Joe Biden

the culture on LGBT issues. With the consideration that the average American spends approximately forty-one hours watching television, the representation of LGBT people on television potentially has a significant cultural impact. Vice president Joe Biden stated that he thinks Will and Grace did more to educate the American public about LGBT people than almost anything (Sobel, 2015). Go Fish, a 1994 Indie film about a group of lesbians, demonstrated that independent gay and lesbian films could be…

Jim Obergefell was born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio. He was the youngest out of five other siblings and was raised based upon the catholic religion. Around the middle age of twenty Jim Obergefell finally came out to his family as gay. In 1992 Jim met his reason to fight for gay rights, John Arthur. After these two had frequently met up they began to fall for each other more, and as time went by the both of them lived together, worked together, and began to live a normal happy life together…

forty-eight minute speech. According to a USA Today Gallup poll conducted two weeks before the Democratic National Convention, Clinton was at his all-time personal best approval rating of 69%; higher than Michelle Obama (65%), Barack Obama (53%), or Joe Biden (44%) (Gallup). It is easy to see why the stadium filled to capacity with democratic delegates and volunteers were eager to listen to Clinton’s…

Grades should be considered degrading and unacceptable in measuring a child’s learning development progress What if I told you that every single day that kids go to school, they are not prepared for life, but for standardized tests? Would you believe me? How could that be possible? When kids go to school they learn things, right? They accumulate knowledge for their future. So if anything, they should be getting smarter, however grades de-emphasize the importance of learning. You should be…

his colleagues at the University of Minnesota have found that the presence of gay characters on television programs decreases prejudices among viewers.” “Schiappa tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that indeed, as Vice President Joe Biden said last Sunday, the hit TV show Will and Grace really did help America get to know gay people.” Television has brought homosexuality to the surface and has caused the homosexuality percentage to increase in the world. This has made people…

Whether or not one likes the fact that political parties are a part of politics today, they are here to stay and make it easy to affiliate ones general opinions on governmental issues. However, once political parties came to be, so did an everlasting conflict between opposing sides that results in not much getting done at times, such as the term gridlock. Political parties allow one to get a sense for another’s opinions, but create tension and conflict due to the wide variety of beliefs.…

Cody Hawthorne Professor Parsons American History 23 April 2015 Game Change: A Presidential Perspective Have you ever wondered what it was like to run for president? If so, then Game Change is just the book to read. Game Change offers an insider’s look into each presidential campaign during the years leading up to the 2008 Election. It is quite amazing the amount of work and money that it takes to run a campaign. Heilemann and Halperin give a personal insight as to how much stress and emotion…

Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States of America and actively participates in its government and its elections as much as any other American citizen would. The President of the territory is Barack Obama and its Vice President is Joe Biden, the same as the U.S., but the territory has a Governor who acts as the figurehead of Puerto Rico. That man is Alejandro Garcia Padilla, a member of the Democratic Party, and he was elected on January 2, 2013 (World Factbook). Even though the…

A New “Assault Weapon” Ban? Crash! It’s 3 am and Steve’s front door just got kicked in by a pair of men with illegal guns. He runs over to his closet to grab his gun. Then he remembers that just last week the police came and confiscated it. They said a new law had been passed banning AR-15’s. Steve calls the police. When they get there 10 minutes later, they find Steve’s families’ dead bodies and his house ransacked for anything of value. If only he had his gun. Guns have been around since…

Barack Obama is the forty-third president of the United States of America. He is the first African-American president. President Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After high-school Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. Afterwards he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a political science degree. He worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, when Obama moved to Chicago he…