“Here’s how the White house plans to spend $1 billion in cancer moonshot money” by Greg Jaffe Febuary 2016. The Washington Post. The white house wants to speed up cancer research hoping for progress in the next five years by donating $1 billion. The National Institutes of Health will receive $195 million this year and around $755 million in 2017. Small amounts of money will be removed from the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs to focus on data research and cancer studies. Obama put Joe Biden in charge of the plan because his son died from brain cancer. Increasing the spending on immunotherapy will provide a treatment that tracks the active immune system to fight cancer cells. The White House is also going to increase data being shared among researchers who kept a closer eye on their proprietary work. They would also focus on improving early cancer …show more content…
The New York Times. The competitive political campaign calls for a lot of money in the United States. Wealth is a requirement to enter into the campaign. Donald Trump was used as an example because his wealth, influence other interest. Which made the voters wonder if they should take in consideration the politician’s personal bankroll to see how they would lead. Wealth plays a big part mostly in personality Hillary Clinton was used as an example. Her and her husband have taken money from wall street the question can she represent the interests of the working class was asked. But the real question is can money predict where the leaders views on policy. The Republicans support lowering taxes and reducing business regulations for the rich. The wealthy Democrats lawmakers agreed with the republican, but the poorer lawmakers supported raising the minimum wage or forgiving student debt. “Wealth also makes the rich feel, reason, choose, and perceive differently from the less privileged” the research
On September 5, 1995 Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech to the United Nations 4th World Conference during a Women Plenary Session, located in Beijing, China. Clinton spoke about how women around the world were not treated equally, how women rights should be equal to human rights, and the ghastly abuse and discrimination women faced around the world. The reason for the conference was to strengthen women, families, and societies in order to empower women to taking control of their lives and not be subject to such discrimination. She emphasized how education, health care, jobs, and political rights were not equal between genders and that the world needed to change. Clinton gave a very convincing speech because of her use of rhetorical techniques. The use of pathos, ethos, logos, and anaphora created a powerful, persuasive argument against the way women were treated around the world. Clintons main goal of this speech was to appeal to the audience and convince them that this is unequal treatment is an immense matter and needs to be addressed all over the world.
Have you ever wondered how influential people write great speeches that grab people's attention? They use a literary device called, rhetorical appeals. As supported in Hillary Clinton’s November 03, 2016 speech, uniting the American Public, will lead to an advantageous country. In her speech for the Democratic National Convention it states that, as elected for president, she will get everyone saying “We” instead of “I”. To reach out to the American Citizens and grab their attention, Clinton uses many rhetorical devices as she speaks. Using Logos, Pathos, and Ethos, the people of America jump on board with Clinton's ideas.
By using the points listed previously, it is evident that a small portion of the population control what policies are implement in America and hold most of the nation’s wealth. I believe this two factors, the wealth one possesses and the amount of control an individual has, are interconnected. America has become a nation where money can get you anyway because it significantly increases the amount of opportunities available to the individual. Many people can attest to the presence of this class, including individuals from Kansas City who participated in a cross-section study with detailed interviews. The citizens of Kansas City referred to these people as “big rich” or “blue bloods” (pg
It is very common among the United States’ political sphere to rely heavily on T.V. commercials during election season; this is after all the most effective way to spread a message to millions of voters in order to gain their support. The presidential election of 2008 was not the exception; candidates and interest groups spent 2.6 billion dollars on advertising that year from which 2 billion were used exclusively for broadcast television (Seelye 2008.) Although the effectiveness of these advertisements is relatively small compared to the money spent on them (Liasson 2012), it is important for American voters to think critically about the information and arguments presented by these ads. An analysis of the rhetoric in four of the political campaign commercials of the 2008 presidential election reveals the different informal fallacies utilized to gain support for one of the candidates or misguide the public about the opposing candidate.
involvement of money as a deciding factor in politics. This is a view by many who support
Have you seen any of the recent campaign advertisements that have been published by the 2016 presidential candidates? Presidential candidates are known for campaigning through different media outlets, such as television advertisements, social media, and their party rallies. In these advertisements, the candidates bash their opponents and try to show you why you should vote for them, and why you should not vote for their opponent. Hillary Clinton’s advertisements have really stood out to me and have been able to grab my attention. Particularly the “Role Models” video, which displays young children watching Donald Trump make discriminatory and offensive comments on the television screen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign advertisement effectively gets
Krugman points out how despite the obvious and ever growing gap between the rich and middle class in terms of wealth increase, Republicans tend to vote for tax cuts for the rich and for decreases in funding for programs that benefit the middle and lower classes of society, such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Cutting funds for these services puts the middle and lower classes at even more of a disadvantage than they already were. Meanwhile, the rich receiving more tax cuts means they receive more money, furthering the economic wealth gap and increasing the money they can spend to influence politics. Krugman suggests the solution to the problem is increasing taxes on the
Election campaigns require tremedous financial resources, so bought-and-paid-for politicians are servants of a financial aristocracy and not rather representatives of the American people.
Mann, Thomas E. "Money in 2008: A Collapse of the Campaign Finance Regime?" Evolution and Revolution in the Nominations Process. Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. Print.
Political elections and votes are determined by the success of each representative’s campaigns. In the film, “Street Fight” by Marshall Curry, describe a life- sequence event of a political battle between two African American political leaders running for mayor of Newark, New Jersey. The first significant aspect I noticed throughout the video was the fight between rich and poor. Cory Booker who was a community leader was challenging the already current mayor in Sharpe James. However, James is a strong political leader who is considered to be political elite. “Political elite are those who get more than others of the values society has available (such as wealth and respect)… Elite often reinforce their position by gaining authority” (Wasserman
Witcover, J. (2014, February 21). Wealth inequality contributes to enduring 'class warfare' in politics. Chicago Tribune
Government funding has proven to be essential and effective in the fight against cancer. On December 23, 1971 President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, which promised to finance the quest for the cure. Financial aid such as this has directly benefitted survival rates for those diagnosed with cancer. Forty years ago before such funding was provided, when a child was diagnosed with cancer most physicians considered the patient to be terminally ill and supportive care was almost the only thing offered to the family. However over the last few decades, due to research and participation in clinical trials performed due to funding, the majority of children are cured. Because of the creations of new drugs and therapies as a result of government aid, the survival rat...
Money has an impact on elections in two major ways. First, it takes large amounts of money to get people elected, meaning that if the candidate does not have the support of wealthy individuals or companies, they cannot run for office. Second, lobbying plays an important role, with the amount of money that they may have they could have a larger impact on legislation. I do not believe that the American democracy functions as fully democratic. I believe that because of the influences money and economic status has on piece of elections it is difficult to represent the whole population in a fair way. Things such as required a government issued id such as a driver’s license, requiring registration before the day of voting (42 states), and often fees
People with money have access to near unlimited power, and those without it have less of a chance of persuading someone to give themselves an item. Rich people can practically buy a politician into office by running ads for them and against their opponent. Then, exerting influence on them, the rich people can force politicians to make laws that increase or maintain their wealth. That helps the politician to stay in office and continue to work on behalf of the rich. People with money can influence people by offering them malicious bribes or coercing them to do something good for the affluent person. Those people can then go and often increase the rich person’s wealth. Rich people can exert influence on people so they can maintain their lifestyle and power.
Over the past few years, a number of occurrences have displayed the growing economic and political inequality of the United States. The currently dissipated Occupy Movement did draw the general public’s attention to the ridiculous strides made by the rich, whose incomes have skyrocketed within the past four decades. Those pertaining to the middle-income and poor have sadly had their incomes stagnate. According to Caroline Fairchild from the Huffington Post the middle class incomes steadily is on the decline. In 1968 the middle class earned about 53.2 percent of national income in 1968. This number has now fallen to 45.7 percent. Super PACs became a concern as more individual donors willingly wrote up enormous checks to support their particular candidates. As a result, this gave prominence to the growing political inequality, as well as highlighting the rich’s ability to have their words have much more weight over the average citizen in America.