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    Who Is Thomas Nast?

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    1840-1902, was a political cartoonist who is known by some historians as “the father of modern political American political cartooning” (Simpson, ANBO). This is due in part because Nast was the person who created the donkey symbol to represent the Democratic Party and elephant symbol to represent the Republican Party. Another reason why Nast earned this title and therefore should be studied is that he changed the way cartoonists delivered their context. Before the Civil War cartoonist relied on dialogue

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    Bush on December 13, 2000. Months after the United States Supreme Court delivered its ruling to stop the statewide hand recount in Florida, media and academic organizations conducted their own studies of the ballots in Florida. Some recent studies show Bush would have most likely won the Florida statewide

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    diversity and large population, the U.S., as a political system needs and benefits from these groups. The beginning purpose of political parties was to serve in the interest of the people. It is essential to recognize that parties matter at the state and local level and even more so at that national level. A political party is a group of like-minded people whose key purpose is to win elections and control the government. “The major work of the coalition is to recruit, nominate, and elect its

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    A Democrat and a Republican walk into a bar where previously only Independents frequented. The crowd shouts, “now it’s a real party!” The Republican and Democratic party make up the two most popular parties in the United States, with 53% of Americans identifying with one or the other party (Gallup, “Party Affiliation”). While most Americans know that the majority of their fellow citizens eventually will identify as either a Republican or a Democrat, the overall process of party selection and identification

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    she took courses for children in medicine and completed one post graduate year of study. 1971, Hillary first came to Washington, DC to work in US Senators Walter Mondale subcommittee on migrant worker. In the summer of 1972 she worked in the western states for the

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    backgrounds came united and threated to destroy the idea of a democratic America. Thomas Nast’s satirical drawing, titled “This is a White Man’s Government” displays the possible destruction of America by this unholy trinity in an effort to maintain the pre-Civil War hierarchy. The focal point of the published image is the three piled hands of the men, representing the unity that they formed in order to maintain control over a democratic America. When the viewer looks at the sketch, their eyes focus

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    Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War freed slaves of the rebel confederate states. As a result, there was an uptick of union soldiers as black men were able to join their army to fight alongside white union men. This action offered significant gains for the union forces over their southern confederate opponent. Jibreel Khazan has

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    Colorblindness and an associate professor here at Ohio State, wrote an article “Why Hilary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.” This article not only touches on how Hilary Clinton is only using black people as her “winning card (Alexander, 2)” in the 2016 Election, but also her past decisions she made as the wife of the 42nd President of the United States that should be taken into consideration by black voters. Mrs. Clinton and Bernie Sanders are the two Democratic Party presidential candidates. Although Bernie

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    Every 4 years the American public circles back to an age-old debate of whether Republicans or Democratic make more sense for the economy. This time around Republicans came out victorious and at the end of the week Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 43th President of the United States. “Make America Great’ as he repeatedly chanted on the campaign trail is a combination pro business and protectionists policies that don’t necessarily fall in line with the Reganesque policies Republicans follow.

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    reported life satisfaction over the past five years (Diener et al. 2015). As a result of this reported annual trend, it is useful to investigate possible reasons on a macro-sociological scale. For the purpose of this paper, we will examine social democratic welfare policies, and their connections to Danish citizens' well being. We will explain the housing market system as it pertains to government, and attempt to explain its relevance to our proposed question. A portion of the research will be theorized

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