with the deadly disease known as HIV‚ asked the Republican party‚ to lift their silence on the epidemic that has struck the US. HIV is an epidemic that strikes all races‚ genders‚ and people. She tells that “two hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying” due to this disease. The Republicans like to think that this disease is strictly affecting a certain group of people‚ they believe the disease only strikes certain people. Specifically‚ the republicans believe the HIV disease attacks. Fishers main
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Victor Ramirez 4/12/12 COM-126 Agenda Setting in the Media In 2008 Political front runner Barack Obama won the presidential election. During this time‚ America had swayed into a recession which the economy suffered massive cutbacks and drowning in debt. America was also at war currently with Iraq which stirred up many other problematic issues to come about during this year. The media was and still is the main door way to the public to address these issues. The agenda setting function during
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re-enslaved. Radical Republicans believe the amendment will be defeated‚ due to the support of it not being completely assured‚ since they prioritize the issue of ending the war. Even if all of them are ultimately brought on board‚ the amendment will still require the support of several Democratic congressmen if it is to pass. With dozens of Democrats having just lost their re-election campaigns in the fall of 1864‚ some of Lincoln’s advisers believe that he should wait until the new Republican-heavy Congress
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Contract With America In the historic 1994 midterm elections‚ Republicans won a majority in Congress for the first time in forty years‚ partly on the appeal of a platform called the Contract with America. Put forward by House Republicans‚ this sweeping ten-point plan promised to reshape government. Its main theme was the decentralization of federal authority‚ deregulation‚ tax cuts‚ reform of social programs‚ increased power for states‚ a balanced federal budget were its chief ambitions. With
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occurred in the 2000 election‚ wouldn’t be entirely false. They brought up the key issues of the election: Butterfly ballot‚ hanging and dimpled chads‚ Katherine Harris‚ Vice Presidential candidate Lieberman? (I’ll talk about him in depth later on)‚ US and Florida courts making rulings based on political preference‚ people being turned away at voting booths‚ media reporting results early‚ and hand
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Important People 1700s 1. Jeffrey Amherst (1717-97): he led the British attack in 1758 on Louisburg. After the war‚ in 1763‚ Amherst was appointed Governor of Virginia. 2. Jonathan Edwards (1703 –1758): Jonathan Edwards studied divinity at Yale College before taking the pulpit in Northampton‚ MA. His sermons and writings embraced the idea of Free Will‚ along with a firm confidence in God’s righteousness. The sermons and writings of Jonathan Edwards helped to shape the course of Protestant
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He was looked at as one of the greatest presidents in history. He went through a great deal of obstacles to fight for what he believed in. The accomplishments he brought to our country would have been even greater if he wasn’t assassinated. As a child he knew that he was destined for greatness and he wanted to achieve more than what his family had. Lincoln was a brave and determined leader and personally one of my favorite presidents
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federal Constitution‚ the Democratic-Republicans were usually characterized as strict constructionists who were opposed to the broad constructionism of the Federalists. As history dictates‚ this is substantially accurate. In the time frame of 1801-1817‚ Thomas Jefferson and James Madison‚ the Republican presidents of the time‚ demonstrated the differences of the Republican Party in several aspects involving the interpretation of the Constitution. The Democratic-Republicans believed that the government should
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Hitler was wrecking Europe; Hoover insists that America would eventually turn into Europe’s state if the New Deal is followed through. Document #7 entitled “Republican Party Platform” discusses the conservative complaints about the New Deal‚ because of course not all Americans supported the New Deal‚ or even Roosevelt himself. The Republican Party of 1936 had put together a platform to oppose the changes FDR made‚ such as the high taxes‚ high regulation‚ crony capitalism‚ fascist third way system. They
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and the following year became District Attorney of Dane County. Elected to Congress as a Republican‚ La Follette was extremely critical of the behaviour of some of the party bosses. In 1891‚ La Follette announced that the state Republican boss‚ Senator Philetus Sawyer‚ had offered him a bribe to fix a court case. Over the next six years La Follette built up a loyal following within the Republican Party in opposition to the power of the official leadership. Proposing a programme of tax reform
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