...------------------------------------------------- Written Assignment Barack Obama’s Presidential announcement “That beneath all the differences of race and region, faith and station, we are one people.” This quote is just one of a thousand that Barack Obama has told the people of that country he is now the President of. It is a quote from his presidential announcement he gave in Springfield, the state capital of Illinois, in Chicago - and is great words from a great man. He stood up and gave a speech about what he thought about America’s situation; financial crisis and families who were desperate and despairing. He gave a speech about hope, where there was none. Especially not when the war was going on in Iraq and seemed to have no end. He gave a speech to the people about the future, when that was what the people wanted answers to. On the 10th of February 2007, Senator Barack Obama announced that he was running for president of the United States of America at the 2008 election. He begins his speech with thanking all the people who came to the performance. He clearly express himself that he is aware that it is not for his sake they have come but to hear his proposal of changing and improvement. In Obama’s speech talks about his background and how he ended up in Springfield, Illinois. He explained the people how he came there, without any family or money. He told them about when he was in these poor neighborhoods’ of Chicago, he received the best education he had ever...
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...America’s 2016 presidential election is something that seems to have never occurred in the US before. This nation as already ran through multiple systems to have failed to meet the standards of the public and better this country, but for the last six years, there has been almost no progression. The people for America are now looking and pleading for a system ran by a president who will be bring reassurance and simplicity to this entire situation. This year also seems to stray away from past elections because the public interest seems to no longer feed from the idea of social network revolutions, but, in fact, it seems to have the opposite effect. The 2016 presidential election is to be finalized in January when votes of the Electoral College, that are cast in december, are counted by a join session of Congress. Up until then, this year’s election process presents multiple candidates, from both the Democratic and Republican party, strategically setting up their campaign and presenting their stance on various issues in hopes of winning the favor of the public and convincing voters that they are what America has lacked the essence of for six years. I believe Hilary Clinton will be the final ticket for the Democratic party, and, while the Republican party seems to face a year of unpredictability, I predict the Republican’s presidential nominee to be Marco Rubio. Hilary Clinton readiness is combined with an immense team of practical personnel, intensively working to avoid the same...
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...Republican Debate 1/13/2016 was held at the North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, South Carolina and was aired on Fox Business Network at 9:00 pm. Niel Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo narrated the debate of: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Chris Cristie, Geb Bush, John Kasich. During the debate John Kaisch spoke fluently and used natural hand motions that showed that he was passionate about what he was talking about. Chris Christie used little hand motions but he made constant emotional contact with the audience by referencing the safety of our homes, families, and kids. Jeb Bush kept stuttering which showed he was nervous. He also spoke in a fake pressuring tone which was distracting to me and made it obvious he was trying too hard. Marco Rubio did not smile when the audience applauded and he didn’t wait that long to continue talking which I liked because it showed he knew what he wanted to say; however, he talked too fast which was distracting. Ben Carson’s opening was unprofessional. Donald Trump’s hand motions are excessive, obnoxious, and awkward. Democratic Debate on 1/17/16 was held at the Galillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina and was aired by NBC News at 8 pm. Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd narrate the debate of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley. Hilary Clinton had a very strong opening. O’Malley had awkward eye contact with the audience; it was obvious when he was reading his speech. At the end of his opening he says...
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...2012 U.S. Presidential Electoral Performance Review In Barack Obama’s passionate acceptance speech for president on Nov 5th, the fierce political campaigns between him and Mitt Romney came to an end. From making speeches through television to shaking hands with potential voters, from preparing debate questions to interacting with journalists, both the incumbent president from the Democratic Party and the nominee from the Republican Party have made great efforts to present themselves as the potential president for audiences. This essay will analyze their political performances by looking at the actor(s) in this campaign, collective representation, means of symbolic production, mise en scene, social power and the role of audiences and media based on Alexander’s work on cultural pragmatics. Their performances (especially Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s performances) between the first presidential political debate on Oct 2nd and the “Big Day” on Nov 5th will be reviewed. Undoubtedly, the actors in this political campaign are Democratic Party candidate Obama and Republican Party candidate Romney. Barack Obama as an incumbent president who won the 2008 election with his slogan called “Changes we can believe in”, however, he only faces “things can be worse” by now. For him, in all the three debates, he always tried to demonstrate that he had made great efforts in the past four years, his efforts can sustain in his second term and things will get better but they also take time...
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...John F. Kennedy Brian A Fitzgerald Eng/147 March 2 2015 The Things That John F Kennedy Was Well Known In October 1962, a spy plane photographed missiles sites being built by Russia on Cuban soil. President Kennedy did not want the Russian military and Cuban people to know he knows about the missile arsenal. So he held a secret meeting with his cabinet for a few days to resolve the issues at hand. By 1963 there were signs of less tension between Russia and USA. President Kennedy urged Americans reexamine the cold war and called for a strategy of peace that would make the world a safer place for divisity "For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." On October 14, 1960, in the wee hours in the am, Senator John F. Kennedy spoke to a crowd of eager students at the University of Michigan at a presidential campaign speech. In his improvised speech, Kennedy asked, "How many of you, who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service, and spend your lives traveling around the world?" His young audience responded to this speech well with a petition signed by a thousand students willing to serve abroad in the Peace Corp program. Kennedy asked R. Sargent Shriver, to direct a Peace Corps Task Force. Shriver...
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...they appear cautious. Civil servents may also appear cautious as a fith of there time is spent (as mentioned in the extract) on work directly relating to parliament ie drawing up speeches legislation responces to questions which is ultimatly very sensitive work relating directly to the posistion of the minister so they will be cautious in what the say and write. the posistion of prime minister firstly has no constitutionally enshriened role and therefore there is no guidebook or set of rules on how he or she is to operate there government so therefore the posistion of the prime minster or the pm is largely relient on what the holder chooses it to be and what they make of it. There are usally two main types of prime minister the presidental model and the prime minsterial model. Firstly the prime ministerial model is more cabinet focused this is usally beacause the pm has a small majority so it is neccesary for him to constsntly consult the cabinet on almost all issues and have a strong party consensus on the direction of government. A example of this kind of government was john majors early 90s government major only had a small majority of 18 so had to constantly consult his cabinet about...
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...CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………….15 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………………..17 1 Introduction The current graduation paper is devoted to the detailed study of the neologisms in the American press. The latter is observed via examining the cases of neologisms brought forward by B. Obama. In this paper an attempt was made to throw light upon many words and phrases that are used in modern American political lexicon, as well as to examine some political neologisms that help to cover the 2008 Presidental Election Campaign. The graduation paper consists of an introduction, two chapters, conclusion and bibliography. The introduction manifests the main topic of the research, the major phenomenon related to the investigation and to basic structure of the paper. In throws light upon the development of the political language which promotes the creation of neologisms. Chapter One analyzes the political language in general as well as the four main political styles that the political language is...
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...chapter and encountered argument I really didn’t know what to think except that most people argue about one thing or another (happens a lot with my brother and myself), but that I’ve read the chapter I have I a new respect for what it takes to put together an argument to make people understand your side of an issue. 2) Argument is everywhere. This statement true do to the fact with all the things happen now a days people are arguing about just about everything from the government passing a law that allows them to spy on people, or that people believe that all states should follow Washington and Colorado in legalizing marijuana. 3) A traditional argument is based off the ideal of winning the argument, for example when there is a presidental debate in which both side try to prove the other one wrong. An example of consensual argument is when a group looks at all side of an arugment and trys to come up with a consenus on whos ideal help/benefits most or all people involved. 4) The conditions in which an argument works best is when there are the following, 1. An issue (a central focus point), 2. An arguer (someone who knows about the issue and is motivated to initiate an argument), 3. An audience ( people that are willing to listen to the argument weather they be friendly or hostile), 4. Common ground ( an effective argument nust have some kind of common ground between the audience and arguer that is relevant to the issue), 5. A forum ( the ability to be creative and know...
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...exhibited why JFK became The President he is known to be. I plan to use this to give background depth on his life prior to his actual Presidency. The boook The Kennedy Mystique will be used to address how JFK often manipuated the media to establish his and his familes name and the mythical lure that went a long with it. I would particularly like to utilize this book for its inside look that it gives into JFK's private affairs that were the primary purpose for the creation of Camelot. I also plan to use The End of Camelot book, because although long and very detail oriented it gives a superb look into JFK's Presidency thorugh personal accounts of his own and others and also through recollection's of those who studied and witnessed his Presidental and personal life. The Kennedy half-century is vitally important for me too use because the book explores JFK's Presidency, assassination, and lasting...
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... The bad light Wilson was going to be protrayed in instilled fear in him. And when the treatment of the jailed picketers became public knowledge, Wilson was forced to address Congress. In a close vote, the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, granting women the right to vote. The 19th Amendment was a major turning point in the women’s rights movement. But despite this monumental step for equality, the amendment was not accepted by everyone. Similar to African Americans after the 15th Amendment was passed. Jim Crow Laws were put in place inable African Americans to vote, and to this day the system in America is crafted to put Caucasian, cisgender males a step ahead while leaving marginalized groups to work twice as hard. In the recent presidental election, a woman ran for president and won the popular vote. Women now have the opportunity to go to school and obtain jobs formerly offered solely to men. The fight for equality is still alive, with the MeToo Movement. Activists such as Malala Yousafazi an Angela Davis continue to fight for equality today. The journey the powerful women have taken to achieve the right to vote was challenging, but all in all, successful. The topic of women’s suffrage was a highly controversial issue can stil be considered as so today. The heroic actions taken by women during the 1900s have paved the way for reform and equality, Alice Paul and may others have inspired future leaders to stand firm in their beliefs, and to fight for what they believe in...
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...Experimentation Critique Stem Cells Abstract According to human guidelines, human stem cell research is questionable. The main ethical dilemma revolves around whether or not an embryo is a human being of a cluster of cells. Stem cell research has the ability to provide treatment for many of today’s incurable diseases and disorders, and it is apparent this type of research produces many ethical issues in which one can consider both positive and negative for such research. Experimentation Critique Introduction Stem cell research is a modern method of discovering new medical break throughs. Research is involoved, using human embryos, causing heated moral debates. Human –nature and goal-based ethics theories apply to this controversial debate. The debate lies in the determionation of the embryos with moral status is owed. There has been extensive research in the underlying law and religious ethics surrounding the use of embryos for medical reasons. Discussed, is the debate, controversy, and opinion of government officials, in relation to the ethics involving stem cell research. Issues/Conflict Stem cell research proposes many ethical issues. The basis of this issue is that embryonic stem cells research holds such vast promise for so many people but obtaining the cell means destroying embryos. The ethical conflict brought on by stem cells means destroying embryos. The ethical conflict brought on by stem cell research is whether or not it is acceptable by social standards...
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...Staying as relevant as possible is one of the factors that contributes to South Park’s enduring run on Comedy Central. A relevancy to current issues is a major component in what makes the show so interesting. For example, PRESIDENTAL EPISODE was a unique episode, due to the fact there are two plots, but only was produced and aired. One plot is an episode where a group of McCain supporters are at X’s house and a group of Obama supporters are at X’s house. McCain is announced winner, this leads to McCain supporters parting in the streets, and Obama supporters treating the situation as the end of times. The election however was a ploy, Obama and McCain are Ocean and Rusty in an Oceans’ Thirteen style heist to steal the hope diamond amidst the election result chaos. The other plot is identical except Obama wins. This was done because the next episode aired the day after the election results; once the results were announced the South Park staff created all of the Obama...
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...INSTAGRAM Story of the innovation Instagram, as a free online photo sharing application with unique filters and social media networking opportunities, has first been launched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in October 6, 2010 on Apple’s App Store. The development of the application first began in San Francisco Silicon Valley, with the attempt of the creators to launch the service application using their HTML5 mobile web application knowledge which they have first started through a check-in project named Brbn. With the inspiration the two owners got from their observations through Brbn that people would actually tend to share more photos on online applications, they decided to evolve the idea into a more specialized and innovative one, which is Instagram. The mobile photography application was first started on launch, with the seed funding $500.000 which was once provided by Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz in March 2010 while the owners were working for Brbn. Starting from November 2010 after the launch of the application on Apple’s App Store, new employees as community manager, engineers and community evangelist were started to be hired for the Instagram project, which has become a company by then. It is stated by the owners that it took only 8 weeks to build and ship Instagram, however, it was a product of a year of work. The co-founders were at working for Brbn at the beginning of their idea generation and innovation stage, which was giving the service of being...
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...Sentence Transformation Classic Sentences *Simon hadn’t expected that he would feel so weak after the operation. (The operation left Simon feeling weaker than he had expected.… ……………………………………… *People no longer smoke so many cigarettes as they used to. (The smoking of cigarettes is no longer popular as it used to be. *We’ve been thinking of the matter over and over and have finally come to an decision. (We’ve given the matter a lot of thoughts. *I can remember an equally mysterious incident. (I can remember an incident just as mysterious as this. *Mosquitoes cause malaria and this is well known. (That’s mosquitoes cause malaria is well known. *We were no more surprised than Jane. (We were all surprised. *There was no precedent for the King’s resignation. (Never before had a/any/the King resigned. *A house in that district will cost you at least $100.000. (You won’t be able to buy a house in that district for less than $100.000. *Alan worked too hard at the office, and this led to his illness. (Alan’s illness was the result of his hard working. *We must continue our efforts, whether there are problems or not. (Regardless of whatever problems, we must continue our efforts. *In the event of nuclear weapons being used, we are all doomed. (If it should happen that nuclear weapons are used, we are all doomed. *The lecture bore me to tears. (I am very bored with this lecture. *That rumour about the politician and the construction...
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...Possible Term Paper Topics and Instructions You will research, prepare, and write a 10-15 page term paper for this class. You have two choices as to how you can approach this paper: Track A and Track B. Regardless of which “track” you choose, the same general guidelines and expectations apply to all papers. The topics listed below do not define the entire universe of subjects available to you. If you have another idea for a paper topic, check it out with me. Once you select a topic, and I would suggest that this be done promptly, stop by my office to discuss your research endeavor. Track A: Issue-centered paper. Those choosing this track will research and write a paper on a specific issue of constitutional law. The paper will focus on the Court’s treatment of an issue and competing perspectives on it (both on and off the Court), and provide an evaluation and critique of those perspectives. It will culminate in a defense of its own thesis. Possible topics include: • The history, functions, and uses of one of the various “technical barriers” • Scope and limits of the presidential power to pardon • Federalism as a value in the Warren and post-Warren Supreme Court • Federalism as a constitutional concept in the Rehnquist Court • How far did the Rehnquist Revolution in federalism go? • The constitutional status of the War Powers Act (1973) • The concept of Executive Privilege • Are there limits to the...
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