Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is the current President of Russia, he has conquered the Russian political scene for more than a decade, as president and prime minister of the country. It is very clear that Putin has made influenced not only his country, but the rest of the world. His rulings and powers are notably great. It can be said that Putin has followed Machiavelli’s advice regarding an effective ruling to a certain extent. Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher and statesman, and secretary of the Florentine republic.…
Unprecedented the 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. From the moment the polls opened, it was painfully clear that something was wrong. While the media seized on the controversy surrounding the poorly designed Butterfly Ballot, much larger civil rights abuses were overlooked. Focusing on events leading up to Election Day and the attempt to count legally cast votes in the days that followed, Unprecedented examines a suspicious pattern of irregularities, injustices and voter purges all in a state governed by the winning candidate's brother.…
Assignment #13 - What Did We Actually Win To begin, while it is clear that the US in particular won in the Cold War, it is very unclear what we actually won other than the collapse of the Soviet Union. As we have demonstrated in past weeks, the outcome of the war boiled down to a matter of economic might vs military might. The Soviet Union, while militarily sound, was unable to compete with the cost of war and inevitably collapsed. However, following the war, it is apparent that we have suffered substantial losses as well.…
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991. The collapse was a political entity, the Utopian vision of an empire has fallen on its knees, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Soviet Union in 1985. When he took over the Soviet Union economy was in bad shape and his idea was to reform the…
Though he tried for office in the year, 1996, Gorbachev failed to win the election. Despite this obstacle, Mikhail Gorbachev soon formed the Social Democratic Party of Russia. As the leader, he had a quarrel with the chairperson of the organization and soon resigned from his position. Gorbachev then later founded the Union of Social Democrats in 2004. These organizations that he found showed that he was certainly capable of being a leader and they would surely help him form different charitable organizations.…
The 2000 Presidential race all came down to sunshine state of Florida. The sate of Florida had to do an recount of the votes and shows that George W. Bush would have won the recount with the under-votes. Under-votes are votes that were not counted or used when calculating the presidential race. The studies also show that Gore likely would have won a statewide recount of all undervotes and overvotes, which are ballots that included multiple votes for president and were they weren't counted at all. Studies also show that the recount of all hand votes show that Bush would have won the election.…
The dispute between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election made the American population aware of the legitimacy of elections. Additionally, this event illustrated how deeply divided the nation truly is. The debate focused on the state of Florida where there was conflict regarding Bush’s 2,909,135 votes and Al Gore’s 2,907,351 votes [1]. The difference is a staggering 1,784 or about .03% [1]. Clay Roberts explains that, “Any difference of less than .5 of 1% triggers a mandatory machine recount” [1].…
The 2000 Presidential election was the first time George W. Bush ran for president. He ran against Dick Cheney and won. The electoral votes were 271-266 with George having more. This was a significant election because it was the 4th election in all of American history where the candidate that had more electoral votes did not have more popular votes. In the 2008 Presidential Election first time candidate Barack Obama went against John McCain.…
Have you ever wondered if the 2000 presidential election was fair? Well many people have wondered what would have happened if there had been a recount. This election was won off the fact that the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of George Bush. This meant the recount was called off and George Bush won the 2000 presidential election. The US Supreme Court made the wrong decision because there is a standard for recount, they didn’t count all of the votes that were placed and not every person was treated equally.…
The 2000 election was a nail biter to say the least. With the deciding factor of who the next president of our country would be coming down to a slim margin, tensions rose between the Republican and Democratic candidates. The accuracy of the votes were questioned by the Democratic Party leading to a series of lawsuit filed in need for a complete recount, due to some flaws in the election system, to be completely sure that Bush won the election. In doing so, this made the politicians have to reexamine their voting system and by doing so, brought up problems such as the, “hanging or dimpled chads”, which is a vote that has not been completely pressed in by mainly older voters, causing controversy in Palm Beach, Florida. These “Chad” votes…
In the 2000 Presidential Race, controversy in Florida between Gore and Bush started many protest and questioned how legitimate the election results were. Personally I believe the election was not legitimate for many reasons. With Bush recording 2,909,135 votes and Gore recording 2,907,351 votes the difference between the two is only 1,784. Not only is this a close number but this was before the machine recount which closed the gap to a 324 vote difference.…
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist Party, and the Bolsheviks believed that violent revolution was the only way to overturn the government and avoid further development of liberalism in Russia. The authoritarian bent in Lenin’s thinking only got stronger and the Soviet Union became a dictatorship with a ruling central government. In the years following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin rose to become the leader of…
On March 12, 1917, the Duma, legislative body, assembled and took control of Russia and by the 15th Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his rule (Duiker and Spielvogel, 2014). From that point a new political class of workers called the soviets formed. Under the lead of Lenin, his group called the Bolsheviks seized control of the soviets and began to remove capitalism from Russia by any means. On November 8th, Lenin became leader of the new soviet government of Russia (Duiker and Spielvogel, 2014).…
After beginning the video, we quickly are informed that, "Experts report that 93 percent of all communication is through gesture, facial expression and body movement, not words." This statement proves that “body language is everything”. In the video, a short clip is shown involving two well known world leaders, George Bush and Vladimir Putin. The video explains, the stride of a person can say a lot about them. Putin’s stride depicts he’s strong, both literally and figuratively.…
This is the country where I am from, so I can say a lot about it. The president of the country Alexander Lukashenko is in power for 22 years already. He became a president through the process of elections that were fair and free enough in 1994. I think he was just lucky in some way at those elections. It was three candidates: the first candidate was the previous leader Kebich (Communist party), the other one was a leader of the opposition and the oppositional Belarus People’s Front Party Zyanon Paznyak (he was mainly a representative of intelligentsia), and Lukashenko was the third candidate.…