...1. NORMATIVE ECONOMICS—REPUBLICANS VERSUS DEMOCRATS Visit both the Republicans’ www.rnc.org and the Democrats’ www.democrats.org Web sites. Both parties address Healthcare and both address Energy policy, for example. (Democrats under “Issues”, Republicans under “Our Party”.) Compare and contrast their views on two such issues. Generally speaking, how much of the disagreement is based on normative economics compared to positive economics? Give an example of loaded terminology from each site. Answer: The republican energy policy focuses on less regulation and puts the responsibility of energy independence on American business. The belief is corporations will spend more on drilling, alternate fuels and research and development and do so in a responsible manner. In the process more jobs will be created and energy costs to the consumer will lower. The democrats focus on a balanced approach with environmental protection driving future development. They propose taking subsidies from “bad” oil companies and using the money to incentivize companies to develop new technologies and pursue existing sources in an environmentally sound way. Both parties view energy with a normative economic viewpoint. But this is clearly evident with the republican view of “ less regulation should encourage investment, lower prices, and create jobs here at home”. Now we come to healthcare and the current stalemate in Congress. The democrats believe “ accessible, affordable, high quality healthcare...
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...Gun control, one of the most controversial and pressing topics that are being discussed during the presidential campaign. Every candidate believes that they have an answer, liberal that push for increased gun control, to conservatives that believe that lessening gun restrictions on the answer. Two candidates that I believe have well-developed solutions to this issue are Democrat, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Republican, Ted Cruz. After researching and comparing the supposed plan of action of each of these candidates, I believe that Bernie Sanders has the most thoughtful and effective plan to deal with the issue of gun control. To begin, Senator Bernie Sanders shares the opinion of most democrats, that restrictions on purchasing and registering gun should...
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...The Japanese poster provided depicts a short asian man, that looks similar to a vampire. The pointed ears and fangs portray the Japanese as monsters. The man is holding a knife, perhaps to signify the presumed Japanese ‘betrayal’ of America. Additionally, there is a swastika depicted on the Japanese coat, probably used to signify the Japanese choosing the side of the Axis powers, in contrast to the allied United States. Of course, our society now sees these ‘racial stereotypes’, depicted in posters such as the one provided, as WWII propaganda used to input fear and racial prejudice towards the Japanese Americans. Many, as of today, probably see this poster as blatant racism and as a poor, offensive joke. However, within the WWII era, these propaganda posters were very effective in influencing the ways Americans viewed Japanese immigrants, or even Japanese Americans. In fact, several imprisonment camps were set in order to over-look the Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. Additionally, Japanese Americans were prime suspects of spying and plotting attacks with the Japanese attackers. Compare this to today’s...
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...Conservative or Liberal: My Choice Angela J Flemister Liberty University Conservative or Liberal: My Choice A political ideology is a closely linked set of beliefs about politics. Political ideologies offer their adherents well organized theories that propose goals for the society and the means by which those goals can be achieved. (Americian Government pg.18) The two most common ideologies that come to my mind are the conservatism and liberalism, to in nonprofessional terms Republican and Democrat. The two parties differ in what they believe. The beliefs of one are totally opposite to the next. George Lakoff (Moral Politics) penned this book which simply asks “How Liberals and Conservatives think. In my reading of some of the book I was able to easily identify my personal political ideology immediately. Professor Whitham instructed class to research the elected officials in my district. Phil Gingrey and David Scott. The two could not be anymore different than they actually are as Congressman Gingrey is white and Congressman Scott is black. The color of the skin really should not matter but honestly we all know that at some point in time when an issue is presented and needs to be addressed by a vote there is some wrangling be it truth or not, race intervenes. The voting records of my elected officials provided an insight to their ideologies. By viewing the many interest groups it became evident that there is not a non-partisan accumulation of the facts. Many...
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...talk about different articles than later in the essay I will compare them to article that were print after the notorious event. The first article that was insightful of the time before the Tet Offensive came from a newspaper called The Tuscalossa News in August 5, 1964 which is a day after a big attack on American Navy by the North Vietnamese. This article goes by the title of Bipartisan Support Due to Action of Viet Nam. Before getting into the article itself the term Bipartisan need to be defined to help understand what the article is about. Bipartisan happen when two political parties that usually oppose each other's policies are involving the agreement or cooperation with each other. The article discussed about the two American political parties, Democrats and Republican in the Senate to come to agreement over Johnson’s action for the Southwest Asia. It talks about how they need to make swift action to deal with threat of the peace. According to Everett Dirksen that “Speed is of essence” and voice that the president should not have to wait to for foreign relation or Arm Force committee to come to clear the idea that it should be as quick as possible. Other in the Senate according to the article voices the same reason to make historical bipartisan decision to support the president Johnson in his plan to “take any necessary measures” to protect peace and freedom of the South Asia. This article is a good contrast on what happen after the infamous Tet Offensive in the newspaper...
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...Exam 1: Introduction to Africana Studies Short Answer Questions: Be sure to respond to the ENTIRE question, since each question has two parts. (4 points each/100 points total) 1) Why would you say that some see Africa as a country? How would you describe the size of Africa in relation to the size of the United States? 2) The view of Africa as a jungle is erroneous, since a jungle or forested area is not one of the continent’s major environmental features. Name two that are. 3) Africa can be discussed from either an Afrocentric perspective or a Eurocentric perspective. Give two examples of the way Africa is portrayed that support a Eurocentric perspective. 4) Turning to an Afrocentric perspective, name the African scholar honored for exerting the greatest influence on Black thought in the 20th century at the Black World Festival of Arts and Culture in Senegal, West Africa. Name the African American scholar honored for the same reason. 5) Name the Origin of Humankind theory that Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop said was so rigorously defended until science cast it aside. What reason did he cite for its rigorous defense? 6) From “Journey of Man,” name the reason humankind took so long to populate Europe. How many years did it take? 7) What delayed the American geneticist’s travel into Central Asia? Why was getting to that destination so important to him? 8) Name the word that the Navajo man took issue with the geneticist using...
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...Exam 1: Introduction to Africana Studies Short Answer Questions: Be sure to respond to the ENTIRE question, since each question has two parts. (4 points each/100 points total) Why is Africa a continent and not a country? How would you describe the size of Africa in relation to the size of the United States? Africa is a continent because it is a large land mass with many countries within it. A country is a large community with their own set of political rules that differ from other countries. Not all of Africa is governed by one government, if so that would make it a country. Africa is about 3 times the size of the United States. It is much larger than the United States. The view of Africa as a jungle is erroneous, since a jungle or forested area is not one of the continent’s major environmental features. Name two that are. 1/5th of Africa is a rainforest and 1/3rd of Africa is a desert. Africa can be discussed from either an Afrocentric perspective or a Eurocentric perspective. Give two examples of the way Africa is portrayed that support a Eurocentric perspective. A Eurocentric perspective of Africa is represented in many textbooks, media, and teachings, by not making clear that Eygpt is located in Africa is not made clear. It is typically referred to as being in the Middle East. It is even occasionally taught as a part of Western Civilizations, although Egypt is not located in the West. Another example is how the Europeans...
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...Affordable Care Act - Applying Historical Perspectives to a Current Social Issue Universal health care for Americans has long been a highly contested hot button issue in the United States. It is no secret that Americans pay much more for medical services than other comparable countries, however these higher price tags do not necessarily translate to better care (Keller, 2013). For example, the average price of the allergy nose spray Nasonex is $108 in the United States, compared to $21 in Spain. In many developed countries, a basic colonoscopy costs well under $1,000, but in the United States a bill for this procedure would likely be closer to the $7,000 to $9,000 range (Rosenthal, 2013). In the midst of the debate, and while Republicans and Democrats alike may claim that they want the best health care available for all American people, in the media more often than not this argument comes down to dollars and cents. However, it is of course too simplistic to say that only the power of money and no other forces are at play here. In this paper I will present the case of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly referred to as Obamacare, as it relates to a number of different political and economic ideologies presented in readings and in lecture. The goal of the ACA is to increase the quality and affordability of medical care and health insurance options in the United States through a dramatic overhaul of the current system. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President...
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...generations during elections (Matta and Martin 1). Now, for the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election, it will be the first time the Millennial eligibility voting population will equal that of Baby Boomers. Investigating the reason for the absence of Millennials at the voting polls during the last decade of elections is important because if organized they are capable of having a major influence in shaping the government. When investigating the causes for low political engagement Millennials tend to exhibit three main traits: apathy, frustration and ignorance (Robert). However, in order to determine how these factors have contributed to the increased negative attitude towards the government and the lack of motivation to vote, it is important to compare the Millennial generation to past generations such as Generation X and Baby Boomers. The decrease in young voter attendance has been a constant problem throughout history, predominately due to their lack of motivation. Following the ratification of the 26th amendment in 1971 (lowering the voting age from 21 to 18), the 1972 Presidential election had the highest youth turn out rate in history. Since then, fewer and fewer young eligible Americans have decided to vote (History.com staff). The specific reason for the continued decrease of enthusiasm for the political system by young people is unknown. However, in an effort to encourage political involvement in the 1990s, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization called Rock the Vote emerged...
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...It was technically only symbolic in nature. Butternut Region: Term used to describe the states of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio: though technically non-slaveholding, the amount of settlers from the South led them to support the Southern cause. War Democrats: Members of the Democratic Party who advocated for a more militant approach toward the Confederacy: they generally supported Lincoln’s policies. Peace Democrats/Copperheads: The War Democrats’ more level-headed counterparts who advocated for peace between the Union and the Confederacy. Clement L. Vallandingham: Ohio Democrat who was a strong advocate for the anti-war peace position of the Peace Democrats. Lost Cause: A literary movement used to effectively create an aggregate representation between Antebellum South and the Confederacy. 1. Why was the battle of Antietam “probably the most decisive of the Civil War’? After the South had had a key string of victories, a major victory at Antietam likely would have spelled disaster for the North and its morale levels. When the North prevailed, morale was increased, Europe was dissuaded from assisting the South, and Lincoln had a healthy climate for the Emancipation...
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...SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY Characteristics of Social Science Introduction One of the livelier academic debates of recent years has concerned the "scientific" status of those disciplines gathered under the rubric of the social sciences-typically including sociology, political science, social psychology, economics, anthropology, and sometimes fields such as geography, history, communications, and other composite and specialty fields, basically at issue like whether human behavior can be subjected to scientific study. It is a firm assumption of social scientists now-a-days that social behaviour can be subjected to scientific study as legitimately as can atoms, cells and so forth. Like physical scientists, social scientists seek to discover regularity and order. The social scientist looks for regularity in social behavior. He does this through careful observation and measurement, discovery of relationship, and framing of models and theories. The Search for Social Regularities Measuring Social Phenomena The first building block of science is measurement, or systematic observation. There is no fundamental reason why social scientists cannot measure phenomena relevant to their enquiry. The age and sex of people can be measured. Place of birth and marital status can be measured in a number of different ways, varying in accuracy and economy. Aggregate social behaviour can be measured systematically as well. The political...
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...Journal of Accounting and Economics 55 (2013) 66–90 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Accounting and Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jae Towards an understanding of the role of standard setters in standard setting$ Abigail Allen, Karthik Ramanna n Harvard Business School, USA a r t i c l e in f o abstract Article history: Received 15 September 2010 Received in revised form 24 May 2012 Accepted 25 May 2012 Available online 7 June 2012 We investigate the effect of standard setters in standard setting. We examine how certain professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting ‘‘reliability’’ and ‘‘relevance’’ of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial services are more likely to propose standards that decrease ‘‘reliability’’ and increase ‘‘relevance,’’ partly due to their tendency to propose fair-value methods. We find opposite results for FASB members affiliated with the Democratic Party, although only when excluding financialservices background as an independent variable. Jackknife procedures show that results are robust to omitting any individual standard setter. & 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: D72 D78 G18 K22 L51 M41 Keywords: Accounting FASB Politics Relevance Reliability Standard setting 1. Introduction As the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) closes...
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...Funding the Rising Cost of Healthcare Kershena Thomas Health Services Organization May 18, 2014 Crystal Russell, Instructor Funding the Rising Cost of Healthcare The United States’ total health care cost is expected to rise to about $4.8 trillion in 2021. That increase will be up from $75 billion from the 1970s. Health care spending will be responsible for approximately 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), simply stated it will equate to approximately one-fifth of the U.S. economy (Galewitz, 2010). Nearly 51 percent of the country’s spending goes towards the cost of medical services provided by physicians and hospitals, while prescription drugs account for about 10 percent. Private hospitals only receive approximately 3.75 percent of the nation’s overall health care spending. Some consumers as well as employers face hardships trying to afford health insurance premiums; therefore, many employers are unable to afford to offer healthcare to their employees. This is especially common in companies that employ less than 10 employees. With the constant rise in healthcare cost, about 49 million Americans were uninsured in 2012, while those who were insured faced an increase of 7.2 percent causing costs to exceed $20,000 for families. A comprehensive analysis of the impact of health care reform and a synopsis of where healthcare would be without reform was conducted by The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). The analysis also included a report that identified...
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...Introduction Right-to-Work Laws first appeared in a significant number of states after Congress enacted the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, and they remain on the books in roughly twenty two states today. The right these laws enshrine is the nineteenth-century liberal individualist conception of freedom of contract between employer and employee. They protect the individual worker's freedom to refuse to join or to help support a union, including one chosen by fellow employees as their bargaining representative. Thus, from the perspective animating the Wagner Act, they aim to undercut collective labor agreements. More specifically, right-to-work laws are aimed against union security provisions in collective labor contracts. Such provisions may require that the employer hire only union members, ensuring a so-called "closed shop," or they may require that newly hired workers join the union within a certain period. Or union security provisions may not require union membership: they may only demand that employees contribute their share to the union's costs of bargaining on workers' behalf. Also, they may provide that the employer shall deduct union dues or fees from workers' pay checks. State right-to-work laws typically outlaw all such arrangements. Most of the 22 states that have Right to Work laws adopted them in the 1940’s and 1950’s after the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. (Encyclopedia, 2005) The right-to-work law gives workers...
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...Brazil [pic] By:Megan Robinson [pic] Brazil is the 6th largest country in the world in size and the largest country in economy and size on the South American continent. While the country started under Portuguese rule for three centuries, Brazil took over its Independence in 1882. Brazil’s official language is Portuguese and the capital is Brasilia. The country is prodominatly known for the Amazon Rainforest. Brazil follows in size to the largest economy in the world, the United States of America.(The World Factbook) With Brazils growing economy they are doing things progressively more like the United States but still maintain some differences of their own. Families in America and Brazil in this current day are very similar. In Brazil the divorce rate has in the recent years hit and all time high. Divorce rates rose 36.8% in one year from 2009 to 2010. These increases were contributed to the ease of the divorce process that congress approved in 2009.This took their divorce rate to 1.8 per 1000 people.(Divorce Rate) However this number is still lower than that of the United States with a divorce rate of 4.9 per 1000 people.(Cherlin) When looking at fertility in Brazil, it has hit an all time low. According to a census in 2011, fertility fell to 1.94 children per woman. This is concerning because in order for Brazil to maintain their population women need to be conceiving on average of 2.1 children. Many factors are contributing to the decline in birth rate such as...
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