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In fighting for a seat in the US senate in the election simulation game On the Campaign Trail, there are many similarities to a real election campaign which is to be expected. However, the more interesting issues are the dissimilarities the simulation shares with real world campaigns. The issues of polling, campaign advertisements, opponent strategy, and various campaigning techniques to name a few are some of the aspects the simulation goes into. When looking at the similarities of the…

Leadership is a trait that is extremely valuable in any society. Leadership is a very influential process. Being in any position of leadership allows for a person to shape, regulate, control and change the attitudes, behavior, and performance of his group members. Leadership roles fall into different categories depending on actions that are required. Three of the main ones are the following: Autocratic leaders make decisions without consulting team members, democratic leaders make final…

Articles Reviews: Economics; The worst Paying US Jobs Glassman, Mark and Dorothy Gambrell. "The Worst Paying U.S. Jobs Are on the East and West Coasts." Businessweek.com, 2013.Web. 28 Oct 2013. . In their article published on October 11, 2013, Glassman and Dorothy present information about jobs that pay the lowest in the United States. They locate that the ten worst paid for jobs, are specifically on the East Coast and South Coast except for the cases of dishwashers in Las Vegas as well as…

Forty-four times during the two hundred and forty year History of the United States of America, Presidents have delivered their first election victory speech. Although some presidents serve multiple terms, the first term’s victory speech marks a change of political and national leadership. Unlike victory speeches of the past, the 44th speech marked a national milestone in the election of Sen. Barack Obama as the first African-American President. The social and political climate at the time of…

The presidential election is what takes up a majority of the news right now. What is hitting headlines even more at the moment is the first presidential debate. I read the editorial, “Clinton Puts Trump on Defense at First Debate”, which discusses the ins and outs of the debate. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went head to head on Monday, September 26th. The author addresses the highlights of the first presidential debate which included taxes, including Donald Trump’s own taxes, the war in Iraq…

The Presidential Candidates How do people view strong presidential candidates? What does a person of power look like? What makes up this perception of a strong presidential candidates? These are all questions that have changed over the years that media has effected both negatively and positively. The primary way media has effected these perceptions relates to the theories of a good presidential candidate in America. In this essay I will be talking about two candidates of 2016…

Critique of “Doggedness and Defiance: How Trump won” The Fox News “Media Buzz” article, Doggedness and Defiance: How Trump Won, by Howard Kurtz asserts that, “Trump's defiance enabled him to pull off a ‘miracle’” Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The article summarizes some of the major scandals and events involving Donald J. Trump, during his 2016 presidential campaign. It then draws the conclusion that Trump’s defiance is what enabled him to overcome the odds and be…

American Exceptionalism By: Krzysztof Zagozdon Political Science 201 Dr. Mihaela Neacsu Fall 2017 Today we can hear all the time politicians talking about how America is great. How superior we are comparing to other countries, with our personal liberties and democratic ideals. Talks like this are the most noticeable especially during political campaigns, when we can hear candidates from both political parties arguing their points of view of American Exceptionalism. But does the term…

Evaluation. The second function of ideologies is to supply standards for evaluating social conditions. There is a difference, after all, between explaining why certain things are happening and deciding whether those things are good or bad. Orientation. An ideology supplies its adherent with an orientation and a sense of identity of who he or she is, the group (race, nation, sex, and so on) to which he or she belongs, and how he or she is related to the rest of the world. Political Programmatic…

ENGL 2546 Rhetorical Principles, Professor Spoel Oration An estimated 1.96 billion individuals and over 78% of U.S. Americans have a social media profile. (Statista, 2016) This number does not include the millions of people who aren 't connected on the web, but are connected through the television. Now, as a young, Canadian boy, I was always taught that spreading positivity was better than outputting negativity. Whether I was playing sports, being a leader in my school, or even just going…