Essays on Fordham

Introduction

As described in Fordham.edu, the given men desired a society where no one in society, state, or the world at large should let their personal ambitions infringe on the freedoms and well-being of the other.

What Is Best For Society According To These Men?

Montesquieu in describing what is best for the society he stated that there are three types of power in every government. The three types of power include the executive, the judiciary, and lastly the legislative power. He described an ideal society as one where there is political liberty. According to him, liberty involves a tranquility of mind of the subject. In particular, Voltaire: Patrie ...

The decade of 1845 to 1855 witnessed a rapid rise in abolitionist sentiments across the United States. Interestingly, at the forefront of the abolition movement were ex-slaves narrating their experiences in the hopes of eliciting a response from the anti-slavery forces. Now, and in perhaps the most effective tactic that the slaves employed, their narratives counteracted the dehumanizing nature of slavery. In other words, rather than accept the notion of white supremacy on which the slavery system survived, persons of African descent escaping their masters applied different tactics to argue for racial equality in the hopes of liberation for ...

Annotated Bibliography:

Annotated Bibliography: Historical Background of Special Education Cannon, Y., Gregory, M., & Waterstone, J. (2013). A Solution Hiding In Plain Sight: Special Education And Better Outcomes For Students With Social, Emotional, And Behavioral Challenges. Fordham Urban Law Journal, 41 (2), 403-497. Carson, C. (2015). Rethinking Special Education's "Least Restrictive Environment" Requirement. Michigan Law Review, 113 (8), 1397-1426. In this article, Cari Carson emphasizes that the United States disability law, especially the special education law is most essential. The idea of integration and inclusion entails the involvement of those individuals with disabilities with the nondisabled ones through different activities. The special ...

I was a team leader during my internship at the Wall Street Trading. The manager selected me to be in charge of all interns. I was tasked with providing direction to the team. Additionally, I organized meetings for all interns in Wall Street. My motivation stems from knowing whatever it takes to be successful. The supervisors, as well as chief executive officers, recognized my leadership abilities. My immediate supervisor requested that I should be given full authority over interns. He convinced the CEO of my suitability as a team leader. I became fully in-charge of interns. The additional responsibilities ...

Abstract

Disaster analysis is essential in the management of disasters. It assists in the identification of gaps in the management cycle within a given region. Management of disasters occurs in four cycles including planning or preparedness, response, recovery, as well as mitigation. Planning is an essential tool in all the phases of the cycle. The primary aim of disaster response is to offer immediate aid to improve health, sustain life, as well as assist in the improvement of the morale of the affected population. Recovery phase aims at restoring the infrastructure as well as the operations of the community services ...

The primary objective for the formation of the European Economic Community (ECC) was to create a common market to enhance the achievement of a trading advantage over other Atlantic states. The member states hoped that the move would spur growth by promoting marketing scale and capitalizing on specialization among the member states. However, the ECC faced many technicalities when creating a common market due to lack of strategic decision-making structures and protectionist attitude adopted by members. It was especially difficult to remove barriers and enforce common trade regulation. For a common market to have some effect, freedom of capital, ...

In an effort to improve the education of American schoolchildren from kindergarten through 12th grade, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were released by the Council of Chief State Schools Officers and the National Governors Association in 2010 (Applebee, 2013); 43 of 50 states adopted them by 2013 (Conley, 2014). Attempts at voluntary national standards began with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1989 and over the next six years, a project in English language arts lost its funding after two weeks in 1992 and standards for history were voted down by the Senate in 1995. The ...

Introduction

Gun control legislation is a very controversial topic and one that has taken a lot of attention in both academic and public policy circles here in the United States for the past 20 or 30 years. One of the most powerful tools which people have discovered to dealing with the issue of controlling who should or shouldn’t have access to guns is through the creation of background checks. The purpose of background checks in a general sense is to allow for gun sellers and overseeing authorities to make sure that they are selling weapons to only those individuals ...

Management

Summary of Employment-at-Will Doctrine The employment-at-will doctrine has its roots in the feudal doctrine of master and servant, wherein the master-servant relationship is viewed based on status rather than contract. H.G Wood’s treatise on the master-servant relationship held that ‘a general or indefinite hiring is prima facie a hiring at will’ (DeGiuseppe, 1981, p.6) This concept evolved in the United States as employment-at will. According to the doctrine, an employer can terminate the services of an employee at any time for any reason except an illegal one, and even for no reason at all, without risking legal ramifications. ...

The European society is affecting the world, even from the past. They are involved in most of the historical revolutionary changes. European civilizations became the first nations which still exist in the modern times. They have begun conquests in the areas of Science, Politics and even Religion before the 16th century. The belief in theories and postulates created by the laws of Science and the religious beliefs established by the church is considered a dichotomy nowadays. However, the political powers that rule Europe go hand in hand with religious orders. These conflicts resulted in revolutionary changes and it developed ...

Question 1.

The European Integration has undergone several changes to be what it is now. Several incidents and treaties marked the turning points for the EU in its infancy years to create a more stable and unified European cooperation. The Marshall Plan formed in 1948 consolidated democracy in Europe after the German defeat in the WW2 (Dinan 1122). The United States proposed the plan to speed up economic development in the transatlantic region. The plan saw the creation of the OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) liberalize trade and the Coal and Steel Community to oversee the extraction of coal in ...

According to Procupius, the plague in the Justinian empire stared in Egypt and moved in several directions in a way that it almost caused the complete annihilation of the human race. He observed that the plague moved in a calculated manner, so that at certain times it lingered longer in one region. There were instances when it appeared to have spared some lands, only to come back at a later time. It was observed that the plague often starts near coastal areas, then eventually moved inland. Procupius has a close encounter with the Plague, “ in the second year it ...

Introduction

During the early centuries of Christianity, an era of official persecution of the Christians, not only was the church and state separated, but also opposed. This essay will describe the connection that prevails between church and state from the ancient times in relation to the present times. In so doing, it will show the various shifts historically and in the current world of the state having influence over religion and religion having the upper hand over the state and the current attempts to bring a separation between the two parties. This sense of antagonism can be well edified with ...

Abstract

In the first half of the XX century many countries were led by the authoritarian leaders with the extreme ideologies. The ideologies such as Nazism, fascism and communism contributed to the creation of the very powerful states with strong economies, but no respect of the minorities, some classes of people or countries. As the result, all of the countries with the extreme ideologies participated in the World War II and only the USSR was able to become a victor. The main purpose of this paper is to show why extreme ideologies became popular in some countries. By means of ...

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has remained to be an unfinished agenda in the world today as halfway through the intended period when they were to be achieved not so much has been gained. In Thailand, the people are still battling HIV and Aids, and it remains to be a pandemic that is yet to be contained. Studies indicate that of the total population of 60 million people in Thailand, around 440, 000 were living with HIV and Aids by the year 2013 (Fordham, 2015). Further, about 18,000 people had succumbed to the disease in that year ...