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Essays 271 - 300

The U.S. Presidency and the Influence of Big Money

ambition. They made it through excellent schools and law school to boot. It seems that this power couple--a president and a senato...

Current American Leadership as Viewed by Plato

In seven pages the cave allegory featured in Plato's Republic is applied to contemporary U.S. political leadership. Four sources ...

American Life Prior to the First World War and Following the Second World War

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

Campaigns and Elections in the United States

are likely to look askance at such a person" (Allen, 1998, p. 22). Americans, while we realize that campaigns take money, like t...

The Terrorism Act of 2001/Its Effects, A Research Proposal

divide the Congress? In the context of the argument, it also pays to explore party affiliation and whether the divide does go alon...

Making Policy and Lance Leloup and Steven Shull's The President and Congress

These factors apply to both the President and Congress and are influential in the decisions they reach. Later examples will highl...

Class Roles, Political Changes, and Their Impacts Upon Socialism, Monarchies, and Democracies

people and it is the people who decide the issues through elections. Theoretically, democracies should be formed for a long term b...

Reconstruction Period and Social Welfare

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

Atomic Bomb and Decision Making

"To achieve the desired goals or maximize utility, an actor must choose among certain alternatives" (Model Theory, 2002). The alt...

Youthful Consumers

approximately $2.2 billion of their own money in 1968; that amount increased to $4.2 billion in 1984, which quadrupled to $17.1 bi...

The Lasting Implications of Miranda v Arizona

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

Justice in the United States

However, this is an exaggeration, surely, as there has been a precedent for this type of secret military trial. It occurred in 194...

Trade Barriers and International Business

strategy in the country. In order to trade a company needs to have a license of authority from the government and to be able to ge...

Textile Industry in the United States Analyzed

In a paper consisting of fifteen pages the manufacturing of textiles in the U.S. is analyzed and discusses how some of the items p...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

Electoral Process Advantages in U.S. Presidential Elections

the Constitution of the United States met in Philadelphia in 1787 for the constitutional convention they had already lived under a...

1796 'Farewell Address' of President George Washington

of this model paper is to point out that there is no way to avoid foreign entanglements and the War of 1812 is the most likely exa...

Overview of the Federal Reserve

Reserve bank boards. These are composed of nine individuals, six of whom are elected by the Reserves membership. Of these six, t...

'Boomburbs' in America

a stake in the region, but this is not necessarily true for boomburbs. Indeed, it seems as if boomburbs grow very fast, the people...

US Democracy and its Legitimacy

in some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blind...

Political Discord and the Reactive Progressive Era

the 1880 and 1890s as the Populist Movement and later, after 1890, as the Progressive Movement (2003). Both were considered grass...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

U.S. and Sociocultural Processes of Latina Women

large numbers, notably in textile mills and garment shops" and no rights regarding the working conditions really solidly existed i...

U.S. Government System and John Locke

of God, nor can they deny the rights of individuals to their separate and distinct beliefs. Locke also argued that man sho...

Private Housing and Social Housing Development Process Characteristics in the U.S. and Singapore

to enforce special rules called CC&Rs (covenants, conditions and restrictions) and to raise money through regular and special asse...

Second Reconstruction and Southern Politics According to Numan Bartley and Hugh Graham

in the South following World War II. This section of the book describes the "one party politics" of the region, a time when Repub...

The Two Party South by Lamis

Philosophers have spent endless hours determining exactly what the concept of rights truly means, with the general consensus refle...

John Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

The Health Care Continuum

Virtually everyone had access to health care in some form, either with the assistance of health insurance or through public health...

Senator Hattie Caraway

50). Although this was an aberration, and most people did not expect her to run again, she did (Foerstel 50). In 1932, Caraway fil...