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Dawn Blair's American ‘2014' and George Orwell's ‘1984'

ironically producing a version of 1984 that runs afoul of government censors. Orwells 1984 has served as a frightening reminder...

America's Waste Management Services

Figure 1 shows the position in 2001. Figure 1 US Waste Management Industry in 2001 (Repa, 2001) Sector Number of Organizations A...

Zip Code 11572 and Abuse of Alcohol and Drugs

alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...

Policies of Maryland Schools and Dangerous Weapons

"dangerous weapon". The legal definition of "dangerous weapon" is pretty much consistent across states. In Maryland, the t...

Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)

the States must fulfill in order to receive federal funds under the Education of the Handicapped Act (subsequently referred as "th...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

The Vagueness of the United States Constitution

existing. One can well argue that the founding fathers were incredibly wise, or that they were very lucky, when they put the Const...

California's Emergency Services and its Relationship with the Federal Government

and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Laws and Regulations in Insurance Practice in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania

maintains two broad categories, Property/Casualty and Life/Health. Agents must be licensed in both to be able to sell policies in...

The Welfare States in the UK

crime rates were rising and inflation was rife (Slack, 1990). The main aims were to reduce the extreme levels of poverty, but many...

Questions in Social Organization

of change relates to many factors, one of which is the changes which occurred over time in agriculture. Additional exampl...

Border Control: United States and Mexico

clearly has an affect on taxing in the United States. And, the taxing is not just involved through the situations noted above, but...

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie

the promise by officials that Chessie would give workers ready access to thousands of case files on a statewide basis had yet to m...

An Evaluation of the Steady-State Theory

the earth and so quasars are objects that come form the past, and this suggest that a few billion years earlier, the universe was ...

The Problems of Landlocked States

Hodder & Lloyd (1998), Africa has the majority of land-locked states. Not all continents have to deal with the problem of having a...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

Policy Formation: Great Britain, France and Nigeria

been the case, of course, but at least in recent history equality and political representation have been considered important topi...

Early 20th Century History

important trade partners for the United States (The Social Studies Help Center, 2007). "From 1914 to 1916 trade with the Allies gr...

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...

A Hypothetical Research Study/Chessie System

agreed upon strategy," in which the CPS employees works cooperatively with parents to reduce risk, moving families toward specific...

Lowell System

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

Nurse Salaries

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

Advanced Practice Nursing/Legal Requirements in Tennessee

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

Freedom of Religion, A First Amendment Right

travel to Massachusetts for the sole purpose of disrupting Puritan church services and heckling their ministered (Woods 2). This a...

Steel Industry

falls in the stock markets, including steel companies. This movement to share prices in response to external influences reflects ...

Funding Special Education Under the Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004

P?rez, Socias, Shkolnik and Esra (2004) researched the question, "How does special education spending vary across states classifie...

Major Issues and Debates Leading to the American Civil War

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

The Paranoia That Led to the American Civil War

admittance was a critical one. At the time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and tho...