Bush v. Gore

Assignment # 1- President Clinton’s Shanksville Speech I believe Clinton's speech for the 9/11 memorial was good. It was pretty straight forward, and to the point. Clinton tone was raspy and calm. Upon listening I felt the sincerity of his words. Clinton comparing the passengers on the plane on 9/11 to the spartan accepting their fate against the enemy with bravery. In this battle the soldiers lost their lives but their loved ones were saved in quote, “but the casualties they made and the time…

In the summer of 2013, Edward Snowden became a household name when he showed the world a corrupt, horribly invasive program run by the National Security Agency, also known as the NSA. This debacle is known as one of the largest surveillance programs in all of history. The NSA invaded the privacy of every United States citizen with access to the internet, and even read through emails and discussions of people in other countries. Was Snowden justified in his release of reports he learned during…

In regards to this week’s discussion, I would like to discuss the lapse in preventative measures that were neglected prior to the event in conjunction with the communication failures discussed by Cooper and Block in chapter 7. Before I discuss the lapse in communicating the dire situation to Secretary Chertoff by Brown, one should note issues in planning, communication, leadership, and unsatisfactory camaraderie amongst department heads were identified far in advance. The emergency response to…

Alberto Gonzalez an early advocate of the controversial USA Patriot Act. During Gonzalez' tenure the justice department and the Federal Bureau were accused of improperly, and perhaps illegally, us9ing the patriot act to uncover personal information about US citizens. raised the possibility that New York Times journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified information based on the outcome of the criminal investigation underway into leaks to the Times of data about the National Security…

“The office of the vice president is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining” and now I am president. Becoming president comes with many hardships, the death of my wife, contractions of Bright’s disease, and the fact that I only achieved it from my president getting assassinated. Now, that I am president I have a couple of problems that immediately stand out and those are the factions called Stalwarts and Half-bloods. The Stalwarts are a group who heavily favor political machines and a…

‘America’ by Bush in his speeches represented the imagined community of American population, united on ‘war on terror’. In the framework of Orientalism, I pointed out how his statements about his war policy could fit into the Orientalism theory framework, where superior ‘west’ is facing inferior ‘orient’. Eventually, I investigated the literature used by Bush to intensify and induce the public fear of terror in terms of a moral panic. Although I focused on only three speeches of G.W. Bush,…

According to Richard E. Neustadt, ‘The power of the American president is to persuade.’ I am going to analyse this statement in my essay, by answering why a president must persuade, looking at the relationship between the president and government, giving examples of when persuasion has worked and when it hasn’t, focusing on other ways the president can influence and finally ending with a conclusion. Firstly, why is it important for the president to persuade? The power to persuade is seen as…

Many soldiers went to war and lost their lives for this country, and they have never been told the exact reason for this war; they should be rightfully informed by the government the actual reason for being sent to another country to risk their lives. It would be the right thing to do because someone is not going to give their life and find out that it is meaningless. The difficult part is trying to get the government to reveal their true intentions to the public. The government is smart, so…

quadrennial United States Presidential Elections, it was the incumbent governor of Texas George W. Bush representing the Republicans, and incumbent Vice President Al Gore depicting the Democrats. Nevertheless, the elections came down to a neck and neck battle, and at the end, found its destiny relying on the state of Florida where a margin of victory triggered a recount. After the recount finally closed, George W. Bush was soon declared the winner as he gained majority of the electoral votes…

potential to effect politics until the 2008 presidential election. The starting point of this realization was during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This was during a time that many young, especially African-American, people were already tired of President Bush in office and it showed in many hip-hop songs in those years. Hip-hop made a small attempt on their own to get more young people out to vote for…