US election questions

Political Parties, Media, and Elections FRQ Study Guide

1. Electoral College
1. Why do we have it? What are some complaints about the electoral college?
2. If people don’t like it, then why do we still have it?
3. How can a presidential candidate use the electoral college system to their advantage?
4. What role do third parties play in the electoral college system?
5. What role did the electoral college play in the 2000 election?
   
   

·   Go to

·   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_%28United_States%29

·   http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html

The 2012 American Presidential Election

The candidates' "sales-pitch":

Follow this link to see Mitt Romney's and Barack Obama's summary statements from the latest electorial debate.

And a bit of fun:
The candidates' speeches at a Catholic church charity function in New York.

Mitt Romney


Barack Obama

The above link about Obama has been removed from YouTube probably due to harassment - but here is a new one.

New Obama link.

How to write an essay

This site seems to offer the most useful advice on essay writing for English students.
http://www1.aucegypt.edu/academic/writers/

Please comment below.

Louis Armstrong music...

 
Nobody knows (youtube)


Mack the Knife (youtube)

Lyrics:

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white
Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe
And he keeps it, ah, out of sight
Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe
So there's never, never a trace of red

Now on the sidewalk, huh, huh, whoo sunny morning, un huh
Lies a body just oozin' life, eek
And someone's sneakin' 'round the corner
Could that someone be Mack the Knife?

There's a tugboat, huh, huh, down by the river dontcha know
Where a cement bag's just a drooppin' on down
Oh, that cement is just, it's there for the weight, dear
Five'll get ya ten old Macky's back in town
Now did ja hear 'bout Louie Miller? He disappeared, babe
After drawin' out all his hard-earned cash
And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor
Could it be our boy's done somethin' rash?

Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town

I said Jenny Diver, whoa, Sukey Tawdry
Look out to Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Yes, that line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town
Look out, old Macky's back!!

Mac the Knife
Org. Tekst Berthold Brecht
Music Kurt Weil
(The Threepenny Opera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper))

About Louis Armstrong on wikipedia.

The Soweto Gospel Choir

Martin Luther King: I have a dream:

Link til youtube.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martin Luther King, Jr. named Michael King at birth^[1] (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.^[2] He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience.^[3] King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.^[4]

A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career.^[5] He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. He also established his reputation as a radical, and became an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO for the rest of his life.

In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In the next few years leading up to his death, he expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War—alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., called the Poor People's Campaign.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. and beyond have been renamed in his honor.