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Advocacy for Social and Economic Justice In completing this essay, I had the opportunity to select a case study and identify issues related to social and economic injustice. Working with Survivors of Domestic Violence: The Case of Charo, is the case study this essay is based upon. I will also identify two strategies that could be implemented to address the barriers of obtaining a work visa and learning English as a second language. In addition to explaining how the two strategies would…

Introduction One of the many ways by which the federal government of the United States offers transparency to taxpayers is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Established in 1967, this Act was designed to “keep citizens in the know about their government.” (United States Department of Justice, “What is FOIA?”, n.d.) Sadly, many American citizens are unaware that they can request any information from a federal agency as long as such disclosure does not fall under the nine exempted…

Since the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had never experienced such a dreadful attack. However, on September 11, 2001, America once again woke up to discover that they were being under attack. This assault towards the United States marked the single greatest loss it had ever faced. Not only was the nation violated, but it created an enormous insecurity and fear. It was a day that impacted and changed the lives of all Americans, one way or another. Leaving many devastated by…

Information-Sharing. There were many trajectories to the law after the attack of September 11th 2001. We shifted our attention on security and protection of the United State, but above all we shifted attention in preventing Al-Qaeda from creating any such attack against the U.S. in so doing IRTPA was created to improve the Justice department, the FBI and CIA ability to combat international terrorism in many aspects. It was also created to combat home grown terrorism as well, the change to the…

to provide housing to the City’s low income and vulnerable residents, namely the poor, seniors, and disabled. It was a holistic federal housing policy spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide funding for urban public housing development across the United States (Glaeser p. 39). NYCHA has over 177,657 apartments in 328 developments throughout the five boroughs of the City. About 175,817 families are resident in the units, where…

It not just the people of Mexico or Cuba that travel great distant to be in America. There are people from the Caribbean islands to African and so forth. Every human in the United States should be consider as an immigrant because our ancestors wasn’t established in United States; unless you are naïve Americans. The United States is a nation of immigrants but the issue can sometime be focus…

September 11th 2001, posed as another date marked in America’s history that will never be forgotten by citizens of the United States, as well as stories left to be told from generation to generation that missed the tragic event. It all happened at eight forty-five a.m., when a hijacked American Airlines commercial plane crashed into the North tower of the World Trade center. About a hour later a second hijacked plane did the same to the South tower. America would change drastically after this…

Introduction According to the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime, human trafficking is now the second largest form of transnational crime, just under the trafficking of drugs (Shelley, p. 7). Formally, human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of humans through force, fraud, or coercion. People are commonly trafficked for the purpose of sex, labor, or even organs. And unlike drugs, humans are a commodity that can be sold and resold,…

Josh Rozdolsky Saleh The Patriot Act United States History What would everyday life look like when the government can look through everyone's private information? The Patriot Act violates Civil Liberties and is Unconstitutional by restricting the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights of Americans. The Patriot Act violates freedom of religion and speech. It violates our right to search and seizure without proper warrants or…

you have equal opportunities as other citizens in the United States? Women, blacks and people who face adversity do not get equal opportunities. Equal opportunities are not…