It may surprise you that ACT and SAT scores used for admission is a controversial issue. Although‚ many people take a high ACT or SAT score for granted‚ individuals oppose it on the grounds that many people are not good test takers and might not have been aware of what exactly to study to prepare for the exam without paying for an expensive class to help them study. According to school systems‚ what’s at stake in this issue is having a base line understanding of certain topics per student. For me
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)‚ was enacted in 2010. It is an act currently in progress‚ that opens doors to many ethical issues and dilemmas. The act is designed to take effect in stages over a set of years. There are many provisions of this act‚ but the basic provisions are that health insurance providers will no longer be able to deny coverage to individuals with current or prior health issues and each policy provided by health
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The Indian Act of 1876 was designed to control the First Nations people. Major highlights of how this Act unfolded included the First Nations people to sign specific agreements which were commonly known as “The Numbered Treaties”. Children of First Nations’ families were kidnapped and put in residential schools and were forced to learn a new language and to practice a new religion. Later on‚ the Canadian Government changed the Indian Act to ban traditions and celebrations such as the potlatch. It
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lands‚ americans petitioned natives to be removed leading to the Indian Removal Act where authorized president‚ Andrew Jackson‚ signed a treaty to remove native tribes east of the Mississippi river and provide land west of the river. In difference‚ I believe this act wasn’t justified for several reasons; such as laws being disobeyed‚ natives being disrespected‚ and the Trail Of Tears The Indian removal act wasn’t justified because laws were disobeyed throughout the supreme court; for instance
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On July 30‚ 2002‚ the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act‚ better known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)‚ was signed into law‚ with the intention of rebuilding public trust in corporate America. Its laws‚ which required boards to “oversee closely financial transactions and auditing procedures‚” applied primarily to publicly traded corporations (Baker‚ 2005). Only two of the practices named within were required of not-for-profit companies. Nevertheless‚ due to the proliferation
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III. JUDICIAL ACTIVISM The Equal Remuneration Act was passed about thirty two years ago but number of violations detected‚ prosecution launched‚ and convictions obtained have been extremely small. In fact‚ almost all the cases have been in the central sector‚ though most of the employments covered area in the state sectors. The Equal Remuneration Act is insufficient and ineffective. Firstly‚ it seeks to provide for payment of equal remuneration to male and female workers‚ but it does not guarantee
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The Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) of 2010 (Public Law 111-220) was an act by Congress‚ and became law on August 3‚ 2010 ( ). The FSA intent is to reduce the gap between the amount of crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to initiate federal criminal penalties from a 100:1 weight ratio to an 18:1 weight ratio. The FSA also eliminates the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for the possession of crack cocaine (Reid 2012). The FSA replaced the controversial Anti-Drug Abuse Act (ADAA) of 1986‚ that
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all Americans and would be much more affordable.When the Affordable Care Act was established‚ there were 27 million previously uninsured people that would gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Thanks to this new healthcare establishment‚ “about 16.4 million Americans gained health care coverage and the uninsured rate had been reduced by more than a third “Health”. The first example was that when the Affordable Care Act was first released many people knew that this was exactly what they needed
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Security Act of 1935‚ enacted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ has become a third rail in today’s American society. By third rail‚ various scholars explain that if a politician these days were to try to alter or change the structure of the law dramatically‚ then they could essentially destroy their political career. One must understand how the United States gained this transformative law through our country’s history‚ both the official and non official actors involved in enacting the act‚ different
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The Animal Welfare Act was first first passed in 1876 in Britain and titled “the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876”. It was created to approve all animals used in research. Since there were initiatives to protect laboratory animals it took many years until there was a national law to protect laboratory animals in the U.S. There were multiple numbers of states that passes anti-cruelty laws between 1828 and 1898 in the U.S. and fourteen states exempted animal experiments. There were also a number of bills
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