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No matter your stance on President Obama or his administration, many would agree that he can passionately deliver a great speech. With 2016 being the finale of his 8-year term, the upcoming State of the Union address will be the last one of Obama’s presidency. As he prepares to address the country on Tuesday, January 12 at 9 p.m. ET, many Americans from all sides of the political spectrum are preparing to watch the President’s final formal speech online. The word on the White House streets is…

After observing the rhetoric of Master of None’s fourth episode and reading Aziz Ansari’s article from New York Times, one can see the elaborate ways the author of these two different types of media has used in terms of describing the perspective of an Indian American. Master of None’s “Indian’s on TV” predominantly used a verbal rhetorical device to showcase racism towards Indians that offend Indian Americans. On the other hand, Ansari’s article used narrating to describe his experience in…

The American dream has long been defined as the basic ideals for Americans to believe in such as freedom, equality, and opportunity for an American to achieve life but over the years that has changed for many people. “...USA Today calculated that subsidizing the American Dream costs approximately $130,000 annually, meaning the dream is only within reach for about 1 in 8 American families...I hope these numbers show us something else: the American Dream as we know it is dead, and good riddance”…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's New Deal program, a plan to reverse the issues created during the Great Depression, was met with a number of intense criticisms and opposition. Two particular critics of the New Deal program included Roosevelt 's predecessor and political opponent, President Herbert Hoover, who was blamed for the Great Depression, and Minnie Hardin, a taxpaying farmer disillusioned with what the New Deal had created. Roosevelt 's New Deal, according to The American Promise Vol.…

The Nazi party came to power because of Hitler and the Nazi Propaganda. Nazi Propaganda was used for manipulating the German people into believing that the Nazis were justified in the annihilation of the Jews. The propaganda was dispersed throughout Europe in a number of ways. Hitler used Joseph Goebbels as his main distributor of the propaganda, Hitler was able to justify the genocide of the Jews, and successfully create a belief that the Aryan Nation should rule the world. Nazi Propaganda…

The most common question people are compelled to ask when studying genocide is: why? Throughout our lives, we hear about these atrocities, and yet they never seem to make sense to the average person. Many people tend to look over the details, just reassuring themselves that these campaigns are led out by evil, sociopathic dictators. Yet, they forget to ask how these campaigns start and, once again, why they started in the first place. In the case of genocide, there are two main reasons why a…

Currently the United States is close to going at war with the terrorist group Isis. There are many ways in containing this group, along with many different strategies.In the article “Presidential Candidates Criticize Obamas Islamc State Strategy, but Theirs Sound Similar” by Christi Par sons and David Lauter discusses the problems of Isis and why terrorism is ruining the United States and the world. During a news conference, President Obama discussed his strategic plans with dealing with the…

“know-nothing” – The Know-Nothing party emerged during the mid-1850s and derived its name from the reluctance of its members to acknowledge its existence. Its rise was precipitated by the explosion of Irish and German immigration from the period of 1840-1860. During this time span, over 4 million Irish and German settled in the United States; the Irish made their homes mostly in the Northeast while the Germans went to Midwest. Members of the Know-nothing party were nativists who disliked the…

In this case presentation it focuses on research on stem cells to find possible ways to cure many disease. A group of scientists created a line of stem cells out of human embryos that could be used for genetic engineering research in November 1998. When George W. Bush became president he received immense pressure to ban the funding and research for stem cell research, and it led him to ban the proposed funding for the research. To support his actions Bush argued that the stem cells found by the…

The Dream “We American Negros should know…until Africa is free, the descendants of Africa the world over cannot escape their chains… the NAACP should therefore put in the forefront of its program the freedom of Africa in work and wage, education and health, and the complete abolition of the colonial system” W.E.B Du Bois, a prominent Civil rights advocacy figure in the NAACP said this after returning to the United States after the fifth Pan-African Congress conference. The Great Migration…