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    Visa’s given per year, therefore not all victims are guaranteed to receive one (Department of Homeland Security, 2014). Social Policy Critique The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 was signed into law on October 28, 2000 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to fight against trafficking in persons, of all types; forced enslavement and slavery, the sex trade,. The act is in place to assist in the re-implementation of particular Federal programs to assist in prohibiting…

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    Background: Previous Program Evaluation Paths The Clinton Administration acknowledged that agencies and departments were inefficient and lacked oversight of outcomes. The administration consequently passed the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GRPA 93), giving government officials a tool to begin to properly manage outcome assessment of programs. The Act called for all federal agencies to develop five-year strategic plans with long-term goals. The agencies had to submit annual…

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    November 8, 2016 will be a day that will mark a transition in America’s political history, since the country will be voting for it’s 45th president. The two candidates who have a chance to win the presidency are Hillary Clinton who represents the Democratic Party and Donald Trump, who represents the Republican Party. At this point, the country is choosing between two candidates that do not have the trust and the characteristics to be the leader of the nation. According to journalists and the…

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    “Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.” Terry Eagleton. Eagleton’s quote means that justice doesn’t follow the political laws, that everyone’s justice is different for them. Justice is different for everyone because everyone has different views on politics, because people have different views in society and towards what they believe will be a good system for the American government system. Also political ideas change over time…

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    The Clinton (Democrat) administration’s military intervention foreign policy is in the ‘half-out’ category due to Clinton’s policies of “hegemony on the cheap” (“The Quiet Clinton Era of the 1990s: A Liberal Internationalist Strategy for Unipolarity?”) which emphasized multilateralism and avoided conflicts in which the U.S. had little to no interests, but wanted to “preserve an American-centered order” (“The Quiet Clinton Era”). Clinton wanted to maintain the status quo of the American unipolar…

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    Enacted in 1933 by the Clinton administration, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides unpaid time off to assist employees in balancing work and family life. The act supplies up to a total of twelve weeks of unpaid leave during any twelve month period to specific employees. While the establishment of the act has helped some employees balance the demands of work and family, a recent increase of family-leave lawsuits in our country have demonstrated the FMLA’s need for improvement.…

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    Virginia in 1971. The movie begins by telling the viewers that, “High school football is a way of life. It’s bigger than Christmas day (Remember the Titans, 2000).” An adorable young girl tells us in the beginning of the movie that her dad, coach Bill, coached in Alexandria. She explains to us that her dad is a hardworking man, and her mom left him. The movie…

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    research for a bill that I agree with and a bill that I do not agree with I started getting overwhelmed. I could not believe the amount of bills that need to be reviewed for such a short legislative session. I just just started looking at the bills by subject instead of trying to go through each bill to determine my choices. This task still proved daunting because some of the bills actually had duplicates filled by different legislatures that read exactly the same. But, I did find one bill that…

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    J.D Vance is a tall, white man. He graduated from Yale Law School, and is principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Outwardly, it appears as if Vance has led a life of privilege, including an upbringing in upper-class America; however those were not the circumstances Vance was brought up in. In his book, Vance describes the psychological impact that being a child living in poverty had on him, and many others who live in similar situations. Despite the limitations Vance faced, he was…

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    The Cadillac's ELR Coupe 2014 Commercial embodies the perfect American dream. It starts off with an American man gazing out over his pool right before delivering a thesis on the American Dream. He is playing the role of a self-made man who walks around his two- story modern house and displays his wealth while promoting his version of the American work ethic that made all his wealth possible. In the beginning of the video, the gentleman is dressed in a polo shirt and khaki shorts, but later…

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