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about “should California secedes from the US and become its own country,” people should understand what an independent country is. The United Nations (UN) has five requests for an independent country – to demonstrate political independence, diplomatic capacity, territorial integrity, legislation and justice, and population. Even so, it is not easy for a city or state to become a country. Fortunately, there are many examples in history. The examples shows that moving from a semi-autonomous region…

are astounding: One in every three black men will be incarcerated at some point in their life (Mauer, 79). And one out of every 18 black women will also be incarcerated in their lifetime (Mauer, 79). These are higher than any other race in the United States. This is not from a…

Post-industrial nations, such as the United States, have slowly moved in the direction of a plutocracy, a government controlled by the wealthy. The financial disparity between the majority of the population and the top one percent has grown exponentially since the 1980’s. The top 1 percent control over 40 percent of the wealth in the United States, the top 0.1 percent control 20 percent, and the top 0.01 percent control 10 percent. This is compared to the bottom 80 percent which controls at most…

Annotated Bibliography Carter, R. G. (2005). Contemporary Cases in US Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade. Retrieved from books24x7: http://skillport.books24x7.com/toc.aspx?bkid=18260 Implementing changes in the federal government can be cumbersome. Historic changes to foreign policy develops after the attacks of September 11, 2011. Foreign policy makers, after the attacks, are not only directed by the presidential or top White House administrative officials, it would now involve others…

September 11, 2001 and in its immediate aftermath, was probably the last time that the people in the United States were unconcerned about social inequality. The terrorist acts that occurred on that day brought the nation together against a perceived common enemy. However, in the few years following that short lived period of solidarity, the nation went into a tailspin, beginning with the Great Recession of 2008 and climaxing in the current period of social unrest, the underpinnings of which…

The 2011 anti-bullying policy, the Matt Epling Safe School Law, required that every school district develop a policy to address bullying within the school. The law states that schools must ensure bullying is prohibited and have safeguards in place to protect against false reports, as well as the person doing the reporting. The policy must also have appropriate people identified to implement and monitor the procedures, as well as investigate and report (Matt Epling Safe School Law, 2011/2014).…

Comparison of the Government Information Release Systems in the United States and China A. Introduction Due to globalization and an increase in peoples’ demands, many countries have established government information release systems (hereinafter GIRS), which require that governments open their files and information to the public actively or passively. Government information release systems are important systems to protect peoples’ rights, to promote business, to prevent corruption and to…

Though often celebrated as the epitome for freedom and equality, the United States is hiding a dirty secret. Surprisingly, it is not so much of a secret but the product of blindness and denial. The statistics reported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People begs the question, how is it that the leader of the free world has five percent of the world’s population but twenty-five percent of its total prisoners? How are citizens considered equal when African Americans and…

When Australia passed a parental leave law in 2010, it left the United States as the only leading nation not to offer paid leave for mothers of newborns. A majority of the rest of the world has paid maternity leave policies. Swaziland and Papua New Guinea are the only other countries that do not. Many other countries give new fathers paid time off or allow parents to share paid leave. My discussion of paid family medical leave, focusing on maternity leave, is in fact addressing the larger matter…

Background The federal government’s role in regulation is to protect consumers and the market. There is an ongoing debate on whether the federal government should regulate the insurance industry due to the bailouts stemming from the financial crisis of 2008. Currently, state governments regulate the insurance industry. Proponents of federal regulation argue that states are inefficient in the duty of insurance regulation. Additionally, the federal government has economies of scale and may offer…