Bill Sikes

Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this July. Her speech was anti climatic: she used prior speakers such as First Lady Michele Obama, President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton and Cory Booker to build her report. I’ll begin with the first part of her speech, recognizing Bill Clinton and the love and support he had given her, which are front and center at the convention and had major publicity during this election cycle. She jokingly names him “Editor-in-Chief” and…

It was the summer of 1789 and the Constitutional Convention had just finished its debate on a new governing document, which would be imperfect but audacious for it’s time. As, he walked down the streets of Philadelphia that day, Dr. Benjamin Franklin was stopped by a woman, who asked, “Sir, what form of government have you bequeath us?” to which Dr. Franklin replied, “a Republic, if you can keep it.” 227 years later, through a fratricidal war, the stains of slavery and Jim Crow, two world wars,…

promised to do for the people they will be serving. President Bill Clinton became the 42nd president of the US States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was affiliated with the democratic party. Same as Barack Obama, who had taken office as the 44th president and is still serving. Both presidents had served two terms and made major changes in the way America is today. Through a careful comparison and contrast of the both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton’s Presidency’s, and how they made changes to…

Visa’s given per year, therefore not all victims are guaranteed to receive one (Department of Homeland Security, 2014). Social Policy Critique The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 was signed into law on October 28, 2000 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to fight against trafficking in persons, of all types; forced enslavement and slavery, the sex trade,. The act is in place to assist in the re-implementation of particular Federal programs to assist in prohibiting…

Background: Previous Program Evaluation Paths The Clinton Administration acknowledged that agencies and departments were inefficient and lacked oversight of outcomes. The administration consequently passed the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GRPA 93), giving government officials a tool to begin to properly manage outcome assessment of programs. The Act called for all federal agencies to develop five-year strategic plans with long-term goals. The agencies had to submit annual…

November 8, 2016 will be a day that will mark a transition in America’s political history, since the country will be voting for it’s 45th president. The two candidates who have a chance to win the presidency are Hillary Clinton who represents the Democratic Party and Donald Trump, who represents the Republican Party. At this point, the country is choosing between two candidates that do not have the trust and the characteristics to be the leader of the nation. According to journalists and the…

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.” Terry Eagleton. Eagleton’s quote means that justice doesn’t follow the political laws, that everyone’s justice is different for them. Justice is different for everyone because everyone has different views on politics, because people have different views in society and towards what they believe will be a good system for the American government system. Also political ideas change over time…

The Clinton (Democrat) administration’s military intervention foreign policy is in the ‘half-out’ category due to Clinton’s policies of “hegemony on the cheap” (“The Quiet Clinton Era of the 1990s: A Liberal Internationalist Strategy for Unipolarity?”) which emphasized multilateralism and avoided conflicts in which the U.S. had little to no interests, but wanted to “preserve an American-centered order” (“The Quiet Clinton Era”). Clinton wanted to maintain the status quo of the American unipolar…

Enacted in 1933 by the Clinton administration, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides unpaid time off to assist employees in balancing work and family life. The act supplies up to a total of twelve weeks of unpaid leave during any twelve month period to specific employees. While the establishment of the act has helped some employees balance the demands of work and family, a recent increase of family-leave lawsuits in our country have demonstrated the FMLA’s need for improvement.…

Virginia in 1971. The movie begins by telling the viewers that, “High school football is a way of life. It’s bigger than Christmas day (Remember the Titans, 2000).” An adorable young girl tells us in the beginning of the movie that her dad, coach Bill, coached in Alexandria. She explains to us that her dad is a hardworking man, and her mom left him. The movie…