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The Influence of Environmental Organizations on U.S. Policy, 2006.
An in-depth discussion on the influence of three environmental organizations on U.S. Federal Government environmental policy.
3,399 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 15 sources, APA, AU$ 155.95
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There are many environmental groups which have a tremendous effect on the policy of the United States with regards to the environment. This paper explores how three of these groups, the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, and the National Audubon Society have exerted their power to effect federal governmental policy. The paper gives the background and mission of these organizations as well as some notable accomplishments and further goes on to explore their sources of power in exerting their influence as well as the claims that they have too much undue influence over federal government policy.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Sierra Club
Environmental Defense
National Audubon Society
Influence of Environmental Groups
Conclusion
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"These are some heavy charges to be levied against the environmental groups and those who the Center for the Defense of Free enterprise feels are in concert with it. One of the reasons this group might feel this way is because groups such as the Sierra Club, Environmental defense, and the national Audubon Society have pushed for years to keep the rainforests from being cut down which hurts the interest of lumber group. They have also pushed for tougher standards for car emissions hurting the interests of car makers, and they have pushed for standards on how companies can dispose of their waste products which often costs companies millions to comply."
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Latin America and the U.S., 2004.
By examining various events in recent history, this paper looks at whether the relationship between the U.S. and Latin America is a healthy relationship.
1,987 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 12 sources, MLA, AU$ 102.95
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This paper discusses the relationship between the U.S. and Latin America, through discussion of the following case studies: Cuba and the U.S. trade embargo; Mexico and the use of U.S. branch plants (or maquiladoras); Colombia and the U.S.A. war on drugs; Brazil and the U.S. environmental standards in the rainforest; Panama Canal and U.S. actions regarding U.S. involvement; and the Chile-U.S. fair trade agreement. The paper finds that the relationship between the U.S. and Latin America is not a positive one for Latin America.
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"The issue of Cuba has been a thorn in the side of the US since the Cuban missile crisis. Currently, the US imposes a trade embargo on Cuba, and all of its products. This, coupled with Russia?s disengagement from Cuba, has caused huge economic problems for Cuba, which is rich in natural resources, including sugar and tobacco. Without outlets for its products, Cuba is unable to maximize its profits from its natural resources, and remains a poor country. Yet, it is a country with an excellent health and education system, which is the envy of many developing (and even developed) nations: the socialist government ensures that those resources the country does have are used wisely, to the benefit of the majority of the people on the island."
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How Domestic Factors Influence EU Environmental Policy-Making, 2003.
This paper explores the ways in which various domestic factors in the EU member states can influence the Union's policy-making.
3,429 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 18 sources, MLA, AU$ 156.95
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The paper uses research to analyze the different ways in which environmental policy-making in the EU has been influenced by domestic factors in the member states. The writer finds that public awareness in the 1970s and the success of the Greens in some countries affected the EU. The paper cites case studies of Germany, Denmark, the UK and Spain.
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"The European Union as known today originated from the need of West European countries for a regional arrangement to facilitate their economic development. The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) created by the founding Treaties of the European Communities were created as functional agencies only in charge of the coordination of national, economic strategies in designated sectors, whether they will lead to a supranational body or not. The Treaty of Rome in 1957 did not include any articles that made specific reference to the creation of an environmental policy, which originally was thought to be potentially detrimental to the economic development."
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U.S. Energy Policy, 2005.
This paper argues that the U.S. federal government should establish an energy policy requiring substantial reductions in the total non-governmental consumption of fossil fuels in the United States.
1,230 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 66.95
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This paper explains that Al Qaeda's attack of 9/11 was related to the fact that U.S. per-person energy use is ten times that of individuals in less developed nations and that the U.S. is the major user of the most fundamental commodity in the modern world, fossil fuels. The author points out that Kyoto Protocols were meant to involve all developed nations of goodwill in reversing harmful environmental activities, especially those contributing to global warming, but President Bush, unlike most heads of government, opposed these protocols. The paper proposes that the Environmental Protection Agency be given powers as far-reaching as those currently enjoyed by the Office of Homeland Security and a budget sufficient to create environmental laws regarding fossil fuels.
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Re-Establishing Global Relationships Post 9/11
Human Health Globally
Welfare of Flora and Fauna Globally
Halting Global Warming
Kyoto Protocols
Consequences of Failure to Establish and Enforce an Energy Policy
How to Achieve the goals
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"Serious health problems, caused by fossil fuel combustion, exist in Tehran and the United States, and arguably almost everyplace else on earth. In March, 2005, former vice president Al Gore and former U.S. Senator Howard Baker, Jr. spoke on air quality at a conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville is under federal mandate to clean up its air; "Knoxville is at the center of nonattainment areas for both ground-level ozone and fine particle pollution" (Barker 2005). Gore was one of the framers of the Kyoto Protocol, demanding nations act to reduce fossil fuel particulates in the air, among other things, which President Bush refuses to sign. Considering that the United States, as noted, is the largest user of fossil fuels, and therefore-barring significant changes to the status of communities such as Knoxville-the greatest contributor to air pollution globally, it is essential for the United States to both be seen to lead the way so that cities like Tehran might follow, and also to avoid its own contribution to global air pollution."
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Health Maintenance Organizations in the U.S., 2005.
Examines the viability of having HMOs as part of the American healthcare system.
4,570 words (approx. 18.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 190.95
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The term "HMO" was developed in the early 1970s as part of a Nixon Administration strategy to promote the growth of prepaid plans as a way of improving the capacity and efficiency of the nation's health system. The 1980s were a time of great development. In response to the access of high quality health care at affordable rates, HMO numbers increased, as did the number or members enrolled. The paper shows that today, however, consumers are starting to question the quality of health care that they are receiving. Therefore, HMOs are beginning to lose their popularity and fight an ongoing battle in the high cost of health care.
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"There is also something of a conflict of interest in the way NCQA is financed. About half of its budget comes from accreditation fees, which may create an incentive against setting standards too high. Critics of NCQA and HEDIS say someone who is outside of the industry should perform accreditation and quality review. Bruce Vladeck, former head of the Health Care Financing Administration, suggested that for HEDIS to be a true measure of acceptable HMO practices some indicators should be on a "pass-fail" basis -- certain practices should be flatly off limits. However, according to NCQA president Margaret O'Kane, only one practice is flatly banned: giving utilization reviewers explicit financial rewards for minimizing treatments or admissions."
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Free Trade, U.S. Overseas Operations and the Environment, 2005.
An examination of U.S. operations being moved overseas; whether it is because of less stringent environmental regulations and how this will ultimately impact the environment.
3,868 words (approx. 15.5 pages), 22 sources, MLA, AU$ 169.95
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This paper presents an exploration of free trade and whether it is good or bad for the environment. The writer examines the exodus of American companies that are finding it financially advantageous to move their operations overseas. The writer looks at why they are doing it, what the advantages and disadvantages are and how it will ultimately impact the environment. The writer also looks at possible legislation issues that will protect the environment from such actions.
Paper Outline:
Abstract
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Examination of Why Companies are Moving Overseas
Putting it all Together
Some Legislative Possibilities to Protect the Environment
Conclusion
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"At the San Ramon center, Chevron engineers are using the latest computer modeling techniques to pinpoint underground oil deposits halfway around the world. Procurement experts are negotiating contracts to deliver the latest oil drilling equipment from the central mountains of Papua New Guinea to the wind-swept deserts of Kazakhstan. Economic analysts keep a close eye on the world price of oil to determine when to pump more oil from overseas wells and when to cut back. Accountants analyze budgets from COPI operations on five continents and 23 countries. All this activity is critical to the future of San Francisco-based Chevron, which is steadily cutting back on its investment in U.S. oil drilling because of tight environmental regulations and because easy-to-reach domestic oil is disappearing."
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The Organizing Construct of U.S Foreign Policy, 2007.
This paper argues that the Bush War on Terror has replaced the Truman Cold War as the organizing construct of U.S foreign policy.
785 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 44.95
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This paper states that both the Cold War and the present-day War on Terror doctrines are excellent examples of a "good-versus-evil" paradigm that paints U.S. international affairs in unsophisticated shades of black and white. The author points out that the Bush doctrine is wholly committed to pre-empting terror and not merely interested in containing it as in the Truman Cold War doctrine. The paper concludes that both approaches call for a vigilant and aggressive America that seeks to advance its own security wherever it is deemed necessary.
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"In many respects, it may be said that the Truman Doctrine began the "policy of containment" whereby the United States would aggressively confront any expansion of communism outside of the USSR and Eastern Europe. By comparison, the Bush Doctrine - while it would certainly seem amenable to offering military and financial support to foreign countries that are genuinely eager to engage the terrorist threat - is much more about pre-emption than about containment."
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Russian Organized Crime In The U.S., 2004.
A look at the origins extent and sophistication of the Russian mobs in the U.S.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 37.95
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This paper describes the Russian mobs that have infiltrated the U.S. since the end of the Cold War. The paper discusses Russian crime families in Brighton Beach, New York and Los Angeles and Miami. The paper also discusses the possible threat the Russian criminal activity may pose to U.S. security interests.
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"Perhaps if Russia had not lost the Cold War and split into various Republics and had not suffered severe economic problems, there would be little or no organized Russian criminal activity in the U.S. Many came as immigrants willingly accepted by the U.S. as sufferers from Communism. Now the emergence of Russian criminal groups in the United States is this country's fastest growing criminal justice problem. How did these criminals get here? During detente..."
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Environmental Influence and Risk Management, 2008.
This paper substantiates the statement that the most common causes of project failure lie in the project environment.
1,498 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 13 sources, APA, AU$ 79.95
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The paper explores whether to support the concept of environmental influence upon the risks involved with projects under project management. The paper discusses how the realms of risk factors are directly relative to their environment and as such are significantly influential upon the possible failure of a managed project. The paper concludes, therefore, that the determination of environmental factors and their direct correlation to the potential risks involved in any project operation is supportive of the statement that the common causes of project failure lie within the project environment.
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"Risks are an extremely persistent aspect of project failure and can have any number of varying consequences and repercussions. The assumptions about potential risks involved with the operations of a project are no longer efficient enough to sustain successful completion. The thorough and concise differentiation assessment of both apparent and unapparent potential risks must be exhausted in order to avoid project failure. Project management fully entails this type of research, analysis and determination of project risks. Dissecting the potential for every risk involved with project management is one of the most imperative steps in preparing for each variable that may affect the project."
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Influence Through Power In Organizations, 1991.
This paper describes influence through power, or the use of the sources and bases of power to gain control in an organization.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 166.95
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"This study will describe influence through power, or the use of the sources and bases of power to gain control in an organization.
... define power in its most fundamental form as "The capacity to influence others to do what you want them to do". The same authors in a more extended definition write that power "is the capacity, or potential, to influence others to do what you want them to do. If A has power over B, A can get B to do something that B would not have done otherwise. Power can involve two individuals, an individual and a group, two or more groups, or an organization and an individual, group, or society" .
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Germany?s Environmental Policy after Reunification, 2004.
This paper is evaluates the integration and achievements of Germany?s environmental policy after reunification.
9,415 words (approx. 37.7 pages), 13 sources, APA, AU$ 310.95
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This paper explains that, many years ago, the development of a systematic environmental policy began in Germany; but the reunification of the two German states (Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic), in 1990 created a great new challenge for German environmental policy because of the extensive environmental damage in the former GDR and because of the major economic crisis that started during this time. The author points out that the most remarkable result of increased environmental awareness was the development of an ?eco-industry,? a new manufacturing sector that develops pollution-control devices and other environmentally useful equipment. The paper concludes that the constantly changing world of politics requires innovative strategies to keep up with these changes; therefore, all available economic resources, environmental group leadership, and public environmental support, including the Green Party, should combine to overcome the obstacles created by potential economic and environmental tradeoffs.
Table of Contents
Literature Review
A Brief Review of Germany?s Environmental History
Integration of Systems and Policies
Energy and Environmental Policy
Environmental Programs and Initiatives
Methodology
Results of Study
Organizational Structure of Environmental Protection in Germany
The Environment
Germany?s Future
Economic and Political Options for Environmental Protection in Germany
Traditional Features of German Environmental Policy
Discussion, Conclusion and Recommendations
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"Regulations and government actions to protect nature and human beings against environmentally hazardous activities of commercial and industrial firms have a long history in Germany. Environmental protection is anchored in private and public law, including building, public health and sanitation, and police laws. The Water Rights Act and the Factories Act set the standard for many subsequent laws. The various regulations created to prevent offensive emissions from becoming a nuisance to health and property were systematized and concentrated for the first time in the Prussian Industrial Statute of 1845."
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Power and Influence in an Organization, 2005.
A discussion on the appropriate exercise of power within an organization.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 71.95
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This paper discusses the notion of power, particularly the appropriate exercise of power and influence within an organization. This paper describes the writer's experiences, observations, and learned knowledge about power and how it affects managers at all levels. It also discusses what power means, where it comes from, and what forms it takes on.
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"Appropriate Exercise of Power and Influence in an Organization I have been asked to discuss a subject affecting managers and leaders at all levels. As the current Executive Director of ICMA, one of the largest non-profit groups in the state, I have played many roles. Yet, all of them had in common that I was working with people either as a leader or in a team setting. During this time I have observed many ways in which the power and influence of leaders and managers can change the outcome of a team of company project, with both good and bad outcomes. "
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Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) of 1970, 1996.
Effects on business of civil applications of RICO Act. Background, threats to use (Drexel), uses (Proctor & Gamble vs. Bankers Trust, Death Row Records vs. Time Warner).
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 89.95
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"The purpose of this research is to review the effects on business of civil actions instituted under the provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. RICO was enacted in 1970 as a part of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 (Milich 387). The express purpose of RICO, as clearly stated in the legislation is ?to seek the eradication of organized crime in the United States by strengthening the legal tools in the evidence-gathering process, by establishing new penal prohibitions, and by providing enhanced sanctions and new remedies to deal with the unlawful activities of those engaged in organized..."
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Influence, Power and Politics in Business Organizations, 2002.
An analysis of influence, power and politics in business organizations.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 15 sources, MLA, AU$ 84.95
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The writer analyzes and examines influence, power and politics in business organizations firstly by distinguishing between social influence, power, and organizational politics. Thereafter he characterizes the major varieties of social influence and discusses the conditions under which various forms of social influence are used. The major types of individual power in organizations are identified and the two major approaches to the development of subunit power in organizations are explained Finally, organizational politics and major ethical issues surrounding political behavior in organizations are discussed
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"Position power refers to formal powers that remain vested in the position and are available to any individual who holds a certain position or title. Coercive power is used to control punishments that others receive. Information power is used to control information needed by subordinates to do their jobs. Technological advances have made information more widely available, and so information power is not as crucial as it used to be. Legitimate power covers a relatively narrow range of influence and refers to power individuals have because others accept and recognize their authority. Reward power is used to control the rewards that subordinates receive."
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Influence Of Human Resources On Entrepreneurship Within Organizations, 1995.
A careful examination of the entrepreneurial-managerial transition that companies go through as they grow. Looks at the role that human resource management plays in transforming organizations to actualize the vision that originally inspired the company.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 14 sources, AU$ 140.95
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"The Influence of Human Resources on Entrepreneurship within Organizations
Introduction
A budding company receives its initial organizational 'shape' from its founder or founders. In the most real sense possible, the creative vision that catalyzes events and individuals, provides the initial entrepreneurial burst that forms the company or organization in question. Any organization, in passing from the conceptual to the actual, moves through an entrepreneurial-managerial transition, in which the momentum that helped form the company must in some part be transferred to organizational realities (Flamholtz, 1986; Roberts, 1987). These realities are manifested in managerial sub-structures, the purposes of which are to ..."
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Racketeer-influenced & Corrupt Organization Act Of 1970, 1989.
Analyzes RICO bill & its effect on criminal groups in U.S. Function, successes & failures, Mafia, public policy and anti-drug efforts.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, AU$ 102.95
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"The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970. The paper will examine the RICO Act and the effect that it has had on criminal organizations in the United States, particularly the Mafia. It will consider the strengths and weaknesses, and the overall effectiveness of the RICO Act in handling organized crime as such. Special emphasis will be placed on the extent to which the RICO Act is based on the mini/maxi theory. The mini/maxi theory enables one to analyze the Mafia, and the extent to which it operates, on the basis of either best-possible or worst-possible scenarios. By extension, the paper will seek to determine whether the Act proves either of these scenarios to be true.
In 1970, the U.S. government passed the Organized Crime (...)"
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