Governor Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

The Bacon’s rebellion refers to the uprising that occurred in 1676 in the colony of Virginia. The uprising was led by Nathaniel Bacon, a planter who was 29 years of age. The rebellion was a retaliatory attack in response to conflicts arising from frontier Indian policies between the colonial government and the settlers. Virginia Governor, Berkeley, had a policy to divide the Indians. He maintained good relations with the friendly groups of Indians because they provided a valuable trade in deerskin. However, the settlers on the frontiers made no distinctions and killed all the Indians as a result of escalating tensions and minor ...

Governor Wilson ran full-page ads in the major California newspapers, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, to launch his anti-immigrant based re-election campaign. The ads were in the form of a letter to President Clinton, demanding that he halt illegal immigration to the State of California as well as reimburse the state for the cost of federally mandated health, education, welfare services, and the incarceration of undocumented immigrants. Remarkably, Governor Wilson was able to narrow the complex political and economic conditions besieging California. It proved to be a politically astute move. In doing so, Wilson obfuscated the ...

The Texas Constitution was written in the 1870s and despite all of its amendments, the constitution is still used today and this shows that the document has been able to survive and adapt over time (Sandoval, 2011). However, there are many reasons as to why the Texan Constitution needs to be reformed as soon as possible as it can no longer survive in the twenty-first century due to its complexions. Therefore, this essay will argue that the Texas Constitution needs to be rewritten based on the following reasons: it is a long constitution that is out-dated and in need of ...

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was more successful as a writer and traveler than he was as a conquisidator. He was an early explorer, exploring the New World hailing from Spain, as well as a protoanthropological author. He was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz in the year 1490 into a wealthy family. Orphaned at a very early age, Cabeza grew up under care of his maternal aunt. Pedro de Vera, his grandfather, had conquered the Canary Islands and would serve a large shadow in Cabeza de Vaca’s ambitions in ‘the new world’ America. His name cabeza means ‘head’ and de Vaca means ‘ ...

This is an open letter directed to Governor Snyder of Michigan and State Superintendent Mike Flanagan. This letter comes at a time where there is a great campaign that is going on championing for districts to merge and eradicate boundaries that have existed for long in order to save taxpayers’ money. The benefit derived from merging a number of districts in order to reduce various administrative and operational overheads are a good thing in these tough economic times that has been experienced in the country since the year 2008. Cost reducing and restructuring of public schools is a good but should not be a reason ...

Canada is made up of a representative government under the constitutional monarchy. The government is democratic because the members of legislative assembly are directly elected by the people although by monarch it means that the head of the country is the queen or the king. Elizabeth II is the head of state and the official queen of Canada. The prime minister of Canada chairs the cabinet meetings and he is the head of government who represents the queen alongside the governor general. The powers enjoyed by the prime minister of Canada have made the political scientists to argue that Canada ...

Question 1

As president Barrack Obama’s second term of office comes to an end, several observations can be made about some of the positive and the negative effects he has had on the welfare of the American citizens as well as the country in general. Some of the achievements that Obama was able to realize include the fact that he influenced the congress to come up with better regulation on pertinent issues such as the rights of the gay people and immigrants. The topic of gun control is another contentious issue that president Obama also managed to address during his ...

One of the more striking features of the 2012 Presidential election in the United States was the refusal of any Republican candidates for any office to support, at least publicly, any sort of new taxes of any kind. Whether it was in the initial debates leading up to the primary season, or in the debates between Governor Romney and President Obama, the Republican argument was that all deficit reduction should come from reductions in spending rather than adding any new revenue streams to the government. The person behind this motif in the campaign was the one who shaped politics ...

The Assassination of Kennedy

Lee Harvey Oswald made three shots from the Texas School Book Depository Building “fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally” (“John F. Kennedy assassinated”). Oswald was born in New Orleans in 1939 and in 1956 joined the U.S. Marines. In 1959 he left for the Soviet Union and tried unsuccessfully to become a Soviet Union citizen. In 1962 he was allowed to return to the U.S. with his Soviet wife and little daughter. He bought a revolver and had precedent of shooting at but missing former U.S. Army general early in 1963. Lately he founded pro-Castro organization. Oswald was ...

A proverb exists which has been handed down to us by our elders from years but which we don’t heed till the sword of consequences hangs right above our necks threatening us. It is then that we realize the meaning of it only to be overpowered by Oblivion’s curse right after the event has passed. Yes, it is the proverb “A stitch in time saves nine”. This wisdom filled proverb if followed by all and sundry would reduce all our efforts and tension by a huge amount -in many cases it will also succeed in preventing bad blood ...

Synopsis: This is a five page APA citation style argumentative essay on the 2012 Presidential election in the United States. There are two sources cited. Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandura will be applied in order to assess the behavioral, cognitive and psychological effects on the media viewing public of the intense discourses between President Obama and Republican Presidential Candidate Governor Mitt Romney. The potential implications of the environment on social learning will be explored.

Introduction

The presidential election process of 2012 was a memorable event. This was the election event which had the greatest media attention in American history. This essay ...

Since the American declaration of independence, the country is founded on the roots of justice and freedom. The 14th Amendment of the US Constitution clarified the rights of the citizens, under the Bill of Rights. These rights give the citizens the freedom of choice. Furthermore, the constitution provides that the federal law cannot deprive the citizens of a given state the rights provided for in the State’s laws. In the light of these provisions, the issue of gay marriage has become hotly debated in line with the law. Pro-gays’ argue that prohibiting the marriages equals of the homosexuals, since ...