The key players of Australian Politics are often in the spotlight, on the news, on the radio, even on prime time Logie award winning television shows. They promote their policies to the Australian public in their struggle to get into office. But in their quest for the top job, do they effectively ca...

Two men sit in a jail cell both carrying out the sentence for their crimes. One of them is there for murder and the other for possessing a plant called marijuana. In the state of North Carolina, it is illegal to posses more than ½ an once of marijuana. This law does not make much sense. What is od...

The Jamaican economy is an ailing economy and a prime example of an impoverished nation with an inadequate manufacturing infrastructure, limited nation and agricultural assets and declining foreign investments. With a decline in foreign investments Lee Bailey, President of Cruise Shipping Associat...

Hackers, Not Slackers Since the introduction of personal computers in the 1970's, the art of computer hacking has grown along with changing roles of computers in society. Computers have taken over our lives. People could not function without them; our electricity is run by computers, the g...

Most definitions of philosophy have been fairly controversial partly because what has been called philosophy has changed drastically in the course of history. What used to be a part of the philosophical inquiries detached themselves from it. This is why most academic subject began as some aspect as ...

Mark Crispin Miller's article titled "What's Wrong with This Picture" provides his rebuttal against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and their recent relaxation in its rules regarding media ownership. Claims that few giant corporations are taking over the nation's...

Standardized tests are exams developed by a government or an association of professional educators; the purpose of theses standardized tests are to supposedly determine whether students of any discipline are grasping the required aspects of a subject field based on a set of data. Recently the admin...

However, many will agree with me that globalisation has come to affect nearly every aspect of daily life, and has a profound effect on the development of the policies which shape our future lives. Globalisation -- perhaps the buzz-word of the nineties -- has come to mean many things to people, an...

STATE SECRECY VS THE PUBLICS INTEREST The requirement of secrecy by the government is not all-inclusive nor is it sometimes in the government's best interest. However, there are overriding concerns within certain areas in which secrecy is paramount. Two examples will bear light ...

The colony of Boston began to develop rapidly in the early 18th Century, and family life was no exception. Family life became a methodical process where each person, male and female, had a specific part that they filled to ensure the prosperity of the household. It was methods and procedures such ...