Arno B. Cammerer

d Vietnam become an American War by 1968, and what problems did the United States have in winning the “Hearts and Minds” of the Vietnamese people? By 1968 American politicians committed hundreds of billions worth of resources and nearly half a million personnel to the Vietnam War. Which was a war based on fabricated research and statistics, blatant lies to the American public, and cherry-picked threats. Americans provided most of the financial assistance, resources, over half a million…

Since the discovery of TV and the advancement of electronics, society has become a media saturated environment. Through the use of computers, televisions, and cell phones people are surrounded all day by news and entertainment. However, TV commercials are the only aspect of presidential campaigns where the candidates have ultimate control over their images. Script, editing, performance, and visuals are utilized by TV commercials to refine a candidate’s primary campaign points into smaller…

Martin Luther King, Jr. uses his powerful voice throughout his works to draw on the hearts of his audience by tapping into their moral compasses. King has an impressive understanding on the influence that the argumentative appeal, ethos, has on his readers. By using ethos, King is able to appeal to the character of every single one of his readers. This allows his works to seem more personal, therefore resulting in a bigger influence on his audience. In “The American Dream” and “Letter From…

only through the cooling lens of a TV camera. I knew the statistics: so many dead, so many bombs dropped. But seeing in person, driving past dozens of devastated buildings, was far more emotional, even in the dark.” (Zimmerman 260). President Lyndon B. Johnson refused to lose Vietnam, and he feared losing Vietnam would send them in the direction as China. In 1960, Viet-Cong rebels from south revolted causing the election to be Ho Chi Minh was a part of. In 1962, John F. Kennedy sends 16,000…

Political actions are arguably motivated by moral beliefs of both the citizens of a state and their elected leaders. Since religion inherently contains a moral and ethical standard for participants to abide by, the use of religious statements by presidents can effectively provide insight into their moral realm. A president that frequently utilizes subtle religious rhetoric is also providing his listeners with an understanding of his moral beliefs. As Jonathan Haidt illustrates in his book The…

Public Opinion of the Vietnam War and its socio-political effects on the United States After the Assassination of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson was inaugurated as the next president of the United States. He began to escalate his bombing campaign on Vietnam, named Operation Rolling Thunder. The casualties that were resulted in this operation were as follows: thousands were dead, missing or captured, hundreds of planes shot down. On the other side there were over one hundred and eighty two…

(8) Many factors sparked the great controversy and conflict of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and 1950s. Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was a pivotal point leading up to the 1960s because it reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson case, deciding that facilities could be “separate but equal.” Thus, integration began in the schooling system with the Little Rock Nine, while many other activists seized the chance to attack the Jim Crow laws. Also, World War II black veterans rallied under the…

There are many things that set Kennedy apart from Eisenhower. One thing that sets Kennedy from Eisenhower is that Eisenhower thinks of Kennedy as “callow” and “ incapable of governing”, he also finds it appalling that a man who was nothing more than a lieutenant in WW2 is taking over the presidency while Eisenhower himself is a general who directed the D-Day Invasion. While Kennedy thinks of Eisenhower as nothing more than an old general that has zero interest when it came to righting the wrong…

Death in Disguise Many remember November 22nd, 1963, as a traumatic, devastating day: parents lost a son, siblings lost a brother, a wife lost a husband, kids lost a father, nieces and nephews lost an uncle, and the United States lost a president. On this day, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was riding in a motorcade on Dallas’ Dealey Plaza when bullets were shot hitting him in the neck, throat, and head. After being rushed to the hospital, Kennedy was unfortunately announced dead (“November 22, 1963:…

In the 1952 Presidential Election, United States President Harry S. Truman, a Democrat, was succeeded to the Presidency of the United States of America by United States President Dwight David Eisenhower, a Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America. United States President Dwight David Eisenhower was a decorated military man. He was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in WW2. By the 1952 election, the United States of America had not officially entered the…