Presidency of Barack Obama

Eric Dodd Mr. Bates English12 24 March 2017 Labor Unions: Trump vs. Hillary With all the excitement of the 2016 presidential election, it raises suspicion of who has more control. A major part of the election is who has the most vote coming from the labor unions. Considering how many labor unions there are in the U.S. alone. Whoever can get the majority of the labor union votes will have the upper hand. Tump is not very liked by labor union bosses. Most of the labor unions…

Michel Martin is an American journalist who currently works for the National Public Radio. She has received various awards including the Joan Barone Award for Excellence and the Candace Award. Her lecture was meant to discuss the ramifications of last year’s political election on public culture, and how to seek out civil communication. One Gallup poll she referenced was the increase from 53% to 70% in Americans favorability towards Muslims in just the last year. This can be attributed to many…

Before reading the articles I think the issue media bias will be a controversial topic. The articles appear to be op-ed pieces and their commentary will be directed towards the republican nominee political candidate Donald Trump. The first piece: The Mystery of Trump, Partially Explained, by Paul Berman gives the reader an idea of the current state of journalism. Paul Berman begins with a series of rhetorical questions, wondering how they failed to see this campaign coming and how America could…

Today, we have lovely weather in December; we have the breeze flowing smoothly, a crisp smell in the air, and the flowers beginning to bloom once again. The idea of a "white Christmas" as sung by Bing Crosby, has been forgotten from the minds of those in cities who have previously had blizzards and tons of snow in their yards every year during the winter. In the South, there are free pools in people's basements caused by rain, while California has turned into the Sahara Desert by lack of it. In…

making this speech at the Mackey Auditorium Hall and the tickets are sold out. Robert Gates is well-known for being the Secretary of Defense for eight different presidents, starting with Jimmy Carter and ending with Barack Obama. According to Daily Camera, Gates served under Obama even though a political opposite, George W. Bush, appointed him to the position. He is also known for being a huge advocate for leadership. His latest book, A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from…

Chapter Nine. Torture in New Hampshire. John McCain vs Barack Obama. That is what Charles Pierce talks all about in this chapter. To my surprise, Charles is for the most part in between the then presidential candidates at the time. Charles also has a go with Sarah Palin. “While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiotic America, John McCain set up housekeeping there. Desperate to dissociate himself from the previous administration, which had spent seven years crafting policies that…

You can’t look at America as a single person or body, it is a heterogeneous mixture of people, ethnicities, wealth, and backgrounds. There isn’t a blue America, and there isn’t a red America, there’s so many different pockets and groups that can influence demographics and elections. So really no one is living in the same country as anyone else, everyone has different lives and experiences that influence their decisions. People who voted for Hillary Clinton saw the world much differently than…

Framing Theory in Current American Presidential Elections Americans will elect the new President on November 8. The importance of this event is reflected in online news: Most sources discuss disputes between main candidates Hillary Clinton (Democrats) and Donald Trump (Republicans). This attitude conforms to the framing theory. It also corresponds to the agenda-setting theory, but the first one is more general and reflects the situation deeper The framing theory focuses “on the essence of the…

During the 1900s America violated loads of rules with African Americans with the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment in such ways that you could not even imagine. "The U.S. Public Health Service discontinued a successful program to document and treat syphilis in rural African American populations" (Reverby). According to this citation the purpose of the experiments was to document and treat syphilis among African Americans. However later on in the trials when penicillin became the drug of choice to…

Ever since President Donald Trump took his stance on immigration during his campaign, Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos has converted himself from being a journalist into an activist. There is no doubt that all Americans can clearly see what Ramos stands for and what are his feeling towards the president. As a journalist, one of the requirements for the job is to be unbiased and objective. The public who consumes your work should not know what are your feelings towards certain issues and your…