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President Project Herbert Hoover While Hoover was president from 1929 to 1933 he made many decisions and created many domestic policies. Hoover was not a very popular president because of his racist tendencies. While attempting to create more jobs for Americans, he deported hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants. Hoover tried to improve the economy … Read more
Even today, I believe President Coolidge would follow his “economy in government” mentality to try and balance the budget, lower tax rates, and pay down the national debt. Coolidge believed that cutting government spending and lowering tax rates were equally important to a morally successful economy. Coolidge instructed his administration to work towards an efficient … Read more
“For many years I have been acquainted with your people, and under all variety of circumstances, in peace and war. Your fathers were well known to me, and the regard which I cherished for them has caused me to feel great solicitude for your situation.”- Andrew Jackson. Jackson viewed himself as a friend to the … Read more
The Clash of Civilization is a theory written by Samuel Huntington, an American political scientist, that attempts to analyze the state of relations in the world after the cold war. In terms of this theory, a civilization is defined as a grouping of people that share similar cultures. More specifically, the people within a civilization … Read more
Since becoming officially ratified 1804 the electoral college has been a key part in the success of the American political system. The idea of an electoral college came up at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when thinking of all the possible routes of electing a president. The two main reasons for creating it was so … Read more
From 1964 to 2016, the Colombian government was confronted by the largest insurgent and terrorist group in the country, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC as they sought to fight against the socio-economic injustices the lower classes had experienced for decades (Felter 2017). FARC was founded following the civil war between Colombia’s Conservative … Read more
Voting is arguably one of the most valued rights around the world. Canada prides its self in being a democracy in which voting is the active way for its citizens to participate in political realm. However, in the past and in recent times, the number of people enforcing their right to vote has been shockingly … Read more
Federalist 10 was published on November 23, 1787 by James Madison under the name of “Publius”, he’s making a reference to one of the ancient Roman aristocrats who overthrew the Roman kingdom in the late sixth century to establish a Roman Republic, this can be viewed as he is seeing himself and other federalists as … Read more
Describing the modern international politics as a “world in disarray” is a powerful statement. Disarray meaning that the world leaders and their decisions that are controlling the current political climate are a complete disorganized chaos. Even though there are some positive things going on all over the world, I believe that “a world in disarray” … Read more
The Federalists living in the dawn of the United States believed that a strong, centralized federal government with individual state governments subject to it was the best way for the new nation to be governed. The Anti-Federalists, though ceding that federal government is necessary, were fearful that it would encroach upon the state’s and individuals … Read more
Introduction When Marina Warner introduces fairy tale, she describes a map, a map contoured by the landscape of storytelling, whose peaks are populated by the giants Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, and a map whose terrain widens to include the stories to the east (Arabian Nights) and the stories to the north (Hans Christian … Read more
“Why does my vote matter” is a question commonly asked every time we approach Election Day. In 2016, forty percent of the eligible voters in the United States did not show up to the polls on November 8th, because they believe that their vote does not matter. Little do they know that every single vote … Read more
On the 12th of June 2007, former Prime Minister Tony Blair gave a brief speech on ‘public life’, through the international news agency Reuters. Blair offered some retrospective insight into his time in government, and expressed succinct concerns on the changing nature of the relationship between British politics and the mainstream media. In this, Blair … Read more
Section A – Identification and Evaluation of Sources The purpose of this investigation is to answer the research question, “To what extent was Ronald Regan’s war on drugs a policy failure but a political success from 1981-90?” Two primary sources were used as the premises for analysis and evaluation. Source A: My Primary source for … Read more
Weeks out from the 2017 General Election the Labour Party was staring down the barrel of its most devastating defeat to date. The July 22-27 One News Colmar Brunton polls showed Labour at an all-time low of 24% in the party vote, whilst simultaneously, Labour Leader, Andrew Little was sitting at 6% in the preferred … Read more
