Essays on Biden

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. There are some public officials and leaders who have spoken out on this issue including the vice president of the United States Joe Biden, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson a retired neurosurgeon. Joe Biden is influential being the vice president and has always taken a hard line against marijuana. He has also spoken in favor of reducing enforcement on sentencing of marijuana related offences. Ben Carson being a renowned neurosurgeon has expressed some support for the use of marijuana ...

The Fair Sentencing Act

On August 3, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, for the first time in the History of the U.S (Grindle, 2010). This law was a response to the then claims of racial biases of the law in convicting drug dealers. This Act established new quantity thresholds, which were meant to trigger statutory mandatory minimum and maximum penalties for offenses related to cocaine. By so doing, this law amended the Controlled Substance Act and the controlled import and export of substance. This new law saw to it that the quantities of cocaine that ...

Abstract

The 2003 Iraq War received a wide variety of different opinions throughout the international media. While American networks and press organizations entitled the conflict as Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Canadian media and the channels in some Arab nations referred to the conflict as "attack and occupation." One character in this conflict was Chris Kyle, a deadly sniper in the American military whose life served as the inspiration for the film American Sniper. He wrote a book by the same name that teems with his utter disdain for the Iraqi fighters as well as with his excitement at the chance ...

Trespass is a legal term used to describe a wide range of offences against a property or persons. It refers to when a person or an individual or their property interfere with the property of others without their permission or pre existing terms of agreement. There exist two types of trespasses, criminal and civil trespass. Police, park rangers or sheriffs will enforce criminal trespass while in civil trespass the owner of the damaged property initiates enforcement action in a court to have any damages met for which the trespass may be held responsible. Traditionally some level of intent is required for any type of ...

Background

The joining forces policy is an initiative developed by First lady Michele Obama in conjunction with the secretary of State Joe Biden. The initiative is meant to call attention to veterans of the United States who have gone to war for their country and are cleared to join the society after their service. The initiative stems from the moral obligation that soldiers who have come from war fighting for their country should not come home only to continue the war which this time has to do with fighting for job opportunities (AAN, 2014). The policy was developed prompted ...

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Introduction:

After two consecutive Democratic Party victories in the Presidential Election (2008 and 2012), the Republican Party will be looking to regain the country’s top Executive position although they face significant challenges in doing so. President Barack Obama remains relatively popular although he has taken quite a battering on the healthcare reform issue with the Republicans fighting tooth and nail to deny him any progress in this field. His final two years will also be significant, since Congressional elections in 2014 will probably see the Republicans take over the Senate, thus ...

War in Iraq, is one of the controversial events in history of American wars. It takes two to tango, and this is the case of the war in Iraq. For a war to start there should be some driving forces or effects. The justification for the Iraq invasion remains quite unclear despite the prior consequences that came with the war. The invasion was suggested to have begun following the 9/11 attack of World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001. Americans attacked Iraq in 2003 and toppled Saddam’s dictatorship, and seven years later the war came to end (Mahnken and ...

Book Review of ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk, which was first published in the year 1903, is an influential work in African American literature and is rated as an American classic. The book contains nine previously published articles with a few more added to them. The essays presented in the book, deal with a mixture of subjects such as social studies, historical documentation, political science and above all the author’s personal recollection of how the color line cut through his life and many others such ...

Introduction

The 1992 general elections in the United States were an important occurrence in the history of America. The campaigns towards the election saw presidential aspirants take a public stand in the fight against crime. The contestants, George Bush and Bill Clinton both stated their stand on the escalating crime rate in the American society (Oliver, & Marion, 2011). The result of the election was the formulation and implementation of the law that has become an important milestone in the American crime control history. This paper looks at five important processes in the Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.

Problem Identification

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As the new District Sales Manager (DSM) for a large Fortune 500 consumer goods company, the task was to participate in the recruitment process. One had to select the remaining three candidates from the set of six resumes that were forwarded for one’s review. The contenders who were reviewed are as follows: Jack Bernard, Rochelle Biden, Mary Ellison, Anna Wise, George Brown, and Ernest Swift. After reviewing their credentials and qualifications, and after considering the six candidate characteristics, in conjunction with the detailed job description on the consumer goods salesperson job, I am hereby recommending the following candidates to ...

Gun Control: How much is too much?

The U.S. administration has made it clear that it wants more stringent gun control laws, a move that has been followed by most states. The cause of this aggressive campaign is the rise in the number of shootings taking take at American schools. Those in favor of stricter gun control laws believe that they will lead to a reduction in gun related crime. However, these measures have been faced with protests on the part of gun owners as well as gun associations. This section of the society argues that, instead of reducing crime, gun control will only take away the ability ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes this criminal ...

Introduction

In 1787, the 55 framers of the constitution wrote the U.S. Constitution at the constitutional convention that was held in Philadelphia. Some of the most notable names of these framers are George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. On the 21st of June 1788, nine states approved or ratified the U.S. Constitution, and the remaining states ratified it later. This constitution came as a replacement of the Articles of Confederation, an earlier set of government rules that formed the law of the land between 1781 and 1788. Throughout the years, many constitutional amendments have been made. ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes this criminal ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes this ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes ...

Abstract

The Conceal and Carry law refers to the law that allows citizens who legally own weaponry to carry them outside the confines of their homes. It comes amid the Illinois state ban of conceal and carry law. The courts of appeal ruled that the ban was unconstitutional and instructed the legislature to provide for the law. It is the popular belief among the citizenry that conceal and carry would be able to address crime problems in Illinois or to the least mitigate the occurrences and hence effectively reduce the levels of gun violence and other related crimes. The law ...

This essay will compare the views of former Vice-President Dick Cheney and Vice-President Joe Biden on several important issues that affect America. The issues that will be tackled are the war on terrorism, foreign policy and domestic policy.

Views on how to pursue suspected terrorists

For Vice-President Cheney, he believes that suspected terrorists should be subjected to harsh interrogations, like water boarding and warrantless electronic surveillance because these are essential moves to prevent more attacks such as the 9/11 attack. Vice President Cheney thinks that the problem of terrorism should not be treated as if it is a law enforcement problem because it is actually a military problem . ...

Gun control is without a doubt a tentative issue which should be dealt with in a way that preserves people’s right to defend themselves but also preserves human life. We live in an age where children use guns to settle arguments, something has to be done, but who’s really at fault? I think if a child shoots another child, that child has no concept of right and wrong or life and death and the parents need to stop blaming guns for their own failings, the problem isn’t that guns exist it’s that parents are unaware of their children ...

Question 1

As president Barrack Obama’s second term of office comes to an end, several observations can be made about some of the positive and the negative effects he has had on the welfare of the American citizens as well as the country in general. Some of the achievements that Obama was able to realize include the fact that he influenced the congress to come up with better regulation on pertinent issues such as the rights of the gay people and immigrants. The topic of gun control is another contentious issue that president Obama also managed to address during his ...

Approaches employed in the study of policy making

Public policy is any framework of principles that ensure the well-being of the members of the general public (Woll, 12). Public policy may vary depending on the government in power. For instance, the public policy of a dictatorship form of government cannot be similar to the public strategy of a democratic government. This is simply because the sole body with the authority to enact and implement the policy is the government in power. Policy analysis on the other hand, is the process of trying to establish the probability that a certain chosen policy is bound to succeed or otherwise. There are various ...

Dear Mr. Obama,

Looking at the Illinois state exit polls for the 2008 election, I believe your chances are very strong. 99% of black men are willing to vote for you. Given this large minority vote, and the support they have for you, it is not unwise to capitalize on that and appeal to what they might want in a president. However, older blacks seem to like McCain more - Blacks 45 and over basically voted 51-52% for McCain. This might be due to their air of fiscal conservativism, or a general distrust of your more left-leaning policies. Appealing to the minority corner might ...

The article is about the report of the death of the late former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi in the Guardian media. In the article are allegations about the location of killing of Gaddafi, the possible killer and the likely time when he was killed. The allegations came from different sources around the world. In one source, it was said the Gaddafi had been killed by a NATO strike on his escape from his loyal home town of Sirte. Another report from a representative of Libya in the United Kingdom claimed that Gaddafi was captured alive when on an escape from Sirte ...

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It has long been said that the media has the potential to make a candidate known as well as make a well known candidate become unpopular by giving either more media coverage or media blackout. It is interesting to see just how the media can play with people’s psychology and influence their decisions to a great length. In this issue paper, the learner investigates the contribution that the media has on political campaigns. The major issue under concern in this paper is the extent of media coverage that is accorded to ...