Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a film about an average man’s journey and experience in Congress as Senator of Mississippi. 1, 2) This man is appointed by the state Governor, Governor Hopper, when one of the Senators from Mississippi unexpectedly dies. 3) Jefferson Smith is chosen as an alternative when the Governor, influenced by a politically corrupt man named Jim Taylor, and the public disagree on which man should be appointed He is also appointed because he can help to earn some of the young votes since Smith is young and runs the Boy Rangers 4) Joe Payne, the other Senator of Mississippi, and Smith begin to develop a good relationship as Smith has looked up to Payne for many years and as Payne and Smith’s father had a close friendship growing up. But Payne is also close with Taylor. For years Payne has been influenced by Taylor to the point where he basically does everything Taylor says. In return, Taylor makes sure that Payne is reelected every term as Taylor has a tremendous amount of power over people and the presses. Taylor also controls Hopper and all decisions that the Governor must make. 5) Payne, as a seasoned member of the Senate and highly liked by the public and members of Congress, is looking to run for President in the upcoming election. And with the help of Taylor, he looks to have a good chance. 7) Diz is an important member of the press and he is close with Saunders. 9) Mr. Smith has an idea on a bill he would like passed. He would like to start a boy’s summer camp in an area in Mississippi. This location is also the place of a future dam that is part of a bill soon to be passed. 10) The dam, named the Willett Crick Dam, is being created for the benefit for Mr. Taylor and his corrupt political machine... ... middle of paper ... ...resents a very different staff between Senator Smith and Senator Payne. The obvious difference is the size. Mr. Smith has only Saunders as part of his staff. Senator Payne, on the other hand, has at least a dozen. This may be due to the Junior Senator (Smith) and Senior Senator (Payne), in which there are differences in favor. Also, since Payne has been in the Senate a long time and it is probably part of a committee where they receive staff benefits. [last sentence is a fragment] Good. I don’t know if you looked at Dartmouth’s site, but I highly recommend examining it and bookmarking it for college. In general an analysis goes into a bit more length and detail and contains an introduction and conclusion, as well as a thesis that is tested, if even briefly. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/what.shtml Plot: 9/10 Analysis: 9.25/10
Throughout the second chapter Levin states that there is a very small turnover in Congress and each time that election time comes into play, most of the same people are elected for position (Levin 19-32). He believes that while term limits are not enough to balance the power of the governing systems it is a step in the right direction and are necessary and a critical building block (Levin 22). In his next chapter Levin proposes an amendment that is to restore the Senate (Levin 33). This amendment would repeal the seventeenth amendment and make it to where all Senators are chosen by their state legislatures as prescribed by Article I (Levin 33). Prior to the seventeenth amendment the Senate had been chosen by legislators of each state (Levin 34). Throughout the chapter he goes on to talk about how the Framers of our nation intended the Senate to be chosen and also how we have branched away from that. He discusses several different people’s opinions on how it should be ran and also how it should be managed. He states that John Dickinson made a notion that the Senate should be chosen by the state legislatures (Levin
"Characters in Congress -- Senator Robert Latham Owen of Oklahoma." New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70F10F7395517738DDDA80894DB405B888CF1D3 (accessed November 29, 2013).
In 2014 it is very common to see shows about political corruption such as Scandal and House of Cards. However, it was not the first. In 1939 a director named Frank Capra directed a film called Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It was one of the first political-comedy dramas of its time. The film illustrated the political corruption specifically in congress which was never done before.
Senator Smith clearly demonstrated his lack of government experience and overall ignorance of the Senate’s character when he ambitiously struggled to create a national boy’s camp. When Smith asked his secretary, Clarissa Saunders, to help him assemble the bill aimed at forming a boy’s camp, Saunder’s explained that the bill was very unlikely to be successful in the Senate and tried to discourage Smith from proceeding on the bill.
appointed by Congress who could be removed on the request of a majority of the state
Carter states in his book that, when there was a question concerning the reapportionment of the state Senate, he had made his decision to run as a candidate for the senate. He had made the decision that if there was a lack of new information regarding the reapportionment, he would place a notice in a newspaper announcing his campaign. Originally, his career had him working on a school board. However, he knew it would be many years before any significant changes could be made to the educational system and he had made the decis...
Mr. Smith is portrayed as an honest man with strong opinions. He is the ideal politician in an ideal society. The film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington depicts a "reassuring image" that happens to be "an image of the past" (Wheeler). However, in today's legislature, people like Mr. Smith are rare due to the fact that a politician's primary goal is re-election. The good of the people may come as another intention of a politician, but it is always secondary to "bringing home the pork." There should be more people like Mr. Smith because the legislature would be able to make decisions more effectively and efficiently, rather than how slowly they currently operate. This is an unfortunate truth, yet it is how our society has been shaped to operate. This becomes apparent after close examination of the United States legislature today and viewing of the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
This piece of historical fiction begins with the birth of Major Carteret’s son. Chesnutt describes the Carteret family as being the picture of southern aristocracy. Like many plantation families, the Carteret family had been financial devastated by the Civil War. The Major now lived in his wife’s family home and began his endeavor as owner and editor of the “Morning Chronicle.” Now that he had someone to carry on his family name, his view of the future and his goals where to create a better future for his son, and he believed it was through white supremacy that this was possible. Major Carteret uses his position to promote his agenda.
In social studies class we watched the movie Mr.Smith Goes to Washington. This movie was described as “Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal) roles” by rotten tomatoes. This movie displayed how the government was and somewhat still is corrupt. The corrupters make a mistake by appointing a new senator who is naive but determined.
The Democrats, meanwhile, nominated Lewis Cass. Also hoping to sidestep the issue of slavery, Cass proposed allowing the citizens of each western territory to decide for themselves whether or not to be free or slave. Cass hoped that a platform based on such popular sovereignty would win him votes in both the North and South.
Some of the strengths in the third analysis is having enough information to back up my hypothesis and discussing one side of the issue that will support my statement. However, some weaknesses in the analysis was that there was no inclusion of different point of views to the position. Also, the limitations of the position was not acknowledged as well. If there were other point of view to my thesis/hypothesis then it would have shown a broader view of the issue. A critical thinking error in this analysis is including a conclusion at the end with a result because it was just a hypothesis that was not tested in reality yet. So, including that section with the made-up findings was an error that should have never been added to the
There were four candidates in the Election of 1824. Their names were William Henry Crawford, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson. They were all from the Democratic-Republican party. William H. Crawford suffered a paralytic stroke in 1823, which put him out of the running. Henry Clay was formerly the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He w...
In 1824 election, the unity of the party was shattered by a contest between several strong rivals for the presidency. William H. Crawford, Monroe’s secretary of the treasury, secured the caucus nomination from a rump group of congressmen, but other contenders, including Adams, Jackson, and Henry Clay, threw the vote into the House of Representatives. Clay threw his support to Adams, who won the presidency. In the aftermath, new coalitions were formed and eventually another two-party system emerged.
The near absence of white men in this novel diminishes the influence, impact, and existence of white male power and domination during the 1960’s. Hilly Holbrook, the hateful antagonist in The Help mentions Ross Barnett, then governor of Mississippi, as someone worth listening to because he’s “the Governor but I believe he is mentioned especially by Hilly to help show her character as being similar to his in that ...
The grandmother uses many excuses for the family to go to Tennessee instead of Florida on vacation. The first of her many excuses is “The Misfit”, a serial killer that has escaped from prison and is headed toward Florida, claiming that she would never take her children anywhere near a man like that. This didn’t have the desired effect on Bailey so she explains to him and his wife how the children need more variety and they should take the children to see different parts of the world, East Tennessee for example. Once again her plea to Bailey and his wife had no effect. Even after they had left home she continued to try and divert them from their coarse. Finally succeeding when she convinced the children they would like to visit an old plantation home she had visited during her own childhood.