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Reform, Liability, and Tort Law

are classified as torts by requiring them to serve prison terms, the tort system penalizes them by requiring them to provide monet...

A Letter to the Editor Regarding Money and Politics

closer than we think. We also have to be sure to close all the loopholes. While "hard money" (contributions made directly to pol...

Morocco and Political Reform

for centuries. During the 1990s there had been a few political reforms and a bicameral legislature would emerge ("Morocco," 2005)...

Austin H. MacCormack and Thomast Mott Osborne

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

Case Study on Prison Reform

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

Australia's System of Post Compulsory Education

and Further Education System (TAFE) which is the major provider" (National Report on the development of education in Australia, 19...

Is It Ethical to Change Policy Midstream?

in which to assist those whose financial situations warranted temporary government help has ultimately turned into a program that ...

Georgia, School Performance, and Educational Reform

have even worse records that others. Dekalb County, for example, has the largest school system in the state yet its graduation ra...

Equitable Taxation and the Internal Revenue Service

concerns in the readers minds is the comment: "Its gotten so bad that even the IRS doesnt understand it (the tax code)"2...

Issue of Tort Reform in Florida

Tort reform does make sense because the system is broken, encouraging people to sue anyone due to negligence or carelessness. The ...

An Argument Against Reforming Social Security at the Present Time

Roosevelt himself - promoted the plan as one in which individuals would pay into the system over the course of their working lives...

Barbara Bovjerg's 2001 Testimony on Social Security Reform

In nine pages this paper examines this GAO employee's 2001 testimony to Congress on the future of the U.S. Social Security system ...

Biography of Bill Clinton

for a second term, but won the office again four years later. He was Governor of Arkansas when he ran for President in 1992, defe...

President George W. Bush and Reforming Social Security

existed before 1935, these were extremely minimal. Social Services, as it is known in the United States, began during a bad econom...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

US and UK Social Security Reforms

certain number of months. For a person born in 1939, as an example, full retirement come at 65 plus 4 months; a person born in 195...

Proposed Tort Reform

significant (Albert, 2004). As indicated by the position of the ATLA (1994), "defensive medicine" refers to tests or procedures th...

The Law of the Cayman Islands and the Process of Judicial Review

review may be sought, this was seen in the case of Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374...

Medical Practices and the Effects of Malpractice

hopefully - ultimately - reduce malpractice premiums. In its most basic form, the medical malpractice liability system has ...

The Conceptual View of Poverty and its Impacts

of society (2003). Over time, through Roosevelts New Deal, and other changes, there was attention paid to those who could not affo...

Western Civilizations's Pivotal Event

to a calling more suited to their socioeconomic status. In other words, if one were poor, one would be placed on the vocational tr...

At Risk Students and Curricular Reform and Innovations

conditions of life in distressed communities(Principles for Education 2002). To meet the challenge of radically transforming dist...

Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

Critique of Moralists and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

this time. This particular era was fraught with uncertainty and possibility. As such it was fertile ground for change. Mintz sugge...

1990s Global Financial Crises, Causes, and Reforms

of the 1990s came as a surprise to economists who thought that more globalization would have the effect of stabilizing internation...

Latin America and Africa Needs of Finanicial System Reform

to achieve and maintain without effective financial system structures, yet without economic growth there is little reason for plac...

Rochester, NY, and Education According to John Dewey's Philosophy and Carter G. Woodson's The Mis Education of the Negro

him to accept an inferior status" (1998, p. 84). Having African Americans accept their inferior status in American society was n...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Reforming Corporate Law and English Company Law Modernization

been tackled (Card et al, 1998). In the recent white paper it is also only this area which has received attention, stating that if...

Campaigns and Elections in the United States

are likely to look askance at such a person" (Allen, 1998, p. 22). Americans, while we realize that campaigns take money, like t...