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Crisis Situations, Public Opinion, and Government Policy

In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...

Environment and Public Policy

States EPA 1997). During the past thirty-five years, there have been several amendments to the original Clean Air Act, including...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

New World According to John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

a result, then, human action falls under the same "mechanized" process; specific desires occur in the human body and reveal themse...

Economic Theories of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus

tend towards a decrease; while the price of provisions would at the same time tend to rise" (Malthus PG). People of that time dis...

The Year 2050 and The Greenhouse Effect

moment, the indications are far more likely for a bleak future. Ironically, it was roughly one year before the Antarctic ice shel...

Social Security, Health Care Reform, and Public Policy

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

Globalization and Global Practices

1970s, long before globalization was considered a buzz word in business, is almost spooky in its prescience; as his belief that mo...

Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

Plutocratic USA

than governments that are controlled by a single class, select group or single person, such as a monarch (Democracy, 2002). In lat...

Events and Characters in Hard Times by Charles Dickens and Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's, Hobbes' and Locke's Theories

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

United Kingdom's Public Services and Voluntary Sector's Changing Role

the level and commitment of government. For example, Cush?man, Lowi, and Dahl and Lindblom who made very broad generalisations and...

How Othello is Admired by Others in the First Act, Third Scene of Othello by William Shakespeare

an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...

Pharmaceutical Industry and European Think Tanks

care issues will explore the relationship between European think tanks and the multinational pharmaceutical companies, specificall...

Necessity of Government

country in terms of routine items such as traffic and violent crime and international relations. It would create a strong national...

Making Policy and Lance Leloup and Steven Shull's The President and Congress

These factors apply to both the President and Congress and are influential in the decisions they reach. Later examples will highl...

Public Administration Essay

the population of the worlds "less developed regions" lived in their cities and towns, but over the next thirty years, the more ur...

Public Policy Implementation Methods

zero intervention are the voluntary instruments with the compulsory instruments at the opposite end of the scale and mixed instrum...

Public Policies, Politics, and the Airline Industry

2002). What it comes down to between the airline industry and politics/public policies is the concept of economics: Because...

Public Policy and Compromise

Yet, there are ways to reconcile environmental protection with business interests. For example, environmental groups are highly ...

Greek and Roman Women of Elite Class

in understanding this we must also examine a culture that often influenced how men saw women. Sexuality was a very powerful and na...

Comparative Analysis of John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes' Theories

the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also...

UK Contract Law's Doctrine of Intention

individual to get out of a contract, merely by saying I did not mean to create legal relations (McKendrick, 1998). It can also be ...

Scientific Theories of Thomas Kuhn

break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they chan...

Recent Developments and Trends in Architectural Criticism and Theory

In a paper consisting of eight pages the concept of 'modern' is defined and related to social theory with a consideration of works...

Is Affirmative Action Really Needed?

In a paper consisting of sixteen pages the Affirmative Action policies over the past thirty years are considered through an examin...

US Public School Integration A Legal History

In a research paper consisting of five pages the cases that influenced public policy as far as school integration is concerned are...