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    The USA Patriot Act of 2001 is a controversial public policy‚ which greatly undermines the civil liberties and constitutional freedom of the American people. This essay will moved from an overview of the USA Patriot Act to a review of the critical literature regarding the importance of the Act to the safety of Americans and shows how the Act violates the civil rights and liberties of citizens and noncitizens alike. After presenting sufficient evidence that the Patriot Act violates many of the basic

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    The search for a renewable energy source has been a top priority to us a human race in the past decade. Many ideas have come in the form of wind‚ solar‚ and nuclear power‚ all having their own drawbacks. But‚ the one that will be focused upon in this analysis is hydrogen as a source of fuel‚ and the technology leading the way to making it a reality. This technology would affect everyone in one way or another if correctly used. So we must ask if this technology is beneficial to us‚ how it might hurt

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    initiatives and referendums are in making public policy. (30 marks) Initiatives and referendums are forms of direct democracy used by a majority of states in the United States. Direct democracy is a system‚ by which political decisions are made by the voting people rather than elected representatives. Throughout the US the involvement of the electorate varies‚ in states such as Alaska and Colorado referendums and initiatives are fundamental tools in policy making. Initiatives are a process in which

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    colonization and past government policies that continually threaten the health outcomes of Indigenous communities. However‚ contemporary governments now claim to be implementing strategies and plans addressing past wrongs in the healthcare system for Aboriginal People. One of crucial intervention is in Primary Health Care aimed at minimizing disparities in healthcare systems between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. It is argued that colonization had a major impact on health conditions of Indigenous

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    Economic impact of the Internet: study of cybercafes in Gaborone‚ Â Botswana Tomas Mauta Sairosse and Stephen M. Mutula The authors Tomas Mauta Sairosse is Director of Libraries‚ Universidade Catolica de Mocambique‚ Beira‚ Mozambique. Stephen M. Mutula is a Senior Lecturer‚ Department of Library and Information Studies‚ University of Botswana‚ Gaborone‚ Botswana. Keywords Internet‚ Economic conditions‚ Botswana Abstract This paper discusses the findings of a study that was carried out to determine

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    Australian Government’s assimilation policy was a policy of absorbing Aboriginal people into white society through the process of removing children from their families. The idea of this policy was to breed out and abolish the aboriginal society and to assimilate them into the white community. The impact that this policy had on the indigenous Australians was very negative as many children were forcibly taken from their families. One way the assimilation policy impacted the aboriginals was by ‘stealing’

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    Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Situation Analysis Global warming‚ also known as the green house effect is a topic that has received much attention in recent years; yet our climate change is not a recent problem. It has been morphing over many years. What is increasing is the rate of change; it is accelerating due to the growth of the human population. The growth of our population has increased our use of fuel‚ land‚ and manufacturing. All of these are increasing emissions into our atmosphere that increases

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    question‚ what is public policy? The most common answer is an order from the executive members in regards to a law‚ more specially in the United States; public policy is decision-making and analyzing government decisions. While public policy might come across as a simple term and process; it is a highly complex system with laws‚ loopholes‚ regulations‚ and global issues are a view of the concerns taken into consideration when policy is studied or challenged. However‚ public policy can be as simple

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    Social Policy Decisions Paper BSHS/355 Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a nonprofit organization that was created in the United States and is also being implemented in Canada. This organization was created in 1980 by Candice Lighter‚ from Fair Oaks California‚ after her then 13 year old daughter was killed by a drunk driver. This organizations mission is to stop drunk driving as well as provides education about drunk driving‚ supports victims and their families of drunk driving

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    The Economic and Social Impact of Colonial Rule in India Chapter 3 of Class Structure and Economic Growth: India & Pakistan since the Moghuls Maddison (1971) British imperialism was more pragmatic than that of other colonial powers. Its motivation was economic‚ not evangelical. There was none of the dedicated Christian fanaticism which the Portuguese and Spanish demonstrated in Latin America and less enthusiasm for cultural diffusion than the French (or the Americans) showed in their colonies. For

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