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reduce and avoid conflicts of law enforcement. In the enactment of FOIA, the United States emphasizes two purposes of the Act: to strengthen democracy through open government activities and to prevent administrative corruption by restricting the administration. China should recognize the real meaning of citizens’ “right to know” and the democratic value of information disclosure (as well as its effectiveness and anti-corruption value) and convert to a system of openness of…

country is divided politically as the cause of different regions taking on different identities through the recognition of multiple languages as being national. This has led to many regions institutionally standardizing different languages of their own community, leading to over twenty-five being at least regionally accepted as official. Yet above all national recognitions in India, the English and Hindi languages are the only ones used by the Republic’s government. With Hindi being…

Journey to Work: Transnational Prostitution in Colonial British West Africa is an ambitious undertaking achieved by Saheed Aderinto. In this article, his main argument is that local social processes contributed to change the perceptions on the prostitution in Nigeria, and that prostitution network in Nigeria-Gold Coast flourished partly because men benefited of the remittance of women. But he also announces that his article adresses multiple other questions: « How did the attitudes of…

For example, Wyoming gets the equivalence of 5.1 electors per million while California only gets 1.4 (National Archives and Records Administration). This means a single vote in Wyoming is worth over three times more than a Californian one, which gives a candidate the ability to win the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. This is mostly due to the two senatorial…

these racial injustices through the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and Fair Housing Act (history.com Staff). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of religion, color, national origin, race, or sex. This act once and for all ended the mandatory separation between white and black people in bathrooms, classrooms, the theaters, train cars, etc (history.com staff). This movement also impacted who voted. In 1965,…

(Nagel, 2001). The Hopewood case: In 1996, the Fifth Court of Appeals ruled against affirmative action in the Hopewood case. The court decided that race or ethnicity could not be used as a deciding factor for college. This case involved a white woman who was denied access to college even though her test scores were higher than blacks and Hispanics that were accepted. (Nagel, 2001). Proposition 209: In 1996, an anti-affirmative action law was passed in California called Proposition 209.…

Food regulation and food control in the UK Food Fraud Regulation Authorities In the UK, food safety protection are not only managed and controlled by national government, also by non-governmental sector regulators, special interest groups and value chain actors (Mensah & Julien, 2010). They are components of Food Safety Management System (FSMS) which is a systematic approach to controlling food safety hazards within a food business in order to ensure that food is safe to eat (FSMS, 2015). All…

you choose for your topic? Include the number and the text. The 2nd Amendment, The Right to Bear Arms MLA citation for the Bill of Rights (official government site): "The Bill of Rights: A Transcription." National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Web. 04 Feb. 2017 Key Use: What information from this source seems the most important? Note key points mentioned in the source. The definition of the right: A well regulated Militia, being…

first constitution is known as the Articles of Confederation. The issue with the United States constitution was that, it constrained the administration and did give individual rights. Numerous Americans needed an official archive containing their rights, so the President could not roll out any improvements to the law on account of their own needs or property. The record gave more prominent sacred insurance to the freedom of a person. As Americans we are given sure "freedoms" that different…

Militarism- The military grew in competing countries. The contest between Germany and Britain at sea between Germany, France, Russia Alliance System- where big countries stayed together incase of a war. The triple alliance and leaders of big alliances acted reckless towards others. Imperialism- Ruling over a country. European countries ruled smaller countries, and competed with each other. Colonies became known as Imperialism. France and Britain had many colonies in Africa and Asia.…