In his 1651 Leviathan‚ Thomas Hobbes observed that without government‚ life would be “solitary‚ poor‚ nasty‚ brutish‚ and short.” Justify his argument. With this justification‚ justify the existence of government as it presently operates in the United States today. What demographic and socioeconomic factors do you think are related to democracy? Wealth? Education? A homogeneous population? Can you find countries that don’t meet your expectations? Does democracy require equality of income and
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Abstract The court system in the United States serves as a tool to ensure that the society keep certain order and respect the law created by the Legislative and Executive power. The court system will ensure that crimes receive the deserve sanction applying the law (severe or not that severe‚ depending on the type of the crime) (Siegel L.J.‚ Schmalleger F.‚ Worrall J.L. 2011) How fair is the court system? How the court system that is used in today ’s America was created or developed? How it works
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democracy. Around 1200 England laid the groundwork to become a republic. Later‚ in the 1700’s‚ United States of America became a democracy. During the first decades of our premature nations’ existence‚ it is hard to imagine that the United States would evolve to become such a great democracy. A democracy others would prefer to believe with hypocrite reasoning. When the U.S. first won its independence it was a united group of people left to defend for themselves. This group was to become a nation and creating
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The United states has about 11 million undocumented Immigrants living in its cities and farmland. These immigrants work in numerous jobs across the country‚ the majority in physically demanding‚ low paying jobs in relating to agriculture‚ construction‚ and hospitality. The immigrants in theses fields provide many services and products that help the United States’ people. Agricultural products including items like strawberries and dairy products are produced through illegal immigrant labor and then
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The United States Cabinet (usually referred to as "the Cabinet") is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the federal government. Cabinet officers are nominated by the President and confirmed or rejected by the Senate. There is no explicit definition of the term "Cabinet" in either the United States Code or the Code of Federal Regulations. Authority for the Cabinet rests with Article Two of the U.S. Constitution‚ which gives the President the authority to seek
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period after the American Revolution was a challenging time for the fledgling nation called the United States. The United States although did not have enough military power to exert to make other countries recognize its influence on World Affairs‚ the United States used other creative ways to prop up its interests in World Affairs. Three ways through which the US sought to enhance its interests in World Affairs was through The Treaty of San Lorenzo(TSL)‚ The War of 1812 and the Monroe Doctrine(MD)
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In the United States over 1.2 million students drop out of high school (US Census Bureau).That’s about a student every 26 seconds/7‚000 a day. About 6‚000 people that don’t get to graduate end up obtaining a minimum wage job for the rest of their life. They struggle‚ and many Americans question why the number one industrialized country suffers an extremely high percentage of poverty and what triggers it? People know that not graduating from high school is the number one factor that causes poverty
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Federalism limits the power of the government by dividing the national‚ and the state government. State and Federal power is then again divided into legislative‚ judiciary‚ and executive branches. This all keeps no one group maintaining all of the power‚ it is a constant check and balance. The power of the state is what the national government does not have‚ and also has to be deemed as legal. Both the state and federal government have denied powers‚ which are as you can guess powers that are denied to
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valued goods and opportunities in a society. Over the past two decades‚ there has been an increase in economic inequality in the United States. Four major reasons for this increase is the changing relationship between technological expansion and education‚ deindustrialization and restructuring‚ government policies‚ and decline of unions. Technology in the United States has advanced immensely since the 1970s. This has led to peoples jobs being replaced by technology‚ for example bank tellers have
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“Sexual Harassment has been pointed out as the most increasing‚ widespread problem faced by women in the workforce (Kadue & Lindeman‚ 1997).” Therefore‚ I will write to you about what sexual harassment is and what constitutes it‚ where the United States and other countries stand on this issue (the global view)‚ types of sexual harassment‚ how to identify it‚ major problems related to sexual harassment‚ disciplinary actions the offender may face‚ and affects sexual harassment may have on the victim
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