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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 ...

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...

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...

1930s' Decline of Great Britain

Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...

Child Abuse and Neglect Laws in Louisiana

This paper addresses child abuse and neglect laws both federally and within the state of Louisiana. The author provides both fede...

Texas State Legislature and Congress

subsequently submitted to the voters for their approval (Texas State Government, 2001). Like most other states, Texas employs a...

Pennsylvania's Cigarette Taxes

They want this because of traffic congestion in cities in addition to the problem of pollution. Raising taxes on gas promotes car ...

U.S. and EU Banking Compared

nature, is ever-changing and with the major changes that have been seen in the past few decades -- the end of the Cold War, the bo...

Is The Uniform Crime Reporting System of the FBI Accurate?

The CIUS is the report most commonly used in research and articles addressing crime in this country (Maltz, 1999). The FBI obtains...

United Kingdom Employment Relationship and the Role of the State

- indeed encouragement of the collective representation of these interests; and third an aspiration that their organised accommoda...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...

Careers in the US State Department- IT Security

It seeks an Information Technology Specialist to design and implement functional goals and protocols "for the rapid sharing and st...

Graham E. Fuller's Article on Nation State Weaknesses

as he feels this will cause "endless subdivision of states," possibly doubling, or even tripling the membership of the UN (1997, p...

U.S. 'Wealthfare' is a Bad Idea

According to a survey released by Essential Information in 1994, it was estimated that U.S. tax payers would pay more in 1994 for ...

Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

Article Interpretation

understand what this perspective means. Realism may be seen as a conservative ideology (Newman, 1998). In a realism perspective we...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...