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The vote of a citizen in the United States is nowhere near effective. We have the Electoral College to thank for this. The Electoral College defeats the purpose of the popular vote and takes power away from the people. The government is too strong and the United States is not much of a democracy as…

For as long as I can remember when it came to black political movements. Women were always depicted either on the side lines, in the shadows of their male counterparts or seen as sexual objects of desire. Unlike the suffragist movement where we see kick-ass white women demanding their power and having control of their…

What words do you think of that associated with America? Equality? Liberty? Justice for all? Now think of The Electoral College. A once-functioning system that is now severely flawed. What words do you associate with it? Unfair? Biased? Problematic? While the system once worked well, it no longer serves our nation’s needs, The Electoral College…

The Duel On July 11, 1804 Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr both made trips up the Hudson River to the Weehawken fields. The Burr party arrived first and the Hamilton party had arrived second. The two teams had to discuss the “einterview.†Duels were called interviews because they were illegal in most states including New…

August 16, 2017 at 8:24pm, 17 year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos was last seen being dragged by two men. Four witnesses later said that he was given a gun and told to run. Delos Santos was later found dead with three gunshot wounds to the back of the head. This incident comes after a drug…

The line between free speech and hate speech, is constantly debated. When does one cross the line of expressing an opinion to openly to encouraging hatred of a group? Ridiculing a belief system is protected under free speech, as long as one is not inciting hate or violence against the followers of that belief system….

Recently, Canada has been accepting into the country a great number of refugees. Refugees are different from immigrants in that immigrants actually have a choice to go to a different country and to remain there. On the other hand, Refugees do not have a choice except to flee their own country and to go to…

The first Amendment halts Congress from creating laws eliminating religious and individual beliefs from being published and shared in society. Milton would agree with this idea based on his beliefs in Areopagitica, where he argues freedom of the press and individualism should be allowed in society. Without freedom of the press and individualism, he believes…

In Aristotle’s Politics, he focuses much on the regimes of an oligarchy and of democracy. Democracies exist when the free and poor, being a majority, have the authority to rule, and have an equal share in the city. Oligarchies exist when the few wealthy and better born have authority and grant benefits in proportion to…

Throughout history there have been numerous wars between humanity. Whether these wars were fought for fitting reasons or for inane ones, the fact remains that they were fought. Alexander the Great, one of the greatest strategists and tacticians to ever live, has inspired awe in many military leaders throughout history. His great strategies have left…