Essays on Independents

Amy Cornell in the excerpt titled Fiscal Independence and the College Experience makes strong persuasive arguments regarding the eminent discrepancies in law in relation to the definition of financial independence and goes ahead to describe her struggles in college to make ends meet. She narrates her ordeal from early childhood, having to put up with financial struggles given her mother was an elementary school teacher and his dad an electrician running a mini-shop in the neighborhood. From the onset, she knew that her parents could not support her through college and she had to maneuver through the odds to ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

Introduction

The United States of America has operated with democratic, republican representative government for more than a century and it has been one of the reasons for the success and growth as a country. The representative form of government has made America the global leader, but in recent years, several threats have raised that challenge the future existence of the much celebrated representative form of government. These threats come in the form of external and internal threats that are capable of breaking the duopoly of the representative form of government. The main threats that are affecting representative form of government ...