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Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

U.S. Federalism and the Rights of States

Federalism is also a method of protecting the people from the excesses of government and provides a check and balance against the ...

United States, Harry S. Truman, and the Korean War

and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...

Yugoslavian State Breakdown

Yugoslavia). Although the fighting stopped for the most part, there was no effort made for the various parties to actually resolv...

21st Century United States, Social Mobility, and Success

they nevertheless have done something wonderful to deserve praise. While most people understand what success is, social mobility ...

Overuse of Psychotropic Drugs in the United States

An overview of why psychotropic drugs are overprescribed and overused in America is presented in a report consisting of ten pages....

Power of Nation States Eroded by Multinational Corporations

to say that while multinational corporations competed "in a world of national states" in the 20th century but in the 21st century,...

State According to Georg Hegel and Karl Marx

one true center of anything. Too many individuals, too much individualism created far too many "centers" for Marxs theories to ad...

Energy Crisis of the State of California

that SDG&E wound up contracting with a power plant at rates that were much higher than those of other energy distributors in Calif...

Immigration of Hispanics into the United States

government. Political dissent and conflict were thereafter more or less continuous in Alta California except for a temporary resp...

The Architecture of the Arkansas State Capitol Building in Little Rock

down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...

The Insignia of the United States Air Force

The Chevron was adopted, though it was not a new idea. The chevron (which looks like a squat diamond standing on its end), used to...

Privatization of the BBC and Telecommunications' Deregulation by the United States

the BBCs income comes from the license fee -- a flat tax charged to every home that has a television set (Anonymous, 1995). Non-p...

The Cold War Superiority of the United States

as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...

Steel and Automotive Industries of the United States and Their Impact Upon America's Trade Deficit

plants in other countries Levin, 2000). The U.S. automotive deficit with Japan, for example, represents about 60 percent of the en...

Ebenezer Scrooge's Emotional State in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

all intents and purposes, Ebeneezer Scrooge was extremely narcissistic, self-absorbed, vain and uncaring. According to the origina...

Major Post 1945 Conflicts and the Involvement of 'Superpower' United States

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

State and Local Correctional Institutions of New York

as cited in Eichenthal & Blatchford, 1997). One has to then wonder what prison facilities are like locally. Are they less violent ...

State Lotteries and Gambling

implementation of the system in their state from other states. They studied five states that had implemented the lottery in their ...

Pros and Cons of Florida State Income Tax

tax at local level is originating from them they argue that they are being treated unfairly, forced to support the community in a...

Overview of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission

loss of life. New laws specified that there must be two exits per floor, one of which could be a staircase, but the other had to b...

Business in the United States

bunch of goods and services in an attempt to market to masses of people. Business Structures Whether a business is more of...

Contemporary Democracy in the United States

and if they were not happy with the political leaders they could do something about it. This all sounds incredibly powerful and...

United States, Latino Immigration, and Poverty

according to Nieman Reports researcher Joe Rodriguez (1999, p. 45). Basically, the welfare laws allow states to choose between con...

Constitution of the United States and Theories

capable. Under the elitist theory this class (whether as a result of wealth, education, or life position) is regarded as being re...

Civil Rights and the Government of the United States

protests, a look at what the government has done from the early 1930s through the late 1960s is in order. What did the government ...

Political Structure of the State of Texas

Governors and Lieutenant Governors serve for two-year terms. The main purpose of this branch is to help enforce rules, regulations...

Post Second World War Relations Between the United States and Thailand

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

Invasion of Iraq by the United States

a rationale for invasion is essentially correct. The United Nations first issued Iraq an ultimatum to disarm and destroy all of it...

The Free Trade Agreement Between the United States and Australia

with major challenges, but the benefits to the Australian economy will be in the order of many billions of dollars over time" (Bai...