University of Phoenix Material Elections and Voter Turnout Worksheet Answer each question below in 50 to 75 words. 1. Who were the candidates for governor in your state (or state of choice) during the last election? Identify their political party affiliation. Who won the election? Governor Jerry Brown –D and Neel Kashkari -R Governor Jerry Brown won his fourth term in 2014‚ he did so out of a field of 14 candidates. 2. What were the gubernatorial candidates’ platforms? Gov. Brown ran
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Buffalo Soldiers The Buffalo Soldiers or the "Negro Calvary" were an elite group of soldiers that in the Civil War‚ Spanish-American War‚ World War1 and up to World War 2. These men were African American soldiers. The first Buffalo regiment formed on September 21‚ 1866 in Fort Leavenworth‚ Kansas. The Buffalo Soldiers started out as an all-black peacetime regiment that fought alongside the Union army during the Civil War. The Buffalo Soldiers were composed of 2 regiments which is the 9th and
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I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States‚ and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. I am disciplined‚ physically and mentally tough‚ trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms‚ my equipment and myself. I am an expert and I am a professional. I stand ready to deploy‚ engage‚ and destroy‚ the
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Elections and Voters by Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham) and Mark N. Franklin (European University Institute Florence‚ Nuffield College Oxford‚ and Trinity College Connecticut) Draft of December 2008 189 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface [1‚147 words] iii Chapter 1: Why elections? [9‚663 words] 1 Chapter 2: Studying elections‚ parties and voters [15‚134 words] 23 Chapter 3: Electoral institutions [15‚831 words] 59 Chapter 4: Voters and parties [15‚972
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symptoms that are present in many soldiers returning from war (NIMH‚ n.d.). Upon reintegration into society‚ both female and male marines and soldiers often feel detached and have problems showing intimacy‚ compassion‚ and even having sex. Studies conducted by the U.S Defense Department and the New England Journal of Medicine report similar findings‚ which state that 1 in 6 soldiers and marines return from Iraq with symptoms of PTSD. Less than 40% of these soldiers look for help‚ in fear of losing
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Working Paper 2013:14 Voter Turnout and the Size of Government Linuz Aggeborn Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies Working paper 2013:14 Department of Economics November 2013 Uppsala University P.O. Box 513 SE-751 20 Uppsala Sweden Fax: +46 18 471 14 78 Voter Turnout and the Size of Government Linuz Aggeborn Papers in the Working Paper Series are published on internet in PDF formats. Download from http://ucfs.nek.uu.se/ Voter Turnout and the Size of
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days after September 11th a panicked Congress passed‚ with little debate‚ the USA Patriot Act. The 342 page patriot act violates our 1st‚ 4th‚ 5th‚ 6th‚ 8th and 14th amendments‚ thus making it unconstitutional. I don’t know why Congress passed this act‚ or how it got through the Supreme Court‚ but most people in Congress didn’t even read the Patriot Act. I am sure that our founding fathers would not have wanted the Patriot Act. Just look at what Ben Franklin said‚ "They that can give up essential liberty
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Voter turnout and political efficacy amongst a people are crucial to the proper maintenance of a democratic society. In order for changes to be made and the largest amount of voices to be heard‚ people must feel like their vote counts‚ and that a direct result to their vote is a response from the government. As former US President Dwight David Eisenhower once quoted‚ “The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter‚” and for this reason political scientists commonly inquire on what
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A. Soldiers Bodies Sarah Wagner‚ “The Making and Unmaking of an Unknown Soldier‚” Social Studies of Science‚ 43(5): 631-656‚ 2013. The article describes the military identification technology in the 1990s and the decision to remove the remains from the Vietnam crypt of the Tomb of Unknowns and the subsequent work on the previously unidentified remains in previous wars. It argues that naming the dead soldiers and returning their remains personalize the ideals of sacrifice and honor embodied in the
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of the Southern states broke away from the Union the Civil War was starting to fuel. From there one of the bloodiest wars in American history took place when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter‚ the Federal military base in South Carolina. Through all of the battles and deaths‚ one of the greater aspects of the war was the courage and involvement of African-American soldiers and sailors of the Union army. In 1861‚ the United States Navy needed an astounding number of people in order to blockade
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