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The most thought provoking text for me this semester was the chapter on Alcibiades from Plutarch’s Lives. From reading about, and discussing, the life of the ancient Greek war-hero, I was provoked to question what people look for in their leader, and what exactly makes a leader “good”. To spare no sentiment, Alcibiades, by today’s standards, appears to be downright crazy. He frequently was involved in physical altercations in which he would intentional injury others, often times without being…

5 Facts about Racism and Racists like Donald Trump Donald Trump has certainly raised some eyebrows in the last couple of months. After his policy to shutdown all Muslims entering the U.S., a former NFL player called him out. Hamza Abdullah actually compared Donald Trump to a drunk driver. This was no doubt to take a shot about his apparent racism. Speaking of racism, here are some other facts about racists like Donald Trump. FACT 1 Did you know that liking white meat is racist? This sounds…

Right at the beginning of the third debate there is a question about the Supreme Court asked by moderator Chris Wallace. Hillary responds by using reasoned persuasion by bringing up movements and cases close to a lot of people’s hearts. This shows reasoned persuasion because she says that her supreme court will be on the side of these movements and be better than it is now. Then once Clinton finishes her response Trump begins his counter. He begins his counter by immediately attacking a Supreme…

Political journalist, Fred Barnes, in his journal, “Trump Gains When He Stays in the Background”, analyzes Trump’s pattern to gaining in the polls. Barnes’ purpose is to indicate what causes Trump to fall behind Clinton in the polls and then how he redeems himself to get ahead of her again. He adopts an unbiased tone in order to appeal to both sides in his adult readers. Barnes’ uses dashes, talks about how Trump falls behind and gets back up again in each paragraph in order to illustrate what…

The American Dream Many people see the United States as the land of opportunity, but why? Foreigners view it this way because it demonstrates a life with options that they may not be able to obtain in their own countries, and that leads to the window for The American Dream. What exactly is The American Dream? Google has specifically defined The American Dream as, “the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination,…

7. In politics, sacrifice is necessary to ensure an effective campaign. Such sacrifices include compromising one's beliefs ,time, and finances. The short film,"The Candidate," gives viewers insight of the campaigning process. The film presents campaigning techniques that politicians in the 2016 presidential campaign have used. Both McKay and Trump uses simple and outspoken ideas to have the public remember him. Early in the movie, McKay had the liberty to express his thoughts.…

The media outlets have become a polarized institution which utilized a broad range of common fallacies to convey messages to their audience. One example is the recent presidential election. Some of the media outlets virtually create a lot of distractions. And, too often, there are many irrelevancies which were calculated to distract viewers, in particular, the American people from the real issues at large. We have recently heard of reported instances of “Fake News.” Sadly, this is the case,…

In his first two months of being the President of the United States, Donald Trump has proven to be the greatest chief the country has seen in ages. Trump has extremely high standards and is committed to education, and demands a high performance out of American schools. Trump has proven to be tough on ISIS and wants their organization destroyed. Many people frightened that ISIS would attack America with Trump being President, but he has convinced the American people that he will protect our…

Donald Trump is a major political figure in our society today. Not to mention, he is the most eccentric candidate running for president at the time. Although Trump himself is an interesting person, so is his twitter. He is not afraid to speak his mind, and his social media shows it. Yet, he is intriguing enough to have 6.89 million followers. This is a valuable way to campaign for presidency. Even though his outgoing twitter account and thoughts are contradictory, he is still one of the leading…

In The Trump Effect, and How It Spreads the New York Times argues that Donald Trump’s message of exclusion and hatred is not an anomaly for the Republican Party. The author claims that Trump’s boisterous message exposes the true feelings of the Republican Party. In the article, the author brings up a number of points explaining how Republican governors are taking on Trump’s idea of creating a faith based wall around the country. The governors are using their position to close borders to…