Congress Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Speaker: As the leader of the majority party in Congress, the President addresses him at the start of his speech to signal his influence in rallying both parties together to achieve common goals. .
Cabinet: If Congress does not act to devise a bipartisan plan to come up with practical market-based solution to prevent the harmful effects of climate change, Mr. Obama will instruct his most trusted administrative officials—his cabinet—to come up with such a plan.
Checks and balances: Concerning the issue of counter terrorist operations, President Obama announced he will work closely with Congress to promote transparent ...

This video is compiled by Khan Academy. It talks about the functions of the Electoral College and how the voting process is conducted within the organization. According to this video, the Electoral College is bestowed with the responsibility of electing the President of the United States. It is clear from this movie that though presidents are popularly elected, the final determinant of their incumbency lies in the Electoral College. First of all, the Electoral College is composed of all senators and congressmen from all the 52 states of the United States. The total electoral votes for any given state ...

Reconstruction that followed the end of the Civil War in 1865 was a very complicated political process that was inevitable due to the fundamental differences in the worldviews of the northerners and southerners, democrats and republicans, and finally freedmen and their former owners. At first the government granted the former slaves the right to own 40 acres of land and be independent, but later when Andrew Johnson became the President, freedmen had to return to their former workplaces and sign labour contracts with the planters.
What is more, black people were not prepared for freedom and the government did ...

This film dramatized the American economic collapse of 2008. The collapse, and the subsequent "government bailout", was precipitated by a number of factors. As pointed out in the actual drama of "Too Big to Fail", the combination of unregulated banking practices and lax requirements for consumer credit created an economic meltdown that had worldwide repercussions.
During the short period that led up to the so-called TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), colossal mortgage bankers were in the practice of underwriting mortgages for both commercial and residential properties, such as houses, condos, and retail space. Mortgage insurance companies, like the behemoth ...

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary that follows the life of a radical-leftist attorney. However, the captivating and incendiary film is also based on the tragic form of liberal guilt. The movie revolves around the numerous cases that Kunstler was involved with until his demise. The film depicts William Kunstler as the passionate defender of the American people’s civil rights, earning him the reputation through defending a majority of the controversial defendants during the 20th Century. In Kunstler’s profession, he defended the American Indian Movement, Chicago 8, the Attica Prison rioters, the Freedom Riders, and ...

1) What are your own views and beliefs about the facts presented in The Big Short? Make a list of the basic principles of “right and wrong” that you believe to be true about markets. What might lead you to change your views?
I think that The Big Short’s attempt at simplifying complex phenomenon and developments in the U. S. economy should be lauded. The movie captured an integral part of the cause of the financial crisis which is greed and apathy. I believe Wall Street gambled with the future of not just Americans and the world, and, ...

Introduction

Much of the human suffering and economic disadvantages that occurred during the Great Depression (1929-1933) were a result of the boom mentality and unregulated business practices of the 1920s. People with a corrupt kind of business acumen exploited the weakest segments of society in the poorest regions. Praying on a naïve boom psychology, businessmen led a devastating attack on the Midwest that ultimately was not curbed by politicians or financial institutions until the middle 1930s. New businesses exploited weak government controls and took on many of the same exploitative practices as the Robber Baron businessmen of the 19th ...

South Africa in the 20th century had many words to describe it but none were flattering. Words like hate, suffering, anguish, separation, ignorance and apartheid. Apartheid is best described as government institutionalized racism and is Afrikaans for apartness. The South African government disfranchised black voters and non-white citizens. An American example that is similar is the Jim Crow laws in the south While there was wide spread racism in South Africa for several years before that, it was made into law in 1948. It took the resolve of Nelson Mandela to guide the country in a new direction.
Nelson ...

Death of Senator Ted Kennedy who used to fight for Universal Health Insurance in the Congress and other senate representatives was a big blow to the Universal healthcare bill proposed by president Obama. Scott Brown’s election as Republicans made the Democrats to lose the 60-vote majority that they used to enjoy before. Decision by the executive arm of federal government to make the negotiations on the new healthcare plan public for the sake of transparency is what shaped American politics leading to more grassroots support for Democrats. The President announced that he was going to engage doctors, pharmacist’s, ...

Movie Review: The Warning

Brief Summary of the Video
The video that was selected was entitled “The Warning” featured online through Frontline. It presented relevant concerns about how allowing and promoting unregulated market forces would inevitably result to a devastating financial meltdown. Featured in more than 54 minutes of play time, the video’s main parts included the golden era when Alan Greenspan, known as the rock star, ruled the economy ; how Brooksley Born, a brilliant lawyer, then the head of the CFTC, tried to warn the American public through Congress, of the need to regulate the over the counter derivatives market; and how ...

a. Pablo Escobar’s history of violence led to his ascension towards the leadership of the Medellin cartel. The lack of law and order in the Colombian countryside – where much of the drug trade has been going on, provided a favorable environment for Escobar’s brand of violence. He started rising through the ranks of the Medellin cartel when he traded drugs with then-cartel leader Fabio Restrepo. With the knowledge that he is taken too lightly for looking like a “street criminal” in the eyes of the cartel, his notoriety for violence soon enabled him to get Restrepo out of the ...

In the movie An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, a long-time environmental activist, gives a multimedia presentation where he discusses the causes and effects of global warming, especially about how it is affecting our environment and about the horrifying things that can happen if we don’t act now. He also shares his views about what we can do to help protect the earth not only for our current generation but for future generations as well.
What I liked about the movie was its thorough and straightforward approach to presenting the environmental issues that our world faced. The facts and the ...