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under the spoils system in New York State (Brown pg. 196). Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States of America. President Jackson served as President from 1829 to 1837. Some may say he is the founder and creator of the Democrat party, he believed that the winner of Presidency could select his own officials from his own ranks. During the Spoils era, people were getting selected for jobs based on your political affiliation. During this era President Jackson removed about…

On November 9, 2016 many United States citizens woke up to the shocking news that their next president would be Donald Trump, someone that countless people thought was a complete and utter joke of a candidate until he actually did the unthinkable and won. Soon after the election, many of the large polling services that predicted the incorrect outcome were quick to point to the obvious increase in turnout from the rural sections of America, specifically the Rust Belt states Michigan, Wisconsin,…

I found the movie, A Place at the Table interesting and thought provoking. I enjoyed that the movie showed people from different backgrounds and their stories, instead of just one person’s perspective. I liked how each person told their own story, but there was also a common theme of how they came to live in America and the struggles their families faced. I learned a lot about different cultures from the stories that were told during the movie. One of the most interesting things that I took…

confirming Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia. The gridlock in Washington was the norm for the last eight years and the American public did not like it. As a result, both parties moved away from the center, Republicans to the right through a wave of so-called tea party legislators and democrats further…

Today is known as the golden age of visual media, which has increased the accessibility of advertisements, and subsequently created a greater influence on society. Televised advertisements usually appear as commercials. Commercials are the quickest way to influence and effectively install a perceived necessity through an emotional appeal. A quintessential example of commercials that convey emotions is political commercials. Since the dawn of television, politicians have taken advantage of visual…

Indian Circle is a sculpture made from individual stones. These rocks are not just thrown on the floor and called “art”, they are arranged in a specific pattern, forming a circle triggering thought in the viewer. The colors used in this artwork are natural due to the fact of stones occurring natural in earth: these could be called earth-tones. Different hues of brown are mostly visible, along with some reddish hues. These stones are set out in the open of a large sized room on the floor, nothing…

Political party polarization is a topic of great interest to political scientists. There is a myriad of research on the subject that explores both its generalities and specifics, from explanations of how a party system can become polarized to attempts to quantify levels of polarization in particular nations. In his article “The Quality and the Quantity of Party Systems,” Russell J. Dalton defines the phenomenon as reflecting “the degree of ideological differentiation among political parties in a…

When this biased districting was found, the court decided to redo the redistricting and shift part of one district to the other so that there would be equal representation of each party (Supreme Court Justices). Although redistricting based on party affiliation is important, it is not always the main cause. “While partisan gerrymanders have been accepted by the courts, racial ones have not. The Voting Rights Act requires map makers to consider race to a point” (Supreme Court Justices). Race…

of the United States of America in the presidential election of 1828. He was born near the colonial areas or Waxhaws region between the South Carolina and North Carolina. He was the earliest founder of the major dominant party of the United States of America I.e. Democratic Party. Most of the times in his life, he supported for liberty among individuals and formulated new policies regarding the increasing migration of the Native Americans. He is also better known as the ' 'People 's president '…

to Reagan through the Bush era. His history of the rise of conservative ascendancy from the earliest days of Goldwater forward brought back many memories and filled some gaps. Critchlow develops a comprehensive narrative of how the Republican party challenged the established Democratic majority which was still entrenched with a fusion of the last of the “New Dealers” as against the rising strength of the…