The American President

A president by definition is an individual that is the elected head of a republican state. All countries in this modern era have presidents, prime ministers, or leaders. Unfortunately, not all of them are fit or qualified for acting as a representative of their given republic. Through differentiation, we can determine what a “good” president is qualified. To be a good president one must have intuitive decisiveness and be extremely disciplined because of the wide range of issues they have to…

Course Reflection- The President Before reading chapter 12 of our textbook, watching the three Crash Course videos about the president’s role in our government, and researching and analyzing President Trump and his administration, I did not know what to expect. Besides knowing that the presidency is the most prestigious position in the nation simply because the president is the representative of our country, I had little other prior knowledge about the actual office of the president or the…

Presidential Health Being the presidents of the U. S. is one of the most difficult and stressful jobs there is. Citizens rely on the president for many things, but to do these things a president must be in good health. As of the presidential election of 2016 we will have some of the oldest candidates in history, with Trump at 70 and Clinton at 68 years of age. Since these candidates are older in age, it has made many citizens question their health because a person’s health determines what they…

The Presidency of the United States consists of the various offices that make up the office of the president. The presidency has many responsibilities. Our current president is Barack Obama. He is in charge of all armed forces. He makes agreements, and calls treaties with other countries. He decides how America will act toward other countries and he represents our country here and around the world. The subject, presidency, is quite important to the Social Studies Education. It is important…

processes and how the Internet, specially the emergence of social media, has aided the changes to the political system. It will examine the change of focus in American political campaigns facilitated by television and the Internet, which seems to have gone from political issues that are facing the country to the image and opinion of the president and presidential candidates. The next step will be to examine how these changes have affected…

role in determining if a president will be successful or if he will be viewed as an unfavorable president (1). There are many things that can play a role on how the citizens of the country view the president. These can include major events that happen such as a hurricane or a terrorist attack, or if they keep promises they made during the campaign (1). Support for the president tends to go up after a crises due to seeing the president handle it. Support for the president will go down if he…

topic of this debate. The Electoral College was created in September, 1787 after many arguments of how the president should be elected. Now with the Electoral College every four years, the states choose presidential electors (the same amount of their representatives for Congress). So if a candidate running for president received lots of votes from electors then he wins. Electing the president is not based on the citizen’s votes. Are votes as the people are just to give the electors an idea of…

American politician Cory Booker once stated, “Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example” (Booker 1). It is what a leader does and how they chose to lead that defines them rather than the letters CEO printed on their name-badge. A leader is someone with courage; someone who believes when everyone else has given up; someone who keeps moving forward despite the unending obstacles set in their path. It is leaders like these that we look for to manage organizations, businesses…

years have shown that presidential power has been on the rise. This happened despite the fact that the last eight presidents have left the office under a cloud. Almost every president’s approval ratings dropped by the end of their terms. This may be happening because the citizens of the United States don’t like the idea of a very powerful president. Yet many aspire to be the president because of the power they receive, since presidency is a unitary institution in the federal government and there…

known as one of the most important positions in all of American government. Whoever is determined to be president has the responsibility of shaping the way people look at America as a whole through not only their actions but also through their words. I’m sure we can call agree that the essence of the presidency has certainly evolved considerably over the course of American history. Although the twentieth century is revolved around a president-centered government, the framers of the constitution…