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the 2000 election with Al Gore winning the Popular vote but George Bush winning the electoral vote, John Quincy Adams winning the Electoral College and Andrew Jackson winning the popular vote (1824), Benjamin Harrison winning the popular vote and Grover Cleveland winning the Electoral College (1888) and now the most recent with the 2016 election with Donald Trump winning the Electoral College and Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote but still lost the election . The Framers concerns for…

The American Revolution provided the Founding Fathers with a unique opportunity: they were able to create a nation that was entirely their own. Before the Revolution, there was no real colonial government; the colonists were for the most part under British control. The founders were tasked with creating the plans for the government of a new nation from the ground up. With this task, there was a lot of debate over how to structure the government. Arguably the most important debates of the time…

Suger maple(Acer saccharum) Aceraceae/ Maple family sometimes called rock maple or hard maple, it is one of the largest hardwoods that is wide spreaded in western Canada. Sugar maple is common associtated with those common types: Acer negundo,manitoba maple Acer ginnala,amur maple Acer sacharrinum,silver maple Tree with overall up to 35 m tall, long straight trunk, usually branch-free for 2/3rds of its height. Leaves: Simple leaves, oppositely arranged and they’re flat, with three or five…

The American Civil War not only brought about vast political and military change to the nation, but also created an opportunity for vast economic expansion within the federal government. A prime example of this expansion being the creation of the Civil War pension system. Although federal aid for families who had lost their source of income to military service can be tracked to colonial era, it was not until 1862 the government formed a strong relationship with veterans and their dependents. The…

Description The Electoral College and be found in Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution. It was created in 1787 and thought up by James Madison. The electoral college states that if a candidate wins a state then all of the state's electoral votes go to that state, but it’s more complex than that, it also states that the number of electors a state has is based on population. The electoral college also stated that a slave owner could count their slaves as ⅗ of a person when counting out total…

When a vote is cast to elect the President of the United States, most everyone feels good knowing they exercised their constitutional right to vote, and took part in the election of the next president of the United States. In all actuality the casted vote does not vote for a presidential candidate, but rather for electors to make their own presidential vote on the states behalf. (History.com) An elector decides who gets to be the next president of the United States, not the person actually…

Our World Today (An analysis of Hollow Men…) “Consisting in the theme, implicit throughout the latter, of debasement through the rejection of good, of despair through consequent guilt” (Smith). The poem Hollow Men was written by T. S. Eliot. In this poem, there are many life lessons that can be extracted and applied to our lives. Through this poem, it is easy to realize what can be learned as we experience this life. Because of this, it is easier to rely on the poem to create a new way to live…

Julio Cesar Chavez Gonzalez was conceived on July 12, 1962 in Ciudad Obregon, MX. His dad, Rodolfo Chavez, worked for the railroad, and Julio experienced childhood in a surrendered railroad auto with his five sisters and four siblings. He started boxing as a novice at sixteen years old and after 14 wins entered a competition in Mexico City, in which he got his first and final novice misfortune. Chavez chose he would passage better as a genius and got his expert vocation off to a decent begin by…

name William Bryan who was seen by many people as an all talk and no action man. They make their journey across the Yellow Brick Road (which according to this belief referred to the gold standard) to see the Wonderful Wizard, who resembled President Grover Cleveland. The word “Oz” is actually the abbreviation for ounce which is the standard for measuring gold. The green of the Emerald City represents the American dollar. And finally, The Wicked Witch of the East represents the bankers, and the…

favorite show. Confident that you were knowledgeable of everything he was going to do next. Then you get a surprise, Big Bird is going to China. Your level of excitement is uncontainable. You have only seen him on Sesame Street, with Oscar the Grouch, Grover, Burt and Ernie. He was leaving his nest; he was not just traveling to another place, but to an entirely different country. I had to question, “How was he going to get back to Sesame Street?” I patiently wait in front of the television…