The United States budget is in major need of reform. Each year the country plunges further into debt due to poor money management and ineffective programs costing the country billions. A large portion of the annual budget is comprised of entitlement programs‚ almost all of which are overpowered and wasteful. The three main ones are The New Deal‚ The Great Society and The Affordable Healthcare Act. While the intent of these initiatives were to aid those‚ their effects in reality are just the opposite
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Barack Obama: Back to school Event One of the most important and discussed topics in politics has always been education because of its decisive role in society. Education is the key stone for the generations to come and well educated citizens are a necessity for a successful society in the 21st century. Politicians also make education a high priority because they know it is where votes can be drawn. A politician who also is concerned about the matter of education is President Barrack Obama. And
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between George W. Bush and Barack Obama turns out to be quite the depressing venture for someone who fell in love with our current president during his first race for president. From Iraq to Afghanistan to nuclear proliferation‚ Obama’s 2008 campaign took every opportunity to distance his policies with those of Bush due to public displeasure and ideological differences. After seeing Obama’s first term and the various foreign policy issues he has faced‚ there are ways Obama has kept his promise and distance
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How Obama Does That Thing He Does Jack Shafer 1. Who do you believe was the author’s intended audience? Shafer is writing to the American voters‚ and non-voters. He is writing to explain Obama’s excellent speech skills. 2. What was the author’s intended purpose in writing the piece? He is explaining the methods‚ tactics and brilliance to Obama’s speech‚ composure and leadership skills. 3. What point does the author make in the text? Despite Obama’s race‚ he is able to confront
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As one of the youngest American presidents ever to be elected‚ President John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivered an eloquently crafted inaugural address to millions of Americans and people of the world when he took office in 1961. Through the use of the artistic tropes of interpersonal diction and the felicitous scheme of cumulative sentences‚ Kennedy effectively creates a sense of unity to incentivize Americans into serving their country as well as to reassure the nation and the world of America’s grand
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Abraham Lincoln gave his second Inaugural Address on March 4‚ 1865‚ as President of the United States. Lincoln touched the hearts and minds of the nation‚ filled with slaves and people whose family members or spouses were in the war. He not only related his speech to politics as he did in his first inaugural address but also used emotional language and rhetorical devices such as ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos‚ to support his argument that the war could have been avoided‚ and that the war started because
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can mentally place a person a few steps ahead of the majority. That is power. Ones voice being spoken above the crowd to be heard is power. It brings change and awareness. Heroes of history such as Martin Luther King to modern-day President Barak Obama have displayed such power. The voice of one man sharing his dream to the world changed the lives and future of African-Americans in the US forever. Without him we wouldn’t have the President we know today‚ who has motivated the nation to aim for change
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confusion lurked in the minds of the American people as the Cold War reached its peaks; the people need a strong‚ reassuring leader to give them hope. Fortunately‚ John F. Kennedy provides the citizens with reassurance when he gives his monumental inaugural address. After being sworn as the 35th president of the U.S‚ he seeks to invoke a sense of unity in the American people in order to attain a lasting peace because of the current national and international turmoil. While the speech’s respectful eloquence
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Have you ever wondered the reasons that Obama Care(ACA) was instituted? Why has Obama put so much time into getting ACA to pass? So should it pass or not? Congress should not have passed Obama Care because it is austere and strenuous on people‚ it gives the government too much power‚ and it is unfair to the retired seniors. The new Healthcare law is unfair to the community because it increases taxes‚ and enforces the employer’s mandate. As an example of unfair taxes “The stock market has grown seven
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he was assassinated from a grassy knoll and his brother who many thought could also be elected was shot before he even had the chance. So what makes Barack Obama‚ a non-white‚ non-Anglo-Saxon‚ and at one point non-protestant‚ think he can become the next President? His ability to overcome cultural obstacles in order to succeed. Barack Obama has all the makings of a cultural melting pot. Born in Hawaii‚ to a Kenyan father‚ American mother‚ and
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