As the progress of technological innovation marches on, it brings a new layer of complications to the labor relations process. More than ever, the challenge of balancing employee privacy with employer interests presents immense difficulties, especially with regards to social media. The two cases examined in the following pages form a framework for a cursory investigation of workplace privacy and an employer’s interest and legal rights to restrict the digital activities of their employees. In the…
The newly created National Military Establishment was rife with conflicts stemming from overlapping responsibility. The most notable of these was the rivalry between the Department of State and the new, massively larger, Department of Defense. Which of these two Departments gets priority in foreign policy making continues to be a struggle in the National Security Council. As the policy makers that designed NSA 47 intended, different…
the Central Intelligence Agency. On the website, it states that their “primary mission is to collect, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the president and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to the national security.” I would like to (1) explain what this website is about, (2) discuss the different types of information available on www.cia.gov, (3) share what I personally learned from this website, and (4) conclude the information obtained. WHAT…
His theory states that social organization and change is based upon conflicts within the society. People between the ages of 18 and 21, called stakeholders, feel that they aren’t getting to exercise all of their rights to being an adult by government definition. They given all of the responsibilities and consequences of adults such as the right to vote, the ability to adopt, the right to join the military, the right to be charged with the highest punishment if accused of a crime, the right to…
On July 17, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which he quoted, “The bill we 're gathered to sign today reflects the will of the American people. It takes the battle to stop drunk driving one crucial step further”. Since 1984 the minimum legal drinking is an on going debate for many U.S. citizens. According to Andrew Stuttaford, he believes that if eighteen year old are allowed to vote, marry, join the military and drive why are they not allowed to drink.…
In Alaska they are making a bill for active members of the military that are 18 to be able to drink. People who oppose to the fast since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 claim the roads have become safer since the kids were delayed on being able to drink. People against this are also saying that alcohol consumption is still a problem but lowering the age would do nothing to work against it being…
by 1983. However, encouraging news came in 1984, when, confronted by the failure of the 18 year old drinking age, the President Commission on Drunk Driving, along with the support of then President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Uniform Drinking Act (“History Speaks,” 2015) This law required that all states implement 21 as the legal drinking age again (“History Speaks,” 2015). By the year 1988, all states had adopted 21 as the legal drinking age. Since 1988, there are more than 25,000 people…
A group of teenagers are starting high school the next day, and they are nervous they won’t fit in. They consult an older sibling, and he replies, and assuages their fears, by saying that they should drink a couple of beers before school; after all, that;s the cool thing to do. The fourteen year olds listen to the eighteen year old big brother, and they start their high school career with high hopes, fantastic dreams, and horrible hangovers. Flash forward to junior year, AP Exams are coming up…
Mothers Against Drunk Driving advocated for the MLDA of twenty-one in all the states and wanted Congress to act on this proposal quickly. On July 17, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which stated that states that have not raised their legal drinking age to twenty-one, will lose their federal highway funding. By 1987, all fifty states had made their national MLDA to the age of twenty-one (“Choose”). In recent years, many groups — especially college…
Underage drinking is among the most serious of public health problems facing adolescents in the United States (Zhong and Schwartz). In today 's society, people are questioning the legal drinking age. Some wish it should be lower. While others think it is right where it needs to be. Although lowering the age might not sound like a bad idea. But it can be a huge problem in society. Even though some people think if the drinking age were to be lowered sounds like a good idea. Teens are doing it…