In cow towns, the worst problems came when the cowboys came back from the cattle drives as they had been away from civilization for a long periods of time and as a result of this, when they returned, they went to the saloons, with money earned from numerous jobs they had accomplished and it would often lead to a lot of trouble. This happened as so little women were available and men would often fight with other men, as there was a gender imbalance. The Women hadn’t yet come to the newly set up towns and the few who had usually travelled with the saloons. A wagon driver and a gambler shot each other when arguing over a woman in 1879, is an example of this. Violence was often happening in cow towns, this is because when cow boys came back from the cattle drives, they would go to the saloons and have lots of alcohol.
Since the ranchers trusted their foremen, most ranchers did not stay on their ranch except during shipping season. Foremen would find new born cattle and brand them with their own brand on their rancher’s property. The Northern Wyoming Farmers and Stock Growers Association (NWFSGA) was created out of anger from the rustlers, and tried to kill the seventy rustlers that they identified in Johnson County. The small compilation of rustling ended up in bloodshed. On April 9, 1892, NWFSGA members surrounded a cabin at the KC Ranch looking for Nate Champion.
(AP) Former Rite Aid Corp. chief executive Martin L. Grass was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday for conspiring to falsely inflate the value of the company his father founded and cover up the scheme. Grass, 50, who headed up the nation's third-largest pharmacy chain in the late 1990s before being forced out in October 1999, also was fined $500,000 and given three years' probation for his role in a billion-dollar accounting fraud that sent the company's stock tumbling. Before U.S. District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo handed down the sentence, Grass apologized to Rite Aid, its stockholders and employees. "For the harm caused to them, I am truly sorry," he said. Grass was indicted by a federal grand jury two years ago.
Known also as Black Tuesday, October 29th left stockholders shattered with recorded losses reaching $40 billion dollars (Kelly, n.d.). Many banks and financial institutions began collapsing which led to irretrievable, uninsured deposits and savings. Fearing further loss, people began spending less which led to a decrease in production and an increase in unemployment. As companies began to fail, the government devised the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in order to protect American businesses. The Tariff placed high taxes on imports leading to a decline in international trade.
Anton Chigurh is on his trail wanting the money, murdering his employer, opponents and even normal citizens. Moss is clever and tries to keep one step ahead as Chigurh closes down on him. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell runs the investigation as struggles to face the things he is seeing and how different this country is to what he knew. (Chisholm, 2007) The film begins with an audio visual, with a narrator telling his story. We know the narrator is the sheriff because he opens with, “I was sheriff of this county when I was 25 years old.” He talks about the old times compared to the new times, and the change in crime, he’s states, “I don’t want to go out and see something I don’t understand, a man puts himself at hazard and has to say, ok I’ll be part of this world.” As the sheriff talks we see multiple static shots on a wide-angle lens different landscapes, each one harsh and empty giving an impression of the type of country these
Gabriela Adler Period 4 The Jungle Summary In The Jungle, Sinclair successfully describes the hardships and dangers of working in the meatpacking industry during the late nineteenth century. The reader follows the life of Jurgis, Ona, and their family as they struggle to make ends meet. Due to low wages, the Lithuanian family is in trouble of slipping into poverty. The poor conditions and mistreatment of the employees in the meatpacking district were finally revealed and made known to the public during the time of publication. Because everyone finally realized the atrocities of these businesses, the government actually takes action to pass laws in support for better working conditions.
For the first case, a massive flood displaced nearly eight-hundred graves in Hardin, Missouri in 1993. Authorities found displaced human remains over twenty-six square miles of land; fifty people were killed; 55,000 homes were damaged or destroyed; 58,000 people were displaced. It was a truly atrocious, upsetting scenario in which the likelihood of finding bodies was very low, and the procedures were costly. The public expected a lot from the anthropologists, hoping that they would work quickly and be able to recover all of the bodies of their missing families and friends. (Shows like “CSI” and “FBI” may give people an unrealistic expectation of these sorts of jobs.)
The purpose of this essay is to reflect on the relationship between food and culture and how people in Shakespearian times used the two to overcome The Bubonic Plague. The Black Plague was an epidemic that took the lives of one-third of all Europeans during the time Shakespeare was alive. With the plague running rapid, many people became corrupt in order to find food and support there families. In Kastan’s A Companion to Shakespeare, he says, “the high prices and shortages of food, were wicked, wondering, idle people whose thefts were at the heart of all the trouble.” (34) He then goes on to say, in regards to the new corrupt people: Worse, the cost of imprisoning them all meant that there was no money left over to relieve the truly needy poor. His answer to these problems was straight forward: harsher laws and sharper law enforcement to stop the mouths of these people who laugh in their sleeves at the lenity of the law and the timorousness of the executioners of it… There was much seditious talk (for which many were hanged), and in Kent alone there were eleven riots connected with these shortages of grain between 1585 and 1603.
Managers have been known to steal also, I had a General Manager steal food products just to set up another manager at one point. When I was a manager I witnessed my supervisor, who could not find any other way of terminating another assistant manager load product from the stores freezer into her car and take it to the employee’s house, drop it off in her driveway and call the police to report the theft. I have also seen employees take food from the restaurant simply to provide for their children. Generally employees in the food service industry, are among the lowest income households in America. These people do not typically have any education beyond highschool, or they are students who are simply trying to survive until they have their degree.
Crop prices fell by over fifty %. People went hungry because so much food was produced that production became unprofitable. Others were unemployed because they had produced more than could be sold. Huge numbers of Americans had their lives upset by the Depression. Tens of thousands of migrant farm workers travelled the nation looking for employment.