...A Letter To a Congressional Representative NUR/405 February 24, 2014 Beth Edwards Date: February 24, 2014 Re: Support fro health care bill Executive summary I am writing to request for your support in the health insurance bill. As you know, a proper health is vital and that we cannot enjoy wealth and other luxuries if we are not healthy. However, diseases like Influenza and other serious illness are unavoidable in our daily life. In addition, lifestyle changes have caused many individuals to suffer from illnesses like cancer, stroke, and heart attack. For those reasons, I advocate that the government should give health insurance to its citizens. The health insurance will insure against the risk of incurring health expenses (Hitchcock, Schubert & Thomas, 2003). This happens by first estimating the risk of health care among individuals. An insurer can then develop a routine finance structure such as payroll tax or a monthly premium. I believe the implementation of a Health Insurance Bill will reform the health care industry by expanding insurance companies and creating an insurance exchange pool. This exchange pool will provide affordable insurance to low and middle-income earners. Therefore, I am requesting you to support the Health Insurance Bill that will regulate the insurance industry and cover as many people as possible (Green & Rowell, 2006). Health care bill and its impact on the society One of the healthcare reforms that I would recommend is...
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...Direction: MULTIPLE CHOICE: Select the letter of the correct answer and write it on a 1 whole sheet yellow paper. Avoid erasures as much as possible. Submit the yellow paper during the midterm exam (Monday, 11am-12:00noon, Rm STC601) Note: 1. This quiz is good for 2 major quizzes for midterms since it comprises the entire topics for midterms. Numbers 1-30 is the first part and #31-60 is the second part. So answer the questions carefully. 2. Reproduction of this paper (printing and photocopying) is strictly prohibited. Sanctions shall be given to anybody that will be caught under the discretion of the teacher. 1. The purpose of the Rizal Law is to: a. teach the duties of citizenship b. develop moral character, personal discipline, and civic consciousness c. use the unexpurgated version of the novel (English, Filipino and other dialects) d. All of the above 2. What R.A. no. was enacted by the Congress of the Philippines that required all schools, colleges, and universities to study the Life, Works, and Writings of Jose Rizal particula Direction: MULTIPLE CHOICE: Select the letter of the correct answer and write it on a 1 whole sheet yellow paper. Avoid erasures as much as possible. Submit the yellow paper during the midterm exam (Monday, 11am-12:00noon, Rm STC601) Note: 1. This quiz is good for 2 major quizzes for midterms since it comprises the entire topics for midterms. Numbers 1-30 is the first part and #31-60 is the second part. So answer the questions carefully...
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...Effiegene Locke Wingo Her life and accomplishments for the state of Arkansas Kristy Brasfield April 23, 2012 Final Draft US Southern Women’s History Spring 2012 Professor: Dr. Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman Born into a well-known family, Effiegene Locke Wingo lived her life in such a way that would keep her family name in good light. She gained political experience and connections while assisting her husband during his term in the Arkansas State Senate and during his terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mrs. Wingo used these assets to help her constituents in her district after succeeding her late husband in Congress. ¹ Mrs. Wingo poured her life into helping the people she represented during the Great Depression. She suspended her social activities in Washington, D.C. in order to travel to Arkansas and used every tool she had to send help and money into her district. She used her federal contacts to bring in projects such as bridges and buildings. Having to rely on the same staff as her husband had, she tried to balance a family life with her new lead role in her community and quite possibly eclipsed her husband’s career. ² Effiegene Wingo was born April 13, 1883 in Lockesburg, Arkansas to George Todd Locke and Callie Blanche Dooley Locke, the first of seven children. She is also the great-great-great granddaughter of Matthew Locke from North Carolina.3 George Locke moved the family to DeQueen, Arkansas where he owned quite a bit of land in July 1897. He donated...
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...HSM 230 Week 8 Exercise Lobbying Congress To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/HSM-230/HSM-230-Week-8-Exercise-Lobbying-Congress For this exercise you will be divided into 2 groups as noted below for a debate about the legality of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.03523: One group will advocate for the legality of the Act and the other will advocate against it and detail why they feel it is unconstitutional. For each individual in the group to earn full credit, they must actively participate in the selection of the chief advocate, the discussion of the topic assigned and the preparation of the finalized letter to congress. This faculty reserves the right to allocate individual points earned for this assignment for team members who did not actively participate. The links below are a good place to start learning more information about the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.03523: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:1:./temp/~c112k8XcBo:: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/27/2976718/cyber-intelligence-sharing-and-protection-act-cispa-hr-3523 http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/11551-cispa-awaits-its-fate-in-the-senate Assignment Components: 1. Select a chief advocate to post your group’s statement in the Main forum upon completion of the in group discussions. The selected ‘Chief Advocate’ will post...
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...Who is the next NUGS president? My take… I wrote this piece to give my perspective about the ongoing controversy surrounding who the next NUGS president is. I have read the piece written by one Manasseh Azure Awuni titled “WHO IS THE NEXT NUGS PRESIDENT?” published on 25th August 2009 on www.myjoyonline.com. Mr. Awuni was indeed the chairman of a vetting committee and I find his piece interesting. In actual fact, there were two vetting committees involved in the 43RD Annual Delegates Congress of the National Union of Ghana Students. The first one was constituted by NEC and the second was constituted by Congress which was chaired by the author of the aforementioned article. Article 60 clause (a) of NUGS constitution states that Without prejudice to any provision of this constitution, any student aspiring to any position shall be subjected to a vetting by a 7 member committee formed by NEC with approval of CC before congress (Note 1: National Executive Committee or NEC is composed of National President, National General Secretary, National Treasurer, Press and Information Secretary, Coordinating Secretary and President/Representative of component blocs in NUGS) & (Note 2: Central Committee or CC comprises of National Officers and Bloc Representatives, NUGS Representatives on International Bodies, SRC Presidents, SRC Secretaries, Local NUGS Presidents, Local NUGS Secretaries, Women’s Commissioners). The first vetting committee was duly formed by NEC but without the approval of...
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...regulations. The letter to the Danbury Baptist was written to inform the people that there would be a separation between “church and state” keeping the government out of religion. These three articles seem as though they have nothing in common…. The Declaration of Independence was written first, on July 4, 1776. The U.S. Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787. In both of these documents citizens were obligated to support the government as long at it was not restraining them from their freedom, and correct or remove it when it was. The Declaration was written to notify the monarchy that the United States was no longer a British colony. The Declaration of Independence listed reasons why the United States decided to cut ties to the British and was now its own country with its own government. The Constitution outlines the most important government laws and citizen rights. Some of the laws of the Constitution seem to be based off of the listed reasons in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution was approved through a vote from the states, and the United States Federal Government was created. This is the same Government that exist today. If it wasn’t for the Declaration of Independence cutting ties with the British we might not have the same laws that the Constitution established for us today. The Declaration of Independence declared that the United States is a free and independent nation, while the Constitution declares that there will be a congress, president...
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...the Continetal Congress appointemented Bejamin Franklinn as America’s of Postmaster General.(Bellis,M.n.d) Bejamin Franklin made serveal major contributions to US mail services; he developed new post roads, set out milestones to show how far a postman, who was paid by the mile, had traveled; enacted overnight post riders, invented the pigeon-hole system for mail distribution, and developed an early postal inspection service. (Schurr, C. 1997). The Founding Fathers determined that the post office was so vital that in the Consitituion they manadated Congress to have the power to establish post offices (Sanburn, J. (2011) Congress later enacted home deleivery and and eventually established Parce11 Post in 1913. (Universal Serve and Postal Monoply, 2008) The post For the next severl decades the postal service ran smoothly and incoprated new technology as the came along. Union History Postal Unions date back to the late 19th centuary. Initially, Postal unions were limited in function and mostly exsisted as lobbying organizations with limited bargaining rights. (Boyd and Chen, n.d.) Postal unions did not gain collect bargaining right until the enactment of the Postal Reorganization Act in 1971. There are several unions associated with the Post Office strike mainly; The National Association of Letter Carriers, National Postal Unions National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, and American Postal Workers Union. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC)...
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...PERSUASIVE SPEECH TRANSCRIPT Poverty Video Link 16.3 Speeches in Action Notice how this attention getter grabs the audience by using an interesting story. Joy introduces the topic and shows the importance in this section. The speaker gives a simple but effective preview of the main points to be covered in the speech using Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. In this section, Joy cites recent and credible evidence to support her claims. 440 Chapter 16 Joy Zoodsma Western Michigan University Bohn Fawkes was a B-17 pilot during World War II who flew a number of missions over Germany. On one such occasion, his fuel tank was hit by an enemy missile, and he was forced to land the plane. Miraculously, he survived, upon which he discovered the missile had not detonated. If it had, his plane and he would have exploded immediately. Upon returning to the United States, Fawkes asked to keep the unexploded missile as a souvenir, a sign of goodwill toward him. However, upon further investigation it was found that not one but eleven missiles had hit his fuel tank. They were immediately sent off to intelligence for further investigation where it was revealed that all eleven missiles were empty, save one. The one missile contained a note, written in the Czech language, that said, “This is all we can do, for now.” A courageous Czechoslovakian factory worker had disarmed the missiles and written the note. He realized he couldn’t end the war, but he could save...
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...Andrew Jackson sent a letter to the congress about rotating goverment jobs on December 8, 1896. Andrew Jackson finds out that the National bank has been using the bank's money to use for gambling on February 1834. On December 7, 1829, Jackson wrote a letter to the congress about the indian removal act. On December 8, 1896, Andrew jackson’s letter to the congress on the rotating goverment jobs, says that highly perspicacious men are likely to qualify the goverment jobs. The limit of governing is up to 4 years. He says that jobs like this are made for the welfare of the people. He says that nobody has more rights than others to govern. I believe he only selected his friends on these jobs to agree with him on anything. For example if he didn't like a new law that was coming up, he could easily veto it. If the people that did like the law and voted against Jackson will be out numbered because jackson friends will obviously take his side. The people who went against jackson will most...
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...John and Abigail often exchanged letters to keep in touch. The letters expressed ideologies to one another on political matters while John was away serving his country. The early 1800s were an age of reason and marks a time of the Enlightenment Era. This was a period that really got individuals thinking as they would join in groups on their beliefs. It was a movement of ideas...
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...more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.” - George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia (1789) “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.” - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr (1787) "In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.” - Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1771) “Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity.” - Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791) “Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.” - Roger Sherman, Congress (1789) "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people build a wall of separation between Church & State." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Danbury Baptists (1802) "To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine, The American...
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...behavior of business, government, unions, investors and creditors. It is argued that the resulting behavior of these individuals and groups could be detrimental to the interests of other affected parties. And, the argument goes, accounting standard setters must take into consideration these allegedly detrimental consequences when deciding on accounting questions. 2. What economic consequences arguments are used in this letter? A. The economic consequences arguments that are used in this letter is the considerations of the wide range of concerns that have been expressed about the derivatives and hedging proposal, including concerns related to the potential impact on the capital markets, the weakening of companies’ ability to manage risk and others. The letter is suggesting for fairness and transparency with regard to the proposal of FASB and be open for public debate and comments as this is important in businesses, the customer’s and the economy as a whole. 3. What do you believe is the main point of the letter? A. The main point of the letter is to postpone the issuance of the newest approach that is about to finalized or issue by the FASB without any further study or consultation from the public. The FASB has developed, over the last few weeks, a new approach that it proposes to adopt as a final standard. The FASB may not have adequately considered the wide range of concerns that have been expressed about the derivatives and...
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...funding from state and local organizations. These programs include the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants, Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, joint U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH), to name only a few. (Alliance to End Homelessness, 2011). The National Alliance to End Homelessness encourages a policy of advocacy in Congress and local government. They believe that members of Congress will be more likely to promote change if they are given to opportunity to understand how many people in their district are suffering and what can be done to stop it. The Alliance explains how advocacy can make a difference, just by calling and writing to policy makers or building relationships with them by meeting with them or inviting them to attend a program explaining the problems homeless people face every day. The Alliance works with Congress directly through meetings and organized campaigns with advocates throughout the country. They encourage ordinary people to advocate at home, by writing or faxing letters to their Senators and Representatives asking them to increase funding for programs that provide assistance and aid to the homeless, or by working with the media to help raise awareness of just how serious the issue of...
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...He thought about serving in the British, French, and Austrian armies, but no positions he liked it wanted to serve. In 1777, he traveled to France, where he heard talks of riches and glory to be won in the american revolution across the Atlantic Ocean. Through St. Germain, von Steuben was introduced to the American ambassadors, Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin. These two were unable to promise von Steuben a rank or pay in the American army. The Continental Congress had grown weary of foreign mercenaries coming to America and demanding a high rank and pay, based on promises made to them by the American ambassadors. These men would be promoted in rank over deserving American officers who have been fighting, causing discontent in the army. As a result, Congress ordered the ambassadors to stop this practice. Von Steuben would have to go to America strictly as a volunteer, and present himself to...
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...The American Revolution started in 1775 after the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1774. The First Continental Congress was a meeting of the people of the 13 colonies that wanted independence from King George III. Two of the main people in the First Continental Congress were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Before the First Continental Congress, the Boston Tea Party happened in 1773. The Boston Tea Party was an act of anger because of the unreasonably high taxes on the tea that king George shipped over to the 13 colonies. In result, the colonists shipped back to Britain and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The colonists received consequences from the King which were called The Intolerable Act. This Act included not having a jury in court. This violated the 5th amendment nowadays. During the First Continental Congress, the people sent a letter to King George III of Britain, asking if they could become their own nation because the King wasn’t protecting their natural rights. The colonists made a plan if the King said no, to meet again in 1775. The King said no and sent over troops because of the Intolerable Act/the letter and the troops were allowed to live in your home and you had to provide them with food and a bedroom. This made the colonists angry...
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