Williams Act and takeover defences in the United States
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
This statement will be discussed : “Without the process effects generated by the availability of takeover defense in the United States, the Williams Act would not be fit for purpose” The United States is among the countries the most favorable to the use of...
Health Insurance and Financing in United States
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
The U.S health care spending has been characteristically among the costliest per individual, despite which the service quality lies overall below the anticipated delivery level. Unlike the single-payer healthcare system in the United Kingdom, the U.S operates a blend of market-based and...
The relationship between the military and civilian leadership in the United States
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
The civil-military leadership involves the interaction between the uniformed military and the civilians. Attitudes and actions of both civilians and military shape this relationship (Leonard, par. 1). -America has had tension between the military (both in the office and retired) and the...
Probation in the United States
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Karp (2002) argued that probation in the United States can be said to have originated from English criminal law during the middle ages. During these times, both adults and children were punished in the same harsh manner for crimes that were sometimes not very serious. It was common...
Why is the Middle East so important for the United States?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The Middle East is politically as complex as its position on a map suggests: an addition of states with imprecise and moving borders, situated at the strategic crossing between Europe, Africa and Asia; this juxtaposition of small- and middle-range powers with no big powers is a real...
Literature review-Cruel and unusual punishments in the United States
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The subject of “cruel and unusual punishments” has been an issue of contention in the American States. The case of Cornealious Anderson brought the topic in the public media after a recent court case that sought to jail him for thirteen years after a decade from the time of...
United States as a Net Borrower
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
Performing a detailed scrutiny when an international debt crisis strikes, would reveal that struggling countries are guilty of pursuing a self defeating strategy in their build up to foreign debt. Most of the problems that besiege the modern economies are not in any way a swarm of locusts in the...
Exploitation of human rights of undocumented workers in the United States
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Undocumented workers area at risk throughout the American States and their lines are in danger. Their human rights are violated all times and their rights as workers abridged without the knowledge of the appropriate authorities. Protecting this group of people is becoming difficult because...
The United States Foreign Policies - The Relationship between the United States and China
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
The world has become a global economy. This has facilitated the need for countries to interact from a personal level. The desire to interact is facilitated by the fact that countries have the same desire to progress economically and socially hence the emergence of the need for countries to...
North Korea internal affairs and the response of South Korea and the United States
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
North Korea is considered one of the world's secretive societies and one of the remaining countries under communist rule. The country's nuclear determinations have intensified its continual isolation from the rest of the world. The end of World War II saw the emergence of North Korea in 1948 with...
How does the United States foreign policy affect the war on drugs?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
The violence that the population in the illegal drug producing countries of Latin America has continued to take its toll on the population in a vicious cycle that continues to result in deaths, injury and a life if terror for many of the inhabitants. The poor civilians are caught...
Lesbians in the United States
Case study - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Basically, “Lesbians are female homosexuals, women affectionately and sexually attracted to women” (Burn 79). More complex definitions exist, encompassing the politics of lesbianism or the self-labeling of lesbians. But the most important thing to acknowledge about lesbians is that...
Classification and imprisonment in the United States correctional system
Case study - 6 pages - Criminal law
Many people wonder who decides what offenders go into what prisons and why some of those prisons are labeled “maximum security” while others are simply “minimum security”. Is it based on a state, local or federal level or is it based on the percentage of felony to...
World War II: the United States and Great Britain
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
The period preceding the World War II in many respects defined the role of the USA in the pending war. It was crucial in a sense that the US had undergone one of the direst economic crises and was at the outset of industrial revolution. President Franklin Roosevelt proved himself to be...
A legal perspective on digital property: Laptops in United States customs and border protection - published: 11/12/2012
Case study - 20 pages - Management
In this paper we will strive to answer several legal questions regarding the search and seizure of digital property at the United States border by U.S. customs officials. In a hypothetical scenario, a defendant crossed the border with illicit materials such as child pornography...
A legal perspective on digital property: Laptops in United States customs and border protection
Case study - 29 pages - Educational studies
In this paper we will strive to answer several legal questions regarding the search and seizure of digital property at the United States border by U.S. customs officials. In a hypothetical scenario, a defendant crossed the border with illicit materials such as child pornography...
Transocean vs. the United States
Case study - 5 pages - Other law subjects
In 2008 Transocean, one of the world's largest offshore oil drilling contractors, moved its corporate headquarters from the Cayman Islands to the canton of Zug, Switzerland. The move placed what was already a wildly lucrative company in an even more enviable position. Since their 1999 move from...
Beginning of television in the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The history of television is probably one of the biggest stories of the century. The history of American television began long before the marketing of the first receivers in the late 1940s.It took a long time to develop the technology for television. The concept of the television was implemented...
International Marketing Plan for a French car manufacturer, Renault: The launch of an electric car in the United States market
Market study - 9 pages - Services marketing
Renault makes it clear on its website; that they have the ambition to be the first carmaker to offer zero emission cars to use, accessible to everybody. Electric cars are the ultimate answer to current problems related to environmental issues and noise pollution in cities. Technical innovations...
Differences between the United States Constitution and the Confederate Constitution
Thesis - 2 pages - Constitutional law
Two significant differences between the United States Constitution and the Confederate Constitution were the line-item veto the latter granted to the President and the combined measures the Confederate Constitution instituted to guarantee the survival of slavery. The line-item veto...
Two-party system in the United States
Worksheets - 3 pages - Political science
"We are moderate people, not extremist", declared Hillary Clinton at a meeting in Iowa during the race for the Democrats nomination in 2007. It is a statement which applies to the American people as much as to the political parties. Indeed, the United States, the country which is...
Porcelain exports of France in the United States
Market study - 9 pages - Services marketing
The foreign trade of France refers to all trade in goods and services between France and the rest of the world. France is the fourth largest exporter, the first and second in services for agriculture and food products respectively. The French economy is very open to the outside world. It exports...
Disputes and protest movements in the United States of 1960 to 1980
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In 1968, Richard Nixon proclaimed:''If I could choose a time and a country to live in, I would choose the United States of America in 1968.'' The United States enjoyed a peaceful period in 1968; this economic superpower does not have to worry...
'The monetary history of the United States', chapter 7: Great Depression, 1929-1933 (Friedman and Schwartz)
Book review - 5 pages - Economy general
The Great Depression is considered as the most severe economic depression in the history of the United States. In terms of the economic and monetary unions, it had meant: a decrease of more than half of US GDP (current prices) and over a third of US GDP (constant prices) between...
Roman Architectural Influences in the United States
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The tremendous beauty and ingenuity of Roman architecture remained a visual testament of a culture that rose to power and became a dominant force that conquered and governed a vast empire spanning Europe, Asia Minor and Northern Africa. Since Roman architects assimilated Greek and Etruscan styles...
The control of constitutionality and its limitations in France and United States
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
The Constitution is the supreme law in the hierarchy of norms laid down by Hans Kelsen. This poses a problem in the domestic hierarchy of norms by raising a question about how to enforce the superiority of the Constitution, particularly with respect to the law. Thus, the difficulty faced by the...
The growth of organic products in the United States and in China
Market study - 8 pages - Services marketing
An organic product is a product of organic farming, i.e. it claims the total non-use of chemicals. It must contain at least 95% ingredients from an organic production method by implementing agricultural practices and friendly livestock and natural balance of environment and animal welfare. In...
The Effects of the Soviet Union's Foreign Policy on the United States
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Relations with the Soviet Union have been a large concern for the United States since the end of World War II and the emergence of the Cold War. The Soviet Union and its foreign policy during that time prompted otherwise avoidable animosity and conflict for the United...
Evolution of the strategy of distribution of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola in the United States
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
The market for soft drinks cola has been engaged in almost a century old real war, particularly between the two leaders in this sector: Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. These two companies are of American origin, and represent the epitome of the evolution of the firm. How does one analyze the...
The subprime crisis in the United States and its impact on the European financial markets
Thesis - 91 pages - Economy general
It was in February 2007 that the current financial market crisis was revealed to the United States. Institutions specializing in subprime loans announced their first losses and provisions. The financial experts compiled several scenarios. Was this a temporary crisis that would...
