Essays on Policy

Many people in western culture are terrified of the concept of biological weapons because it has the ability to wipe out whole populations. The biological agent used in this sense may be anything from a viable microorganism to a potent byproduct of the organism's metabolic processes. The ability of biological...

The Kansas City Gun Experiment: A Failure with Multiple Factors The Kansas City gun experiment was a failure for many reasons. Most gun studies failed to measure certain factors, including Location, Internal consistency, and Test-retest reliability. This article explores these issues. However, one aspect of the experiment that has not been...

Introduction Individuals marry for a variety of reasons, and the basic reasons decide the longevity of the union. For example, if a woman married to avoid financial problems, she may want to divorce until she has a steady career. The alarming divorce rates in the United States can be due to...

Should Ethnic Profiling be Implemented as a Security Measure? Other security policies that have previously been implemented have failed, so ethnic profiling is needed. Israel has successfully implemented racial discrimination at their airports. Terrorists have historically been able to circumvent even the most stringent security steps. Racial discrimination seems legally justifiable...

Gun Control: Background and History Gun control is a system of rules or guidelines that govern the manufacture, commercialization, distribution, ownership, alteration, or use of weapons by civilians. Many countries have stringent gun-control rules, with only a few exceptions deemed permissive. In the United States, gun regulations pressed for the passage...

The Obama administration introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative in June 2012. It protects deserving undocumented young adults and teenagers from deportation. The program also allows them to qualify for job permits, which improves their social and economic conditions. Around 1.7 million young immigrants applied for DACA...

For a long time, many countries around the world have been troubled by the debate about whether cannabis can be legalized. When making a major federal decision like this, certain political factors must be considered. Nonetheless, prior to America's enlightenment, most civilizations in the country had harnessed the Cannabis sativa...

The United States and North Korea have had a tense policy relationship for decades (Easley, 14). North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been accused by the US of trying to advance its nuclear program. According to the US, North Korea s nuclear...

The Death Penalty's Decline and the Discovery of Innocence 2008, Cambridge University Press. The book assesses the drop in murder cases in America as a result of increased recognition of the death penalty. Americans have been viewed as only endorsing the death penalty in principle, implying that it is past...

Bittman et al. wrote an essay titled “How a National Food Policy Could Save Millions of American Lives” (869). It addresses the possibility of a robust food program and its possible effects on Americans' health and well-being. The authors acknowledge that the food industry accounts for the majority of the...

Introduction As early as the 1980s, women from minority religious and ethnic communities in Western European countries have not been defined by policy-makers as a population in need of special defense from unique types of harassment or rape. They were more likely to be invisible as a focus audience and overlooked...

Impact of President Trump's Policies With so much going on in our world, beginning with our new president's policy changes, I feel the need to write and share my thoughts in the hope of sharing ideas on how new policies could impact our lives in school and even after graduation. Empowering the...