public administration admin | October 22‚ 2013 public administration Based on the case study by Martin‚ The Blast in Centralia No. 5‚ in Stillman‚ PA‚ Chapter 1‚ write a 3-4 page paper in which you: 1.Identify and explain four (4) logistical alternatives Scanlan could have addressed. 2.Analyze and discuss Scanlan’s motivation toward the Constitution (the law)‚ bureaucracy (as a public administrator responsible to the public)‚ and obligation. 3.Take a position on two (2) possible
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unhealthy due to eating too much‚ when there are those without any food (Coates). We do not have too little food to feed everyone ‚ we have a seriously messed up and unfair food system(Coates). Food prices are slowly rising which does not quite impact us‚ but when you are living off of $2.00 a day it is a catastrophe(Coates). Going to bed hungry could be a very avoidable thing if we could just make our food system fair (Coates). There is definitely enough food in our world to stop world hunger‚ not
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versus inferior that divides the nation. In her article “The Case for Reparations‚” Ta-Nehisi Coates makes the case for why African Americans should be paid back for all of the injustices they had to‚ and continue to‚ endure. Granting reparations would be more than just handing out money to blacks to make up for the astronomical wealth gap certain discriminatory actions and policies have created‚ though. Coates said that making “reparations to those on whose labor and
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and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ the author portrayed his life to his son through his own personal examples of how he lived in fear. With his fear of losing his body he lost out on many life changing opportunities. Through vivid memories from childhood‚ the birth of his son‚ and adulthood‚ Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ proved that African Americans body’s had always been susceptible to destruction through systemic racism. Throughout the author’s life‚ Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ faced many problems
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War II. This particular mine employed 250 men and produced 2‚000 tons of coal each day. During the next several years there were several complaints made regarding the safety of the mine. On March 25‚ 1947‚ the mine exploded‚ killing 111 miners. (Stillman‚ 2010) Driscoll O. Scanlan was one of the 16 state mine inspectors. Scanlan worked at The Centralia Mine No. 5 as teen years before he became a mine inspector. Upon his inspections of the mine‚ Scanlan realized the mine was very hazardous
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thought of enslaved Africans as dirty‚ savages that were only meant to be kept in captivity and returned viewed themselves as white‚ pure‚ god-like creatures who could never do any wrong. Coates denounces that Caucasians should call themselves white because of the atrocious history that follow suits with the name. To Coates the people who call themselves white did not achieve such stature by tasting
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“Letter to My Son‚” written by Ta-Nehisi Coates in 2015‚ was in all essentiality advice. The article begins with the author describing his own sadness at the distance between a country built on a dream‚ and the sobering reality he saw. He continues on to talk about how his body‚ his son’s body‚ and the bodies of many of their peers around them‚ are very often going to be at the mercy of people around them. Coates then speaks of escaping the danger of having his own body at the mercy of another‚ and
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the World and Me Between the World and Me is a book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published three years ago in July by Spiegel and Grau. This book is structured as a letter to the author’s 15- year old son. In this letter‚ Coates speaks to his son about his overall place in America as a young Black man‚ being that this is a nation rich in racism and discrimination. To further delve into this topic with his son‚ Coates uses an excerpt from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin as well as his personal
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the book Between the World and Me‚ the author Ta-Nehisi Coates tell stories and lessons to his only son primarily about race and the violence and injustice that come with it. The second part begins to discuss the topic of police brutality against Black people. Coates tells the reader and his son the story of how his friend Prince Jones was shot and killed by a police officer. Prince was black and so was the officer that shot him. But Coates argues that the officer’s race doesn’t mean anything‚ nothing
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For a long time there has been a grey interpretation of the dream that Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about in Between The World and Me that Blacks have. Coates mentions the common idea around the African American community the dream to be wealthy and have the same rights as whites. Coates believe that part of being black means that you can never fully achieve the American dream because America was and is built to this day on the backs of African Americans. If whites were to give the African Americans the
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