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November 8, 2016, ballot in Oklahoma as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. A "yes" vote supported amending the state constitution to include the right to farm and ranch. I think that State Question should've passed, it would of allowed farmers to defend themselves against unjust laws that would harm the industry. It would of also protected all farmers and ranchers in Oklahoma, including small, urban, organic, and hobby farmers, allowing consumers to have access…

Trump is everywhere. By simply tuning into the evening news, it is hard to miss all of the coverage surrounding Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The media is filled with stories of the crazy thing he just said, who he attacked in the latest debate, or even the satires of him all over TV and the internet. However, the media rarely shows why Trump could be an outstanding president. Although he may not be a conventional candidate and lacks a strong backing from the GOP, Trump rivals any of…

Federalism plays a large role into the lives of everyday Americans. One key policy issue which has long been pulled between the federal and state powers is the issue of voting rights. This is currently a very hot subject has the laws behind who can vote are continuing to be shaped within federal and state courts through new voter identification laws. The purpose of this paper will be to first present how the current voting laws have been developed through federalism. In the context of historical…

government, the government must occasionally modify itself to meet the needs of its citizens. The Electoral College worked back when the country was small and it was hard to get political news around, but now the United States a huge nation with access to constant political updates. When the United States adopted the system. there was a measly thirteen states with a total population of around four million. The country has grown much larger, meaning more people are being exposed to political…

Prompt 1 Groups of oppressed people tend to rise and either replace what they found as flawed as reformists or push for a change in the system as revolutionaries. The oppressed group of peasants in Lope de Vega’s play Fuente Ovejuna rose up against their abusive leader Commander Fernán Gómez de Guzmán, because they wanted to push for a replacement in their village’s leader and disliked his ways. The Commander mistreated the people that he ruled over to the point of denying them of their own…

Within the United States, there are two common ideologies, liberals and conservatives. I typically lean towards the conservative side of issues. Inside of our society, the majority of things are not cut and dry. There are numerous different positions for each political subject. The majority of the population has mixed views on topics. Most people tend to lean towards one side or the other, and very few people are strictly liberal or conservative. This is a typical party where multiple people…

Ever since Sudan gained independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, its political landscape has experienced seemingly endless sociopolitical and economic turmoil due to ethnic conflicts amongst the 570 different tribes with diverse sets of faiths, social backgrounds and cultures, and more so due to religious tensions and power politics between the dominant Arab-Islamic North and the repressed Christian South. The 1989 coup d’etat resulted in the successful overthrow of democratically elected…

“ You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” This is a quote stated by the great politician Shirley Chisholm. She is one of the most profound and admired women that challenged society not only as a woman, but a woman of color. She made many contributions to the women's movement and society. Shirley Anita St. Hill Born In Brooklyn, NYC on November 20th, 1924 to immigrant parents Charles St. Hill and Ruby Seale St.…

On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 vote in Shelby County v. Holder to strike down two main provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The first, Section 4(b), contained the coverage formula that determined which jurisdictions are subject to preclearance based on their histories of discrimination in voting. Section 5, which was rendered invalid by proxy, was the actual provision that required certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before…

Sydney 2000 Sports are always an interesting topic. Mega sport events are major catalysts to cultural globalization. The Olympics are a pretext for social pleasure, a background, a cultural wallpaper element of a social environment. It is a major catalyst to the longitudinal and fluctuating transformation processes which undermine the local culture at all levels to concurrently construct a common global culture. Compared to other topics in globalization, sporting events rely on deference’s and…