Hillary had a clear chance at winning the election. Up until the day of the election, various newspapers were saying that this election would be won by Hillary. By that night, most of us were completely shocked when the results were revealed. Donald Trump had won. A man who most of us thought was not going to win the election at all due to statistics and the loud cry from a majority of society that Hillary Clinton was set to be president. This huge turn of events happened within the first month of
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As president Abraham Lincoln once said that “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Reflecting on his 1860 presidential election win, Lincoln once made the distinction between the fundamental wrongdoing of violating the Constitution in the name of justice and violating those who sought to manipulate it. By illustrating the need for discerning whether Constitutional powers are
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In his article, Conces’ discusses ethnic enclaves and the effects evocative objects have on them. He believes that these evocative objects are “instrumental in creating and sustaining the enclaves themselves” (Conces 2013.) Conces believes that these objects are both centripetal and centrifugal. Meaning that while they welcome and help build cohesion among the ingroup (centripetal), they discourage the outgroup from entering the place in which the object is found (centrifugal). These objects then
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Question 1: The fundamental argument underlying Harrah’s strategy; is it better to catch many small fish or one big whale? The most rewards should be given to the group of customers with high customer worth, or customers who could potentially transition into that category (high predicted worth). Casinos typically target high rollers with a large bank roll who play high stake games. They court these types of players, offering complimentary rooms or services. Harrah’s on the other hand chooses to
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capable of violence, that could either be to be able to defend if needed or to initiate, because he claimed to not start violence in this video. He says he wants someone even more capable of violence and that is more racist than Donald Trump to step up, considering Trump let his daughter marry a
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“We have freedom of speech, but you have to watch what you say.” ~ Tracy Morgan. Over the last couple months, more than 1000 people have been arrested or injured when participating in controversial protests across the nation. However, the majority of those arrests were due to violent outbursts as a response to invidious utterances made by people in an opposing crowd. Amanda Hess’s article “Battle Cry” demonstrates how people’s inadequate communication skills can turn their speech into acts of violence
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The electoral college serves as vital tool in the presidential election process. Since the early days of our history, we have had a federalist-republican form of government with the electoral college helping decide the presidency. It was created in the early days of the constitutional convention of 1787, so as to limit uneducated voters power in the election,and to leave the vote into the hands of informed people, and still remains part of our system today. The electoral college functions as so,
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California’s Sanctuary Bill Sanctuary cities are not a new thing. Sanctuary cities have been in place for many years. Los Angeles was one of the first sanctuary cities in the late 1970s.(Sanctuary Cities:). The Sanctuary cities have been made more aware of now that we have a sitting president that has made known he is admittedly against undocumented immigrants in his campaign speeches by mentioning, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best . . . They’re sending people that
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How is the media, biased, more towards progressive-liberal values, conservative values or in both directions depending on the specific media outlets you may access? I believe before we can go directly into how the media biased, we must first know what it means. Media bias is a political bias in journalistic reporting, in programming selection, or in mass communications media. In today’s society, it has become normal to witness or read about an elected government official being ridiculed by our mainstream
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