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Lend Lease Act Industrial Recovery Act
5,250 words... really prepared plans were ready to be implemented almost at once. Huge public buildings, great dams, and irrigation and flood-control projects are part of PWAs legacy. The most spectacular agency designed to promote general economic improvement was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), an organization set up (along with the PWA) by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which was passed by Congress in June 1933. The NRA was designed to help business help itself. Unfair competiti...
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Progressive Era Advertising Industry
5,195 wordsTRUTH AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE PROFESSIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF 'TRUTH IN ADVERTISING' AND 'TRUE AND FAIR' FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Both advertisers and auditors wrestled with the truth of their text during the Progressive Era (1880 - 1940). Although in North America, advertisers adopted "truth in advertising" as a theme, auditors rejected "true and fair" as a description of financial statements. Auditors instead adopted the weaker statement that financ...
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Civil Rights Act 14 Th Amendment
1,093 wordsThe Civil Rights Act of 1875 was an effort of the Post-Civil War Congresses to enforce civil rights throughout the United States. It was a part of the Reconstructionists to eliminate racial discrimination throughout the United States and this Act was one form to attempt to accomplish this. They took the authority to pass this Act from Section 5 of the 14 th Amendment. They interpreted that section to allow the Congress the power to define as well as enforce the rights established by the 14 th Am...
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Patently Offensive Legally Obscene
5,385 words... to Sound Warehouse, a record store in Broward County, and bought a cassette version of the "Nasty" recording. He listened to the album, had six of its songs transcribed, and prepared an affidavit stating these facts. On February 28, 1990, Deputy Wichner sent the affidavit, the transcripts, and a copy of the "Nasty" tape to Judge Mel Grossman of the Broward County Circuit Court, requesting that the judge find probable cause that "Nasty" was legally obscene. On March 9, Judge Grossman issued a...
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Federalist Papers Supreme Court
1,509 words... the validity of law. 6. Power to review the constitutionality of sate legislation. 1. a Federal Constitution which delimits the respective spheres of the federation and the states. As already argued, the treaties can be considered as the Constitution of the Union. Actually the treaties do meet the needs of a Constitution since they establish the legislative, executive and judicial organs of the Community and grant them their powers. However they do not grant powers to the Member States. It i...
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Roosevelt Response To The Great Depression
1,581 wordsThe Great Depression of the 1930 s was a great blow to America especially after the seeming prosperity of the twenties. The depression was a result not of false prosperity in the twenties, although the distribution of wealth was very uneven the affluence was very real, but rather from a lack of economic and political maturity to address the problems either before 1929 or as a cure post 1929. The Great Depression is often seen as a result of the twenties when rather it was a failure of the thirti...
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The Role And Functions Of New Zealand Government
1,706 wordsThe New Zealand Government has made significant changes to the economy throughout the last 15 years. The operation and organisation of business activity in New Zealand has been affected by this changing economy. All aspects of the New Zealand Government have been altered. The reason for this change was to improve the performance by being more efficient. The key reforms are privatisation and corporati sation of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and restructuring government agencies. The most signifi...
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House Of Representatives Members Of Parliament
1,661 wordsAs the complexity of government increase, the legislative branches of many western democracies have lost power to their executives giving rise to terms such as elected dictatorships and the elected members of parliament as merely lobby-fodder. While occasionally eclipsed, and led, by strong Presidents the American Congress has mostly managed to maintain its control over the legislative process and imperial presidencies. President Bush's Nov. 13 executive order asserting his right to establish mi...
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Gun Control Legislation Arms Shall Not Be Infringed
1,133 wordsOn April 20, 1999, what is quite possibly the worst school shooting ever to occur in the United States took place at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado. Around 11: 30 in the morning, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold moved from the hallway, to the library, to a science class, to the cafeteria killing students as they went, and then finally ending up in the main office where the killing spree finally ended with both killers taking their own lives. In a period of about fifteen minutes two gu...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill
2,607 wordsWhen we hear the phrase voluntary euthanasia people generally think of one of two things: the active termination of life at the patients or the Nazi extermination program of murder. Many people have beliefs about whether euthanasia is right or wrong, often without being able to define it clearly. Some people take an extreme view, while many fall somewhere between the two camps. The derivation means gentle and easy death coming from the Greek words, eu thanatos. Euthanasia was formerly called mer...
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Congressional Quarterly Weekly National Catholic Reporter
2,504 wordsImmigration: History of American Policy The first move stopping immigration decided by Congress was a law in 1862 restricting American vessels to transport Chinese immigrants to the U. S. The Alien Contract Labor Laws of 1885, 1887, 1888, and 1891 restricted the immigration to the U. S. of people entering the country work under contracts made before their arrival. Alien skilled laborers, under these laws, were allowed to enter the U. S. to work in new industries. By this time anti-immigrant fell...
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Jim Crow Laws Civil Rights Movement
2,684 wordsMedias role in the civil rights movement When we think of those who have played key roles in the Civil Rights movement, we quite often think of Rosa Parks, or the Martin Luther King. But we seem to forget who else had a huge role in the determining what was going to happen to our countries African-American population. And who is the forgotten soul? Why the media of course. Reporters and Newscasters played an enormous role during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950 s and 1960 s. They helped to ...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Low Income Housing
2,551 wordsIntroduction Homelessness is not new to our nation, and it has greatly increased over the past ten years. (Hombs, 1 - 4) For growing numbers of people, work provides little, if any, protection against homelessness. Low national un-employment levels do not mean that all working people are well-off. (Blau, 21 - 24) What is homelessness? According to the definition stated by Stewart B. McKinney, for purposes of the 1987 McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, a homeless person (homelessness) is one who l...
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Agricultural Practices Natural Resource
1,996 wordsAs nations around the globe enter the 21 st century, one of the most pressing concerns facing each is the notion of sustainable development. Sustainable development, simply put, refers to maintaining a rate of industrialization which minimizes the destruction of the environment. And while issues such as the price and accessibility of crude oil dominate trade talks and newspaper headlines, there is an ever-more important concern emerging: access to water. Despite its relatively small population s...
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Illegal Aliens Illegal Immigration
1,037 wordsImmigration into the United States during the mid 1800 s was increasing at an alarming rate causing over population and cheating U. S. citizens out of jobs. The first move stopping immigration decided by Congress was a law in 1862 restricting American vessels to transport Chinese immigrants to the U. S. The Alien Contract Labor Laws of 1885, 1887, 1888, and 1891 restricted the immigration to the U. S. of people entering the country to work under contracts made before their arrival (23 Carney). L...
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Post War Period Immanuel Kant
3,025 wordsThe main objectives of this paper is, by looking at other federations to find out what makes a federation and compare the position of the European Union in regard to these concepts. But first, I will start with an introduction on the integration of Europe, in which federalists had an important say. Federation the ultimate peace treaty Proposals for a federalist unification of Europe came already in the 18 th century. For Immanuel Kant, the federation was a means of achieving a perpetual peace. H...
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Ku Klux Klan Trial By Jury
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Anti Gun Control Pro Gun Control
1,451 wordsRegulation of guns is a necessary action that needs to be taken in order to save lives. A good definition of gun control is needed to understand the sides and issues. Gun control is an effort to stop the rise in violent crime by strengthening laws on the ownership of firearms. Persons in the group against gun control believe that gun control is wrong, and that it is a violation of constitutional rights. Those in favor of gun control believe that gun control is good, that the Second Amendment doe...
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Habeas Corpus Napoleonic Wars
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Mandatory Minimum Sentences Needle Exchange Programs
3,067 wordsLegalization Of Marijuana Thesis Marijuana is a substance that has become very much a part of American culture. Nearly 65 million Americans have either used it occasionally or regularly. The use of marijuana hit mainstream America about thirty years ago and it has been accepted by a large segment of society ever since (Rosenthal 16). The debate on whether this substance should be legalized or not remains a very hot topic today. Despite government efforts to isolate and eliminate its use, it is c...
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