...In the 1800 there were tons of railroads but none of them connected the pacific ocean to the atlantic ocean. Tons of people tried to connected the pacific ocean to the atlantic ocean but there plans never came threw. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed the pacific railroad act. That's when they started building the transcontinental railroad. The transcontinental railroad would connect the two oceans. With the help from the central pacific railroad company and the union pacific railroad company they started the build for the railroad. Leland Stanford got a lot of credit for starting the build for the Transcontinental railroad. He was the president of the central pacific railroad company. His company would work west from Omaha Nebraska. The union pacific railroad company would work east from sacramento,california. The two companies worked at different side of the country and met together in the middle of the country to build the transcontinental railroad faster....
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...Andrew Carnegie came from humble begins, born in Scotland on 25th November 1835. He and his parents stayed in Scotland until 1848 when they went to America, due to the economic depression. He had his first job at the age of 12 in a cotton factory but his knew that he had to continue to get an education by going to night school. “At 14 Carnegie became a messenger boy in the local Pittsburgh Telegraph Office. His abilities were noticed by Thomas A. Scott, the superintendent of the western division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He made Carnegie his secretary. During the Civil War Scott was appointed assistant secretary of war and Carnegie went to Washington to work as his right-hand man. Carnegie's work included organizing the military telegraph system.” (Spartacus School Net, 2011). The work that he did with Mr. Scott was the stepping stone that he needed to start his climb to the top. Carnegie took over as the superintendent of the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. “Carnegie shrewdly invested in several promising ventures including the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company and several small iron mills and factories. The most important of these was Keystone Bridge, a company which he owned a one-fifth share. Carnegie made regular visits to Britain where he observed the rapid developments in the iron industry. He was especially impressed by the converter invented by Henry Bessemer. Carnegie realized that steel would now replace iron for the manufacture of heavy goods.”(Spartacus School...
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...Fact Pattern: Butler Lumber is a retail distributor located in a growing suburb in the Pacific Northwest that sells basic wood products like plywood, moldings, and sash and door products. The company was formed in 1981 by Mark Butler in partnership with his brother-in-law, who Mark then bought out in 1988. The company has experienced significant growth over the past few years, and is expecting to continue to see sales growth in the coming year. Although the company has experienced increasing sales and claims to be profitable, it has been experiencing a cash shortage and Mark feels that it is going to be necessary to borrow more money in addition to the debt that he has already incurred over the course of the past few years in order to continue business. The bank that Butler has been conducting business with, Suburban National Bank, has a maximum allowable loan value of $250,000. Mark has had a difficult time staying below this debt limit, and only has been able to do so by relying on trade credit. Suburban has also now decided that it will begin requiring Butler to secure any additional debt with real property as collateral. Another larger bank, Northrop National Bank, is a larger establishment and has discussed the possibility with Mark of possibly extending a line of credit to Butler of up to $465,000. Although Mark believes that the $465,000 is more than he will need to borrow, he likes the idea of having the flexibility of the additional cash. Mark is faced with...
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...As transportation in America has continued to evolve and expand in America the transportation policy has lacked the same evolvement and growth. Faced with an ever growing population and an economy that depends on transportation more than ever, American transportation network is based on a policy that has not been significantly updated since the 1950’s. With a policy that is so out of date it has become increasingly hard to secure funding to maintain and build new roads, this is where the issue of federalism arrives. Working with the federal, state and local government there has to be a solution to the transportation policy. The Transportation Policy as we know it today started as the Interstate program according to Shirayanagi, H., & Kitamura, Y. (2011) “in 1956 also called the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act, appropriated $25 billion (about $197 billion in 2009 dollars) to build 41,000 miles of multi-lane, limited access highways.” (p.253) While it was done to connect states and make it easier for economic center to connect it helped develop travel within cities themselves. These highways were built with 90 percent federal funding the only problem was that the local government did not get any money to improve the transportation systems. Fast-forward to August 2005 according to Shirayanagi, H., & Kitamura, Y. (2011) “ the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: (SAFETEA-LU) which is our current transportation policy signed by President George W. Bush...
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...time. If you had to cross the country you would have to go in a group over a long distance. In 1869 tracks were build by people around the whole world, they tried to get people from other countries. The workers get lowed paid for hard work hours; Indians also could attack them any moment, which made the job very dangerous. This was not very social and friendly from America because they got other people from around the world to do dangerous work. They told them that they would pay them good and that their family would be taken care of. The truth is that they did not do any of these things. Basically they led other people from around the world like China does their dangerous job and not well-paid job. They called the track ’The union Pacific Railroad’ It was one of the largest tracks back in the days, it started in New York and ends in San Francisco. (3) (4) To sum all of this up the steam had a very big impact on the economical and social...
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...Johnny st.hilaire My Dream House Johnny st.hilaire My Dream House ` DREAM HOUSE My dream house, what would it be what would it look like it, and most important where will I build it. I like the countryside wide open areas, maybe farm lands with some animals. But I do like the city life with the nose, rude people, and heavy traffic on the high way. There is pros and cons to both environment, the countryside close to no air pollution, but less services you need to travel more to access services. The pros and cons of the city life more cultural opportunities, more diversity of people, more opportunities for higher education, better services like trash collection, water and sewer, cons more crime, more pollution, higher costs living. So as you can see I am little undecided about my dream house so. I am just going to explain two type of dream houses and locations one countryside and one in the city. First the city it would most likely be in Broward County a lake front home of course “I love water”. It would be 3 story house because it’s very hard to build full basements here. So one of the floors would be more like a half basement because the property will have a 3 car garage. The outside of the house would be a dark brown wood siding, and then a simple rock base that goes up about 1 feet on the house to give the old house effect. The side facing the water would be all glass so we can always look out to the gorgeous...
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...Background: John D. Rockefeller, Sr. is remembered as one of the foremost capitalists in American history. Rockefeller was rare in that he had two qualities that are almost never found in one person. He was the entrepreneurial salesmen who started a company, and an arduous bookkeeper who grew and extended the company. Recalling some of the great names from the turn of this century - Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, William Hearst and Henry Ford - the name Rockefeller is always required to complete the roll call. Rockefeller, in his lifetime, was both the most admired and most hated businessman in America. Considered one of the Great Robber Barons, the name Rockefeller has changed from very negative connotations at the turn of this century to a mostly positive one by the end of it. The John D.Rockefeller, Sr. story is really the story of the American oil industry. From an unused commodity in the early 1800's to the major global economic industry it is today, the story of oil is the story of Standard Oil and a man named Rockefeller and it continues till today. Rockefeller dropped out of high school at age 15 and went to a 2 year business college. At this college he learned the skill of double entry accounting. He was a meticulous and adept bookkeeper. After graduation Rockefeller began looking for his first job. He had little interest in thinking small. He made a list of the biggest businesses in Pennsylvania and started going door to door. He’d walk into the business and up...
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...Pros and Cons of Unions Today GB 541: Employment Law Unit 6: Research Paper Assignment (Final) June 12, 2014 Prof. K. Rauch Unions in America Currently, there is are over 60 unions representing over 14 million workers throughout the country. A labor union is defined as an organization intended to represent the collective interests of workers in negotiations with employers over wages, hours and working conditions. Labor unions are often industry-specific and tend to be more common in manufacturing, mining, construction, transportation and the public sector (Labor Unions, 2014). Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") in 1935 to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, businesses and the U.S. economy (National Labor Relations Act, 2014). Labor union s are mostly associated with Democratic Party and supports them during election. When unions are powerful, they boost the incomes of not only their members but also of nonunion workers in their sector or region. Labor unions strive to improve the lives of all working families by bringing economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. Also, it is important because most corporations focus on creating profits at the expense of employees. History Unions are very prevalent in the United States presently and has a long history...
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... When Scott moved up to become general superintendent for the railroad, Carnegie, at the age of 24, took over his position within the Pittsburgh division. Carnegie worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad for 12 years, leaving in 1865 (Biography.com, 2010). His first steps toward big business were his investments in a sleeping car company and oil. Both investments paid off handsomely (n.d.). Then, in 1864, he turned towards the iron business. He had contracts with the railroad to build new bridges out of iron replacing the existing wooden ones. In 1872, Carnegie learned the Bessemer process which converted iron into steel. Steel was more flexible than iron and lasted longer (PBS, 1999). In 1875 he opened the biggest steel mill in the world. His final step toward being one of the wealthiest men in the nation was expansion. He bought competitor mills and built new ones. By doing this he had control over the industry and could ensure profits at all stages (Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, Stoff 2006). In 1901, Carnegie sold his business to J.P. Morgan for $480 million (PBS, 1999). The reason Carnegie did so well is because he knew business. He took advantage of the economy and bought things when they were the cheapest. By doing this he could keep cost down and sell at prices below what his competitors were selling. “For every step of the process, he owned exactly what he needed: the raw materials, ships and railroads for transporting the goods, and even coal fields to fuel the steel...
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...Railroads were shut down because they were destroyed and there was no money to fix the railroad when damaged and and when they needed new locomotives and new cars. There were also no money because because they didn't have anyone to do their work because they had released all of their slaves. The people in the north found it an easy way to make a quick dollar so they went down to the south and looking to work and work off of the depression of the southern states. Most of the trade ships were destroyed by the union blockade. There were also the people called carpet baggers that fed on the misery and on the depression of the south and people that had no money. (RAY...
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...Sumner opens the article with an observation of what he reads in the newspaper. He states he is reading an article that poses a limit to be placed on the wealth of an individual. He then begins to say that men are taught to accumulate wealth from childhood and the concept of having too much wealth would cause young men to question the pros and cons of being wealthy. “There is an old ecclesiastical prejudice in favor of the poor and against the rich” (Sumner, 1883, p.43-57), begins Sumner’s argument about social inequality. He argues that it’s when a person who works his way up from poverty to wealth is a good citizen until he acquires too much wealth (Sumner, 1883). It also appears that he does not agree with giving to the poor who have never tried to become successful. Although, he does state that for some poor men who never received a chance, they should be helped enough so that they can help themselves to better their life. He also examines what it takes to be a leader: “Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. Let any one try to get a railroad built, or to start a factory and win reputation for its products, or to start a school and win a reputation for it, or to found a newspaper and make it a success, or to start any other enterprise, and he will find what obstacles must be overcome, what risks must be taken, what perseverance and courage are required, what foresight and...
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...Employment & Legal Issues: Former Employee’s Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Constructive Discharge Claim Western Governors University Internal Memorandum To: CEO, Toy Company From: Student Date: November 3, 2014 Subject: Former Employee’s Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Constructive Discharge Claim Constructive Discharge * A constructive discharge occurs when an employer "deliberately makes an employee's working conditions so intolerable that the employee is forced into an involuntary resignation." (Jenkins V. State of Louisiana Department Of Corrections, 874 F2d 992 (5th Circuit 1989, June 7) bullet point 12) * A constructive discharge generally happens when an employer creates a working environment/conditions that are so unbearable for a reasonable employee that would result for that reasonable employee to resign. * At the start of the year, the company implemented a new production schedule policy that required all production employees to work 4, 12 hour shift with the following 4 days off Sunday through Saturday. The policy was implemented to accommodate the company’s growth and production needs and it was not based on race, color, religions, sex, or national origin etc. A former employee has filed a constructive discharge claim against the Toy Company, claiming that he/she was decimated against based on religion by forcing he/she to work on their religion holy days. The working conditions have not been made unbearable...
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...Jones Blair Company Case Synopsis Jones Blair Company (JBC) is a privately held corporation that produces and markets architectural paint and primarily serves the Southwestern part of United States. The company markets its paint and sundry items in more than 50 counties in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and New Mexico. Headquarter for the company is located in Dallas, Texas where it does most of it business. The Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan area is the major source of business as well as the financial center in the southwestern service area. JBC mainly target do-it-yourself customers who make up 50% of their sales and professional painters who make 25% of sales. The company sells top quality architectural paint and accessories at the highest price to various markets. They also sell original equipment manufacturing (OEM) materials throughout the U.S and worldwide. Though JBC’s sales have increased on annual basis the sales volume remained same. And since the competition in the industry has increased over the years the company fear facing a plateau in price. The company is also facing a major dilemma and must maintain their growth and profit margin, but in order to do so they have to increase their sales in a mature market. Therefore, the company has to decide what market to target (Southwestern part like Dallas Forth-Worth or surrounding areas), who to target (do-it yourselfers or professionals), and how in order to expand their brand and market share. This case will examine...
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...solutions. • Make a choice of solution. • Put the choice into action by implementing it. • Monitor or evaluate the decision after its implementation. About ten years ago, I had to make a professional and personal decision. It did not matter the choice, the other would be affected. I worked on the road and was only home maybe 30 days out of the year. This applied so much stress to my family with kids growing, my wife taking care of everything and me living in motel to motel across the country (the problem). I was a regional supervisor of a dominate railroad construction outfit and was based in the southern part of the country from east to west. One day, my wife told me she was breaking down and the children missed their father. They was living a very good life with plenty of money, new everything, always going to parks and other attractions. But something yet lacked, their dad. I began to make a list of Pros and Cons of quitting my job and going home. The list contained jobs with local companies, the pay, benefits, and other aspects (generate alternate solutions). After careful analyzing, I began to call them one by one to gain more insight as to which would benefit my family the most (evaluation of solutions). Eventually, I found the best fit. I could be home with my family every day, still provide, and have a normal family life. So I made the leap, I quit...
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...This would solve the issue of some decisions not being able to be passed because there is no majority. So therefore, by joining Confederation, it would then mean that this issue would be over and more political opportunities would be able to happen. The impact that confederation had on Nova Scotia are both good as well as bad. Starting with the pros, it made trading much easier as the possibility of a railroad was much higher. It also would help give them much better protection from the Fenians, who where a secret society of Irish patriots who had emigrated all the way from Ireland to the United States, and British and Canadian officials had taken this threat quite seriously. By joining Confederation it gives them better protection from these people, and therefore they would not have to worry as much. Lastly a very important point is that it would help to improve the economy because there would be more trading opportunity. Now moving onto the cons of Nova scotia joining Confederation and the impact it had. They would lose the chance to have free trade with the United States, and also they would not have any say in what Canada does and anything that happens in it due to the fact of them being so small. The people of Nova Scotia would benefit from them joining into Confederation because of the boost in economy that there was due...
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