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Topic A : Combatting the rising influence of Boko Haram Boko Haram also known as ISWAP is an Islamic militant group dedicating itself to making Nigeria a “pure” Islamic State. Boko Haram has terrorized many parts of Africa such as Chad, Nigeria and Cameroon. Boko Haram was founded in 2002 by Mohammed Yusuf a man who wanted Nigeria to be an Islamic State. The current leader is Abubakar Shekau. Boko Haram can be translated to Western Education is a Sin. Boko Haram is extremely dangerous because…

The race for the presidency in the year 2000 was very controversial. Now after watching the movie Recount it is obvious that George W. Bush illegitimately won the election. Firstly, older voters were confused on how to fill out the ballot, which ended up in a significant amount of dimpled chad that were not counted by the machines, therefore robbing thousands of people of their right to vote for the president they wished to be in office, not to mention that it may have costed Gore the presidency…

recount, thus the local court of Florida, required the city, Palm Beach, to manually recount their ballots since voters in Florida claimed that they had problems with the state’s electronic voting machines. Due to this issue, the ballots were not properly punched, causing a large number discrepancy on who the voters wanted to vote for, and developed a distrust that some of the members of the ballot counting committee were not being honest in the tally of votes. Later, the case was turned over to…

pressure of conformity. After reaching a 11 to 1 vote, the other jurors are quick to criticise juror # 8 but he stands his ground and ask the group to think about the matter a bit more. A second voting takes place but this time by ballots. The results from the ballots show a second not guilty vote. The reason behind the second not guilty vote can be explain by the Ash line study (Ash,…

with charts to from research to support their arguments; one can see that the introduction of the Australian ballot does not necessarily affect the number of third party voters. The authors note that further research is required to support their argument as in the beginning the ballot did not have major effect, as it was not uniformly employed by all states, once national adoption of the ballot took place the authors contend that a third party decline is observed. In accordance with the argument…

decision-makers to endorse the 19th Amendment (van Garnier). Long before this publicized incident, Frederick Douglass spoke out at the Women’s Rights Convention held at Seneca Falls in 1848 stating, “Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her gender. "(One Woman, One Vote). Upon the conclusion of the convention that advocated for women’s suffrage, headlines around the nation mocked and denounced the movement. Elizabeth…

won the recount with the under-votes. Under-votes are votes that were not counted or used when calculating the presidential race.The studies also show that Gore likely would have won a statewide recount of all undervotes and overvotes, which are ballots that included multiple votes for president and were they weren't counted at all. Studies also show that the recount of all hand votes show that Bush would have won the election. So, this disproves the fact that the Supreme Court just handed the…

“…forcing people to the ballot box could affect the "strategic calculations" of 21st century political parties, which often focus on dividing the electorate by playing up certain issues and mining support from the resulting passion.” [Alex Ballingall] When fewer people turn out…

the valley) have changed my perspectives and taught me more about a topic. I have grown as an academic student by writing my research paper in both English and A.P. Government. This research paper had us choose a proposition that was on the recent ballot on November 8, 2016. I went ahead and chose to write about proposition 67. Proposition 67 seeks to keep the ban on plastic bags that was brought up by Senate Bill 270. Before the project I never understood why I should be worried about…

Malcom X did not advocate violence as a first option to solve a problem, but he was also not scared to resort to violence if the situation called for such measures to be taken. In his speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet” he reinforces this belief by stating, “Well, I myself am a minister, not a Christian minister, but a Muslim minister; and I believe in action on all fronts by whatever means necessary” (Malcom X). This is a very different message to…