Appleman E.M. (2007). The Evolving Field. Online. Internet. Avail: http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/cands08txt.html. Info Acc: 27 October 2007 AFL-CIO (2007). Working Family Issues. Online. Internet. Avail: http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/i Continue Reading...
Contemporary Political Issue: The War on Terror Introduction On September 20th, 2001, President George W. Bush proposed the new Office of Homeland Security to help confront a new threat to national security in the first step of what became the War Continue Reading...
Federal Campaign Contributions Over the last several years, this issue of campaign finance has been increasingly brought to the forefront. This is because the influences of the affluent and special interests in the field of politics have become more Continue Reading...
Meanwhile in the journal Du Bois Review (Parker, et al., 2009, p. 194) the authors point to racism and patriotism as key themes for the 2008 Democratic primary election. "Race was a consistent narrative" used by those opposed to Obama, Parker explai Continue Reading...
agenda-setting function mass media work current presidential election. Consider essay: a) What issue(s) highlighted media ( candidates ) effect voters year? b) There emphasis independent voters swing states Ohio. The role of the media in today's so Continue Reading...
Rhetorical Analysis of Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” Speech “A More Perfect Union” was a speech delivered by Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 at the National Constitution Centre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, durin Continue Reading...
Lessons Learned From the Vietnam War Diplomatic Relations In terms of the diplomatic relations that the Johnson and Nixon Administrations had with representatives from North Vietnam and from South Vietnam, the two most appropriate words to describe Continue Reading...
World War I and the Great Depression World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 sparked the occurrence of the First World War. A Serbian nationalist called Gavrilo Princip murdered him as the heir apparent to the thro Continue Reading...
The government regulation of all artistic expression-from cinema to women performing to the press-keeps citizens unaware of developments in their world, deprives them of beautiful things that could be interpreted as "offensive to Islam," and in gene Continue Reading...
A year later, May 8-19, 1864, Lee was again in Virginia at the Battle of Spotsylvania, leading 50,000 men against Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces of 83,000. Again Lee won the battle which resulted in 27, 399 casualties, 18, 399 Union and 9,000 Confe Continue Reading...
country has been experiencing a religious "war of words" for several decades now. Some Democrats were caught completely off guard by it when most of the swing voters voted for Bush instead of Kerry, giving Bush the Presidency. Surveys and polls done Continue Reading...
Truman Doctrine Just 2 years after the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman delivered a speech to the U.S. Congress concerning the need to contain the spread of Soviet Union-sponsored communism which, with various refinements, would become Continue Reading...
Ronald Reagan Foreign Policy: Annotated Bibliography Tucker, Robert W. 1989. "REAGAN'S FOREIGN POLICY." Foreign Affairs 68, no. 1: 1-27. The author of this article maintains that Ronald Reagan assumed the Presidential role rebuking the 70s' arms co Continue Reading...
Vietnam Antiwar Lit Review Vietnam Anti-War Literature Review The Vietnam War marked a lot of "firsts" in relation to the course of American history. It is the first war that the United States lost. It is one of the first major military actions whe Continue Reading...
Kant was no exception to the paradigmatic priorities (i.e. objectivity as knowledge) of the era, and brief reference to the episteme is serves accuracy in discursive analysis of this heritage within American politics and policy thought. For instance Continue Reading...
portraying an analysis of the speaking style of George Bush Executive Review The objective of this paper is merely to collect a number of speeches by George W. Bush so as to analyze the particular features and characteristics of his respective spe Continue Reading...
Barone's conclusion is based on exit polling conducted anyway, by the polling firm Sumate/Penn, Schoen & Berland, showing that Chavez should not in fact have won the election. Porter, Joy. "Jimmy Carter: the Re-Emergence of Faith-Based Politic Continue Reading...
rhetoric in modern day proceedings, the topic will reflect the modern day influence that rhetoric has on governmental processes from decision making to laws that are passed in Congress. The paper shall deal with the importance of rhetoric in modern Continue Reading...
sensational images in the media, especially as social media has led to the instantaneous reproduction of memes in popular culture. Even before social media and even the Internet, sensational images could spread relatively rapidly via film and televi Continue Reading...
Finally, as he or she goes to express which type of furniture he or she means to buy, he or she uses "couch" to denote an informal piece of furniture and "sofa" to denote a formal one. If others have different interpretations of these two words, the Continue Reading...
When an imbalance of representible matter exists, the basis of the rule of law is jeopardized. What may be done in war is authorized by an intermediary party. A court may review claims by Guantanamo detainees based on alleigance neither to the targ Continue Reading...
Kagan Robert Kagan has been described as a "neoconservative historian,"[footnoteRef:1] and yet the commentator's views are more complex than can be squeezed into one phrase. Kagan does exhibit some of the hallmarks of neoconservative ideology, inclu Continue Reading...
Robert A. Dahl's On Democracy believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. Dan Quayle (1947 -), 5/22/89 The term, democracy, means many things in popular discourse. One has only to turn on the t Continue Reading...
Presidential Election CURRENT COVERAGE OF THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Donald Trump is flying high in the 2016 presidential election campaigns. Besides crushing his Republican opponents in national polls, Trump's critics have thrown in the towel Continue Reading...
presidential election of 1992 was a tight race, compared to others in history. The struggle between the Clinton camp, which focused on a platform involving the economy, the Bush camp, who focused on a platform whose basis was trust and taxes, and th Continue Reading...
She also clearly makes a stand against continuing to rely to any large degree on non-renewable resources and giving the scientific community more authority and right. Clinton Platform; Clinton's platform is currently relying very heavily upon the Continue Reading...
speech "Challenger Address to the Nation" by President Ronald Reagan. Specifically, it will analyze the elements of the rhetorical situation in the address. It will also discuss how the elements relate to Reagan's presidency and popularity at the ti Continue Reading...
Nationwide, those who attended graduate school were 11 percentage points more likely to vote for Kerry than those without a college education. In other discoveries, Bush supporters believed overwhelmingly (72% to 26%) that Iraq has weapons of mass Continue Reading...
PRESIDENT REAGAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD Was Ronald Reagan a Good President? President Reagan's International Human Rights Record President Reagan's International Human Rights Record The Cold War and Apartheid On September 26, 1986, President Rona Continue Reading...
American Democracy Voter Turnout in 1988 American Presidential Election: Democracy is for the people and by the people and it can be successful if people participate effectively in electing their representatives. In 1988, presidential elections wer Continue Reading...
In most occasions however, the consent of the Congress is rather difficult to acquire and this often leads to frictions in the relations between the two parties. So tense are these relationships that the President perceives his meeting with the Cong Continue Reading...
U.S. Approach to Terrorism U.S Approach to Terrorism Post 2001 The incidence of September 11, 2001 led to an anti-terrorism campaign by the government of U.S. And was called the war or terror. Since 2001, U.S. government has taken several steps to Continue Reading...
The new president then moved on to argue that the best thing to be done was that of continuing the plan instated by Kennedy, through which he planned on making the United States a better and more prosperous country. "And now the ideas and the ideal Continue Reading...
Stephen Colbert's Speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner, 2006 In this speech comedian Stephen Colbert gives a hysterically funny account of the Bush administration and the White House Press Corps. President Bush and the member of the pre Continue Reading...
Powers and Rights of the Constitution INSTITUTIONAL POWER: The Constitution gives the federal government the right to form a military service, including what is now the National Guard (Army National Guard, 2011), though it does so in cooperation wi Continue Reading...
President Kennedy also used Aristotle's logic or logos to convince people to fight against public enemy such as poverty. JFK also used metaphor and the most famous sentence delivered after metaphor was "asks not what your country can do for you, ask Continue Reading...
Germany Research Project Germany Germany is a prominent country in Europe as it stands as the second most crowded nation and the biggest economy in Europe. Seeing how it has the largest economy, it does alter the links between the prominent nations Continue Reading...
" The book argues that the reality of history is a "ludicrously compressed and constricted warfare," Said continues; but indeed Huntington cannot grasp the notion that there are no strictly defined Muslim cultures but to make his book work he has to Continue Reading...
2). It is clear that the United States looks on this pathetic situation as a place that needs assistance, and the U.S. has provided aid off and on to Sudan through the years of its independence. It may be, Lewis writes, that the U.S. actually did no Continue Reading...
World War II as a great triumph in American history. The United States forces were victorious in both the Pacific and European Theatres of war. Two military aggressive regimes were destroyed, and peace was restored, due in large part to America's in Continue Reading...
