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When the media constantly states repetitively again and again on an opinion or a certain viewpoint, even if it may not be supported by facts, it usually influences public opinion. It’s true that people don’t have any other news source to refer to. The media is supposed to shape public…

The “Liberty City Seven” case served as a prototype for these terrorism sting operations. There is always a vast divide between the information in the initial news reports and the eventual reports after the government discloses all of the details in court. The Liberty City Seven were a group of young black males from one of the Miami’s poorest areas, Liberty City. They were approached by an undercover FBI criminal informant, Abbas al-Saidi who began his career as a drug snitch at the age of 16…

The United States Federal Government is the largest employer in the country. Federal employees not only provide services to the citizens of the United States, but also interact and engage with personnel from across the world. The federal government has found itself in a unique position; diversity is essential to its success across the globe and also in serving its citizens. The federal government should set the standard of diversity for U.S. companies and businesses to follow; its successes…

trafficking continues to become a huge concern for the United States and its surrounding borders. The United States provides estimates of 600,000 to 800,000 personnel are trafficked over international borders a year (Human Trafficking: Better data, strategy, and reporting needed to enhance U.S. anti-trafficking efforts abroad 2006, pg. 1). However the Department of Homeland Security along with several other entities to included federal and state law enforcement agencies, U.S. government…

As technology evolves, so will the methods that criminals and terrorists utilize to achieve a personal gain. In the United States and throughout the most countries, technology plays a significant role in the way our economy operates, how cities obtain power, and how information is shared. If technology was used to disrupt this state of living, this could lead to a detrimental chain of events that could cripple the very existence of how we live. The technology we rely upon has numerous…

It would not be possible to find representatives who are familiar with all parts of the continent. Our state governments should guard our interests and rights. They would understand the people so they could more closely relate with them. The experience of local government in the New World is very appealing. The result of such a government would be a completely…

This is a story of two distant friends, Katrina and Ricardo, who live in the states of Nebraska and Florida respectively, and who share a close relationship but find themselves on two diametrically opposed sides of the ever ongoing socio-political debate in American politics. We are opposite on various social,economic, and political issues relevant to today’s American society. I am a conservative and she is a liberal. Katrina was born and currently lives in the small Nebraskan city of Bellevue.…

Does national security override free speech? In the case of Snowden, Manning and Assange, they each leaked classified documents to the public under the name of free speech. Is this actually classified as free speech? According to J.S Mills, if it doesn’t cause physical harm to a populace, then it is classified as ‘free speech’ and so the leakage of government documents is allowed in accordance to Mills’ theory on free speech. Mills does not include psychological harm to anyone in his definition…

the thirteen colonies of the United States of America yearned to form a government that would essentially replace the British system. The first attempt of restitution began with the Founding Fathers’ and their deliverance of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was “a written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states; it provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens (Articles)”…

John Locke Although not American, John Locke, born in England in 1632 and studied at the Christ Church University, is one of the profound English philosophers of the time. His influences are thought to have largely influenced Europe, as especially clearly identified in the French Enlightenment, in governance ways and consequently, mostly affected the forms of governance throughout Europe. The French and the British people adopted his ideas, especially in management (Frecknall-Hughes 1).…