Bill Clinton

How the 2008 election affected African American History in this country. On november 4, 2008 the election had taken a great turn in of events, the history of the African American history. Our newly elected president is a black man for the first time ever, and the forty-fourth. President Barack Obama was elected by 192 more electoral votes than Senator John McCain of Arizona. This is something that many African American never thought would happen in their lifetime. President Obama birth place…

The Jackson family has been in the United States since the American Revolution and even served in the Continental Army.1 The Jackson family has been a very large since its movement to the United States. Every Jackson in Brandon Revel's bloodline has been an upstanding person, and most are well remembered even long after they have passed on. From his parents all the way back to Aldridge Jackson, born in 1799, he has an ancestry of relatives which lived mostly near where Brandon lives today. This…

of strong ethos and pathos. Throughout his speech, he constantly used ethos to demonstrate his credibility as a democrat, republican, and even a business man. Bloomberg passionately speaks about his work in the senate and states, “I know Hillary Clinton can do all this, because I saw it firsthand when she was in the Senate.” This sentence founded a strong sense of credibility for Bloomberg. During the election I constantly watched for the candidates to address change with certain topics such as…

‘Test the Nation’ is a live television quiz show. The format is designed to allow viewers to answer a number of questions in order to measure their IQ or their ability in some other 'intellectual' area. Two hosts present 60 questions in front of a studio audience, a group of celebrities and the viewers at home. The studio audience who answer the questions along with the viewer, is broken down into fun categories often designed to challenge or affirm stereotypes. For example, in the United…

session either during or after, Trump would claim that the election is rigged. So, to add a comedic moment to start off the show Colbert used what is media literately known as his multiliterate ability to show a scene from the debate where Hillary Clinton is talking and behind here and slightly adjacent to the viewers left is three letters, “Rig.” Of course, it wasn’t the word rigged and it was the word right, it was just a “too good to be true” moment where it had to be announced. He then later…

Alyssa Mattson 2A Current Event #3 Despite mutual agreement between the Republican and Democratic parties, the Senate still could not pass a bill enacting criminal justice reform. It was believed that this overhaul bill would be the “bipartisan success story of the year”, according to New York Times writer Carl Hulse. However, this was not the case. Some Republicans Senators disagreed with the idea of reducing minimum sentences, as well as providing President Obama with a “legacy victory”…

Parts of President Obama’s presidency was strange, depressing and dramatic in certain incidents. One incident Obama commanded a special attack on pirates off the coast of Somalia and greatly prepared the nation for a swine flu outbreak that was terrifying the American people. Obama led the nation through many challenges more difficult, perhaps, than the terrorist bombings of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Three people killed and left more than 200 injured, but at the memorial service in…

In the last presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Hillary mentioned that Donald Trump has not paid any federal taxes. Hillary wants Trump to release his tax returns and she mentions “ maybe he's not as rich as he says he is.” While Donald’s Trump son, Eric Trump says the total opposite he said that his dad has paid “tremendous amount of taxes.” There exists a report from the New York Times, it was published based on a 1995 state tax document that showed that Donald…

The framers of U.S. Constitution expressed the use of the ‘executive power’ allotted to the President of the United States under article II, Section I. The framers deliberately implied that the ‘executive power’ should be used solely for the purpose of upholding the Presidential duties of the President. The duties vested to the president is to ensure that the laws of the United States are faithfully executed and are abided by. On November 20, 2014, President Obama publicized a series of…

The votes are all in.. and the President of the United States is… It was election day and America was voting for a new President, the presidential candidates were Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump has a big influence of my life because he’s good at fixing problems such as making America great again, building a wall to stop illegal immigrants, and he also has a sweet flow going on. His sweet flow is influential on my life because what's better than having a president doing great…