Essays on Louisiana

Strategic Warehouse Management MGT 496

Irina Weisblat

Introduction

Whenever a company is seeking to expand its operations and particularly to a foreign country, it is an important thing for such a company to ensure that it thoroughly considers all the possibilities it has for growth. In order to attain such operational efficiency, the company has to have a set of measures that it adopts to track the progress of its growth in the foreign market as quickly as possible in order to mitigate the losses that come from trying to adjust to the business environment of the host country. One such important measure is the ...

Introduction

A strategic plan is contextually defined as a piece of documentation that describes an organization’s process of foreseeing an anticipated future, the details of which are then delineated into goals and a vision for the organization. A strategic plan also includes an explication of how to achieve the stipulated goals, in a specific and concise manner. Steiner (2008) calls strategic planning an “indispensable act” in endeavor for high quality management of any institution. A subset of strategic planning is strategic management, which essentially offers guidance as well as direction as far as strategic planning at organization level is ...

Good day! I am ____________ and I am taking this class this current semester. I came from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and currently live there as well. I am single and have no kids, and I grew up in a family of five—I have two brothers and two sisters all in all. Currently I work as a correctional officer at Louisiana Correctional Institute for women. In my spare time, I find watching movies to be an enjoyable pastime. Regarding my educational background, I graduated from the Southern University in New Orleans with a major bachelor in sociology. Presently I ...

Abstract

The Hurricane Katrina is considered the most devastating storm in the United States due to its magnitude of destruction and the casualties involved. Though the weather forecasters had predicted about the storm, the American government had not put any measures to deal with the catastrophe. As a result, the Gulf Coast States that was hit hardest by Katrina lost properties worth billions as well as thousands of lives. The parties involved in the rescue process included the Army Corps, Coast Guards, as well as FEMA. The Katrina hurricane recorded the government inefficiency in two levels. The first one is ...

Law enforcement agencies and the government have over time been synonymous to the enforcement of the law for public good. At the same time, the law enforcement agencies are tasked with ensuring that the rights of alleged perpetrators of any crime are protected from any sought of harm regardless of whether they committed the crime or not. In Jones’s scenario, a lot of legal and ethical issues arise. There are issues relating to the fact that she is a repeat offender, impact of her conduct to the society, the government’s role in the promotion of public order ...

The American civil war in the West: Grant’s River War

Introduction The American Civil War is among the majorly discussed wars in the history of the United States. Ideally, Civil War is considered a central event in the U.S historical civilisation. While it is evident that the revolution that occurred in 1776-1783 facilitated the establishment of the United States, the American Civil War of 1861-1865 provided a suitable platform for the determination of the future of the United States (Doyle, 2014). Fundamentally, it offered the solutions to two major questions initially created by the revolution, and these included whether the United States was going to be transformed into a ...

Examinations have been administered to incoming freshmen at Louisiana College to determine their understanding of the basic Christianity principles. The Belief Assessment of Spiritual Essentials (BASE) has been designed to evaluate their knowledge on matters of Christianity such as the lost condition of humanity, the identity of Jesus as God, the need to accept Jesus Christ as a personal Savior alongside Christ’s resurrection. The study indicated that most students had the convictions that an individual who was good did not need a savior and could not give a meaning to phrase being born again. Other findings indicate that ...

Abstract

Black Lives Matter has grown from a hashtag to an activist group. Black Lives Matter is an issue that will be explored in this document from a psychoanalytical perspective. The qualitative instrument that is used will measure several documentations of behaviors of said members of the group, as well as those who consider that their view coincides, or who has participated with the group known as Black Lives Matter. The research model begins with the history of the group itself. In other words, each documentation following the abstract has been assessed as a part of the qualitative research that ...

Factors that led to the writing of the United States Constitution and the ideas behind the design

The needs to establish a national government and guard the fundamental rights of citizens are the factors that led to the writing of the constitution. Previously, the United States governing document was the Articles of Confederation that made the national government weak since states operated like independent countries (Archives). With the new constitutions, therefore, plans were in place to make the federal government stronger by having three branches including the executive, legislative and the judicial (Archives). Also, the design of the three branches was that no single branch would have much power since there were systems of checks and ...

Sheila Renee White MAYO, Individually and as Administratixof her Minor Children, Rina Mayo, Jaclyn Mayo andPaige Mayo, Plaintiffs-Appellants,v.HYATT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee. No. 89-3576Summary Calendar.

Background Information The case was a collective petition from Sheila Renee Mayo along with her three minor children. It was an appeal case based on the district court’s summary dismissal of their case on grounds of insufficient evidence to support the claim. The claimants had sued the Hyatt Corporation, through Hyatt for the death of Jack Mayo the husband and father of the petitioners consecutively. The district courts found the deceased 100 per cent ...

Sheila Renee White MAYO v. HYATT CORPORATION

898 F.2d 47 (April 10, 1990)

Facts: On February 20, 1987 Jack Mayo, Jr. died. His death was the result of complications pertaining to a fractured skull he suffered three days earlier on February 17 falling down the stairs of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans, where he had been staying. Prior to the fall, Mayo had been drinking heavily off the hotel’s premises. Toxicology reports later confirmed that not only at the time of his fall was Mayo’s blood alcohol content over three times the legal limit but also that he had taken a significant ...

Jazz is such a unique and distinguished genre of music that delights the ear of every person who listens to it. Found in New Orleans, it grew in fame all around the world and will always be popular. Why New Orleans? The founding of jazz and what impacted it is astonishing. The 19th century was a century that united different ethnic groups such as German, French, Irish, Spanish, African and Italian together, these ethnicities had one main thing in common – the same taste in music. How did Jazz develop and what were the main causes of it being found ...

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. Immigrants, lower class and colored people faced hard times. Although progressives responded to the ills of inner cities and working-class immigrants with ...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred in the location of Gulf of Mexico on April 20th of 2010 due to an explosion which took place on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig. Transocean, the operator and owner of the oil rig, is an offshore-oil-drilling company. However, it had been leased by BP Oil Company. A natural gas caused the blasting which caused a wellhead blowout. The blowout resulted in the worst marine oil spill in the history. Despite attempts to put a temporary seal to prevent the further oil spill, the equipment malfunctioned. The oil the contamination extended spill ...

Introduction

Sugarcane has been grown by human beings for many years because of its many uses. It is a perennial grass that grows well in frost-free tropical areas. The crop is mainly propagated vegetatively with 30-40 cm long fresh cuttings. The crop has a cycle of between 10-24 months modern agricultural practices have made it possible to reduce the growing period of the plant crop as well as for the ratoon crops. The current sugarcane crop is an inter-hybrid cane breed to provide high sugar content (Moore et al. 10). Originally, the plant was used for chewing, but currently, it ...

Abstract

The above paper seeks to outline the role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with a comparison of practices in two main states (Louisiana and Arkansas). The paper starts with a review of the prescriptive authority of APRN's in Louisiana, with an emphasis that the area faces a shortage of health professionals. According to the regulations of the state, it is a requirement that NP should offer prescription with an oversight of a physician. The collaborative practice agreement helps guide the two practitioners to work in close collaboration with one another in providing quality health care to the residents. ...

Abstract

Public safety agencies have a tendency to ignore leadership succession planning and the formal development of future leaders. A combination of budget cuts, a lack of internal interest, increased public scrutiny, and politics means that public agencies often do not prepare for leadership changes. The average leadership tenure in the public sector has a reputation for being more extensive than the private sector, which is perhaps one of the reasons why public agencies do not place as much importance on succession planning. The average tenure of leaders in fire and rescue agencies is shortening due to increased job demands ...

Grand Health Pharmaceuticals (GHP) Order 104BDK56392

Contract for distribution services On this day 10th of May 2015 Grand Health Pharmaceuticals (GHP) and (Name of Distributor) get into a business partnership which is bound by the following terms and conditions.

SCOPE OF CONTRACT SERVICES

The distributor will be expected to perform distribution to all the clients of the pharmaceuticals which ranges from clinics, hospitals, chemist and supermarkets.

Performance Goals and Services

The distributor is expected to make deliveries to various clients in time and sometimes these deliveries may offer special challenges. The distributor should be in a position to be efficient during emergencies. Once the goods have changed hands between the pharmaceutical and the ...

Composed by Kate Chopin a short story Désirée’s Baby presents passage from life of a girl without a name who finds her love and her bitter end. Désirée was found by Valmondé a wealthy and aristocratic family from the antebellum South who adopts her despite that fact that Monsieur and Madame Valmondé do not know girl`s origin. She is loved and admired not only by her new parents but also by Armand Aubigny a representative of another influential and wealthy Creole family in Louisiana. It seems that Désirée is surrounded by ...

Sexual Violence and Unplanned Pregnancies

Executive Summary Greenlight Organisation is seeking for a grant to facilitate an awareness campaign for Sexual Awareness. Greenlight as an organisation was born last year through the initiatives of like-minded parents and teachers and various stakeholders in medical institutions. These members make up the board in the company: which was responsible for appointing the CEO, James Madison. The company serves in the capacities of sex educators who provide valuable information to the youth and teens on how to engage in safe sex practices. The CEO, through the board, began the initiative of public awareness last year after it was ...

Golub, Mark. "Plessy as "Passing": Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson." Law & Society Review, 39, no. 3 (2005): 563-600.

Synopsis

Homer Plessy’s decision to purchase a ticket as a white man, and to later confess that he is indeed black, was part of “a test case” conducted by the Creole community of New Orleans. As per the terms of the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890, Caucasians and persons of African descent were subject to traveling in different railway cars to serve the purposes of racial segregation. In the article, Golub quotes Plessy’ ...

A 19-year-old high school girl was shot twice and buried while still alive in 1998 and Clayton Lockett was convicted of her murder (“Clayton Lockett” 1). After conviction, he was given the death penalty to be imposed by lethal injection and fifteen years later, his execution was botched when drug dosage was not adequate for death, finding veins for giving the drugs required multiple attempts, and the medications leaked into his muscle tissue (Connor). Witnesses to his death described it as agonizing and the response of the public again stirred the debate concerning using government sanctions to kill in ...

The process through which the English settlers became Americans was twofold: they claimed North America as their home and cut ties with the mother country. First, the Red Indian tribes that existed throughout the lands claimed North America as their home, albeit in separate units. For that reason, confrontations that closely resembled a tug of war ensued because two distinct groups were vying for the same resources. Now, the assimilation of one faction by the other was impossible as their traditions differed greatly. Hence, it is no wonder that David Edmunds’ Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership revolves ...

Introduction

In the quest for justice, different rulings are usually made. Some rulings are received well and by the majority of the nation’s population while others are often controversial in nature. Most times, the controversial rulings are usually against the common religious and moral views of the public. This paper provides an opinion on some of the top controversial cases in the history of the United States of America.

No Duty to Rescue Rule

The no duty to rescue rule states that if one is not responsible for putting someone else (the victim) in danger, then the person has no obligation whatsoever to help ...

Describe the different courses of the Revolutionary War in New England, the middle colonies, and the South. What role did the battles in each region play in the eventual American victory? The American Revolutionary War was characterized by three phases being the New England phase, the middle colonies phase, and the Southern phase, which took place between 1775 and 1783 (Grossberg & Tomlins, 2008). New England colonies consisted of 13 colonies, which included Rhode Island colonies, Massachusetts, Providence Plantation, and New Hampshire among others. France attempted on several occasions to colonize New England but failed. New England, mainly carried out ...

Introduction

Kate Stone is a known young southern woman who was involved in warfare during the civil war period. Women during the civil war witnessed a change in cultural and social structures. The civil war is viewed as an important turning point on the role of women in the society and the history of the United States. When women were left behind to take care of children while men went to war, a need emerged for women to quickly join the military. As a result, class lines and attitudes towards the war fell away. Women realized the need to take ...

Introduction

The secession or sequential exit of the Southern states from the Union was a major event in the American history that led to the Civil war. Southern secession was seen as a necessity in the plantation economy based Southern states and betrayal in the eyes of the Union. Therefore, the main research question to be explored is the factors that led to the Secession of the Southern states. The factors that played an important role in session of Southern states were abolitionist movement in the South, violation of the sectional balance and economics of slavery in the South (Meadwell & ...

Abstract

This paper represents few particular set-backs on different levels of government in response to Hurricane Katarina. This is paper is by no means written with intention to fault individuals. Rather, its purpose is to look and examine some of the issues that took place during and after Katrina. We can certainly assume that everyone involved in emergency response sincerely wanted to do their best. And I'm sure that many emergency responders made significant sacrifices to save lives. For anything if we make any judgments, it should be against those who hide, deny or devalues mistakes and so prevents society ...

1. Explain in detail the Exclusionary Rule. The Exclusionary Rule is the rule that is generated by the law under the constitutional rights. It does not allow the use of any of the non-legal obtained proof in the trials for criminal under the fourth amendment. It will usually apply for the elimination of the physical evident. The best example of exclusionary rule is stolen property, murder, or weapons that allows the police to catch a break in a case under the rights of the fourth amendment. The exclusionary rule could be under the Fifth Amendment, when no person can ...

Tragedy is the outcome of a story when the protagonist loses the battle against their opponents in the end. “Desiree’s Baby” is a short story written by Kate Chopin which deals with the theme of racial prejudice. Desiree is an adopted girl who marries Armand who is an aristocrat in Louisiana. They get married and she gives birth to a child who is a mulatto. Since her ancestry is unknown being adopted, Armand is convinced that the Desiree is of black heritage and he disowns both his wife and his son. The tragedy in this story is related ...

There are a number of lessons that one must learn as one goes through life. But the lesson of attempting to survive through the racial discrimination in the south is one lesson that is most valuable to those who lived in that era. Many blacks can now relate to the racial challenge that Jefferson face in Louisiana in 1948. Like many other blacks during the 1940’s, Jefferson faces death for a murder. Of course the laws during the period did not require much proof to convict a black man as much of the stories of the past reveal ...

The Toxic Tour’s physical landscape first situates the visitors in Norco, where they learn about the environmental justice and the injustice made to people living in these areas by big corporations like Shell Company, who does not take responsibility for its impact upon the environment (Pezzullo 237). The environmental justice movement is strongly connected with racial and ethnical social justice, as these two dimensions go hand in hand in New Orleans and other Louisiana cities. By referring to the history of the place, the activists indicate that after the abolition of slavery the free slaves were given lands, ...

On 14 March, 1784 Eli Whitney had introduced a technology, that had changed the world of cotton industry from now on and forever. According to the Patent for cotton gin, he received, the machine illustrated was designed to set apart cotton fiber and the seed (Patent for Cotton Gin, 1784). Technology, that Whitney had invented, could make cotton industry of America as profitable as never before due to the fact that cotton gin could produce nearly fifty pounds of cleaned cotton per day. And that is what it did. After 1800 yeild of raw cotton doubled each decade making ...

Deepwater Horizon was an oil platform built in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 50 miles from the Louisiana coast and the Mississippi River delta (Department of Justice). Deepwater Horizon was operated by the global petro-chemical giant British Petroleum. On April 20, 2010, the platform caught fire and exploded killing eleven workers on the platform. The explosion also significantly damaged the platform base and foundation. By April 22, the platform crumbed to the sea and sank. Consequently, the pipes the were pumping oil into the platform were severed and oil began flowing in the Gulf of Mexico. By the time ...

Introduction

No form of punishment engenders more controversy than the death penalty. Although capital punishment has been used since ancient times, its modern utilization is repeatedly called into question. The United States stands alone among Western world counterparts in its continued use of the death penalty. Among the international community, the general trend largely reflects a discontinuance of capital punishment. For instance, member states of the European Union have all abolished the death penalty (Shin, 2007, p. 505). Given the overwhelming number of nations that have since abolished the death penalty, it is somewhat surprising that the United States continues ...

Critical Thinking

The 1803 purchase of Louisiana from France had a profound effect on America; it not only changed the geography of the country but also its social, political and economic pillars. The purchase, which occurred during the term of President Thomas Jefferson, had the effect of almost doubling the landmass of America (Fleming, 46). It would be interesting to evaluate America's continental and global position had the purchase not taken place. This is especially the case given that the country would have had access to the Gulf of Mexico hence denying farmers on the frontier an opportunity to engage in ...

Abstract

Hurricane Katrina touched ground in Louisiana in August 2005. The resulting lack of coordination in a catastrophe of this size by federal agencies led to large numbers of evaluations, reports, and recommendations for improvement. Particularly under fire was the FEMA organization tasked with management of the disaster operations. The inability to coordinate local, state, and federal resources lead to billions of dollars in waste and additional loss of life secondary to lack of food, water, and shelter. Government policies and restrictions in addition to complicated definitions of responsibility delayed relief for the stricken areas by as much as a ...

I, Thomas Jefferson, have always been a true constructionist leader with respect to the stern stance and interpretation of the constitution as the President of the United States of America. However, the ethical and moral dilemma that I have been facing currently is regarding stretching beyond the realms of constitutional rights of a President to authorize a land purchase deal with the French government for the state of Louisiana for $15 million. My most confusing ethical dilemma comes in terms of choosing between the lucrative deal by adding almost all of the land between the Mississippi river and the ...

The Haitian Revolution is thought to be the largest, most successful slave revolt in history. The slave revolt took place between 1791-1804 after which they had succeeded in not just ending slavery but also French control on the island. The Haitian Revolution was a series of revolutions that went on at the same time. Prior to the revolutions Saint Dominigue, or Haiti as it is known today was the wealthiest of France’s overseas colonies. The colony was a major exporter of coffee, cotton and sugar all of which was grown by slaves. In the 1730’s the French ...

ABSTRACT

Hurricane Katrina proved to be one the largest natural disasters to occur in the United States. This storm devastated parts of the south, particularly Louisiana. High winds, rains and the breaking of levees left mass flooding and the drowning of entire neighborhoods. The emergency response from the government proved to be highly disorganized, inefficient and lacked the needed supplies to meet the needs of those requiring medical attention, food, water and shelter. In fact, some argue that the disaster lasted longer because of organizations like FEMA whose efforts many call a great failure. Since then many suggestions have been ...