Short Essay on Politics

Divide and Conquer: Partisanship Government Partisanship polarization is not a new concept to American politics. The Founding Fathers were divided on the philosophies of federal government between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. American politics saw a decline of partisan politics during the 1950s and 1960s, however there was a resurgence in the late 1970s that has yet to cease (Brewer, 2005, p. 219). While the political elite have been divided along partisan lines, the results of their…

What does a “reputation” mean? As defined by the Cambridge dictionary, reputation is “the opinion that people in general have about someone or something or how much respect and admiration someone or something receives based on past behavior and character.” Based on this explanation, we realize that each individual is responsible for shaping his own reputation, either purposely – similar to what many politicians do – or naturally by his actions, good ones or bad ones. But an established…

presumption of inherent human morality within political systems. This is the dominant intertextual perspective between William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, examined through the values of stability and morality within politics. Texts, as manifestations of values and attitudes, are incontrovertibly influenced by their distinct contexts. As such, though an intertextual perspective may exist between two texts, the idiosyncrasies of their respective contexts will…

Deception Point by Dan Brown is a thrilling and suspenseful political fiction book that has to do with the deception of everyday politics in Washington, DC. Dan Brown created a near impossible situation for any one person to win. He created a situation that puts Rachel Sexton in a position of who to trust and what to do with information that could change the presidential race. Summary Rachel Sexton is the daughter of Senator Sedgewick Sexton. Rachel works for a government program known as the…

Balona, Kazzandra Alyzza G. PS203 – Intro to Comparative Politics Prof. Louie Benedict R. Ignacio Questions: 1.) Illustrate how different players or actors in the environment or society. Identify and perform their function. 2.) Explain the relationship between these actors and how these relationships illustrate conflict within the society. 3.) Illustrate how the movie reflects the dynamics in the economic relationship between developing and developed countries. 4.) How would you categorize the…

3. POLITICAL IMPORTANCE Media stories carry mil¬lions of people, in all life spheres, to the military and political fronts. They provide them with significant place for presidential ceremonies or football contests. They enable the public to socialize among themselves by sharing political experiences, exchanging information about particular political leaders, such as watching political discussions, parliament debates or senatorial investigations. Such involvements thus form public opinions about…

The three articles provided, “Do Artifacts Have Politics” by Langdon Winner, “The Engineer as Social Radical” by J.C. Mathes and Donald H. Gray, and “Slums and City Planning” by Robert Moses, had several different parts that stood out to me as interesting. Each article had their own main focuses, Winner speaking about how objects and technologies in society having politics, Mathes and Gray about engineers being radicals or conservatives and technologies advancing in our society, and Robert Moses…

Alea Ortiguerra IDS 4315-0W59 Identity Assignment The identity perspective is interested in the ideas that guide institutions and how power influences ideas. There are many different identity ideas that argue about how the world is shaped politically, such as the spread of democracy and ideals shape the world, that civilization and culture shape the world, that multiculturalism works towards cooperation, and the necessity to champion basic human rights. Each argument has its own analysis on…

From the works of Thucydides, realism was created and has become a major paradigm in international politics. Thucydides studied the Polynesian War between Athens and Sparta, and he studied the relations between these city-states. From his many observations, he put a focus on how the balance of power is a major factor in international politics as well as the importance of the state. The state is an essential component of realism and it is the foundation for many of the central assumptions coming…

Deborah Tannen’s and the Critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclough, Ruth Wodak and Teun A. van Dijk. These test methods are similar for they are both trying to uncover and expose the meaning/reasoning behind the usage of certain dialects. A short summary of Mike Duffy’s speech; Senator Mike Duffy was accused of taking money from the Senate for personal purposes, this speech was his tool for re-battling the accusations, that he was, in fact, innocent, while also conveying his beliefs…