Protected areas of the United States

imposing volcanoes, amazing beaches, and a refuge for birds. Across the country, Costa Rica has five active volcanoes, it has more than one hundred fifty beaches, and more than nine hundred species of birds. The twenty five percent of Costa Rica are protected areas, this allows visitors to have a better experience in contact with nature. The following paragraphs are a compilation of relevant aspects about the volcanoes, beaches, and birds of Costa Rica. Costa Rica has more than two hundred volcanoes but

privacy issues (4th Amendment), violation of civil rights (1st Amendment), and may give too much power to the government (Limited Government via James Madison). Body cameras come in all shapes and sizes. There are many commercial businesses in the United States that already use body cameras for private industry work. According to Jay Stanley a body camera are, “small, pager-sized cameras that clip on to an officer’s uniform or sunglasses or are worn as a headset, and record audio and video of the officer’s

Partula snail to get the population under control (Marwell Wildlife, 2014). The Sarracenia Alabamensis, also known as the Cane-brake pitcher plant, was in need of a program to stabilize its population. This plant was endangered because it was located in areas where land was cheap to acquire and when the land was developed, it reduced the number of plants. The first program

Honors U.S History Mr. Irvine The Bill of Rights in Public Schools Every American citizen’s basic rights are protected by The Bill of Rights, however do these same rights apply to students of public schools? Students attending public schools are not protected by the rights guaranteed by the bill of rights. Aspects of the first amendment, fourth amendment, and eighth amendment do not apply to public schools. American citizen’s right of freedom of expression is a very import part of The Bill of Rights

The Indian Claims Commission was a judicial panel for relations between the United States Federal Government and Native American tribes. It was established under the Indian Claims Act in 1946 by the United States Congress to hear claims of Indian tribes against the United States. According to Rosier (2003) the impetus to create the ICC came from three main sources. Native Americans and white political leaders had been calling for a commission separate from the backlogged U.S. Court of Claims since

lack of revenue. Alaska is the largest state in the entire United States of America, and has one of the largest economies. Despite this fact, it is also one of the least populated. This is perhaps due to the harsh, cold climate, the likes of which are not seen in the rest of the continental United States. Alaska, previously occupied by Russia, was purchased by the American government for the sum of 7.2 million US Dollars in 1867. It became an official state in the union on January 3rd 1959. (Hutchinson

we think of power in the United States, we usually think of the President, but he does not act alone. In fact, he is only one piece of the power puzzle and for very good reason. When the American Revolution ended in 1783, the United States government was in a state of change. The founding fathers knew that they did not want to establish another country that was ruled by a king, so the discussions were centered on having a strong and fair national government that protected individual freedoms and did

thought the British race was superior and they needed the land to expand it. Another reason land was so important to European imperialism was the land it provided. In New Imperialism, Document 9, it shows a picture of Africa with the areas where Europeans had taken areas of land. The land provides new places for land, and creates civilizations, and ports for trading. This is important because they wanted new land to expand their trade and expand their country's population. One of the main

while in the Quran, Jerusalem is not mentioned once. (in text citation). Israel is a religious state, specifically a Jewish state. It would make sense to make the holiest site of Judaism the capital of the religious state. Even though Israel is a religious state, there is religious freedom in the country under the Knesset Law. The law states, “places holy to the peoples of all religions shall be protected from any desecration and from any restriction of free access to them.” (in text citation) Since

and fresh opportunity for South Sudanese. Nevertheless, massive state-corroding corruption, political instability within the ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and determined tensions with Sudan over the sharing of oil revenues, internal displacement caused by tribal conflict and fighting between government and militias and food security made South Sudan vulnerably returning back the conflict. Moreover, the areas along the border between South Sudan and Sudan were affected by