H. G. Wells

The two speeches I decided to compare and contrast are, Republican President, Ronald Reagan’s 1983 speech on the Creation of the Martin Luther King Jr., National Holiday and Democratic President Bill Clinton’s 1995 address on Race Relations. In Reagan’s speech he addressed the King family, the members of Congress and honored guests, about Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a national holiday and how racism still remains in the United States, however every Martin Luther King Day we as Americans…

affairs. The President consistently has to adjust to what is going on specifically during the term they are in office. The overall power of the president took a huge decline after the Watergate scandal. Public opinion of the president fell greatly as well as public trust for the government in general. The office of the president during the era of 1981 to present day have faced challenges…

Howard Zinn discusses Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr in his book as well. All five of these presidents gave false pretenses, they all put money into the military budget, they cut benefits for the poor, and they lowered taxes for the rich. The primary consensus among these presidents was the military. All of them put large…

In the years of 1989 to 1993 the William Reilly administration under George H. W. Bush the appointee recognized the president’s opposition of his expertise the subject matter of the environment in regard to the cause of global climate change, biodiversity, loss and water scarcity as Reilly accepted human responsibility in such…

Reagan was seemingly very good at communications with other countries and the American people as well, keeping them informed and feeling safe by doing so. Bush rarely used the briefing room in the White House for public communications. As well as barely using the briefing room, Bush had writers review his speeches, and rarely addressed the nation through the Oval Office. However, he succeeded in communicating with other…

A good speech can leave a positive impact on the listener. This is true for many great speeches such as the Gettysburg Address, President Reagan's Challenger Speech, and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. All three of these speeches come at a time of despair in America. Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. Reagan gave his State of the Union Address the same day the U.S. Space Shuttle, the Challenger, exploded. President Kennedy’s inauguration speech came at a time…

Introduction “George Bush does not care about black people.” This statement made by Kanye West in 2006, at “NBC’s A Concern for Hurricane Relief was made to defame the former president George W. Bush. Kanye however was not the first person to slander the President. Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 uses current events and patriotism as a framework to discredit the authority of the President. Frank Capra’s Why We Fight: Battle of Russia does the same, using patriotism and current…

Party views him as a threat, not only because they disagree with his policy, but also because they think he could not win a national election since his policy would spilt the voting demographic towards the democratic side of things. Trump could very well win the nomination, however if he does it will come at the expense of four more years of democratic…

In chapter two of Why the Electoral College is Bad for America George C. Edwards III discusses how political equality is hindered by the existence of the electoral college. Edwards very eloquently argues that the electoral college is a threat to American democracy. The author uses statistics from past elections to support his claim that the electoral college leads to political inequality. Edwards first defines why political equality is so crucial to democracy. Then he goes on to state how…

As the elected leader of the United States, the President’s job is to represent the nation as well as the American people. Chief of state, chief executive, chief diplomat, and chief administrator define just a few of the various capacities the president is required to fill, all while maintaining a solid reputation and serving as a quintessential example of what it means to be an American. The citizens of the United States have consistently proven to have high expectations of the president,…