Political Commentator Interview Tana George HIS145 September 12‚ 2012 Ginny Mayer Political Commentator Interview COMMENTATOR: Mr. President‚ would you please address your involvement in the Iran Contra affair? REAGAN: Let’s start with the part that is the most controversial. A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true‚ but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. As the Tower board
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On December 9‚ 2001 Kathleen Peterson‚ the wife of Michael Peterson was found dead in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase in their mansion home located in Durham‚ North Carolina. Kathleen was a business executive‚ engineer‚ and a philanthropist. Michael Peterson was an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 for murdering his wife‚ Kathleen Peterson. It was known that Michael had called for help shortly after finding his wife unconscious who seemed as if she had fallen down the stairs
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Jagveer Khangura POSC 1501 Arnold Schwarzenegger An individual in a position of authority who I admire is former governor of California‚ Arnold Schwarzenegger. He inspires me because he does not fall into the stereotypical form of a politician. In his early years as an immigrant in the United States‚ he made a career out of bodybuilding. He is of Austrian descent‚ and came to America in 1968. His bodybuilding career ultimately led him over to pursue a career in Hollywood. After the successful completion
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One communication event that I have witnessed was Leslie Knope’s debate for the councilman position. The speaker of this event was Leslie Knope‚ the deputy director of the Pawnee City Department of Parks and Recreation. Although this was a fictional event that I witnessed through my screen‚ I felt like I was there in person. This was a debate running between five different candidates‚ which includes Leslie Knope. The final closing statement she made was the focal point of the entire event. This
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The Role of Drug Enforcement Drugs are being more and more available to minors and adults. They are often illegally produced and distributed throughout the nation or foreignly. Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Agency‚ better known as the DEA‚ “during his presidency in 1976” (Garvey) to combat this criminal activity. Naturally‚ since under the President’s control‚ it is an administrative agency. Administrative agencies hold their own power and have the ability to arrest and carry out their specific
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The morning before Nikki Giovanni’s speech a terrible event had occurred‚ when a student at Virginia Tech starting shooting fellow students. This shooting spree lasted for about two hours and by the end there were a recorded thirty-three deaths including the shooter. After this shocking event so many students and families were crying over friends‚ family and loved ones. Nikki Giovanni‚ in the speech “We are Virginia Tech” in 2007‚ addressed the Virginia Tech students fear and sadness. The speaker
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The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)‚ a wing of the U.S Executive Office of the President‚ started a media campaign to attack drug use in September of 1999. A main component of the campaign called phase three was specifically aimed at reducing marijuana use‚ which started in Oct 2002 ending June 2003. The target group was youth ages twelve to eighteen. Studies have shown that the ads have had no effect on reducing marijuana use. The appointed advertising company Ogilvy & Mathers
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In 1979‚ an Iranian government supported terrorist group overtook the US embassy. They captured 52 people. In an order to obtain the release of the American hostages being held in Lebanon‚ The Reagan Administration secretly began to sell weapons to Iran. This went against an American ban on arms sales to Iran‚ which had been in affect since the embassy had been seized. (Corrigan 40-41) These deals were arranged through Robert McFarlane‚ who was the head of the National Security Council. One
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Professor Fernando Ganivet SPC 3540 – Persuasion October 22‚ 2013 Kennedy-Nixon Debate Analysis There may be more truth to the old saying‚ “it’s not what you say but how you say it.” On average‚ 93 percent of meaning found in communication comes from nonverbal messages (Mehrabian 1967). Nonverbal communication is the wordless transmission of information through body language‚ gestures‚ tone‚ space and appearance. The first televised presidential debate is a pivotal example of how pervasive
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The War on Drugs and Prison Overcrowding David Turner CCJ 1020 October 06‚ 2012 Overcrowding is one of the most difficult challenges that prison administrators face in the United States. There are many factors that that affect the constant flow of people being processed into today’s prisons. The “war on drugs” has led to more arrest and convictions that any other crime. The money spent on the prohibition of drugs and the law enforcement presence to stop drug trafficking raises high into the
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