUTION: M-CORE Problem Solution: M-Core Problem Solution: M-Core M-Core is at the head of their industry and has planned to move forward with developing their new facility in New Oxford, a green environment. In becoming a part of the New Oxford community, M-Core will have an opportunity to embrace and become involved with the community’s needs and the environment that has become protected, helping to secure the future of the people while working within the company’s estimated budgets and timeframes. Describe the Situation Issue and Opportunity Identification M-Core is having difficult y negotiating acceptable deals with the remaining homeowners causing delays towards the development of the new research and development facility. The opportunity M-Core has is to develop creative ideas to resolve the conflict with the resistant homeowners by creating an alliance with Nature’s Gift Society through the implementation of a green plan during planning, developing, and implementing phases of their new facility. By creating the alliance, Nature’s Gift may ease the negotiations with the homeowners, minimize the need for legal actions to take the properties from the remaining homeowners, and avoid need for the Mayor’s involvement. Stakeholder Perspectives/Ethical Dilemmas M-Core desires to gain additional acreage to develop their facility to create the “chip” and a better workplace, while developing on land that displays serenity to inspire...
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...In 1950, Jo Ann G. Robinson was elected as president of the WPC. In that capacity, she regularly took the concerns of the WPC to the Montgomery City Council. She complained of the mistreatment of Blacks with regard to City transportation. Coincidently, a young black woman Viola Bradford was arrested in 1950 for refusing to give up her seat on the bus when directed to do so by the bus driver. She was fined $50.00 dollars and jailed until the fine was paid. Jo Ann G. Robinson regularly met with the City Council and wrote letters to the Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, William A. Gayle, concerning the mistreatment of Blacks in the community. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court decided the case of Brown v. Board of Education at Topeka, Kansas. This case involved several cases that reached the court at the same time, but all involved the separate but equal doctrine. The court decided on one of the complaints in favor of the complainant and limited its decision to the area of...
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...Legal Aspect of Affirmative Action - Affirmative action programs are often misunderstood. Each person has their own idea of what affirmative action really entails. This paper will provide an overview of the legal aspect of affirmative action. The differences between affirmative action programs and equal opportunity legislation will be explained. The positive arguments will be presented along with the negative arguments. The affects affirmative action has on the society of the United States will be analyzed. Finally the reactions of beneficiaries of affirmative action will be discussed.... [tags: Affirmative Action] 1298 words (3.7 pages) $19.95 [preview] Necessity of Affirmative Action - It is illegal to institute quotas and to fulfill them solely based on the race or gender of the applicant in any affirmative action programs. Employers and schools are required to set goals and time frames, for hiring or recruiting women and minorities to achieve racial diversity. Due to under representation of African Americans, women and minorities, affirmative action was created. It was created to ensure the inclusion of all qualified individuals and to prevent race and gender discrimination.... [tags: Affirmative Action] :: 4 Works Cited 1081 words (3.1 pages) $6.95 [preview] Affirmative Action - Affirmative Action Affirmative action is a deliberate effort to provide full and equal opportunities in employment, education, and other areas for women, minorities, and individuals...
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...Many may argue as a counterpoint, that not all the clay pieces could have survived the long voyage. This point is also supported when stated “Whole clay pots were quite fragile, and I find it hard to imagine many such vessels surviving, that stressful “middle Passage” from Africa to the New World” (Ferguson, 3). Therefore, showing that although possible it is very unlike that many pots were brought to the New World, but that the pots, cups, and other items were created in the New World with the techniques that many have previous learned. In order to emphasize, the impact African Americans had on the American folk pottery one may consider and analyze the work of David Drake, otherwise known as Dave the Potter. David Drake is known for his exceptional ceramic work with making vessels and from his ability to incorporate literacy, from phrases to poetry into his work. He was one of the few slaves who knew how to read or write and he was also able to sign his signature on his own work, which at the time was highly looked down upon, and very unheard...
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...The Black Experience: 1865 to Present Valery Taylor HIS 204 Prof. Steven Harn September 10, 2012 The Black Experience: 1865 to Present In the late nineteenth century our country has been defined by native born versus immigrants, rich versus poor and worker versus capitalist. But, in the former Confederacy, despite the call for the New South after Reconstruction tension still focused on the relationships between blacks and whites. Being of African American decent and raising a African American son I can still see the systematic effects of segregation, discrimination and isolation. However, through the civil rights movements of the past African American have attained equal rights in the present. In this paper, I will take a journey through the historical timeline of slavery. In addition, I will discuss historical events from 1865 to present that ended segregation, discrimination and isolation to attain equal rights. Africans were shipped to North America as Slaves in the 1600's, by 1787 the writers of the United States Constitution decided that slaves will count as three fifth of a person when deciding how many representative each state will have in Congress. In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was designed to maintain the number of free and slave states. During that period there were many notable freed slave that played significant roles in the advancement of the slaves. Isabella Baumfree also know as Sojourner Truth played a significant role...
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...different case of police brutality being flashed across our television screens. Police Brutality is very detrimental in our society today because it start riots, upset citizens, and implement fear of future incidents in the hearts of civilians. Just the thought of police brutality saddens citizens all across the country. There has been many cases where officers who were accused of committing police brutality have been pardoned by the judge. Majority of those incidents resulted in citizens rioting. Riots can become very devastating. Business owners are affected drastically. During riots, businesses run the risk of being broken in to, and even set on fire. The incident in Ferguson is a prime example of this type of event. It has been one year since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. This particular incident sent shock waves throughout the US. Although devastating, this was not the only case. There has been numerous reported and unreported similar cases. We could only hope that this epidemic cease to exist. Police brutality instills anger in the hearts of many American citizens. African Americans are usually the victims of police brutality, therefore it hits the black communities pretty hard. Civilians start protesting and harming themselves, as well as others. An angry America is a terrible one. Millions of angry citizens would be detrimental to the survival of the unity of any Judkins 2 country. Citizens should not have to endure police...
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...“Órdenes Eficientes no Planificados en el Mundo de los Negocios” El concepto de “orden espontáneo” juega un papel muy importante dentro de la economía, Taoist Chuang Tzu (369 B.C-286 B.C) quién según los datos, fue el primero en definir este concepto, dice así; “Los buenos órdenes resultan espontáneamente cuando se dejan las cosas a sí mismas”. El trasfondo de esta frase se refiere a que en muchas circunstancias sociales, no se necesita de una intervención planificada para llegar a un fin (orden), más bien significa que el orden espontáneo sucede cuando diferentes personas interactúan entre sí por la búsqueda de una meta individual. Cómo lo explica Adam Ferguson (1782) “Orden espontáneo es el resultado de la acción humana y no de un diseño humano” Cómo grandes ejemplos de órdenes espontáneos en nuestras vidas cotidianas tenemos las culturas, los idiomas, el internet, etc. Lo anterior implica que se crean ordenes espontáneamente cuando las personas por voluntad propia, en afán de poder mejorar sus circunstancias personales, ven oportunidades de negocio, sin que nadie intervenga en la organización. Dichas oportunidades de negocio a la larga mientras más acción se involucre sobre ellas, estas van formando una parte importante del mundo de los negocios. De acuerdo al diccionario de la Real Academia Española, “negocios es la utilidad o interés que se logra en lo que se trata, comercia o pretende”. Tomando los conceptos anteriormente mencionados se podría inferir que...
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...continued to be enforced until 1965. Starting in 1890 America came up with a “separate but equal” status for African Americans. The Jim Crow Laws were were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages. In essence the Jim Crow laws were about power, power of one race over the other. These laws really highlighted the flaws and weakness of human nature. It was a group of people asserting power over another for the pride of a political system that was the cost of many American lives during the Civil War. One of the many court cases that was very important especially concerning the Jim Crow laws was the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case. Homer Plessy a man of mixed race (one eighth African descent) boarded a train in Louisiana that had a “whites only” sign. When he sat in the white section he was asked to get up and once he refused he was then arrested and put on trial. Plessy’s lawyers argued that the state law which required Louisana to segregate trains had denied him his rights under the 13th and 14th amendments...
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...36). Do The Right Thing has unconventional genre elements because the film is a drama, but there is also humor within the film as well. There are brutal scenes like the dropping of vulgar racial slurs or the murder of Radio Raheem, but there are also humorous moments like the three old men against the red wall make fun of Buggin Out’s hairline. Newman also says, “In many independent films that have challenging narrative structures, there often is a weak character-based or thematic motivation carried by a stronger play-based one.” (pg.40). I think this is also true with characters as emblems, characters like Da Mayor who is a drunkard but represents low income, middle-age African American males who left their family because they couldn’t support them financially. Ironically, he is always preaching do the right thing, saving a child’s life, and trying to make good. Da Mayor I think is a weak character-based, and Mookie is the stronger play-based character who carries thematic motivation. Mookie is the one character who attempts to do the right thing, but is constantly being pushed by his girlfriend, Vito, and other members of the Bed Stuy community. I think the Lee successfully uses narrative structure in a way that we aren’t used to seeing. The most prominent theme in Do The Right Thing is racism. Throughout the entire film we see the effects of racism throughout the community in Bed Stuy. There is a specific scene in the film when Mookie, Vito, the Korean shopkeeper, the Puerto...
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...Jo. K. H. Prof. C. English 1A 16 December 2014 Some police officers take advantage of their authoritative positions with excessive brutality and, in some cases, the misuse of deadly force, which is resulted from racism and the known lack of consequences. Blacks and whites have had different historical experiences with the criminal justice system. Largely, whites see the law as a power to serve and protect their rights and their acreage in a democracy. While, blacks have been more likely to view law as a force that denies their rights. For years the judicial system refused to offer protection to blacks from slave owners, white rapists, and even racist mobs. In 1693, Philadelphia court officials “authorized the police to take up any "Negro" seen "gadding about" without a pass from his or her master” (Chaney). This judiciary command, to stop and detain any black found on the road, gave no distinction between free or slave blacks. The Black Codes of the Southern region permitted militiamen (soldiers who are also civilians) to arrest and restrain blacks whose presence aroused suspicion (Staples). The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, jeopardized not only law enforcement officials, but also average citizens with hefty fines if they failed to assist in the arrest of alleged runaway slaves, when the doubt could be grounded only on written claims; likewise, free and enslaved blacks didn’t have the right or ability to represent themselves in court against such claims (Staples). Alongside...
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