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Giving Louisiana a Future

            
             Louisiana is home to the infamous brain drain. This term is defined by the exodus of the state's most educated to find more qualified jobs in other states. Since 2000, over 60,000 people have left the state for better job opportunities (Cenac 1). Louisiana was ranked forty-nine out of the fifty states as smartest states in 2002 (Quitno 1). This low ranking proves that education and technology growth are in the bottom percentages in the country. Keeping students in Louisiana from leaving the state to find appropriate jobs, creating new industries in the state, and promoting Louisiana as a business development location are the essential aspects that need to be addressed. Gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Blanco has approached this issue in her platform and has developed methods for solving these issues. Blanco supports the program Louisiana: Vision 2020, which consists of three goals that would sufficiently promote Louisiana as a business development location (Blanco 2). These goals go hand-in-hand with Blanco's plans to stimulate business in the state in her platform for governor. Building a better foundation through education, increasing the technology industry, and promoting the state as a business development location are the basic goals of Blanco and her supported program.
             Raising the bar on education in the state is the first goal Blanco has established. Starting at the high school level, Blanco calls for increasing math and reading competency skills (Louisiana 1). Business growth, governmental precision, and the quality of life will all improve with this demand of cooperation from all levels of order. The idea that each citizen should be accountable for obtaining an education will allow the individual to lead a comfortable lifestyle. Citizens should work with businesses to create knowledge and pursue the growth of the economy. Adequate skills should allow for business performances to compete with other states.


Essays Related to Giving Louisiana a Future

1. Two Major Constitutional Challenges and Lessons

For the Louisiana Purchase, those opposed to the purchase and the treaty with France to make it possible for the United States to buy the land, claimed that the Constitution did give the President the authority to admit a new state to the Union, without the agreement of each state and the approval of Congress. The Louisiana Purchase was unconstitutional, but was never challenged because it benefited the country. ... Altogether, the Louisiana Purchase covered land that is now about 23% of the United States. ... Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase). ...

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2. Bill Russel: A Hero for All

He lived with his parents and brother in Monroe Louisiana. ... In Louisiana he had never seen the likes of this game before. ... He was ready for his future, which now lay in the Liberal City of San Fransisco. ... But Russell simply refused to give in. ... "He would never give out an autograph because he felt a hand shake was worth more. ...

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3. The Jeffersonian Era

Madison - Madison refused to give Marbury a commission to be a justice of peace. Marbury went to court to find that he had a right to the commission, but they could not force Madison to give it to him. ... Louisiana Purchase - Napoleon obtained Louisiana from Spain, but because of bad luck with Haiti, he began to lose faith in the new world, which lead him to accept an offer from Jefferson, who was concerned because Pinckney's Treaty was void and trade could no longer continue on the Mississippi since it was no longer owned by Spain. ... Being a strict constructionist, Jefferson didn'...

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4. World Disasters

All scientists can say is that if there is a fault line there will be another earthquake sometime in the future, but they have no way of telling when that will happen. ... These are all monitored through a state of the art computer system, which will hopefully give enough warning this time to reduce the loss of lives [Mac08]. ... Forty percent of the deaths in Louisiana were caused by drowning, 25% were caused by injury and trauma and 11% were caused by heart conditions. Almost half the fatalities in Louisiana were people over the age of 74 [CNN13]. In the end, the storm cost $81 billion ...

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5. The Works of Kate Chopin

"For 200 years slavery was a mighty social, economic and political institution in Louisiana. ... The obsession women had with their husbands did not put them in a place to stand up for themselves and relates to the battles women encounter when trying to make a future for themselves. ... In "Story of an Hour", marriage gives the impression that the male has complete control over the woman. ... This showed me that a woman in the nineteenth century was not even aware just how much she has to hold back and give up when married. ... Her husband's death gave her a new view on l...

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6. Thomas Jefferson Presidential Outline

The Judiciary Act of 1789 which granted the court original jurisdiction over these matters was declared unconstitutional, thereby establishing the principle of judicial review. 1804-1805 Lewis and Clark expedition After the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory from France, Jefferson sent his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, along with William Clark to scout the new land. ... Aided by French-Canadian fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau and his native American wife Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific 18 months later, and successfully returned to Jefferson with the news. ...

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7. Bread givers

She was Carolyn Bryant, the twenty-one year old wife of proprietor Roy Bryant, who was away at the time trucking shrimp from Louisiana to Texas. ... Although it seemed at the time that Civil Rights legislation was far off in the future, it was only a short time later that public facilities were officially desegregated and the Voting Rights Act was passed. ...

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8. An Ecological Crisis

Oil spills are common nowadays and the explosion of the oil platform Deepwater Horizon gives a lesson to humanity how to prevent such situations in future. The History of the Explosion of Deepwater Horizon The Deepwater Horizon incident, which resulted in explosion and fire, took place on April 20, 2010 on the oilrig located 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. ... Oil hit all the states with access to the Gulf of Mexico; the hardest hit was for the states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. ... Around 1,100 miles of coastal area from Florida to Louisiana ...

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9. Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion

The term "Manifest Destiny," was first used in 1845 by John O'Sullivan, to give explanation for the United States' right of expansion. ... Joseph Ellis, a Thomas Jefferson historian, stated, "For Jefferson, more than any other major figure in the revolutionary generation, the West was America's future. In 1803, Jefferson bought Louisiana from France for $15 million dollars and doubled the size of America by 828,000 square miles. ... The Lewis and Clark expedition, along with the help of Sacajawea and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, explored much of this Louisiana territory. ....

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  • Approx Pages: 9
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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

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