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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...

Globalization and the Nation-State

of the traditional nation-state, includes the topic of how nationalism should be perceived. Basically, nationalism can be divided ...

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...

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...

Salient Factors Of Modern Nation-State Formation

According to David Gompert, author of Helping a Palestinian State Succeed: Key Findings, Palestine can well establish itself as an...

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

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

Financing Services Mandated by the Federal Government

Many services are funded directly from local money, others are a combination of local and state money, and still others have fundi...

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...

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...

Federal and State Government Roles

This 20 page paper gives an overview of how government branches influence public policy, and how outside groups influence local ad...

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 ...

Comparing New Jersey and Mississippi

New Jersey and Washington, D.C. tied for the richest states in the country in 2014. Mississippi ranked 51, the very poorest. This ...

Nurse Salaries

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

North Carolina Corrections

a variety of services are offered. These programs fall under the following general categories: work programs; educational programs...

Analysis of Harvard Business School Komatsu Case Study

success. While a firm can have a lot of things, image can prove quite valuable. Komatsu has handled itself well. Komatsu has been ...

School Funding Alternatives Assessed

in school funding and enhanced equitable distribution of financial resources. Current The scenario to be changed is that in...

Key Elements of Maryland v. Bradford

in Hornbeck v. Somerset Co. Bd. of Educ., rejected an equity challenge to the states education finance system (ACCESS, 2004). The ...

Ethnic Minorities and Paradise Lost by Peter Schrag

generous in regards to social welfare and progressive policies, according to Schrag. This situation has changed drastically accord...

LEGAL ISSUES, TRUCK HITCHES AND LAW SUITS

Examines a hypothetical case concerning transportation law, supremacy and states' rights. There are 2 sources listed in the biblio...

BALANCING STATE BUDGETS

several occasions. Though other states arent quite as on the brink as the Golden State, they arent in very good shape, either. New...

Why States Fail

State capacity is a reflection of a states strengths and weaknesses. Very simply, state capacity can be defined as "the ability...