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Although George Washington is primarily known as the father of our country, he also accomplished a great deal during his two terms as the first president of the United States (1789-1797). On February 4, 1789, he was unanimously chosen by the Electoral college. Upon receiving notification on April 14th, Washington departed from his Virginia home…

In 2010, landmark reform was passed through two federal statutes enacted in 2010: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PACE) both signed on Tuesday March 23, 2010, and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H. R. 4872), which amended the PACE and became official law on March 30, 2010. Beamer, or…

The insanity defense is a defense that is used in the courts to say the defendant was not aware of what they were doing at the time of the crime. The terms of such a defense are to be found in the instructions presented by the trial judge to the jury at the close of…

Cruel and Unusual Punishment, a fundamental right, is granted to us by the United States. The recent approval of a controversial ballot initiative in California aligns with the 8th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits excessive bail, fines, and cruel and unusual punishment. Proposition 184, also referred to as the three strikes and you’re…

As organizations have established their power base we have also seen the emergence of a number of leadership strategies. As Daft (2011) suggests the concept of leadership has changed over time and has included a range of theories; all of which contain elements that are still applicable to the study of effective leadership today. Sparked…

In the 1850s, American colonists started to move westward and started to take over more of the “unclaimed” territory. There were many Native American tribes living in the west already and the Americans pushed them out of their land in order to expand their own territory. The government and all the people moving westward had…

I can remember it happening, not that it hadn’t happended before butthis time I wasn’t quite so sure of the outcome. In March of 1995 I hadaccepted a challenge that only 10% of all American’s ever complete. Thechallege of becoming a United States Marine. Every so often I open my bigmouth and respond to any…

There were multiple resulting effects of prohibition. A nation of law abiding citizens changed into law breakers. Nobody followed the law due to speakeasies, bootleggers, and moonshiners. If anything, prohibition made people want to rebel more. Flappers were a good example of rebelling people. Flappers were women in the 1920’s who started wearing more scandalous…

The purpose of this report is to examine and analyze the ongoing issues occurring at West Indies Yacht Club Resort in the British Virgin Island (BVI) between expatriates and local employees, utilizing Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory. The challenges faced by senior officials include a high turnover rate among expatriates, tension among expatriate managers, an increasing…

It is by and large said that roar and recession are portion and package of an economic system. Every state in the universe has faced such periods but 1929 was one of the periods that marked the beginning of most annihilating depression of the twentieth century. A depression that lasted for more than a decennary…