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    Title VII pertains to employers with fifteen or more employees, including state and local governments. It additionally pertains to employment organizations and to labor establishments, as well as to the federal government. (The American Association of University Women, 2016) Specifically, the 1964 Civil Rights Act is one of most significant portion of legislation that affects practically all employers in the United States. Originally produced to guarantee the integration…

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    Dzhokhar who was injured from the earlier gun battle, abandons the SUV and fled on foot . Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and the state police made the decision to report the shutdown of Boston, nearby schools, public transportation and business and advised people to stay inside their homes, as police conducted…

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    most people are tricked into becoming slaves – with false promises of money, new jobs, education and better lives. These promises are broken, trapping victims of human trafficking. Recognizing the magnitude of the problem, in December 2000, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime was signed into law, making human trafficking a criminal…

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    how the United States could have possibly prevented all of the terrorist attacks if they had efficient airport security protocols. After the attack people were trying to find ways to improve security to prevent another in-flight terrorist attack. All the aspects of airport security back in 2001 were extremely ineffective and could easily be taken advantage of again. By creating a department of Homeland security and spending billions of dollars on the highest quality of equipment, the United…

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    September 11, 2001 is the day known by many as the nation’s largest terrorist attack since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Unfortunately, many people, particularly younger millennials, across the nation don’t really know most of the details of what happened on that tragic day. Many of those same people also don’t know how much the attacks have impacted several important aspects of our nation’s federal government. Specifically, over the past decade and a half, the aftermath of the September…

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    Post, P. A.41. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from ProQuest Newsstand. (Document ID: 58154502). Peart, K. N. (1996). English spoken here. Scholastic Update, 129(6), 7. Schildkraut, D. J., Official-English and the States: Influences on Declaring English the Official Language in the United States, Political Research Quarterly , Vol. 54, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 445-457 Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/449166 Schlafly, P.. (2008, July). Obama Rejects English Language Assimilation.…

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    the Russian government was prepared to forsake its Alaskan colonies and offered to sell everything to the United States. At the time, the U.S. Civil War prevented such a sale from becoming a reality. The Americans Many of Russia's Alaskan possessions were abandoned by late 1866 and, after the Civil War was over, Secretary of State William Seward saw an opportunity for the United States. He quickly rekindled the Russian's offer to sell…

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    Asian American population and its characteristics According to the Census Bureau, the Asian group in the United States counts 15.7 million Asian Americans in 2013 and represents about five percent of the total U.S. population. Asian Americans live mostly in large cities in states of California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Hawaii and New Jersey. Asian American community is fast growing. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) it is expected to comprise over 10% of the…

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    These proposed changes would affect all segments of the active duty military, their reserve components, anyexisting and future weapons systems, the civilian DOD workforce andall logistic and administration components of the Department of Defense. The next set of changes would be on the level of second order change, would transform the organization and basically alter the nature of the organization. With second order change, the need for major organizational change found eight commonly…

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    The events of September 11th, 2001 changed the duties and beliefs of the national government forever. After the largest breach on national security of the 21st century, the national government responded strongly and swiftly. Under President Bush, the Patriot Act was easily passed through both houses of Congress, and has since then been reauthorized multiple other times (NSA Surveillance). The powers and responsibilities of the National Security Agency were also drastically altered to fit the…

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