Civil Service Reform Act of 1978

Just over a decade after the Civil Rights Act, preferential government policies were challenged in the courts. The case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), which challenged use of racial quotas in admissions in California state medical schools, was the first important case in defining the limits of government preferential policies…

government intervention in domestic, social, and economic policies and decreased political and military intervention nationally and abroad. The Cato Institute has constantly called for the privatization of several government services and institutions, including the United States Postal Service, NASA, the Transport Security Administration, public transportation systems, public broadcasting, and Social Security. Cato and other think tanks have invested millions of dollars in a campaign to…

defence and technology industries, and armed forces reforms. The People’s Liberation Army of China has transformed from a mass army to one that is capable of winning fierce conflicts against highly capable opponents . The Chinese Communist Party who maintains power monopolizes China’s political system. The viability of China’s current system is questioned by political analysts due to its structure of party above the law and its constraints on civil society and rights such as freedom of speech .…

TX, Martha Cotera aided students who participated in the blowouts. Cotera, who lived in Austin, TX at the time, recruited tutors, moved to Crystal City for several weeks and provided free tutoring services to students active in the walkout. Chicana feminists did not simply promote educational reform for the betterment of themselves, but of the…

be excused from holding up to their professional standards. Deontology systems of ethics is said to deal with intentions and motives. Deontological ethics is concerned with acts-- if it is intrinsically right or wrong. According to the State of New Jersey’s Internal Affairs Policy and Procedures enacted into law in 1978, law enforcement agencies have a duty to monitor the behavior of their police officers for incidents of misconduct. In situations where officers are…

Choctaw Indians: A view into the Indian Child Welfare Act According to an ancient Choctaw legend, the Choctaw Indians carried the bones of their dead for forty-three years until their creator Aba gave them their land in Southeast America, located in present day Mississippi (Akers, 2013). According to prophecy, they believed if they ever left their homeland, their nation would die. It turns out that the prophecy was true. The Choctaw Nation did die in a sense when they were forcibly removed to…

up until the time of defeat in World War II when the American occupation authorities imposed the constitutional separation of religion and the state. The controversy over visits by Japanese prime ministers to the shrine arose from the fact that in 1978, the Yasukuni Shrine enshrined 14 executed World War II class-A criminals among the war dead, which generated dispute from neighboring Asian countries who view these visits as representing the glorification of Jingoistic nationalism and militarism…

was built on bloody wars and severe famines which affected policies and the national psyche for many generations. On December 6, 1917, just weeks after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Finland declared its independence, but experienced a terrible civil war a few months later between the ‘whites’ (educated class supported by Germany and the large class of small farmers) and the ‘reds’ (the workers supported by the Russians, who were landless and lacked political power). The two sides only…

apartheid era began, South Africa as a whole has never fully been able to shake the oppressive and racist attitudes that dominated in its colonial past. In 1913 just three years after South Africa gained its independence the government passed the Land Act which forced…

The balance on trade figures shows that from 1973-74 UK had difficulties in restricting imports; the deficit on net exports increased by vast fromUS$ -3958367690 to US$ -9161318512(see table 2). However since 1975 U.K has attempted to decrease these deficits from about US$-3437500272 to a surplus net exports US$ 13346502440 until 1980(see table 2).Interestingly, UK managed to accomplish this positive outcome by evaluating industry performance in home and overseas markets (Hitiris&Bedrossian…