Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Dupont Gunpowder




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        Dupont is a French-American chemical company that was funded on July 1802, DuPont was the world's third largest chemical company based on market capitalization  and ninth based on revenue in 2012. Dupont continued to expand moving into dynamite and smokeless gun powder, Eugene Dupont died 1902  his parents sold the company to his three great grandsons.The company subsequently purchased several smaller chemical companies, and in 1912 these actions gave rise to government scrutiny under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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                Alfred I.  Dupont Hospital for Children is a predictor hospital  located in Wilmington Delawere . It is controlled by the Nemours  Foundation , a non-profit organization created by philanthropist Alferd I. Dupont  in 1936 and dedicated to improving the health of children. It is also referred to as the A  I DuPont Institute for Crippled Children or more simply, the DuPont Institute.




   
Alfred Irénée du Pont
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Born May 12, 1864
Brandywine Valley, Delaware, United States
Died April 28, 1935 (aged 70)
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Residence Nemours Mansion and Gardens
Epping Forest
Nationality American
Education Phillips Academy
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employer DuPont, Nemours Trading Corporation
Known for Industrialist, financier, philanthropist
Home town Wilmington, Delaware
Jacksonville, Florida
Net worth $56 million (value of estate at death)
Spouse(s) Bessie Gardner (1887-1906; divorce)
Mary (Alica) Heyward Bradford (1907-1920; her death)
Jessie Dew Ball (1921-1935; his death)
Children Madeleine, 2, 3, 4 (Bessie)
Denise (Alicia)
Parents Eleuthère Irénée du Pont II and Charlotte Shepard Henderson

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

                Racial Profiling






            Many people are being killed for the color of their skin ; Mostly black males . Law enforcements say they only arrest people who commit crimes , regardless of their race. Racial relationship have been in the spotlight for several months , leading up to of teenager , Michael Brown , in Ferguson Missouri . The Officer who shot Michael Brown is Darren Wilson . Michael brown was shot on August 9, 2014. At least 70 departments scattered from Connecticut to California arrested black people at a rate 10 times higher than people who are not black, united states  today found .Island husband and father was clearly standing peaceably on the sidewalk when New York Police Department officers approached him and attempted to arrest him. Garner is currently being described as around 6,3 and  roughly 350 pounds. A Black  Was a confronted by the police department for selling cigarettes. NYPD’s Department of Internal Affairs launched an investigation, and found that Garner was due in court on charges of pot possession and selling untaxed cigarettes.


 Racial profiling occurs every day, in cities and towns across the country, when law enforcement and private security target people of color for humiliating and often frightening detentions, interrogations, and searches without evidence of criminal activity and based on perceived race, ethnicity, national origin or religion.