National Labor Relations Act

might have restore some faith in the government, they were still getting slammed with misfortunes across the US. By the end of his first term, FDR’s “New Deal programs has revolutionized relations between labor and capital, changed the face of the American countryside, and, with the passage of the Social Security Act, in 1935, laid the foundations for the welfare system”(Kennedy). FDR’s “New Deal programs started projects to provide jobs. Those public projects still weren’t enough to get…

summer of 1969 and the Cuyahoga River was burning.” Due to growing public interest, the National Geographic published a cover story on the river fire, featuring an informative graphic on the locations along the Cuyahoga River where it "receives the wastes of steel mills, chemical and meat-rendering plants and other industries” (Scott). Within the following year, congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA would assist in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency…

bill was unsuccessful, he would largely be blamed. Thus the Roosevelt administration’s answer to the bill was the National Industrial Recovery Act. It was a stroke of genius on Roosevelt’s part in order to save his own skin against the earlier mentioned bill. The NIRA called for federally established working hours, minimum wage, and worker’s right to organize. The act created the National Recovery Administration, an entity that Kennedy calls, “a vast process of government-sanctioned…

The newly created National Military Establishment was rife with conflicts stemming from overlapping responsibility. The most notable of these was the rivalry between the Department of State and the new, massively larger, Department of Defense. Which of these two Departments gets priority in foreign policy making continues to be a struggle in the National Security Council. As the policy makers that designed NSA 47 intended, different…

Army National Guard Civil Support Teams Since 1998, Civil Support Teams have assisted local authorities in dealing with events involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or enhanced improvised explosives (CBRNE). Whether it be a planned attack utilizing chemical or biological agents, toxic industrial materials, or radiological sources or an accidental spill or release. Highly skilled Army and Air National Guard Active Guard Reserve (AGR) personnel make up every Civil Support Team…

the Central Intelligence Agency. On the website, it states that their “primary mission is to collect, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the president and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to the national security.” I would like to (1) explain what this website is about, (2) discuss the different types of information available on www.cia.gov, (3) share what I personally learned from this website, and (4) conclude the information obtained. WHAT…

His theory states that social organization and change is based upon conflicts within the society. People between the ages of 18 and 21, called stakeholders, feel that they aren’t getting to exercise all of their rights to being an adult by government definition. They given all of the responsibilities and consequences of adults such as the right to vote, the ability to adopt, the right to join the military, the right to be charged with the highest punishment if accused of a crime, the right to…

On July 17, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which he quoted, “The bill we 're gathered to sign today reflects the will of the American people. It takes the battle to stop drunk driving one crucial step further”. Since 1984 the minimum legal drinking is an on going debate for many U.S. citizens. According to Andrew Stuttaford, he believes that if eighteen year old are allowed to vote, marry, join the military and drive why are they not allowed to drink.…

In Alaska they are making a bill for active members of the military that are 18 to be able to drink. People who oppose to the fast since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 claim the roads have become safer since the kids were delayed on being able to drink. People against this are also saying that alcohol consumption is still a problem but lowering the age would do nothing to work against it being…

by 1983. However, encouraging news came in 1984, when, confronted by the failure of the 18 year old drinking age, the President Commission on Drunk Driving, along with the support of then President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Uniform Drinking Act (“History Speaks,” 2015) This law required that all states implement 21 as the legal drinking age again (“History Speaks,” 2015). By the year 1988, all states had adopted 21 as the legal drinking age. Since 1988, there are more than 25,000 people…