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The United States government has, in recent years, become more and more infatuated with the idea of welfare. Citizens for the most part seem to be equally as in love with the idea as well because they think that it will solve the growing US poverty problem. However, studies have shown that not only does welfare hurt impoverished communities, it encourages poverty and government dependency. There are many social, economic, and political factors that play into this phenomena and it is hard to…

Introduction The case study regarding Barack Obama´s 2008 Presidential Campaign by Ryan and Jones created in 2009, showed how Obama´s campaign needed to reach out to voters in 15 critical swing states. The campaign turned to Pontiflex for a cost-effective way to collect different contact information of interested voters and potential campaign donors. However, the case study does not explain anything about what or who “Pontiflex” is. By finding information online, Pontiflex is a mobile…

As the United States military, and the American public at large, struggle with the legacy and lessons of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq, and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan, Lieutenant General (Retired) Daniel Bolger’s book, Why We Lost, adds an important element to the debate. An element that questions the advice to political leadership, the strategy, and the leadership of the country’s senior military officers. Bolger’s service as a…

Societies today are built on a form of social power. This power is typically handled in the form of government, but not all governments acquire power in legitimate ways. According to prominent sociologist Max Weber, there are only three legitimate avenues to social power: traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal. Traditional authority—or the ‘eternal yesterday’ as Weber puts it—is a dominant power which relies on tradition or custom. With this way of ruling, power is not challenged because…

1. This paper argues that the U.S. should cease training foreign armies in the Middle East. The United States (U.S.) State Department funds a program called International Military Training and Education (IMET).1 The program’s purpose is to benefit “U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives, by helping allies and partners improve their defense capabilities and enhance their ability to participate in missions alongside U.S. forces.”2 Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,…

central authority and the constituent units. Implied powers are powers that are needed by the government in order to carry out expressed powers, powers that are directly stated in the Constitution. Implied powers are also powers that are held by the president, and they are not directly stated in the constitution. Inherent powers are needed by a national government because it is a government of a sovereign state within a world community. Last, but not least, concurrent powers are political powers…

Roosevelt can both be seen as two of the greatest American presidents of the 20th Century. With great presidencies also come great similarities and differences. Both began their presidency when the United States was undergoing severe economic distress. Roosevelt implemented his New Deal while Mr. Reagan enforced his combination of tax cuts and policy of less government intervention that has otherwise been known as “Reaganomics”. Both presidents instilled such a lasting optimism into within the…

The Electoral College The Electoral College is defined as a group of people elected by voters of each state in the United States to elect the vice president and the president of the United States (Patterson, 2013). To understand the Electoral College more in depth, one must understand the function and structure of the Electoral College, the comparison of popular votes and the Electoral College, and the benefit a voter has using the Electoral College system. The founding fathers had two primary…

During the time in which Jackson was campaigning for president, he and his supporters eventually renamed their side of the party as the Democratic Party. Jackson 's beliefs had a difference on the party. He had high moral standards and was similar to former president George Washington in the sense that both believed that political parties weren 't as important as the the presidency itself . Jackson believed…

Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States of America in 1969. President Nixon decided to declare his War On Drugs in 1971 because he felt that hippies and black people were the greatest hindrances to his presidency. Nixon’s War On Drugs has destroyed and continues to destroy a lot of blacks families lives American because either one or both parents are serving outrageously sentences behind bars; therefore a lot of their children have a greater deal of difficulty in advancing…