...Reagan Analysis Paper Julie A Scott HIS/145 September 25th, 2014 Brain Brooks Reagan Analysis Paper This paper is supposed to be my opinion on if Reagan was either overrated or underrated as a president, not being from the United States and of course at the time not even living in this country, I did not live through any of the policies he put in place or took away, therefore I found it difficult to make a decision based purely off of what I could read watch or look at. My spin on this will be apparent at the end of my paper Regan tried hard to cut many departments within the government, the department of energy, and also the department of education. Legislators wouldn’t allow that to happen so he cut the budgets to them. I believe that’s why some of our education programs now are a mess. When his secretary of transportation Drew Lewis opposed an illegal strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization (PATCO), Regan fired them all 11,500 air traffic controllers had to be replaced and trained. Regan had ordered Drew Lewis to do this, the action of Regan cost billions and took several years to recover from, thinking about it how Regan avoided an air disaster I don’t know. How a man who held a union card could be so opposed to them is a mystery. Ronald Regan was also again affirmative action and over time he cut budgets to the civil rights department and there was less African Americans hired into official positions, he didn’t seem to care about all the progress...
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...In Federalist paper number 10 James Madison explains why there should be a concern over majority and minority factions and solutions to lessen the dangers of these factions. When our goverment first started it was made originally to help and be closely tied to the citizens of the United States. Some aspects of this has changed since the beginning of the constitution resulting in some majority and minority rule change. When the Consititution was first written it was made to simply limit majority rule and give eqaul amount of power to the minority. The national goverment was originally built closely tied to citizens because of the House of Repesentatives. The House of Representatives was made to give citizens an equal say in the legislation of the United States. Unlike in the Senate, members of the House are elected by the people of the United States giving citizens a say in govenment affairs. One of the major aspects of the national goverment that is tied to citizens is the short term lenght and frequency of elections of people holding an office in the goverment. With the short term lenght and frequency of elections citizens are constantly contributing to what is going on in the nation by voting on who will be the best candidate for a certain office. A third reason the national goverment is closely tied to citizens is that the House of Representatives represents small member districts. This causes there to be close to equal say for everyone in a state to elect someone to represent...
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...Social Policy Decisions Paper Tawanda L. Wright BSHS/355 May 30, 2016 Pam Harris Social Policy Decisions Paper On May 3, 1980, a 46-year-old drunk driver fatally killed 13-year-old Cari Lightner in a hit-and-run drunk driving accident. The fatal accident that leads to the death of Cari Lightner was a result of drunk driving that causes her mother, Candace (Candy) Lightner’s organization of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was established on September 5, 1980, four months after 13-year-old Cari’s tragic death. The platform was created by Mothers Against Drunk Driving as a way of bringing public awareness of the results of driving while intoxicated and under the influence of drugs. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) also provided support to families and victims of drunk driving. Through the organization, a small group of women who went around the nation providing information and facts about driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. What initially started out as a small group of women quickly caught the attention of the United States Congress. MADD is still active today and has hundreds of chapters across the United States. Social Policies of MADD The overall predicament that led to the establishment of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was due to the individuals who were driving while under the influence of alcohol. Individuals were driving while under the influence of alcohol since the end of prohibition. Evidence...
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...RONALD REAGAN ECONOMIC POLICIES Name: Instructor: Ronald Reagan Economic Policies Reaganomics was the popular term that was used to describe Ronald Reagan’s economic policies, which advocated for a decreased social spending, widespread tax cuts, increased military spending, and deregulation of the domestic markets. This paper aims at analyzing the economic policy of President Reagan’s administration. Generally, Reagan pledged to advance, or return, to a free market and that involved getting the government off the citizens’ backs. Specifically, he was in favor for a massive deduction in government spending, a balanced budget by the year 1984, and a more drastic cut in taxation. His main concern was the reduction of income tax, and ensuring a come back to the gold standards, when money supply was done by the markets and not the government. Besides calling for free markets domestically, Reagan asserted deep commitment to liberty of international trade. However, when the president’s advisors went to office with the idea of cutting both taxes and spending, they found out that the first objective was easier to achieve than the second because of politics of the day. Cutting tax was popular and they did come down substantially. The top marginal rate reduced to 28 per cent from 70 per cent (Magazzino, 2010). Many loop holes were eliminated and the tax base broadened. However, cutting the spending was unpopular and the democratic...
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...Communicable Disease Paper Felicia Pinckney HCS/457 January 24, 2013 Communicable Disease Paper In this paper the author was given an assignment by her instructor to write a paper on a communicable disease. The author has to describe the disease that she has chosen to write about and discuss different efforts to control the communicable disease. The author must include all data that she finds during her research on the communicable disease that she has chosen to write about, evidence- base interventions, and discuss plans to ensure quality of health. The author will identify available resources that will assist with the treatment and care of the communicable disease that the author has chosen to write about. The author will identify environmental factors related to the chosen disease. The author will discuss what kind of influence the communicable disease will have on a person’s lifestyle, socioeconomic status, and how to manage the disease. The author will identify gaps and methods for linking to other resources to meet the needs that are not locally available to the population. The author will include recommendations to expand community programs if there is a gap. In conclusion the author will proved three or more references. The communicable disease the author chose to write about is Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency (HIV/AIDS). HIV is a virus that is transmitted from one person to another person through the exchange of body fluids such as...
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...Legalizing Marijuana The United States has made it clear that they aren’t going to tolerate the legalization of any kind of drugs. The U.S has invested billions of dollars to combat the war on drugs especially when it comes to illegal smuggling. Many people feel that the government should spent federal money on other important issues going on in the country, such as our economy. There are many debatable questions that come up when discussing if marijuana should be legalize or not. Marijuana has been banned for more than half a century. The U.S government has made it clear that the possession or the growth for personal use is a criminal act. The government has clear understanding that legalizing marijuana could have a good outcome for the country by helping people that need it for medical purposes, but also it could bring billions of dollars in tax revenue to the U.S economy. The U.S. has a long history with marijuana; some of the early presidents were advocates of marijuana. Many people think that Marijuana should be legalized because it can be used for medical purposes but other people who are against legalizing marijuana think that it would affect kids and schools. Marijuana should be legalized but only for people with medicinal needs and it should be treated similar to the alcohol regulations. Background History of Marijuana Marijuana has been known to date back thousands of years. According to Time Magazine, the marijuana plant goes back as early as 2737 B.C. found...
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...Let’s start with signing statements. According to the Constitution, Article II, the President can sign the bill or veto it. That is the Constitutional limit to his power with signing statements. Modern presidents, however, use these statements as ways to incorporate their own thoughts on the bill and “announcing a president’s intention to violate particular sections of the bill he is signing into law” (Swanson, 4). By doing this he is clearly overstepping his authority as president, since it is the duty of his Congress to make laws and not his place to either critique them or disregard them. While on the subject of inadvertence to law, let’s go over the ever so continuous controversy of the Anti Torture Act. In 1988 President Ronald Regan signed the UN Convention Against Torture, prohibiting any such acts as to inflict pain or suffering upon a person to obtain information or as punishment. In spite of this, during the Bush reign the Department of Justice legalized these very techniques relevant to Guantanamo Bay. It was said that government officials were “immune from suit because at that time it was unclear whether abusing prisoners at Guantanamo was illegal”. (Fisher, 2). Ambiguous much? And of...
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...Internal and External Factors In every organization there are many different factors in which control the ins and outs of the operation and dictate the successfulness of the organization. In this paper I will be explaining these factors in The Walt Disney organization. I will be giving a breakdown of all of the following, Globalization, Technology, Innovation, Diversity, and Ethics. Along with the breakdown of each factor I will be highlighting examples in which The Walt Disney Company. has exceled to hold themselves true to the factors that are needed in the business world. Without large organization having all five of these factors with strong force the balance of the company is off tilt. Globalization Globalization in simple words would be the spread of a company over the entire globe, from one country to the next country in the process of selling their product and expanding their company’s empire. This factor is being grasped by many companies strongly with the help of the Internet. Companies such as Coke, Chevy, and even a small boot company Redwings Shoe companies all understand truly how important this factor is. One company that really understand the importance of globalization is The Walt Disney Company, this company goes above and beyond to embrace and reinforce globalization. The Walt Disney Company has opened 5 theme parks, two in the United States, one in Paris, one in Hong Kong, and the latest one in Tokyo. Every chance this company gets it is finding ways...
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...of being an artist. O’Keeffe went to her first art school in 1905 when she was only 18 years of age. This school was the Art Institute of Chicago and couple years after that she moved on to the Art Students League of New York from 1907-1908. O’Keeffe then was then tired of the life in the fine arts and moved on to being an art teacher for various schools in Texas, Virginia, and South Carolina from 1911-1918. During her career of being a teacher, O’Keeffe started to create her very own works of art using charcoal on a canvas. These incredibly different looking abstract pieces of art began to catch the eye of none other than American photographer and gallery owner, Alfred Stieglitz. After supposedly exclaiming, "At last, a woman on paper!" he exhibited her drawings at the 291 gallery, where the works of many avant-garde European and American artists and photographers were...
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...Professor Schnell PSC 101 November, 20th 2014 Paper 1 Poverty is a big problem in the world, and also in the United States. Even though the United States is one of the most wealthy and well off first world nations, there are still about 10% of the population that is in poverty. This was found by the 2009 U.S. Bureau of Census Statistics report. In the 2009 U.S. Bureau of Census Statistics report, Hispanics and African Americans have the highest rate of poverty at 21.3 and 22 percent respectably. Compared to Whites which is only 8.4%, there is a large difference. However, being a business major and taking many statistic courses, there are more Whites in poverty. The total percent in poverty is 10% of the population. A total of 303,820 people live in poverty, 197,164 are White-not Hispanic, 38,556 are Black and 48,811 are Hispanic. Looking at this, there are a substantial amount more of White people who live in poverty than Hispanic and Black people combined. I received all of these statistics from http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf. As you can see, there are many more white people in poverty. By showing only a percentage it makes it seem like only minorities are in poverty. Even though a higher percentage of them are in poverty there are many more whites who live in poverty. Female lead households also have a higher rate of poverty than male lead households. This is due to the fact that in today’s society, women are still making their way up in the job totem...
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...COM 202 Final paper WEEK 7- FINAL PAPER, MUSIC AND INFLUENCE In this essay we will explore the relationship, effects and influence of music on high profile events or movements for each decade since 1960-2010. We shall look at them in three segments First of all, the sixties a new dawn was on its way around the world most African Nations were calling for independence from colonial powers whiles in America, the civil rights movements was at its peak, Civil rights activist like Dr Martin Luther King, Malcom X. the nation of Islam and others where calling for an end to segregation and other oppressive conditions they were experiencing. “ Joan Baez’s we shall overcome (1963) originally focused on the civil rights movements, was a powerful way to bring people of different classes, background ,religions –but one shared value – together, and now has become the song any group trying to stand against old and needing change, practices uses. So I think it both changed, and continues to change the world today. It is still song today by everyone Cooke’s A change is going to come were also influential during the civil rights movements .Although there were define changes but People like Dr Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were brutally murdered. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21143345 The Seventies now was slight better there were some changes and freedom in the air, when the Jackson Five dropped this ABC album. I was young then every young boy wanted to be Michael Jackson...
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...What is globalization? According to our text book, globalization is “a term referring to a trend by which peoples and nations has become more interdependent” (Spielvogel 679). When using the term of globalization most people are talking about our global economy and global culture. Over the last forty years new technologies have changed the way we communicate. Not only can we communicate with friends and family around the world with the touch of a button but we can use the same technology to buy, sell and distribute almost anything to almost anywhere in the world. This has not only changed our bottom line of profits but has also changed the mindset of how we view the world and how we do business and communicate with others. In this paper I intend to describe the main characteristics of globalization of the Twentieth century and discuss some of the many elements that have led us to this point in history. There are many characteristics of globalization. Arvind Kumar, writer of the article “What are the Characteristics of Globalization” says that there are three distinct characteristics of globalization. The first is liberalization which is the, “freedom to start industry, trade or commerce in his country or abroad (Kumar).” The second characteristic is free trade. Kumar explains that, “Free trade is the absence of excessive government control over trade (Kumar).” He goes on to say that connectivity is the third, and last, distinct characteristic of globalization...
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...the movement to oust the PDPA. This forced the Russian government to send in 5,000 troops. Their aim was to place a Soviet chosen leader into power and after twelve hours of intense fighting, Barbrak Karmal was put in a plane and flown back to Moscow. This would begin a decade long occupation by the Russians and the United States got what it wanted; A Soviet Vietnam. The United States went to great lengths to supply this war against Communism and the hatred of the Soviets. China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others poured in money, weapons, and military advisors to aid the Mujahideen, the new name of the resistance fighters the CIA was backing. This covert operation was run out of the CIA until March of 1985. February 6th of 1985, President Ronald Reagan laid out his doctrine in the State of the Union Address. “WE must not break faith with those who are risking their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours since birth.”(Carpenter, Ted 1986) This was President Reagan at his best, delivering a rallying cry for the people. Little did the American people know at the time, the doctrine had been in full scale use since President Reagan took office. This doctrine seems like it was never to see...
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...Legalizing Marijuana What do George Washington, Ted Turner, Michael Bloomberg, Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, and Carl Sagen all have in common? All have either admitted to growing, and or smoking marijuana. Peculiar, to say the least, all of these extremely influential people would be prosecuted and possibly arrested had they had been caught partaking in these illegal acts. If one were to go back to the time of George Washington’s presidency and take a glimpse at the first president’s garden they would be shocked to see that the leader of the American Revolutionary War Army grew marijuana. The growth of cannabis in today’s world carries quite a hazy perception. Most people would be shocked at the thought of someone; much less the president was growing marijuana. It is in this perception in which the problem stems, why be shocked? Why think less of person? Why even consider Marijuana to be this life-threatening, lazy causing, brain cell killer, schedule one drug? Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in America today. It is estimated that one hundred million people have admitted to smoking marijuana. However the winds of reform and legalization have begun to sweep this nation. Americans, now more than ever, are advocating the legalization of marijuana, as seen recently by two states legalizing the plant for recreational use. I, for one, am a strong advocate for the recreational use and legalization of marijuana in the United States. I have found that to understand...
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...The provision of health care within the past two decades have illustrated that industrialized countries have all undergone extreme changes in order to combat the ever-changing demands of health care. Now more than ever since the budget-cutting and privatization began around 1970 with the election of Ronald Regan from the United States and Margaret Thatcher from the United Kingdom, who vowed to reduce spending expenditures for public services and their privatization (Morgan & England, 1988). Since than numerous nations have national health systems in place that cover almost if not all its population, the advancement in medical technology today have made health insurance increasingly expensive which have lead governments to seek cost-effective...
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