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New York's Orange County and Farming

people make a living there. However, about 10.5% of the community lives below the poverty line (2005). Also, it should be noted t...

California and Progressive State Reform

of being passed if that passage had been dependent on the Legislature (Inskeep and Montagne, 2004). These include laws relating t...

Jonathan Kozol and Gregory Baum on Blindness and Sin

reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...

Organizational Structure and Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York

differs from HHC, it does not make that information readily accessible. The mission statement of the larger organization is in pa...

Schools That Are Failing and How to Fix Them

better. In a study, voucher students had been compared with public school pupils and it was found that those who had the vouchers ...

Arguing for Urban Area Decentralization

can do. Community Board #6 is attached to Park Slope and is responsible for things like community services, sanitation matters, t...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

The Varied Successes and Failures of Proposition 13

This paper argues that California's Proposition 13 has had a multitude of impacts in the state. Some may be positive but many mor...

Child Labor Practices Among Farm Workers in Florida

Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Smith, 1995). At the same time, children who work all around the nation are being either hurt or kill...

Eleventh Grade Mathematics Teachers in the State of New York

No Child Left Behind requires that students emerge from classes at increasing levels of proficiency, and the law provides a measur...

Developmentally Disables Senior Citizens and Need for Services in New York State

2002). The state has taken active steps to provide services for the developmentally disabled population. In 1998, Governor George...

Issues Concerning Child Abuse

Tom. Jennifer flatly states that she has been locked out of the house at night in punishment for objecting to being sent to her ro...

Overview of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission

loss of life. New laws specified that there must be two exits per floor, one of which could be a staircase, but the other had to b...

Non Smoking Workplace Law in New York

believes the law has already affected his business. "I had many customers who liked to smoke," said Georgikopoulos. "Now, many o...

A Case Story Involving Adult Child Abuse

missing the fundamental basics of human life; as such, a legal shift in focus took place in order to provide them with more emphas...

Abuse and the Elderly

In eight pages the global aging population issue is discussed with elder abuse laws, increasing incidences of abuse and neglect, a...

Los Angeles and New York Law Enforcement Bicycle Patrols

In five pages this paper discusses the training involved and benefits of the bicycle patrols enacted by police departments in both...

The Validity of Sexual Abuse Charges Made by Children

12 pages and 9 sources. This paper provides an overview of the issue of the validity of sexual abuse claims made by children. Th...

Review of an Article on a Dangerous New York State Nuclear Plant

In two pages this article which appeared in The New York Times involving a suburban nuclear power plant that continued to pose a s...

New York Times Co. v. United States

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Organ Donation Issues and Laws: Federal and California State

of them are rooted in common law (Harris & Alcorn, 2001). But the inconsistencies within these laws made it very difficult to con...

Substance Use and Abuse

The Healthy People 2020 project reported that substance abuse in the United States has decreased but there are still more than 20 ...

Abuse Cases, Elder and Child Abuse

This paper first describes 2 cases of abuse, one that pertains to elder abuse and the other to child sexual abuse. Then, the write...

The Application of California Labor Law in an Understanding of Vacation Pay

not act within the 72-hour time limit (Important Wage Payment Compliance Issue, 2001). Analysis ABC Company. has acted in e...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

2 New Proposed Laws

inspection program" that pertains to "breeders, dealers, kennels and shelters with more than 25 dogs" (Seibel, 2007). Inspections ...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

New York's Filipino Gay Community and an Article by Martin Manalansan

In five pages this paper examines Martin Manalansan's article on gay New York Filipinos and their sense of community in an analysi...

New Jersey and New York Supreme Courts Compared

Decisions of New Jersey and New York Supreme Courts are compared in a paper that consists of five pages. Seven sources are cited ...