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Campaigns and Elections in the United States

are likely to look askance at such a person" (Allen, 1998, p. 22). Americans, while we realize that campaigns take money, like t...

Policy Implications of the Film Cool Hand Luke

for working farms and it provided Southern states with a rationale for not rebuilding prisons after the war. In some cases, many s...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

Johannes Kepler and His Contribution to Astrology

advantage of an education and as such was able to afford himself a level of intellectual snobbery, but this is more that snobbery,...

Medical Practices and the Effects of Malpractice

hopefully - ultimately - reduce malpractice premiums. In its most basic form, the medical malpractice liability system has ...

Critique of Moralists and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

this time. This particular era was fraught with uncertainty and possibility. As such it was fertile ground for change. Mintz sugge...

1990s Global Financial Crises, Causes, and Reforms

of the 1990s came as a surprise to economists who thought that more globalization would have the effect of stabilizing internation...

1547 England Protestantism

main issue with regard to English history of this period is the dichotomy between Catholic and Protestant, and the extent to which...

Economic Relations and the Economy of Argentina

Were the central bank of, say Ecuador, to fix the exchange rate of the Ecuador currency directly to the value of the US dollar, pr...

Latin America and Africa Needs of Finanicial System Reform

to achieve and maintain without effective financial system structures, yet without economic growth there is little reason for plac...

Cultural and Performance Studies and Communication

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

Public Policy and Business Interests

Public policy is made primarily by elected officials who propose laws. In the White House for example, the president and cabinet m...

Brazil's Policies Regarding Land Reform

Cuba, have failed, is beyond logic or reason. Of course, the Brazilian government does not call it communism but all one has to do...

Western Civilizations's Pivotal Event

to a calling more suited to their socioeconomic status. In other words, if one were poor, one would be placed on the vocational tr...

Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

At Risk Students and Curricular Reform and Innovations

conditions of life in distressed communities(Principles for Education 2002). To meet the challenge of radically transforming dist...

China vs. U.S. in Social Reform and Politics

who are living the American Dream. What could BE more American than a hamburger, right? Who made that happen? McDonalds and their ...

Japan and Crime

the number of misbehaving children and incidents of juvenile delinquency" (Ministry of Education, 2001). The objectives of the r...

Welfare Reform and TANF

One of the major features of TANF was the stimulation of state and local government to require an increase in their requirements f...

Reforming the Los Angeles Police Department

and trickle down to the very last beat cop in order for there to be any improvement in how the LAPD approaches its racial inequity...

Tort Reform Arguments Both For and Against

both pain and suffering and punitive damages. Hofmann (2003) believes that the Presidents: "... call for the reform of medical mal...

U.S. Government Involvement in Prescription Drugs

the "government should subsidize prescription drug spending for all 40 million Americans over the age of 65 - whether they need it...

Rochester, NY, and Education According to John Dewey's Philosophy and Carter G. Woodson's The Mis Education of the Negro

him to accept an inferior status" (1998, p. 84). Having African Americans accept their inferior status in American society was n...

Senior Citizens, AARP, and Health Care

public policy. These groups are normally organized for the purpose of being with people of like-minded moral reasons for the soci...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Health Care Policies of Presidents Harry S. Truman and Bill Clinton

plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...

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...

Canada, Japan, Lithuania, and Education Reform

felt these programs were not well supported or consistent across the territorial and provincial systems. In addition, most educati...

Turkey's System of Criminal Justice

security forces enjoyed, and the issue of human rights abuses connected with police methodologies. The State Department noted that...