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    One has most likely been told that “anybody can grow up to be president”; however, not everyone is qualified to be the President of the United States ( What para 1 ). A president is a leader; therefore, he or she requires many important presidential qualities. Even though the President of the United States is similar to any other leader, he or she has to be able to withhold the pressure and criticism from the citizens of the United States. A leader for a sports team or club does not have to go

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    H.R. 3590 (111th): Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act When president Obama was a candidate in the 2008 election he promised wide scale health care reform that would increase the availability and affordability of medical insurance for a large portion of the American population. At the time of his campaign, millions of low-income Americans were stuck in the Medicaid gap – where they could not afford health insurance, but also were not eligible for the joint state and federal government Medicaid

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    George W. Bush’s Presidency To start off there are many different ways this topic came to be, the first one being I thought about the topics that interest me which includes categories such as politics, current events, religion, and war. Then the worst thing that could ever happen to a student happened, my thinking process came to a crashing halt but quite honestly helped me but also did not. That then encouraged me to think about a topic that included those categories which brought to the conclusion

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    As we all know, government politics are extremely controversial, and 99% of the times, their decisions take multiple negotiations before reaching an actual consensus. This occurs all the times, even now with an agreement called TPA or Trade Promotion Authority that has not just America, but also a large portion of the world divided into two sides. The side that supports it and the side against it. But what is this agreement and what does it do that has created such controversy? In the most general

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    Al Gore’s “The Climate Emergency” The essay “The Climate emergency” is based on a speech made by Al Gore at Yale University in April 2004 to a room full of students. Al Gore is the former Vice President of the United States under President Bill Clinton. He is also an environmental rights activist. In the beginning of the speech the former vice president shares a story about his trip to a Shoneys Restaurant with his wife Tipper to draw the audience in. (300-301). Once he captures their attention

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    Political parties have grown increasingly polarized over the past decade leading to a rise in party unity and divided government. Political gridlock has made it extremely difficult to pass legislation as well. This concept can be used to explain the recent failure of two major pieces of legislation in the United States: the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” and the “Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013.” This assignment seeks to answer why these bills

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    When describing the current state of the USA, very little positive language would be used. The more standard response would be one including an overall negative, and debt describing language. As seen in Barrack Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address, the president of our nation seemed to completely disregard the actual “state” of the union by simply stating that, “The state of the union is sound”. This short, vague, and contradicting statement seemed to be blow up the anemic progressions our nation

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    On December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Canada Rafael Cruz, and Eleanor Darragh brought Ted Cruz in the world little did they know their son was about to make a name for himself. His father Rafael Cruz come to the United States from Cuba in the late 1950s but his mother Eleanor was born in America they met when she was a student at Rice University. Before coming to America, Rafael Cruz did, in fact, have a hard time coming. He was tortured and was imprisoned in Cuba and fled to America where he spoke

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    Mass Incarceration is a huge problem in United States culture. No other country in the world incarcerates its population the way that America does. “The U.S. incarcerates more people than any country in the world – both per capita and in terms of total people behind bars. The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, yet it has almost 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population.” Worse yet the majority of the incarcerated individuals belong to a minority group despite not participating

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    Essay Unanswered Questions about Welfare Reform

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    system so it does not act as a backbone for those who do not want to work, and year after year success seemed out of reach. That is, until President Bill Clinton thought he had the answer. He signed the new welfare reform act in August of 1996, vowing to “end welfare as we know it.” Terminating a 62 year-old federal entitlement, President Clinton put a limit on how long one can receive federal welfare assistance (Casse 36). Yet, this so called reform is not that at all. The government doesn’t see

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