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AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

John Edwards: An Overview of a Presidential Candidate

("John Edwards for President," 2008). In his Native Son advertisement, he talks about his upbringing, and how he will not forget a...

Hillary Clinton’s Health Care Proposal

reform is the American Health Choices Plan. In it she addresses costs and quality and hits on topics such as long term care, canc...

Truman Proclamation/Continental Shelf

over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...

Presidential Persuasion

status provide bargaining advantage. The U.S. has a government where there is a sharing of power (Neustadt, 2008). That is, there ...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Presidential and Congressional Influences

Reform Act of 2002 ("LEGISLATION RELATED TO THE ATTACK OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001," 2002). The purpose of this law is to beef up securi...

Ukraine - Orange Revolution And After

they would use it with the world watching as the events were broadcast on television and reading about it in other media (Karatnyc...

The Effects of the 2008 Presidential Campaign

it is important to remember that the executive office is only one branch of government, and much has to do with which parties have...

US Continued Involvement in the Vietnam War and the Decisions Responsible for this Involvement

two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....

US Government's Separation of Powers

While England appears to be ruled by the Queen, it is actually a democracy. England has what is called a parliamentary democracy....

The 2008 Presidential Election

included for quite some time, two front runners who were each minorities in their own right. If Hillary Clinton won, she too would...

The Future of No Child Left Behind

performances. President Bush instituted No Child Left Behind because too many children had been falling through the cracks...

The Obama and McCain Health Care Reform Plans

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...

Organizational Theory And Unifying A Nation

details about the exact smears that were used.] Another of the differences with the 2004 election had to do with information tech...

Colin Powell and His Role in Foreign Policy Decision Making

retire from office as the countrys Secretary of State. Colin Powell rose through the military ranks during the latter half ...

Significant Policies of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and Their Controversies

Hillary Clinton has lobbied tirelessly to provide all Americans with decent and affordable health insurance and was the chief arch...

Biography of Bill Clinton

for a second term, but won the office again four years later. He was Governor of Arkansas when he ran for President in 1992, defe...

Presidential Election of 2004 and Theory of Social Conflict

theorists, the political system is a completely biased institution which focuses more on the working class, which they claim expla...

Presidential Election of 2000 and Black Disenfranchisement

statistics are quite intriguing. At the same time, the ballots which were considered to be spoiled were really occurring at a rate...

Presidential Elections and the Influence of Lobbying

as soft money and issue advocacy" (Newlin Carney 337). However, pro-reform activist groups are adamant about the issue of raising...

Presidential Elections from a Sociological Perspective

problem is that during the 2000 campaign, some stations projected the winner before polls closed in California. This means that so...

Various Types of Presidential Power

local dominating interest and insuring a policy determined by a range of desires (Tannehill and Bedichek, 1991). Madison also wan...

Contemporary Presidential Politics

The change has come as the casualty figures in Iraq continue to mount and the White House offers no exit strategy. Although the B...

Lobbyists and Their Role in Presidential Elections

an active part in politics and even to help change laws or create new ones. For this reason, AARP - whose "current top national l...

Politics and the 1960 Presidential Debates Between Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon

Its also interesting to note some other factors -- namely that with television reporters and commentators entranced by Kennedy, Ni...

Ronald Reagan's Presidential Leadership

be stuck with high budget deficits. Economics aside, Ronald Reagan is considered an excellent leader and polished president. His...

Locked in the Cabinet by Robert Reich

more progressive and the extension of the Earned Income Tax would cover more of the working poor; however, without significant cut...

Presidential Inaugural Addresses and Their Importance

be our own" (Kennedy). 2. George w. Bush 2001 Inaugural In this address, George W. Bush begins much the same way as Kennedy as h...

Overview of the 1865 to 1877 Era of Reconstruction Following the U.S. Civil War

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...