Senate

Seeing my name on that ballot was weird, really weird. I was overwhelmed with pride as I entered the anonymous booth to cast my vote. Here, in Virginia, we use primaries to elect someone to run for office. This means that come voting day you have to be 18 years or older, be a U.S. citizen, and have no past or present felony charges. Then, you sign up to vote at a local building where you have been designated and enter a small booth. You are the only person who knows how you voted and it’s up to…

Failure at its Finest, Supposedly Iran Nuclear Deal: Bob Corker, a United States Senator, took to discussing the Iran nuclear deal. He, rather blatantly, shows how he disagrees with the deal. Corker takes a condescending tone while discussing Iran and the Obama administration showing how he believes them both to be incompetent. He uses a casual patronizing undertone while discussing the Obama administration and cites examples relating to Iran that show President Obama in a negative light in…

Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy were both candidates and presidents at incredibly pivotal time periods in history. As such they faced a wide range of rhetorical obstacles during their candidacy and time as presidents. A rhetorical obstacle is some outside force that can limit a rhetors’ main purpose or goal. A shared obstacle faced by both candidates was that of identity. Identity becomes an obstacle when a rhetors’ audience does not share “common goals/background, beliefs, values, etc.” (1)…

Democracy is fairly new to the modern world, and by modern world I 'm talking about post revolutionary war. Democracy first conceptualization was in ancient Athenes Greece, and after then democracy started to fall away. It wasn 't until the late seventeen hundreds did democracy start to come back into play; in the British American colonies. The United states is one of the first nations to become a full national democracy. The United States follow a creed, "a government of the people, by the…

It is important to be an effective intercultural communicator to some degree. An effective intercultural communicator is able to share information across different cultures and different groups. They have to communicate in a way that is appropriate and effective to different cultures (Johnson, Lenartowicz, & Apud, 2006, p. 529). The United States is becoming more and more culturally diverse by the day. Most people would think that politicians are great at intercultural communication because of…

Can activist, more specifically community activists, successfully transition to a politician? – holding community interest over self interest and ensure the community is the creator and not object of policy. In the New York Times: Room for debate opinion section Bob Kerry, former governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator, defines both terms activist and politician. “An activist is someone who organizes and acts for the purpose of changing a public policy or law. A politician is someone who seeks…

For Mock Congress, I had to do Bills Five. Bill Five was a bill to incentivize voting. This bill said that everyone who votes should get a certain amount of tax credit. The idea of the bill was that if you give people an incentive, more people would vote. Being a Democrat, I was assigned to create a speech against this bill. One of the main points I made during my speech was the quality of the voters would drop (Shineman). This is not saying that certain people should not vote based on class,…

The president has become too powerful because he is the commander in chief.He tells most of his workers what to do.He has the power to enforce laws,create a cabinet of advisors ,and give pardons or reprieves.With the agreement of the U.S,he is also allowed to make treaties’ ,choose ambassadors for foreign countries,select judges and justices of the supreme court.Most of the presidency’s are developed by constitutional and evolutionary powers.The president works on treaties with other nations…

I think that congress has the most power. I have three reasons of why i believe that congress has the most power. Reason number 1: the people of each state have to vote for 2 people to go into congress. Reason number 2: the people of congress are in charge of maintaining the military and making money, etc. reason number 3: the third and final reason that i believe that congress has the most power is because if the people of congress present a law to the [resident and the president vetoes that…

The Structure of the House of Representatives The House of Representatives is made up of five levels of influential power, decreasing in power as the levels increase. The most influential member of the House of Representatives is the Speaker of the House, or the vice president of the United States of America. The Speaker of the House initiates new representatives, keeps order in the chambers and galleries of the House of Representatives, creates the rules for the House policies, and allows…