And women.
This could get interesting.
Due in an hour ;D Leaving in 20minutes ;D
So there is a lot of roundabouts. This is one in three :o
1) After reading the assigned chapters in The American Record, in what ways do you believe that American culture changed during the 1940’s and early 1950’s? WHY did it change?
American Culture changed dramatically in such ways that women finally came to the understanding that they were capable of doing something other than being a wife and a mother, that they could hold a job, be successful, provide for themselves, and raise children. But they also were forced back into that nook of cooking and cleaning when their husbands came home. They were brainwashed into thinking they would be happier being at home all day vacuuming in high heels, that watching TV at night with her family was the ideal life, and that living in cookie cutter suburban homes would make them satisfied.
This was brought on because when the men went off to war, there was no one around except the very old, the very young, and women to mass produce all the necessary equipment to keep the army going. The women had to step up, not only to pay the bills, but also to help aid the country. They learned about the assembly lined, learned crafts such as sewing and melding, learned how to fly and drive and generally provide for themselves and others. They were forced out of their jobs when the war ended, and when the men came home, because the government was afraid of another Great Depression with so many men out of work. The women were basically brain washed by propaganda ads and television shows and movies that a woman would be happier at home caring for the children waiting on the husband to come back from the jobs they took from them and their children would be much safer as well due to the predator scares.
Another movement would be when the schools were integrating black students with white. There was a lot of dissention and in one High School the 101st was called in to escort black students to class safely. This was brought on because the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional and sparked the modern civil rights movement.
Lastly, an important music icon emerged by the name of Elvis. It is noted that he broke apart the everyday routines and sparked individualism in millions of youth. He opened the floodgates for the varying styles of music today, the various forms of expression such as rebelling and protesting, and he was an icon to millions of people. He rocked the nation, and the nation didn’t collapse.
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1)Develop a Presidential election system to replace the Electoral College. Explain carefully how your system would work and why it is preferable to the present Electoral College system for electing presidents.
The problem with today’s system is that the popular vote means nothing except to give you the false satisfaction that you are contributing to how this country is run. The only thing that really matters is the Electoral College, and we don’t even have a say in who gets to vote. Someone could have the majority popular vote, but lose in the Electoral College because a few random people’s opinion matters more than the majority. And isn’t the message of today EQUALITY? Shouldn’t each citizen’s vote be counted equally? Or as close to equal as you can get? (I know this isn’t how it really works, but it seems like it to a person with little to no understanding of the Electoral College.)
The Electoral College only represents a small group of individuals from each state and the popular vote ignores a large group as well. What I would suggest is a type of middle ground or counterweight. Instead of a few random people voting, we can have mini elections in each county voting for who they want to run for president. Each win in the mini election in each county acts as one point. Each state adds up the points for each candidate and sees who won. There is also no “winner takes all” like how it is today, which in my opinion further discriminates the voting because it can be 28:27 in California and the 28 gets the whole 55 votes and discriminates against both the popular vote, the individual Electoral College vote, and the smaller states with fewer representatives.
By having this point system, you prevent people who vote based off of one candidate being black and the other being a woman, which was a major problem in this last election, taking over the vote entirely. Instead of an abnormal amount of people voting and that swaying the popular vote ultimately deciding who should win the presidency, you would have that same abnormal amount of people voting for just one point, which prevents a legal version of ballot stuffing. There is also no “winner takes all”. If 28 counties vote for Obama and McCain gets 27 counties, Obama gets 28 points and McCain gets 27. They accumulate with each country across the country.
The mini elections provide a “Cold War” medium: a county are small enough to include the opinions of the individual and allows that individual a chance to sway others to vote their way, but big enough to exclude the fore mentioned legal version of ballot stuffing. Also, as all points matter, the race is even more tight and more of a representation of the country’s wishes than simply majority of an incredibly small number of people from each state.
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1)Does television influence how we vote? Will general access to broadband internet change our politics? Why or why not?
I do believe television influences how we vote, as this was proven with this current election and with Nixon v. Kennedy. Television is a gift as well as a curse because it allows us to view who we vote for, to provide us with quick facts and key parts of speeches, but it can also hold back quite a lot.
In the Nixon v. Kennedy era, those who heard them speak on the radio were more moved by Nixon whereas those who saw them speak who appalled by Nixon and moved by Kennedy. This is a given, though. We are a very visual society. We want to vote for someone who is young and vibrant not sickly and shifty eyed. According to Albert Mehrabian: “Words are only 7 percent of your conversation. The rest is your voice tonality (38 percent) and your body language at 55 percent.” This would explain why exactly people were turned off when saw Nixon and heard Kennedy, and same with this year’s election. If we were to just listen to Obama and McCain, we would have the same reaction to Nixon v. Kennedy, meaning McCain would have been the victor instead of Obama, because McCain gave smoother public speeches with less “um”s, “ah”s, and “uh”s than Obama. But the problem was McCain looked worse than his age, he is semi crippled due to being tortured, and cancer deformed his face. So all in all, he was less appealing than Obama on television which was the primary source of information for most Americans.
This last election also utilized a rapidly growing means of communication and information known as the Series of Interconnected Tubes, or more commonly known as the Internet. The internet developed a means of side-by-side comparisons between candidates with their positions represented clearly and in simple language. (For drilling v. against drilling) You can quickly and easily dissemble the mumbo jumbo the media throws at you and decide exactly which candidate is best for you based off of what is important to your everyday lives by this means. I do believe that this will become an even more prominent source of information for politics, and I do believe it will change our politics, because it is just simpler to answer a five question questionnaire and have it pump out who you should vote for than to be listening to the television religiously to ultimately end up being brainwashed into voting for that station’s favorite candidate. This cuts out that long, droll process and presents your (or their depending on the site) choice candidate.
Another benefit of internet, concerning changing politics, is the fact that you have so much information readily available. If you are unsure on an issue or you think someone just said something hypocritical, you can just google and look for yourself. You are no longer entirely reliant upon what the media pushes at you, but you can branch out and research for yourself, and in your spare time. This promotes an active audience getting excited about the news, visiting blogs, going to forums to argue and try to sway others to their side, and just in general creating a politically inflamed society. This causes more people to be informed, talking about specifics others have talked about and they read about, and word of mouth travels down the line and maybe someone will vote based off of what someone overheard what someone read on one forum or blog in a coffee shop.
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