Saudi Arabia’s mortgage market. Introduction. Housing has remained a basic human need throughout history. Over time, humans have always sought ways to improve their individual life through the improvement of their housing and the real estate sector. Consequently, Saudi Arabia has worked on promoting affordable housing through residential investment. Although housing development is essential for families, it remains a crucial indicator of the tremendous performance of the economy when the housing unit increases. The residential development sector continued to show signs of booming through 2018. Since then, it appears that Saudi Arabia has put pressure on a significant improvement of housing, especially in the major cities. The cycle has not been the smoothest, baring the fact that the economy has been facing times of economic slowdown. Some of the financial dips were adverse that the economy failed to recover immediately. The combined factors continue to pose affordability challenges to the housing sector. Saudi Arabia has sought to improve the housing sector through the improvement of the mortgage market. Despite the trend being weaker, Saudi Arabia expects to improve homeownership by…

R vs. Supreme Court of Canada R vs. Supreme Court of Canada was a case presented to the Supreme Court of Canada on January 18, 2001. The Appellant, Robert Latimer, had been sentenced for life imprisonment without parole eligibility for ten years after he was found guilty of second-degree murder of his daughter, who was suffering from cerebral palsy. There were two main questions that the appellant challenged the Supreme Court. First, was the defense of necessity ignored, leading to an unfair trial? Second, is the compulsory minimum sentence for second-degree murder classified as cruel and unusual punishment in this case? Argument Defense of necessity is when a defendant argues that it was essential to commit a crime. Various factors can make a defense of necessity considered. First, the defendant must have been in immediate danger when committing the crime. Second, committing the crime was the only way out of the issue. Lastly, the harm caused by the defendant must be equal to the harm that he or she was avoiding. Argument B It is not right to let people…

Sync of Experience in White’s Democracy and Luther’s Letter from Birmingham Prison Though EB White and Martin Luther King Jr wrote the letters almost twenty years apart to a distinctive audience, the contents of the messages have multiple shared aspects as far as democracy and doing the right thing is concerned. In Whites letter Democracy addressed to the Writer’s War Board, a Second World Two propaganda channel, the author highlights what real democracy entails and suggests that the board must be insincere in feigning ignorance about not knowing what democracy entails. Again, Martin Luther King Jr in the Letter from Birmingham Jail responds to the clergies who castigated his acts in leading the direct action in Birmingham City in a protest of the harsh, discriminatory, and racist policies against the Negro as he put it. Therefore, King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and White’s Democracy perfectly aligns with democratic issues such as maintaining law and order, accepting the reign of the majority, appreciating the rights of others and their importance, and generally doing the right thing. First, there is a convergent…

SWOT Analysis and Cost Benefits Analysis Name:   Your SWOT Analysis will include one strength, one weakness, one opportunity, one threat, and your summary conclusion. Describe and discuss each answer thoroughly. As a minimum, each answer should be a well-developed paragraph of FIVE or more sentences. Strength: Reduction of Unnecessary Spending Explain: Cutting Medicare and Medicaid will assist in reducing unnecessary spending in the healthcare sector and for the government.  Additionally, the budget plan would help in reducing unnecessary spending by altering how consumers and patients pay for health services. Correspondingly, Dawson, and Cutler (2020) state that the government plans the cut to do away with a commercial bias that currently esteems only healthy working individuals than the actual vulnerable. Additionally, the government also argues that Medicare and Medicaid budget reforms would save finance by using sufficient price transparency, terminating surprise bills, and reducing the prescription of drug costs. The government also argues that the proposal would concentrate on the actual vulnerable. What is more, Zuvekas (2020) affirms that the 2021 budget would change forms of payment to healthcare facilities,…

The War of the Mind: Democracy through Propaganda The mainstream media have played a central role in the manipulation of masses since time immemorial in ensuring that they adopt certain attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Numerous countries during the world wars highly depended on a complex combination of propaganda characterized by exaggerations, distortions, misrepresentations, and lies to foster the messages of extremities and hate and to justify their positions in the war. In essence, propaganda continues to essential for democracies who consider it legitimate, both at times of war and times of peace. Although propaganda was initially linked to totalitarianism states, it has and continues to flourish in the liberal democracies. While proponents have argued that it helps keeping liberties and freedom at the center of national identity, opponents hold that it keeps people from the truth. Thus, it remains controversial as to whether propaganda is a good thing. Although it is true that it hides the truth from the masses, propaganda, primarily promulgated through the mainstream media, is an essential foundation for liberal democracies. Propaganda as the Concealer of Truth…

Polarization of American Politics   Political polarization refers to divergence in political ideologies and attitudes between two opposing groups. Polarization affects how people think and changes their attitudes toward certain political leaders. Polarization of America politics has brought major divisions among political parties over time. Today, differences in political ideologies by political parties have turned personal. Recent political events in America, like President Trump’s impeachment, government shutdown, are among significant causes of polarization in American politics. Polarization has causes, effects, and solutions that have to be addressed. Significant causes of political polarization in America are a growing influence of stereotypes about each other and influence from politicians. Formation of identity groups has also contributed to polarization in that the society has shifted its focus on which political group is stronger in terms of popularity over ideologies and development. Racism and ethnicity are other major contributing factors to polarization (Lawrence, Slides& Farrell, 2010). For example, black people are likely to trust their own social groupings. This results in social mistrust; hence people stop working together in institutions like schools, religious organizations,…

Political Socialization and Religion in Indian Democracy Political socialization describes the process through which citizens crystalize political values, behaviours and identities that remains for an extended period throughout later life (Bhattacharya 83). Citizens learn through this process by successful transfer of political behaviour and norms that are acceptable to the ongoing political system to the succeeding generations. Political socialization entails both formal and informal learning as well as deliberate and accidental learning. Besides, it involves non-political knowledge that influences political behaviour, such as the acquisition of politically relevant personality traits and knowledge of social attitudes that are politically relevant. The process of indoctrination of individuals into a particular political culture plays a crucial role in perpetuating a specific political system. In the Indian political process, some significant number of its citizens do not believe that elections are the only approach to a democratic society. On the other hand, there is mass illiteracy which remains the major bottleneck to the state-sponsored political socialization via the print media. The beliefs, practices, and organizational forms of religion influences the entire process of political…

political democracy and challenged qualification of voting At the centre of political democracy, it challenged the qualification of voting. It started during the American Revolution and after the revolution; no state required property to vote. The constitution had removed the skill of property due to the increasing number of salary earners who did not have enough property need for voting. The island of Rhode is the one, which still required people to have property so that they can vote. The convention of people was an amendment to remove this law and allowed people to vote. Dorr Thomas, a lawyer, tried to distribute federal troops to the Nation but the movement failed. He showed the passions limits of preventing the white people from voting, was eliminated by legislation, and both black and white people were allowed to vote. The 1812 war demonstrated the length the United States was as an integrated state. The United State Bank had expired, and even the sect of transport was not in good order and manufacturing was need to replace embargo of the British. Republicans such…

Democracy is Good Introduction Ancient Greece had the most modern form of democracy in ancient times. All the people participated in discussing and formulating policies for Greece. Also, Greece had elected representatives that had to finance and implement the policies. There were also courts to conduct trials for those perceived as going against the law. Below are some characteristics of democracy in ancient Greece. Golden Rule Early in the semester, we discussed the Golden Rule tying it to Tolerant and Human Rights. How in the Bible it is depicted as do to others what you want them to do to you. In Ancient Egypt, it was stated that which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another.” In Greece, the golden rule was observed by the rule of law. Any breaking of the law was punishable by the law itself, which had been formulated by the people. For instance, any government figure involved in corruption was sentenced by the popular courts. Also, the majority of the laws were made by the people in the assemblies who…

Democracy in Theory and Practice Western countries often enjoy increased liberties as they are categorized as democratic. However, some of these liberties often raise concerns about how democracy works. One such case is the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that declared the prohibition of physician-assisted death as unconstitutional or illegal. The following paper aims at analyzing the main arguments made by the Supreme Court in terms of how the law infringed on individual rights. Moreover, it will also discuss how Joseph Stuart Mill’s argument on liberty can be used to respond to the ruling. The 2015 Supreme Court of Canada ruling declared the ban on physician-assisted death as illegal or unconstitutional. According to Pothier (2015), the trial judge deciding the case argued that the ban violated the rights of capable adults who suffer unbearably because of permanent and grievous medical disorders. It was noted that the ban deprived individuals seeking such services the right to life, security, and liberty. Individuals are deprived of the right to life when any government or legislation forces death or an elevated risk of death…