<u>Option 2: Carrying out programs assigned by Congress </u>
One of the duties of the Executive Branch, whose power is vested in the President, is to enforce laws. It does so by giving the executive branch agencies the task of enforcing the laws enacted by Congress. Each agency is granted a specific budget each year to carry out the task.
In the United States, there are 15 executive agencies: Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury and Veteran's Affairs.
The treaty of versailles essentially put europe into a ticking time bomb. It placed all the blame of the war on Germany and forced the German people to pay for the damages caused by the war. This eventually led to outrage from the german people who were then led to support adolf hitler and thus the chain of events lead to world war two began
The answer is D,
The County judge and 4 commissioners make up the commissioner's court.
Them are the administrative department of the county, taking responsibilities or functions in county budgets, setting taxes, roads construction and maintenance for example. The county judge is the head of the office and each commissioner has a county area of responsibility.
Van Cliburn (1934-2013) was an American pianist that was worldwide known because in 1958, when he was 23 years old and in the middle of the Cold War era and its tensions, he won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Moscow was the capital of the Soviet Union, the country that leaded the communist block and that was the US greatest enemy.
The international piano competition was an event designed with the aim of proving the cultural superiority of the Soviet Union, after the very recent victory that the URSS had reached in the space race with the launch of the Sputnik in 1957.
Of course, it would be considered a shame that a foreign artist, and even more an American one, could perform better than the national ones. In fact, the soviet judges asked President Khrushchev if they could give the prize to an American. In this case, prejudices were left apart between two declared enemies, and culture won that night when the prize was given to the best artist, the American pianist.
