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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…

through ‘for-cause removal protection’ or through specified terms of tenure with their independence granted by legislation or the Constitution and mechanisms such as collegial membership . For Brown and others: The key characteristic of the independent regulator model is decision-making independence. This means that the regulator’s decisions are made without the prior approval of any government entity, and no entity other than a court or a pre-established appellate panel can overrule the…

In today’s aviation world, aircraft are designed with multiple systems to aid aircrew with all aspects of flight; however, the only factor that aircraft manufacturers can’t eliminate is the integration of human error. “Human errors represent the mental or physical activities of individuals that fail to achieve their intended outcome”*. In order to properly predict human error factors we must first understand some factors that make up human error, such as “fatigue” and “situational stress”.…

Vic Noll Civics Likens 3 January 4th, 2016 Civics CBA: Bethel vs Fraser On April 26, 1983, 17-year-old Matthew Fraser, a senior at Bethel High School in Bethel, Washington, spoke to a school assembly to nominate a classmate for vice president of the student government. Students were required either to attend the assembly or go to study hall. about 600 students attended this assembly, where Fraser gave a lewd, and inappropriate speech riddled with sexual innuendos. some kids laughed, others in…

Imagine losing the ability to say a common vocabulary during school, a place where most spend a large amount of time in. Imagine suspensions for using the now forbidden word because a pledge that all students must abide by was written and given to each and every student. This idea of a pledge that takes away from students and even teachers should not be utilized in schools. Since the creation of the Bill of Rights in 1791, the First Amendment--the Freedom of Speech--has been in place to protect…

Tinker Test, and helped restrict students’ speech. Although the Tinker case had an immediately beneficial result it has become less liberating for students in the years after. Another case important to students’ freedom of speech was Hazlewood Independent School District v Kuhlmeier. The Supreme Court ruled in this case that schools have the right to censor student speech if it “may fairly be characterized as part of the school curriculum (Goldstein),” or it is “poorly written… or unsuitable for…

What effects do connotation, bias, and rhetoric have on the author’s argument, and how does it affect the audience? In the editorial “‘Boobies,’ the courts and free speech” by the Times Editorial Board the author uses connotation, bias, and rhetoric to help sway the audience toward believing in their side of the argument. To start off, the author uses connotation a lot in his editorial. These are some examples of those words, “Constitutional rights, wrongly, disrespect, defiance, and…

Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, (2000) was a case involving students opposing pre-game prayer. The court ruled that the students who wanted to attend the football game were subject to pre-game prayer (Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, 2000.) Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) ruled in support of the students, when students wore black armbands to protest…

Amendment 1: Freedom of speech The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give…

In the case of Tinker V. Des Moines, it shows how the supreme court did not want students to be allowed to publicly express themselves or their opinions. Also how the teachers should have freedom of speech in school or out of school. The argument that is stronger for me is for the students and the teachers to be allowed to have freedom of speech and should always be protected. To begin with, at the public school in Tinker V. Des Moines, the students and the teachers organized a small protest…