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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...

Laws and Regulations in Insurance Practice in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania

maintains two broad categories, Property/Casualty and Life/Health. Agents must be licensed in both to be able to sell policies in...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

California's Emergency Services and its Relationship with the Federal Government

and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...

The Vagueness of the United States Constitution

existing. One can well argue that the founding fathers were incredibly wise, or that they were very lucky, when they put the Const...

The Problems of Landlocked States

Hodder & Lloyd (1998), Africa has the majority of land-locked states. Not all continents have to deal with the problem of having a...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

An Evaluation of the Steady-State Theory

the earth and so quasars are objects that come form the past, and this suggest that a few billion years earlier, the universe was ...

Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)

the States must fulfill in order to receive federal funds under the Education of the Handicapped Act (subsequently referred as "th...

Border Control: United States and Mexico

clearly has an affect on taxing in the United States. And, the taxing is not just involved through the situations noted above, but...

Zip Code 11572 and Abuse of Alcohol and Drugs

alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...

America's Waste Management Services

Figure 1 shows the position in 2001. Figure 1 US Waste Management Industry in 2001 (Repa, 2001) Sector Number of Organizations A...

Dawn Blair's American ‘2014' and George Orwell's ‘1984'

ironically producing a version of 1984 that runs afoul of government censors. Orwells 1984 has served as a frightening reminder...

Policies of Maryland Schools and Dangerous Weapons

"dangerous weapon". The legal definition of "dangerous weapon" is pretty much consistent across states. In Maryland, the t...

Analysis of Harvard Business School Komatsu Case Study

success. While a firm can have a lot of things, image can prove quite valuable. Komatsu has handled itself well. Komatsu has been ...

Market Report for M and M Mars

range. However, to consider the market we need to look at the chocolate confectionary market as a while for the US to placer this ...

North Carolina Corrections

a variety of services are offered. These programs fall under the following general categories: work programs; educational programs...

'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver and a Responsibility Letter

1959, and Price, like so many of his Western contemporaries at the time, believed that the inhabitants of the so-called Dark Conti...

Corrections and the Effects of Prison Overcrowding

many deem as unfair funding taken from other more socially important programs like schooling and welfare, has found itself embroil...

U.S. Healthcare Policy

of many attempts at generating what would hopefully evolve into a comprehensive U.S. healthcare policy for all Americans, but the ...

Ethnic Minorities and Paradise Lost by Peter Schrag

generous in regards to social welfare and progressive policies, according to Schrag. This situation has changed drastically accord...

Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Texas and Illinois Governmental Differences

even to this day (Ginsberg et al, 2001). There really is no "common political culture," and this is a state of huge economic diver...

Key Elements of Maryland v. Bradford

in Hornbeck v. Somerset Co. Bd. of Educ., rejected an equity challenge to the states education finance system (ACCESS, 2004). The ...

School Funding Alternatives Assessed

in school funding and enhanced equitable distribution of financial resources. Current The scenario to be changed is that in...

Terrorism Preparedness, Travis County, Texas

Balcones Escarpment, with the land to the west being more arid than the country to the east; the vegetation varies accordingly, ra...

Eleventh Grade Mathematics Teachers in the State of New York

No Child Left Behind requires that students emerge from classes at increasing levels of proficiency, and the law provides a measur...

Child Labor Practices Among Farm Workers in Florida

Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Smith, 1995). At the same time, children who work all around the nation are being either hurt or kill...

States of Consciousness

is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...

Overview of European Monetary Union

In five pages the European Union and the European Monetary Union are examined in a discussion of the issues that relate to each al...