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    Penn State Berks

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    Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree at Penn State Berks By Kevin Bowes Undergraduate Electro-Mechanical Engineering Student at Penn State Berks 19 March 2013 Prepared for Professor Heidi Liebegott TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT 3 INTRODUCTION 4 Purpose 4 Background 4 DISCUSSION 5 What Does an Environmental Engineer Do? 5 Field Growth of Environmental Engineering 5 Why Berks? 6 Benefits for Penn State 9 CONCLUSION 10 RECOMMENDATIONS 10 WORKS CITED 11

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    Humans in the State of Nature There are many theories about how humans used to be‚ before a state or any form of government was involved. Many imagine that we were in a State of Nature‚ which is where no political power exists‚ no laws or government. These theories were brought on to answer the questions‚ “Why do we need a state‚ and what would things be like without a state?” Many philosophers have given their views on what humans would be like in the state of nature. Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke

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    The separation of church and state is a very sensitive topic in today’s society. Most people see the phrase “separation of church and state” and think it is concrete‚ constitutional‚ proof that nothing religious should set foot in anything relating to government‚ but that is not always the case. The division of the church and the state was instead to prohibit the government from imposing or taking away any religious beliefs. Today’s laws concerning church and state relations are very strict. The

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    Constitution of the United States. The Founding Father had a fair number of obstacles to overcome to get the Constitution passed and ratified. One of their big obstacles was the fact that everyone did not want a national government that would have more power than an individual state. None of the states wanted to be controlled or taxed by anyone else. The people were afraid of having an executive branch that would resemble anything like a king. The other issued addressed was that no part of the government

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    The Montana State Constitution The State Constitution of Montana sets forth the basic governmental roles‚ responsibilities‚ and expectations that apply to the governing officials and citizens of the state. The state’s Constitution also explains the rights of the people. The statements of the Constitution are upheld by state and federal mandates. It is a strong‚ binding artifact of Montana’s evolutionary history. The Montana State Constitution could be compared to a timeline‚ as the changes in

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    United States Citizenship

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    Citizenship in the United States has been a sought-after dream by many people in the World. It is the reason we are the “great melting pot”‚ and the reason for the many mass immigrations that have taken place to the United States. Over the course of two centuries‚ there has been much turmoil in United States politics about giving citizenship status to immigrants. Most of the latter reasoning for not wanting to grant citizenship has been blamed justly on the prejudice of American Society. The Supreme

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    The State-Centric Approach

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    PLSC 220 The State-Centric Approach International Organizations are formal institutional structures transcending national boundaries that are created by multilateral agreement among nation-states.  Their purpose is to foster international cooperation in areas such as security‚ law‚ economic and social matters and diplomacy. The world system has many factors that effect what happens in world Politics. One major explanation of this is the State-Centric approach where state-actors and the world

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    The United States of America. Adams was not successful in his endeavors. Congress has opposed having an official language since John Adams first approached them. At least once a year since 1981‚ Congress has rejected a bill making English the country’s official language. Even though congress has rejected a bill at least once a year requesting English as the official language‚ currently the United States of America is not among the countries with an official language. However‚ several states have adopted

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    descent‚ or history. However‚ it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government. State commonly refers to either the present condition of a system or entity‚ or to a governed entity government is the system by which a state or community is governed. Rights and Obligations of the State Article 1 is all about national territory Article 2 Declaration of Principles and State Policies Article 3 Bill of rights Article 4 all about citizenship Article 5 Suffrage(Right to vote)

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    Is Lebanon a Fragile State?

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    Eastern nation states came into existence not as a result of naturally-evolving and unique historical‚ social‚ or political processes reaching a nexus of cohesion‚ but rather‚ they emerged as a manifestation of the fragility of colonial power in the region (Zweiri a.o. 2008: 4). The history of statehood in the Middle East and its establishment by colonial powers has ensured that this remains a fragile and unstable region (Zweiri a.o. 2008: 4). After the collapse of the Ottoman empire the state structure

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