Inauguration of Barack Obama

assets, the United States began to put sanctions on Cuba. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy put the trade embargo on Cuba which most Americans are familiar with today. Until recently relations with Cuba have been minimal or nonexistent. President Obama and Raul Castro have recently had discussion to bring the relationship between Cuba and the United States back to normal.…

Clayton C. Mamele 4889-8901 “Presidential Character: Barack Hussein Obama” In this paper I will attempt to define the characteristics of President Barack Obama using James David Barber’s approach and then show how these characteristics affected the performance of his administration. By examining President Obama’s character, worldview, and style, I will argue that he would fall under the Active-Negative classification according to Barber. Similar to the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and…

Counterargument Although Boyz n’ the Hood made valid arguments about the state of society during the 1990s and the decades prior, Singleton does not use the film to produce a perennial message. The film is an outdated and fictional portrayal of society today, because society has greatly progressed in the nearly twenty-five years that have passed since the movie was first released. African Americans and minorities are much closer to equality than they have been in the past and are increasingly…

in which people communicate and interact with each other. Public speakers have to be very good listeners, have adequate preparation, and be very confident in order to become an effective public speaker. President Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States in 2008. Obama is a great example of an effective public speaker because his presentation skills are very good and the ability that he has to interact with large audiences is phenomenal. The language that he utilizes promotes…

The article, “President Obama directs administration to accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year,” written by Juliet Eilperin on September 10th, which talks about exactly what the title states. Eilperin argues that this decision made by the Obama Administration was an ill prepared solution to a predictable problem. Because this solution was made up with out proper preparation it comes with some faults that Eilperin and I both agree is not worth it. Another concern made by…

These three events influenced me in different aspects. The 2008 presidential election of President Barack Obama influenced me mentally because it gave me more strength within myself that anything is possible. If an African American can be the president of the United States than a female African American like myself can too. The evolution of social media…

“Indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten” (Wiesel 2). When trying to get a powerful point or a message across its more effective to use certain techniques and certain words. One influential man mastered this skill, Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, gave a powerful speech on April 12th 1999 in Washington D.C. as part of the Millennium Lecture series,…

the campaign Obama performed worse than Hillary Clinton did in trial heats against John McCain among racial conservatives, but offset that deficit by performing markedly better than she did among racial liberals. It was also mentioned that the general election vote choice in 2008 was more heavily influenced by feelings about Muslims than it was in either 2004 voting or in McCain-Clinton trial heats. Opinions about Muslims had similarly large effects even for individuals who knew Obama was not an…

In today’s economy, there is an outrageous demand for health insurance. President Obama has signed a reform for citizens without medical health insurance. Since the reform has been passed, controversy has been split into those who support it and those who don’t. Others believe that it will worsen the economy and the opposing side will argue that those who don’t have coverage may now benefit from it. Even though citizens should have a choice to a health coverage rather than being forced to have…

Thomas Jefferson penned one of the most famous documents in United States History: the Declaration of Independence. Separation from the oppression caused by Great Britain was definitely a relief to the new inhabitants of the New World. Within that document lied a phrase that liberated many people when it came to how the New World was ran: all men are created equal. However, even before the Declaration of Independence was drafted in 1776, that statement failed to be upheld. In 1619, a Dutch man…