leLECTURE 5a Cost Estimation/Segregation Techniques Cost estimation is a term used to describe the measurement of historical cost so as to be able to predict future costs for management decision making. That is‚ historical information is analyzed to provide estimates on which to base future operational To do cost estimation‚ it is important for the Accountants to be able to ascertain the activity level as well as cost drivers which exert main influence on the company activity. A cost driver
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De Jure Segregation means separation of people by law. A good example of this is the Jim Crow laws enforced here in the south. It was legal to have separate schools‚ housing‚ transportation‚ etc. for both races‚ black and white citizens. In the Brown case the Supreme Court ruled separate schools to be unconstitutional. However some states still violated the law. In the 1968 case‚ “Green v. County School Board‚ the Court reviewed a freedom-of-choice plan adopted by a small district in Virginia
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During the 1950s and 60s‚ segregation in schools was very prevalent. The discrimination at times could have been brutal‚ and whites ultimately saw blacks as an inferior race regardless of the “Separate but Equal” law put into effect. A lot of times the whites did not even realize what they were doing‚ it almost came natural to them. Many higher ranking white officials claimed that the black and white schools were equal but in reality they really were not. The difference in money spent on white schools
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are a variety of different races that exist. The different types of ethnic groups that are included are Africans‚ Caucasians‚ Latinos‚ Asians‚ and Indians (Peterson‚ Krivo 2010). Historically‚ and in our present society the problem of racial segregation has been a very critical issue. The more enhanced diversity gets‚ the greater the likelihood that conflicts may arise. A major reasoning behind this is because of socio-economic issues (Peterson‚ Krivo 2010). According to Peterson and Krivo‚
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Gender inequality Gender can be defined as the socially constructed roles and duties society constructs‚ assigns and expects of males and females on the basis of their biological and physical characteristics. Gender is learnt‚ not permanent and differs from one community to another. Gender roles and responsibilities are found in all spheres of society be it economic‚ social‚ political or religious. Gender roles are affected by age‚ social class‚ ability‚ ethnicity and race. The gender roles help
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southerners struggled with the inevitable confrontation of segregation. Living in the Jim Crow era‚ blacks grappled to gain the rights denied to them through Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)‚ “which gave legal sanction to “separate but equal”.” On the other hand‚ white southerners wrestled to maintain the white supremacy that the Plessy case allowed them to exercise. One of the largest areas of tension for the maintenance of segregation existed in education. After Plessy‚ many blacks and civil rights activists
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Week 6 1. James A. Tyner‚ “The Geopolitics of Eugenics and the Exclusion of Philippine Immigrants from the United States‚” The Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration
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While the U.S education has changed drastically since the court case Brown vs. Board which ruled that racially segregated school are unconstitutional‚ many schools in America are still racially segregated. Organizations like The National Coalition on School Diversity have helped push for desegregation and creating policies to improve education in the U.S. Through the NCSD’s goals and strategies it allows them to create policies and inform people about the injustice of racially segregated schools
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buildings to be operated and services be kept equal‚ the reality showed otherwise‚ and many African-American facilities became rundown‚ were underfunded and sometimes were limited. Segregation‚ forcefully put two perspectives on American society for both white and black populations. Much of the segregation lead to lower education rates for blacks because many of them who were former slaves were not allowed to receive any literacy of any kind. Even after the Emancipation‚ funded was low for black schools
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Segregation in the 1930’s Segregation has always been around for many years and been a huge issue. Segregation means the "practice or policy of keeping people of different races and religions separate from each other" (Google.com). To some people‚ segregation was a good and a correct thing to do but for some it’s bad and just wrong. For example‚ Martin Luther King Jr. he was against segregation but didn’t use violence. On the other hand‚ we have Malcolm X he was also was against segregation
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