What is the government doing for Homeland Security?Recently President Bush announced a bill for The Department of Homeland Security. The new Department is the consolidation of agencies such as The Coast Guard, The Immigration and Naturalization Services, The Transportation Security Agency and many o...

Cyber-SecurityReview and SummaryCondoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush's national security advisor said," The very technology that makes our economy so dynamic and our military forces so dominating also makes us more vulnerable."Recently, President Bush proposed $37.7 billion for Homeland Defens...

The articles chosen for this assignment have been written to inform the U.S. citizens thatthere is an aviation-security bill being debated. The aviation-security bill would help toensure a persons safety while at the airport and in the air. The bill would change the wayairport security would be ra...

The President and National Security The President's role in National Security has been a topic of enduring debate in U.S. politics from the Constitutional Convention to our present day situation in Kosovo. Nearly every American President has had to struggle with this issue and deal with th...

To Secure These Rights To Secure These Rights played a great role in United States history. This book exceeded civil rights activists' highest expectations. During a time when men were coming back from World War two. An African American man could go and die for his country but he still h...

While the American government is often admired for its democratic policies and freedoms established there, there are still problems that exist. In terms of civil liberties, the United States of America represents a great system, but it's when these freedoms are compromised to ensure the nation&...

The Patriot Act enacted by Congress post September 11th emerged as government's reaction to combat and prevent terrorism in the United States, by maintaining Homeland Security. The attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th sparked a new fear of terrorism in America. Society called for ...

On February 2nd at precisely 9:00 p.m. president George W. Bush gave the annual state of the union speech to Congress and the Americas people. Bush has many plans for our country in the next four years. Some of which are among social security, cutting our deficit, and man more. When President Bush...

9/11: What has Changed in Three Years The day of September 11, 2001, is a day that many will never forget. Some lost jobs, some lost loved ones, some lost lives. America has been trough a lot of changes since that fateful day. We have went to war, we have became more patriotic, and we have i...

REGO: Reinventing the GovernmentWhen president Clinton was elected as our president he wasn't only made head of one of the most powerful countries in the world but was also made responsible for taking the U.S out of its trillion-dollar debt. In order to eliminate this debt President Clinton and VP G...

I feel that the State of the Union Address was filled with omissions and misrepresentations. Mr. Bush has many mirrors that don't show the true picture. He remind me of the carnival when you have the mirrors that make you look tall or skinny even ones that make you look fat. Just look into on...

In the past year The United States of America was hit with three plaques. These plaques affected American life and its citizens to a certain extent. The American people are experiencing fear, a lack of security and, freedom which they once took for granted. These events made life uneasy, uncomfortab...

The film Contact addresses the complex question of whether extraterrestrial life exists. In the beginning of the film, the idea that there could be any form of extra terrestrial life seemed ludicrous and Ellie was made a fool for believing in the possibility. Once Ellie and her fellow scientists ...

NSC vs. State: Efficiency in Foreign Policy Production The National Security Council, housed in the Executive Office of the President, is one of the most efficient bureaucratic organizations in our government. The U.S. Department of State, located less specifically but more ominously in the Exec...

On Sunday, President Bush\'s administration pledged \"zero tolerance\" if Saddam Hussein refuses to comply with the international call for him to disarm. A revised UN Security Council resolution demands Iraq to do away with its weapons of mass destruction. The resolution also calls for Saddam Hussei...

American Foreign Policy During World War One and Two the American foreign policy has changed. It went from isolation to internationalism. Why? In my opinion it has different reasons. One reason why the United States isolated itself was because they had, and have, no proximity to other great pow...

Despite strong opposition from a Republican congress, Truman attempted to extend Roosevelt's New Deal policies by strengthening social security, conservation, implementing rent controls, and providing housing to low-income families. At times, however, Truman was inconsistent with his own party's bel...

President George Bush and Senator John Kerry are the two key running mates for this year's race to the White House. Bush and Kerry differ on many issues, some big and some small. They differ on how the economy should be handled, energy and environmental issues, health care matters, national security...

Bill Clinton assumed the Presidency in 1993 with a full foreign policy plate. The humanitarian military mission in Somalia, the downward spiraling situation in Bosnia, sustained defiance by Saddam Hussein against United Nations sanctions on Iraq, political and economic chaos in the former Soviet Uni...

THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION The choosing of a nation's leader is always a grave undertaking. However, there are several countries whose decision tends to have a broad impact on the rest of the world. One in particular is the United States. With their next presidential election coming...

Presidential elections have taken place every four years for more than two hundred years. This year is no exception. The forerunners in the 2000 elections are Governor George Bush (Republican) and Vice President Al Gore (Democrat). These candidates have strong and different views on many issues...

The Federal government affects my parents' employers' business more than any other level of government. My dad works for a small research company call Stolle Milk Biologics. The first way it is affected is with taxes. The business has to pay taxes on many things. For Instance, property...

Changes in the Foreign Service Since February 8, President Clinton has appointed nine foreign ambassadors. The countries included in these appointments are Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, Australia, Bangladesh, Poland, Kyrgz Republic, Mongolia, and Laos. These individuals have degrees from Yale, Harva...

Since the days of the 6th century BC, Ian has been ruled by absolute monarchs. The shah-in-shah, king of kings, or emperor decided the fate of the empire. Iran\'s constitutional monarchy, founded in 1906, was ended in 1979. In the same year, a new constitution established an Islamic republic in whic...

At the onset of the latest war with Iraq, in the early spring of 2003, it was already certain that the cost for the war alone would be staggering. The cost of the first Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) was somewhere in the area of sixty one billion dollars (International Security Studies Commiss...