...taken. The study consisted of four experiments testing multiple audiences on various photos of white males. Each experiment had two pictures for the test participants to analyze; one picture was a man’s face from two feet away, the other being seven feet away. The subjects then rated the man’s trustworthiness by using the “trust meter” they received. For example, the mean trust investment difference in experiment one was 3.2 > 2.45 (far face - close face). The other three experiments had similar results, supporting the claim that the closer someone’s picture was taken, the less trustworthy that person will look in that individual picture (Bryan, Perona, & Adolphs, 2012). Fox’s article covering the material from Caltech’s study presents the information in a bias matter. The writer of the article, Laurie Tarkin, uses the study’s findings to put forth a pro-republican message. At the beginning of the page, Tarkin placed two images of the primary republican candidate Mitt Romney, one from close distance, and one from farther away. She then begins the...
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...Kimani Sherrill May 6th, 2013 Dr. Mirescu Final Exam Relating Power to Political Identity What I shall attempt to do in this paper is display my knowledge of the definition of power. I will also attempt to discuss the different theories of power looked at during this course and apply them to another familiar topic, political identity. I will pick one of the many theories of power we looked at and explain how it relates to political identity. Political identity and power are directly proportional. The more power one has, the more vivid political identity he will have. The more clear political identity one has, the easier it is to gain power. Before discussing and applying power to political identity, I will explain each topic, for one may question the importance of engaging in either of the topics. After referring to Webster's Dictionary, the definition of power is the ability to do something or act in particular way. Power is also the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or a course of events. Human power is very important to us. We utilize power as a way to feel superior to other humans who do not have the resources, or means to obtain power. Humans without power often need guidance, people to follow, look up to, and listen to. Political identity in the most obvious sense describes one of the different parties that one can possibly belong to. However, any part of ones identity used to vote can be considered a political identity. Richard...
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...There is a lot of concern in the media and political circles about the effects of poll results on voters. For example, in September 2012 when Obama was dominating the polls, Republicans latched onto the idea that the polling industry was skewing polls in Obama’s favor to give him the air of inevitability. When Gallup’s likely voter model later gave Romney a 7 point lead in mid-October, everyone started wondering not only what this meant about the election, but if could affect the election. Finally, in a quiet period during the morning after the final presidential debate, the price of the contract for Mitt Romney to win the election escalated rapidly on Intrade, only to retreat back down almost as quickly. Had someone tried to manipulate the contract to make it appear that Romney won the debate or that the election was suddenly tied? Would that be a rational use of money? To answer the burning question, researchers have long observed that people often conform to majority opinion (i.e. during every election, some people jump on the bandwagon and shift their preference to the leading candidate or the most popular policy). During elections, and major public policy events, much of the media coverage focuses on the “horse race,” or fluctuations in support for a candidate or policy. Reporting on public opinion not only affects support, but levels of engagement: donations, volunteering and turnout. These bandwagon effects can make polls self-fulfilling prophecies; the predictions of...
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...Stephanie Huerta Kyrias H. Political Science October 26 2012 Romney vs. Obama When we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can” (Obama).The presidential debates between President Obama and governor Mitt Romney were certainly a game changer, with polls tightening among the two candidates in the final stretch of the campaign season. Obama has a clear lead. He gave great points throughout the second and third round, he also gave great responses in every question and to Romney, and he answers the questions completely, unlike Romney who goes around the question. At the beginning of the second debate Jeremy, a former college student asks a question over job perspectives and how they are planning to give out jobs to the new graduates of America. Not answering the question fully Governor Romney, states that he wants to create five million jobs, but he does not state how he is planning on doing so. On the other hand president Obama states that one, he wants to build manufacturing jobs in this country again. He will also change the tax codes, so that he is giving incentives to companies that are investing in the United States and creating jobs. It also means he is helping them and small businesses to export all around the world in new markets. Number two, he is making sure that the United States...
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...ObamaCare vs. RomneyCare: Is There Really a Difference? Before the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, there were over 50 million people in the United States who did not have health insurance coverage. Governor Mitt Romney says that the health care plan he passed in Massachusetts, known as “RomneyCare” is fundamentally different than “ObamaCare” and will end up becoming a nationwide health care system forced upon the American people. Are the two plans really that different? The 2012 Presidential campaigns have demonstrated that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have different visions for the country, yet both men share common views in healthcare. The centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act was created on the idea of the individual mandate. The individual mandate states that all citizens are required to buy health insurance. Most people tend to purchase health insurance only when they need it, such as in an accident or a sudden illness. This presented a moral challenge as it was questionable whether people could be forced to purchase insurance they don’t need. However, people are required to purchase car insurance so this was used as justification to force the purchase of health insurance. Another key justification is the fact that all hospitals are required to treat people in their emergency rooms regardless of their ability to pay. This creates a burden on the hospital as it raises their costs, so they must recover their losses from the paying patients. Under this type...
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...Newt was asked to speak on several topics which include his thoughts on Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, as response to war on religion and a update on the current job market status and how Romney won't help it. Also before I get started I wanted to point out that the host was sort of rude and liked cutting people off when they speak. I'm sure he knows his politics but who does he think he is? I may be exaggerating but he rubbed me the wrong way with his questions, I mean attacks. To start off the show the hosts asked Mr. Gingrich what he thought about Mitt Romney and his winning poles in Nevada. The well thought response of Mr. Gingrich was as something like this. Mr. Gingrich Accused Mitt Romney of spreading rumors that Newt would withdraw from the race at Caucus time, which I'm still not sure exactly what Caucus is or if it should even be capitalized or not, heh. In, addition to his first response he added that he is basically moving on and not dreading on the past. Mr. Gingrich seems to have a clear agenda ahead as he continues to respond to the statement that basically meant Romney just cleaned house in Nevada. Newt says he is moving on, moving to Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas and focuses and what he can still do and not what he did. Mr. Gingrich also makes it clear that he is looking to make this a “choice” campaign unlike Romney's. He also ridiculed Romney for having an process oriented campaign while Newt would like a issue oriented campaign. Mr....
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...Effects of Citizen United; too Early to Tell Most people, except Nate Silver, thought that the political contest on November 6 was a toss-up, with several swing states in a dead heat in the polls. This election has been portrayed to be an important election for our generation that would shape the future of our country, which is how both Obama and Romney pitched this election. This allowed the race to turn into an ideological battle between two main ideas of government. One that argued for less government and privatization and the other that argued for the fundamental need for government in order to provide foundation for our society to work. While this war of ideology waged on there was another war that was being waged, the all out money war that took place this election. This was the first presidential election after the infamous Supreme Court ruling on citizens united vs. The Federal election Commission, which paved the way for Super-Pacs and unlimited corporate and union donations. This ruling was thought to have powerful ramifications on future elections and the 2012 presidential election. After the election it remains somewhat unclear what effects Citizen United had on the presidential election and what future impacts it will have. Citizens United did not hurt Obama substantially in the election because of his demographics and organizational advantage; however, citizens united could have a significant negative affect on future state and federal elections. ...
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...language. For each term I will give the definition, followed by an example. I will then describe an appropriate circumstance for using the example and when it might lead to misunderstanding. Idiom: The language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class. Don’t give up your day job. This idiom is commonly used to describe someone who believes they are very good at something and could make a living doing just that when in fact in the eyes of others they are really actually no good. Analogy: The inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects. They will probably agree in others. During election times we can hear candidates saying things like, Bill Clinton, Rhode Scholar is to genius as Mitt Romney is to ignorance. Metaphor: A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. The weather was so heavy on Saturday, it was raining cats and dogs, is an example of a metaphor. We use this metaphor to explain that it was raining heavily. We do not mean that cats and dogs were falling out of the sky. Simile: A simile is a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared, generally by using the word like or as. "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." (slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau). Good coffee is like the friend who is always there to comfort you and make you...
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...TANSTAAFL is an expression used to mean that even if something seems like it is free, there is always a cost which is usually hidden or indirect. It can also mean the cost made by a person to make a decision. The decision to consume one product usually comes with the tradeoff of giving up the consumption of something else. The difference between rational and irrational economists is based on the forces that drive their decisions in the market. For irrational economists, they are driven by their emotions when they want to purchase something and the rational economists are driven by critical decision making when they want to purchase something. This is reflected in the person who bid $28 for $20. This person made such a bid because he wanted to win in the group and come out as the highest bidder. People selected $100 today and not $102 tomorrow because they wanted a quick reward and they would rather get the $100 today than wait till the next day to get $102 ("NOVA Mind Over Money"). Adam Smith is the father of economics and the writer of the book "Wealth of Nations". Groups of people with high security numbers bid highest for the bottle of wine because they were influenced by these high numbers. People who had watched a sad movie bid higher because of the emotional influence of the movie and this suggests that human behaviour influences our actions. A spectacular bubble is a phenomenon that explains the rise in house prices...
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...ROMNEYCARE An In-‐Depth Analysis of the Massachusetts Healthcare Reform The American Healthcare System Final Research Report By Sara Mahmood, DDS and Camille Debi 1.0 Introduction In 2006, the state of Massachusetts initiated a health care overhaul by passing a reform law with the central tenet of providing healthcare to all of its residents. Widely popular and objectively successful, the law has been dubbed “Romneycare,” named after then Governor Mitt Romney who signed the legislation into action. The law mandates that nearly every resident of Massachusetts obtain a minimum level of insurance coverage and provides free health insurance for residents earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level. It also mandates employers with more than 10 full-time employees to provide health insurance. Among its many outcomes, the law established an independent public authority with the official title of “the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority”. However, it is commonly referred to as “the Connector”. The Connector acts as an insurance broker, essentially, offering free, highly subsidized and full-price private insurance plans to residents. The website serves as a portal for Massachusetts residents that allows them to access many of the Connector’s resources, as well as the ability to register online for an insurance policy. Although it has been amended significantly since...
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...This would make everyone unhappy. Before getting in too deep in this subject it is important to understand the term Universal Health Care (UHC). Universal health care refers to government mandated programs intended to ensure that all citizens, and sometimes permanent residents, of a governmental region have access to most types of health care. Patients may pay for some portion of their care directly, but most care is subsidized by taxpayers and/or by compulsory insurance (Search 2010). UHC is a very broad term which could mean anything from government financing (as in Medicare / Medicaid for all) to use of tax law to bring everyone into the private health-insurance system (as recently enacted in Massachusetts under Republican Governor Mitt...
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...Ruchit Patel More or less government The “American Dream” is defined as the freedom of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. People all around the world want to live the American dream. But can the “American Dream” be actually lived under more government involvement? Tentatively, the primary political choice in a democratic system is between more government or less—more government control over our lives and livelihood, or less; more government spending and programs than the year before, or less; more government power, or less. Both have their own good and bad sides. Some people think less government is beneficial, others think that more government control would be beneficial. First, talking about small business such as, local or small stores; they can be found everywhere. Even though they don’t contribute a lot to the economy of the country but they still get affected by the government power because they are also part of this country and they are also control by government. Less government will benefit the small businesses but it will also harm them. For instance, if there less government control than there will be less regulation on the small business. People starting their own small business won’t have worry about the law of governments, resulting into more small business which in turn will create more jobs in the community. However, less government control can also cause other problem like safety of the employees and consumers. Since, there will be less government control...
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...Introduction to Philosophy American Intercontinental University Philosophy ABSTRACT Throughout life, we deal with many day-to-day situations. Some come in forms of Mere Assertions, Circular Reasoning’s and Ad Hominem to name a few. If you ever knew what these terms mean. I will give a brief description and example of these meanings. There are nine different types of segmentations in philosophy that are used in the world today. The different segmentations are mere assertions, circular reasoning’s, ad hominem, red herring, pseudo questions, false cause, sweeping generalization, slippery slope and equivocation or changing meanings. These different segments play an essential role in our day-to-day environment. For instance, if you read in the newspaper that a crime was committed, that is an example of mere assertions. In society today, this phrase is heard repeatedly, “You do the crime, you pay the time.” This means that if you commit a crime you, will be punished to the extent of law. In some Middle Eastern countries, they cut your hand off for stealing. In the other parts of the world including the United States, you are innocent until proven guilty. They have to prove with a reasonable doubt that the individual committed the crime. This means that they have to provide evidence to the court showing that beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual was guilty of the crime. This is an example of mere assertions, if someone commits a crime you must have the...
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...your worthy opponent? Once each candidate makes their comments about the opposing candidate, then social media has their take at it and that is a challenge all in its own when determining what is real and what is fake. I believe that in a way, the social interactions on media and in person are solely responsible for me even having to cover this story. We have three presidential candidates that are fighting to be the top two elected. One candidate, Ron Paul, had received an outrageous amount of straw votes which is suppose to be a big reason in why someone gets voted as a candidate. Somehow, media is not covering him, and they are covering is runner up, Mitt Romney. Why do you think that is? Do you think media is trying to sway the votes so that when it comes time to choose the Republican and Democrat candidates, that they choose Mitt over Ron? Ron Paul is a libertarian which many people didn't even know was a category. Its not just Republican and Democrat. And did you know that Ron Paul reached more college voters and high school voters than Obama and...
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...May I ask this question in a serious forum...I am a Canadian (get your jokes out now) and have been watching the presidential election/debate so far and need to understand what the American people think is going on. Mitt Romney is not a bad guy and he has clearly done well both as a governor and business man...however, I think he is trying to put the American people into a perspective that Obama is trying to create that 1970's feeling of "The Man" trying to take corporate America and telling you what you can and can't do...that is a socialist/communistic (?) viewpoint and by him thinking he can make the American people believe this thought, that is why he will win the race. He is more focused on keeping the individual states a free body within a conglomerate of other states while working together to unify the country as opposed to working as one country with a subset of states governing certain regions. This idea is the "corporate structure" that many business' use as the model for their organization and is why he is so fond of this theory. Now onto Obamacare...I understand many of you feel as if you're being "robbed" or "forced" into paying more in order to benefit the little guy who can't fend for himself but that is what a government does. As a member of a healthcare system that is extremely similar to that of Obamacare, yes there are long wait times/yes, we do have a higher tax rate (lower for corporations, which is what obama is trying to change)/and yes the poor, sick, less...
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