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Essays 1951 - 1980

Costs and Responsibility for Senior Citizen Programs

In seven pages this paper discusses why the responsibility for funding and supporting senior citizen programs should be shared by ...

Gas Prices' Cause and Effect

In a paper consisting of five pages ever fluctuating gas prices are examined in terms of their causes and effects upon both the go...

Economic Conditions in the United Kingdom

This 5 page paper discusses economic conditions in the United Kingdom, and in particular considers inflation, international invest...

Civil Disobedience from the Perspectives of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr.

as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...

Massachusetts Educational Law Change Cost Benefit Analysis

In seven pages a cost benefit analysis is applied to a change in Massachusetts' education law that replace 'special needs' with di...

War Beginning, Ending, and the Role of Politicians

In five pages this paper assesses the statement 'Politicians start wars, armies do not. Government end wars, generals do not' in ...

Pregnancy and Addiction

In seven pages this paper examines how the U.S. government can resolve the complex issue of pregnant addicts in a theoretical cons...

Concept of the Social Contract According to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

In six pages Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke are discussed in an examination of h...

UK Economy of the Future

In eight pages this paper examines the United Kingdom's economic future in a forecast that focuses upon 2002 to 2004 and 2020 to 2...

Native Americans and Religious Evolution Over a Century

The full circle evolution of Native Americans in terms of religion during the past century is examined in this paper consisting of...

1997's Asian Currency Crisis

In five pages this paper examines supply and demand, government policies, money supply, and currency rates as each applies to the ...

Hong Kong (An Overview)

on its own and its political and governmental system is unique as well. The region has attracted tourists and business professiona...

Drowning in Debt

debt than they do in savings, which means that a great many people are on the edge: one serious illness or accident and they will ...

Sprawl and Chapter Eleven of Duany et al’s Suburban Nation

on a gaping wound (221). Second, regulations must be rewritten (221). Out with old, outdated, and inadequate zoning ordinances a...

The Shakedown (Case Study Analysis)

business to get off the ground, Zhuk and Hnatyuk and others would have to pay a lot of money. In the context of the case study, ...

The Cuban Environment for Business

A socialist government places heavy curbs on business. The first thing Castro did since taking power was to nationalize the holdin...

Asian Economic Crisis of the Late 1990s

In five pages this paper discusses the reasons behind the economic collapse of the Asian tiger and how the global community and go...

Females With Dependents and Government Assistance vs. Job Opportunities

In two pages this paper presents 2 hypothetical alternatives focusing on females of lower income who have dependents and how their...

Bahrain; Women’s Rights

all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...

Unemployment in the United States

A "job loser" is classified as "an unemployed person who has been involuntarily terminated or laid off from a job" (Unemployment r...

Changes in the Egyptian Economy

declined" (Rivlin, 1997). Then in 1956 the Suez Canal company was nationalized, along with "other foreign assets--including banks ...

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

Healthcare Economic Implications for the Aging Population

of twenty and sixty-four for every individual in that aged category (Bernanke, 2006). The significance of this ratio is that the ...

Studies in Public Administration

to meet the "major goals of society" (Stillman, 2000, p. 1). For instance, he says, if a state agency proposes to build a new high...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

FDR and Change

programs, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, environmental laws, child labor laws, farm (and other) subsidies, forest p...

Reforming Executive Compensation

Large companies typically provide an annual salary of $1 million or less paid in cash, with bonuses provided for short- and long-t...

Bio-fuels; An Economic Perspective

industry may be seen as an oligopoly with the concerted effort of suppliers to work in order to control the supply The need for ...

NASA's Effect on the U.S. Economy

the areas in which it operates sites (Reddy, 2006). NASA Langley was the object of one of the investigations seeking to identify ...

Economic Development in Singapore and Other Small Nations

intervention is often detrimental. The country culture is such that censors have to some extent hurt business, but things are chan...