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The Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action

is not surprising that this had led to the implementation of state Affirmative Action directives. Supporters of Affirmative Act...

Comparing the Economic Depressions Between the US and Japan

which monetary policy doesnt work because interest rates are as low as theyre going to go (without going below zero) (Krugman, 199...

Liberalism and Bill Clinton

opposition by keeping to a decidedly conservative course. In his second term in the White House, Clinton espoused a commitment to ...

2 Essays on Social Work and the 'Worthy Poor'

(Trattner, 1999). Accordingly, leaders in the field of social work began to urge a pro-active stance toward the nations mounting p...

Economic Equity and Efficiency of Treatment as They Relate to Acid Rain

horrible scourge on the environment, it would help us now to take a calm and rational look at what, exactly it is and its impact o...

Monetary Policy of Canada

is set (2002). Complex rules generally incorporate a greater number of variables (2002). A simple rule may be considered to be rob...

New Classical Economic Theory

individuals or firms expectations/forecast of a particular economic variable is rational, as long as the individual or firm makes ...

Sudan and Desertification

rapid rate, and wind erosion also causes soil damage in the flood plains of the Nile. Water erosion also causes soil degradation, ...

Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox Analyzed

back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...

Russian History's Inconsistencies and Dichotomies

Great," 2003). Peter the Great was somewhat obsessed with creating a Russia that was separate and apart from Asia as well. His St....

Economic Policies of U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush

September 11, 2001, and rushed headlong into full blown recession with the grounding of the US airline industry. Selected Economic...

Senior Citizens and Public Policy

forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a variety o...

Prison Policy and Violence

1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...

The 9 Years War of 1688 to 1697 and Policies of Great Britain and Fance

PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...

Legacy of Napoleon III

Egypt, for instance, he immediately established a "programme of intellectual and archaeological study of the country."12 He even r...

A Policy Analysis of the Adoption and Safe Families Act

time minors spent in "foster-care limbo" (Spake, 1999). When President Bill Clinton signed the law in 1997, he summarized the ASFA...

Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in the Area of Higher Education

continue acting as though they are contributing to a more racially diversified academic community, when in reality they are really...

American Corporate Sphere and Sexual Harassment

which base an employment benefit upon an exchange of sexual favors" (Mallery, 1997, p. 7). There are two distinct types of sexual...

Issues, Reforms, and Controversy Associated with the CAP

consumers at reasonable prices (EU, 2001). Article 34 of the EC Treaty also adds the creation of the "common organization of the...

Policy and Gun Control

logic of those for gun control and illustrate how they cling to smallest details, attempting to manipulate them to their own ends....

Gross Domestic Product and Fiscal Policy Impact

equilibrium. Economists are still arguing over whether the model, but it does give an explanation of unemployment in terms of insu...

'New' Russia and Its Power, Ideology, Military, and Policy

he pointed out that "Russias national identity is still evolving" and probably more importantly, "the new Russia is not the Soviet...

Nazy Germany's Anti Semitic Policies

Jewish residents of the Nazi state, and resulted in a mass exodus of Jews from Germany to seek asylum elsewhere. The following ye...

Europe, Seeking Asylum, and Economic Migration

been successful (there have been severe criticisms of the GATT treaties, the WTO and the IMF/ World Bank in the latter part of the...

Social Perspective on Great Britain's Postwar Immigration Policy

had constraints placed on individuals in the same way being totally unacceptable on the new world order that was emerging. This wa...

Exhibiting Social Deviance

glared and showed signs of impatience but said nothing. Perhaps a more direct approach would draw more direct response. Th...

The Overworked American The Unexpected Decline in Leisure by Juliet Schor

able to analyze Schors findings through a careful definition of the problem, understanding the extent of it, considering how it ca...

Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter on Central America

Info, 1988). The straw that broke the camels back in terms of Carters flexibility was the murder of four churchwomen in El Salvad...

Convergence, European Union, and Common Regional and Social Policies

standards on which country. This is the basis of EU idealism. EU social policy extends form the need for freedom and democr...

Child Labor Conditions and Government Policy in India

numbers unknown which is why the estimates vary. Regardless of the reports however, the child labor and bonded industries continue...