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Fairness and Elections in Jamaica

the prime minister may request that the governor general call for elections sooner ("Background," 2011). There are two major polit...

Fairness of Free Trade

not be any governmental interference (Nellis and Parker, 2000). The basic belief that underlies this paradigm is that there is a n...

Fairness, Liability, and Proposed Tax to Assist Education

contribute toward support of the government "in proportion to their respective abilities" (Weiner, 2002). In other words, citizens...

Social Fairness and 'Positive Discrimination'

be undertaken consciously. Many of the disadvantages are faced then become due to social constructs and the way that capital cultu...

Worker Paycheck Fairness Act, H.R. 2434

In five pages this bill is considered in terms of its history, synopsis, and pro and con arguments. Nine sources are cited in the...

1997's The Workplace Fairness Act, H.R. 963

In seven pages an overview of the Act introduced by Rep. Brian Bilbray in 1997 is presented. Five sources are cited in the biblio...

"Fairness" in Pay Inequities

are paid substantially less for comparable work and responsibilities compared to the private sector in the job families analyzed" ...

Criminal Justice System and Fairness

amazed that Bostick consented to the search. The United States Supreme Court held that Bostick had the ability to refuse. ...

Fairness of the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

been asked to commute the sentence but he refused. He said: "I am convinced that ...the Rosenbergs have received the benefit of ev...

History of Intelligence Assessment

IQ testing has a very long and complex history. Dozens of theorists have offered their opinions; many conducted research on these ...

Standardized Testing In Kindergarten

being used in todays state accountability programs-mandated standardized achievement tests-are causing educational harm, perhaps i...

Burlington Northern Railway: Fair Settlement In Genetic Testing Lawsuit?

- employees were predisposed to carpal tunnel is both grand and far-reaching; that they did so without knowledge of or written con...

Standardized Testing: Article Overviews

consequences. In some levels, students cannot advance to the next grade level without passing the exam. From the outset, this pa...

Research Questions

set up in a laboratory or other controlled conditions in order to test the different hypothesises that surround this idea and test...

Assessing Reading

recent studies suggest that goal will not be achieved (Manzo, 2005). A Rand report stated that reading has improved in the primary...

How Standardized Testing Damages Education

system that divides the student population rather than accurately and fairly evaluates it (Phillips 52). One of the most se...

Animal Testing In Cosmetic Labs

caged monkey, arms and legs spread wide and strapped to the metal wire, head firmly braced so as to not allow movement of any kind...

Ethics of a Two-Tier Health System

medically necessary services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured;"5 * Universality - ensures uniform terms and condi...

Affirmative Action and Nebraska’s Initiative 424

experience is flawed (Hansen, 2008a). Initiative 424, however, has both supporters and critics. Harvey Perlman (chancellor of th...

DISCRIMINATION SUITES BASED ON GENETICS

The question we need to ask ourselves here, however, is whether such discrimination, legally, can already take place. The National...

Measuring Body Temperature

thermometer in the same areas. Thus the problem lies in determining which of the types of available thermometers is more ac...

Contemporary Personnel Selection

The problem with this style of recuitment, which is still pursued, is that the labor market is changing, there may not always be t...

Test Taking Skills (A Literature Review)

skim the questions as they are worried that they will run out of time. However, this could lead to a misinterpretation of some of ...

Coca-Cola And Pepsi Advertising Influences Consumers

rivals since each was founded. Coca-Cola consistently wins greater market share than Pepsi. The two companies have engaged in aggr...

Changing Driver’s License Age Limits to Save Lives

description shows the factors that are common in crashes involving teens: a 16-year old boy was driving; he was in an SUV; there w...

California, the SATS and Problems with Standardized Testing

students and our African American students to continue to lag academically behind their peers" (Slater, 2008). He notes further th...

DNA and the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project

so-called cold cases and have been on the books for a year or more (Eisenberg and Planz, 2008). Under current policies, some huma...

Epidemiology of Tay Sachs Disease

peripheral vision and eventual blindness, mental retardation, paralysis, and non-responsiveness (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Dis...

Animal Testing and Ethics

have been made without the animals. Consider Dr. Thomas E. Starzl who was the first to succeed with kidney transplants (Americans ...

Medical Consent and Dependents Over the Age of 18

have declined given their knowledge of the fact that the pain their daughter was experiencing was not that atypical and was obviou...