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New York State's Surviving Spouse's Right of Election

of changes were implemented and these are worth exploring. Before progressing deeper into the intricacies of New York Estate Law,...

World Trade Organization and United States' Labor Unions

the United States seem to be able to get away with firing striking workers and organizers in ways that they just wouldnt be able t...

NO Government Bailouts!

This is the boom-and-bust cycle that economists occasionally try to pronounce dead, only for it to rise up again to prove those ec...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

BP and the Gulf of Mexico

at which time the oil had been spilling for 50 days. He said that the federal government had taken aggressive actions but admitted...

State Sponsored Terrorism in the 21st Century

against the World Trade Center) to advance their religious and social agenda. Since the institution of these wars, it is fair to s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Questions in Social Organization

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

Market Report for M and M Mars

range. However, to consider the market we need to look at the chocolate confectionary market as a while for the US to placer this ...

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...

U.S. Healthcare Policy

of many attempts at generating what would hopefully evolve into a comprehensive U.S. healthcare policy for all Americans, but the ...

Corrections and the Effects of Prison Overcrowding

many deem as unfair funding taken from other more socially important programs like schooling and welfare, has found itself embroil...

'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver and a Responsibility Letter

1959, and Price, like so many of his Western contemporaries at the time, believed that the inhabitants of the so-called Dark Conti...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The States, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act

This 7 page paper gives an overview of how the ACA changes things in the medical field and how the states reacted as far as Medica...

Funding for Colleges and Universities

State funding for colleges and universities has plummeted. For some, they receive less than 10 percent of their budgets. This has ...