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The concept of providing basic healthcare services individuals in need has undergone an agonizing transition, from a luxury once only afforded by the affluent to a basic human right granted to citizens of every economic station, and the recently enacted Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to finalize this ethical evolution. Reflecting perhaps the bitter political enmity currently consuming the nation's once cherished democratic process, Republican legislatures in states throughout the union have bristled at the ACA's primary provisions, threatening all manner of procedural protestation as they attempt to delay and derail the bill's eventual implementation. One of the most intriguing aspects of the sprawling, thousand page law, however, has been the stipulation that individual states will be given a choice to either accept federal funding to expand their statewide Medicaid roster, or to forfeit all federal funding for that program in perpetuity. This Faustian bargain of sorts was crafted by federal lawmakers to provide resistant states with an offer that could not be refused, but in the wake of President Obama's reelection to a second term in the land's highest office, the willingness of Republican-ran states to fall on their proverbial sword appears to have been vastly underestimated.

This essay is an informative piece that explores a current ballot initiative in the state of California. Proposition A, a rise in the sales tax for the city of Los Angeles, is the focus of this essay and is explained in detail. The political aspects of this initiative is explored to contextualize the significance of this issue to the citizens of Los Angeles.

Indeed, the death penalty is one of the most divisive issues in the entirety of the criminal justice system as it currently exists within the United States of America. Although many polls do suggest that a majority of…

¶ … Governor of Illinois, not long ago, declared a temporary moratorium on death penalty cases. He then commuted the sentences of all death row inmates in Illinois prisons. This was due to reports of egregious…

For most of its duration, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ lingers horrifyingly on a mostly-naked male body in pain; as a result, the rest of the film seems exceptionally anxious otherwise about the issue of…

Discuss your interests in being a governor's summer intern. How does this program compliment your personal goals and/or professional aspirations? (Please no more than 300 words)

This essay explores the military leadership schema as put forth by Robert Harvey in his 2009 work Maverick Military Leaders: The extraordinary Battles of Washington, Nelson, Patton, Rommel and Others. In particular, this paper examines the leadership of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and his adherence to Harvey's schema at the Battle of Assay.

Voltaire's "Candide" is several novels rolled into one. (Homer and Hull, 1978), he returns to the life of a commoner. His life has gone full circle. From flights of fancy, he derives pleasure from one of the most basic…

The Roman administrative system changed after C. Gracchus' reform in the year 122 B.C.; this followed the introduction of a provincial reptundarum (Brennan, 2000). There was an annexation of new territorial provinces…

Throughout the annals of American history the development of California from a parched desert to thriving center of agriculture and commerce remains one of the nation's most incredible achievements.