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- 2071: Whistleblowing
- ... a person decides to whistleblow. In conclusion, this paper will site organizations that are currently advocating the rights of the whistleblower. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Brewer, G.A. , & Selden, S.C. (1998) Whistle blowers in the federal civil service: New evidence of the public service ethic. Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, 8, (3), 413-439. 2. Loeb, M. (1995) . When to rat on the boss. Fortune, 132, (7), 183. 3. Mulrine, A ... important organizational behavior that can cause change in modern organizations. In the public sector, whistle blowing also can trigger fundamental reforms in the nature and role of government in society. Such examples are the Vietnam war, the Pentagon Papers, Watergate and the Challenger space shuttle tragedy (Brewer ,1998) FEDERAL & STATE WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION PROVISIONS According to the The Administrative Law Journal,(Volume 2, Spring 1998) there are several federal laws that contain ... The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, The Clean Air Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, Surface Transportation Assistance Act, Fair Labor Standards, Federal Mine Health and Safety Act, Civil Service Reform Act, Civil Rights Act of 1965, Title VII, Safe Drinking Water Act, False Claims Act, Major Fraud Act, and the Defense Acquisition Improvement Act. Also, according to the Administrative Law Journal, some ...
- 2072: Sectionalism and the Breakup of the U.S
- ... not as geographically separated as the North and the South of the slavery issue, but none the less were partially divided by the Mason-Dixon line. When people tried to rally for interaction in the war of 1812, they campaigned with the idea of new found land, and how our country could expand. As people thought about the prospects of war, and acquisition of new land, they found the struggles of war, along with the fact that our country was young and relatively weak, not very promising. There was not a great need for land, and people were not very enthused about the war with England. ...
- 2073: Contain Communism
- ... U.S. aid to anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey, but it was later expanded to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 Moves and Countermoves U.S. officials, concerned over Soviet pressures against Iran and Turkey, interpreted a 1946 speech by Stalin as declaring ideological war against the West. In 1947 the president proposed the Truman Doctrine, which had two objectives: to send U.S. aid to anticommunist forces in Greece and Turkey, and to create a public consensus so Americans would be willing to fight the cold war. He achieved both goals. That same year, journalist Walter Lippmann popularized the term cold war in a book of the same name. In Congress there was a series of highly publicized inquiries into pro- ...
- 2074: Feminism and Gender Equality In the 1990s
- ... 1980s saw the pendulum swing against the womens movement. Violent acts against women who sought abortions became common and the government was unsympathetic to the victims. There are parallels between the southern blacks civil rights movement and the womens movement. Blacks have long been accustomed to the government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are presently facing similar disregard and their movements are truly one for civil rights. On 2 March 1984, A national campaign was kicked off by the National Organization of ...
- 2075: Martin Luther King
- ... defeat segregation and racism that existed in the United States, and it was his influence to all the Blacks to defy white supremacy and his belief in nonviolence that lead to the success of the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia where the city suffered most of the racial discrimination in the South, and, in addition, the Ku Klux Klan had one ... role in shaping the personality of his son. M.L. Sr. helped to advocate the idea that Blacks should vote. He was involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, an important Civil Rights group. These efforts to improve the way of life for Blacks could be seen by his son. In December 5, 1955 King began to be significant in the changing of the Black man's ... out the knife or if it moved in any way, he would have died because the tip of the knife was touching the aorta of his heart. King's will and courage to fight for civil rights was affected by the achievements of Gandhi's philosophy. On February 10, 1959, he toured India and admired Gandhi for his achievements in breaking down the caste system, which was a system in ...
- 2076: The Role of The Emperor in Meiji Japan
- ... gain control and authority over all of Japan. Historical examples bear out the fears of the Meiji Oligarchy; in 1467 the Ashikaga Shogun failed to control many of the fiefs and because of this a civil war raged in Japan.Footnote35 The centralization of power allowed the Meiji government to have taxing authority over all of Japan and pursue national projects.Footnote36 The unity of Japan also allowed the Meiji Oligarchs to ... to whoever was acting on the Imperial Will absolute right to govern.Footnote43 The symbols of the Emperor and the tradition of Confucianism did not end with the end of the Meiji era or world war two. Today the idea of filial piety is still strong, multiple generations of a family still usually live together even in cramped Japanese housing. The religion of Shinto that the Meiji leaders rejuvenated during ...
- 2077: Welfare
- ... resembled the English system. Social governments were responsible for helping the poor. But the colonies and later the states, sometimes helped the local government provide aid. The first federal welfare program, began after the Revolutionary War, they provided pensions to war veterans. During the Civil War these pensions were expanded to cover soldiers' widows and orphans. In the early 1900's, primary responsibility for providing welfare benefits shifted from local to state governments. During these years, states enacted programs ...
- 2078: Kkk 2
- ... Klan members, who believed in the superiority of whites, soon began to terrorize blacks to keepthem from voting or exercising other rights they had gained during Reconstruction, the period following the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The Klan threatened, beat, and murdered many blacks and their white symphathizers in the South. To hide their identity, Klan terrorists wore robes and hoods,draped sheets over their horses and rode at night. The KKK spread rapidly throughout the Southern United States and became known as the invisible Empire. Its attacks helped drive blacks out of Southern political life. The crazy members:Increased civil rights activities during the 1960's brought a new wave of Klan violence. Klan members were involved in many terrorist attacks, including the killing of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, and the bombing ...
- 2079: Robert Capa
- Robert Capa Robert Capa was born in Budapest, hungary in 1913. Robert Capa is most known for his photographs in war. Known for obtaining photos taken during a war that shows what it is like to be in a war. Showing things like the hardships that soldiers have to endure and the suffering of people whose homes and cities were destroyed as a result of war. His photos are divided into three categories: images ...
- 2080: United States and Imperialism
- ... for the United State's intervention and establishment in Cuba. As with Hawaii, Cuba had profitable resources and a convenient island location to the south of Florida. In 1896, when faced with the issue of war, McKinley decided to watch out for the United State's economic opportunity before he sought to deal with Spain's oppressive hold on Cuba. McKinley feared that taking any action against Spain might upset business recovery after the depression, or hurt the $27 million trade with Cuba in 1897. In 1898, pressure for war ensued; there was rioting in Havana, and the explosion of the American ship, The Maine, caused American advocates for war to declare Spanish responsibility. At this point in time, new situations seemed to suggest that the United State's economic prosperity and honor would be harmed unless action was taken in Cuba. McKinley sent ...
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