Negative campaigning

How Refugees Became a Campaign Issue in Montana, featured in Mother Jones, is an article by Max J. Rosenthal centered on the Montana gubernatorial race of 2016. As well as discussing how refugees became a prominent issue in the Montana campaign, Rosenthal analyzes what causes people’s rejection to refugees. Starting with a reference to the Paris terrorist attacks in November, 2015 Rosenthal lays out the political and local sentiments on bringing refugees to Montana, and more specifically…

name of Brenda Howard put the plan into action. According to History.com, “the openly bisexual Howard was active in the anti-war and feminist movements during the turbulent ‘60s. She wasn’t afraid to make a statement, and she was known for her campaigning and organizing” (History.com). It is to her that we owe the start of gay pride marches. On June 28, 1970, the 51-block long march was held in Central Park where thousands of people held a “gay-in” that was “both a protest and a celebration”…

deals and policies. One of his main promises has been renegotiating NAFTA, a free trade agreement between the U.S, Mexico and Canada. According to a Gallup Poll, only 37% of Americans think NAFTA has had a positive effect, while 53% say it has had a negative effect. Cite So what is Donald Trump doing? He is appealing to the…

Social media includes many different websites and applications that allow users to create and share content and to participate in social networking (Merriam Webster). This global phenomenon has made its way into the everyday lives of millions of people and shows no signs of slowing down. There are many different social movements that have been impacted heavily by social media, if not created solely from the very existence of social media itself. One of the most recent and shockingly…

in such a negative light, especially by then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard through various media platforms, achieving enormous reach throughout Australia and internationally. This convinced many people that what Assange and other whistleblowers achieved was wrong, but they had their questions as to why exactly it was that way. The public couldn’t see why being fully aware of current issues could have a negative effect, but the information released by whistleblowers does have a negative effect on…

Introduction The story and idea that black communities are perceived as dangerous by the public eye was the story that seems to be the popular belief. A tragic, maybe the worst of its kind, story that exemplifies this was the death of the 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by police officers for looking potentially suspicious and dangerous. Tamir Rice was an innocent kid playing with a toy gun when dispatchers received a notice that there was a minor that was pointing a toy gun at…

The goal of this research paper is to compare communism in the Soviet Union and China. Through research, the positives and negatives within each state show different approaches to the communist ideal and how the structures of government affected the economy and civil liberties of each society. Communism is an ideology that seeks to create human equality by eliminating private property and market forces. The idea of communism comes from the German philosopher Karl Marx, who argued that human…

understand special interest groups. These are groups of citizens that share a common belief. Their goal is to influence policy through political participation for the benefit of themselves and their members. They accomplish these goals through campaigning, voting initiatives, influencing those running for office or having members run for office themselves. Look up any number of issues and you will find competing views on either, usually on different sides of the spectrum. Views such as…

Martin Luther King, Jr: The Leader of the Past and Present “…all Men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” became the foundation of our independent nation in 1776. Abraham Lincoln reiterated this notion in his Gettysburg Address, stating the famous phrase, “Four score and seven years ago our father brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” However, in the…

three "waves". The first wave refers mostly to the women 's suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The second wave contains the ideas and actions associated with the women 's liberation movement beginning in the 1960s, campaigning for legal and social rights for women. The third wave consists of the reactions and results of the second wave’s ideas beginning in the 1990s. Although the terms "feminism" and "feminist" did not gain widespread use until the 1970s, they…