Democratic Kampuchea

Instead, the racial hopes and fears evoked by his potential to become the country’s first black president sharply divided racial conservatives form racial liberals. The impact of racial attitudes on individual vote decisions in the 2008 democratic primary was so strong that it appears to have even outstripped the substantive impact of racial attitudes. Racial attitudes were also a much more important determinant of general election vote choice in 2008 than they were in any of the presidential…

Republicans and Democrats The two main political parties in this day and age are the Republicans and the Democrats. Republicans and Democrats are very different; after all they do not technically get along all of the time. However, despite their many differences, every once and a while they have things that are very alike. The root of the two parties and the goal that they strive to accomplish is almost different every time. This is what seems to create the split in popularity where people…

The United States of America gained a reputation throughout their world for equality. Tolerance of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press were revolutionary rights that the United States uniquely founded as a base for their nation. Compared to European countries, America was like no other. However, the women of the country were not equal and they did not have the same opportunity as males. After the American Revolution, “republican motherhood,” had rooted itself in the society of…

President Obama did an eloquent job in discussing the lifting of the embargo between the United States and Cuba. Since 1961, the United States severed diplomatic ties with Cuba and cut off all relations among them. Now, after five decades the United States and Cuba have decided to re-establish relations among each other reopening a U.S embassy in Havana. President Obama made many key arguments in his speech towards Cuban policy opening relations with Cuba. One of the key arguments President…

In the short story titled, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, written by Frederick Douglass, the narrator experiences prejudice and racism towards him because of the color of his skin. Likewise, in the autobiography titled Dreams Of My Father, by Barack Obama, the author describes his early life growing up and how he dealt with the discrimination that he was faced with throughout his life. In both of these stories, the two writers opposed the inequality against…

President Obama’s Hypocrisy President Barack Hussein Obama is the forty fourth president of the United States elected in 2008 and he is the first president, under the constitution, of African descent. He worked his way up from the Illinois State Senate to the US Senate and was officially sworn in as president on January 20, 2009. Given his background in politics, logically, people assumed that he was a responsible, trustworthy candidate for president; however, his actions prove otherwise. His…

Mass hysteria is a condition on a group of people caused by paranoia, anxiety, and fear. The Lynching Era in the United States between the 1880s-1930s caused major paranoia for newly freed African Americans. Lynching was a form of killing done by a mob of people typically through hanging. The Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, were a group of people with hatred towards the African American race. The KKK terrorized African Americans even after they gained legal equal rights in America out of…

Voting for a president is just around the corner for these presidential candidates.For this presidential election I will be voting for Donald Trump. There are multiple reason why I would vote for Trump and one of those reasons would be for his canning cariama for waiting to help and protect our country. My mane concerns for our country would include abortion, the country’s debt, and national security. I will focus on the concerns of our country and what Donald and other candidates have to say…

In the 1920s Americans were in the decade of prosperity and confidence. Towards the end of the 20’s was the start of the great depression that greatly affected everyone. That included business,government,economics,and many more. The groups that were changed drastically from the 1920s to the 1930s was the economy, women and african americans due to the great depression. The 1920s were the golden ages for the economy ,but after in the 1930s the economy faced a difficult struggle and government…

Just a few days after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City and in Washington D.C., Pennsylvania State Governor Tom Ridge was appointed to be the first director of the Office of Homeland Security. This office overlooked and regulated a nationally seen strategy to keep our country safe against domestic and international terrorism attacks. The Department of Homeland Security was put in place to ensure that we are safe no matter time of the day or the year. President…