Unmasking the Resistance: A Comprehensive Study of Anti-Ku Klux Klan Endeavors in Upcountry South Carolina during the Reconstruction Era

To many in 1865, the American Civil War ended in McLean’s Parlor when Robert E Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S Grant. In reality, however, the American Civil War continued to rage on in the American South, especially in South Carolina, till 1876 when Federal Troops were withdrawn from the South. The South, like most defeated nations, accepted that it had lost the conventional war with the North and with it independence but refused to accept the results of this fighting; primarily the introduction of free-labor principles, equal rights, and voting rights for freedmen. The South resisted through the legal system and physically which came in the shape of the Ku Klux Klan and various other similar organizations. From 1865 to 1876 the Federal Government had maintained a successful but flawed nation-building effort in the American South and was incredibly successful in South Carolina in waging a counterinsurgency operation led by Major Lewis Merrill of the Seventh Cavalry from 1871 to 1873. Merrill’s operations highlight that counterinsurgency can be successful contrary to recent American experiences in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq but can be undermined by Federal policy making and apathy from Northerners

MEMS 411: Racecar Cruise Control

The WashU Racing team is a student group at formula student which annually designs, builds, and tests a 1/3rd scale formula racecar. This project explores the use of an electronically actuated throttle to implement cruise control on the WashU Racing formula student racecar. Through the use of new and existing sensors on the car, in depth engine modeling, and vehicle dynamics, our team was able to make the car accelerate up to and maintain a certain spee

Customer Concentration of Targets in Mergers and Acquisitions

We study how customer base concentration at a target firm impacts the occurrence and structure of M&A deals. We hypothesize that customer concentration increases information asymmetry and adverse selection between bidders and targets, such that (1) firms with greater customer concentration are less likely to receive a bid and (2) bidders for targets with greater customer concentration share the risk by using more stock payment in their offer. Using data on customer concentration and M&A deals from 1985 to 2016, we find consistent evidence supporting our predictions. Our findings extend the literature by systematically documenting an important factor in M&A decisions and by quantifying the economic consequences of customer concentration

THE POLITICAL FACE OF ANTITRUST

The last twenty years have brought antitrust back to the fore as a political issue of greater salience. Several booms and busts in the economy have highlighted the issue of corporate power in the economy and the political system. The growing influence and aggressiveness of the European Union and other jurisdictions’ competition laws have highlighted the relative retreat in the United States. Political movements in the United States have brought issues of corporate power and its abuse back into the public limelight and with them a greater political salience for antitrust in the election cycle of 2020

Web Authoring Tool for Effective Content Management

Internet is the most popular medium to express our views and ideas. With the help of internet, the people publish their information or data in the form of web pages. Static web pages are quick and easy to put together all the pages, but maintenance is diffi cult when the site goes longer. Al so, it is too difficult to maintain the document consistent. Dynamic web pages are created with the help of scripting languages, but it requires minimum knowledge of the programming language used for website creation. Therefore, a web content management system (WCMS) is a software system that provides website authoring and administration tools . It is designed in such a way that it allow users to create and manage websites with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages. It offers the users with the ability to manage the documents and output for multiple author editing and participation. It improves the performance by using the server - side caching technique. So, in this paper, we presented that WCMS can be used for college to create t heir own web pages effectively and easily without much knowledge of programming languages . Also, we provide various measures to validate our work by comparing various methods of creating websites . The comparison s between the obtained charts and the val idation results clearly explain that the WCMS we presented produces the better resul

Safety at Schools: Identifying the Costs Associated with the Necessary Safeguards for Arming Educators

Editors’ note: The Rural Educator publishes a policy brief each issue, intended to explore topics pertinent to rural education policy and advocacy. The issue of school safety is particularly timely, especially for rural schools. We believe this essay, based on surveys of school leaders in Colorado, takes a unique perspective by examining the financial costs that might be associated with policies to place guns in schools

XML Standardized W3C Tool for effective communication between B2B or B2C Applications

XML is becoming a standard for communicating the information or data over the internet. The shift from SGML to XML has created new demands for managing the structured documents. Many XML documents will be transient representations for the purpose of data exchange between different types of applications, but there will also be a need for effective means to manage persistent XML data as a database. In this paper we explore the different types of XML documents and XML databases. The purpose of the paper is not to suggest this technology is covering all the features necessary for effective communication of data between applications. Instead the purpose is to initiate discussion of the requirements arising from document collections, to offer a context in which to evaluate current and future solutions, and to encourage the develop ment of proper models and systems for XML database management. Our discussion addresses issues arising from data modeling, data definition, and data manipulation. In future, XML will become the standard for communicating data between business - to - business applications, inventory database access and sharing, integration of commercial transactions, and workflo

Web Spam DetectionUsing Fuzzy Clustering

Internet is the most widespread medium to express our views and ideas and a lucrative platform for delivering the products. F or this in tention, search engine plays a key role. The information or data about the web pages are stored in an index database of the search engine for use in later queries. Web spam refers to a host of techniques to challenge the ranking algorithms of web search en gines and cause them to rank their web pages higher or for some other beneficial purpose. Usually, the web spam is irritating the web surfers and makes disruption. It ruins the quality of the web search engine. So, in this paper, we presented an efficient clustering method to detect the spam web pages effectively and accurately. Also, we employed various validation measures to validate our research work by using the clustering methods. The comparison s between the obtained charts and the val idation results clearly explain that the research work we presented produces the better result