Speaking of public relations, though, the President's State of the Union speech is another important aspect of presidential duties. The Constitution states in Article II that the President should address both houses of Congress in order to explain the state of the Union in mostly economic terms. This tradition has evolved to be an annual event, where the President outlines his own agenda to the legislative bodies responsible for passing laws, and essentially gives them his own reasons for proposing
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Internal Controls XXXXX XXXXXXX XACC/280 Financial Accounting Concepts and Principles January 2014 Internal Controls Internal Controls two primary goals are to protect their assets from employee theft, robbery, and unauthorized usage. Also to increase accuracy of the company financial information, reducing risk of errors whether they are accidental or intentional. Internal Controls also ensure compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations that affect the operations of a business
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Ethnic Groups and Discrimination I am an African American. African Americans came to America in a few different ways. The majority of African American were captured from Africa and shipped over to the United States to be sold inside slave trade. Cotton was a big business in the United States and a lot of times land owners would have too much land for them to work so they would hire slaves to work the land for them. They didn’t pay the slaves money; instead they used fear to motivate the slaves
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Module 3 Assignment 2 One crime Mary Jones had been previously charged with is resisting arrest. In N.Y. State PEN. LAW § 205.30 resisting arrest is defined as: A person is guilty of resisting arrest when he intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer or peace officer from effecting an authorized arrest of himself or another person. Resisting arrest is a class A misdemeanor. Jones has had several run-ins with law enforcement. I believe that the society in which Mary Jones
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Crime and disorder Act 1998: The aim of this act was to abolish the presumption of “doli incapax”. Doli Incapax was the rule that children aged 10-13 is presumed to be incapable to form the necessary criminal intent. As well as this, there were a few other aims such as: to abolish the death penalty for treason and piracy; make changes to the criminal justice system; to make further provision for dealing with offenders; to make further provision with respect to remands and committals for
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Ethnic groups and Discrimination Eth 125 This was a difficult choice for me since I belong to multiple ethnic groups. Since I have to choose one I have decided to pick the African American side to further discuss as a topic for this essay. After much research I was able to learn so much about my ethnic group, some of which I already was aware of and some information was enlightening. The history of what is now considered to be an African American goes back to that of the seventeenth century
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Ponzi Scheme Corporate Finance A Ponzi scheme is an illegal business practice in which new investor’s money is used to make payments to earlier investors. In many Ponzi schemes, the fraudsters focus on attracting new money to make promised payments to earlier-stage investors and to use for personal expenses, instead of engaging in any legitimate investment activity. The returns are repaid out of new investors’ principal, but not from profits. This can continue as long as new investors line
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Toree Burden 08/09/2015 His/110 The Constitution of the United States of America The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of America. It consists of seven articles all created to make sure each member in the court of law is being honest and it states what their exact job in the courtroom is. They are expected to follow these exact laws as they are written from how many congressmen are elected per state down to how they would be elected. The Constitution
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Courtroom Discretion Q&A Response Misty Moore, Victoria Hardin and Elizabeth Ortiz CJA/224 September 19, 2011 Rick Rice Courtroom Discretion Q&A Response What is prosecutorial discretion? When a crime happens evidence is gathered, witnesses are found and a case file is established all the information. Due to an overabundance of case files, prosecutors review each file and which will be brought to trial. When there is enough evidence to convince the prosecutor the person suspected
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The process of criminal procedure involves regulations, which aid the order of procedures the government authorities use to apply criminal laws. The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth amendment, and the Supremes Court understanding of the constitution are important for the study of criminal procedures (Zalman, 2008). The Federal Rules in criminal procedures ensure citizens’ rights to due process, right to a fair trial, right to equal protection, and right to lie, liberty, and property
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