...sentenced to death than those who killed blacks. (Pierce & Radelet, Santa Clara Law Review, 2005). For over one hundred years there have been adamant efforts to abolish capital punishment in America. (Davis, 1957) The death penalty has been a constant controversy amongst American citizens. There are many standpoints to be taken on the dispute. Supporters of the death penalty plead that it can be justified with sufficient due process, while others contradict that a human’s life is irreplaceable and that every person has the right to live. In order to gain a deeper understanding and a better idea of the death penalty and its development into modern day society, it is crucial to examine the historical lawsuits that have been decided in favor or against the capital punishment in America. In 1987 a monumental lawsuit hit the Supreme Court. McCleskey vs. Kemp 481 U.S. 279, (1987), ruling that McCleskey was to be sentenced to death for an armed robbery that resulted in the murder of a police officer. Appealing for his life, McCleskey argued that studies proved that racial discrimination lived with in capital punishment rulings. He heavily relied on a study conducted by Professor David C. Baldus also known as “Baldus Study”. His study concluded that black defendants were more likely to be punished with capital punishment than white defendants, especially if the victim was white. McCleskey tried to state that this proved his sentence was unconstitutional due to the Fourteenth Amendment...
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...The Bank of America - Capital Structure GB 550-01 Financial Management TABLE OF CONTENTS The Bank of America Abstract I. Introduction History of the Bank of America A. Corporate Structure B. Bank Ranking C. Impact from Recession II. Financial Markets A. Domestic Markets B. Global Markets C. Mergers and Acquisitions III. Capital Structure A. Growth Opportunities B. Business Risks C. Tax Position IV. Conclusion V. Summary VI. References Abstract This paper explores the turmoil the banking industry has faced during this current economic recession focusing primarily on the Bank of America, the role they played during the recession and their focus to conquer the global market to become the largest financial institution in the world. The Bank of America is operating in over 150 countries with over 6,000 retail banking offices and over 18,000 ATMs in the United States. During this recession, the Bank of America’s ranking fell considerable and were forced to lay off over 100,000 employees. The Bank of America operates offices in more than 20 global countries including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Canada. A critical move for the Bank of America is investing their attention to the growth of their overseas operations. Currently, the Bank of America owns a minority stake in China Construction Bank. The Bank’s interest in growing overseas is motivated by opportunities...
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...Heather Burrus GE 217 11/27/13 Project Part E Should America Continue to Use Capital Punishment? Capital punishment can have many different affects on people, depending on the circumstances at hand. No one really knows if they are for or against capital punishment until something personally happens to them or a family member which makes them see the issue in a whole different light. My own personal experience has made me look at capital punishment a completely different way. I have very mixed emotions on the death penalty; a part of me believes that if a person takes another person’s life that they should get the death penalty and than there is the other part of me that believes that the person should spend the rest of their life in prison without parole, so they can suffer the consequences of there actions. There are numerous families and loved ones of murder victims that support alternatives to the death penalty for many reasons. For instance, the death penalty process has a traumatizing experience on the families, which is often requires them to relive the pain and suffering of the death of their loved one for many years. Having life without parole provides certain punishment without the endless reopening of wounds. “There are hundreds of millions of dollars that are spent on the death penalty each year. If we were to replace the death penalty with life in prison without parole, we would save million of dollars which than could be spent...
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...Hunger in America Why are so many people starving? Why are so many Americans starving? Children Starving on Side of Road 1 Every day people throw perfectly good food away without a second thought. Many people do not realize that many Americans spend most of their days starving or without food. In 2012, 49 million people did not have enough food in their homes; 15.9 million of them were children (“Hunger”). Hunger is not just in the third world countries, it is also here in America and people need to realize this. Can we end hunger in America? Where is there the most hunger? Mississippi 20.9% Arkansas 19.7% Texas 18.4% Alabama 17.9% North Carolina 17.0% Georgia 16.9% Missouri 16.7% Nevada 16.6% Ohio 16.1% California 15.6% (“Hunger”) Americans have all the power to end hunger in America. There are so many things that people and the government can do to help. The 2014 Hunger Report has a plan to end hunger by the year 2030. This plan consists of a jobs agenda, a stronger safety net, human capital development, and public-private partnerships to help innovative community led initiatives against hunger (“Ending”). If people just help out in any way possible hunger could be stopped...
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...still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents. So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans. That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet. These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights. Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met. On this...
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...Chapter Summary: The Spanish took over the Caribbean, Mexico, and Peru. They also wanted to conquer the Americas. Most of the native people were forced into slavery or they were swept away by the smallpox. Colonies were made in North America. The Europeans were beginning to mix with the indigenous people, even though there were still social and sexual hierarchies. Silver became quite important, so laborers were sent to mine for silver. There were three different labor systems; one came right after the other. Until the free laborer system got set in place. Europeans began settling in Australia, even though there wasn’t much trade going on at the time. Many more people traveled to the Pacific after Magellan and Captain Cook. I. Colliding Worlds...
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...a high purchasing power. The quality would be at a high level as well as exclusive design products. STL and CH’s contract would allow for the start up of worldwide expansion of her firm. 305 stores have been opened in 23 countries. STL has a unified, quasi-integrated and global management model, permitting a large degree of verticalization. Technically it is not a “Just-in-time production system”. Instead, it is classified as a quick response system. 2. CH’s internationalization process began in 2002 with the opening of its Miami store. It’s most current important markets are the United States and South America. By 2010, the brand had expanded to 23 countries and the majority of it’s total sales were from international sales. Her fame quickly spread throughout the United States and South American countries due to her nationality and her line dedicated to the fashion capital of the United States, New York. 3. The company changed the management model to facilitate the internationalization process because growth had become limited in the domestic market. 4. Internationalization has been increasing in the clothing and fashion sector. The setting is becoming more and more competitive. A motivating factor CH is brand awareness in foreign countries to create the existence of consumer groups in their demand market. The development of international trade is beginning to abolish barrier to export and import. 5. The first method of entry is its own point of sales or branches....
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...As the throne changed over from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the English began to create settlements in the Americas. Starting in the Chesapeake Bay area, the English traveled to the North in search of profit and power. The British empire looked for way to decrease the power of the large empires of France and Spain. In 1606, the current king of England created the Virginia Company, starting the voyages and creation of the English empire in the eastern portion of North America. When to Tudor family lost the throne to the Stuarts, King James I, previously James VI of Scotland, came to power. Different from the previous family of rulers, King James I encouraged the thought that only sovereigns answered to God. As he came into to power, the Church of England was divided. The divided Church constituted of reformist Puritans and conservative Anglicans. As a way to create more English power in the Americas, King James I created a joint-stock company, known as the Virginia Company. He hoped to gain profit and to weaken the powerful France and Spain. In May, 1607, the Virginia Company settled the first perpetual colony in Virginia. The men and boys settled near a river about 40 miles...
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...beads. When the settlement first moved to Manhattan, there were fewer than 300 people living in New Amsterdam. The settlement grew quickly and by 1760, surpassed Boston and became the second-largest city in the American colonies. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 to 1790. Around 1810, New York became the largest city in the Western Hemisphere with a population of around 202,589. In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and changed its name to New York. Thereafter, the population of New York City grew larger and became more diverse. This diverse population included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France, Germany as well as indentured servants and African slaves. During the 1760s and 1770s, New York City was a center for anti-British activity. For example, after the British Parliament...
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...Paragraph 1 Intro---A Land As God Made It, Jamestown and the Birth of America, is a book written by James Horn, who is president of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, and is an author of numerous books about the colonization of North America, including works such as A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke (2010). The work, A Land As God Made It, is written to show a detailed, and insightful perspective of looking at the purpose of Jamestown. The book is about showing a time line, and how the settlement of Jamestown was very much a business opportunity for profit by the Virginia Company, as well as investors, in another attempt of creating a successful settlement for the expansion and growth of England...
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...The New Netherlands The New Netherlands was the first Dutch colony in North America. Before the New Netherlands Henry Hudson explored the area next to a river and later on, that river was named after him, The Hudson River. The new netherlands was located on parts that are now New York, New Jersey, connecticut, Pennsylvania and delaware. The colonists wanted to go to new netherlands because all lot of people who didn’t make a lot of money in Europe and they hope to own land of their own and make some money for of crops and fur. 1614 to 1664 In 1664 the english took the colony for the dutch by force The New Netherlands was in places that are now New York and New Jersey Click here for a timeline Trading fur with...
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...Dylan Pena A post capitalistic world with money as the currency there is no limit on how much you can have of it. Thus making it priority one for the means to sustain life. Others with greed and big businesses that make their money with profit or so called capital. Starting with the three easy steps or so essentials to start witch are land labor and capital, but there is one additional step to that process which is knowledge. This is where the professional workers or brain workers if you will. That have and now taken over the capitalist way. Making it a world of professionals pro workers for short making the big dollars as well as fixing there pay for them and third other fellow pro workers. Knowledge one of the most powerful tools the human has, it is the source of all power. In this world how to make a tremendous amount of money. 1981 numbers showing that the working class growing hugely in the numbers in soviet Russia 75% of the work force were the non-labor pro workers. Making its way to the United States with increasing numbers the jobs more desirable but a scarcity of where the high paying jobs. Where are we going with this well that like earlier the more knowledge you have the more power to you? Well knowing how things work to get the connection to get those jobs that fit the criteria for a brain worker rather not to end up as a drudge worker digging ditches. Working the way to the top of the corporate ladder, not minding those below. Why not, well because even though...
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...THEORIES OF THE LOCATION OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT 1. INTRODUCTION The movement of capital as foreign direct investment (FDI) that has been seen in the world, and their concentrations at international and regional level has led, for decades now, to the emergence of various theories that intend to explain and justify why that motivate and manage to be determining what factors to establish the place in which it was made. The main ideas of these approaches are discussed briefly herein in order to elaborate on this phenomenon, although there is no agreed explanation regarding the causes of the location of this type of investment and of the features that must meet the destination to attract this level of investment. FDI globally decreased 18% in 20121, reaching USD 1.35 billion. The fragile state of the global economy and the uncertain situation in politics were the main causes. Considering the estimates of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), by the end of the year 2013 FDI will have reached a level close to the 2012 level. With the gradual improvement in macroeconomic conditions globally will increase investor confidence in the medium term, "transnational corporations (TNCs) could convert their record levels of cash holdings in new investments. FDI flows could then reach the level of 1.6 billion dollars in 2014 and 1.8 billion in 2015 "(see Figure 1), although the agency warns that there is a risk that a decline in FDI share...
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...technological, socio-political factors with the world. And with globalisation, with the mutual co-operation and assistance -particularly with reference to the law of comparative advantage- it is going to be beneficial. Globalisation also helps reducing the poverty level in the country-there are plenty of evidences and record to support it.Developing countries specially require globalization. Because Indians are very rich in resources of skilled manpower.So Other countries are interested to invest in India.We don’t have that much funds/money to make very huge industries or developments.There is no shame to invite other countries for investing.lot of advantages are there..employment,infrastructure development,tourism , foreign exchange and etc..Even America would be nowhere if globalisation was an imaginary concept never put forward. Half the world’s countries would be reeling in depression right now if not for globalisation. For example, petroleum, most countries are on the verge of depleting their entire reserves and some countries don’t have it at all. Seeing this if not for globalisation the entire world would be left crippled due to the massive energy crisis facing them. while globalisation is necessary it is not sufficient to ensure communities gain from globalisation. To keep and spread the gains,government must not only reduce barriers to trade and investment, they must also get domestic policies right. Many people may think that globalisation is making poor countries poorer. However...
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...Table of contents Introduction in Macro-economy………………………………………..3. Unemployment………………………………………………………….5. Labor, Land ,Capital…………………………………………………6,7,8. Currency&Inflation……………………………………………………. .9. Hyperinflation…………………………………………………………..10. Demand and Supply…………………………………………………….11. Conclusion………………………………………………………………12 Introduction of Macro-economy It is perhaps mostly for this reason that macroeconomics, the study of these economy-wide phenomena, is so exciting. Macroeconomics is more than just headlines, however; it is a fascinating intellectual adventure. The breadth of issues it covers is evidence enough of its inherent complexity. All the same, we will see that simple economic reasoning can take us a long way. And it is often surprising how well a few simple ideas fit complex situations. Macroeconomics can also be useful. The economic well-being of all consumers, rich or poor, is afected by movements in interest rates, exchange rates, and the rate of inflation. Businesses stand to gain or lose considerable amounts of money when their economic environment changes, regardless of how well they are managed. Being prepared for such changes in fortunes can have considerable value; more generally, it makes us all better citizens able to grasp the complex challenges that our societies face. Macroeconomics is relevant to voters who wonder what their governments are up to, and can also help governments avoid the worst economic crises that have a7icted modern industrial...
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