Take a seat, and take a large breath of fresh air. You will certainly be sighing a lot in the next few minutes. Like most of us, Justin Bieber has a butt. However, as you all know, putting your butt on Instagram gets around twenty likes, maybe thirty on a good day. Not for the Beebz. The most recent portrayal of his royal bottom not only defied logic, it insulted President Barack Obama. JUSTIN BIEBER'S BUTT OWNS INSTAGRAM The fact that Justin Bieber has shots of his butt are one thing. Many of…
Political socialization is the learning process through which most people acquire their political attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and knowledge. This is how the people form a political opinion; starting in childhood and continuing through their entire life. Family is the big culprit on starting a child’s political opinion, however, other examples are school, peers and television. Since political socialization starts with family, children tend to perceive the world as their parents do. Whether that…
years. Georgia is one of the strongest opening states to require a picture ID to cast an in person ballot and make it count. Nevertheless, photo ID is not commanded to cast an absentee ticket in Georgia. A number of residents of Georgia strongly supported the voter ID law to attack fraud during the election process. On the other hand, some labeled it a Jim Crow-era that would suppress the minority votes. Georgia offered all residents of the state a free picture ID if they needed one. Briefly,…
In Wayne Steger’s book, A Citizen’s Guide to Presidential Nominations: The Competition for Leadership, he identifies the important factors of the presidential nomination process, which can then be used to understand the 2016 cycle. His argument states that the crucial period of a campaign is during the invisible primary, which is the year or so preceding the delegate selection process. If party stakeholders are cohesive, (as in the Democratic Party,) the race will be predictable; if they are not…
President Obama’s ability to carefully orchestrate the way he desired to be perceived by his supporters and non-supporters by trying hard to be a President for all people. However, it has been very hard for him to keep the promises he made along those lines because he couldn’t avoid the fact that he was dealing with real…
College is a system in which nominated electors initially represent a certain state to cast votes for the determination of the President and Vice-President during Presidential election years for the United States of America. The Electoral College electors, which is composed of five hundred and thirty-eight members from both the House of Representatives and the Senate, are usually nominated by political parties during state conventions. After the electors…
Roberson December 4, 2014 POL315 Professor Russo The United States has been well known for its democracy since the 1700s. The country has presidential elections every four years. In elections almost every American citizen over the age of 18 has a right to cast a vote for the president excluding United States territories such as Guam. The process in voting for the president of the United States is by no means straightforward. In the 2000 presidential election the candidates were Al Gore and…
every state has 2 Senators regardless the population. District of Columbia has the same number of electors as the state with least number of citizens which is currently 3. States also have more electors depending of population. Number of electors can change every 10 years depending on migrations between states. Electors are being elected directly by voters. US citizens vote for presidential candidate but they actually choose those electors who had pledged to vote for their party’s presidential…
During the first two decades of the twentieth century America’s experienced growing sentiment toward the progressivism. In essence, this movement looked to answer the social and economic problems that America was facing. The two main presidents during the time period were Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. They both knew that America was facing a crisis. They each had their own vision for progressivism, but they were to be achieved through different means. Whereas Theodore Roosevelt…
When this formal assignment was handed out I was truly worried. I had no idea what to write about. Thinking on the surface I thought that there was no precise purpose for writing, at least for me individually. To be blunt, writing is far from my favorite activity. However, as I sat down for a period of time and pondered deeply about the topic I realized just how important and vital writing can be in everyone’s lives, especially mine. At a glance, I believed that if my writing skills were above…