United States presidential election, 2004

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    New College Compact or College for All Act? The 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses are a series of ongoing heated battles between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. One of the most prominent topic is the issue of student debt. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student loans have quadrupled since 2004, to $1.2 trillion (Brown). This insurmountable debt is an astronomical problem for Americans today and more so, for future Americans. College tuition has been

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    american revolution and later became the first president of the United States of America. He was a magnificent president and he set the bar for what the president should be like. Throughout history we have had many presidents some good some not so much. This upcoming election will decide our forty fifth president of the United States, and may be the single most important election we will ever have. All the presidents of the United States have had a problem that they had to deal with and that they would

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    climate of the United States, this is how comedian Patton Oswalt chose to respond. Although not serious in nature, his response perfectly encapsulates how serious issues can be tackled in comedic ways. In this analysis, I will consider The Comedians of Comedy (Michael Blieden, 2005) and argue that through the recording of events as they occur, interviews, and problem solving, the documentary uses humor to promote liberal politics while identifying social problems plaguing the United States. The recording

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    George Washington was elected President in 1789 by members of the fledgling United States of America, he was setting into motion a tradition that has stood the test of over 225 years - the presidential election. Even as the United States has seen dozens of wars, made hundreds of scientific advances, and selected thousands of politicians to seats everywhere from small town councils to Congress, the principles of the election have remained the same; the people band together to determine who will best

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    Socialism In America

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    word, and has been labeled as such since the Socialist Party of America entered a period of decline following 1912. Prior to this, 361 social councilmen, aldermen and mayors, were elected in the United States (History). However, socialism in America is making a comeback in the 2016 presidential election, as Senator Bernie Sanders (I) of Vermont seeks to run as a self-pronounced ‘democratic socialist’ in an attempt to become the first doc socialist president in the history of the nation. However,

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    becomes the Republican nominee and the President of the United States is by creating a following. This momentum and following will come if he successfully puts his candidacy into the context of a larger generational need, national interest or other impending moral needs. President Reagan was known for defining the mood and generational obligation the American people were feeling during his time as a candidate and as the President of the United States. This understanding of how the people were feeling

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    The 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses is an ongoing heated battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. One of the most prominent topic is the issue of student debt. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student loans have quadrupled since 2004, to $1.2 trillion (Brown). This insurmountable debt is an astronomical problem for Americans today and more so, for future Americans. College tuition have been rising for the past 40 years and will continue to do

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    persuaded individuals to support him. Following his victory in 2008, President Barack Obama used rhetoric to advocate for change, hope, and a united America where the window of opportunity could remain open for all. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Barack Hussein Obama II spent most of his life feeling excluded in the racially homogenous state of Hawaii. Despite his childhood hardships, Obama graduated from Columbia University with a political science major in 1983. Later, he

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    The two candidates in the election of 1932 were Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and is one of the most known elections there is to date. When the stock market crashed and the banks went out of business everyone started losing their job, which lead to their house being repossessed and having nowhere to live. Turning to the government, citizens of the United States searched for guidance through their hard times. It was obvious by Hoover’s

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    This speech was presented in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention by a politician running for the United States Senate at the time, also known as Barack Obama. In this speech while Obama was still running for his campaign for the United States Senate he also supported John Kerry as he was the party’s presidential nominee for that year's election. This is one of Obama’s most historical speeches he has ever given and he did this by using several language deceptive devices such as euphemisms

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