The 16th Amendment was the first to be passed in the 20th century. It allowed incomes to be taxed as a clear response to the Supreme Court decision in the Pollock v Farmers' Loan and Trust Company (Fonder and Shaffrey 2002). Congress previously pas Continue Reading...
Greek Temple Architecture From Its Inception Through the Hellenistic Period
Present day Greece still retains the Greek temples, shrines and sanctuaries of the pre-Hellenic period. The modern world of architecture and historians regards these temples Continue Reading...
History of the Pacific Northwest [...] how the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War impacted regional demographics in the Pacific Northwest. What social ramifications resulted from population shifts in the Northwest (consider rural and u Continue Reading...
Industrial Revolution
It has been called the "Western Miracle" and the "European Miracle," but it is commonly known as the Industrial Revolution. During the later half of the 1700's and to the beginning of the 20th century, The European continent a Continue Reading...
Strategy Used for Searching the Literature
When embarking upon a literature search on my dissertation's topic of human trafficking, I used two major sources. The first was government reports on the topic. Given that human trafficking is an immigran Continue Reading...
Presidential elections in the U.S.A.
The United States Presidential election that was held on 6th November, 2012 was the 57th in the United States history. Such elections are held after every four years. The Democratic Party nominee was President Ba Continue Reading...
Some Chinese researchers assert that Chinese flutes may have evolved from of Indian provenance.
In fact, the kind of side-blown, or transverse, flutes musicians play in Southeast Asia have also been discovered in Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, and C Continue Reading...
Over the past decade, 'culture' has become a common term used when thinking about and describing an organization's internal world, a way of differentiating one organization's personality from another. In fact, many researchers contend that an organ Continue Reading...
Williams Case Memo
L. Jones
Governor's Office
Memo: California Quality Education Commission -- Adequacy
With the recent settlement of the Williams case, there remain several questions that the Governor must address. In order to assist in this dec Continue Reading...
US Imperialism in the 1890sPolitical, social, and industrial powers all converged to give rise to American imperialism in the 1890s. At the end of the 19th century, the US was enjoying the full benefits of industrialization; industrialists and financ Continue Reading...
In most of Switzerland's cantons, the main religion is represented by Christianity. It is estimated that 41.8% of the population belong to the Catholic Church, while 35.3% belong to Protestant denominations. Other religions, which were brought by i Continue Reading...
Pastor categorizes the last century (ending in the 1980s) as falling into several categories, with regard to immigration policy, which he also notes is open for debate, as it is usually done in public debates in Congress and between the executive br Continue Reading...
Ethical Decision Making Process
Underage Garment Workers Dodge Rules in Cambodia
The press has been waiting for three hours and Steve, the chief communications officer cannot wait any longer for fear of the press houses growing even larger. He know Continue Reading...
Policy Making Process
Welfare Reform Policy Analysis
Success of welfare reform is ambiguous. Media and well-known public officials claim to have had achieved welfare reforms. However, after 4 years of new policy regime, majority also accepts that Continue Reading...
Hook or Me This Time
Ideological changes of a Pirate and a former Lost Boy in two narrative essays)
Life is defined by the changes that take place during it. Our bodies change and we grow larger; time passes and we grow older; our philosophy and i Continue Reading...