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only exception was the tangible assets of the Palm Island estate, which was evidence of a major source of income. Eventually, Al Capone's activities, including the Valentine’s Day Massacre, attracted the attention of President Herbert Hoover. In March, 1929, Hoover asked Andrew Mellon, his secretary of the Treasury, "Have you got this fellow Capone yet? I want that man in jail." Mellon set out to get the necessary evidence both to prove income tax evasion and to amass enough evidence to…

At the end of the 1920s there was a huge imbalance between the rich and the poor: 0.1 percent of society earned the same total income as the bottom 42 percent.6 This imbalance, combined with production of more and more goods and rising personal debt, would soon doom our country. When giving his state of the union address in 1928, President Calvin Coolidge remarked that "America had never been met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time.”7 The next year,…

One of the main security threats in American’s correctional facilities today is gang violence. Correctional facilities are faced with emerging problems related to gang violence such as drugs, murder, extortion, gambling, abuse of religious freedom by spreading hate in the name of religion, “racial enmity” and “racial extremism which is the number one factor of the ongoing problem of racial conflict in the facilities. Some of the security threat groups/gangs contributing to these problems are:…

Income inequality is an interesting topic because it is essentially a two part argument. The first part of the argument centers on its very existence; it is similar to the discussion on climate change in that one side acknowledges that is a very real problem that need to be fixed, while the opposing side either denies that it is real, or believes the current system is okay as it is. Assuming that the overwhelming evidence declaring that the United States has the highest level of economic…

To demonstrate, Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University Law School, emphasizes that “the simple rules of supply and demand dictate that any increase in the minimum wage that expands the gap between the market wage and the statutory…

Between 1929 to 1939, Canada suffered a Great Depression due to economic problems such as the over-reliance on staple exports, overproduction of wheat, and the collapse of the stock markets. In turn the government slowly responded to the Great Depression by deficit spending and financing a variety of work projects. These courses of action ultimately led to Canada’s revival. One the major causes for Canada’s Great Depression was their over-reliance on staples for exports. In the 1920s, 25%…

Healthcare is established all over the world. The United States Of America has Obama Care vs China, who has universal healthcare. Healthcare has been around for numerous years. One might question: “What is healthcare?” Well healthcare is “the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health, especially through the provisions of medical services.”(Dictionary,1) Individuals usually have to pay for healthcare. A question soon forms if healthcare should be free to all American citizens,…

Friedrich Hayek, an economist primarily working in the early to middle 1900s, focused primarily on many different economic topics and played an important role in the government's politics, influencing many economists viewpoints for years to come. Later on in his career, one of the economists he influenced, Milton Friedman arose to fame with his own economic theories partially based off of Friedrich Hayek’s theories. Although Friedman was influenced by Hayek, both economists have since diverged…

Along the lines of Critical Race Theory Lewis-McCoy also offers us a race-based explanation for the inequality found in the results of minority students. He observed that black children grow up seeing the race-related barriers that black adults have faced. these barriers then signal to the children that the traditional opportunity system is not open to blacks. Black youths then increase their sense of racial allegiance and solidarity. They often become disengaged from school, because they…

Situation Analysis The Situation Analysis helps to ensure a programme’s relevance and to find out the best course of action by learning about community attitudes and practices regarding violence against Students; identifying what has already been done to address violence against Students and what results and lessons were obtained, as well as who the main actors have been and who might be key to engage. Bullying is not a new problem for schools, since it has been present for a long time;…