Business Start Up Barclays Introduction Barclays is a major global financial services provider. It operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 156‚000 people. In 2008‚ Barclays had an income of £23 billion‚ generating a profit before tax of just over £6 billion. In the UK‚ Barclays has 741‚000 business customers. Many of these customers run relatively small enterprises; some are new business start-ups. Barclays offers a dedicated banking service for smaller enterprises called Local Business
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The New Jim Crow “Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans” states Michelle Alexander‚ (the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) )‚ in an interview with a nonprofit‚ independent publisher of educational materials known as Rethinking Schools. A perfect example of Michelle Alexander’s statement is Sonya Jennings who is an African American mother
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I listened to the audiobook version of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and as I listened I walked through the streets of Boston. One night as I listened to Michelle Alexander talk about how African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by the police‚ I came across two Emerson Police Officers forcing a black man to the ground. He knelt down with his hands in the air as they patted his body down. Maybe he had done something do deserve this treatment
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Jim Crow Rule Jim Crow was a dance made up by a white American. The dance and song itself were written by a comedian Thomas Dartmouth Rice‚ also known as Daddy Rice‚ in 1828‚ which depicted African-American culture. On the other hand‚ the performances were deriding slavery whilst poor African-Americans had to deal with the indignity. That was what the jumped Jim Crow dance and song was all about. The Jim Crow term can be defined as a system of racial oppression. Not long after the Civil War had
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Jim Jarmusch is one of the prominent post-modernist directors whose works produced a profound impression on the audience and often evoked quite controversial emotions. His films are very original and convey the authentic message of the author‚ but the director often chooses such means of conveying his ideas that his works are perceived in different way by different people. In fact‚ some people enjoy his films and believe they are genius‚ while‚ on the other hand‚ there are people who do not really
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1. Explain how organizations in the not-for-profit sector differ from organizations in the public sector or for-profit business sector. Provide an example of an entity in each sector. The discussion bellow tries to explain how organizations in the not-for-profit organizations differ from organizations in the public sector or for-profit business sector. The easiest way to understand the difference between the public‚ for-profit‚ and nonprofit sectors is to understand the constituents that each serves
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Strategic planning is to a business what a map is too a road rally driver. It is a tool that defines the routes that when taken will lead to he most likely probability of getting from where the business is to where the owners or stakeholders want it to go. Mission: An organization mission is its primary business or purpose. Vision: A vision is an ideal that an organization intends to pursue; it serves as an inspiration for the organization. Goals are broad‚ measurable aims that support the accomplishment
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Business Name Institution Marriot Hotel In some cases‚ organizations may decide to retain some of its profits instead of paying dividends. These funds are used to support various activities. These sources are referred to as the retained earnings to an organization such as Marriot hotel. The hotel utilizes funds‚ which could have been distributed to shareholders to finance further investment such as expansion‚ marketing and promotion. It may use the funds to support research
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racial profiling. She worked at private law firms specializing in plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits regarding racial and gender discrimination. She then later became a writer. In The New Jim Crow she exployed the prejustice that black people face in America. She noted that while slavery
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Southern States passed various laws of racial segregation‚ focused against the black sectors. By the turn of the century those laws were called the Jim Crow laws‚ both north and south. Between the 1880s and the 1960s the laws expanded. Jim Crow‚ within the context of this unit‚ refers to the official discrimination against or segregation of African Americans. Jim Crow legislation was officially instituted by the southern states when racial attitudes hardened in the 1890’s‚ shortly
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