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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...

Steroid Scandal in Major League Baseball and Congress

had used steroids and also claimed that as much as 50% pf the players used them (Schmaltz, 2002; 264). Another big name, Jose Cans...

SOX Audits

(2003) commented that the sweeping criminal provisions in the act apply to everyone, including nonprofit organizations. For exampl...

Argument: There Is No Need to Revamp the Corps of Engineers

of rebuttal here, well accept Utts comment that the knowledge and expertise of the members of the Corps is extensive, but it is th...

Gas Rationing

out a system so that those who drive farther get more gas? Whos going to go around to all the congressional districts and check on...

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...

Logical Fallacies: Bush Rhetoric On Terrorism

popular time in United States history, inasmuch as 911 proved to divide an already agitated homeland. Bushs speech attempted to p...

Corruption in the United States Congress

human nature. In general, if someone is nice and gives another person a gift, the recipient is more likely to feel obligated to th...

AMERICAN COLONISTS AND GRIEVANCES AGAINST KING GEORGE

were three acts. The first (taxation without representation) extended the power of raising revenues in America without representat...

Risorgimento; Italy Between 1815 - 1832

in the period following 1815 it is important to consider these changes as the administrative, judicial, education, and military sy...

Foreign Diplomacy and the Role of Congress

order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

Presidential and Congress Balance of Power

snuff, the idea that the presidents role should be expanded goes against everything that the Founders intended. First, what did th...

Different Views on Airliners Carrying Guns in Cockpits

pilots, and they should have the right to protect that cockpit with a firearm" (Burns, 2002, PG). The Airline Pilots Association,...

Pros and Cons of Pornography

chats, and a forum where one can post a message. There does not seem to be any sadistic or fetish buttons on this site. Most of th...

Domestic Programs Proposed by President Harry S. Truman

his efforts (The American President, Domestic Affairs, nd). He then seized the mines and had them operate under the supervision of...

Tutorial on the Enron Scandal

sources will be cited using APA style. Chronology of the Enron Collapse Before analyzing what, exactly, caused Enrons coll...

U.S. Emvironmental Policy in 1992

This 6 page paper discusses U.S. international environmental policy, and examines the failure of the U.S. to take its expected lea...

February 27, 2001 Congressional Address by President George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses Bush's address to Congress outlining his budget plan and proposed tax cuts with positive and ne...

Trade Policy and Congressional Deference

In eight pages this paper considers how the Congress often defers to the President on trade matters but that it nevertheless retai...

Election of Congress Members and Public Policy

the greater good of society, they work to fund their next election. This is a topic that is not obscured and in fact the subject o...

Second World War, Colonialism, Muslims, and India

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the Second World War and the response of the Indian soldier influenced separatism and ind...

Bankruptcy Laws and Reform

In eleven pages reform efforts of bankruptcy laws are examine in terms of Chapters 7, 11, and 13 before and after Congress imposed...

Texas State Legislature and Congress

subsequently submitted to the voters for their approval (Texas State Government, 2001). Like most other states, Texas employs a...

U.S. Congress' Partisan Relations

In five pages this paper discusses the 107th U.S. Congress in a consideration of the impact of partisan relations. Four sources a...

Tyranny Protection and Democratic Elections

federal government -- the legislative and the judicial -- are constitutionally equal. Nonetheless, the president is almost always ...

Overview of the Declaration of Independence

are quite the same as anybody elses; but all are entitled to an equal voice in deciding how they should be governed" (The Economis...

Congress Lack of Action on Smog Problems

of the problem coupled with pressure from big business to remain quiet. The United States was forced to take a good, long l...

Reform of Congress?

interest groups, some of which are small in numbers, have become vocal and can capture the attention of the media with a proper "v...

Political Systems Comparison

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

Congress and the Function of Political Parties

aspect is further argued by one author who indicates that, "In America, the national parties play a relatively limited role in ele...