The American President

In the fall of 2016, the American Broadcasting Company debuted the first season of Designated Survivor, a political based television series exploring the potential need of having a designated successor during important political gatherings. The popular drama portrays Tom Kirkman as an unexpected and unprepared leader who humbly takes the presidential position, serving his nation as effectively as possible. Driven by the influences of others and desire to help his people, Kirkman uses his…

Suggested length: 3-5 pages Although presidents have limited constitutional authority, many of them effectively use informal powers to realize major accomplishments. Write an essay in which you discuss the factors that constrain presidential power and those that enhance it. Do you think the nature of presidential power makes the American Presidency too weak or too strong? The President has a very strong position and powers that allow the president to accomplish many things. Despite the…

Many factors shape presidential leadership and a president’s capacity to change the direction of American politics. In The Politics Presidents Make, Stephen Skowronek argues that by accurately locating a President in political time it is possible to obtain an understanding of the broad character of a President’s leadership position and a better insight into the opportunities and constraints on leadership that characterize a President’s term of office. In the nature of politics, the ability to…

Since my last journal, I have been busy reading more of Meg Cabot’s All American Girl. In All American Girl, Sam has been forced into going to drawing lessons. Her first lesson at the studio did not go so well. Sam was humiliated and by the time her next lesson came around she was not going to lose her pride again. Instead of going to her drawing lesson, Sam chose to go to a music store, Static. In the store she sat next to a middle-aged man in an army uniform, listening to Billy Joel’s Uptown…

compared to others during the same time period. Around his election year of 1829, Americans were seeking a leader that would represent their needs as common people. Andrew Jackson was a true “common man”, unlike other presidential candidates who displayed themselves as average people to appeal to popular voters’ opinions, such as William Henry Harrison. Although he did not attend college, as was the case for many Americans at the time, he was still trusted to run the country for the good of the…

Berkeley, 1975 and has taught at University of California, San Diego since 1977. His has an interest in all aspects of American politics. in more recent years his teaching and research have been on the presidency, political communication and American political history. Samuel Kernell defends going public as the strategy of appealing to the public to get Congress to do what the President Wants. He uses a few examples such as Clinton and the Health Care Reform and George W. Bush with the…

Congress is known to be powerful, but the face of the government is the President of the United States. However, the president roles of government are the commander-in-chief, head of state and leader of a political but one takes precedence over the other. The presidents are held to high standards, and the media do not help. In Article 2, it tells you what are the requirement for to become a President and what are the duties of the President. The founding father did not want a king; they wanted…

In 1997, Kaiji Kawaguchi, a Japanese manga writer, published the novel, Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President. Kawaguchi‘s stories involve the Japanese culture and the moral choices people make in intense situations. He has written multiple manga comics besides Eagle and has won various awards in the manga society. His qualifications regarding the style and information he puts into these comics really gives the reader a strong interest to continue to the very end. His style is…

title of the President, sometimes that title is not enough for the things they want to accomplish during their presidency.…

persuasion is the key in succeeding as the President of the United States. However, presidential addresses and speeches do not always help the administration achieve its goals. Various presidents, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, invested in their presidential rhetoric by attempting to directly communicate and connect with the American people. However, a President’s power of persuasion is strong only within his own party. When a president intervenes on an issue that is already…