president. The people at the Constitutional Convention wrongfully feared that the people of the nation would vote for a bad candidate, and decided to delegate the task of choosing the president to certain people chosen by each state. The Electoral College should be abolished because it does not provide the basic Constitutional right of political equality, and because it makes it encourages hyper-partisan. Federalism, which is the equal share of power, does not exist in the Electoral College because the smaller states are overrepresented. As Document H states, when there is a tie in the electoral votes, the result of the election would be determined by the House of Representatives where “each state casts only one vote[. This means that] the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 votes, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters”. Evidently, this is completely absurd, This system brings in the idea that some…
The 1992 Presidential election pitted incumbent President George Bush against the Democratic party’s candidate Bill Clinton and Independent Ross Perot in a contentious campaign. Bush had garnered the votes of the American people in the 1988 election under the pretense that taxes during his presidency under no uncertain terms, or as he famously stated “Read my lips. No new taxes”, would rise. Bush soon breaks this oath to deal with the rising deficit, this action resulting in a lasting effect on…
Los Angeles heavy metal band, Body Count, found themselves in the middle of censorship disputes with the release of their self-titled album in March 1992. The main issue surrounded Ice-T’s lyrics in the song, “Cop Killer” which was deemed to encourage violence towards police. Calls to Time Warner to discontinue distribution of the track gained in popularity when the song was publically condemned by Vice President Dan Quayle. There were also appeals to boycott all Time Warner media from the…
It 's intimidating enough to feel the burning eyes of the various doctors in the room watching me, but the sight of the syringe with a large needle in the short grumpy old nurses hand makes me feel very unsettled. "You will only feel a slight pinch in your arm okay." Said the nurse while she grabs my upper arm and tries to find the dot she drew on my arm earlier camouflaged in the faint freckles up and down my arm. I take a deep breath as she brings the syringe , filled with the "magical"…
“She’s Come Undone,” by Wally Lamb, a book review from New York Times Database source, provides a lengthy detailed description, for a rather formal audience, with a useful recommendation. However, from the same book, She’s Come Undone, a Goodreads’s user from a Web source, provide a short summary, with no details or specific informational context, for a rather informal audience and also providing a useful recommendation. These two book’s reviews are destine to different audiences, Hilma…
Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient centers around ideas of identity. Each main character has its own identity story told in the book, and they all interconnect to form the storyline of rediscovered identity. One of the main subjects of the book presents itself in the title, and Ondaatje focuses much of his attention on the theme of Almasy, or the English patient, rediscovering his past traumatic experiences and life story. Much of the book focuses on his flashbacks and injuries as he and the…
Click. Select. “Ava Grossmann” Type: click, click, click, click, click. “Clocked in at 3:27 pm” I Looked up. “Hi, Ava!” “Hey!” “What are you eating?” “A caramel roll, I made them last night”. “I’m surprised you made it to work, since I guess you had to leave the kitchen and the bedroom to make it here.” Stop. Look up. I asked, “how is that funny?” He replied, “Well, Ava you should know…” Stop. Snarky replies flashed across my mind. No. Smile. Turn-around. Walk-away. My…
old and she was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Tynisha is Portuguese descent and her family were poor during her childhood, she has two brothers, Timothy and Tazmyn ( June 23,1989- December 21,2007 and one sister, Tay'le Rudolph (1992). Her parents are Timothy and Elisa Smith- Soares. Tynisha father was killed when she was barely a year old and she began immerersing herself at age 8 and she got professionally at age 14. Then, Tynisha move to Los Angeles and live there for seven years then…
American History: A Survey. Twelfth ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007. Print. Bruccoli, Matthew J., Richard Layman, and Tandy McConnell. 1990-1999. Detroit. Gale Group, 2001 "Gangsta Rap." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. Gonzalez, Juan. Roll Down Your Windows: Stories of a Forgotten America. London: Verso, 1995. Print. Haley, James. Post-Cold War America 1992 – Present. Vol. 9. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven, 2003. Print. Leonard, Jack. "Articles about Latasha Harlins -…
The LA Riots were a huge event that transpired in 1992. They occurred after a man named Rodney King was beaten to death by four police officers. He was kicked while on the concrete. Police brutality has always been a heavy issue in America and there have been numerous amounts of incidents that involve police brutality. The police force has changed since the riots occurred and have fewer incidents that are categorized as brutality. Police brutality has been present for forever. There have been…