Voting Rights Act

to just plain dumb comments. This presidential election is one for the books, but WAIT! It 's just not over yet. Donald Trump has been one of the most mesmerizing candidates for all the wrong reasons, but that 's not stopping American people from voting for him. In the campaign ad "Everything", the use of old and new clips and different news headlines are shown to prove the racism behind Donald Trump and his supporters towards African-Americans. What do we have to lose? "What do you have to…

Socrates believes that the second definition of rhetoric is the art of getting people to lie to themselves through the art of persuasion. In carrying out the act of persuasion, the target audience of the rhetorician is required to willingly participate in the process. If there was no willing participation, the rhetorician could not succeed in persuasion. The target audience is actively engaged in the process of persuasion because the audience’s own nature. For the rhetorician to persuade, he…

According to the official 2016 CNN Exit Polls, or “surveys of a small percentage of voters taken after they leave their voting place”, the area type exit polls might help explain Mr. Trump’s win (2016). Mr. Trump received 50 percent of the suburban vote, as well as 62 percent of the rural vote (CNN 2016). This means nearly two thirds of the geographic U.S. voted for Mr. Trump…

and puts the people first. It would allow the patient to chose in or out of network so they are able to keep their health care provider. This would seem to be a right of a citizen. The provided care would consist of all forms of healing including holistic forms of care –not just pills and drugs. 2. Support of our 2nd Amendment and the rights of citizens to own firearms. The laws should be made to punish the criminals that use illegal weapons not the citizen that are doing what that are…

Many Millennials care about very important affairs in today’s ongoing world, such as economy, education, foreign policy, health care, and gun laws. However, only about 60 percent will be voting this year. Haltiwanger addresses Millennials that have the ability to vote in the 2016 presidential election. His purpose of the essay is to persuade Millennials to vote, because he feels Millennials “have the potential to make or break the 2016 presidential election” as well as change the way this…

the vast voting age population that uses social media platforms: generating news, buying ads on social media sites, and person-to-person communication about politics (Electronic Mail, 2015). Specifically, get-out-the-vote messages delivered via an online social network has been tested to determine if it increases voter turnout. The study randomly assigned students students from a large public university to test the exposure to political messages via Facebook on the likelihood of them voting in…

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the Electoral College has a body of people who elect the president and vice president of the United States. The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and by the citizens. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 votes is required to become President. Each state has a different number of electoral votes that equals the number of members in its Congress.…

Participation in Politics: Is Compulsory Voting the Answer to Low Voter Turnout? Every few years, the concept of compulsory or mandatory voting appears on United States politicians’ radar as a solution to increasing voter turnout. Following the 2014 midterm elections, when only 33.9 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, President Obama threatened to make voting compulsory via an executive order (DelReal). This announcement by the president brought the idea to the forefront of American…

Freedom Day international conference on the 3th of may made a statement, containing: “independent and pluralistic media are essential for ensuring transparency, accountability and participation as fundamental elements of good governance and human-rights based development”. In addition, they said to all countries and people involved: “respect the function of the news media as an essential factor in good governance, vital to increasing both transparency and accountability in decision-making…

between the crumbs. While the Downsian Model and the Punish and Reward Theory state that the general electorate will vote for the candidate that better represents their views and positions, it does not mean that democracy exists because people vote. Voting for something that has already been filtered down for you to choose is no democracy at all. This also means that major investors’ common interests will never be contested, which can explain why today’s candidates aren’t basing their campaigns…