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considered the single most significant piece of legislation that the United States government put in place to prevent another financial meltdown as the one we had in 2008. The Dodd Frank Act (Fully known as the Dodd- Frank Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act) aims to prevent a significant financial crisis by creating new financial regulatory process that enforces transparency – financial security. Com. In the wake of the financial crisis, congress came with found resolutions to prevent…

Discussion and Implications for Practice The purpose of this study is to understand whether state-sanctioned caretaker relationships endure among adolescents who exit foster care through adoption, subsidized guardianship, or long-term relative foster care. From the perspectives of young adults who experience these diverse foster care exits, it explored the complexity involved in the translation of legal permanence to relational permanence, with the aim of producing a theoretically grounded…

Just as children are placed in foster care to better their futures, there should be a placement for those who are transitioning out of the system. A lot of times, foster children are left to fend for themselves once they turn 18. A lot of foster parents only carry out the minimum requirements given from the state. After the age of 18, foster parents are no longer legally reliable for the children they take in. Fallacious notions have been made regarding the entire population of foster care…

Explaining Deceptive Acts or Practices The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continues to use unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) as its primary enforcement tool. Over the past four years, the CFPB has used UDAAP to enforce hot button issues such as credit card add-on products, credit card advertising, debt collection, credit reporting and monitoring, auto lending, and mortgage servicing. In the coming years, credit unions should expect to see UDAAP being used…

The Georgia laws against the crime of arson are divided into three degrees of severity; first, second and third degree arson which can be found under Georgia Code Title 16, Sections 16-7-60, 16-7-61 and 16-7-63. All degrees of arson in the state of Georgia are prosecuted as felonies. Although the penalties for each degree are slightly different as well as their definitions, they have all been expanded through the years to cover the burning of any type of property. i.e. personal property,…

If there were one thing that you could change about the fire service, what would it be? Why is that important? (This could be something philosophical, structural, technical, or futuristic.) Preserving the history of the fire service would be the one thing I would like to see better remembered by firefighters in the fire service. Many of our personnel come to the fire service looking for employment and nothing more. The fire service is considerable more than a nine to five, five days a week…

The Fire Fighter I choose to interview for my term project is Andrew Huizinga I picked him because I work at Fitness 19 and we’ve talked about me becoming a fire fighter and he has given me a lot of advice on what to do. Andrew was in the coast guard for 4 years then he went to school for engineering at Cal Poly. The first set of questions I asked Andrew were about the fire academy and why he wanted to become a fire fighter. The first question I asked Andrew was when and why did he decided to…

The current legislation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act consists of multi-layered regulations for financial stability of institutions, consumer protection, oversight protocols, and liquidation authorities (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2017). Embedded in this lengthy reform act are conditions for transfers of power and amendment rights that basically give the authorized entities the empowerment to shape certain attributes of the financial system if it…

The FTC announced its new guideline for the Trade Commission for company product that is being blogged. However, the FTC has not had a new guideline for company trade since 1980. Consequently, in 2009 the FTC guideline is for endorsement and testimonials in advertising, for company’s product online. The FTC concerns are with the affairs of company trend on social media site and setting up blogs. Therefore, blogger that on social media, must comply with the FTC guideline, by disclosing all…

Determination of the Number of M&M in a Bag and Determination of the Density of Chocolate Yuan Lin, Brian Wladkowski, and Maya Zayats Data Collected: September 2, 2014 2:50pm Purpose: The purpose of this research is to try and answer two important questions regarding M&M candies. Namely, to determine the number of M&Ms in a snack sized bag without opening it, and secondly to determine the density of M&M chocolate. Methods: There where several methods used to try and determine the number of…