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further their causes. Over the last several decades, interest groups have multiplied and have made creating policy more complicated as policy makers attempt to fulfill a wide range of interests. As a result of the increase in interest groups, the American government has suffered due to all the different interests at play trying to get a say. This growing problem was a key issue during the 2008 presidential campaign and specifically within Obama’s administration. Obama has had to deal with…

With January 20th, 2017 having passed, The United States stands at point capable of reflecting upon the entirety of the Obama presidency. The Obama presidency is easily a controversial one due to the significant developments in both domestic and foreign policy over the last eight years. Being handed a country on the brink of economic depression, while also entangled in multiple military and foreign relation quagmires, Obama was tasked with a problem many would have balked to handle. Nonetheless,…

Six years into Common Core Standards, set forth by the Obama administration. Is still causing debates. The concerns that are surrounding Common Core is that teachers were not prepared or given proper training on how to implement Common Core Standards (CCSS) in the classroom (Borovoy & Cronin, 2011). There are also concerns that “both the Republican and Democratic presidential administrations have expanded federal authority in the educational policy” (Borovoy & Cronin, 2011). The last concerns on…

The failure of the government-backed Solyndra, a solar company that was supposed to be revolutionary, upset many Americans (US Official News 2014b). Some have criticized the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station near the Las Vegas area because the station needs copious amounts of land, while the heat from its mirrors is a danger to the area 's birds (Investor 's…

in the year 2009 passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on the date of February 17, 2009. ("American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009", Wikipedia.org)The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was also commonly known as the Stimulus package or the Recovery Act of 2009. The reason why they passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment…

York: Brentano’s, 1920. Bartleby. Web. 23 Oct. 2015. The book titled Women and the New Morality was written by Margaret Sanger. She lived in the Roaring Twenties. Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, Social Reformer and a nurse. In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Also, Sanger wrote multiple books on women and the freedoms they needed. Within the chapter, it talks about…

harsh on foreign nations which he believes we ought to take control of by belittling them and criticizing their capabilities to govern themselves. The senator states “They [Orientals,Malays] are not of a self-governing race” (Beveridge, Paragraph 7). American Exceptionalism is shown once again but this time, he is racist towards the other nations instead of just being nationalistic towards the United…

effort. While the reformers reoriented American social thought, novelists and journalists reported corporate wrongdoing, municipal corruption, slum conditions, and industrial abuses. Magazines like McClure’s and Collier’s stirred reform energies with articles exposing urban political corruption and corporate wrongdoing, some magazines later appeared as books. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized the authors as “muckrakers” publicizing the worst in American life, but the muckrakers actually…

Reporting Information Article Assignment - Analyzing a Report James Fallows wrote a report called “Throwing Like a Girl,” it explores the art of throwing a baseball and the misconceptions that lead to the phrase “throwing like a girl.” He goes on to tell us about the time that the Clinton’s, Bill and Hillary, threw the ceremonial first pitch at the Cubs game in 1994. Bill Clinton was wearing an Indians cap and warm-up jacket when he threw the pitch. She was wearing a dark jacket, a scarf, and…

The film A League of Their Own can be considered a feminist film that stands for the individual rights, justice and freedom for women. The film depicts women, as strong and independent if need be, yet still capable of being good wives and mothers. Throughout history, baseball was always known to be an all American sport - played by men of course, however the film takes a turn on history; rather than showing the manly all American sport as everyone knows it, the film shows women playing the sport…