(a) Describe the winner-take-all feature of the Electoral College. (b) Explain one way in which the winner-take-all feature of the Electoral College affects how presidential candidates from the two major political parties run their campaigns. (c) Explain one way in which the winner-take-all feature of the Electoral College hinders third party candidates. (d) Explain two reasons the Electoral College has not been abolished. (a)The winner-take-all feature of the Electoral College is a method that
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ENG 273 06-1-13. The Slaves Narratives.Slavery had long been practiced in Africa‚ but it increased crimes and injustices to humanity by the white slaveholders. All of these narrators (authors) have undergone various hardships in making them who they are – A free person. It exposes the dangers and calamities of slaveholders and also emphasizes the traditional religious ideas of loving your neighbor as yourself‚ and doing unto others what you want them to do onto you. Venture Smith was an uneducated
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Hi everyone‚ By the biginning of the 5th century BC‚ Carthage had become "the" commercial centre of the Mediterranean region‚ Carthage controled the entire north African coast from modern Morroco to the boarders of Egypt‚ its influence had also reached Sardinia‚ Malta and western Cisily‚ it was’nt until shortly after Rome consolidated her power on all of the Greeks and the Italian pininsula including the southern Greek city states‚ that she turned her attention to Sicily that was occupied by both
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his life Bob Marley was deeply troubled when men where not judged by their character‚ but by their skin color‚ and the amount of money they possessed. The song is dedicated to all the Afro-Americans living in the United States. This song is a recount of the story of some regiments of the post-Civil War. These regiments where formed by black men commanded to fight (pro white interests). “They [the Africans] fought for a quarter of a century against the Cheyenne‚ Comanche‚ Kiowa‚ Apache‚ Ute and
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between the factual account of the events and author Ron Rash’s take‚ although minute‚ are detectable. The most obvious difference between the two accounts is that in the novel‚ the girl’s body is recovered while in the factual account only her remains are found. Rash most likely changed this aspect of the story for dramatic effect‚ knowing that it would provide an exciting climax for his readers. However‚ this diminishes the meaningfulness of Rash’s account; therefore‚ the factual account of Trois’
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The Process of Love; Reproducing Beauty Throughout his work Plato is well known for implementing dialogue‚ typically with Socrates as the main interlocutor‚ to express his philosophical thoughts in an engaging‚ dramatic fashion. The Symposium is no different and is often considered Plato’s crowning achievement in terms of creating a harmonic interplay between drama and philosophy within his dialogue. Beyond simply presenting his ideas in an entertaining manner‚ this dialectic method of composition
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Oedipus as a Tragedy by Aristotle’s Definition A tragedy by definition is “a drama which recounts an important and casually related series of events in the life of a person of significance‚ such events culminating in an unhappy catastrophe‚ the whole treated with great dignity and seriousness”. The Greek tragedies are plays based on myths which were well known and enjoyed by audiences. Most of the plays encompassed certain elements that Aristotle identified in his Poetics
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This can be seen in the first and second paragraphs where she talks recounts her first encounter with Mr. Hindley’s wife‚ Frances and her upsetting towards death and funerals. Also in the third paragraph‚ she notes how Hindley has changed as after all‚ she has known him since he was a child. Also‚ throughout the chapter. Nelly is able to make quite accurate observations of people as she takes time to watch attentively then recount what she has observed as best as she can without making presumptions
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hyped-up advertising transgresses the grey areas of permissible assertion‚ the advertiser must have some reasonable factual basis for the assertion made. It is not possible‚ therefore‚ for X to make an off-the-cuff or unsubstantiated claim that its business / products / services are better that its rivals. While a distinction can be made and due latitude be given for an advertisement to promote one’s clientage‚ such latitude does not extend to license to misrepresent. Therefore‚ any and all facts
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a) In order to determine whether or not there is a factual causal connection between the injuries inflicted upon X during the fight and the eventual loss of X’s business‚ we need to look at the method of the conditio sine qua non theory and determine if there was actually a factual causal nexus. According to Van der Merwe and Olivier‚ conditio sine qua non theory is when an act is the cause of a result if the act cannot be thought away without the result also disappearing. This means that for an
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