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Industrial Revolution and Beyond
It is difficult for anyone now alive to appreciate the radical changes that the Industrial Revolution brought to humanity. We imagine that we know what it was like before this shift in economics, in culture, in soci Continue Reading...
Political Savvy
Winning the Election in Florida's 15th District
Running and winning a political campaign today has moved steadfastly from issues to an overwhelming focus on how much money a candidate can spend. In most political races, the dollars Continue Reading...
Immigration and Asylum Policy in the EU
The formation of the European Union was a feat, unprecedented in modern history. This agreement represented feat of political cooperation never before accomplished in the history of the world. Under this agree Continue Reading...
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A DEFENSE OF PLATO'S IDEA OF THE GOOD
IN HIS REPUBLIC
The main prompt or assertion provided in the lecture notes, being "Whatever might be its philosophical value, the idea of the Good has no political relevance," goes completely against Pl Continue Reading...
Online Voting System
The current system for registering voters in our country was designed in a time-frame before the computer industry had become such a major power in our day-to-day lives. In a time when citizens can order everything from automob Continue Reading...
Society and Regulation
In today's society, everything is regulated. Most public roads, highways and traffic systems are regulated, as are monetary and behavioral systems. Everything from wireless devices to wildlife is regulated at many levels. Even Continue Reading...
Voting Reform Today
Since the complications counting ballots for the 2001 presidential election, both voters and the media have shown increased interest in the issue of exactly how we elect our presidents. Three areas have received close scrutiny e Continue Reading...
Summary of Community Board 5 MeetingIntroductionCommunity boards are important forms of local governmentbut are they effective? The subject of this paper is Community Board 5. This paper examines three of this Boards community board sessions in Manha Continue Reading...
Annotated BibliographyAknin, L. B., & Whillans, A. V. (2021). Helping and happiness: A review and guide for publicpolicy. Social Issues and Policy Review, 15(1), 3-34. https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Helping%20and%20Happiness_41d48a88-0cd Continue Reading...
Interest Groups and the MediaToday, American voters enjoy access to a veritable cornucopia of information about anything, including most especially the high-profile political events that have characterized life in the United States in recent years. I Continue Reading...
Intelligence and National Security1OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence. It refers to the practice of gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information that is available in the public domain. This can include information from the internet, soc Continue Reading...
The UAE as a Developmental StateIntroductionIn recent years, the UAE has been ranked as one of the most developed countries in the world: it has achieved, throughout its united journey, record-breaking rates of growth in all fields, which has placed Continue Reading...
The Right to Clean WaterIntroductionWhen making assertions and declarations like everyone has a right to clean water, one should understand the underlying causes for the declaration. In 2010, the United Nations issued Resolution 64/292, which explici Continue Reading...
Oversight The Use of Drones
Should agencies like the CIA or DoD be able to use drones – outside of warfare – with little or no Presidential oversight?
No person, organization or even government agency should be able to use drones with no Continue Reading...
Should the US Create a Domestic Intelligence Agency?When the FBIs COINTELPRO came under fire from the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (1976), one of the major problems to emerge from the Congr Continue Reading...
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Five future trends in Public Administration are 1) global interconnectedness and self-sufficiency; 2) changes to public health policy; 3) incorporation of advanced technology into administration; 4) more grassroots advocacy; and 5) emphasis on sust Continue Reading...
Fake News Detection
Introduction
How can fake news be detected and prevented from dominating the online discourse of news events? Numerous researchers have been discussing this issue and identifying ways to detect fake news, whether on social media ( Continue Reading...
One of the major problems of human trafficking is that so many of those trafficked are children or young adults who end in first world countries, enslaved as prostitutes. As Rahman points out, “an estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked e Continue Reading...
Introduction/Synopsis
Big Data is driving virtually every industry in today’s Digital Age, including, among all others, the work of the Intelligence community. From human intelligence (HUMINT) to open source intelligence (OSINT), “strateg Continue Reading...
Ethical Dilemmas in Social Media Use in Public Safety Administration
Today, public safety administrators at all levels are routinely confronted with complex ethical dilemmas that demand more than a casual analysis and response. Moreover, the types of Continue Reading...
The private security industry will become generalists in the next century. The industry must be well versed in a number of disciplines. It must base its operations and decisions on demographic and economic trends, and rapid technological changes. Tra Continue Reading...
Technology and Society
Introduction
The relationship between technology and society is pivotal in the development of the modern era: so much of the world has been shaped by advancements in technology over the past 500 years that today’s society Continue Reading...
Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
NIPP (National Infrastructure Protection Plan) offers the necessary structure for coordination, synchronization and integration of activities originating from different pertinent statutes, presidential direct Continue Reading...
Corruption
Transparency International – TI (2018) defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.” Towards this end TI points out that corruption can be grouped into three distinct categories, i.e. political, p Continue Reading...
Comparing and Contrasting Facebook and Instagram
Two social media sites that are very popular today are Facebook and Instagram. While both offer users the ability to upload content and share it with followers and friends, the two differ in many ways Continue Reading...
Commanding Heights
The overall argument that is being made in the Commanding Heights video is not a new one. However, it is one that is seemingly becoming more impossible to ignore every day. At issue is the fact that there are two overall forces tha Continue Reading...
CEO of this endeavor will be Tony Hsieh. This project shall focus on the projects and plans that are or should be under way for the company that Tony Hsieh leads, that being Zappos. Zappos is an online shoe retailer that used to operate as its own co Continue Reading...
ExxonMobil invested in and assessed its corporate social responsibility?
In recent years, ExxonMobil (hereinafter alternatively "the company") has invested in a wide range of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives (Batruch, 2011). For in Continue Reading...
Rawls and the Just Society
Today's United States society is not just because it violates both principles of John Rawls' theory of justice based on the "original position." This paper will explain Rawls' principles and show how the U.S. violates thos Continue Reading...
Gulf countries, Bahrain is subject to the rule of a royal family, appointed to rule by birth. Politically, the royal family has seen upheavals in the form of protests by several opposition movements, including a group known as the February 14 Coalit Continue Reading...
21st century experienced many changes. Some of which related to political and civil unrest and terrorist attacks. The issues surrounding global governance and the outcomes of such problems in the present day have sparked the interests of researchers Continue Reading...
Sociology
Symbolic interactionism is the theory suggesting human beings are best understood in "interactive relation to their environment," (University of Twente, 2014). The three core principles of symbolic interactionism including meaning, languag Continue Reading...
Midnight Rising
Religious beliefs were the sustaining platform for the positions on slavery of both Robert E. Lee and John Brown, although both men were compelled in disparate directions as a result of their faith. John Brown's Calvinist background Continue Reading...
Personal Narrative and Research
A university is defined as a higher education institution providing academic degrees (Aronowitz, 28). That sounds like a cut-and-dried understanding, but a university and the experience it can provide for those who at Continue Reading...
SRA International Study
Focusing its professional experience and talents on departments of the federal government's national security agencies was smart for SRA because there are a multitude of aspects within each department that need security and i Continue Reading...
Upper Big Branch Mining Disaster
Industrial Calamities Can Be Avoided if Companies Respected the Law
Abiding by federal or state industrial laws is necessary since genuine minded legislators have processed the laws and not the profit-minded shark o Continue Reading...
Frank La Rue presented a report to the United Nations General Assembly on the twenty-third session of the Human Rights Council. Though it was a late submission, the report was regarding the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expressi Continue Reading...
UN Human Rights Committee Calls for U.S. Surveillance Reform
In order to preserve and safeguard civil and political rights, the United Nations monitors the protection of these rights by member states who have become part of the International Covena Continue Reading...