However, it should be made clear that with the passing of their constitution, which “was approved and formally adopted by the Congress of the United States in 1952,” Puerto Rico has already been on the proverbial road to statehood. Puerto Rico’s “Constitution was based on the United States Constitution…and adopted a republican form of government, with three sets and distinct branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branch” (Suarez, 2008). Ultimately the question is how will Puerto Rico change and adapt to future as well as current courtroom cases as it evolves into statehood as seen in most states throughout the country. Before getting into certain aspects of how the new system will be set up it is important to note some of the distinct traits of Puerto Rico. Being an island, Puerto Rico is smaller than the size of Connecticut however much larger than Delaware or Rhode Island individually or, even if combined as one single state.
Ruth Chris had the following issues on hand; First, Dan Hannah had to decide which countries offer the greatest growth potential with the least risk. International businesses regularly offered opportunities for Ruth Chris but with strict selection criteria which in fact eliminated many of these business prospects. Secondly, the management team must agree on a standard development model and the decision of which mode of entry to use. Opportunities were evident for joint ventures or company owned stores in certain markets. Lastly but not least, Ruth Chris challenge was selecting the appropriate development model in conjunction with the management team but required additional information criteria in order to guarantee the future success of the organization.
This was caused by both the war and the lack of workers who were willing to work in the cotton and rice fields after it was over. The war was quite expensive and the lack of workers would lead to an inability to get crops and goods out for trade. Free blacks refused to return to the fields and would resist by any means, but were not allowed into many other occupations. Many whites were too proud to work in the fields themselves, so no one was willing to do so, causing the inability to get goods to market. In the North, the the reconstruction had the opposite effect.
This causes many issues with people and society. There becomes an unneeded amount of people on the streets. This is an ethical problem because the people who choose to be on the streets could be off of the streets but they choose to be lazy and unmotivated although they shouldn’t be because they can relieve themselves of the predicament they are in. This is ethically wrong because people shouldn’t be homeless by choice. It’s not okay because it causes more money to be wasted towards people that shouldn’t be helped at all.
Diana Maldonado 4/27/11 Agrumentive Essay Puerto Rico Should Become a State In 1898, United States took possession of Puerto Rico after the Spanish War. In 1917, island’s residence was granted US citizenship thru a law passed by Congress – Jones Law. In 1952, Puerto Rican’s approved a constitution which recognized as Free Autonomous State. Which mean that the government. Although, United States has presence in Puerto Rico, the island has maintained it’s cultural.
My parents were not wealthy, they were considered low-class, and they were not white. So their goal to achieve the American Dream has never truly come to fruition. Introduction In this paper, I will talk a little about how my parents and residents of the island of Puerto Rico immigrated to the United States and why they have never been able to achieve the American Dream. I will also make some comparisons and some contrasts to immigrants from the Dominican Republic and how their
The reasoning that they had was that they were less than slaves because they were not rich enough to own any (Hetler). One more piece of evidence that goes with Brinton’s Anatomy of a Revolution, but only to a certain extent, was the government not responding to the needs of slaves. The reason that this is only to a certain extent is that this
A lot of these masters had restrictions on the slaves, meaning the people were not allowed to get an education, or even learn to read. The masters fear that allowing the slaves to gain knowledge would cause many problems and give the slaves more reasons to rebel against them. The slaves were often provided with a little shack to stay in, and they were given scrap food and other things to making a living off of. Many of them were given land but they had to share crop to maintain this land with the owners. What is sharecropping?
Here are a few more reasons why its a bad idea. First of all, if they raised the taxes no one would be happy. Many people buy snacks and pop from stores, if taxes are raised they may stop buying them and the store would lose business. If they continue buying it they would lose money. Either way it goes, nothing good happens.
He experienced the American slavery, escaped from it, and attached himself to the cause of freedom and the helping of his people to achieve freedom. Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave on a plantation in Tuckahoe, one of the worst sections of Talbot county on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He changed his name upon his escape from slavery to avoid being recognized as a fugitive slave. The land where he was raised was virtually worthless, decay and poverty were everywhere. The area was surrounded by a white population who was of the lowest class-economically, educationally as well as socially.