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Agricultural Subsidies and Economic Factors

On the one hand, free market economists point to the idea of "survival of the fittest" - whoever can sell the most should profit a...

Kennewick Man Controversy and the NAGPRA

from Indian lands (Clark, 1999). The act has caused a great deal of controversy in the field of archaeology and has in many ways c...

Confederacy and Union Problems Experienced on the Home Front During the US Civil War

of the problems both Union and Confederate armies faced on the home front. "Confederate soldiers left their wives -- and their mo...

US Civil War and Reasons for the North's Victory

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

U.S. Civil Right Movement

African-Americans, women, and men without property, had not always been accorded full citizenship rights in the American Republic ...

Rep. John Conyers' Health Care Resolution Act HRC 99

(Cabenela, 2002). Federal representatives are John Sullivan (R); Brad Carson (D); Wes Watkins (R); J.C. Watts, Jr. (R); Ernest J. ...

Recruiting for the U.S. Civil Service and Pattern Changes

Breaches of this then become political tools for opposition parties and candidates, with the government as an employer needing to ...

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...

Transient - and Disappearing - Benefits

true, but it seems as though these same organizations are being rather myopic in planning for the future. The single constant fac...

Should Home Depot Expand into China?

of the company, which is increasing the return for investors? The idea of expanding into China is an international expansion st...

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

counter to the moral expectations and values of the American public" and in addition it is bad for business because it "erodes pub...

Viewpoints on Public Education

successful. It is likely that Powell is an aberration. At least, he is a well known leader who has done a great deal in life. Yet,...

Comparing Online and Print Newspapers

firehouses and other public works after the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes still havent been spent, a sign that key pieces of the regi...

The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace

that if employers fail to make accommodations, that litigation can occur. In 2004, Armour argues, the Equal Employment Opportunit...

Preserving the Past

followed" (Historic preservation in America, 2009). Various groups and organization have become involved in historic preservatio...

No Child Left Behind Success or Failure?

whether or not the Act will be successful hinges on a complexity of factors. Effective education encapsulates a diversity of cons...

Canada's English and French Media Coverage of America's "Secure Flight" Program

with certain distinctive trends developing. In his article entitled "Privacy vs. Security: U.S. Wants Names of Canadian Air Pa...

AN OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING ACT OF 1978

Act of 1978). Furthermore, the International Banking Act of 1978 applied both the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and the Bank ...

Valuing a Firm

There are many ways that firms may be valued, with investors seeking to find models to help them assess the real value of a firm. ...

Prejudices Women Face in the U.S.

levels of power and position. It would be foolish to argue that women havent made progress, because they have, but it would also ...

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND CHRYSLER: TO SAVE OR NOT

in fact, its what should have happened in the 1980s when Chrysler asked for its first government bailout. But those on the other s...

BROWN V. BOARD: IMPACT ON LEGAL HISTORY

the amendment was undermined (partly because the wording was so vague), and southern states passed new segregation laws and polici...

STIMULUS PACKAGE AND IMPACT ON EMPLOYERS

failure put a paralyzing shock on the financial markets, its effect started seeping down into businesses that had nothing to do wi...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Anti-Kickback Act of 1986

describes kickbacks as not only completed transactions of anything of valuable such as money, commissions, gifts, or gratuities, b...

The Continued Need for Civil Disobedience

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

AIBO in the US

space, as such the role of a pet in a confined space, or where pets are not allowed by landlords, is not a large market. However, ...

Civil Law Countries and Their Criminal Justice Systems

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

The Civil War

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

Justiciability of Socio-economic, Civil and Political Rights

as being conferred by the state upon the citizenry, but rather the people are perceived as holding these rights independently of t...