Essays on Social Issues

Global poverty is a phenomenon that is experienced both in the developing and developed nations. Poverty rates, according to the World Bank, have in the past two years been on the decline and this is attributed to factors such as improving world economy and the reduction of unemployment rates in...

Globalization Globalization has been defined using different perspectives, but all the definitions revolve around the global interconnectedness of economic and political relationships and computer networks. Globalization primarily entails the manner in which industrial and commercial organizations relate with each other irrespective of their locations in the world; the interaction between these...

This is an essay paper about the United States immigration and border security problems and how this has affected the primary objective of the Department of Homeland Security. This paper will begin by giving a brief history of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and how this department...

In the four articles, it talks about the change of climate and violent conflict. A quantitative confirmation dominates recent negotiations concerning security repercussions of climate variability which has a central bearing on policy-making.  The initial statistical proof indicates that exposed countryside livelihoods play a crucial part in linking conflict and...

Technological Advancements and Terrorism Threats Technological advancements have been equally beneficial and taunting to humankind. For instance, an increase in technology development also increases the risks and advancements in terrorism threats as well as other related terrorist activities such as cybersecurity. Impact of Technological Advances on Terrorism The Strategic National Risk Assessment (SNRA)...

Gambling is an activity which is widespread in many regions in the world. However, it is more prominent in US. In this paper, a comparison in gambling between US and other parts of the world was carried out. It was established that while the games played and the purpose of...

Globalization and Development in "Burn!" Majority of scholars that have studied development as a topic agree on the fact that it is not easy for developing countries to jump from underdevelopment to the developed world, and that it goes hand in hand with civilization and globalization. It has also, for a...

Definition of terrorism remains a task to many organizations and agencies. This is due to the fact that there is no one definition which has been agreed by all agencies. It will be realized that different organizations and agencies have different definitions of terrorism. Based on the Department of Defense,...

I have been out of the country many times and have seen the shattered lives of others and their families because of the issue of unauthorized immigrants denied the right of citizenship in the United States. More so, the Dreamers and DACA act have now expired and the government cannot...

Bauhr, Monika, and Marcia Grimes. “Transparency to Curb Corruption? Concepts Measures and Empirical Merit.” Crime, law and Social Change, vol. 68, no. 4 ,2017, pp. 413-458, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-017-9695-1. Accessed 4 May 2018 Summary: The authors are keen on defining what transparency is and they definite it as a condition that helps to...

Globalization is putting increasing pressure on the and strains on the resources, coherence, sovereignty and principles of self -governance on the nation states.  As result to this, the rate of emigrants and immigrants has tremendously increased making some of the nation states adopt the principle of walling their states for...

The Trump administration's decision to rescind the DACA program The Trump administration on September 5th, 2017 decided to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that was initiated by Obama administration to protect close to 800,000 children that were living illegally in the country. These children, commonly referred to...