Essays on Reforms

Placing a cap on “Pain and Suffering” in tort actions is essential; this is because there are many cases that arise from tort actions. Tort action is in itself a civil action or injury that does not arise from a contract. The law for such action provides for some outline of money damages. The actions arise from accidental laws like personal injury and negligence. This calls for a cap on the tort actions regarding pain and suffering. Reforms are needed, for proposals and enactment, to have a clear outset of the nature of tort actions.

The laws that are ...

Over a long period of time, the federal government has had struggles in instituting the rules and guidelines on matters of sentencing. This is so because of the sensitivity of the judicial sentencing authority especially following the Reform Act of 1984 which came as a replacement to the former traditional sentencing policy. The Reform Act of 1984 is a more strict authority which is proscribed by the enactment of mandatory guidelines to deal with sentencing. There also arose the limitation brought by the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutional grounds with the exercise of mandatory guideline provided for ...

Arguably, health care is one of the fundamental things that directly affect the entire population in the world. United States is not an exception when it comes to health care policies. President Obama administration has made reforms on health care a priority. Most popular media companies in United States frequently argue on the Obama’s plans in the health care sector. Others support the plan, while other views it as a waste of time.

Perhaps, approximately 85 percent of American people already have health care insurance; hence, to them the plan comes as a bad news. The primary objective ...

Conservatism based on Russell Kirk and Phyllis Schlafly’s Works

Conservatism can be defined as a social and or political philosophy that favors the retention of traditional social orders and institutions. This means that in a typical argument between liberals and traditionalists, conservatives would vote for the retention of established dogmas, principles, and institutions, emphasizing the importance of continuity and stability. Following the Second World War, countries, not just the United States, have made great progress in making reforms, either to their existing social, economic, and or political orders. While this may be something that would immediately alarm the conservatives, both Russell Kirk and Phyllis Schlafly presented good points ...

Introduction

The life of prominent personalities remains one of the most comprehensive topics focussed on in the field of sociology. This can be accredited to the fact that various prominent personalities played a comprehensive role in bringing about social change in the society. Worth noting is the fact that the traditional society was filled with various societal matter that hundred societal progress. As an example, the traditional society had a less regard for women in the society as evident by the fact that women were discriminated highly. Nonetheless, the emergence of prominent personalities led to mutual change of the society ...

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in China stretched 1.80 percent in the final quarter of 2013 over the past quarter. The National Bureau of statistics of China is the body accountable for GDP Growth Rate in China. According to it, China's average GDP Growth Rate is of value 1.99% since 2010 up to 2013 where it arrived at an unbroken high value of 2.60% in the 2nd quarter of the year 2011 and a low record of 1.40%t in the first quarter of 2012. In China, the development rate in GDP measures the change in the occasionally balanced ...

Introduction

Water scarcity is a preventive issue in UAE. The gap between availability and demand leads to a situation called water stress. Water stress is expected to rise to alarmingly high levels owing to demographic factors like population and increased consumption and legal factors like government policies enforced in this direction. Conservation and effective utilization of available water resources is a must to support the current population and the future generations. Desalination provides a non-conventional technique of re-utilizing disposed or water from marine areas for intensive applications like irrigating agricultural fields by removing the salt content.
According to the US ...

The creation of reforms in the health sector requires a combined effort from the various stakeholders. Individuals can aid in promoting health reforms through having group meetings. During such meetings, they can discuss the challenges they face in acquiring health services and how to solve these challenges. They can even make individual contributions to raise funds for purchase of certain medical equipment that are unavailable at the area medical center. Furthermore, individuals ought to make their voices heard by the government in situations whereby a health care facility is non-existent. It is their right to demand for such facilities ...

Social Planning Relating to Housing

The primary function of organizations of social planning is to help in the building and strengthening of the community. Most of their work focuses on social issues that affect individuals plus families. Among these roles is the provision of decent and affordable housing. Housing shortage is one social planning issue related to housing that can be identified in the two films of Farewell Oak Street and Imagining Home.
Housing shortage refers to a situation in which many households lack affordable dwelling places. The film ‘Imagining Home’ directs its attention to the revolution of a historical, aspersed and valued public ...

Health care reform has long been an issue within the United States given the necessity for quality health care and insurance needed to survive in the modern world. However, while the intension of health care reform is for the benefit of all Americans, positions regarding such idea remains heavily contested even at the present time due to the beneficiaries of such reform and the impact it would have in the health care industry. On the one hand, there might be an increase on taxes to pay for those who do not have their own insurances and cause health care ...

One important feature of the U.S. health care system that is of particular interest to me is nurse staffing. Nurse staffing has always been a major problem not only for developing and under developed countries but also for the developed nations. In the United States, staffing of registered nurses is an area in health care delivery that has not received much attention despite registered nurses making the largest part of the healthcare staff. There has been uncertainty in nurse staffing with reported layoffs and employment delays in the United States (Mensik, 2013).
The role of nurses in health care ...

The French Revolution that took place in 1789-1799 is one of the most popular political uprisings in world history. Throughout the 18th century, the traditional authoritarian French monarchy remained in power despite talk of reform. As the authority structures remained in place, economic revolutions took place within the French society causing dramatic changes. Moreover, the evolving social structure started to collide with the static political structure. This led to the clamor for reforms in order to create a constitutional monarchy, reform the financial and political landscape of the nation. The revolution was immediately followed by the by a dictatorship ( ...

Much like the earlier Populist movement, the progressives sought changes in the US Constitution that promoted democratic reform by allowing a petition by the people to be voted into a law, public referendum where voter approval would be sought for laws proposed by politicians, and for Senators to be elected directly instead of relying on state legislatures. However, while the Populists were focused on the labor and farming class, Progressives were anchored in the increasingly influential middle class. As they belonged to a higher class and were generally better educated than the Populists, Progressives succeeded in having several reforms ...

2014 midterm elections
November 4, the main opponent of President Barack Obama - the Republican Party - won the majority of seats in the Senate in the midterm elections in the US Congress; moreover, it is not only maintained but also reinforced majority in the House of Representatives. Thus, the newly elected Congress, which will begin work in January, next year, will be fully controlled by Republicans.
The upper chamber of Congress - the Senate - the first time since the beginning of the Obama presidency fell into the hands of the Republicans. Out of a hundred seats they ...

The media plays a vital role in the dissemination of information within the society. The relaying of information plays a critical role for social movements that are keen on spreading their ideologies and objectives. This illustrates why the activists within the US National labor union adopted mass protests as a core way of attracting the media’s attention. Since time immemorial protests have been the most effective kind of ways of attaining both social and media attention. Through protests televised or reported on the media, the US National Labor activities managed to be highlight their issues to a greater ...

In fourth June 1946, a period when Juan Domingo Peron became president of Argentina, many wishes of the people were fulfilled in education taking the central stage. His ideas and the changes that happened in his era came to be known as Peronism. The people of Argentina had gone through a series of hardships such as a coup d’états that took place in the year of 1943. The coups brought new regimes that had different goals compared to the previous rule (Rein, 4). The new government wanted to implement changes in the economic and social structures of the ...

The provision of education to children of Kansas City is one of the most important tools that would ascertain economic development of the City (James, 2014, p.1). Education reforms that cover the entire city is no small feat because Kansa’s City students attend many school districts totaling 15- and there are more than 130 schools within the City limits. These statistics paint a grim picture, and a substantial percentage of the kids in Kansas City are not afforded similar educational opportunities. By they time they take the Missouri state exam in the third grade, the Kansas City Public ...

Introduction

Ancient societies existed through a lot of strife politically, economically and socially. This essay explains issues in relation to the creation of a better world through the eyes of Confucius and Socrates. It also examines the crisis of the third century in the Roman Empire as well as the feudalism. States and Empires managed to overcome their challenges through socio-economic, as well as political reforms.

Creation of a better world

Confucius, the most significant Chinese philosopher, believes and teaches that the nature of men is the same but their habits separate them. He also believed that one should not do to others that which ...

According to Irwin, the pace of economic growth of the United States is uncertain in this year, due to the massive investment in the healthcare by the President Obama administration. The investment in the health care is about one-sixth of the total budget of the economy. The reforms aim at providing access to healthcare to millions of American who don’t have healthcare insurance and improve the efficiency of the health care by making it cost effective.
As a result, the spending on the health care drops by a big margin. Hence, due to this none spending on the ...

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born on 19th of May 1881 in Saloniki, a city which was a one of the major ports of the Ottoman Empire. His father had a military record, having served in Turkish army during the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-1878. At the time of Mustafa’s birth his father was a customs officer, who later became a timber merchant. However, when Mustafa was just seven years old his father died which put the family through a lot of challenges.
As per his education, Mustafa finished primary school in Saloniki first, after which he attended secondary school ...

Jewish Reform and Conservative Movements

Aside from Christianity and Islam, Judaism can be considered one of the oldest religions still practiced and worshiped today. Its history traces back since the early centuries and like Christianity and Islam, Judaism is known for its monotheistic faith. Much like its counterparts, Judaism has grown significantly throughout the years, establishing societies and communities adhering to the laws subscribed by its sacred text. However, as years progress, there are instances where some of the religion’s traditions and customs are clashing with the modern times. Some Jews recognized this problem and proposed for changes in the faith, but others ...

Explain the significance of the Asian Economic Crisis of 1997-98 for questions of development

Introduction
There is a lot of significance of the Asian economic crisis that almost led to the fall of Asia. The mistakes that caused the crisis can be learnt by other nations so that they do not make the same mistakes. The Asian economic crisis began in 1997 on the most parts of the East Asia. This economic crisis brought about fear in the world economy. There are many theories as to what caused the economic crisis in Asia. The original place where the crisis began was in Thailand when there was the collapse of the Thai baht (Jones, ...

What is the structural adjustment?

Structural Adjustment Programs were instituted to offer countries in need, the opportunity to avail loans from the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. In place since the first half of the 1980s as an economic policy as such developing countries affiliated with World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) can benefit from it, by the provision of loans qualified on the espousal of such policies(W.H.O, 2014). Elaborating, the loans are associated with circumstances akin to substantial policy reforms, the framework of which must be complied prior to availing the loan (Abugre, 2000).It was intended atevolving the ...

Summary and Reading Reaction:

Summary
- Mary Wagener is an author that specializes in the history of women and art, with many of her works concentrated in the city of Vienna, Austria.
- The text is considered a secondary source mainly because it derives from primary sources to form a historical account of the movement against “fin de siècle” fashion in Vienna, which is characterized by the use of corsets.
- Main argument: Wagener (29-33) discussed how female fashion in Vienna has transitioned from one characterized by ostentatiousness to simplicity and functionality; “efforts to grant women political and economic freedom, and concomitantly, ...

New dialogue on fundamental reforms has been raised again in EU. The president of the Republic of France plans to reduce taxes on business and make some more moves toward liberalization of economy. It sounds pretty interesting due to the fact that he participated in elections with completely different moto in the nearest past. Even the Prime Minister of the Republic of France Manuel Valls traveled over Europe to communicate and confirm this message. Even such countries as Spain, Greece and Portugal report economic progress as a result of liberalization.
On the one hand, this fact should give some ...

Thesis Proposal

The purpose of this research is to analyze and suggest the potential legal and social solutions that are imperative for the purpose of securing rights of those who are orphaned in Islamic countries on account of ongoing civil and political unrest. The research will be structured in the form of five chapters that shall effectively cover the objective of this research.

CHAPTER 1

In this chapter, I am going to analyze in detail the political turmoil and civil unrest in Syria and the consequent burgeoning orphan issues. I will highlight how the ongoing crises have impacted the turmoil in the social ...

The Honorable (Richard Durbin)

(Room #) (Name) Senate Office Building

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator:
Dealing with substantial social problems is always the focal point of every political campaign. The formation but mainly the persuasive articulation of complete programs that offer solution in crushing and complicated social issues such as educational problems, inequality etc. is probably the most difficult task for every politician and for every politician’s staff to approach. Of course, the matter of immigration holds a distinctive position among those problems and one can say that it is the most popular nowadays. A matter which troubles the central government of states ...

Members of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform of the United States of America have studied the economic downturn experienced by American families for a long time. They defined the reality of the problem and proposed a solution. They noted that the solution would be difficult and painful. The members consist of people with diverse backgrounds and signify diverse areas sharing a united principle that America’s long-standing financial fissure is indefensible. If the problem continues, the future generation will suffer inevitable poverty in a weak nation.
The moment of truth is a document that tackles the ...

The system of adoption is practiced by western nations and was introduced by them. Western laws, such as those of the USA are rigorous when it comes to adoption matters. The child has to come before all the other interests. Gulf nations have adopted the same school of thinking when it comes to the adoption of orphans. They have put in place measures that seek to grant orphans citizenship in under the article on private law that has been passed under foreign law policies. The Arabic states, however, do not have such reforms but have an increased number of ...

Carbon dioxide is an odorless, non-combustible gas that could be both beneficial and threatening to the environment. This gas is inherently part of the earth’s biogeochemical cycle and is as equally important as other naturally occurring gases in the earth’s atmosphere. While carbon dioxide provides benefits to plants via photosynthesis, its effect on the atmosphere at high levels may induce modifications in the naturally occurring changes in climate all over the world. To date, carbon dioxide has been put into a spotlight as the main cause of anthropogenic climate change.
Anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have ...

Progressivism was a reform movement that started in the late 19th century and lasted up to the early years of the 20th century. This period was marked by social, economic, and political problems resulting from industrialization and urbanization caused by capitalism in America. Progressives wanted to create a lasting solution to these problems. This paper focuses on progressives' efforts to create a strong democratic system in America as an answer to the problems caused by modern capitalism.
Progressives believed that modern capitalism marked the end of an order and the beginning of a new one. They advocated for a ...

Political issues in nursing

Introduction
Healthcare reform is built on the existing health insurance system and aims at providing more people with the coverage of health insurance. It also seeks to establish protection of customers legally and educate them how to buy insurances. The legislation proposed on health reform is intended to change how health care gets delivered, organized and financed. However focus has been put on the responsibility of federal government; impact of loweringMedicare spending growth rate; provision to pay physicians plus other practitioners who are qualified and collection of information about procedures for end of life care. The policy shows facts ...

Abstract

This resume explores the diagnostic assessment as presented by the “California community colleges student task force”. The paper will introduce “diagnostic assessment”, Present several systems and how different states are developing “diagnostic assessments”, Show differences with other states, Discuss implications of time and resources for testing the assessment and Show opportunity in K-12 and colleges on diagnostic assessment. The paper will lay emphasis on other States which are on a similar transition or have done so in the past. These are Virginia, Florida and North Carolina. The paper will highlight what can be learned from each state. The paper ...

Module 5 Discussion 2

Module 5 Discussion 2

A point in the video with which I agree:
I agree with the point that the cost associated with malpractice insurance is considerably on the higher side. It certainly eats up a sizeable part of a medical professional’s income. It also substantially raises the overall medical cost for the patient. However, medical professionals are left with little choice but to bear the costs associated with malpractice insurance so as to limit and/or eliminate the exposure to mal practice law suits. At the same time, malpractice law suits cannot be done away with in its ...

Introduction

The issue of immigration has become very controversial in the last two decades. This controversy has come in light of drastic changes and reforms to the nation’s immigration policies from the year 2001 when the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened. The controversy on the issue of immigration reforms has emanated from the fact that there are those in the society who are in favor of the enacted policy reforms while there are those who vehemently oppose the enacted reforms. However, this paper has committed itself not to analyzing this debate or controversy associated with the immigration reform circa 2001, ...

Real success of Chinese Economic Reforms can attributed to the contemporary development strategies that were undertaken and started in China by Comrade Mao. Since then, China has grown rapid and has never looked back. The paper will look at how long China can keep growing as there is a limit to growth, and there must be an end to growth in China as well. The reforms given to China by Comrade Mao are still pretty much relevant in today’s China, and they have made China an economic power of the modern world.
Some argue that China’s great ...

Corruption can be generally defined as the abuse of power, office or authority in pursuit of personal gain. Corruption is an endemic and pervasive issue in most third-world countries, where it can be seen as a feature of governance. Corruption mostly plagues the public sector and civil service of countries. It could be argued, as a result of corruption being observed only in the public sector and civil service, that corruption flourishes in the absence of control mechanisms in the legislature of a country. All levels of governance are affected by corruption in such cases, and efforts to curb ...

Research question: Has immigration reforms enacted in America since 2001 enhanced the ease or the difficulty of entry into the nation by immigrants, both legal and illegal?
Hypothesis: Immigration policy in the United States since 2001, has made it harder for illegal immigrants to enter the nation while it has also at the same time made it harder for legal immigrants to enter due to strict policies and laws.
Economically prosperous nations such as the US tend to attract a lot of immigrants who are searching for a better life. Many leave their home countries in droves as they ...

The Basel rules are recommendations developed by the BCBS (born in 1975 an organization formed by the major central banks around the world) to establish the minimum conditions that a bank should have to ensure stability.
Over the past decades the solvency conditions have been fixing and updating, and thus confirming the agreements Basel I (1988); Basel II (2004), which is in force; and Basel III, which began in 2013 with the ultimate horizon of 2019.
The Basel accords are in charge of setting the basic capital of the entities to address the risks taken by the characteristics of ...

Introduction

Education reform comprises of the set plans and changes in a learning institution or school system that aimed at making a definite transformations ranging from the teaching methodologies to administrative processes. This involves models and the various researches based on the topic to help make it a success (Harris et al. 67). Despite the few setbacks that these reforms faces, the government and other keen stakeholders in the education system effectively formulate the strategies to put in place to guarantee a smooth transition and a success in the implementation process.
Numerous education systems around the globe are plagued with ...

In the United States, there are fifty-one different court systems. While the majority of these systems are similar to one another in regards to their structure, several standout as being particularly unique. The Texas court system, which has a bifurcated appellate level; overlapping jurisdiction and over five levels of courts, is one of the nation’s most distinctive systems.
The unified Texas court system was established in 1836 following the Texas Revolution that freed the Texas colonies from the sovereignty of Mexico. Under the newly promulgated constitution of the Republic of Texas, a court system based in Anglo-American common ...

President Barack Obama signed the health reform bill on March 23, 2010, after one long year of debate. Obama wanted to make over the health system of America and transform Washington. Obama's Deal exposes the spectacular details of how a noble president went after the fight for health care, in spite of the admonitions given by his near and dear advisers. The deal also explains President Obama’s negotiations with the powerful special interests during the time of campaigns. Obama took the help of a skillful chief of his staff, Rahm Emanuel to pilot the process of health reform. ...

The MISSION of Physicians for Healthcare Tort Reform is to promote an improved legal climate for providers who seek to practice evidence-based medicine.
Physicians for Healthcare Tort Reform *SUPPORT* H.R. 4106: Saving Lives, Saving Costs Act

Background

- More than 75% of physicians will eventually face a malpractice lawsuit.
- 99% of physicians in “high-risk” specialties will ultimatelyface a malpractice lawsuit
- The current legal environment for providers leads to defensive medicine, frivolous lawsuits, decreased efficiency, and higher healthcare costs to the tune of billions of dollars per year
- No history of meaningful medical tort reform exists at the ...

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The story “Mama Might Be Better off Dead” by Laurie Kaye Abraham centers on a challenging analysis of the delivery of health care for the urban poor. The story chronicles on the lives of the African American family and their experiences in America’s healthcare. Racial inequality is the primary theme in the story.
Abraham used to write about health care; however, the story of Banes brings us to the other dimension of health care in America. Racial disparity in healthcare continues to exist at this present age. Minority Americans are more likely to confront problems pertaining ...

This paper will compare and contrast the similarities and differences of two author’s thoughts on immigration. Mike Speiser is the author of the article, “America’s Secret Innovation Weapon: Immigration,” and Deepak Bhargava has written “Reform Immigration for America.” These articles present the current situation of the immigration laws and policies of the American immigration system and how they can be altered for the betterment of the country and its people. The current immigration system is very complex which, in a way, forces people to disobey the law and prevents the immigrants from completing their documentations.
Both the ...

The Stop Question and Frisk program has been the subject of major scrutiny over the past few years in New York City. The program, although quite vague, is a policy that allows New York City police officers to stop, question and frisk any pedestrian they deem questionable. However, this program has fueled anger in minority groups over racial profiling, as the bulk of pedestrians who have been stopped were of the African American or Latin communities. The newly elected Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio has decided to reform the policy in response to many reports of civil ...

Introduction

The history of British social policy, exactly as vast majority of social policies of developed states, can be viewed as a transition from the state, where the one is always responsible for making his/her living, despite any kind of social risks he/she experienced, to the welfare state, where none permits social or natural contingencies to fully determine the lives of people, and a range of programs to protect children and adults from illness, disability, poverty and unemployment exist (Gutmann, 1988, p.1).
In the history of British policy the concept of welfare state is for the first time mentioned with ...

Intelligence Reform Law

The enactment of the intelligence reform law in 2004 was a move towards revamping the intelligence community, especially after the terrorist attacks of 2001 on US landmarks and symbols of their economy. The reform law saw commissioning of the Director of National Intelligence office. The activities envisioned in the new law saw the most significant restructuring of the Intelligence Community in over half a century. As a result of this, civil and private liberties and education for members of the intelligence community were instituted. Their scope was also widened in order to prevent such attacks on US soil or ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

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ABSTRACT
California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. The most vulnerable workers, ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

Chapter V
California has passed several workers compensation reform bills in recent years, in both the assembly and senate of the state legislature. Each reform bill has addressed perceived problems in the California Workers Compensation (WC) system depending on the factors present that influenced political agenda setting at the time. Therefore, the research presented here created the following hypothesis. If the processes for injured workers were assessed based on the historical outcomes, a better strategy could be designed. In order to test the hypothesis, the goal of the research was to interpret the complexities of SB 899 and SB ...

In Australia, the water supply and sanitation is of good quality. The supply of freshwater is vulnerable to climate change; however, the country has put emphasis on water conservation and the government in every region has imposed restrictions on the use of water in the community. The water reform in Australia is a great success, despite its geological status with low rainfall latitude and it has extensive dry areas with high variability in and between floods and droughts. All Australians has considered the natural environment as its fundamental of life and the preservation is their legacy to the future ...

Introduction

The doughnut hole refers to a program whereby the amount for treatment increases gradually. For example, people used to offset the total cost of their medications in the doughnut hole. However, with the introduction of Affordable Care Act seniors are now not required to pay the full amount of their medication cost.

Health care reforms will improve health care for the seniors (Riggs, 2014). First, the Affordable Care Act will close the doughnut hole that was forcing the seniors to pay the full cost for their prescriptions. For example, seniors received a fifty percent reprieve when buying drugs covered ...

Campaign finance is used about the funds that are raised during campaigns to promote the activities of political parties, candidates or to support policies during referendums, elections or initiatives. Political campaigns involve very much expenditure that include the cost of traveling for staff and candidates, consulting, direct costs of communicating with the voters, campaign logistics, publicity and production of campaign materials. Campaign financing is different depending on the country. In the Great Britain, for example, television advertising is sponsored freely for all parties campaigning and can only be limited by law, whereas, in the United States of America, television ...

Introduction

In the United States of America, the medical malpractice crisis has taken a new scale in affecting the citizens. Similar to several other states, Illinois has faced constantly rising and high premiums that make the health care sector expensive for the citizens. It is, however, worth noting that the recent past has witnessed a number of liability firms that are physician-backed leave the market. These firms represent the largest carriers of the medical malpractice. The ever-increasing rates have been associated with an increase of the severity of the claims. In the state of Illinois, the move to cap malpractice ...

Summary

The article, ‘Special Education’ by Schroeder Ken is essential in understanding national perceptions of individuals on the reform efforts that have and are being made for the disabled students globally. This article mainly gives the findings from (NCEO) which is a National Center on Education Outcomes. It is evident that most of the states have given priority for students with disabilities as this is part of the legislation of educational reforms required by the NCEO. According to a survey carried out, there were thirty two states that had information based on students having disabilities and at the same time ...

In times gone by, analyses of evolution of mass media systems have be inclined to draw upon a “dissident vs. State” structure. In China, a “state vs. market” scenario has been superimposed in this general framework, in the perspective of which china is often portrayed as a monolithic entity intent on promoting reforms that are market-oriented while maintaining a tight regulations on the country’s mass media, as well as political super structure. Arguably, these dominant analytical frameworks tend to accumulate a number of fundamental dynamics that are unique to the Chinese history. In essence, the society has played ...

EU audit reform (December 2013)

Introduction
The European Union’s (EU) internal markets commissioner, Michel Barnier, signed the December 2013 EU audit reform into law. On December 17, 2013, EU member states and the European parliament came into a preliminary agreement about the new regulation on audit. The compromised texts were endorsed by COREPER in December 18, 2013. On that same date, commissioner Barnier welcomed the agreement reached between the two bodies on the reform of the audit sector. He claimed that the agreement formed the first step towards increasing audit quality and attracting more investors, which was an essential ingredient for economic growth ...

Aside from political reform and development, the international community has also been busy in creating new means to stimulate growth and economic sustainability. Proposals such as reduced tariff, removal of trade barriers, and the introduction of free trade were pronounced by either developed or developing countries. In Latin America, free trade has been a fundamental aspect of the market reforms carried out in the region; however, the results have varied especially with the onset of globalization and the lingering effects of tariff reduction. Some believe that having trade reform to a growing and a potential economy such as Latin ...

Obama’s Deal is a frontline documentary that tracks president Obama deliberation and the passage of the health care bill. This documentary takes up the swearing in of the president during the March 21 vote that seals the final health care legislation. This frontline documentary applies background voices with narrations of speeches, newscasts, congressional hearings, interviews, and cable commentators. For those that follow the health care debate or scan the New York Times cannot derive new information from the documentary. One can appreciate the political maneuvering that ensures the entire process prior to the bills passage.
This documentary tells ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

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ABSTRACT
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TABLES FOR FIGURES AND TABLES
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AB Assembly Bill
CA California
CCHSWC California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
DIR Department of Industrial Relations
DIV Division of Workers’ Compensation

DWC Division of Workers’ Compensation

ER Emergency Room
FEHA Fair Employment and Housing Act
MMI Maximum Medical Improvement

MPN Medical Provider Networks

PD Permanent Disabilities
PPD Permanent Partial Disability
SB Senate Bill
SB 899 Senate Bill 899 on workers’ compensation passed by the California legislature in 2004
SB 683 Senate Bill 683 for the reform of the earlier workers’ compensation bill (SB 899) took effect January 1, 2013.
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