New York: State and City Suffice to say, the French adage "plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" remains true today as it was during the time of Jacob Riis in the late 1800s. This is particularly relevant when looking the conditions of women in Continue Reading...
The complete selection process consists of a written examination, on which a candidate must score above a certain percentile and be ranked accordingly, a physical and psychological evaluation, a background investigation and polygraph rest, and a me Continue Reading...
" In principle, that means that injured employees need not sue their employers for compensation for their injuries or to prove that they were the employer's fault. On one hand, that also limits the total amount of recovery to which they are entitled Continue Reading...
New York State Department of Parole or the Department of Corrections is an agency of the state responsible for the supervision and management of criminals convicted of a crime, felony level or higher. The Department of Corrections was put in place t Continue Reading...
Based on these findings, a number of assessment tools are used to evaluate students' abilities and the most appropriate level of participation in general educational settings (A Parent's Guide, 2002). Early childhood education programs in District Continue Reading...
April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016, an estate of $3,125,000 is exempt. April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017, an estate of $4,187,500 is exempt. April 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2019, an estate of $5,250,000. Raising the estate tax rates will help the famili Continue Reading...
Public Finance Proposal New York State Financial Budget 2010/2011 budget New York While preparing the 2010/2011 New York budget, efficiency and transparency is to be put into consideration. The budget is prepared with recommendations from the exec Continue Reading...
Healthcare spending by the New York State persistently surpasses its earnings. That difference continues to be expanding and is also anticipated to broaden unless of course there happen to be severe, continuous modifications in spending budget action Continue Reading...
African-American Women in New York State "About 30% of Hispanic and 20% of African-Americans lack a usual source of health care compared with less than 16% of European-Americans" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2003). "Racial and ethnic Continue Reading...
SMITH & WESSON SAFETY REFORM DEAL New York Gun Control Conflict Smith & Wesson Agrees to Key Safety Reforms Smith & Wesson Agrees to Key Safety Reforms Under mounting pressure from municipalities across the U.S., the Massachusetts gun Continue Reading...
NYC Education Law Bullying is a common occurrence among district schools in New York City with the major targets often students regarded as different such as the disabled. In this regard, this article highlights a fictitious scenario regarding bully Continue Reading...
CBVH then continues to work with VESID to assess performance on an ongoing basis, participate in on-site reviews, and provide technical assistance or recommend adjustments to contracts as needed. In the near century that these agencies have been in Continue Reading...
Argument Opposing the Ban The primary argument against the beverage ban is that it violates the fundamental autonomy and freedom of personal choice. Critics argue that in that respect, it is no different from prohibiting the consumption of a maxim Continue Reading...
NY Scope of Practice for Nurses The scope of nursing for nurses is largely similar but differs across states because of different practice environments. The variance is nursing scope of practice across states is also attributable to the differences Continue Reading...
spring of 2010 by Rasmussen Reports showed that 55% of New Yorkers blamed the state's budget crisis solely on the state's politicians. The telephone survey showed that the then $9 billion budget deficit was perceived as being a result of the "bicker Continue Reading...
Lastly the development of the railroad as a collective source of the growth of tourism, reshaped the lands surrounding New York city and allowed city and rural dwellers alike to interact and spend leisure time visiting places in the state they had Continue Reading...
New York City: An Examination of Urban Design and Space Function as it Relates to Civic Participation The objective of this study is to examine urban design and space function as it relates to civic participation in New York City. Kevin Lynch conduc Continue Reading...
This world that Scorcese has depicted in the city is one that is marvelously cruel, intensely chaotic and completely imbued with his own musings on what he believes that period in time would have been like. The movie is completely modern and relevan Continue Reading...
New York Real Estate and Office Markets NEW YORK CITY OFFICE MARKET New York is one of the premiere metropolitan areas of the world, exerting a significant impact on global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, an Continue Reading...
That discrepancy is the one between Suffolk and Nassau. if, as it was previously speculated, it were to be stated that the larger the population the more likely it would be that the murder rate would be higher, then Suffolk would have a slightly hig Continue Reading...
"In 1940 David Rockefeller became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, which had been established in 1901 by his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller. A decade later he succeeded his father as chairman of Continue Reading...
NYC and California post-WW2 Let us imagine what it would be like to immigrate to the United States in 1953. We are coming across the Atlantic from Europe, the ship would still be coming around the lower end of Long Island (better known as "Brooklyn" Continue Reading...
NYC Architecture The Empire State Building and Its Impact The Empire State Building stands in Midtown Manhattan on 5th and 34th. One can see its tall pointed antenna sticking out above the other skyscrapers when one walks around Midtown. Because th Continue Reading...
New York Art New York's Post WWII Art Scene After World War II, so many parts of Europe were in ruin. Economies were shattered, new governments worked to gain mandates for their authority and the people of Europe's countless and once rich cultural Continue Reading...
By having all of this, New York is a fun and exciting place. Some other positive experiences of the great city is that Queens has Indian and Pakistani immigrants have created a subcontinent of their own in Jackson Heights; spices, saris and Hollywo Continue Reading...
Fiorello LaGuardia was a New Deal Republican, a man who supported President Franklin Roosevelt and who used that support to help change New York City, to cut off patronage from the Tammany system, and to revitalize New York City, restore public fait Continue Reading...
The legal basis of the State Supreme Court decision was that the ban is "arbitrary" because it would only have applied to some types of businesses and only to those regulated by the city. For example, supermarkets and chain stores were exempted, ev Continue Reading...
New York Presbyterian Hospital Organization The organization under evaluation is New York Presbyterian Hospital. Like many other hospitals, the hospital gains its revenue from donors and patients who are the clients to the hospital. The revenue gen Continue Reading...
S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reaffirm restrictive gun laws since the Second Amendment was not infringed by a law that requires firearm owners to demonstrate proper cause (Nimmo par, 2). The unanimous decision by the three-judge panel was regarded Continue Reading...
Hydrofracking NY What is hydrofracking? To those who support the idea, hydrofracking is the next (and possibly only) real alternative to the U.S.'s continued dependence on the world's oil supply (Energy Vision, n.d:1). To those who doubt the viabil Continue Reading...
Diminishing Middle Class in NYC If we look at the Lower Manhattan, it won't take us long to notice the change that has taken place in it in the last 10 years. The population especially the residential population has doubled up in the last 10 years a Continue Reading...
Neighborhood as Community: Scarsdale, New York With a per capita income of $113,000, a median household income of $230,750, a median sales price of a single-family home of $1.34 million and one of the leading school districts in the state, the Vill Continue Reading...
First and foremost is the recurrence of addiction with which Ms. Stone has struggled her entire life. This reflects the powerful dependency which is a distinct feature of heroin as is this compares to other substances. Indeed, Ms. Stone makes explic Continue Reading...
NYPD Stop Frisk Policy and its Statistical Racial Impacts The NYPD (NY Police Department) stop and frisk policy is a policy introduced by the New York City mandating the police officers to stop pedestrians and frisks them for contraband, and weapons Continue Reading...
Strategic Analysis NYC Parole Department STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE NYC DEPARTMENT OF PAROLE External and Internal Environment's Analysis Internal Environment Analysis SWOT Analysis Matrix Strategic issues in NYC department of parole Formulate s Continue Reading...
community (Times Square NY) and how it was addressed with community policing. How did police respond? Was it successful? Why? Times Square has notoriety for serious crimes, shady and sleazy business establishments and hookers and many illegal activ Continue Reading...
Diversity and Child Abuse Prevention Diversity and How Child Abuse in Handled in New York Compared to Other Countries There is developing debate regarding the suitable combination of programs and polices needed to react to concerns of child abuse a Continue Reading...
He attacked the underlying premise of the decision, saying that, "A constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory… It is made for people of fundamentally differing views" (Paul 74). He viewed the Court's opinion in a dang Continue Reading...
