United States Senate election in New York

Mini Essay #1: U.S Political Parties Some extant political parties in the United States today that hold different positions on key issues. The six major political parties are the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, the Constitution Party, and the Peace and Freedom Party. The Republican Party is one of the parties of the United States’ two-party system. Some key platforms of the Republican Party are the Electoral College, traditional marriage, coal…

the Senate Banking Committee and Federal Officials to determine the level of participation of its senior leadership. The investigations will determine that Senior Leadership played a major role in creating an environment and encouraging a culture that defrauded customers and increased profits. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) determined that they were secretly opening multiple accounts without their customer’s knowledge. CFPB estimated that Wells Fargo employees opened…

“We the people of the United States…” so starts our Constitution. And what an eclectic and motley group of people we are. So it is that the framers of the pre-eminent law of our land saw fit to build rules into our democratic game of government that would protect us all from a simple majority formed from any group conveniently aligned hell bent on having things their way at the expense of the current majority. Despite their significant proportion of US population, particularly in cities and at…

realized recently, especially by President Obama, but we have yet to truly see it reach its full potential. Hip-hop has been around since about the early 1970s, but never had it realized its potential to effect politics until the 2008 presidential election. The starting point of this realization was during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This was during a time that many young, especially African-American, people were already tired of President Bush in office and it showed in many hip-hop songs in…

If a picture says a thousand words, so how many words does a meme equal? Numerous people in today’s society are not in favor of the Obama era, so various jokes and stabs in the form of memes are targeted toward our 44th president. The memes listed above are both categorized as amusing because of several unique factors that we will discuss later, and how these details allow them to be entertaining. This paper shall explore how the fun factor is achieved by the history of the allusions featured,…

The race for the presidency in the year 2000 was very controversial. Now after watching the movie Recount it is obvious that George W. Bush illegitimately won the election. Firstly, older voters were confused on how to fill out the ballot, which ended up in a significant amount of dimpled chad that were not counted by the machines, therefore robbing thousands of people of their right to vote for the president they wished to be in office, not to mention that it may have costed Gore the presidency…

Todd Starnes, the author of “Americans agree with Trump: The illegal immigrants must go”, is the host of Fox News and Commentary and has recently written a book on the traditional values of America and how America has changed over time since the founding of the country. In the book, he talks about George Washington’s warnings, including staying away from foreign affairs which has caused problems in America today. When America started to get involved in foreign affairs in the early 20th century,…

With an official birthdate somewhat in question (most references place it on January 7, while one other lists it as being eight days later) Zora Neale Hurston lived an interesting, and successful, at least literarily, if not monetarily, life. Born in Alabama, to a couple of former slaves, she, however, always considered Eatonville, Florida, where she moved as a young child, as her hometown. Her idyllic and happy childhood found her surrounded by examples of African American successfulness,…

Presidential election. However, what we didn’t anticipate, was how dominating the election would be over our lives-- we simply thought, come voting day, that we’d walk in and easily choose the candidate of our choice. There was no anticipation of the fact that we’d also be freshly enrolled in college, an environment so tuned in to politics. However, we’re here now, and discussions of the 2016 elections have been rampant among students. In the interview I conducted regarding the elections, it is…

With the upcoming presidential election of 1912 looming closer and closer, campaigning has recently been coming to a head. Presidential nominee Woodrow Wilson has been gaining local support spreading through many of the mid-western states with his stance on tariffs. This hotly debated issue has created a lot of controversy but Wilson continues to hold strong to his belief that tariffs should be lowered. To help compensate for expected losses, Wilson also strongly believes that a federal income…