Essays on Amendment.

Gun Ownership: Moral & Legal Rights

The Weyerhaeuser Company's response to employees carrying guns on company's parking lot (and for that matter NRA's rebuttal) (TEXTBOOK) represents a recurring example of ongoing debate on which rights should have more weight in carrying guns at workplace. That is, if employers have a right, being business owners, to control guns (and, for that matter, any non-corporate possessions) on company's premises, including parking lots, employees also have constitutional rights to carry guns. The debate is, indeed, complicated and one anticipates changing attitudes over extended periods can only make approaches to gun control – and ownership – more accommodating. This moral right ...

The United States has seen in recent years accelerating rates of immigrant Arab Muslims. Driven out of Middle East countries for religious, economic, political or social reasons, Arab Muslim immigrants face major challenges in adapting to values in radical departure from original ones, not completely let behind but are remain, in fact, defining of Arab Muslim experiences in U.S. These experiences become particularly acute for young immigrant Arab Muslim women. If anything, immigrant Arab Muslim women experience challenges particularly because of being women not only by "natives" but also by family members, friends and acquaintances of same or similar ...

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Abstract There is many court cases that are heard by the court system on a daily basis. Some of these court cases are either being heard for the first time, or being appealed to a higher power of court. The laws are made to be followed, and obeyed in the country. The United States Constitution was honored to be upheld for the citizens, and for the professional authority of our nation. In some cases the courts will have to decide if laws were upheld, and rights were not violated in the state and local government as well. In the ...

The paper will focus on examining the tools that are enacted in the United States to help fight against organized crime and terrorism in which diplomacy, criminal law, financial control, military force and intelligences are all critical components that need to work correlated and coordinated. The thesis of this paper is that in every counterterrorism toll beside the advantages there are many disadvantages and controversy present. The important documents accepted in the recent time regarding the counterterrorism will be examined with the main focus on the Patriot Act. The negative and positive sides of the use of wiretapping, metadata, ...

John Roberts was nominated for a position on the U.S.A. Court of Appeals in January 2003 and soon confirmed by the voting majority. His activities are considered to be very influential on the system of justice in general. During two years of him on the position Roberts wrote more than 49, most of which were quite significant and only 2 of them were unanimous. On 2005 John Roberts was nominated to fill the vacancy of the Chief Justice. Since that time the impact of his decisions dramatically increased. That is why it is important to conduct thorough research of ...

Business law exam

The doctrine of stare decisis implies a doctrine of precedent. This means that under such a doctrine, the court will make its decision based on the ruling of a similar issue that has previously come up within the court room and within a common provincial jurisdiction. The previous ruling thus acts as a binding authority. In the context of a court within a different provincial jurisdiction, the ruling in such cases will only act as an authority of persuasion. The law applies in both a horizontal and vertical manner. From a horizontal perspective, the court is required to adhere ...

For the past two decades, terrorism has proved to be the biggest threat to peace and security across the world and since the 9/11 attacks on the US soil, America and other countries have stepped up their anti-terrorist measures to prevent any future terrorist attacks. The government agencies tasked with these anti-terrorist measures claim that the techniques they use to collect data such as wiretapping and metadata collection help them pinpoint terrorists and their plans before an attack is planned and thus prevent them from happening. However since the Snowden leaks, these techniques have come under tremendous scrutiny. Internet ...

Introduction

For a long time, slavery, in different parts of the world, in different Nations, was a completely natural form of social development. Slavery saw oriental despotic states like Babylon or Egypt, where the ruler was venerated as the earthly incarnation of God. A completely natural slavery was seen in ancient Greece, which is considered the cradle of the Sciences, knowledge, philosophy, morality, and even democracy. But the fact of the emergence of the slave economy in the capitalist United States of America, as if, disturbs the harmony of the event sequence in the development of human civilization, which supposedly ...

Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Humboldt County, 542 U.S. 177 (2004)

After receiving a call reporting a fight between a man and a woman of Grass Valley Road in Nevada, a deputy sheriff was dispatched to the scene. Upon arrival, the deputy observed a pick-up truck parked on the side of the road with a woman sitting inside the truck and a man standing outside of it. The deputy approached the man and informed him that he was here to investigate a reported assault. The man denied being involved in any assault or having done anything ...

The United State Constitution was established by the Framers as a guide or plan for the nation’s government rather than a comprehensive code that established every aspect of how the government should work (Ginsberg et al., 2013). Accordingly it is quite simple in structure. To be sure, the Constitution can be divided into three main parts, namely the Preamble, the articles, and the amendments. The Preamble is basically the introduction to the document (Ginsberg et al., 2013). It expresses the reasons the Framers had to establish a new government and the purpose of drafting a constitution. According to ...

Introduction

The traditional system of the United States federal government consists of the Congress, the Executive, and the Courts. Congress passes the laws, the Executive enforces the laws, and the Courts interpret the laws. But this is a dramatic over-simplication of the way in which the government carries out its functions and duties. Congress and the President will often delegate their authority to agencies that are tasked with performing specific government functions and objectives. Because the number of government agencies is so voluminous and vast, a large body of agency law has emerged. Agencies have authority to act pursuant to ...

Overview of the National Security Policy of the USA

Annually the government of the United States of America reconsider the amendments to the National Security Strategy in order to define the major steps to increase the defense of the country. The legal basis for the adoption of the National Security Strategy is provided in the Goldwater-Nichols Act, which was adopted in 1986. This Act stipulates the framework of the authorities of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Moreover, this legal instrument has amended the way of the organizational structure of the U.S. national army. From its adoption, the leadership of the USA successfully addressed the invasion ...

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505 U.S. 833 (1992)

George L Smith

Dr. Thompson I. Introduction In the 1973 case Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed that a woman has a constitutional right to decide whether or not she wants to have an abortion. Prior to the decision, most states had prohibited abortions other than in the case where a pregnancy was dangerous to the woman’s health. In finding that a woman has a right to choose, the Court held that the choice was a private decision that the state had no authority to interfere with, at least ...

The problems of mental illness and prison violence have increasingly become common contemporary issues within the criminal justice system in most jurisdictions, in particular those countries like the US with high incarceration rates and overcrowded prisons (James & Glaze, 2006). At the outset, the main critical issues emanate from these issues include the effectiveness of prison mental illness treatment services, constitutional rights of mentally ill inmates to medical treatment, processing, managing and treatment of mentally ill prisoners and psychiatric rehabilitation of the mentally ill prisoners. It is important therefore to these issues and sub-issues be addressed by first establishing their ...

I. Introduction Under the Sixth Amendment, one of the fundamental rights that a person accused of a crime holds is the right to a “public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district” where the crime was committed. Subsequent Supreme Court jurisprudence has interpreted the Sixth Amendment’s impartial jury provision to mean a jury composed of unbiased individuals in regards to how the perceive the defendant. While an important of consideration as to whether a juror is biased has focused on issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and national origin. An equally important consideration is whether a ...

4) Rule of law does not guarantee that republics and their criminal justice systems will be run efficiently, but the lack of rule of law guarantees that they will not be. If there is no rule of law then it follows that powerful people in the government or business sectors, or more likely in both, can break laws intended to protect the public from them, engage in corruption on a grand scale and generally run amok without fear of reprisal as long as they or their friends are influential enough to quash any response by the constabulary. One need ...

1.) Alice Paul, was a feminist and political strategist who dedicated her entire life towards the protection and observation of the rights and freedoms of women (Alicepaul.org, par. 1). She was one of the women who initiated significant political changes regarding the treatment of women in the twentieth century. As a matter of fact, her life depicts the struggle for justice not just for women but also for the people around the world. 2.) Her argument was that men and women were equal, and should be accorded equal rights and opportunities without discrimination. She was involved in founding the ...

Is the Gun Lobby Still Invincible?

Alec McGillis in “The Gun Lobby’s Power Is Overstated” supposes that the influence of the gun lobby is overrated because it has local character and “becoming more concentrated in a smaller share of the population” (McGillis) but it can be said that the restrictive measures and tighter controls on the arms control do not pass in Congress because of the very powerful influence of the gun lobby. This is due to the strengthening of the American media of the various communities who find the resources and mechanisms of influence for their own interests. The terms of the interests ...

Introduction

Cultural change is seen as the alteration of a community through modernization, development as well as the contact with alternate communities (Global Sociology, 2016). This paper is going to explain about what is culture along with when it is essential. According to “Quappe and Cantatore” in their article concerning “what culture awareness entails.” It is clear that cultural change engrosses the potential of one being able to draw back from ourselves and getting conscious of our cultural principles, attitudes as well as discernments. The authors go further to state that “cultural change becomes more vital when we have to ...

Florida

The Florida Legislature is seated in the Florida State Capital in Tallahassee. The Florida Legislature is composed of 160 state legislators. The state’s legislature is responsible for creating and amending laws within the state of Florida. In order to do this, legislators are responsible for proposing legislation in the form of a bill. If successful, the legislation goes through a review, readings, and requires a majority vote. Then, the bill is either signed into law by the state’s governor or the bill is vetoed. The state’s legislature also has the ability to propose amendments within the ...

As long as the Revolution of 1776 – 1783 established the United States, the Civil War 1861 – 1865 determined the kind of nation they are going to be. The war gave resolutions to two cardinal questions that remained unresolved by the Revolution: whether the United States are going to be a confederation of sovereign states or an impartible nation with a sovereign federal government, and whether it will remain in being the largest slave-owner nation in the world nevertheless it is born of a declaration which proclaims that all people have equal rights to liberty. When Abraham Lincoln won the ...

Introduction

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) is the state law regulating the age discrimination in employment opportunities in the US. It was implemented in 1967 to endorse work of the older employees based on their input rather than age. The Act inhibits discrimination, and assists in solving problems that come up with the aging labor force. The Act, ADEA, forbids employment discrimination based on age for employees over 40 years. The original law, enforced in 1967, covered staff between 40 to 65 years (Eglit, 1992). However, subsequent amendments raised and then abolished the upper age boundary, ending compulsory ...

The Clean Air Act (CAA) was introduced by the federal government to control air pollution throughout the United States and is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While the CAA pertains the keeping the air clean for public health and the environment, the economic implications of the act are numerous. Some of the economic benefits connected to the act are increased public health, improved agricultural yields and reducing the greenhouse effect. In the Second Prospective Study done in March 2011 by the EPA to determine the true cost and benefits of the CAA, it was determined that the ...

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Source: Law Office of Shawn M. George <http://www.smgapc.com/practice-areas/california-three-strikes-law/ Every generation in the United States has seen new tactics designed to continue the oppression of racial minorities, abjuring the rights the Founding Fathers deemed necessary and irrevocable for all people in the nation. Many African Americans were denied their right to participate in the growth of the new nation. Centuries later, the United States is still far from being called a true “egalitarian society.” Racial segregation and bigotry have been evinced in a number of forms; over the years, these forms have changed and evolved but the ...

The main purpose of this article or video is: (State as accurately as possible the author’s purpose for the article or video) The core purpose of this article was to highlight and condemn the move by the U.S. Federal government to enforce the African American voting rights during the nation's Reconstruction period after the end of the U.S. Civil War. It addresses the then-U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes' views the verdicts of the various federal courts in the US on this matter as well as the disenfranchisement of voters (Lou 315). The key question that the author is ...

A defendant is innocent until proven guilty. The structure of the legal system and process in the United States is to place the burden of proof on the government. The government carries this burden of proof as to every element of the crime the defendant is charged with. In order for a criminal defendant to be found guilty, the prosecution must establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt (In re Winship, 1970, p. 361). The reason for this high burden of proof is to guard against government abuse. Were the government not bound by any constraints, the respective positions of ...

The Roles of Parliament and Courts

Introduction Being a colony of Britain in the past, the Canadian Parliamentary System has got its roots entrenched in the British Parliamentary System, a democratic model that was evolved over hundreds of years. The constitution of Canada defined in the British North America Act of 1867, which later came to be known as the Constitution Act enacted a federal form of government, where the citizens of the nation will be governed by Ottawa based central government and the provincial governments. One of the major characteristics of the Constitution Act was that it could only be amended by Britain as ...

Problem Topic and Thesis

Could gun violence in America be reduced through stricter gun control at the federal level? Gun violence in America has risen to pandemic levels due to lax gun control measures, which makes it relatively easy for otherwise dangerous and questionable individuals to purchase firearms. Although some individual states have passed stricter gun control measures, the lack of uniform federal legislation leaves American citizens more vulnerable to gun violence than other industrialized societies. While opponents to stricter federal legislation cite that it will not reduce the number of public shootings and homicides, one must acknowledge that America has a visible ...

In Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products, the Court found that to determine whether the speech is commercial, it must contain three distinct elements: it is meant to be an advertisement, it makes reference to a particular product and the speech is economically motivated. (Bolger v. Youngs) Although Nike`s speech lacks some of those elements, I believe that it falls into the category of commercial speech rather than political speech. In 1997, Nike hired a consulting firm that carried out an independent review of labor practices in Nike factories. Following the review, a consulting firm issued a report stating ...

When photography arrived about 150 years ago, it was considered as a documentary medium because of the exact replicas of the subject. The technologically advanced cameras and development of photojournalism led to the development of realistic photos. Those photographs were considered a witnesses of reality as they expose the facts of life (Mullen 6). Gradually, manipulation in photography was looked upon to necessary to display the subject accurately. This was because the event was not self-explanatory or clear in photographs at times. Thus, the photographer was compelled at times to edit those images. Documentary photography is seen to belong ...

Question 1

The Kansas City experiment took place between October 1972 and 1973 (Kelling, Pate, Dieckman, & Brown, 2003). It was conducted by the Kansas City police department and later evaluated by the Police Foundation. The experiment found that routine patrols conducted using marked police cars do have a huge effect on the levels of crime. Also, it has no effect on the public’s feeling of security. The experiment showed that it is possible for police departments to test their strategies and that the patrol resources can be manipulated without compromising the public’s safety. The implication of this experiment is ...

[Author Name] You do not have to wear the uniform to appreciate the inherent difficulty of police work. Each work day is different, and there is no clear and consistent guidebook on how police should make unsupervised, split-second judgements, handle threats to public safety, properly maintain order, or determine the efficient allocation of limited investigative resources. In truth, the unique requirements of their jobs demand that officers have broad authority to exercise their best judgement: the core of police discretion. Kelling (1999) describes two discrete aspects of police work that require that officers be insulated from knee-jerk, public scrutiny: ...

Summary of the Paper

The ‘Business Failures by Industry in the United States’ by Gary Richardson and Michael Gou is an informative research paper that details on data relating to the business failures that have occurred for the period between 1895 and 1940. The paper is unique in that it does this using the lowest level of aggregation in length, breadth and depth that no other scholar has ever provided as far as data relating to business failure during this period is concerned. The information has dominantly been drawn from the works of R.G. Dun and Company and its successor, Dun, and Bradstreet. ...

1. Article I vests the Congress with the legislative making powers. It establishes provisions for who is eligible to serve as a Congressional member, both in the Senate and the House. Article I also enumerates specific powers of Congress and contains the Necessary and Proper Clause to provide Congress with the legal authority of carrying out such enumerated powers. 2. Article II sets forth the Executive powers in the President and the Vice President. It provides that the President is the Commander in Chief of the Armed forces and dubs the President the head of all commissions of the ...

Business Writing Basics

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We are pleased to announce that we have selected you to join our trainee program. Revision: You have been selected to join our trainee program. Negative vs. Positive Language Construction cannot begin until the building plans are approved. Revision: When the building plans are approved, the construction will begin. If you fail to pass the exam, you will not qualify. Revision: You will not qualify until you pass the exam. Adopting Conversational Language They ascertained that the ...

When they hear the idea that the Constitution of the United States is a living document, many are confused. However, the concept is quite simple. The concept is considered a living document because the founding fathers of the United States wrote the document with the future in mind. The document and its contents were meant to be adaptable to suit the needs of future generations, both concerning the citizens, and the government, as well as the intentions of both parties. Amendments can be ratified, and amendments can be added in order to address these needs, as they need to ...

On January 21, 2010 the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United vs FEC case

in a 5-4 decision in favor of Citizens United. The decision effectively eliminated the ban on corporate spending in elections. It ruled that campaign donations and campaign spending constitute free speech and that corporations are people (Barnes). The Citizens

United ruling also stipulated that people can contribute up to $5,200 per candidate per

election cycle ($2,600 each for both the primary and the general election) and make unlimited contributions to single-candidate super PACs on top of that.(Levy 1).

Speech Now vs FEC

Two months after the Citiznes United vs FEC 5-4 SCOTUS decision, a unanimous nine- judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided in Speech Now vs

FEC that Congress could not place limits on donations given to organizations that make

expenditures independent ...

In 1961 the evolutionary rule was born into the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “The exclusionary rule was set in place to protect the people of this country” . The protection of this rule was put forth against evidence illegally obtained by police. The evidence that was illegally found is violates citizens’ rights of the Constitution. This rule can be good for citizens even if the evidence proves guilt but cannot be used against them because in the matter in which it was obtained. This means the evidence is thrown out of court, and the individual may not be ...

Reflective Essay

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Pre-Write Up: The first phase of the process in narrative writing is that the writer thinks about the goal of the write up that can either be about the achievement of a goal or storytelling from past experience. In any case, a narrative essay is a personalized essay in which the writer is the subject under discussion.

Drafting:

In the second step, an outline of the narrative essay is defined that includes information that is basic and broad but can be explained further and broken down into bits of information. A narrative essay is normally written in first ...

Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summaries For any business professional to succeed and become a competent and successful professional, he must possess good communication skills. Communication skills such as written communication, oral communication, and interpersonal communication are necessary to survive in today’s competitive era. The same fact also stands true for accounting professionals. According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), communication skills are and will remain in future as important a skill as any other professional skill. AICPA lists “effective business writing” as a necessary skill for competence in public accounting. Unfortunately, some of the entry level accountants do ...

The case involved Fremont Weeks and the police on December 21st of 1911. In what seems to have set the stage for future legal battles, the police officers had invaded the house of the suspect over an alleged sale of lottery tickets. In doing so, the police had acted without the search warrant but went ahead to take several materials from Weeks’ house which they presented to the District Attorney. In their illegal searches, the officers seized anything considered a paper material including letters, books, money, and any other property considered Weeks’. In addition to the unwarranted searches, they ...

Based on the quote above by James Grossman, how did emancipation change the life of slavery owners? How did emancipation change the life of enslaved people? The freedom made the slave owner’s daily lives and operations more difficult because they were used to getting free labour with no worries. In most cases, the Blacks were at their disposal. Moreover, they had to be creative with ratifying laws that would ensure that they had enough prisoners to work on their farms, as they could not control the blacks any longer (Hines 7). On the other hand, the slaves were ...

Nowadays Afghanistan continues to be an unstable region where the risks of insurgency and terrorist activity are significant due to the underdeveloped economy of this state. Prepare a strategic plan to evaluate and scale-up some of the Task Force`s efforts in Herat, based on the social value investing (SVI), for a country-wide approach. This plan will contribute to the economic development of rural areas of Afghanistan and increase employment, welfare and gender inclusion, thus mitigating the risks of insurgency.

Issues

Although military operations against the Taliban bring positive results, they cannot guarantee the longstanding stability and peace in Afghanistan. ...

In Essay 2, you will make use of self-critique, peer review, and instructor feedback to revise your first essay. A portion of your grade on this essay, as well as on Essays 3 and 4, will be based on your ability to demonstrate significant revision of your work. You must submit a description of the revision process, including the sources of feedback you used and a description of the revisions you made to address the concerns raised by your reviewers. Self-critique: What did you want to change/revise about the original paper? Be specific about any “re-visioning” you did. Where ...

The United States has a secret competitive advantage over most other nation. The advantage, however, is not one that normally comes to mind in the public or is a focus of attention of the media or politicians. The advantage is that the U.S. attracts the largest number of immigrants in the world, and it has been doing so since its founding. Indeed, since the late 1700s, over 55 million people have immigrated to the U.S. and made it their home (ACLU). To be sure, except for the Native Americans, every other U.S. citizen is either an immigrant or a ...

In the U.S. Supreme Court case, Obergefell v. Hodges, same-sex couples were granted the right to marry and to found a family. One of the mist fundamental questions regarding this case is, “Did these jurists (judges) “interpret” or apply the U.S. Constitution, or did they “make” new law?” I strongly believe that granting the right to marry to homosexual couples cannot be regarded as making a new law. It should be taken into consideration that “constitutional law is not a mechanical exercise of just “applying the law” (Stone, "Our Fill-in-the-Blank Constitution"). In this particular case, the judges interpreted the ...

Discuss the pressures for local responsiveness and global integration faced by each firm. (Coca-Cola & Microsoft). ”The growth of trade liberalization reduces many of political and legal barriers, and economic barriers tend to decline as firms expand the level of business and invest in logistical and distribution facilities” (McDonald & Burton, 2002, p. 256). Social obstacles are frequently more continuing, nonetheless altering from standardized ‘platforms’ to greet local necessities allows markets of scale and range to be acquired. This kind of local responsiveness is utilized through firms, for example, Coca-Cola. The essential product is the same ubiquitously however the ‘platform’ can ...

Personal Change Paper

Personal Change Paper

Introduction

Things tend to change by an individual’s perceptions about it. Working in an environment requires an individual to amend the desired insights based on the experiences. For being a competent part of a large system like Child and Youth Care (CYC), the aspect of working reality entails a whole new meaning as one has to deal with the family and community altogether (Jones-Smith, 2011). It becomes essential to behave by the requirements of the working field rather than reflecting their personal motives and behaviors. In this regard, the paper intends to present the need for ...

Information System and Security

Introduction The organized system used for collection, storing, organizing and communication of the information are called an information system. It is a network of software and hardware that is used for collecting, processing, filtering, creating and distributing data by the people and various organizations. Information system security means protecting data assets of any organization or company from cyber-terrorists and hackers. InfoSec provides safety from unauthenticated and unauthorized access, modification or destruction of data, unauthorized inspection and recording of data. Information system security also deals with information assurance i.e. ensuring data is not lost when there are critical issues like ...

No legal topic remains as controversial as the death penalty. The continued use of the death penalty divides the nation on some of the most fundamental moral and political debates. While the death penalty is a form of punishment that has been around since he dawn of time, many people question whether the use of the death penalty is compatible with modern society. The death penalty also raises some interesting constitutional concerns. There is widespread belief that the death penalty is not administered in a fair and impartial manner, which would mean that some groups of people are disproportionately ...

Identification Procedures Line Ups and Show Ups

Identification Procedures Line Ups and

Police lineups have been used for decades in criminal cases. The witnesses who seen the criminal can look at a line up and pick out the person he had seen when a crime was committed. This process has been used to help identify and charge an individual with a crime. A police lineup may involve real people or may be photographs of individuals. Usually, the lineups will have the person who committed the crime, and approximately five fill in people to choose from. There is a process that needs to be followed when police ...

One of the hallmarks of the US criminal law is the extent of protections afforded to criminal defendants. While a large body of criminal procedure has been developed and refined through case law, the US Constitution lays the foundation for procedural protections that are guaranteed to a criminal defendant. Law enforcement at all levels are required to adhere to such protections and guarantees. The reason that such projections and safeguards are so important for a criminal defendant is to prevent the government from abusing its power. In most cases, a criminal defendant will have considerably fewer resources and means ...

Law

THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA IN COLORADO Introduction The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of the legalization of marijuana in the state of Colorado by covering the following issues: 1.) the positive and negative effects of legalizing marijuana within the state; 2.) the effect of marijuana on public health and safety; 3.) the economic advantages after Amendment 64 was approved in the state of Colorado; 4.) the effect of decriminalizing marijuana to the police and law enforcement agencies. The outcome of the research will be an evaluation of the overall impact of the legalization of marijuana ...

The most challenging aspect of meeting the requirements of this essay was the fact that I had so many ideas that I lacked the right words to present. The essay is all about the personal experience I have had during the transition from the Chinese education system to the American system. Given that I am yet to learn all English vocabularies, some of the ideas I had were not well expressed. During the revision of this essay, I first sat back and re-read the paper. This was to examine whether other readers could make sense of what I was ...

Importance of privacy policies in a fusion center

Information is the key goal for a Fusion Center. A Fusion Center collects and analyzes data from various sources to determine the likelihood of potential threats from domestic and foreign origin against the US. The information from government and private sources contribute largely to a Fusion Center’s database (Regan and Monahan, 2013). The most potent information often originates from the general population. The case of the Lackawanna Six is a testament to that. The people who provided the anonymous tip believed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation works to safeguard the nation. The FBI, with a long history ...

Slavery did not end in America following President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Emancipation more than 150 years ago. In fact, even after the civil war that was meant for freeing the Black Americans ended, the African Americans were treated as forced laborers, particularly in the southern states, until the beginning of the Second World War. Sadly, the lives of the human beings who had to undergo torture and worst treatment in the hands of the White Americans were in all respects equal to that of their torturers; their valuable and complex lives were torn apart by the injustice ...

Over the period from 2010 to 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its rulings in a range of landmark criminal cases, dealing with diverse topics, such as freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, rights regarding counsel, detainment of suspects in terrorism, as well as criminal sentences. The case Miller v Alabama (2012) belongs to the last category. The major finding of the Court in this case was that mandatory sentences of life, not including the parole possibility, are unconstitutional in relation to juvenile offenders. The case was referred to the Supreme Court by Evan Miller, a 14-year boy, who ...

One of the most significant issues in the U.S. today is the systemic policies that have led to the U.S. having the largest prison population in the world. A disproportionate number of socioeconomically marginalized citizens are incarcerated and subjected to discriminatory practices by law enforcement and the justice department. The consequences are wide-reaching and inseparable, cutting across political, social, and cultural lines. In order to identify the roots of these interconnected phenomena, one needs to both understand the historical struggle of marginalized groups in the U.S. as well as follow the money. Socioeconomic discrimination, voter suppression, for-profit policing practices, ...

The subject for observation is the meeting of the Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee of King County in Seattle Washington held at Room 1001 King County Courthouse on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 (King County). The meeting is limited to the aforementioned committee’s agenda, which is composed of several proposed motion that requires motion for approval. It was observed from the meeting that the organization plan employed is the old business approach because of the manner that the agenda was carried out from the beginning up to the end of the meeting. The rules of the old business approach ...