Public Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Introduction

Public relations is a complex and hybrid field in mass communications. With the global aspect of most businesses nowadays, it has been an important aspect in terms of an organization’s public image, issue management, among others. The processes of public relations must be understood and effectively applied. In this orientation, this paper aims to discuss how a good understanding of public relations theory can help gain management recognition for the practice of public relations. In other words, this paper aims to illustrate how the principles and theories of public relations, if understood completely, can support the outstanding performance (or perceived ...

Any good is either a private or public good. A public good can be enjoyed by more than one person concurrently. Public goods are further classified as pure public goods and impure public goods. Impure public goods are goods that can be used by more than one person. The limit goes up to a point where exclusion is made possible. Impure goods are also known as club goods. In common property resources, impure goods are open for consumption to numerous people up to a point where restrictions are put and consumption restricted. The main difference between impure and pure public goods is ...

The issue of national security is a very critical and sensitive issue in the U.S., because of past terrorist attacks. The government has a duty to protect its people and hence it puts in place measures that can prevent future attacks. The NSA ”Information Assurance (AI)” is tasked with the responsibility of executing measures that prevent enemies of the U.S. from gaining access to sensitive information or classified security information (NSA). The “signals intelligence (SIGINT)” collects, analyses, processes, and dispatches foreign information signals for purposes of intelligence, counterintelligence, and support of military operations (NSA). The NSA’s is crucial because timely ...

Introduction

The public administration process of any nation determines its ability to win a contract or become a donor to a needy nation. China, for example, has a public administration system that favors most operations in Africa, which makes it win most contracts in the region. World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries, however, have developed policies that limit the amount of support that each country can offer to another nation. In addition, these policies regulate the number of investments to international markets so that each member has equal opportunity to explore to the African market (WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION, 2013). China has evaded such policies ...

Homosexual Couples’ inability to express

Their love in public
Homosexuality has been a topic of much heated debate and it still is in the world today, the controversy is still in the hearts of those who feel strong about it whether they are for it or against it. Despite the fact that same-sex marriage is legal, there are a lot of gay couples coming under fire for certain activities that they are doing or not doing and it has gotten to the point where some of those couples feel as if their very livelihood is threatened from a social perspective because people have a ...

Recognizing Public Value

Moore’s take on public value
Public Value is the ability of a state or a nation to use measurable statistics to gauge the performance or effective level of its citizens. According to (Moore 8), he believed in the philosophy of measuring the levels of educated publics, health, safety that the citizens were able to produce within given period of times. In comparison to Dendhardt and Hutchison’s theory of public value, they both believed in the managers’ relations with the civil service and the political environment of the nation. However, Hutchison tries to explain that, for instance in ...

ARTICLE CRITIQUE: BRAVE NEW NEIGHBORHOODS

Introduction
Although the idea of freedom of speech seems to be something that is fundamentally important to the fabric of the United States, many people are unaware of the extent to which these freedoms can and often are restricted in everyday life. The article, written by Margaret Kohn (2004), discusses how “private space” as a concept in American society has changed the way that freedom of speech is understood and structured within the cultural confines of the community and society as a whole (Kohn, 2004, pp. 3-4). Although Kohn (2004) writes that most Americans believe that freedom of speech ...

1. Legitimacy
a. What is legitimacy? What role does it serve in governance? Illustrate your response with examples.
In politics and governance, legitimacy is a term that is attributed to a regime, administration or institution that possesses widespread acceptability, support and trust from the public at large (Hague and Harrop 2013). It is this attribute that usually gives a political entity the right to govern and the right to exact obedience from its subjects. Legitimacy, particularly political legitimacy, is said to result from consent, beneficial consequences, and public reason and public approval. The consent theory as related to political ...

Intentions (Thinking) Over Impacts (Results): A Critical Analysis of New Deal Liberalism through the Themes of Crisis Control, Community Construction and Creating Confidence
Often when we pause to reflect on history, in remembering what occurred, we tend to focus primarily on the impact and results of initiatives which were implemented. At the same, however, we forget or are unaware of the original thinking or purpose behind those same initiatives, policies, programs, and movements, etc.

New Deal Liberalism - Roosevelt administration – represents just such a space in time.

New Deal is credited for facilitating the development of several programs. For example, social security; agriculture; industrialization; and, growth in union membership. Banking ...

Critical Thinking Paper on Public Community Health

Introduction
Many of today’s healthcare problems arise from the blurring of the distinction between public or community and personal healthcare. In this paper, a clear line will be created between the two, emphasizing their similarities and differences. In summary, personal healthcare refers to healthcare decisions that generally affect only an individual while public or community healthcare pertains to healthcare decisions that affect a wider range of population. These two also differ in terms of goals, and other determinants.
- Define Public or Community Health. How does this differ from personal health?
The ultimate goal of healthcare is ...

Action for health in the Sonagachi red-light area of Kolkata

The sex workers of the Sonagachi red-light area of Kolkata were a vulnerable and exploited group at the bottom rung of the societal ladder: they had no rights, little education, few opportunities and lived a life full of violence and with the very real risk of ill health. As well as the risk of ill health to themselves, there were also wider public health concerns – most notably of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV transmission. In this essay we shall look at how the sex workers were able to achieve a previously unheralded change and improvement in their lives ...

Health care services can be provided by public or private sectors. Health care service system in most nations is made up of both private and public health providers. Health care services can also be provided with an aim of making a profit or just for helping the community. Private hospitals and independent medical practitioners who are self-employed are examples of profit making health care providers. The objectives of private health care are different from those of public health (Besley and Gouveia, 1994). Public health care sector is a government sponsored system that provides health care services as a basic human right to ...

In our day to day life, it is easy to see individuals who have found ways to cheat the system, and claim social welfare sources that are above and beyond that which they are entitled to, or who find ways to misappropriate the funds that they are given, and we are incensed by the waste of public dollars. However, in contrast we rarely get to see the results of corporate welfare, provided through government subsidies, or how the use of those funds are abused. In reality, though public disgust of corporate subsidies is far less prominent, they cost tax ...

Q. What are the "two faces of irresponsibility."?
Irresponsibility has two faces and they are willfully inadequate work and unethical activities. Both these faces are representation of diversion of resources of public from demand and preferences fulfillment. By bending programs goals and policy direction from its targeted objectives, in addition to use of information from public organization and personal gain derived from access of key people are both sides of failure or irresponsibility.

Q. What are two weaknesses of ethics laws?

Weaknesses of Ethics Law are:
General conditions are addressed but they lack in case of specific situations. Thus, law interpretation for specific situations ...

Abstract.

A marginal youth group can be identified as a group of youth who have been identified by social workers as potential clients. Such groups exhibit some form of problem behavior or participate in some form of delinquent activities (Ngai et al, 2001). The police and private security guards are meant to provide security to the community and identify and protect the rights of these marginalized youth groups. However, the people who have the mandate to safeguard the rights of these groups are often seen as the violators of their rights. This is done by high handedness and implementation of laws ...

In the current professions, a set of rules that govern the limits of workers remains important. The rules and policies are set to give the corresponding officials and other concerned members a clear way of dealing with the people they serve. In business, health, politics and all other institutions, whether economic or not, rules are applied to the professionals to ensure that they give the concerned parties the right services. A code of ethics can, therefore, be defined as a set of rules put in place to govern the way people live and interact in a certain environment. The ...

Water sector infrastructure consisting of water and waste water systems, has an extensive history of implementing policies and programs to provide safe and clean water, therefore, protecting and improving public health and environment across the nation. Under the guidance of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), for above thirty years, drinking water and waste water services have been carrying out routines to survey ways to improve water quality testing techniques. (Sullivan, 2011). The sector’s public health, security, environmental and resilience efforts form a profound approach to make available safe drinking water, safeguard public health ...

Public opinion can best be defined as not only the desires and wants but also the way the majority of people often think. In other words, public opinion is the overall opinion people of a certain society or a state about a certain subject of interest. Human beings tend to be very opinionated about certain things as everyone feels it is only right that they are entitled to their own personal opinions whatsoever the issue or matter. This essay focuses on public opinion in healthcare particularly regarding the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act as it is commonly ...

Difference between Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branch of Government

The legislature, Executive and Judicial branches are the three main branches of the United States government. Legislative branch of the government is composed of two main houses, which are referred as the house of congress, they are: The House of Representatives and the Senate. All the parties in both the Senate as well as the House of representative are elected leaders. The most significant role played by the Legislative Branch that is, both the Senate and the House of Representatives is to formulate or make laws; these laws are discussed and voted. Moreover, the Legislative Branch is responsible for ...

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Introduction

Smoking has very deleterious effects on the human health. Smoking can cause serious lung diseases including lung cancer. A person who is involved in smoking acquires illnesses due to the harmful chemicals. These chemicals are gained inside the body where it affects the blood and other organs particularly lungs. Smoking can cause infections and cancer of lungs. Therefore, smoking can be lethal to human life. In addition to this smoking also affects the persons surrounding the smoker. Passive smoking also has harmful effects on the ...

Critical Thinking

Labour Unions came to the United States almost as last as the nineteenth century, while they were already gaining popularity in Europe as a result of the industrial revolution of the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century. There was a growing need for labour unions and spokes persons for the labour force as industrialisation set in. Labour Unions in the United States have come a long way since then and become a force to reckon with. There is however a constant debate on the advantages and disadvantages of being a Union member and employing a member of the Union from the organization’s point of view. ...

Abstract

Business ethics is a form professional ethics that addresses moral problems that arise in business environments. Ethics in business encompass avoiding breaking the law, avoiding actions that may result in legal suits being filed against the business and avoiding actions that may damage the image of the company. The scandals that rocked several American companies in early 2000, revealed rampant self-dealing, mismanagement, erroneous accounting procedures and other unethical business practices. In an attempt to restore investor confidence, congress initiated the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in 2002. This paper seeks to critically analyze the business ethics issues as contained in the SOX ...

There is a connection between developing ideas and the creation of artworks. Media also plays a role in this process because people today cannot function without the influence of media. These spheres are interconnected and interrelated because of the fact that people live in ‘global village’ as Marshall McLuhan stated. Media plays a role in improvement of ideas because of its omnipresence and it has impact on people’s minds and on the process of creation. The fact that medium is the message, as McLuhan stated, supports the viewpoint that media is the extension of man and so is ...

Civil Liberties and Social Responsibility

In 2002, as reported by The New York Times, the Bush administration approved a presidential bill giving the National Security Agency (NSA) the power to track, listen to, and intercept without a warrant the local and international communications (e.g. emails, phone calls) of a vast number of American citizens. Sooner or later, the scheme expanded to involve a certain extent of 'internal controls' (ACLU, 2015, para 2), yet there was no mention of mandating warrants specified under the foreign intelligence surveillance laws. This surveillance program has penetrated and invaded almost all of the communications technologies and networks that the ...

Chapter 1

The judicial branch stands as the third complement to the three-fold setup of the United States (US) government – the other two being the legislative and the executive branches. Anti-federalists initially saw the appointment of unelected officials in the federal judiciary as one that could pave way for massive power abuse, yet the Framers of the Constitution saw such system as fitting for instilling impartiality in court judgments. The year 1789 saw the enactment of The Judiciary Act, which provides for the basic outline of responsibilities each member of the judicial branch should commit. The power of judicial review ...

What public- and private-sector resources could be used to respond to the threat?

First of all, it is essential to be aware of the fact that the act of chemical or biological terrorism may range from the food product contamination to the aerosolized anthrax spores’ dissemination. That is why, it is almost impossible to make the forecasts regarding the time of occurrence of particular terroristic act as well as the place and method, used for this purpose. At the same time, it is obvious that the public- and private-sector should not ignore the probability of such forms of terrorism. This statement may be supported by increased rates of the frequency of such ...

Criminal Justice

Goldstein moved police work from a reactive philosophy of maintaining law and order to a proactive philosophy of supporting democratic values and enhancing public safety through a problem solving approach to crime (Panzarella & Vona, 2013, p. 245). Goldstein’s approach to problem oriented policing became the core of community policing idea in the United States.
Accountability of the police has been executed by a number of means- through politicians, elected mayors, appointed councilors, and at various times, loosely and under a modicum of close supervision. Goldstein rejects the premise of the professional school of thought that the police are ...

(a) A hierarchical structure and organization by functional specialty as enunciated by Weber’s principles of modern bureaucracy are two important facets of a government organization because they both serve as control tools in the efficient delivery of basic services to the public. Hierarchy represents the classic command-and-control relationship that is a defining feature in many organizational settings, including governments. A hierarchical structure permits those in the higher rung of the hierarchy to review the conduct of activities by those in the lower rung. It serves as a control tool that assures democratic accountability or to put it bluntly, ...

Change4Life is a public health program, started in 2009 by the British Department of Health to promote public health and address issues of public obesity (DOH, 2009). It is, in essence, a social media organization centered around a marketing strategy meant to make eating healthy and living active lifestyles attractive for others (DOH, 2009). The target audience is British citizens of all ages, primarily children and adults of lower- to middle-class backgrounds, in order to improve dietary and exercise habits (Glasper, 2010). Particular focus is placed on pregnant women, families with young children, families at risk of weight gain and ethnic minority ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

called and held to account

Introduction

Traditional models of accountability, primarily those of elections and legislative scrutiny, are no longer sufficient in holding governments accountable. While Emy and Hughes (1988) argue that accountability dilemmas have been long standing within ministerial government, they see accountability failures as an indication of mechanisms corrupted by political interest. The rise of new social movements is a strong indication of the collective desire of citizens to interrupt the “chain of accountability”. The desire to influence political decision makers is a reflection of a growing assumption that the democratic deficit facing most western governments requires experiments ...

According to Chambliss et al. (2010), the state is involved in organized crimes through collusion, evasion, corruption, and substitution. I tend to believe that through evasion, the perpetrators try to evade any legal connection. I believe through evasion, Individuals involved in state organized crimes attempt to distance themselves completely from the activities of the business and the state. For instance, I have witnessed individuals set up legitimate businesses that barely have a link to their names. The organizations then are placed in the frontline to launder money from the state. Such organizations are offered tenders to supply good or ...

Introduction

As the Director of Security at the New York metropolitan airport that services both public and private carriers, I was expected to address the biological threat that faced the organization. News of the anthrax scare had disrupted the normal operations of the firm and employees become unsettled because of the threat. The anthrax scare prompted me to facilitate a rapid identification of the source of the biological threat as well as the route of exposure. The paper will comprehensively address the public and private-sector resources that could be utilized to respond to the threat. Moreover, it will also highlight ...

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Collaborative Governance is never a neophyte concept. Some sectors call it a public and private partnership. Other people term it government and non-government cooperation. Business-oriented people likewise name it as profit and non-profit coordination. Be it a partnership, cooperation, coordination, or the likes, one thing is certain, that it is collaboration. However, if there is one thing in this idea that should be given more emphasis, it would be the governance since this is the primary goal of the collaboration.
In Chapter 24 of the book The Oxford Handbook of Public Policies, two economists, John Donahue and ...

Abstract

Introduction
The title of the article is - The Rube Goldberg Democrats. The source is The Wall Street Journal. The author is Daniel Henninger. The argument for the article is that it is against Obama Care. The author emphasizes that this program is characteristic of other failures by the Democrat Government such as social security and admission to colleges. This article stresses that Obama Care will put a blemish on the brand identity of The Democratic Party. There are several elements that I will discuss in this essay. They include, increasing expectations on government, failure of the Democratic Party ...

In today’s world public relation plays a significant role in our daily lives. They are an integral part of an organization and are very significant in informing, educating, assuring, and creating interest in an organization. The department affects every organization big or small. They foster communication between organizations and are point of contact for anyone wants to know about the organization. Since we are in a digital age where social media plays a significant role in influencing decisions in the absence of a formal PR group an organization can land in trouble. The reason being difficulty in controlling people’s views and ...

Introduction

Over the years, there were two main contending theories in the United States concerning the emergence of life: evolution and creationism. Evolution characterized science’s view of how creation began, and creationism presented the religious elucidations. Later, came the intelligent design theory, also referred to as the design theory. This is the opinion that nature displays concrete signs of having been devised by a preexisting intelligence. The intelligent design concept purports that an unsystematic natural process could have developed life by no chance. Rather, only the direction of an intelligent power can explicate the intricacy and diversity evidenced today. Since ...

The Canadian health care Industry was the second largest employer in the country exactly three years ago. The industry, having employed two million people, is paramount to the economic development of the country. The Canadian health care industry is unique in several ways since it has no common public plan; instead, it is characterized by regional insurance schemes also referred to as the territorial insurance plans (O'Neil, 1997). The functions and tasks in the industry are handled jointly by the private sector, and the goverment. This is done in such an approach that the public sector handles the funding ...

Restoring democracy in the United States will require major reforms that reduce the power of corporations, elites and special interests in the whole political process. Right now, there is a radical disconnect between the political and economic elites and the needs and interests of the ordinary voters. Most people today realize that the country is in its worse crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, but government and the political system seem dysfunctional and incapable of dealing with it. Removing the power and control of big money from the political process forever would be the most important step in ...

The Affordable Care Act— also sometimes known as “Obamacare”— is one of the most important defining features of the Obama administration, and one of the first things that has been done by the Trump administration is an attempted dismantling of the programs that Obama so carefully designed to protect the American people’s right to healthcare (Kodjak, 2017). From a policy perspective, dismantling Obamacare will be a long and arduous process for President-elect Trump; it is likely to be a difficult process, made worse by the extensive cost associated with re-working the insurance system yet again (Pear, 2017). Nearly ...

At a time when the corporate financial sector was faced with issues of malfeasance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in a bid to restore the confidence of the public in corporate financial statements. Before this period, the public disclosures had suffered massive misappropriations characterized by inaccuracy, and inadvertent unreliability. It thus became essential for the government to act so that there would be a proper end to the rising cases of accounting fraud (Lee et al. 733-74). Many stakeholders in the industry had become part of a broad scheme that thrived in the unaccountable corporate segments that spewed fraudulent activities ...

The domain of mass media or information technology opens up avenues of thoughts and perspectives with all the data that is shared among people of the society. However, while the boom in technology has led to a surge in communication, it needs to be noted that there are examples of the state machinery leaving no stone unturned to regulate dissemination of information so as to channelize the thoughts and perspectives of the general mass of the society in a particular manner in accordance with the ambition of the authority of the state.
One can delve deep into the findings ...

In your opinion, how does the principle of separation between church and state compare in theory and in practice in the United States? Provide specific examples.
The Establishment Clause was aimed at prohibiting state sponsored religion leading to the doctrine of separation of church and state. Thomas Jefferson referred for the first time this separation as “wall of separation between Church and State.” This principle is a unique American vision. As far as the interpretation and meaning of Establishment clause is concerned, there are three major theories.
According to the strict separation theory, the religion and state should ...

Welfare is established in order to maintain the well-being of the general public within a society. These establishments, in turn, present institutions that are put forth in order to satisfy this agenda of maintaining a certain level of its citizen’s livelihood. However, many of these programs tend to cause more trouble than they alleviate. While there are options that allow for the financial protection of individuals, it is difficult to implement the large scale institutionalization of these programs. Furthermore, there are not significant benefits to the cost of their implementation. For this reason, the only option is that all forms ...

The essay is about eminent domain practice by the government of New London, Connecticut. Eminent domain is the power of the government to seize property of a citizen, without owner’s consent with the aim of providing benefit to the public from that property. The court has established this law that it is sovereign right to take private property for the greater public benefit. The fifth amendment of United States Constitution state that private property cannot be acquired for public use, without just compensation, which means appropriate compensation has not be paid in case of needing the property for use. ...

Introduction

Whistle blowing are actions of individuals say in a company the employee or former employee to make know the hidden conducts of his or her counter parts to the superior internal authority for instance the misconduct of the manager or to the external superiors or the public. The moral permissibility or requirement of whistle blowing is the greatest controversial issue due to hits double effect. Therefore, one has to make choices on which effect to give chance that are whether to betray the company or counterpart (humanity).
For one to make a decision one has to clearly define and understand ...

HOMELAND SECURITY AND TERRORISM

In the article of Savage (2013), the military judge has ruled on the censorship of media censorship as well as the anti-censorship view when it order to disallow the use of technology to conduct off-stage censorship during the hearing of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other inmates who were linked during the September 11 terrorist attacks. In its order, the judge ruled that the said technology granting the offstage censors, including the Central Intelligence Agency, should be stopped. The judge, Col. James L. Pohl of the Army further stated that the removal any public feed that shows the on-going ...

Introduction

Responses about California Reform
Regardless of the introduction to the legislation in 2008, California was familiar with subsequent changes in 2010 and 2012. The Proposition 20 as the ballot initiative was adopted in 2010 with the purpose to improve the election process and develop the framework of the activity for the Commission. In generla, it is possible to states that the purposes of the legislators pursued during the development of this particular rule have been achieved and realized. First of all, the elections to the Congress in the state were featured with increased level of the legitimacy in accordance ...

“E-Government” is the term used to explain about the use of information technologies by the government departments to make their interaction with their target audience much better in terms of quality, speed and effectiveness. The commonly used technologies are the Internet, mobile communication; WAN (Wide Area Networks) etc. The introduction of e-Government system has drastically enhanced the quality of Public Administration and the communication between business entities, corporate as well as citizens. (Dhindsa, Narang, & Chaudhary, 2013)
The modern technologies can offer a range of distinct services that are revolutionary in the government sector. This includes better deliverance of services ...

Social networking technologies provide tools that allow people, governments and organizations to create, share and or trade information. The platforms set up by such media are highly interactive and serve as a vital mode of communication in the twenty-first century. Since its inception, the functions of social networking technologies have significantly evolved from casual uses to more formal and even revolutionary applications.

Claim

Even with its immense potential, the ability of social networking technologies to empower governments and the public is significantly limited to the people using social networking tools.

Reason I

Considering the numerous challenges in our societies today, the use ...

Criminal Law

Introduction
This paper looks at the claim by Cullen and Gilbert (1982) that “Rehabilitation should be the major goal of any correctional system” (p. 5) and seeks to determine if rehabilitation is the most efficient method to attenuate crime. From the onset of the 20th century, efforts to combat crime have seen a rise in the implementation of rehabilitation as a preferred philosophy or methodology enacted by the justice system in order to reduce this societal challenge. The treatment of criminals was perceived as both efficient in terms of crime prevention and also the treatment of offenders was considered a more ...

Iran’s nuclear program development attracts massive international response and more prominence in USA, Britain and other foreign governments and the entire public. The dispute poses major fundamental questions about the nuclear non-proliferation regime given that its result could have a major negative effect on the regional and international security. The news media reporting is the one majorly entrusted with the role of providing a public understanding of most foreign affairs and in this case, the Iran’s nuclear program development. The news media play an essential role in framing the public’s understanding on various matters of interest. The news ...

- How the U.S constitution governs and affects the intergovernmental relations in the United States.
Since the ratification of the United States constitutions more than 200 years ago, there have existed some controversial issues concerning the relationships between the state government and the national government. The main controversies always appear when the following two questions are asked. The first question is always about the nature of the union between the state governments and the federal government. The other questions that appears to be ambiguous with regard to the relationship between the two governments is always about the authority, ...

Are political conventions obsolete?

Political conventions in the United States have been a political culture that has been exercised both at a grass-root and federal level for a long time. As a stable democracy, the United States' political terrain is competitive. This necessitates the formulation of competitive platforms that leaves no leeway for counter-partisan criticism. Political conventions have been used to demonstrate that each party has a clear framework of the policy windows that they intend to formulate if elected to office. The just concluded Democratic and Republican national conventions was a clear indication that each party is geared to persuade and convince the public that their policy approach ...

Desacato crimes are highly recognized in many countries. It consists of the criminal punishments of insults to public officials in the performance of their duties. These laws literally mean that anyone who criticizes any public office is liable to some punishment. Looking at these laws and article thirteen of the American Convention on Human Rights, clearly there is a contradiction (Florini, 2007). Everyone has the right to Freedom of thought and expression and moreover liability ought to be based on defined pre existing laws. Lack of clarity on such laws suppress public opinions and deter people from actively participating in ...

President Woodrow’s argument that politicians should only make the general decisions in governing the country while the administrators and technocrats are left to formulate the policy and make the tactical and specific decisions was a valid argument. This is because most politicians lack the amount of skill and experience that the administrators have in specific areas of administration (Stillman 16). Most of the administrators have received formal education in public administration and other areas such as financial management, policy formulation and security management which most elected officials lack. This is also necessary because most politicians make their decisions to ...

The article highlights issues and actions that can be regarded as journalism. The article describes reporter’s privileges. In addition, the article elaborates issues regarding the first amendment based privileges of reporters. It further explores and tries to justify why WikiLeaks cannot be regarded as a journalism organization. Moreover, it portrays the impact that WikiLeaks has had on the rejection of certain bills regarding freedom of speech and how it might affect future decision on proposed bills.

Reporter’s Privileges

The law requires reporters and journalism organizations to follow the rule of law, as they are still the same as the public (Peters ...

Introduction

China is the most populous country in the world. It is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The population of this country is also growing at a steady rate. As a result, the demand for food in the country is growing with time. One of the reasons why the demand for food in China grows with time is the steady growth in the economy. As people’s purchasing power in the country increases, their eating habits change thus causing them to demand different varieties of food. Food security is important to a country’s growth and sustainability. Food security ...

The Journal of Hendrick Hamel is an account of the thirteen years he spent in Korea under the Joseon dynasty when the ship he was sailing on shipwrecked off the Jeju Island in the southern coast of Korea. Contrary to the name ‘Journal’ the account of Hamel is not a daily report of the years he spent but rather a report he wrote for his employers. His employers were the Dutch East India Company and he wrote this journal specifically to inform them of any possible trade opportunities. His journal was published in the Netherlands soon after his release and arrival. ...

The concept of net neutrality states that governments and internet service providers should treat data on the internet with no discrimination. Data should be treated equally despite the user, content, site, application, attached equipment and mode of communication. Critics argue that data discrimination of some type is not problematic but rather highly desirable. Opponents of net neutrality are of the opinion that the best solution to discrimination done by broadband providers is encouraging a larger competition among providers that is limited in many areas. The Federal Communications Commission is making new rules that will permit internet service providers to give ...