2008 Democratic National Convention

were 17 candidates in the republican party and 8 in the Democratic party, and all candidates but two dropped out. The last candidates remaining were Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, and the election named after them was called “Crooked vs. Crazy”. This election, to most Americans, did not have the most honorable candidates to vote for, but it was a matter of who was the better candidate. Hilary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady was the Democratic Candidate for the 2016 election, and was…

Despite priding itself to be a nation that champions freedom, democratic values, and equality for all, America possesses a deplorable and shameful history in the maltreatment and devaluation of black lives. In Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations, Ta-Nahesi Coates asserts that because “from 1619 until at least the late 1960s, American institutions, businesses, associations, and governments—federal, state, and local—repeatedly plundered black communities,” reparations are a…

controlling political debasement includes election laws, campaign finance regulations, and conflict of interest rules for parliamentarians. corruption impacts governmental issues and administration contrarily. In political circle, corruption obstructs democratic government and the guideline of law. All the more particularly, corruption dissolves the institutional limit of government if methods are slighted, assets are siphoned off, and open workplaces are purchased and sold. Corruption might…

her mother a successful gospel singer. She grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, until she was six years old when her parents split, causing her and her four siblings to follow their father’s preaching assignments to Detroit, Michigan. Her father became a national preacher at New Bethel Baptist Church, while her mother passed away from a heart attack only four years after the split (Biography.com, 2016). Franklin got musically involved early on in her father’s traveling revival show, called C. L.…

Hillary Clinton plans to close the loophole, which is called Charleston Loophole. She also wants to close gun shows, ban semi-automatic weapons, and have stronger background checks on gun buyers. Hillary Clinton has experience of holding a gun. In April 2008, Hillary Clinton said, “My dad taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl” (Time). Through her experience of shooting a gun at a young age, she knows how lethal it is. America needs a president with experience, recognizes the danger of…

The “siècle des Lumières” and accompanying French Revolution were, and often still are, characterized as mass movements of antagonism towards faith and religion. As the Catholic faith of the old regime crumbled, the revolutionary spirit of the time promised to do away with orthodoxy and create a new egalitarian society based on freedom. Ideas like these were fueled by the French philosophes, with thinkers like Voltaire referring to orthodox religion as “the mother of fanaticism and civil…

The American Dream Can Be Accomplished by Anyone Do you ever think to yourself on a particular day when you 're bored, on why are some people more successful than others when they don 't deserve it? Two words differentiate those people and those are ambition and laziness. The American Dream is about having a good stable career,job,income to support a potential family or just live life. It’s not about being a A-list actor or celebrity but to do what some of our parents couldn’t; that 's to…

sheet, via its Pre-Accession Facility. The current Mandate covering all pre-accession countries including Turkey has a volume of EUR 8.7 billion over the period 2007-13. In 2009, the EIB provided EUR 2.65 billion of loans to Turkey, almost equaling 2008’s record EUR 2.7 billion, and bringing total lending in the five years 2005-2009 to EUR 10.3 billion. Over the same period, roughly 40% of loans were made using the Pre-Accession Facility with own funds, while the rest were made on the basis…

Secondary education According to APEC website, there are two types of high schools in South Korea, general and vocational. Combining the two types of high schools together, the ratio of middle school graduates advancing to high school was 99.7 in 2008. In 2008, the ratio of high school graduates who advanced to institutions of higher learning was 88 percent for general high schools and 73 percent for vocational high schools. Applicants for vocational high schools (covering agriculture,…

civil structure, food, good and services, countries nowadays have specific procedures to ensure safer roads. In fact road safety is produces like any other goods or services. The important characteristics of road safety as dealt by Bliss and Breen (2008), are - Road safey is neutral to country structures and cultures. - The production of the road safety is viewed as a management system with three…