"The ACORN Scandal", True Or False !

Compare the two current controversies involving voting rights in America: that of the ACORN scandal vs. the potential for vote-suppression. Be sure to use a minimum of five reliable sources. Your answer should be an in-depth piece of comparative writing.


"The real threats to the fabric of democracy are the unreasonable barriers that stand in the way of eligible voters casting ballots."

Listening, to this part of the ACORN story in the New York times, I just realized the ACORN Organization was not truly accurate in their voting polls by letting many voting volunteers insert their voting requests as fraud in the box. So, right now the ACORN Organization has many problems collecting their voting drive from low-income and moderate-income individuals to cast opinionated votes. Also Senator John McCain, has reported ACORN for being a fraud voter organization by submitting invalid registration forms, and so I think that's a big hit for McCain's campaign of probably losing the election. Such in this quote will explain what I'm talking about.

"In recent weeks, the McCain campaign has accused the group of perpetrating voter fraud by intentionally submitting invalid registration forms, including some with fictional names like Mickey Mouse and others for voters who are already registered."

It seems that ACORN has those problems explaining that because thy need to make sure to be careful and revise votes better for an equal fair chance for both candidates. This piece of evidence explains what they thought and have argued to their findings and even though some canvassers that cheated only constitute to count a percent:

"The group concedes that some of its hired canvassers have turned in tainted forms, although they say the ones with phony names constitute no more than 1 percent of the total turned in. The group also says it reviews all of the registration forms that come in. Before delivering the forms to elections offices, its supervisors flag any that appear to have problems."

I personally wish this would never happen because this voting luck can strike both ways and get one be responsible of an important vote that one submits because it can change presidential life and citizen life forever.

These were my relevant resources that helped me, and great evidence to the ACORN scandal.

NYTimes editorial on ACORN
Howard Kurtz on ACORN
Another WaPo article on ACORN

History so far with Political Parties in Debates!

Describe the 2008 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates in their historical context.

The debates have changed through the whole sequel of Obama vs. McCain and Biden Vs. Palin. All four candidates stayed true to their understanding of change and as Biden & Palin chose their best to defend their political party leaders and their plan for a greater America.Even though Obama & McCain had some really annoying and bad confrontations against each other they were still able to post their plan on the field. As McCain and Obama as really strong candidates face each other they both showed their different style of play among jury and host.As McCain style of play; snitching and lying through his plan, half of what he commented to explained to America was still accurate to prove and go on with it. While Obama's new stage of plan changed his whole viewpoint around to see among issues in America, he was able to get enough votes to make his political party proud. As well as Biden protected his Political party leader, he proved to be more factual than what Palin would ever be. As you can see among these many debates growth was able to be identified throughout numerical order of debates.

Internet vs. Americans with approach of Democracy ~

How has the Internet affected the way that Americans approach democracy? How does the Internet and it's effects fit into the historical context of technology and democracy in America?

From my opinion, I feel there really isn't an specific way it affected since, Internet now or has been the next best thing for us humans so we do not know what is really put into effect till we see a big resemblance in change. I noticed that ever since debates has been going on and adding to the political issue, way more people have been more focused, because so much ads on the internet have been related to politics. This internet experience with politics can be a real good experience but at the same time it can be a bad idea too. The Con reasons are that rumors can be spread in a split-second and cause so much drama and false information, while it can have pros like online voters and online supporters or open awareness for people to view and make decisions on politically. As I remembered that my own saying goes like " you need envy from others in order to be recognized as true from many". I live with this quote my whole life and it has impacted me, and has made a lot of sense like Senator Obama, he needed odds (as maybe being the 1st black president in history) in order to overcome and be recognized by millions. Everyone needs something to overcome and surpass in life with a little struggle and at the end alleviation.

~My Reflection about My Newspaper project~

"My Reflection About My Newspaper Article Project"

I am thoroughly proud of my written section of the newspaper article because I thought it flowed easily to a fairly understanding of students. I got many comments from many students in the class like pointing-out that the structure was used how it was presented to the class, and it made me feel good because overall through the years it seems my writing has slowly improved with bigger vocabulary and in-depth writing. I also think that I did a good job explaining various parts from my prospective of falling into a pro-Douglas point of view. I put so much time to take revision after revision that whole week that was given in class to perfect our essay writing to finally post on our newspaper article.

Things that I can probably improve on is having replaceable words substitute some basic words that are common used. I also just had 1 or 2 typos, but next time I want to perfect my masterpieces from now on.

My daily Journal need-to-accomplish were to constantly find updated info, and to also gather many Lincoln- Douglas images to turn them into the team, so we can improve on display of Newspaper Article. Also to look for quotes for Stephen A. Douglas, so I can prove as to have evidence for statement.

Overall, I thought that the News Article came out great from my opinion because I felt that it was neatly organized, and their was many great use of good titles & headlines and etc. It was genuine enough to prove upon for a 1st time creating an article with news-paper style. Really much can't be blamed if it was done on the 1st time, everyone messes up on the 1st attempt to something new. I'm proud of how we cooperated overall through the project, and how everyone was focused and doing their own tasks, then we collaborated at the end to collect everything and put it all together. This was a hard and stressful project at the beginning, but at the end everything resolved to be a great project.

Free choice !!

Free Choice! Find an article that relates to the most interesting thing we have discussed, read or done in class so far this year!

In this Humanities class, Politics has been going on since the 3rd week in class. I feel I progressed with this topic ever since 11th grade, because before I was pretty clueless throughout this subject and I really did not focus on this topic even though it was really widely-known. Since throughout the year this topic has been related to most of all projects in Humanities or in some how related to our in class subjects. Also since our teacher Randy is interested into Politics, we always find out the newest information in class.

In this article, it briefly talks about Senator John McCain finally reviewing and going back to his thinking steps, because he realized that his proposal was too short and he doesn't have enough money to become active. He finally is accepting Obama's reasons to actually accepting to offer his lending hand to pick up the economy. even tough, everyone else thought that this day will never come for McCain, but it did. If you noticed that through a Republican's Eye McCain did great,but through Democrat's view he just copied Obama's concept. That's political news that I always learn constantly !!

ABC News: The Note: Econ 102

Licoln-Douglas !!

Describe your specific debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in the context of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Be sure to include relevant quotes and historical and/or biographical information.

Listening to debate 3 in Lincoln-Douglas debate in Jonesboro, Illinois from the Podcasts of Knox College. It seems to be a pretty interesting face-off since Douglas maintained to keep an anger below Lincoln's strive for the existence of slavery. Then also Stephen a Douglas had an important advantage towards location being out numbered by democrats, yet Douglas was still not actually well-known to at least become ahead. But since both candidates had the same mentality of anger in Jonesboro(Lincoln) and Freeport(Douglas) none of them have nothing to lose since they are both speaking in the enemy's territory.

Describe your initial thoughts regarding the 2008 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates, given their historic context.

What I noticed and that I kept in my thoughts was that Barrack Obama really had a lot of respect for McCain because striking with aggressive hits was always done by McCain. I also feel that debates have been gone from a scale of calm to really aggressive thoughts and rude comments. Given through my debate reflections, I noticed that these debates were 1st seen to me to be really uninteresting, but know I feel that candidates have strange ways of directing hits to each other or showing bad sportsmanship. One thought that I had was if a candidate creates negativity in a debate and present it to a whole crowd of listeners, that candidate is seen as weak by attacking and not proposing anew plan to persuade listeners. I always hated when candidates attack each other, and not put up a good standard fight to protect their plan.


Lincoln-Douglas Debate 3 in Jonesboro Illinois- Podcast

What's this "Demographic" situation !

1. Explain how a particular demographic may be impacted by—or could impact—the election of one of the candidates for President.

In my definition, I thought that this was a difficult source to anonymously decide if this can be resulted to impact a candidate for presidential spot. I got an Idea that can probably affect John McCain since he really wants to just focus on the affects of the economy, but not really showing effort to stoop up the economy's problem financially. So, also many big things impact the demographics all the time like marketing, ratios of genders, ratios of race and much more daily affect our routine.
I believe that if a candidate was to get impacted by demographics for a good cause, I think that Obama would qualify since he is being open to many issues that our U.S. country falls behind like schooling for lower level ethnicities, and financially bank issues, weaponry equipment being bought for wars. All those issues, are studied through demographics and determine the ratio of problem and how it spreads through out the years.

"Case Closed"!!, That's what Supreme Court thought

Choose a case in which the Supreme Court used the power of Judicial Review. How is this case relevant to American Society? How is this case relevant today?

This Issue has been revolving around societies among the world, and less discretion has been given to the discrimination against sexual Orientation. Bowers v. Hardwick case brought interesting steps to emancipate this civil rights issue against the ruling of the Supreme Court.

This case has become relevant through the years of American society. Especially, through the past few years when there was a struggle of support for independently sexual orientation, its view had a weak acceptance to close minded citizens. But for a short amount of time, some sense of respect has been given to show evidence that little by little everyone providing rights for sexual orientation. A great piece from the Bowers v. Hardwick case can show support for sodomy.“This case does not require a judgment on whether laws against sodomy between consenting adults in general, or between homosexuals in particular, are wise or desirable. It raises no question about the right or propriety of state legislative decisions to repeal their laws that criminalize homosexual sodomy, or of state-court decisions invalidating those laws on state constitutional grounds. The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal and have done so for a very long time.” In order of discovering that few states were allowing this sexual behavior among homosexuals, it was an astonishing moment for all the individuals that accomplished their goal. Also having rights to perform gay marriages, and rights to get treated equally among society. In this quote of Bowers v. Hardwick case shows a thorough explanation:“It is obvious to us that neither of these formulations would extend a fundamental right to homosexuals to engage in acts of consensual sodomy. Sodomy was a criminal offense at common law and was forbidden by the laws of the original 13 States when they ratified the Bill of Rights. In 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was [478 U.S. 186, 193] ratified, all but 5 of the 37 States in the Union had criminal sodomy laws. In fact, until 1961, all 50 States outlawed sodomy, and today, 24 States and the District of Columbia [478 U.S. 186, 194] continue to provide criminal penalties for sodomy performed in private and between consenting adults.”

During this Bowers v. Hardwick case,the supreme court tried to set trial on the the case. During 1986, Sexual orientation wasn't respected in the outer society and the supreme court has violated its means towards rights, laws, and amendments. In similar situations when it came to the ninth amendment it stated:

“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” So when it comes to it all, this explains that it's unacceptable to discriminate others. Also, since everyone has rights on right was privacy, one's ownership of belongings needs consent to revise or to act on anything concerning one's things. Since this case was discovered through someone's home and violation of privacy, the supreme court was at fault. Today in societies view, ways have changed since a while back. “Legalized gay marriage may never cause the transformation of society that some have predicted, given that it is likely to affect less than one in 100 U.S. married couples in the United States today.” Even though many societies around the world are against, it will show positive views to benefits of adopting kids (letting children experience living and being loved by a parents) and even though same sex-couples can't genetically produce they can still build up legal families. “Gay marriage, he said, will reinforce the idea that traditional marriages formed for the purpose of having children and providing a healthy mother-father environment is out, and alternative partnerships are in.”

When it comes to my opinion, I strongly agree for people to be able to cherish happiness in anyway, even if people can relate to being sexual oriented. I personally don't have nothing against the issue. I'm proud of all the people that overcame this issue and accomplished their goal to be accepted in human society.

Sources

1. Johnson, Ramon. "Gay Marriage Rights: Where Is Gay Marriage Legal?" About.com. 18 Aug. 2008. 1 Oct. 2008 <http://gaylife.about.com/od/samesexmarriage/a/legalgaymarriag.htm>.

2. BOWERS, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF GEORGIA v. HARDWICK ET AL. (June 30, 1986).

3. "Sexual Orientation Protected by Civil Rights Laws." VoteMatch. 1 Oct. 2008 .

4. U.S. Constitution: Ninth Amendment, Find Law For Legal

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5. Vlahos, Kelley B. "The Real Impact Of Gay Marriage On Society." Fox News.com. 24 Mar. 2004. © 2008 FOX News Network. 1 Oct. 2008 .