United States civil service

faced numerous invasions, a series of civil wars and enormous bloodshed. In 1978 the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan seized power in a coup against President Mohamed Daoud in what is known as the Saur Revolution . This revolution is said to be the catalyst for upheaval and armed resistance that would follow for the next 20 years. Opposition of the communist regime resulted in the rise of guerilla mujahideen forces that quickly escalated into a civil war. The Soviet Union sent thousands…

committing heinous crimes, while the poor get very harsh punishment for minor crimes. This types of treatment has been going on for centuries all over the word, not just in the United States. England is home to thousands of elite citizen who commit tax fraud every year. These rich English citizen are rarely ever punished Anthony Bond states in an article that a company called HSBC has been accused of helping hundreds of thousands of wealthy customers avoid tax and hide £78 billion (Anthony Bond…

Language can be used to invoke feelings upon another. Language can strike any emotion, such as love, happiness, anxiety, paranoia, fear, etc. The United States of America has had its fair share of using language to play with it’s citizens’ emotions. The nation’s 40th president, Ronald Reagan, brought the citizens to the truth by one of his most famous quotes: “The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Those nine words may be the most…

what life decisions lay ahead of them, this was going to upstage any thought prior to our existence. This was when I had the epiphany to serve something greater than myself. Fast forward 10 years and I have found myself as a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army serving on my second deployment in Afghanistan. At 0130 aka 1:30am, with night vision securely…

coexist as “one human race.” I concur with him, but I believe this unison will obviously have some issues. Even so, I believe the race can prevail and survive. As long as we accept one another’s uniqueness and strive for a common goal, we’ll stay united. To start off, in “A Quilt of a Country”, Anna Quindlen claims, “... vexing notion that a great nation can consist entirely of refugees from other nations, that people of different, even warring religions and cultures can live…” She helps…

my adolescence and my young adulthood were horrible journeys. I was born in 1987 in a small town of a landlocked country Bhutan, North of China. In 1991, the revolution erupted between Buddhist and Nepalese based on caste, creed and religion. The civil war caused me to leave my motherland at a tender age. Banished to the neighboring country Nepal, I lived in a refugee camp for 17 years lacking citizenship rights and depending on humanitarian aid for survival. In addition to the hardship and…

receive from my home institution of Ball State University. This experience as further enhanced my understanding of political organizations and the base definition of politics provided by Dr. Brandon Waite in POLS 237, “Politics is who gets what, when, and how”. Over the summer I realized that it is impossible to accommodate every program and bureaucratic budget through the 1.1 trillion dollar budget and cuts are always being proposed given the current state of the national debt. This experience…

A bitter civil war started in 1927 and lasted for 22 years. In 1934 the Long March occurred and Jiang tried to exterminate the communists. Only 8,000 of 100,000 Mao communists survived. In 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria and took control from China. In 1937 Japan bombed Chinese cities and took Nanjing. This action finally united Nationalists and communists to fight together instead of against one another for a short…

“The Kern-McGillicuddy Act of 1916 is established that federal employees would be compensated if hurt on the job. The United States Employees’ Compensation Act is a federal law, enacted on September 7, 1916. Sponsored by Senator John W. Kern, Democrat of Indiana and Representative Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Democrat of Maine, it established compensation to federal civil service employees for wages lost due to jot-related injuries. This act became the precedent for “Disability Insurance” across…

Potsdam Conference of 1945 marked the beginning of tensions between U.S. and foreign interests, with the disagreement between Truman and Stalin over territory. The tensions were further exacerbated by the Truman Doctrine, which proclaimed that the United States would give aid to any country that wanted democracy and democratic values. The U.S.S.R. finally reacted to these tensions when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949 because Russia saw the resolution “an attack on one…