The Role of the Department of Homeland Security.

The Department Homeland Security or DHS was conceived as a response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack that caught the entire American nation flat-footed and left the world in shock. The agency was created in 2002 during the administration of President George W. Bush. It is a totally different agency from that of the Defense Department which oversees the United States Armed Forces (Office of Homeland Security, 2002).    As it is or some six years after its creation, I believe...

Neo-Realism The Conflict in the Middle East.

Establishing a secure, peaceful, and harmonious international community is one of the areas of interest in studying international relation. The greater interaction among states and other non-state actors also entails disagreement and conflicts among them. Due to this, scholars are looking at various theories in order to explain this kind of phenomenon. There are many schools of thought that have their own respective explanations and assumptions regarding the cause of conflict in the international...

U.S. Government.

The tax system of the U.S. Government has been improving for more than 200 years. Today it serves not only to supply the income of the federal budget, states budget and local budgets, but it is also the instrument for the economy development. The formation of the budget and the capital movement play the major role in the implementation of the economic policy of the United States government. Taxes that provide the major takings and the most stable one are directed into the federal budget. The federal...

Waking Up from the American Dream

It can be observed that for the past decade, thousands of immigrants have gone to seek greener pastures in America to pursue the dream that lies at the very heart of every individual living in the United States- the American dream. America is viewed by the world as the land of opportunities and possibilities and as such, the social stigma of this dream is linked to the very foundation of this countrys ideals and principles. In recent discussions, one controversial issue raised was whether or not...