...In the early 19th century, when the United States had not yet enforced the Bill of Rights in all states, Earl Warren grew up witnessing the injustices of crime and the court system on individual’s rights. From the time he was just a college student working in a law office in Berkeley to advancing his career as Chief Justice of the U.S Supreme Court, he envisioned a nation in which everyone was treated equal under the law. Having a more realistic philosophy of the law, Warren often went against the majority and was quick to put to action his leadership abilities in cases having to deal with individual’s rights. Warren stressed the importance of protecting individual’s civil rights and liberties by diminishing racial segregation and injustices of the court system. Warren’s experiences with crime in his young adulthood influenced many of the decisions he made during his 16-year term. He was very dedicated...
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...James Earl Ray had a long criminal history. You could even say he was a career criminal. Even the army would not keep him due to his behavior. He lacked discipline and from what I can tell a moral compass. During 1968 he assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, while he was on the run after escaping prison 11 months prior. (2017) James Earl Ray used several aliases while traveling and purchasing items. According to Saferstein, there was a package left at the scene after the assassination containing a package that held a high powered rifle equipped with a scope, beer cans, binoculars, a receipt for binoculars and clothes. Also there was a white ford mustang observed leaving the scene but prior a man fitting the description of James Earl Ray observed running down the hallway of the hotel shortly after the shot was fired. Now as an innocent person, hearing a...
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...relatively well-governed and somewhat prosperous kingdom; the country was cleverly run. The division of land and the hierarchy as well as the coinage, trade, towns and frequent invasions all suggest that pre-conquest England was prosperous and well-governed. However, the possible threats from the Earls to the King, the Danegeld and the King not having an heir suggest, England was less prosperous and more unstable. In the eleventh century England had developed into a sophisticated and highly organised state. The kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex and East Anglia had become earldoms. Earldoms were territorial units that covered large areas each of which was controlled by an Earl. Each earldom was further divided into shires. The shire was the administrative state and the unit of local government of England, the means of which the kings enforced taxation and law. Each shire was divided into hundreds, an area covering a dozen or so villages. The smallest unit of land was a hide and this was the measurement of productive agricultural land that was taxable. Each level of this hierarchy had its own mini leader. For example, each shire was managed by a sheriff and each sheriff was controlled by an earl. All parts of the Earldoms were controlled by the monarch. This organised system demonstrates that there was a very clear hierarchy in pre-conquest England. This would have made the country easy to run, especially for the kings of different countries such as Cnut the Great who was also king...
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...Harold, Earl of Wessex Today I leave my brother, King Edward, after long conversation. I will first go to the south coast with my Hawk, hunting dogs, and followers, to journey to my families estate in Sussex, Bosham. My companions and I have now reached Bosham. We will go to the church to pray to God that he watches over our voyage and keep us safe on our travels. After we have prayed we shale dine on a magnificent feast that will be prepared at the manor house. When morning comes I will board my ship hawk in hand and set sails. The morning had come and as planned we have set sails and are now crossing the channel. Land has been spotted by my lookout form upon the mast and I have been informed that it is Ponthieu, north of Normandy. This is the territory of the Count Guy. He is known to be a fierce man. I pray that this is not fact. The count is in fact a firce man. As soon we ported and I stepped from my ship I was seized by Count Guy’s soldiers as the Count sits horseback directing operations. I have now been taken prisoner but while the Count is a fierce man he did insure that I was treated with respect and allowed to ride in front with my hawk as we journeyed to his capital city of Beaurain. When we arrived to Beaurain, Count Guy...
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...all suggest that pre-conquest England was prosperous and well-governed. However, the possible threat to the king of the Earls and the countries comparatively undeveloped economy all suggest as less prosperous, more unstable England. My opinion is that they were given a good image due to how well they dealt with the invasion of the Scandinavians and their introduction of Danegeld it showed how wealthy and organised the kingdom was and how they could deal with all that tax. The land was divided into several parts. Primarily, the realm was divided into four earldoms (Mercia, Wessex, East Anglia and Northumbria) each of which was controlled by an Earl. These Earls were incredibly powerful. Each earldom was further divided into shires (like modern-day counties) hundreds and hides. Each level of this hierarchy had its own leader / representative, such as the sheriffs managing each shire under the Earls. This system demonstrates that there was a very clear hierarchy in pre-conquest England; which would have made the country far easier to manage and well governed because each division of land would have a local lord to manage it. I believe that it shows that Britain had a well devised system that meant that the country could run to its optimal ability. However, one issue of this system that could cause instability in the country was the power of the Earls. The Earls combined power easily eclipsed that of the Kings, meaning that if they worked together against him they could overthrow...
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...Facebook Unethical Use of User Data for Social Experimentation Bonita V. Earls Longwood University Abstract His paper explores the ethical impact of Facebooks 2012 study on emotional contagion in a social web environment. The study is controversial due to the fact Facebook researchers failed to follow standard ethical guidelines as set forth in the healthcare industry, failed to clearly communicate the study, its intentions, and methodology to its users, and manipulated data in such a way it invoked emotional and mood changes of its unaware users. The idea of algorithmic program use in the social media sphere comes into question as well. Introduction In January 2012, the news feeds of approximately 700,000 users of the popular social media site, Facebook, were manipulated in a manner so that some of its users only had positive news stories show up on their pages and others had only negative news stories show up. The experiment was conducted over the span of a week, from the 11th to the 18th, without the knowledge of the users (Kramer, 2014). According to the researchers, the goal was to see if “emotional contagion” occurs without direct interaction between people and in the absence of nonverbal cues. By manipulating the news stories, either all positive or all negative, they could study what effects, if any, there was on the moods of the users (LaChance, 2014). This is only one of many social experiments that the Facebook Core Data Science Team, has performed...
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...Venus.Caselberry Unit 1 IP MGMT250-1205B-1 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship January 17, 2013 Professor Ted Framan American Intercontinental University Abstract In this paper I will explore a question and the question is would you go into business for yourself? Or would you buy someone else business if you have worked for a company and they see what you can do within the company but you don’t know the business side of the company what would you do? Well in this paper that is a question that Bill has to think about. Bill has been ask by his boss Mr. Hugo if he would like to buy his Hugo has watch Bill in the company and know what Bill can do. Introduction Over 12 years Bill had polished his skills under the watchful and critical eye of Mr. Hugo. He was quick to recognize Bills talent for the trade. Mr. Hugo knew that Bill had a good attitude about learning and a drive for perfection that Mr. Hugo admired. This is what you will read about in this paper. This is an e-mail to Bill. Which entrepreneurial/small business owner characteristics does Bill have that may be important to his success? The characteristics that Bill has that maybe important to his success is that Bill made sure that he polished his skills that were under the watchful eye of his boss Mr. Hugo. Hugo knew that Bill was a real craftsman when it came to him working with machinery. Bill also had a positive attitude in learning and displayed the drive for his perfection. Mr. Hugo loves...
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...Although, now researchers now have the data to back it up, proving that multitasking is in fact, a myth. Earl Miller, a Picower professor of neuroscience at MIT, stated that “switching from task to task, you think you're actually paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you're actually not.” Therefore, what is done is shifting the focus from one thing to the next. Miller compares this to talking on the phone and writing and email, which is nearly impossible. “You cannot focus on one while doing the other. That's because of what's called interference between the two tasks,” Miller stated. “They both involve communicating via speech or the written word, and so there's a lot of conflict between the two of them.” In a lab at the University of Michigan, researchers used an MRI scanner to take photographs of the test subjects' brains...
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...Buy a temporarily discounted copy of Acousmatic Sorcery Buy tickets for the Principles of a Protagonist tour ABOUT To say that 27-year-old Willis Earl Beal has lived a colourful life would be a serious understatement. The Chicago native will tell you that his life has been one of "monotony" - which it has at times - but stints in the army, an ongoing desire to be a superhero, bouts of serious illness and a stretch of sleeping rough in an unfamiliar desert town would suggest otherwise. As an outsider artist, Beal's career always existed just beyond his imagination, with a history of leaving homemade novels, artwork and CD-Rs across America to promote his work, suggesting a desperate desire to be heard. This practice of "gifting" - matched with a natural booming voice, rich with range and a talent for penning raw, beautiful melodies - led to early features in both Found and the Chicago Reader that changed his life's course. Beal's creativity caught the attention of Hot Charity / XL Recordings who released Acousmatic Sorcery in March, 2012 - an 11 song set Beal wrote and recorded on a discarded karaoke machine while living in Albuquerque, NM. Since the release of Acousmatic Sorcery, Willis Earl Beal has toured the world, performing in clubs and festivals with nothing more than his guitar and back-up tape machine to support him. Delivering soul baring performances night after night, Beal has been lauded for not only his vocal mastery but the intensity with which he performs...
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...Earl Warren was an incredibly influential figure in the political development of the United States during the twentieth century until now. Warren had been a part of several moving cases and movements which had strong ties to the termination of segregation, lack of equality, and several other cases. Earl Warren had been a major figure in politics, working his way up to becoming the elected district attorney of Alameda County, later on becoming the California attorney general in 1938, and last but not least, warren made his greatest mark in U.S. politics when he had become the governor of California in 1942. One of the most well renown and moving cases warren had been involved in was the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, where racial equality in schools was being stressed and...
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...In 1963, a man named Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested for breaking and entering into a pool hall in Panama City, Florida. His objective was to break into the building’s vending machines to steal money from them. Clarence was a very poor man who ran away from his home at a young age. He had the education of an eighth-grader. Clarence then became a drifter. He committed little crimes in order to gain small amounts of cash here and there. He was often caught and had become a regular in the county jail. Gideon once again found himself in the Florida court house, but this time he was in danger of up to a five-year jail sentence. Clarence was too poor to afford an attorney, and was never granted one. He had to handle every aspect of his trial all...
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...• 1952- NAACP supported group of legal challenges to seg. In public schools. Brown v. Board of Edu.- Linda Brown, Af.Am. student from Topeka. Schools prevented her from attending all white elementary school. NAACP lawyer, Thurgood Marshall argued on Brown's behalf. • Written by Justice Earl Warren, the opinion declared racial seg. Illegal in public schools. • By 1956-57 vast majority of S. schools sys. Remained seg. In Arkansas, school deseg. Was progressing w/ little opposition. Little Rock school was 1st in S. to announce that it would comply w/ Brown decision. • Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus spoke against deseg. Plan, ordered Nat. Guard to surround Central High. Of the nine black students, Elizabeth Eckford did not receive message that instructed her not to go to school alone • Under court order, Faubus removed Nat. Guard, white mob rioted. Eisenhower ordered 1000 fed. Troops to Little Rock. Sept 25, 1957- Little Rock Nine entered • Rosa Parks- refused to give up seat to white passenger and was arrested. In protest, many Mont.'s 50,000 Af.Am. org. boycott against bus sys., Mont. Improvement Assoc.- group of local civil rights leaders, persuaded comm. To continue to boycott while naacp and parks appealed her conviction. • MIA chose MLK as spokesperson. 1956- Supreme Court declared both Mont/ Alabama seg. Laws unconstit. Mont had a deseg. Bus sys. • Civil Rights act 1957- fed. Crime to prevent qualified persons from voting. Also set up Civil Rights Commission to...
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...U. S. Congressman, Alcee Hastings Alcee Lamar Hastings was appointed by former President Jimmy Carter and became the first African-American Federal Judge in the state of Florida. Currently, he is the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 23rd congressional district. Hastings has held this position since January 3, 1993. Prior to this position, Representative Hastings held the seat of Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida from November 2, 1979 until October 20, 1989. Representative Hastings just happens to be one of only eight federal officials in American history to be impeached and removed from office. Facts surrounding the Impeachment In 1983, Hastings was acquitted of conspiracy to solicit a $150,000 bribe. In 1989, while working as a Federal Judge, Alcee Hastings was found guilty of bribery and perjury and removed from office. However, in 1992 Hastings was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida. It was alleged that in 1985, Alcee Hastings improperly revelation of sensitive government information obtained through a federal wiretap. Third Chances A lawsuit has just been filed against Alcee Hastings (D-FL) by a former female employee is alleging that, over a period of two years, Hastings repeatedly made unwelcome sexual advances and crude comments towards her. The misconduct allegedly occurred while Hastings served as Chairman to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The former employee, Winsome...
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...Q 15DBQ 15: The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1964-2005 Liberals had dominated American society for most of the 1900s. The 1960s was widely known for being the age of counterculture, social reforms, and liberals. The era witnessed many advancements like racial equality such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a strong advancement in political liberalism, and a significant increase in the power and influence of government-funded social programs as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society reforms. Beginning with the election of Nixon, however, followed a gradual return to conservatism whether religiously, politically, or economically. The resurgence of conservatism in American politics and government in the years 1964-2005, was caused in reaction to 1960s liberal political, economic, and social policies as well as the rise of religious political groups and the controversy over the Vietnam War. The government's political and economic policies contributed to the rise of conservatism. Most notable of the federal reforms were initiated by liberal Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson and his Great Society schemes. His "War on Poverty" speech, delivered on March 16, 1964, called for a war on poverty to give people a second chance by spending millions on education, job training, housing, and healthcare. Johnson's intention was in some ways a conservative one. He wanted to give people a hand-up, not a hand-out and make them dependent on the money earned from taxing the more fortunate (Document...
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...14th Amendment. More specifically, it violated the equal protection clause by limiting them to a lesser learning environment and, therefore, not providing them with equal protection of the law. Marcus also brought in specialists who argued that segregation inhibits students’ abilities to learn by creating psychological problems and making them feel inferior. Based upon this argument, Judge Paul J. McCormick ruled that the equal protection clause had been violated and declared that separate could never be considered equal. This was the first time that the equal protection clause was used to combat segregation, and it proved itself to be utterly effective when the court ruled in favor of integration. Within months of this ruling, Governor Earl Warren had repealed the remaining school segregation statutes in the California Education Code. This included those of both Asian American and Native American students as well as Hispanic American students. While these races aren’t often thought of when it comes to the Civil Rights Movement, they certainly played a prominent role. Mendez v. Westminster is often overlooked because it was a state case and it did not involve African Americans, whom of which the...
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