...the article “Obama is a great president; we’re just a lousy country, I would like to analyze the reliability, credibility, and validity of the data used by the author, as well as identify any logical fallacies in the argument. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2009, when President Obama signed the stimulus package into law, he promised a six percent unemployment rate by this time. Granted, a drop has been seen in the unemployment, but what the author does not seem to realize is the number of Americans who have stopped looking for work. The Department of Labor has reported an unemployment rate of 8.2 for the month of March 2012. The actual unemployment or U-6 rate as of March is hovering at 14.5 percent. Many argue that it has become so easy to gain government benefits, that looking for work is no longer a priority. The President needs to limit benefits to push people to search for work or take jobs that may not be their first choice. Unfortunately, many Americans have become so discouraged with the lack of performance from the current administration that the author has come to this conclusion. The author of this article has a clear bias to what the President has or has not accomplished to date. Fallacies used within the article would include generalizing Americans as lazy and obese. He states the Obama has given Americans all of the tools to succeed, but Americans just aren’t very good at running businesses and creating jobs. He follows this with, Obama has given citizens...
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...Presidency of Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II, the first African-American president of the United States of America was born in the State of Hawaii where he grew up. Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his parents eventually divorced. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, His grandparents raised him up from a humble background. In 2007 when then Senator Barack Obama announced his run for the presidency of the United States, the country was experiencing great turmoil and people were ready for a change in leadership. No matter what political party you held, it appeared to be an overwhelming sentiment that people were looking for a shift in direction, especially relating to the bad economical positions a lot of Americans had found themselves in. The presidency of Obama began on 20th January in the year 2009 after he was sworn in as the 44th president of United States of America. Before unveiling his ambition of vying for the top seat, Barack Obama was the Illinois senator in United States. Obama’s presidency came about as a result of succeeding President George Bush. Bush’s presidency was characterized...
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...Presidency of Barack Obama Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States of America was born in the State of Hawaii where he grew up. His grandparents raised him up from a humble background. The presidency of Obama began on 20th January in the year 2009 after he was sworn in as the 44th president of United States of America. Before unveiling his ambition of vying for the top seat, Barack Obama was the Illinois senator in United States. Obama’s presidency came about as a result of succeeding President George Bush. Bush’s presidency was characterized by a series of severe terrorist attacks. Obama’s presidency had national security as his main objective. Obama’s vision is to improve the national security of the Americans as well as other continents as evident in the speech he delivered at the National Archives. Through enhancing the level of national security across the States, he has ensured a complete elimination of any act of terrorism within America. When Barack Obama took power and office, the economy of America was already in recession. At this time, the economy of United States was believed to be in a critical and devastated state as it nearly fell. This forced the President Obama to include vital themes and issues associated to financial crises among his policy decisions. Obama’s presidency aims at saving, reconstructing and even restructuring the failing economy which had resulted to severe recession. The presidency of Barack Obama has been characterized...
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...Barack Obama is a rhetorical genius. He uses a non-formal language so every citizen in the US can understand Barack Obama’s 2011 Tucson shooting speech. He makes the citizens feel like he knew the people who were killed by the shooting. He talks about all of them in a sense that he knew them personally. The back stories about each individual contribute to the emotional appeal Obama creates. He states in the middle of his speech, “George and Dorothy Morris -- "Dot" to her friends -- were high school sweethearts who got married and had two daughters. They did everything together, traveling the open road in their R.V., enjoying what their friends called a 50-year honeymoon” (Obama). This quote is very well abstracted, he gives the audience a sweet taste into the Morris’s life, which only contributes to the aspiration speech that he presents. President Obama is a highly skilled orator, which means his use of a number of rhetorical devices comes off more naturally than they would if used by a less talented speaker. The president appears emphatic by appealing to emotions. “To the families of those we've lost, to all who called them friends, to the students of this university, the public servants who are gathered here, the people of Tucson and the people of Arizona: I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today and will stand by you tomorrow” (Obama). He uses the appeal form to emotions, pathos, and therefore gets the people of America...
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...America: A Nation Divided. In George Washington’s Farewell Speech on September 19, 1796, he warned against political parties as follows: The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty (J.E. Quidam, 2008). This ideology seems to have evolved and held truth for the past 227 years as now Americans are even more divided by political parties than any other stature. According to Edward S. Greenberg and Benjamin I. Page’s “The Struggle for Democracy”, political ideology is defined as a system of interrelated and coherently organized political beliefs and attitudes, which include conservatives, liberals, populists, and libertarians (145). Greenburg and Page further describe that the “two dimensions” that Americans generally divide along are government’s roles in economy and society (147). Conservatism can be defined as the disposition to preserve or restore what is established...
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...On August 4th ,1961 Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a white American from Wichita, Kansas. His father, Barack Obama Sr. was black American from Alego, Kenya. His parents separated, and his father moved back to Kenya. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia when Barack was six. In 1970 Obama moved back to Hawaii, to live with his grandparents. They lived in a small apartment where his grandfather was a furniture salesman and his grandmother worked in a bank. Barack still managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, he visited only once, when Barack was ten. Obama later attended Columbia...
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...When Barack Obama stood before a cheering crowd in his home state Illinois and announced his candidacy, no believed that this guy had any chance of winning the nomination. Majority of Americans did not believe that the country was actually ready for an African American president with a promise of changing the course of politics in Washington. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia. From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. "I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child," Obama later recalled. "And so what I benefited from is a multiplicity of cultures that all fed me."Concerned for his education, Obama's mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, and to attend Hawaii's prestigious Punahou School from fifth grade through graduation from high school. While Obama was in school, she divorced Soetoro, returned to Hawaii...
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...Allison Yuskiw English 1B Ms. Willis 2 November 2015 Barack Cheney: Hello, Darth Vader By: William McGurn In the essay “Barack Cheney: Hello, Darth Vader”, the author, William McGurn uses strong wording to show his audience his opinion and to try to persuade the audience. The author uses different diction for each president, but it is still opinionated words. When talking about Barack Obama McGurn states, “This Obama openly mocks the idea that if only Israelis would settle with the Palestinians, the Middle East would be as peaceful as Scarsdale.” (McGurn). By using words like “Mocks” the author is allowing readers to see that Obama should not be seen as a positive leader, but as a person who mocks ideas. To further his opinion on...
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...are leading.” Colin Powell and President Barack Obama are two African American men who had to overcome much adversity to achieve their elite status in American politics. Both of their journeys varied greatly with Powell serving as Secretary of State under George W. Bush and Obama becoming the first African-American Commander-in-Chief. They also chronicle their journeys with autobiographies, with Obama recording this passage of his life in his 1995 independently written autobiography Dreams from My Father, while Powell recollects stories from his life with the assistance of Joseph E. Persico in the 1995 book My American Journey. On an important side note, both of these books were written before they have reached their respective positions in politics. Obama wrote Dreams from My Father when he was still only a state Senator in Illinois, awhile before he even considered running for President. While Powell wrote My American Journey where at the time he was already Powell was already a 4-star general which preceded the events that led to his appointment as Secretary of State, where he was the first African-American to hold the position and gave his notorious speech in front on the United Nations dealing with the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which dramatically changed the public’s perception about him. Each story instead focuses on how they were brought up. While each book contains a different central message, Powell and Obama reveals an honest reflection about the upbringing...
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...Every four years the American society choose their leader and representative. Their decision influences not only their motherland but all countries in the world. Till 2008, there were no elections that were assumed to be historic before announcing the final result and before they actually took place. It was the president’s decisions that made one’s tenure significant and unforgettable. 2008 year’s voting altered this jurisdiction. An African American senator has been nominated and finally won the most momentous election in the world. Certainly, Africans and their descendants have been a part of the story of the America since the late 1400s. As scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, blacks were among those who first encountered Native Americans. Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of the labor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. Their slavery legally lasted till the XIX century, when in 1865 Thirteenth Amendment to the USA Consitution was passed. The legal act banned bondage. However, African Americans faced many obstacles and prejudices not encountered by whites, even in areas where slavery had been abolished. They were barred from most educational institutions, limited to the least desirable residential and farming areas, often prohibited from practicing trades and opening businesses, and generally segregated in public conveyances...
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...The Presidency of Barrack Obama The first African-American United States’ president was born in Hawaii, raised by his grandparents prior to becoming an Illinois Senator. The presidency of Barrack Obama was offset in January 20th, 2009. Obama’s Presidency was inherited from George Bush whose presidency was facilitated with a series of terrorist attacks. Taking into consideration Obama’s speech noted in National Archives, it is evident that Obama’s presidency has an aim of ensuring higher levels of national security through eliminating any form of terror attack on the United States soil. While in office, matters related to financial crises was listed among Obama’s policy decisions. Inclusively, issues on tax policy changes and the matter of the healthcare industry were also covered. Obama’s victory came about when the economy of the state was at a devastating state: It was near a fall. As a result, the presidency has an aim of saving the near free-fall economy resulting into a great recession within the levels of the economy. Obama’s presidency has a characteristic of series of wins and losses. Within the first two years, president Obama successfully passed a number of legislation such as the healthcare bill. The bill on health care meant offering massive coverage with an ability of providing an affordable healthcare on universal grounds. In addition, Barrack’s presidency is also characterized by prominent victories such as the $787 billion Stimulus Bill as a characteristic...
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...When comparing and contrasting the leadership styles of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, it is important to note the differences in leadership/management and communication styles. Looking to each leader in the context of their organization we know that Mitt Romney was the running Presidential candidate for the Republican Party and Barack Obama was the Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party that went on to win the Presidency for two terms. In this paper I will discuss the differences in each leaders communication style and how it affects their organizations, how it determines the differences between managers and leaders, how they use verbal/nonverbal communication styles to influence their followers and others around them, and what communication styles contribute to them being judged as a “good” or “bad” leader. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama take strategic approaches while attempting to get support from their distinct organizations. An example of this was during their campaign speeches in 2012. In an article by the Huffington Post it describes Romney talking mortality or a conservative style while Obama talks mainly policy. It also describes Romney’s framing as being more moral, simple, and straightforward while Obama’s style is policy-oriented, filled with numbers, details, and proposals. This gives a clear distinction as to which political party each candidate belongs to based on the assumptions that generally, republicans are seen as more conservative (socially and...
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...County, GA voters turned out by the droves. A Crisp County listener may have heard the news at five that, according to WALB in Albany, polling places in all twenty-four states participating in Super Tuesday have had the same turnout. The news anchor called this primary election a “history making” one. Not only has this country made history by the turnout in this primary, but also, by the fact that for the first time ever a black man and a woman are in the running for their party’s nomination. Determination to take the White House back is a driving force in the Democratic Party: Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have fought hard with each other as well as with the Republicans. The Democrats will not give up the fight regardless of the candidate chosen to represent it. Gender, race, and political platforms shape this presidential primary into one unprecedented in this country’s history. George Bush will close out the fifty-fifth term of an American president. These “guys” in the past have led the United States as best as they could; however, this year the campaigning has diversified, to say the least. Every president in the past has been a male. This year, however, a woman is running for president. Hillary Rodam Clinton is not the first female ever to run for president. Shirley Chisholm, a black woman from New York State was the first woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she entered several presidential primaries and won 151 delegates. Chisholm had several strikes against...
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...The Presidency of Barrack Obama The first African-American United States’ president was born in Hawaii, raised by his grandparents prior to becoming an Illinois Senator. The presidency of Barrack Obama was offset in January 20th, 2009. Obama’s Presidency was inherited from George Bush whose presidency was facilitated with a series of terrorist attacks. Taking into consideration Obama’s speech noted in National Archives, it is evident that Obama’s presidency has an aim of ensuring higher levels of national security through eliminating any form of terror attack on the United States soil. While in office, matters related to financial crises was listed among Obama’s policy decisions. Inclusively, issues on tax policy changes and the matter of the healthcare industry were also covered. Obama’s victory came about when the economy of the state was at a devastating state: It was near a fall. As a result, the presidency has an aim of saving the near free-fall economy resulting into a great recession within the levels of the economy. Obama’s presidency has a characteristic of series of wins and losses. Within the first two years, president Obama successfully passed a number of legislation such as the healthcare bill. The bill on health care meant offering massive coverage with an ability of providing an affordable healthcare on universal grounds. In addition, Barrack’s presidency is also characterized by prominent victories such as the $787 billion Stimulus Bill as a characteristic. The...
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...University April 19, 2012 Homosexuals in the Military Homosexuality within the military is a controversial subject. Sexual segregation in the military became relevant in the early 1940’s. Homosexuality is viewed differently among soldiers, veterans and the general public. As a soldier in The United States Army, I have encountered first-hand how this impacts both the military and workplace environment. Central to this issue is the question of whether or not homosexuality is detrimental to a soldier’s duty. George Washington, the nation's first Commander-in-Chief, held a strong opinion on this subject and gave a clear statement of his views on it in a court Marshall for a soldier who stood accused of sodomy. (Fitzpatrick, 1934) “At a General Court Martial Lieutenant Enslin [was] tried for attempting to commit sodomy with John Monhort, a fellow soldier. He was found guilty of the charges levied against him and was sentenced to be dismissed from the service. George Washington approved the sentence due to the abhorrence and detestation with which he viewed such infamous crimes.” (Fitzpatrick, 1934) The sexual orientation of military personnel was first recognized by The Military Code of Conduct in 1942. This stated that “homosexuals” were different than “normal” people or heterosexuals. This was revised in the military literature of army mobilization regulations 1943. (Cannistra, Downs, Rivero, 2010) Further revisions in the military code of conduct solidified the ban against...
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