Politics Course Works Samples For Students

The presidency of Barack Obama has a lot of controversial topics to discuss and to review. First of all, everybody knows that Obama’s ambitious intention to change the country with the new reforms was widely spread. The United States of America were expecting for a brand new historical page. Many voters believed in the promises that have been made to them. However a lot of politicians do that, but in the end not even the half of promised is implemented. After six years of state leadership some results are obvious. In fact two more years left and practically nothing improves the ...

Balko (par 1) assets that the three- day summit on obesity intends to find a lasting solution on the issue of obesity. This summit has members from the media, nutrition activists, policy makers, and state officials presiding over the event. The federal government considers the installation of sidewalks to enable students to walk to and from school to exercise their bodies. The government has also banned the sale of high calorie food within the school institutions. Balko (par 1) advocates for high tax on the snacks to stop their production. Congress is of the opinion of setting legislation that will ...

Response

Very few Colonies were present in the Middle East during the twentieth century. This comprises of the British, French and the Italian. Colonial’s state comprised of patterns and regulatory mechanisms that dictated what happened in the political landscape as well as providing the ways of exercising power in countries that were dominated by the Europeans. In the Middle East, the setting up of the modern state features was the sole responsibility of the major colonial authority. Administrative logic most often was used to subdivide areas of control, for instance Jerusalem.
On the completion of a territorial state, mechanisms ...

What the popular culture eats in this century depends on the ethnic groups in the nation. Each group has its own food habits and culturally based foods. Conversely, the mainstream culture affects cultural perspectives on food since it offers a wide variety of foods such as cuisines and pizzas. This paper focuses on three different articles representing their views on food in America. This paper argues that the American diet has the combination of many cultures in this decade.

Mary Eberstadt argues that people have trouble of mentioning food without by passing mention of sex. The human mind perceives ...

1) Introduction

The Katrina Hurricane disaster is an experience for which it seemed that the United States government was ill prepared. According to analysts, New Orleans was never equipped with any disaster preparedness strategies to combat a hurricane much more one of the Katrina magnitude. This was a known irregularity, but public health and government officials took no time to address these issues. For example, it was further reported that the infrastructure on which New Orleans was built ...

The OH&S Policy of Riverside Electric is specifically designed to orient various stakeholders of the organization on the crucial standards and procedures that provide specific guidelines to prevent falls in the work setting; particularly focusing on general falls (walks and walking surface) and the use of the ladder and scaffolding . The organization is committed to ensure that the workplace abides by the standards posed by OSHA in terms of safety and avoiding injuries through falls.

- Appropriateness:

The policy is designed in a straightforward structure using comprehensible language that would be clearly understood by employees from different demographic ...

Introduction

The USA patriot act came into law in 2001 and was created as a result of the September 11 terrorists attacks. The Patriot act empowers security agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use appropriate tools to track and prevent terrorists from committing terrorist activities (Torr, 2006). The law empowers investigators to search personal information of U.S citizens or detain foreigners who are considered a threat to national security. Some critics of the law argue that, the law infringes on people’s privacy or individual civil liberties but, the law ensures that the security of U.S citizens and their ...

Insider action research faces several challenges associated with the political dynamics of the researcher being a member of the system/community/organization he is researching. The political dynamics, if not well managed, have the potential to undermine the research endeavors and impede the planned change (Coghlan, 2007). The main challenge is the challenge of the validity of the data because the inside researcher is suspected to be biased, emotionally attached to the system/organization under study and thus what constitutes valid data is intensely contested and politicized. Other challenges include gaining access to data, using data, publishing and disseminating the results. In addition, ...

The article, “Protests in Russia against Putin’s Actions in Ukraine a Shift in Attitudes” explains how demonstrators in the country argue the case for Ukrainian citizens. President Putin military forces have been leading a battalion that threatens the sovereignty of Ukraine.

The concept in this article illustrates is sovereignty that depicts the ability of a regime having an independent authority over a certain territory. A sovereign state must work for the betterment of the citizens (O’Neil, p.28).
The article depicts sovereignty since the protestors speak on behalf of the Ukrainians and urge President Vladimir Putin as well as the ...

- Considering the demand of the citizens, America has toughened its stand on the criminals and put them into prisons. However, this step has caused a different problem. The American prisons are overcrowded and the government faces the ire of judiciary as well as several human rights organization that demand a human treatment for the prisoners. An easy option before the American government is to privatize the prisons to provide the prisoners a comfortable life. The american government is exploring every option to look into the probaility of privatizing the prisons.

Privatization of prisons does not mean that the government is ...

Abstract

The 1956 US Presidential election in was a similar contest to the former contest in the year 1952 and pitted Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat’s Adlai Stevenson. Republican’s Dwight Eisenhower beat Stevenson in a similar manner to the year 1952. This happened despite the intense speculation in the winter of the previous year the incumbent Dwight Eisenhower would not run owing to his failing health. His failing health emerged as a campaign issue in the electioneering period and was used by the opponents to fight him. The year 1956 was also the year that television commercials were used a great deal ...

The agreement between The Federal Reserve and US treasury during the year 19951, that re-asserted the independence of The Federal Reserve and made it free from any sort of treasury intervention is known as ‘Accord’. The Accord was a resolution to the major conflict between the Treasury and the Fed over World War II financing.

After he United States entered the Word War II in December, 1941, during 1942, on the suggestion of the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve committed on maintaining a low interest rate peg of 3/8 percent on the short term treasury bills. The objective of this ...

Carbon monoxide poisoning is a potentially fatal condition that results from a person inhaling, or absorbing through other means carbon monoxide gas. Because carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, gas that forms from the incomplete combustion of carbon, it is difficult to detect, so people should be aware of the signs of poisoning to prevent at worst death. Many modern day appliances emit carbon monoxide as a result of their operation, and so carbon monoxide poisoning is an environmental health issue which could potential affect almost anyone living in the modern, urban world. The United States Government’s site for The Center For ...

A reflection on the United States elections held in the years 2004, 2008, and 2012 depicts a wider array of resemblances and differences. The differences are mainly related to the campaign issues that were dwelled on during these elections. To be precise, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the main notable concerns in the 2004 and 2008 campaigns. In the year 2004, the incumbent president; Bush ran a smear campaign against his main contender; Kerry. Nonetheless, Kerry’s campaign was a pro Afghanistan and Iraq war campaign; hence, he was seen as a war hero. This is because a significant proportion of Americans ...

International and Domestic Terrorism
International terrorism usually involves violent actions, which are dangerous and harmful to human life, thereby, violation of the criminal laws as well as they occur mainly outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S. On the other hand, domestic terrorism basically refers the violence that usually involve groups or individuals terrorists whose activities are directed towards the government’s people or population, however, without any foreign participation (United States, 1978). These acts entail planning, obtaining materials as well as other activities, which are directly or indirectly linked to the terrorism (Netanyahu, 1997).

It ...

Accounting Practices in third world countries

The developing or less developed countries are referred to third world countries that have great diversity among them. In this category, some poorest countries of the world (Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Grenada) and some are not-so-poor countries (Qata, Saudi Arabia) are included (Guan and Pourjalali, 2010). For industrialization, some are very poorly industrialized while others have moved to industrialization. So, the culture and political environment of these countries are different to each other that influence the accounting practices of these countries and affect the accounting of companies or branch operations which are US based.

Financial accounting in third world ...

- The Red Scare which occurred after the end of WW II was caused by many factors including the Soviet Communists acquiring nuclear weapons through stealing US bomb secrets via spies, the cold war with the Communism, some American and British Communist spies working with soviets being discovered, and an invasion of South Korea by Communist. Moreover, American politicians used these issues to instill fear and witch hunt so as to increase their positions or power. Some of the major results of the Red Scare were expatriation or deportation of foreigners and barring the socialists from office.

McCarthy was ...

Why do total leakages and total injections have to be equal?

Injections and leakages have to be equal because the total amount of money/income that is coming into a sector of the economy must be equal to the amount that leaves that sector so that a state of equilibrium can be achieved for the economy to function properly (Baumol & Blinder, 2008, p.125).

Discuss the limitations of national income accounting

The major limitation of national income accounting is that there are various economic activities that are not included in the national income accounting. These activities includes income from prostitution and black market. In addition, another limitation is that it ignores quality of life by focusing on how much money is ...

What is fiat money? Why is fiat money important in the United States today?

Fiat money is a kind of money that has no intrinsic value. It has value of exchange but no value in use. It is used as money because the government decreed it as valid money and the public willingly accept it in exchange of goods. Normally, fiat money bears “legal tender” feature and includes modern paper currency, coins and checkable deposits.

This kind of currency is very important in today’s modern economies like the United States primarily because it is widely used as ...

The lecture on system boundaries was presented by Director Kunz Bill to members of the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Department at the University of Washington, Tacoma. The seminar took place on 19 April 2013 at 2.30 pm in Carwein Auditorium in Keystone Building at the university. Although it was much open to everybody to attend, it was more specific to members of third year class who needed to experience more extracurricular intellectual discourses by exposing themselves to current researches in social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The director began by making it clear that they are boundaries that define scopes of ...

Introduction

Leadership is a very diverse and risky social aspect that requires application of emotional intelligence for every leader to enhance social and economic justice. Emotional intelligence involves an individual’s understanding of oneself as well as recognizing the interests of others. However, the situation is usually difficult since it is not possible to attain Pareto efficiency in every decision that a leader makes. As result ethical dilemma arises among the leaders, citizens and the rule of Law. Ethics refers to the generally acceptable code of conduct that commits the leaders of all aspects to respect the rule of law and civil ...

Electrical machines are found in many places. This paper describes how a computer, an electronic iron, a mobile phone, and a fridge are structured, and work.

Computer structures include; the basic input output system (BIOS), Central processing unit (CPU), Random Access memory (RAM) - temporary storage, the hard disk (permanent storage), communication channel ( cables/wireless), Bus(high speed internal communication), and other ad-on devices. The BIOS stores all the parameters to be input as turn on or turn off devices, flash disks, USB, printers, keyboard, sound cards etc. these parameters are found in the flash memory. The CPU is the processing part ...

Politics is one of the factors that affect all aspects of life. It is worth noting that politics plays tremendous roles in correctional policy. There is a link between politics and correctional policy in the country. In relational to political activities, the correctional administration faces a lot of challenges. In most cases, politics is a crucial aspect in the entire criminal justice system. The correctional policy forms the basis of the entire correctional system, and the politics play a crucial role.

Politics plays a crucial role in correctional policy in the sense that the politicians make laws, annul laws and change laws. This ...

There are different external factors which influence competitiveness of a business. The business has direct control over the internal factors, and cannot control such external factors. Such external factors include political environment, technological environment, international environment and socio-cultural environment which are beyond a firm’s control. Business environment are constantly changing and carries with them uncertainties, risks and opportunities which businesses need to adopt. Success of a business enterprise may depend on the adaptability and alertness of a business to change in the environment.

PEST Analysis for Starbucks

PEST is a reference to a tool used in analyzing the business environment, which refers to Political, Economic, Social and Technological ...

JavaScript Placement

JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets are two similar when they are added to a Website. Although, javascript is a light scripting language and CSS is a styling script, both can be added at the header section of the HTML file that you are working. Javascript codes can be added in an HTML document in four ways. First, javascript can be added in the head section using the script tag. Second, scripts can also be added inside the body section using the same script tags, or they can be placed in both head or body tags where the one placed in the body ...

For any business, entering new markets comes with its fair share of regulation. This could be political, social and economic. Political analysis, however, passes as the most important thing to analyse before entering new territories. According to Luthans and Doh (2012), there are three main techniques that can be used to analyse political risk.

Firstly, there is the relative bargaining power analysis. Here, the company making an entry into the said country should strive to ensure that its bargaining power position is better that that of the country. This essentially provides the company with an upper hand in ...

The conversation on NPR’s show “All Things Considered” was an interview with Susan Johnson, Embassy President of the American Foreign Service Association conducted by NPR editor Tanya Ballard Brown. Johnson discussed the Design Excellence Program. This program uses government-managed architects and engineers to advise on the design aspects of buildings and workspaces for the federal government. The purpose of the Design Excellence Program is to streamline the design of new buildings and give advice to architects and engineers. Only the federal government could come up with a plan to streamline a process by creating another federal funded agency. The issue ...

Culture has had an influence in the emergence of deities as explained by the author. The social and political stratifications of a particular culture and the hierarchy therein, that determines the powers held leads to the emergence of deities. The power is held to benefit those who approach the divinities for help. Those who are inclined toward monotheism have a culture of a single male divinity while those who are inclined toward polytheism have cultures with many divinities. This is true considering the distribution of the religious affiliations of the western and the eastern parts of the world including the Middles East.

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Strategic planning denotes the process through which managers assess the company’s future prospects and make a decision on suitable strategies for attaining long-term goals (Heizer & Render, 2014). This paper discusses three approaches to devising and implementing strategy namely economic imperative, political imperative, and quality imperative. Moreover, selects an imperative that can best function for Apple Inc.

Economic imperative is a global strategy based on differentiation, cost leadership, as well as segmentation. On contrary, political imperative denotes strategic formulation as well as implementation using strategies, which are nation-responsive and developed to protect or promote local market niches.

On the other ...

Post-Watergate Public opinion

The Watergate scandals lasted between 1972 and 1974. The scandals included harassing and bugging offices of political opponents, and other illegal activities by people within President Nixon’s administration. President Nixon’s administration attempted to cover-up the scandals and tried to interfere with the FBI investigations about government’s involvement in the scandals. Nixon resigned in 1974 when his involvement in the cover-up of the scandals within his administration became apparent (Bernstein, 2005).
Following the Watergate scandal, the American public henceforth became skeptical regarding the federal government. Consequently, an assertive congress campaign finance reform legislation and began to ...

The rapid technological change, shifting priorities and the need to have equal societies have led to sectorial and process reforms. Processes like voting are becoming simpler and simple day by day. Previous methods of carrying out things are being done away with and people are constantly embracing modern technologies. However, on given occasions, the use of these technologies might be against what the constitution demands. Crazytown city in Texas has proposed two radical reforms which are aimed at improving the processes of its council elections. The first reform, which is the accepting of votes to be cast via smart ...

A developed country is known by the growth and the level of its economy. Economy of the United States is the world's largest single national economy. The United States' nominal GDP was estimated to be $17.1 trillion in December 2013. Budget deficit affects the taxpayers to a great extent this is because government spending exceeds all the revenue. This forces United States government to increase taxes on the taxpayers. The deficit affects taxpayers forcing them to dig deep into their pockets to increase government revenue. This will, therefore, enable the government plan for its appropriated financial activities. The government will ...

The tides of reform have always been so significant and even useful in the past and also the future. These reforms have been taking place ever since the almost six decades ago. The main aim of such reforms is basically focus on four aspects which are found in the constitution. The first aspect is to concentrate all powers to the president; the second aspect is to prepare the government with the future wars by making sure that there are enough resources as well as cutting off the unnecessary expenditures. The third aspect is to put much focus on the ...

Whether Mighty-Mart and Anne-Marie Bedford are Responsible for the Prevailing Working Conditions at Yellow Dragon Enterprises

Mighty Mart and Bedford are indeed responsible for the prevailing working conditions at Yellow Dragon Enterprises since they are parties to the contract manufacturing arrangement. Thus, they needed to exercise due diligence and acquire all the information relating to the production process. However, they both acted negligently and thus did not act despite the worker’s continuous accusations of unfair labour practices. Inasmuch as Mighty-Mart did not support the violation of fundamental workplace rights, it not did act on the negative report that was submitted by the auditors. In business, information is paramount hence it is imprudent for Anne-Marie ...

- In March 1766, Declaratory Act was passed by the British Parliament to affirm the Parliament’s right to pass laws in their colonies “in all cases whatsoever”. This news of repealing gave colonists confidence that British government respected and understood their situation regarding taxes. Few appreciated and recognized the claim of Parliament in passing laws “in all cases whatsoever” through the Declaratory Act.
- Colonists wanted to be represented in the Parliament by some one of their own, whereas policies of British were determined by a sole leader. Apart from the colonial legislatures, mobs in many cities demonstrated ...

Interviewer # 1: Jon Stewart Interviewee # 1:Barack Obama

Interview link (URL) or date & network (if watched live) which verifies the interview:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-27-2010/barack-obama-pt--1

How did the interviewer set the climate (opening/rapport) for the interview?

Using humor to position himself as a willing and open interviewer, Jon Stewart used the Presidents entrance to set the audience at ease. Opening with a self-deprecating joke allows for a non-confrontational interview. Jon Steward recognizes that the charisma of the president, this lets him look like a nice guy, even though he uses the interview to ask tough questions.

What types of body language did the interviewer use?

Jon Stewart employs subtle, yet straightforward uses of the hands while speaking. Using a thumb rather than a finger avoids any confrontation, is a great way of making a point but not ...

A city Housing Authority operates city owned rental property. The Housing Authority issued the following regulation:” ‘Family' means a number of individuals related to the nominal head of the household or to the spouse of the nominal head of the household living as a single housekeeping unit in a single dwelling unit, but limited to the following: (a) Husband or wife of the nominal head of the household. (b) Unmarried children of the nominal head of the household or of the spouse of the nominal head of the household, provided, however, that such unmarried children have no children residing with them. (c) Father or ...

Data and information plays a significant role in the manner that any country is run. When citizens of a country have enough information, they are able to make informed decisions as opposed to working with information that is imposed towards them by the government. In Saudi Arabia, the government censors lots of information that could trickle down to the majority of the citizens. The authority that is responsible for the censoring of the information is the Saudi communications commission. The information that is censored is regulated by the decisions made by the council of ministers. One of the main reason that ...

“Internal goods’ and “External good,” defined in a specific action and a social context by Alasdair MacIntyre. According to MacIntyre, “the tradition of the virtues is at variance with central features of the modern economic order.” For a person to cultivate the virtues successfully, he must be engaged in a type of cooperative activity recognized in virtue ethics as a practice. MacIntyre defined practice as any logical and composite form of socially established human activity cooperative; internal goods are realized in the course to achieve the standards of excellence appropriate to the form of activity and definitive to ...

Section 1983 is a valuable tool to prove right the constitutional rights in the land. This is based on the fact that it is constructed to promote its main remedial purposes. The civil rights lawsuit is very important in the perspective that it is one of the crucial methods that hold people acting in a governmental capacity or the government accountable for their actions in the court of law.

One of the advantages of section 1983 of Title 42 of the U.S Code is that it eliminates favoritism and discrimination regardless of the position held. If the government or government ...

The connectivity and technological advancement in media industry facilitate a faster transmission of the news, updating people on the happenings all over the world. The problem with media today is being bias within their reporting. The level of their engineered consent varies from one media network to the other leaving the audience to decide the broadcasting network of their choice the media tend to be most unfair while reporting news on issues that require society approval, like politics.

An example of the recent media bias, is when the armed men allegedly from Russian military forces entered the Crimea region ...

The state of the union address takes place every year in the United States. On this occasion, the president states in the nation the strides the country has made with respect to the development agenda. The president also outlines the legislative agenda to be pursued in the near future. President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech was delivered January 28, 2014 in a joint sitting by the congress (Obama, 1).

In the state of the union speech, president Obama started by acknowledging different groups which included; the teachers, farmers and the technicians. This only showed that the president ...

Akpabio, E., and Akpan, N., 2010. Governance and oil politics in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: The question of distributive equity. Journal of Human Ecology, 30(2), pp.111-121.
Frynas, J., 2000. Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and litigation between oil companies and village communities. Germany: Lit Verlag Munster.
Omeje, K., 2005. Oil conflict in Nigeria: Contending issues and perspectives of the local Niger Delta people. New Political Economy, 10(3), pp.321-334.

The Nigerian political economy is seriously damaged by the rift between international oil companies with large-scale operations in the Niger ...

Explain how the people’s republic of china has managed to control the spread of terrorism within their borders. Has the Chinese government attempted to control religious groups? Have they been successful? Why or why not? Use at least one internet source in addition to the text to answer this question.

The people’s republic of china has been facing terrorism for many decades. The largest threat is the internal terrorism. The internal terrorism is mainly attacking the minorities in the country. The latest killing of Chinese people in the city of Kunming have taken many innocent lives. ...

Impact of recent changes in India, Japan, and other Asian countries on your own life

India, Japan, China and other Asian countries have emerged to be economic power houses over the past few decades. Economists attribute this paradigm shift to accelerated integration to the international economy that happened in 1979- 2002. Foreign direct investment (FDI) increased during this period to over US$50 billion in china alone.

India’s independence led to a steady growth in economy and per capita income due to a modern economy. However, this growth was not optimal due to adoption of “License Raj”. This meant that you needed the license in order to do virtually anything. For instance you could ...

Summary and perspectives:

Chapter 13 discusses topics that are considered supplementary to the coverage of other topics discussed prior. These include topics such as Limit Pricing to prevent entry, Predatory Pricing to lessen competition, Raising Rivals’ Cost to lessen competition, Price discrimination a strategic tool and many others. Apart from being supplementary topics, the topics aim at giving practical adjustments to market failure at points that the others have failed. However, these advanced topics are faced with limitations that can only be achieved in mature markets.

For instance, limit pricing cannot be perfect to a point of eliminating incomplete ...

A truly free market is controlled by supply and demand and lacks regulation. As such, the government should not interfere with failing businesses because the market has the ability to naturally correct itself by ridding itself of poorly performing businesses. Despite the fact that the American founders dedicated most of their efforts to ensure that America was a free market, this has not been the case for a long time now. Researchers today argue that the American economic system today is rigged by capitalism activities. The American government has long lost faith in the free market and has repeatedly artificially corrected ...

Globalization brings about the needs of global companies to operate more efficiently with the aim to gain competitive advantages and to face the contemporary issues and challenges in the contemporary world. A critical factor in optimizing organizational efficient operations of these companies is the IHRM (Guest et al., 2000a; Guest et al., 2000b). The HRM operations helps in developing and motivating the workforce of the companies to improve skills, knowledge, and the modernization required for the companies to vie with ...

Question 1

The constitution gives Congress a broad array of legislative powers. I consider the following to be the main power and privileges given to congress in the constitution.
- The congress has power to collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and offer common defense to the people (Dye, 2011).
- Congress is responsible for regulating the commerce within foreign nations.
- The congress has the power to declare war and offer and maintain the navy.
- Similarly, the congress has the power to create government rules and regulate land forces.

I consider these ...

Introduction

The graph above shows the astounding growth of the Chinese and Russian economies in the last 30 years. The graph shows the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of both countries from 1990 to 2012 and it clearly shows that the Chinese economy has over paced Russia. In fact, the online web resource “The Guardian” reported that China‘s GDP slowed down at a rate of 7.6 percent in 2012 . This “slowdown” is ...

Executive Summary

Charity Alliance is a non-governmental organization that deals with assisting families that are homeless in Boston, United States. This organization has been in operation for ten years, and has helped many families to get housing facilities. To a greater extent, the organization has also provided the basic needs of the respective families as a measure to caution the assisted groups. There are various opportunities for the organization to expand its mandate to other states in America. Many states have a challenge of dealing with the homelessness. Through an expanded mandate, the organization would be able to assist many families who ...

Ever since the beginning of the new millenium, more and more attention began to be paid to the concept of universal human rights and to the need for global morality, considered to have a positive impact on global politics and to improve the life of people across the globe. While these universal human rights have yet to be enforced, the very idea of their existence gains ground among people all around the world, no matter their cultural background or religious appurtenance. While some of the rights mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...

Current macroeconomic situation in the U.S

Macroeconomic factors define those economic factors that affect the economy at a larger scale. As per previous research analysis it’s been established that the U.S economy faces an economic downturn every four to six years (US Economic Outlook). As per the article ‘US Economic Outlook for 2014’, the current bull market is presently driving in its fourth year. Despite the fact that the markets are flourishing in this economic year, an average American is not. The major economic cavity of unemployment that poses a huge dilemma to every American still remains persistently high along with the household debt. Moreover the ...

The United States, being a world power, has interests across the globe. These interests, along with the interests of their allies, put the U.S. in the position of safeguarding their concerns both far and near. These global interests include business partnerships and maintaining U.S. military presence in territories that require U.S. support. In effect, the U.S. has informally become the “policemen” of the world, adapting its foreign policy in order to protect those interests in the name of peace and democracy.

In the ...

Introduction

America during the Civil War cannot be compared of what the society is enjoying today in terms of industrialization and equal rights. After the chaos during the World Wars and the Great Depression, America undergone a period called the Reconstruction. It was during 1865 to 1876 when the country tried very hard to unite the South, and the Civil Rights movement was getting stronger as the freed slaves found themselves in uncertainty. It can be considered one of the most difficult times in the history of America where it tried to reorganize and heal itself from the chaos ...

Transnational Social Movement Organizations (TSMO) is a generic, umbrella term referring to civil society entities and networks espousing socioeconomic, cultural or political issues with a global viewpoint and with a strong equity imperative. The TSMOs typically work in consort with like-minded organizations, leverage support from multiple constituencies, address complex issues, and their support base usually transcends national boundaries. Operating at multiple levels, their targets typically include national governments, multinational corporations, international agencies and regulatory forums. (Pellow 92) The birth of transnational social movements has its theoretical underpinnings in the sociological ‘conflict perspective’ that causally links the development disparities (the so-called North-South divide) within ...

A variable is a quality or a quantity that differs across various situations and people. Variable have different types of classifications like quantitative variable, categorical variable, dependent variable, and independent variables. Independent variables often known as X, is termed as the variable in a statistical relation between two variables. That is seen to be the cause of other variable. However, dependent variables (also known as Y) are variables that that is seen to be an effect. A good example is that of a statistical relationship that determines whether or not an unhappy or miserable person is in need of psychotherapy. In the example, ...

1 Introduction

Nigeria poses a set of unique business and cultural challenges to international organizations functioning in the country. Shell Oil Development Company Ltd. is one such global organization. This paper seeks to evaluate the business environment in Nigeria and the strategy followed by Shell to adapt to it.

2 Business environment in Nigeria

Nigeria is one of the most populated countries in the African subcontinent. The country has a vast wealth of natural resources, especially oil, which accounts for the numerous international businesses ...

- Neo mercantilism;

This is a policy that regulates trade by achieving a balance of export over imports. It aims at encouraging exports, discouraging importing and also by controlling the capital movement thus promoting industrial growth. It also helped to increase the level of foreign reserves held by the government.

- Collaborator;

This comes from the word collaboration which means working together for a common goal. A collaborator is an associate in an activity or sphere of common interest. Collaboration in a work related increases the potential for high performance.

- Treaty of Gori;

This treaty was made ...

Public trust always plays a major role in ensuring government transparency. The public have mixed opinions on the issue of political trust over the years – some are supportive, but some are cynics. Public cynicism creates a synergy in the realm of politics. Thus, there is a need for maintaining social capital to ensure positive general public opinion. More importantly, quantitative analysis specifically explains the issues of mistrust in their respective government using statistical research methods.
The quantitative study by Donovan, Denemark, and Hoover (2004) addresses how Americans and its foreign counterparts trust their respective governments. In researching the topic, they approached ...