The Brown vs. Board of Education case took place in the 1950s and developed from several court cases involving school segregation‚ which all started with one black 3rd grader named Linda Brown wanting to go to an all white school. In the case the U.S. Supreme Court declared it was unconstitutional to create separate schools for children on the basis of race. The case ranked as one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century‚ which helped launch the modern civil rights movement
Premium Brown v. Board of Education Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Supreme Court of the United States
power‚ this caliphate survived for a long period of time. The rise to power was taken place because of a great military leader named Sonni Ali. This person was known to have “magic powers” and expanded the Songhay territory across the Niger Valley‚ west to Senegal and east to
Premium Mali Empire Africa
------------------------------------------------- Kraft Foods’ Board of Directors Name/Title | Current Board Membership | John T. Cahill‚ 56Executive Chairman | Legg Mason‚ Inc.‚ Colgate-palmolive Co.‚ Kraft Foods Group‚ Inc. | William Anthony Vernon‚ 57Chief Executive Officer & Director | Novocure Ltd.‚ Philadelphia Youth Organization‚ Kraft Foods Group‚ Inc.‚ Medivation‚ Inc. | Myra Maloney Hart‚ 72Independent Director | Kraft Foods Group‚ Inc.‚ Nina Mclemore Llc‚ Babson College
Premium Board of directors Corporate governance Corporate title
Chapter 16 Questions 1. A physician and his colleagues decide to set up a laboratory owned by a dummy corporation in their wives’ names and begin to refer patients to this laboratory. What (if any) laws have they violated? Whilst referring their very own patients to a laboratory‚ the physician and his colleagues violated the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Physician Self-Referral Law because they formulating a dummy corporation in a means of deceiving its patients and the government. Confronted
Premium Stark Law Federal government of the United States Money
Describe the nature of the early African-European contact. At first‚ the relations between the Europeans and Africans centered primarily on the trade of items such as gold‚ ivory‚ cloth and guns. Then things took a turn for the worse when trade turned to from gold‚ ivory‚ cloth and guns to humans. What is meant by enslavement? Enslavements is the making slaves of your captives or forcibly dispossessing an owner of property (people). How did the plantation system make slavery a lucrative
Premium Slavery Slavery in the United States Atlantic slave trade
My ideal school is a school quite unlike any school we’ve heard of. This school consists of a large library and basic recreational facilities. And that’s all. There are no classrooms. The school motto is “I sought not to bring men to me‚ but to themselves‚” a quote by Emerson. The school is built on the idea of active learning. No student is forced to learn. This is a much more effective way of learning. Students at this school can really pursue their interests. Most importantly‚ students at this
Premium Education
uth-West AirlineA07-05-0006 Southwest Airlines 2005 You are now free to move about the country.™ In 2005‚ Southwest Airlines (Southwest)‚ the once-scrappy underdog in the U.S. airline industry‚ carried more domestic passengers than any other U.S. airline. The company‚ unlike all of its major competitors‚ had been consistently profitable for decades and had weathered recessions‚ energy crises‚ and the September 11 terrorist attacks. In recent years‚ Southwest had become more aggressive with its
Premium Southwest Airlines Continental Airlines Airline
industry‚ Herb Kelleher had explored a niche‚ a strategic window of opportunity in the industry. Since Southwest is not try to match or even really hard to match its resources and competencies with other large major airlines such as US Air‚ America West and others‚ Herb decided to be a domestic dominant rather than fight to shares part of the international or long-distance market segment. In revealing to the niche marketing strategy‚ Southwest is targeting their customers who are short-distance frequent
Premium Airline Southwest Airlines Low-cost carrier
Eastern and Western Philosophers Comparison Paper Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge with an emphasis on the conditions of its validity and finding answers to ultimate questions. While every other science aims at investigating a specific area of knowledge‚ such as physics or psychology‚ philosophy has been defined as “thinking about thinking.” The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia)‚ which literally means "love of wisdom"
Premium Philosophy Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Indian independence movement
Snowbirds of the south-west Anybody who drives in Arizona at this time of year will be familiar with the annual migration of “snowbirds”—retired people‚ that is‚ seeking to escape the sub-zero temperatures of the north for the balmy desert winter. As many as 300‚000 snowbirds flock here each year‚ so if you haven’t seen one before‚ there’s a good chance that your first encounter with this exotic creature will occur when you find yourself stuck behind a Jayco caravan with Nebraska licence plates
Premium Rio Grande