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Gang Violence Surrounding Norfolk State University

their adolescent years as recidivist delinquents (Scott, 1995). Additionally, a full ninety percent of recidivist adolescent deli...

American Criminal Justice System: Three Important Issues

that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Leveraging the Appraisal System and the Potential Introduction of a Performance Related Pay System at the UNHCR

This 67 page paper looks at the way that performance appraisals may be leverage to create value and how they may help with the int...

FEDERAL RESERVE AND COMPARISON WITH STATES

This 6-page paper compares revenues from the Federal Reserve of San Fransisco to some of the states for which it is responsible. B...

Friedman's "The World Is Flat" - Compare/Contrast Of Perspective

jobs at home. Engardio (2003) further illustrates how the rate of employment opportunities being shifted over to India and China ...

Cigarette Smoking Should be Banned in the United States

even in parks or other outdoor areas. Above all, the FDA outlaws any dangerous medication that finds itself on the market and also...

CURRENT STATE OF THE U.S. ECONOMY

for good reason) that no one is going to be out in the marketplace, buying a refrigerator or car or any other large product....

How About Separation of Business and State?

Business Cycle One quality that all of the worlds leading economies share is that all have experienced trying times in the ...

Power, Surveillance and the Totalitarian State

can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...

Pluralism vs. Elitism in the United States

these meetings dispersed throughout the area so that both rural and urban citizens could engage in political discussions that woul...

Threats to the United States

14 points to consider in shaping any strategy. The conclusions they drew were that America "will become increasingly vulnerable to...

Social Inequality and Minorities in the United States

comes to women and employment. Women are still often held back from being able to obtain high level positions in many organization...

The BART System: Defects And Problem-Solving

an economic and political undoing of enormous proportions. BART was faced with much the same predicament in 2005, grappling with ...

Sweden and Germany

A 7 page research paper that compares these two countries. Germany and Sweden share many similarities. They are both democracies, ...

Abortion in the United States

the fact that regardless of whether or not abortions are legal, women will still get abortions. These were, and are, referred to a...

ECONOMIC DATA ANALYSIS - UNITED STATES, JAPAN, EUROPE AND CANADA

today and in 2005? Inflation - 2008 Inflation -- 2005 Canada 3% 2.5% Euro Area 2.7% 2.7% Japan 2% -2% United States 2% 3.7% A...

Power Status of the United States

varied. Many of these factors of course revolve around the face of our government itself and the factors influencing this governm...

Foreign Relations Between Venezuela and the United States

and Schaffer (2005) report the intended acquisition of coast guard boats, frigates and aircraft. The country has also contracted ...

State According to John Rawls and Jean Jacques Rousseau

of each association, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before...

Argument Against Affirmative Action State and Federal Government Policy

the recent Supreme Court of the United States ruling that "upheld the right of universities to consider race in admissions procedu...

Efforts to Make Puerto Rico a U.S. State

They rely on the lengthy history that exists between the U.S. and Puerto Rico to serve as a backdrop for the various points that a...

Traditional Clothing in the United States and China

generations who have borrowed heavily from Western influence. Jeans, T-shirts and other casual wear are more readily seen in toda...

Connection Between Global Terrorism and the Foreign Policy of the United States

large supported Arabs, it has not done so in every case. The question as to whether or not the dismissal of Arab interests in fa...

Could Fascism Occur in the United States?

In both cases, these philosophies emerged as a means of escaping the "perceived spiritual and material crisis" that existed in bot...

New York State and Federal Government Budget Process

the President must request funds for discretionary or appropriated programs because these fall under the authority of the Senate A...

THE UNITED STATES AND OBESITY

The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...

Discrimination against Latinos in the United States

are "least respected, offered worst services and lack affordable housing" (Racial discrimination and Hispanics in the United State...

Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward

power inadvisable (Taylor, 1991, p. x). Lincoln, just prior to this inauguration, remarked to a European diplomat that he did not...

The Confederacy and the United States - Self-Definition

by the Founders, who felt that a strong central authority was possibly the only way to cut down on factionalism, which they felt w...