Politics of Malaysia

Political campaigns often bring out the best (and also the worst) in many campaign operations and the candidates themselves. Since the prize and the objectives of a political campaign are large in magnitude and can decide the future of a state or country, political campaign operatives leave nothing to chance when organizing a political campaign. After all, the main objective of a political campaign is to influence and motivate the decisions of the body to come up with an advantageous position,…

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” ― Charles Dickens Recently, Chelsea Manning, the former Army sergeant heroic and whistleblower, was released from the confines of her military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Chelsea is free, not because Barrack Obama is a swell and compassionate guy or because the U.S. military is interested in justice -- Chelsea is free because of the thousands of organizers…

Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice In many arguments, there are quite a few different viewpoints and how strongly one feels about a certain topic. The cliché’ of never discussing religion or politics are prime examples of strong viewpoints where it is difficult if not impossible to change someone’s belief or opinion. Sometimes it is better to “agree to disagree” then to get upset or lose a friend over an argument. A major issue that has been an ongoing debate on wrong or right is the topic of pro-choice…

Corruption has crippled American politics since this great country’s first establishment, and corruption hasn’t seemed to slow down any. The Parr family stands out from most political corruptness offenders because of the power they gained and the fact that the Duval County population demographically usually would not be known to support the kind of people the Parr were. But the people of Duval County supported the Parr’s. The Parr’s rise and fall is what this books teaches you. This book talks…

she enjoys and feels strongly about politics and the environment. Ana Stringer grew up in Seattle, Washington, but moved to Barrow at the age of 13 when her parents divorced. Moving from Barrow was a tremendous change for her since the population went from 600,000 to 4,000 people; there was no…

Lobbyists are representatives of special interest groups, looking to influence public policy by petitioning the government directly, or indirectly (Soltero, 2016; Lenz & Holman, 2013). Interest groups often engage in direct lobbying which consists of approaching government officials to persuade them of a position on an issue (Soltero, 2016). Direct lobbying can include, lobbying Congress by testifying in front of a committee meeting, lobbying the executive branch and independent regulatory…

ideology, i mean some people are highly-conscious about it, which is intimidating. sometimes i try to think reductively about politics, in a like undergrad poli sci way, eg what if we pretend we're all just a little group on an island, and we put someone in charge of collecting rainwater. that's politics, right? but there are just so many moving parts to practical politics, i think, or maybe actually it's very simple, and i don't know, and i always think people who do know are pretending. like…

Of the three theoretical perspectives, evaluating our political system, in my opinion, would be done from the conflict perspective, that in society today we are in a struggle. Struggling for power, struggling for money and wealth, struggling for order, all in a world full of conflict. Once, what seems so long ago, now seems almost unreachable - a society who knew how to function, how to grow together and how to overcome opposing views or opinions of monumental importance without all the hatred…

War correspondents have one of the most dangerous jobs on earth. When controversy breaks out across the globe, it’s war correspondents who muster up the courage to go directly to the fighting and report the warfare; more specifically, they go to the heart of the controversial issue. This is where a war correspondent is most likely to get the declared truth for either side participating in the war. The core of the issue is the most dangerous place for anyone to be – especially, a non-fighting…

The word Chav has been described in the Cambridge English dictionary as “an insulting word for someone, usually a young person, whose way of dressing, speaking, and behaving is thought to show their lack of education and low social class”. It’s used in the British slang as an informal derogatory word. When looking at the Oxford Dictionary they use a description of origin as a youth who is described as being ‘Romany’. The word Chav is thought to have come from the Romani word ‘boy’ or ‘chavvy’…