Negative campaigning

1. Description and Resolution of the Event The October 6th Philadelphia City Council meeting afforded me the long awaited opportunity to see the inside of one of my favorite architectural landmarks. As a kid growing up not far from the city, I’d occasionally pass it during a family or school outing. Although still young, I was mesmerized and intrigued by its size and magnificent architectural details. For this reason, and in defiance of friend’s suggestion that I should just stay at home and…

Gentrification - can rural areas be gentrified? Can rural areas be gentrified? This is often the cause for debate when it is compared alongside urban in gentrified areas. Perhaps, in-order to understand the foundations for rural gentrification it could be argued that when we look at types of class within rural populations, middle class homeowners, gentrifiers could be seen to be acting ruthlessly as proactive capitalist developers acquiring land at cheaper prices and creating a different form…

delegated naming Stanton as president and that did not sit well with Susan. So from that point on she vowed to fight for woman’s rights full time and not back down until they got what they wanted. Both Susan and Elizabeth were targeted by the media in a negative way. It was said that Susan was Elizabeth’s puppet and just did all she said. They also said that Susan didn’t really have anything to say, but was going off of what Elizabeth told her. She had no brains in this and was only the…

On December 7, 1941, Japanese bombs rained down on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in a day which would not only, according to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “live in infamy” (Lee 1), but also drag the United States into World War II, an international conflict that would become the hallmark event of the 1940s. This provocation was enough to pull America out of its isolationist policy and onto the global stage, but while battles were being fought overseas, the war was working permanent…

The Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson is a theory developed by Anderson himself that demonstrates the explanation of the high rates of violence and the life of inner-city people, mainly African-Americans, living in Philadelphia. In some of the most economically depressed and drug- and crime-ridden pockets of the city, the rules of the civil law have been severely weakened, and in their stead a “code of the street” often holds away (Anderson 9). The “code of the street” is known as a set of…

Feminism is a social movement campaigning for the equality of the genders that officially began sometime during the twentieth century. The men and women who introduced these ideas separately into the world before they were combined into the movement are referred to as proto-feminists. In today’s world feminism has grown exponentially all around the world, and continues to fight gender inequality and the globally established patriarchy. Due to the extreme actions of certain women who misuse the…

Imagine if the president was involved in a scandal that required multiple cover-ups and lies, ruining the trust in the government. President Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, devised a scandal like that described above. He, along with his robbers, planned to break into the federal government’s Watergate building and steal confidential files and documents. The Watergate Scandal truly began in 1972, when Nixon and his reelection committee were caught during the process of…

What are some key differences in the ways that Conservative and Liberal women run for office? What are some key differences in the media coverage of each, and why? Generally “…voters tend to stereotype women as liberal and men as conservative (97). The ways in which women run for office differs in a wide variety of ways. There are conservative female runners and liberal ones. There are key differences in the ways in which they want to be covered by the media and are covered without the desire.…

Who Should Have Access to Police Body Camera Footage? Technology is on the rise and so is police brutality, but with one we may be able to remedy the other. Police body cameras have been in use in certain police departments across America since 2012. Ever since the controversial death of Mr. Michael Brown the idea of body cameras has exploded into a legal race for control over videos that don 't yet exist. There are a spectrum of views regarding the public’s access to these videos which the LA…

To understand the function of mobile advertisements and to make them more effective, consumer attitudes and behaviors need to be reviewed. So that positive or negative attitudes in purchase decisions will be observed more closely. (Nor Hazlina Hashim, august 2014) According to the Interactive Mobile Advertising Platform mobile advertising is defined as the business of encouraging people to buy products and services…