Assignment #8 The Presidency

Nieves Micolta

Class: POL 166

Professor: Barry Murdaco

Lehman College

THE PRESIDENCY

     President Obama, for obvious ideological reasons, seeks to portray himself in the lineage of Jefferson and Lincoln.Obama addresses the issue of race in a way Lincoln never could by drawing upon his own experiences with racism,especially as child of mixed race who has insight into the attitudes of whites and blacks. His association with political radicals like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has also pushed the president to defend the legitimate anger and resentment many African-Americans feel towards a system of government that has, historically speaking, failed to meet their needs and protect their rights as citizens

     My understanding about Obama’s Presidential Inauguration speech is that Mr. President Obama broke his promises of taking care of U.S citizens, when he referred to the economic situations but unfortunately, these economic situations were getting worse after he was elected as a President. Also, medical insurance is the worst , that Obama care system  is not working for everyone, especially for the lower class. Moreover, the education system is bad because a lot school have been closed. In addition,when he said that we need to treat everybody equal not matter what color skin you have, sadly no one respects each other. Some people still thinking like ignorant in this days.

      I chose this passage because President Obama didn’t keep his promises as he said in the speech and a lot people feel disappointed for duties as a President.

ASSIGNMENT #7 THE CONGRESS

Nieves Micolta

Class: POL 166

Professor: Barry Murdaco

Lehman College

THE CONGRESS

       The U.S. Congress is divided up into two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House is large and more democratic body, made up of 435 representatives drawn from multiple districts within each state. House of Representatives serve two- year terms with no term limits meaning there is no limit to the number of time they can be re-elected. Senators serve six-year terms also with no term limits. The House is supposed to be more democratic because since they represent smaller districts. Although overall approval of Congress is almost 90 percent, meaning that once someone is elected to Congress they have an enormous advantage over un-elected challengers. It also suggests that while people may disapprove of the actions (or lack of action) of Congress as whole, most people seem to be Satisfied with their Congressional Representation. However, members of Congress do not seem to react the same way in every issue area, meaning in some areas, they are more representative of what the people in district or state want, in some areas they seem to act with more independence. Generally Speaking, members of Congress seem to be more receptive to their districts or state on domestic issues, but on foreign affairs issues seem to act more on their own.

        My understanding about this passage is basically that, the Congress represents the people and makes laws through a well-established and orderly process, also plays a vital role in our government’s system of checks and balances. In addition, The constitutions gives the Congress many expressed powers, and it implies some others. Moreover, the House of Representative is the more classical chambers of the Congress. Its members carry out much of their work in committees. In the other hand, the Senators represent entire states, have longer terms, and follows different rules of debates, giving the senate its reputation as a more weighty body than the House.

       

          I chose this passage because even though the Congress representing us ,some people have a very bad opinion about them. These people think that they’re supposed to do more for us as a citizen, a lot people abuse from the public assistance like medicare, medicated and others public services. Also, they should be more considered and should stop raising the bus and subway fairs, etc…

ASSIGNMENT #6 EQUAL RIGHTS

Nieves Micolta

Class: POL 166

Professor: Barry Murdaco

Lehman College

EQUAL RIGHTS

          Marshall argues the demand for social rights really begins with the idea of public education. If civil rights literally means only that the government cannot interfere with you, then on that basis alone there is no clear right to provide education for all the people. Same with political rights and the right to vote. It is of course a commonly accepted value that everyone is entitled to go to school, at least primary school, but this is only because we accept the idea of education as kind of social right that everyone needs. In today’s politics things like healthcare would be considered as social right. This however makes it clear, that not everyone agrees on the idea of social rights. When it comes to healthcare most other countries have accepted it as a social right,this is still something debated in the U.S. With the education there is a continuing effort to privatize education and de-fund and eventually shut down many public schools.

      My understanding about this passage is that, marshall was fighting for everyones social’s rights, and he tries to make understand how important is the education because everybody have the right to assist to school. Also, He argues about the right to vote as a citizen of the United State of America, as well the right to a healthcare assistances. Unfortunately, today many people still have not medical care because  of their economic reasons or even worse lack of medical insurance. 

          I chose this passage because sadly as mention in the paragraph above, now in schools or colleges the government is not giving us enough help like before. Being in college is too expensive and many parents do not earn enough money to pay a college and some students need to work to help with the colleges expenses. In the other hand, the healthcare is kind of complicate for some people, especially with the Obama care that not everybody qualifies for it and sometimes people got sick and have no money to cover an emergency room cost. People should not be suffering for none of these situations because as a citizen we all pay taxes to cover all of those cost from the government and they should be investing more in education and healthcare.