Washington Anymore And Street Fight: Documentary Analysis

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a film about an average man’s journey and experience in Congress as Senator of Mississippi.

This docility and willingness to vote according to the older Senators was most likely caused by the new Senators’ fear of the political bosses. Mr. Smith, however, was sheltered from knowing that the political bosses even existed and, as a result, was not afraid to stand up for his beliefs. Mr. Taylor, a typical political boss of Smith’s time, had extreme power in his state and was able to tilt the public opinion of Senator Smith. He did this through his control of the state media and connections within the government. Taylor concocted evidence with the help of his government connections alleging that Smith owned the property intended for the boy’s camp and was only promoting the camp bill so that he could sell his own property to the government at a high price. Taylor then publicized these false accusations against Smith in the newspapers that he controlled, thus persuading public opinion and ultimately causing Smith to be accused of wrongdoing by a Senate committee. Throughout this entire entourage, Smith was too inexperienced and naive to stand up against Taylor’s political machine and resorted instead to crying at the Lincoln Memorial. Smith only returned to the Senate after Saunders convinced him that he should fight for his rights. This situation ultimately proved once again that Senator Smith was too naive to be an effective Senator. Smith did not realize that the other Senators were inclined to believe the accusations against his character, and therefore,

To begin with, despite their different strategies their goals led to the improvement for African Americans. Both Booker and W.E.B wanted a better life for African Americans. Also, both fought with the strategy of using evidence to prove that blacks need improvement. Their main focus was on the economic and industrial crisis. Overall, both of their goals aimed to better the black community.

Smith goes to Washington” is an accurate depiction of our government today. In the film, lobbyist control the senators and decide how the legislators in their control will vote. Lobbyists do all in their power to stop any senator that attempts to resist their agenda. Mr. Smith ignores the threats that are made by lobbyists, and continues to do what is right. This leads to many false accusations against Mr. Smith, and another senator attempts to get Mr. Smith out of office with more lies. Not only do lobbyists directly attack Mr. Smith, they also attack any press that portrays him favorably. Many similar scenarios occur in the U.S. government today, and lobbyists have more power than legislators do. The government is full of corrupt legislators, and more honest people like Mr. Smith should be elected to fix the

Throughout all levels of American politics incumbents running for reelection have a huge and systematic advantage over their challengers. In this paper, the incumbency advantage will be examined through the lens of James “Jim” McDermott’s continual reelection in Washington’s 7th Congressional District and Sharpe James, the longtime mayor of Newark. James’ incumbency advantage is especially interesting in the context of 2002 mayoral campaign, where he was nearly unseated by Cory Booker. Both McDermott and James served their constituents for over 30 years and developed sizable incumbency advantages, though in some cases they were used in different ways. Looking at the differences demographically between Newark and Washington’s 7th Congressional District can be striking, but if instead the incumbency advantage is considered, the similarities are wide reaching and fascinating. In this paper, six major elements of incumbency advantage will be looked at: name recognition, party advantage, redistricting, constituency service, focus on candidates and special incumbent privileges.

Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois were similar in many ways. Both of these men wanted African-American people to receive more rights. These men fought very hard for the African-American people to receive fair education and to no longer be discriminated. Both of these men were rights activists in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Brown came into the race with a wealth of experience. Prior to his successful Senate bid in 2006, Brown served in the US House of Representatives, as the Ohio Secretary of State and when challenger Mandel was exiting his mother's womb Sherrod Brown was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Not only did the two candidates differ significantly in terms of experience and qualifications but there were distinct

In this documentary by Marshall Curry, the audience follows the campaign and everyday reality of Cory Booker. Curry addresses several very interesting aspects of Booker, his opponent, and the harsh reality inside some political campaigns. Wasserman draws similar conclusions and reiterates several main points in his book, The Basics of American Politics. Wasserman states that "Power may involve force (often called coercion), persuasion, or rewards. But its essence is the ability to change another's actions" ( Wasserman 3). He points out that one of the main aspects of politics is having power over a group of individuals and influencing them to do something that they may or may not necessarily want to do. In the case of the 2002 election for mayor in Newark, New Jersey, Sharpe James uses his power to manipulate the people of Newark to believe lies, rumors, and outrageous accusations about Booker. James has been mayor of Newark for 32 years and uses his superior role to threaten or force people to not only vote for him but to

Jefferson Smith Vs Donald Trump Jefferson Smith is the primary character in the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Smith is thrown into the world of politics after being asked to be a senator for his state and is clearly in over his head. One could compare Smith to a more experienced politician of today’s time, such as Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the Republican Party candidate running for president in the 2016 presidential elections.

For this assignment I decided to read the book Code of the Street: decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city by Elijah Anderson. This book is about how inner city people live and try and survive by living with the code of the streets. The code of the streets is basically morals and values that these people have. Most of the time it is the way they need to act to survive. Continuing on within this book review I am going to discuss the main points and arguments that Anderson portrays within the book. The main points that the book has, goes along with the chapters. These points consist of Street and decent families, respect, drugs violence, street crime, decent daddy, the mating game, black inner city grandmother. Now within

In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Senator Smith is called upon to step up and serve his state through representation in the United States Senate. As a proud citizen of his country, Smith says that he will honor the appointment and, before long, has been whisked off to the nation’s capitol. There, he is introduced to the corruption and double-sidedness of politics. Regardless of the external stimuli, Smith never strays from his belief that the Senate should do what it was created to do and he wants to teach the country’s children the same thing. While writing his bill for a children’s camp, he says that “‘liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books’” (Mr. Smith

Gangs have been occupied New York City for hundreds of years. In the 1950s, the city saw a rise of Latino immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, and notably Puerto Rico as well as a rise in gang violence. Leonard Bernstein’s musical West Side Story uses the real-world subject of gang warfare in New York City to depict a modern-day adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by playing into the ethnic divide between the two gangs, but in doing so it simultaneously acts as a medium through which the uninformed public can learn about the culture of the gangs from this time.

Smith has little to no confidence about himself when he first speaks to an audience about being selected to be a senator. In his speech, he speaks poorly of himself and lets the other senator know he will not be much help. When he arrives into New York, he becomes clueless and gets lost into the crowd leaving the other senator. His irresponsibility of roaming the city causes everyone in the office to search for him. After Senator Smith is no longer missing, he receives questions from many reporters about what his new ideas to improve the country.

After watching the film, Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners the only question I really had was whether Davis actually bought the guns used in the hostage situation, something that, unless I missed it, the film didn’t answer. That, to me, is actually one of the bigger problems of the film. It goes into such rich detail about the period from 1969-1971, but not much else. One thing I noticed was that the last thing that Davis says in the film is that the trial and her experiences in prison sparked the rest of her life’s work. After that the film just ends, as though the 40 years of activism that these 3 years inspired aren’t as important. I wish that the film had gone into more detail about both her time and treatment in prison and

First, the American President depicts Washington D.C. as a city where a politician's time is heavily structured and scheduled. From the beginning of the movie, President Shepard is constantly interacting with his staff aides and the movie shows how every hour of the day is scheduled out for him. Throughout the movie, President Shepard is constantly informed about his upcoming meetings for the day and about meetings for the next day. He uses this information to plan and strategize his scheduled meetings. For example, President Shepard lays out his game-plan on how to interact with lobbyists who are persuading him to pass substantive bills, when told about his upcoming meeting with the environmental lobbying group.