...Thinker Mother Jones American Spectator ACLU Forbes Harpers Stanford Review CBS Rush Limbaugh New York Times FOX News NBC (especially MSNBC) The American Conservative Mostly Centrist with Occasional Slant Libertarian CNN ACLU CSPAN (just shows the event) Ludwig Von Mises Reuters Reason Magazine PBS CATO Institute Real Clear Politics (both perspectives) Ayn Rand Foundation John Stossel, Reporter Milton Friedman,Economics Respected Think Tanks Always check their mission statement for bias or perspective, but these are known for accuracy in research even if they do cardstack and/or research from a biased perspective. They are helpful in stacking your case with relevant facts. Conservative Heritage Foundation Citizens Against Government Waste Media Research Center TownHall.com (A branch of Heritage Foundation) Republican National Committee National Federation of Republican Women American Enterprise Institute Hoover Institution Family Research Council Manhattan Institute Hudson Institute Washington...
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...ability to learn. Gregory J. Cizek, "Unintended Consequences of High Stakes Testing - P-12,” Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Sep. 2001 Susan Ohanian, "Collateral Vomitage,” www.susanohanian.org, Mar. 14, 2002 Standardized testing causes severe stress in younger students. According to education researcher Gregory J. Cizek, anecdotes abound “illustrating how testing... produces gripping anxiety in even the brightest students, and makes young children vomit or cry, or both.” On Mar. 14, 2002, the Sacramento Bee reported that “test-related jitters, especially among young students, are so common that the Stanford-9 exam comes with instructions on what to do with a test booklet in case a student vomits on it.” Cizek is an education researcher and I believe his studies are in depth to the topic I am documenting. Assessment: I counsel a lot of kids and during the time and at the time of the testing I have seen more kids break down. Some wanting their parents to put them in private school to avoid the testing all together. Not only do they have to face the pressure of their appearance, lifestyle and passing grades our government place on them a test that judge there whole school. "Shanghai Tops...
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...Fukuda, Shin-ichi, “The Structural Determinants of Invoice Curencies in Japan: The Case of Foreign Trade with East Asian Countries,” in Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger eds., Financial Deregulation and Integration in East Asia, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp.147-163. Goldstein, D.J. “Foreign Direct Investment in the United States and National Security Policy.” Comparative Strategy, 1988, 7, pp. 143-158. Grassman, Sven. “A Fundamental Symmetry in International Payment Paterns.” Journal of International Economics, 1973, 3, pp.105-116. Hartmann Philip. “Curency Competition and Foreign Exchange Markets: the Dolar, the Yen and the Euro.” Cambridge University Press, 1998. Hayek. F. A. “The Denationalization of Money.” 2d ed. London :Institute of economic Afairs, 1970. Ito, Takatoshi, “The Yen and the International Monetary System,” in C.F. Bergsten and M. Noland, eds., Pacific Dynamism and the International Economic System, Washington, D.C.: Institute of International Economics, 1993, pp.299-322. K. Sato, “The International Use of the Japanese Yen: The Case of Japan's Trade with East Asia”, The World Economy, 22 (4), 1999, pp. 547–584. Kenen, Peter B. “International Money and Macroeconomics,” in K.A. Eliot and J. Wiliamson eds., World Economics Problems , Institute for International Economics, Washington, 1988. Li Daokui, Liu Linlin,”To Promote the Internationalization of RMB in a way of Dual System”, China Finance, 2008, No. 10, pp: 42-43. Lin Yifu, “Three Conditions...
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....“ Legalizations of Marijuana While being interview by a reporter from the New York Times Obama was quoted as saying (Seelye, 2006) “When I was a kid, I inhaled, that was the point.” As referring to when he was a young man that he had inhaled marijuana. And he became the Presidential of the United Stated. In many ways, it’s the way that some people in society has demonized the use of marijuana it, (Scheer, 1999) Eight million American have tried marijuana and report have shown that there is no proclivity to move on to harder drugs. This accorded to an 18 month study commissioned by the federal drug czar Barry R McCaffrey. We will look at the several economy impacts of decriminalizing or legalizations of marijuana. (Brown 2003) One why to assist the farmer's domestically grown marijuana is the second largest cash crop in the United States, behind only corn. The above references are from people that have no finance gain in the legalization of marijuana and the other one is the Presidential and he would not lie. (Schlosser 1998) States According to the detail of the show the numbers of people in Jail for marijuana arrest are one in every six. There are more people now in prison for marijuana offenses than for violent offenses. There are 1.1 million inmates in American prisons. And if 1 in every 6 is held because of marijuana arrests that make it about 180.000 in jail. And certainly, at a time when there's a shortage of prison space and when murderers are serving on average...
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...by the huge profits from this monopoly, criminal gangs bribe and kill each other, law enforcers, and children and as such their trade is unregulated and they are, therefore, beyond our control ("Why Legalize Drugs? | LEAP"). It is LEAP’s belief that by eliminating prohibition of all drugs for adults and establishing appropriate regulation and standards for distribution and use, law enforcement could focus more on crimes of violence, such as rape, aggravated assault, child abuse and murder, making our communities much safer ("Why Legalize Drugs? | LEAP"). Another positive aspect of the legalization of drugs is financial gains. According to the International Business Times in a study for the Cato Institute, Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer on economics at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Cato, and Katherine Waldock, professor of economics at New York University, estimate that legalizing drugs would save the government approximately $41.3 billion annually on expenditures related to the enforcement of prohibition (Ghosh, 2010). Of those savings, $25.7 billion would accrue to state and local governments, while $15.6 billion would accrue to the federal government (Ghosh,...
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...Keller Graduate School of Management Business Economics GM545 Online Graduate Course Summer Session A, July 2010 Project Part 2 7 August 2010 Exercise 1: Chapter 15, Question 14 (textbook page 424) National income and output are used in economic studies to estimate the value of goods and services produced in an economy—a snapshot of a country’s economic activity. A system of national accounts is employed to account for and record economic changes. National income is calculated using a variety of different methods. Some of the more popular methods include GDP (Gross Domestic Product), GNP (Gross National Product), NNP (Net National Product), NNI (Net National Income) PI (Personal Income) and PDI (Personal Disposable Income), among many others. [ (Investopedia ULC 2010) ] National income statistics provide us with a numerical comparison of one country’s economic situation with another country’s economic situation. Easily economic growth of countries can be compared over time or at a particular snapshot in time. National income accounts also provide government agencies and private businesses with a tool for economic planning and budgeting. What’s more is this information provides a comparison with the standard of living from one country to another. Many issues arise with accounting for the true national income of any country. Certainly there is a concern for double-counting, for example the outputs of one business are the inputs of another business. If both are accounted...
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...Should Welfare Regulations Be Changed Iris Bates Strayer University Persuasive Paper Part 3: Possible Disadvantages, Answers with Visuals English 215 Research and Writing taught by Professor Weslea Bell March 11, 2014 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one of the federal assistance programs designed to help families with children providing cash and housing assistance. The cash benefit is often referred to as “welfare”. Welfare recipients are often portrayed as lazy, lacking in ambition, and unwilling to take responsibility for themselves (Brady, 2013). When the recipients of welfare receive the cash and housing benefits is it truly helping or hindering them? Doug Brady states, “the current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincentive for work.” This raises the question of should welfare regulations be changed or not? The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, was known as the “welfare reform”. TANF ended the much despised Depression-era federal entitlement to cash benefits for needy single mothers, replacing it with short term, work oriented programs designed and run by individual states (Hymowitz, 2006). Under TANF, the federal government provides a block grant to the states, which use these funds to operate their own programs. In order to receive federal funds, states must also spend some of their own dollars on programs for needy family. (Schott, 2012) Congress...
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...The Huffington Post | By Matt Ferner Cons of Legalizing Marijuana One of the most commonly cited negative consequences of legalizing marijuana is the physical risks of the drug, both to those using it and to bystanders. Research has shown that marijuana can increase the likelihood of schizophrenia, mainly if the individual started smoking before the age of 18. There are also the health risks associated with smoking, including second-hand smoke for non-consumers, and the probability that driving under the influence of marijuana would be more common. It may also contribute to IQ declines when used by teens, according to a recent study. Although legalization measures include age restrictions, like alcohol and tobacco, legalizing marijuana would make it considerably easier for children to get hold of. This is an obvious consequence of the increased and open availability of the substance, and the fact that marijuana is especially dangerous for adolescents makes this a much more serious consequence. Some individuals also believe that it’s morally wrong to consume marijuana. The fact that people who take drugs are more likely to commit related crimes (such as theft to fund habit) also means that legalizing the drug could potentially lead to more criminals being out on the street. Drug use is another reason police can use to take law-breakers off the streets. There is also a slippery slope argument, which states that the legalization of marijuana would eventually lead to the legalization...
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...the Second Amendment is that we, as Americans, are guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms. This right must not be infringed upon. Everyone has heard countless statistics regarding firearms and violence. According to the National Institute of Justice, firearms were used in 68 percent of murders, 42 percent of robbery offenses and 22 percent of aggravated assaults nationwide in 2006. The National Institute of Justice does not clarify how many of the murders and assaults were in self-defense, or suicide. They also do not disclose how many firearms related murders were police involved. Of the robbery offenses, aggravated assaults, and murders, there is no figure placed on the amount of firearms that were legally purchased. I am certain that the amount of crimes committed with firearms were illegally were from those purchased on the black market, which is a controversial issue all on its own. The director of Cato’s Project on Criminal Justice, Tim Lynch, writes that “The defensive use of guns happens much more often than people realize,” and, “Each year gun owners prevent a great deal of criminal mayhem—murders, rapes, robberies, and batteries.” In the Cato Institute’s study, a gun is never even fired in the vast majority of self-defense cases. From the information gathered in the Cato’s Project, many crimes are prevented from innocent citizens being armed. While citizens remain armed, the chance of criminals following through with their plans of committing robbery, rape, or...
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...help others or to contribute to the community. Taking away this opportunity from dreamers will not only be a big loss for them but also for the community. Not only would it affect immigrants, ending DACA will negatively affect the United States and its economy. According to a study by CATO institute, the overall economic cost will be over two hundred billion dollars. Dreamers tend to do well in school which results in them doing well at their jobs after they complete their education. Since DACA workers earn a higher level of income, they pay more taxes. If DACA ends, the hardworking dreamers will no longer be able to work and will result in less money for the nation. Also, most DACA workers have bank accounts and credit cards. Removing these factors will also negatively affect the economy. Another way it will affect the economy, is the dreamers not having access to private health insurance, driver’s licenses, and auto insurance. They will not be paying for this, so many companies’ productivity will decrease. Last but not least, children, who are mostly now adults, should not be punished for the actions of their parents. Even the President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated it. In nearly all cases, these children did not come to the United States by their own choice and were not legally responsible for their actions at the time. It is common sense to know that a six-year-old has no choice but to go wherever their parents take them. If they take away DACA it is basically...
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...history, if the fifteen dollar per hour wage is approved, a fully automated solution would be an economically viable solution for struggling companies like McDonalds. Several companies are nearing commercial launch of the automated burger process. “Roboburger,” an automated burger machine can produce 8,500 burgers a day while 25 employees can produce 320 per day in comparison. If the companies are only required to pay a minimum wage of eight dollars per hour and contract labor, which means no benefits, it would still be viable to hire those 25 employees. The automation over the next few years will affect over 20 million workers. Evidence shows that minimum wage increases disproportionally hurt the people they are supposed to help. In the case that seventy percent of fast food employees lose their jobs, the wage increase would have little effect on reducing poverty. Evidence suggests that raising the minimum wage does not reduce poverty. In a 2012 review by Mark Wilson it was...
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...BHL 6016, Contemporary and International Issues in Business Ethics TOTAL Assessment: 2 pieces of coursework – 6000 words The assessment is 100% coursework which will be in two parts each worth 50%. Coursework 2: An Essay: “The right to freedom of conscience is justified by the interest we have in remaining true to our religious and moral convictions” Velasquez M (2012:427) (Source: Velasquez, Manuel, G. 7th Ed., 2012, Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases, Prentice Hall.) Discuss this statement and consider how the phenomenon of “whistleblowing” may be minimised within a company with reference to the following: The legitimate rights of the company, its shareholders and fellow employees The way in which a company is organised Consider how the following Ethical Theories may inform this issue: Utilitarian Theory, Kantian Theory, An Ethic of Care, Virtue Ethics NB illustrate your discussion with relevant and summarised examples There will be dedicated tutorial time for discussion Word count for Coursework 2 3,000 words total Hand In Details for Coursework 2 Hard copies to be handed into the Izone on the stated date and electronic copies in to turnitin (one submission only) Date of submission: on the last Friday of the Spring Term (27th March 2015) NB. dates will be finalised as soon the assessment has been reviewed by external examiner. Learning outcomes for Coursework 2 ❖ Apply ethical reasoning to a range of contemporary...
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...weighs more than a Taser (CNN). I bring this to your attention, because there have been a number of cases that involve this incomprehensible mistake when a person’s life is...
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...world today. Marijuana was made illegal through prohibition in 1905. Before 1905 you could go into any local drug store and purchase marijuana (Stuart). Marijuana is a natural remedy for many illnesses. According to many users medicinal marijuana offers relief from pain related to cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis. Said side effects, that are psychological, include hallucinations, mood swings and impaired judgment. Some consider marijuana a drug that would lead to other drug dependences, but this has not been scientifically proven. There has been millions of dollars spent to reduce the use of illegal drugs in the United States (Hausk 14). This type of spending is one reason to push to decimalize marijuana. “According to a 2010 study from Cato, legalizing marijuana would regulate the system and offer rehabilitation service to those addicted to more powerful and additive drugs like cocaine and heroin. State and local governments would also free up millions of dollars that are currently being spent on the current system of regulating marijuana use that has not worked” (Walters 1). Currently we have two states that have legalized marijuana, Washington and Colorado. These two states need to start as our test states to determine if...
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...and semi-presidential systems they act as a method to curb the potential for monopoly, where a leader effectively becomes "president for life". This is intended to protect a democracy from becoming a de facto dictatorship. Sometimes, there is an absolute limit on the number of terms an officeholder can serve, while, in other cases, the restrictions are merely on the number of consecutive terms. The United States placed a limit of two terms on its presidency by means of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution in 1951. There are no term limits for Vice Presidency, Representatives, Senators and Supreme Court...
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