Essays on Home Rule

Background

The case study is in regards to Allegheny County of Pennsylvania. The study relates to human services that were offered in the county from 1968-1995. “In this time frame, the commissioner who served the area was Thomas Foerster” . The county was one of the biggest counties in Pennsylvania and consisted of more than a million people who lived in the area. The services that people used and relied on had changed in regards to how many services was offered, and how long the programs were allowed to be used. The case study will reflect how the Commission Thomas Foerster ...

Currently, the local government of Texas is split up into a series of 1,196 cities, 254 counties, 1,089 school districts and 2,245 special districts (Texas Municipal League 9). The role of county governments is to provide a variety of different functions to the cities and districts within it, offering governmental services for residents and administrative services for the state. Governmental services include “road construction and maintenance, jails and courts, welfare, health and law enforcement,’ while administrative services include “voter registration and motor vehicle licensing” (9). Special districts are much more single-purpose, as they mostly just deal with education, ...

In the book “The War is for the Whole Life” by Richard Hanks the life of mission Indians is explored in a historical context. Hanks examines the lives of Native Americans and the impact that missions and cultural rights played in either helping or harming the population. This book picks out some key events regarding the struggle for equality and related them to both a missionary and a Native American’s perspective.

Chapter 1: Strangers in their own Land

The settlement of California changed Native Americans in many different ways that forever changed one culture’s way of life. The detriment of Native American populations was partially caused by ...

We are focused on the Liberal Party of the UK in this write-up. The direction of our lens will be on the challenges faced by the party during the years 1910 to 1914.

Background

The Liberal Party of the UK was created by the merger of the Old Whigs Party and the Radicals group. The new Liberal Party was very interested in crushing absolute monarchism where the parliament and constitution draws power from the Crown; it would rather want the reverse as the case (Greenleaf). This pitched it in the opposition for a very long time and was only able to ...

I. What was going on in America during this time (1865-1877) known as "the reconstruction? (1-3 Page) (Talk about Lincolns 10% plan, Charles Sumner,Preston Brooks, Lincolns death, The Reconstruction act, Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Freedmans Bureau, Birth of the KKK, etc.) There were two Reconstructions in American history, although the first one in 1865-77 ended with restoration of home rule and white supremacy in the South, rather than equal citizenship and voting rights promised in the 14th and 15th Amendments. In fact, it ended in extreme violence, with perhaps 50,000 blacks being murdered when the Ku ...

World War II was one of the most destructive and dramatic events in human history, affecting nearly every country on the planet, regardless of whether or not they were actually engaged in conflict. Of no exception is the country of India, whose participation and hosting of American and Allied forces during World War II brought a problematic series of questions and political factors to the country. One of the biggest fights was the one to win hearts and minds in India; to that end, the United States took great pains to make themselves look like the "defender of democracy" to ...

Any literary work can be analyzed from various perspectives. Some scholars prefer to analyze language and lexicological devices of a text; others concentrate on the plot. There are also those who would prefer to study author’s biography and implications of personal life on a literary work. Although all mentioned above approaches to study of a literary work are correct and might help to unravel the hidden meaning of the text and true intentions of the author, there are also those cases when application of those techniques might not be enough for a comprehension of the literary work. Sometimes, in order to understand ...