"American History" is a story about a girl in 1963. She is a Puerto Rican girl and she lives in the tenement building El Building. She sits on the fire escape and watches the family in the house beside her, a family from Georgia. Over time, she feels like part of the family. In school,...

The qualities that have enabled the studious vice president to lead from behind the scenes, self-assurance and decisiveness, also can come off as arrogance and inflexiblity. Gore is an intensely studious and driven man who makes dicissions methodically and with little angst, however a per...

While I was reading through the issues, there was two that really struck home with me that the two presidential candidates talked about. The first issue that they talked about was Drugs. President Bush believes that we need to be more aggressive in teaching drug education, providing treatment and e...

Centrism in Politics Centrism is defined as "a movement by both parties to move to the center to involve all in voting". Centrism is a good tool in politics to keep many different opinions and options in the government. Instead of having a strictly republican or democratic outloo...

Thank you... Let's take a look back at the presidential election of 1984. The primary candidates in this election were Ronald Reagan for Republican, and Walter Mondale for Democratic. This election campaign revolved mostly around the issues of deficit and tariff barriers. The Republicans enthusi...