Essays on Government

- Before defining what exactly or at least operationally Thomas Jefferson meant when he first coined and discussed the term the pursuit of happiness during the declaration of independence, it would be important to know who this man was, under what time or era he lived, so that as audiences, we could know the origins of his term and at least contextually determine what type of happiness the man was referring to. Thomas Jefferson during the Declaration of Independence in 1776 allegedly just replaced the original three terms used for or associated with happiness which was allegedly first coined ...

The dialogue between Thomas More and Hythloday brings out the character traits. Through the conversation that these two characters engage in, the ideas that each brings out is a reflection of what they believe in and would do if given a chance. The key concepts that these two characters engage discussing are philosophical issues, civil and religious issues. Their opinions based on these concepts reflect their belief and thus enhancing their character traits. This essay analyzes the critic nature of Thomas More of the contemporary English society through his dialogue with Hythloday.

According to More for any political venture, ...

MNCs or Multinational Corporations is a company that operates under a corporate structure in more than once country. This term is general, and is used to encompass a wide array of companies, from small corporations that operate in two or a few countries, to giant companies like Apple that operate in over a hundred different countries. People within countries are governed by laws created by whatever government system corresponds with that country. One issue with Multinational Corporations is that because they operate across borders is that they are held accountable to different legal systems, ...

- What are the reasons behind your choice of postgraduate taught programme?

My career goal is to work in a managerial position upon completion of this programme. I chose Accounting, Accountability & Financial Management major because it will enable me gain a deeper understanding of economic, technical and professional foundations of accountancy and financial management. This will be crucial in understanding the internal operations and inter-relationships of businesses, financial institutions and accounting firms among others. Accounting and financial management skills are necessary in running all kinds of organizations, both profit-making and non-profit making. Secondly, I will be able to apply the ...

The narrator in Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is unnamed and represents the collective voice of the town. Critics have not established conclusively whether the narrator is male or female. The narrator may be someone who knows Emily intimately, perhaps even her secret, such as Tobe, her servant. This is because of a number of factors. For example, the narrator calls Emily by the name “Miss Emily,” a title which may imply servant-hood. Although the narrator conceals themselves behind the joint pronoun “we,” he/she may have had personal perspectives and opinions that he/she spreads to the townspeople. The ...

One of the ways to fight crime is by preventing it before it even happens. However, it is not possible to prevent crime unless the cause of the crime is known. Once the concerned people have knowledge on the causes of crime, it is easy to take preventive measures. Several programs have been set up for this reason. These programs are meant to serve the society, mainly the youth who are predisposed to crime. Most are established by non-governmental organizations. However, in some cases, government agencies set up such programs in a bid to lower crime rates ...

There are different reasons that a government has when it decides to send some students abroad for further studies. Most governments always have the aim of improving the quality of education that its students receive and in most cases its most exceptional students who portray exceptional abilities in studies are sent abroad to receive the said education. The destinations where the students receive the education are directly dependent on the progress the destination country has made both educationally as well as economically. However, there are a few disadvantages that are experienced in internationalization of education. There are countries where ...

Changes in theories related to social structural change

There exist varying patterns of criminal behavior within the social structure. Theories related to social structure have changed over time due to various factors. Theory of social structure attempts to describe social change and its effect on behavior development. Social structure is a result of the distribution of power, wealth, and prestige. These different elements in the society have led to these changes in social structure. Presently, researchers pursuing research in the field of social structure follow limited but practical goals. The major focus has turned to development of laws, theories, generalizations, and methods that describe cultural regularities in ...

There is a dramatic change in the demands and needs of the health care system and debates arise whether the current health care system has become a market failure and whether government intervention is needed in order to address the current health care reform needs. At the onset, this author believes that the current health care system is not a complete failure, however, it is flawed that can be corrected through proper legislative reforms that will address the current needs of the health care system. The cost of health care services is rising, and this has a chilling effect ...

EXECUTIVE LEVEL

PMS for Executive Administrative Assistant Executive Summary The Performance Management System is premeditated to generate liability for outcomes for every one of the Executives Administrative Assistant and is the groundwork for cascading performance anticipations throughout every level of the organization. The PMS: - Rationalizes, clarifies and normalizes the organizational performance management procedure - Aligns the performance assessment process with the departmental priorities - Integrates organizational performance consequences into decisions concerning individual performance ratings and appreciation - Formulates momentous distinctions in individual performance, founded on objective, result-based metrics.

Performance Management Process

The PMS incorporated here consist of subsequent steps: - Perquisites - Performance ...

How convincing is the proposition put forward by both these writers that coordination and motivation of business activity is achieved predominantly through organizations rather than the market and what relevance does this have for you as a student of

Management

Introduction Coordination is the synthesized manner in which many related items are joined together to create a larger item and in unison have semantic linkages that are similar with the rest of the neighboring aspects (Olson et.al, 2001).

Taking for instance the Nigerian government, it has changing phases of governance. This is because of the poorly performing political parties that ...

“Bribery and corruption in the public sector, is endemic and unavoidable in all societies.”

Introduction In 2012, the biggest stories of corruption were the allegation against Wal-Mart regarding the payment of bribes amounting to US$24 million in its Mexican operations (Barstow, 2012). A year before, in 2011, a survey was carried out by the Transparency International in 30 countries for their views on corruption. “The results found that 27 percent, or more than one in four businesspeople surveyed, think that they had lost business in the last 12 months due to bribery” (Hardoon, 2012). Corruption is a multifaceted event that involves a wide variety of actions taken by individuals. A simple definition ...

Florida then moved to prepare its defences, by passing legislature that agreed to appropriate $100,000 for ammunition and arms purchases, and raised one cavalry regiment and two infantry regiments, in February 1861. Governor Perry then managed to seize Fort Marion at St. Augustine and Chattahoochee’s federal arsenal, but not the more strategic Forts Taylor, Pickens, and Jefferson. Especially Pickens was of particular interest to both the South and the North and the military confrontation there brought dark clouds of civil war-threat; however, Fort Pickens remained in the Union’s hands from beginning to end of the war.

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Democracy - political regime, which is based on the method of collective decision-making with an equal influence of participants on the outcome of the process. Decision-making process in a democracy is better than in other forms of government, because it forces decision makers to consider the interests of the general public and provides them with more complete information. Democracy also has a positive influence on morality, as the consciousness of own influence on current policy encourages the development of personal dignity, responsibility, sense of justice and desire for the ...

The issue of immigration in the United States as a whole has been the subject of unending debate for a long time. The State of California is no different. Many authors and scholars have written about the policies governing immigration in California, some criticizing them while others were praising them. The lawmakers have also been loud in urging the government to reform the immigration laws, so as to address an aspect of overcrowding. While others call for more stringent laws, others cry out for flexibility in the policies. Regardless of the difference in opinion and attitude towards the subject, ...

Analyze the effect of externalities on market outcomes

An externality refers to an effect of a production, investment, and consumption decision on an intermediary party that is not considered by the party making the decision. For instance, opening a new business in an area. The decision of the place to station a new Wal-Mart is a crucial decision for the company. However, in the process of making this decision, the company will not consider every available alternative. An example of these externalities is that many of the other businesses in an area may experience larger or increased sales since the introduction of Wal-Mart will bring more people ...

The coastal areas of United States is at major risk of hurricane, flooding and such natural disasters, destroying private or public property and even taking the lives of the residents living in these areas. Despite this fact, as the Case Study 118 illustrates, U.S. individuals have continued to lift up their houses near the Atlantic shore, increasing the population of the coastal countries with 28% (approximately 153 million people) from 1980 to 2003 (CS 118-3). This situation was significantly encouraged by the U.S. government itself, because, through its legislations it obliged the entire population of United States to pay ...

According to International Monetary Fund (IMF), China recorded $6,747 nominal GDP per capita and $9,844 GDP per capita (PPP) in the year 2013. China's population approximation is at 1,392,472,656 people; its fertility rate is 1.58 births per woman, and life expectancy is approximately 73.49 years. Population growth rate of republic of china is at 0.46% per annum. China engages in international trade with countries all over the world, therefore, it experiences open economy (Cypher, 2014, p.237).

China has overtaken Latin America countries in competitiveness in international markets. Its well structured economy and strategic planning ...

Do you find executive compensation mentioned to be excessive? Why or why not?

The compensation for the executive is comparatively high to that of the workers .This is because the executives pay system does not concur with the employee’s compensation level and, therefore, lowering level of motivation in the workers. In addition, the trend in executive compensation over the years according to many observers has not been effectively linked with long term performance of the organization, therefore, encouraging pay for performance on the executives. These ideal as prompted to retaining and motivating the top management without considering employees efforts and contribution to the organization. The gap between these two parties is ...

In the study of the events of the Bible, there are a number of similarities between the different periods of the history of Israelites as discussed in the book of chronicles. In addition, there are a few differences that can be noted. To start with, in the origins, between 2000-1200 before Christ (BC), Abraham and Sarah moved from the land of their fathers to Canaan as instructed by God as a land of promise but they met a lot of opposition from Canaanites regarding culture and other practices.

The Israelites also received opposition as they traveled back to Canaan ...

The late 1970s and especially 1980s were years of major market changes in response to new deregulation policies. The presidency of Richard M. Nixon and afterwards of Ronald Regan was an era of federal government permissiveness and abandonment or relaxation of several laws. It was thought that turning the focus away from laws and regulations would create a motivation for competitiveness, thus bringing higher productivity, efficiency and lower prices.

Deregulation affected a broad spectrum of industries and markets like airline, railroad, telecommunications and banking. All these businesses were hugely affected by the new deregulation policies, but most of all ...

I agree that sustainable economic development and social stability in China will be a mirage even when institutional reforms in leadership succession, anti-corruption, environmental protection and the legal system have been reformed. All these are good practises that cement the gains of economic growth, but they cannot independently spark economic growth. It is clear that the corruption discredits the legitimacy of the regime, and in turn scenes of demonstrations could be precipitated. It goes without saying that civilian unrest discredits investments and political growth, as that witnessed in the 1990s by students in china (Yang, 220).

This is to ...

Decentralization of the governing system that is involved in administering the country involves the need to provide democratic rights that the people could use to identify their being and their existence accordingly. Notably, China is one among the many countries that are specifically aiming to give attention to the most common benefits of decentralizing the administration system among their smaller states. This allows the country and its people to become more involved in the concept of determining the way they emerge along with their people into becoming more global and more effective in accepting their role in relation to ...

How did American society change in the two decades after the First World War?

After the First World War, the American changed in many ways. The industries were producing abundantly at an increasing rate. The different inventions made the home life for women easier and much enjoyable for men. The demand of consumer products and goods increased and working individuals paid wages increased; however, the need for other things made impossible for families to have enough money to survive for living. The road systems were expanded, television became commonplace in homes, and the general prosperity of the American increased. Not only the economic aspect changed, the ...

1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act: Discussion

The safety and well-being of the child must be of paramount importance in the course of judicial hearings for establishing neglect or abuse. Federal, as well as state law regarding the safety and health of the child, must take precedence over the responsibility of the state in reuniting the family with the child. In addition, Federal statutes mandate the states to enact certain policy actions if the child is taken from the family and placed under the guardianship of the state (Office of Legislative Research, 1999, p. 1).

The AFSA is regarded ...

The US federal deficit and the debt are two inseparable problems facing the US since deficit spending began. There is some confusion between the two but the difference is quite simple. The deficit is the amount spending over the fiscal year exceeds the increase in revenue. If we bring in $10 and spend $15 there is a $5 deficit that has to be made up somewhere. It is either cut or funds are acquired elsewhere such as bonds or borrowing through other means. Over time this has a cumulative effect that is the debt which builds interest.

Fortunately since ...

Business and Corruption

1. In what ways is corruption a problem for economic development, social well-being, and prosperity? Unlock the mechanics of corruption.

Empirical evidence shows that corruption causes inefficient allocation of public funds and resources; inefficiency of corrupt financial flows in terms of the country's economy; loss of taxes when tax authorities arrogate to themselves a part of taxes; lost time due to obstacles, reducing the efficiency of the state apparatus as a whole. It also results in bankruptcy of private entrepreneurs; reduced investment in production, the economic slowdown; lowering the quality of public services; inappropriate use of international aid into ...

Certainly, the federal and state governments pose immense influences on the lives of Americans living across various contexts. As such, there should be a balance of power between these two forms of governments. Worth noting is the fact that the United States constitution dictates that the federal government should exercise authority over the state government in specific areas.

However, this constitutional provision does mean that the authority enshrined to the federal government is not limited (Schmidt et al., 2011). Evidently, there are certain areas not left exclusively to the federal government; hence, the state government helps in carrying out ...

Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” describes a “family of equals in a society of equals” (Bozeman and Hirsch, n.d.) where the government promises equal opportunities by placing the gifted at a disadvantage. The storyline is brief and provides the foundations for debates on equality and the implication of equality on the society. Vonnegut presents a idealistic foundation in “Harrison Bergeron” as the story is unswerving in its political roots and customs of the United States as a society. It contradicts the values and historical perspectives of the American’s policy of independence and equality based on the beliefs in Social ...

What were the most revolutionary social and economic developments of the last quarter of the nineteenth century?

The railroads were the most significant element in the economic development of America in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Railroads have charged what the market would bear, manufactured goods, and products as wood and coal. It stimulated the economy especially in the undeveloped resources rural areas were technological advances in railroading such as air brake, steel track, and sleeping cars accelerated the economic development. The settlement of new regions has moved swiftly, the land-grant railroads sold lands cheaply with easy terms and offered reduced rates to many ...

Gass (2002), in his article ‘The First Linear-Programming Shoppe’, traces the early history of linear programming pertaining to the solution of linear equations, its interrelationship with computing, and its foundation within the federal government. This article focusses mainly on the first linear-programming shoppe, whose research contributions include the successful development, testing and verification of the simplex model. This article is significant given that the results obtained from operational research have greatly revolutionized decision-making, a managerial practice that cuts across all modern entities, including businesses and government operations. However, due to the exceedingly technical nature of its analysis, the ...

Dan, Russell. A People's Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada. New York: Blackwell Pub., 2007. Print.

Russell examines some of the hardships that the Aboriginal people have to go through when proposing self-government. The author believes that the self-government of the Aboriginals is narrow and that the national government would not be willing to negotiate issues such as land. Given the political power is significant in most global nations; the author believes that the national government will propose a self-government jurisdiction where aboriginals will not enjoy any political power in the country. The key question the author addresses in his ...

Question 1: Compare and contrast the different types of hackers. How does each play a role in hacking? What types of damage can each type of hacker accomplish? Explain your answer. The term hacker means it is a person who exploits or seeks the weaknesses in a computer network. There are different types of hackers, which are the grey hat, blue hat, neophyte, white hat, script kiddie and black hat.

The grey hat

The grey hat is used to refer to a hacker who is considered to be part of white and black hat categories. This kind of hacker is usually said ...

Introduction

Question 1

The governments contented that its claim for Atlantic Trading Company income taxes ,was claimed to be entitled to first priority rule as an administrative expense instead of the unsecured tax claim since the said taxes of the state were not just any tax but tax specified in the 507(a)(7)(A)(iii) pursuant to 503 (b) (1)(B)(i). The government failed to file the immediate proof of the claim. Since the company made profits in which it was to remit some percentage to the government, the government was not supposed to make administrative expenses on ...

The Indian Act in Canada was enacted to recognize the rights of registered Indians, their bands and the system of the Indian reserves. The Act mandated the federal government of Canada with an exclusive authority to govern Indian Status, resources, Land, band administration and education. The current Act enacted in 1951 repealed the 1859 Act. The provisions of the 1951 Act are based on Royal Proclamations and colonial ordinances.

The 1859 Act was aimed at regulating transactions of trade between Non-Indians and Indians within the territories of Canada. Before the Act was amended, it majorly described entitlement to live ...

The federal bureaucracy of the United States (US) underwent various transformations since President George Washington came to power, during which it only included the Treasury, State and War departments. The end of the Civil War opened more opportunities for Americans to join the federal bureaucracy through the civil service system, which compensates the need to fulfill administrative reforms during that time. The civil service system imposed meritocracy, which meant that only the most qualified people could serve the federal bureaucracy of the US, as opposed to earning positions via patronage. Throughout the 1800s, the federal bureaucracy of the US ...

A theoretical approach is proposed in order to link the strong environmental management to the improved supposed future financial performance as examined by the stock market performance. Therefore, the linkage to the firm’s performance is tested empirically with the help of a financial event methodology as well as the archival data of the firm-level environmental and financial performance. This enabled the researcher to measure the positive returns for the strong environmental management as directed by the environmental performance award. It was found out that the linkage between the environmental management and the financial performance may be useful to ...

Business

Policy analysis plays an important role in the achievements of goals and targets set by the top level management of any business. The core purpose of any business in to make profits and to increase the worth of shareholder’s equity. To achieve this goal, it is very important to make such policies, which do not conflict with the policies of International Accounting Standards and specially with the policies of governments. It is in a view that any new or revised policy from government usually creates problems for the businesses to achieve their short term and long term goals. ...

Four Market Structures

Perfect Competition – In this first market structure, identical products are being sold according to their market value (financetrain.com). There are low entry barriers to this market in which the only factor that determines the sale is the price. Given that there is no producer that can affect prices, there is a horizontal demand curve for such market. One example of this market structure is an agricultural crop that is only produced in certain region.

Monopolistic Competition – This market structure is similar with Perfect Competition as it also has low entry barriers for numerous firms. However, products ...

Answer 1

As per a health report, around 5 people in United States die every day waiting for organ to be transplanted. The Health Care department is concerned with the shortage of organs and increasing demand on the other hand. At present, around 100,000 patients are in the waiting list for a donated organ which includes, kidney, hearts, liver and intestines. Furthermore, as the population grows older and with increasing health care issues in US populations, this scarcity and pressure seems to grow as waiting lists are growing at much higher rate than the supply of organs.

Answer 2

Since, ...

1. During the First World War, due to the lack of military strength, Britain could not overcome Germany and the Ottoman Empire. After the end of the Second World War, Britain lost its main sources of power, which were its resources and territories and two nations US and the USSR emerged as the supreme powers of the world . As a result, Britain never opposed the fellow countries either politically or financially. Britain lacked vision and planning and always focused on administering and implementing the existing services rather than maximizing the resources. Lack of direction, weak government and the European ...

1. What does Appleby argue was different about global capitalism in the last quarter of the 19th century than the previous 300 years?

According to Appleby, capitalism is not just a result of actions, rather a result of a capitalist mentality. The author argues that even though capitalists existed 300 years back, the overall global attitude towards capitalism did not prevail. Focussing on England itself, she states that up to 300 years back, when capitalism was non-existent, up to 80 percent of the total population was engaged in agriculture. It was only after the innovations and new agriculture techniques ...

Introduction

In the 19th century, there were many problems faced in the society such as economic depression, corruption in businesses, and labor crisis . Added to these problems, the legalized segregation, and racial violence wherein local law enforcements never exercise their responsibility intended for the issues in the society. Both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were frontrunners in the presidential election in 1912 with progressive philosophies, attitudes, and theories.

A Republic means nothing unless there is triumph of a real democracy. The triumph of a popular government, and economic system with guaranteed opportunity to ...

Impact of Vietnam War on American Culture

- Although decades have passed since the occurance of the Vietnam war, the American culture, which was partly born as a result of this war, is celebrated today. - Body - The War changed the views of the American people on their constitutional rights, the media and the government. - The war created many stereotypes that referred the veterans as drug addicts, bitter, struggling to readjust in society and psychologically devastated. - The chemical weaponry that were used on the Vietnam vegetation had an adverse effect on the people in a way that even after three generations, the effects ...

- Discuss the various marketing techniques and customer loyalty programs used by the casino and gaming industry.

The gaming industry and casino operate in a very competitive environment and they must continually develop strategies that that ensure that the customers remain loyal. The environment changes and so is the consumer behavior. The casinos now exist for gaming, entertainment and others exist to offer shopping services. To improve the customer experience the casino management ensures that the customer tracking systems and loyalty systems are in place. The gaming and the casino must offer proper level of service to each type of ...

Lumen Gentium is the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, as promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, about half a century ago, in 1964 (Weinandy). According to Lumen Gentium Jesus has shared his threefold office, that of Priest, King and Prophet, with the Church and Catholic lay men and women, once the latter get baptized and confirmed (Weinandy). Taking into account that Jesus sanctifies, governs and teaches, one can understand the perceived role of priests, kings and prophets respectively. Analyzing Jesus’ threefold offices, the role of each will become apparent.

Jesus is a priest mainly due to His sacrifice in ...

Question 1

Should private prisons be used as a way to reduce prison overcrowding? Why, or why not? What do you feel should be done to help mitigate prevention of prison overcrowding? Provide detailed examples, and explain why these would benefit the corrections system.

Response 1

Yes, private prisons should be used to reduce prison overcrowding. In 2006, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an Emergency Proclamation that authorized the state of California to transfer prisoners to private-out-of-state prisons . The transfer of some inmates to private prisons mitigates prevention of prison overcrowding and it benefits the correction system; however, to the families and ...

As per statement of Theodore Roosevelt during his speech in April 1912 entitled “Who is a Progressive?” that, Progressives are those who had a forward-thinking vision of the future and intense convictions. However, his or her convictions should include sympathy for everyone, its imagination for self-improvement. Conversely, Roosevelt said that if a person has mildly good intentions equate to being useless completely. For Upton Sinclair, a novelist has mentioned in his book that the important issues on health found in the meat packing industry . The unsanitary conditions inspired people to seek reform ...

Incentives to Conserve Marine Biodiversity

Practitioners of marine biodiversity conservation are progressively turning to approaches based on incentives. They hope it is going to persuade people to modify behaviors that negatively affect natural habitat and marine biodiversity. The government took too long to get involved, but now they are. More hope is visible as far as saving marine life is the discussion. The essay discusses incentives to conserve marine biodiversity within the framework of impure public goods by analyzing externalities, technology and economic incentives involved.

Impure Public Goods

Goods that are consumed by everyone in society or no one at all are referred to as public goods. ...

Peggy Little

HIS 204 – American History Since 1865 Ashford University

Were the goals of Radical Reconstruction feasible ones?

The major goal of passing the 13th Amendments that was to allow 4 million slaves’ freedom and was one of the goals of the radical reconstruction under the advanced policies of President Lincoln and President Johnson. The reconstruction begun from 1865 to 1877 that involved the federal will that brought the south in submission and protected the African American civil rights. This was one of the feasible one; the reconstruction was important to reunify the country and to establish the first constitutional steps for equality of white and black citizens to ...

My consulting firm will help the pipeline company comply with all regulations set up by the legislature and also advise them on how to co-work effectively with the executive and the judiciary arms of the federal government. The company will have to comply with Pipeline Regulations and Standards that fall into two basic categories; regulations on transportation charges and those that address the safety of the environment and the communities (Edwards, (2011).

The legislature affects the pipeline project through the legislations it has put in place regarding oil transportation. The specific legislation affecting the project is regard to safety ...

Professional nurse need autonomy to carry out their duties. Autonomy is an attribute that allows nurses to work. Nurse autonomy is a belief centered on the client. The client is allowed to make discretionary decisions independently. The decisions made by the client reflect advocacy. The critical attributes that the nurse requires to administer care for the patient include affiliate relationship with the client, caring and responsible decision-making (Bradley et al., 2008, pg. 26). Nurse autonomy results to accountability of actions that nurses take.

Autonomy leads to empowerment of the clients and the nurse. It leads to job satisfaction because ...

An externality denotes a situation in which a third party not involved within a transaction incurs a benefit or cost (Amacher & Pate, 2013). That is, an externality occurs whenever a third party experiences side effects in a transaction between sellers and buyers. Whenever a third party gains from the transaction, it is termed a positive externality.

On the contrary, whenever a third party experiences a cost or loss it is referred to as negative externality (Amacher & Pate, 2013). For instance, a new fertilizer plant producing fertilizer for export also inflicts environmental air pollution. Residents of the area experience bad ...

The idea of reducing crime may be easier said than done. For centuries, governments, government departments, and other concerned authorities have battled their way to fully minimize, and in the case of idealists, fully eradicate crimes and incidences of violence, but to no avail. Crimes, both petty and felony crimes, may be present everywhere. Regardless where one goes, even in the most crime-free of all places, there is no one hundred percent guarantee that one would not be victimized by the committers of petty and or felony crimes in the area.

Compared to crime rates in most highly industrialized ...

A budget is an enterprising plan prepared and submitted by a responsible executive. They have technical, political and economic basis. Budgets have definite time and in most cases based on previous periods. There are primarily two basic elements in a public budget. The first one is revenue and the second one is expenses. Revenues are a resultant of taxes while expenses include current spending on goods and services. Most expenses are government investment expenditures and consumption. Examples of government expenses are research expenditure, infrastructure investment and transfer payments such as retirement and unemployment benefits. Although public budgets ...

Introduction

Germany is governed by the federal parliamentary system whose powers are vested in the parliament of Germany called Bundestag and the Bundesrat, which is the representative body of the Lander. German is headed by the chancellor, Angel Markel whose party is the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).In Germany; Christians form the largest religion, approximately 62% of the population. Islam follows after Christians with an approximate 5% of the total population.

How the course changed my views about Germans and Germany

In my opinion about the freedom of expression, I believed that the federal parliament advocated for willingly expressing oneself. However, from the lesson, I learnt that under article five, ...

We refer to the Cold War as the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the USSR in 1990. That is when two powerful countries emerged, one being the United States of America and the other being the communist USSR. So, when the end of militarization was expected, the American government presented the people with a new threat, claiming for many decades that another war was imminent. The USSR was presented as a new Hitler with expansionistic tendencies. This helped to justify American intervention abroad, like for example in Greece right after World War ...

The Human Resources department of a company is one of the vital departments in any kind of organization. It is a department where the interest of the employees is carefully taken into consideration vis-à-vis the needs or the interest of the company itself. In the case of the this major hotel industry, we can see based on their actions that the company’s decision whether to expand or not relies mainly on the suggestions of an executive which is composed of no other than the CHRO, CMO, CFO, COO and the CEO of the company.

After reading the ...

- Discuss 3 major legacies of the French Revolution. Why is the French Revolution Important? Was it a victory for everyone? How did the factory system and child labor challenge the ideas of freedom and equality? What impact did the Revolution have on the rights of women? Or Africans displaced by slavery?

A legacy is the result of an event is something that is transmitted from, and is a direct result of that event. The French Revolution (1789 to 1799) was a period of radical social and political change, and it left a lasting effect on ...

The two movies have different ways to convey the interest of the viewers. The concept revealed in the movie, “Innocent Voice” (Voces Inocentes) is about poverty that surround in the country during civil war. It imprisoned the humanistic side of war through the eyes of children. The movie is set in a fictional and remote village that is comparable to the real life town of Cuzcatazingo, El Salvador; a real life event describes the political, social, and military combats that happened in El Salvador during the civil war in 1980s. The movie, “Do the Right Thing” probably caused a ...