Essays on NRC

(Professor Name) (Correct Date) August 11, 2014

Going to a 9/80 Work Schedule

The interests of the employer and the hired worker contradicted in the days when workers had to be in place for 70-90 hours a week. In only 30 years, unions have achieved the established 40-hour limit on the working week. The growth of megacities, congestion of road transportation, a growing number of working mothers and the chronic fatigue syndrome has resulted in declined productivity of tired employees. Output was the development of alternative working time. Today, about 70% of the companies in the USA operate on a flexible schedule (Kokemuller, 2016). In ...

Geography

2016-06-22

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the issue of Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This accident has happened in 1986, 26th of April on the eve of the May Day holidays. It has happened on the territory of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now it is the territory of Ukraine). The place of the accident is the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that is located three kilometers from the city Pripyat, eighteen kilometers from the city Chernobyl and eighty three – from Kiev, current capital of Ukraine. According to the official data more than 600 thousands of people have been injured by ...

The death penalty is imposed to provide justice as well as deter homicide and bring down the crime rate. However, evidence and research cannot provide any consensus which agrees that the crime rate goes down, or it increases with the imposition or non-imposition of the death penalty (D. Vergano, 2012). Therefore in order to determine the correctness of the gathered research, a study will be dedicated to finding out whether the death penalty deters homicide or not. The relation between the death penalty and the homicide rate is found on several variables and surveys which are analyzed, and data ...

Abstract

Studies documenting substance abuse have shown that it is deadly. Studies done in these areas have shown a trend in the abuse of substance among the youth. Substances such as marijuana, alcohol and cannabis are continually being abused by the youth. Tobacco consumption by youth is yet to be mitigated. The government, has in some cases, not helped the situation but has served to escalate the crises by making potent substances available to users without regulation. The objectives of this research are to analyze the opinion of researchers I this field and their opinions on the matter at hand. ...

(Institution Name) Capital punishment is amongst the most controversial aspects of law and order that have ever been debated in the history of legislation. The advent of capital punishment initiated in pre-historical times and the purpose of this punishment was not just disposing of the accused person on whom the crime has been proven, but also to ensure that an example was made of that person, and a message about the supremacy of law was conveyed into the society. However, over the period of time and into the modern period, it was highlighted by humanitarian organizations and movements that ...

Genetic Witness

Jay Aronson, in his book, ‘Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling’, writes about the history of DNA profiling as scientists, notaries, and law enforcement clashed between approval of, and challenges to the technology in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jay Aronson is an Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His research and writing center on the political as well as legal history of genetic identification. Aronson’s prior works on DNA profiling all come into view as a build up to the concerns he presents in ‘Genetic ...