Rudy Giuliani

On Saturday February 6, 2016, one day before Super Bowl Fifty; Beyoncé Knowles released a music video for her new song “Formation .” Filmed in New Orleans with the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina as a backdrop. The video featured a scenes where Beyoncé sits atop a half-submerged police car that continues sinking. Giving a nod to the Black Lives Matter movement, “at the end of the clip, a line of riot-gear-clad police officers surrender, hands raised, to a dancing black child in a hoodie,…

senator. To Dr. Ben Carson, get to know yourself first doctor. The classless Beauty Pageant, I just said enough about you. Former Congresswoman Bachmann, no one knows you any better than the Prime Minister of Canada and dear Chancellor Merkel. To Rudy Giuliani, you should be ashamed of yourself these days. To Senator Rubio, see on the day of your inauguration senator. To the President of Philippines, you know who you are. To Hillary and Bill, I am not surprised. Ann, I will always love you.…

they put something at risk to complete a task, and are courageous in doing so. To be a good leader, one should inspire people and work alongside them to accomplish a goal. A leader should be compassionate and diplomatic. Former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, led the city during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. He worked alongside and organized the efforts of the fire department, police, and other government agencies to redress the crisis in his community. Odysseus exhibits these same…

Rags to Riches: How the Rise of Graffiti Has Mimicked its Artists On Saturday Night Live in 1997, then-mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani declared “we’ve gotten [graffiti] off our subways, but there are still idiots out there trying to turn our streets into an eyesore! (McKay)” Now, almost twenty years later, an original piece of iconic street artist Banksy’s work sells for as much as $1.7 million (Randal). Each of Banksy’s most valued pieces was undervalued by hundreds of thousands of…

This psychological approach continues with the supposition that adapting hereditariliy based inclinations and social marking all have a part to play in clarifying the reasons for criminal conduct; i.e, they are not fundamentally unrelated, yet reciprocal. An alternate supposition is that the division of the world into the criminal and the honest is to a great extent an encouraging hallucination. The sorts of criminal cdonduct dissected is violations against property and persons not the more…

Although Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City in the 1990s, is most frequently credited with starting that city’s application of the broken windows theory, his predecessor, David Dinkin, truly began its use. He hired 8,000 new officers, as well as a new police commissioner, and began the move towards broken windows and community policing (Business Insider). Additionally, while it is true that New York’s crime rates have dropped in the past few decades, the reasons behind this are unclear.…

Students need Civics Education The Civics Education Initiative was designed to ensure students graduate with the tools they need to become informed and engaged citizens; second, to get students know more about their civics education and also to get it back in every classrooms across this country. Some many elementary schools, these days are coming to middle school lacking crucial skills," lack of civic awareness throughout this country. "What am trying to say is that students from the…

Is social welfare a “poverty trap” or a “safety net”? Social welfare in the United States has been a hotly debated topic, ever since 1776. I am sure it goes further back but I will stick with 1776. Benjamin Franklin has at one time, spoken about how he felt about social welfare. According to Franklin, “…I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.—I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.…

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…

Politics plays a major role in American foreign policy. Political parties and elections specifically can radically shape American foreign policy. Political parties help support candidates of similar views in running for office. These candidates play a major role in both the Executive and Legislative branches that shape American foreign policy. Today, partisanship is very strong and individuals of the same party support each other’s agenda. Further, elections can gauge the public’s opinion on…