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The ACT, what is it about this one test that makes everyone stress out? It only determines whether you get accepted into college and whether you get scholarship money. Now, that I have taken the ACT for the last time, I finally realize that it is just a test. Don't let this one test stress you out and take over your life. There is more to life than the ACT. So to all of you seniors, now that it's finally over, sit back, relax, and enjoy your senior year. ACT ACT I have three pencils all perfectly sharpened; I ate a hearty breakfast this morning and I got a good night’s rest. I take my seat and take a cleansing breath as the packets are passed out. I read on the test it says ACT, and I realize my whole future relies on this test.

Using Diversity as a Strategy Allstate Insurance Company

| Allstate Insurance Company Elizabeth Haskins Strayer University Instructor: Dr. Yohannes Abate Leadership and Organizational Behavior – BUS 520010VA016 July 24, 2011 Abstract As our population becomes grows more ethnically and culturally diverse, companies struggle more and more with the subject of diversity in the workforce. The latest strategy is to leverage diversity as a competitive business strategy. This paper will evaluate Allstate Insurance Company’s goal setting process and how they have used diversity as a strategy leveraging differences in order to create a competitive advantage in today’s diversified market. It will also discuss Allstate’s competitive advantage with the development of the Diversity Index†¦show more content†¦4. Tasks should be broken down so goals can be achieved in a reasonable timeframe. 5. Employees should be provided the resources to obtain their goals. The four step action that Allstate has implanted in direct alignment with the conditions for succeeding with an effective goals setting program. Discuss the competitive advantage Allstate has from the development of the Diversity Index. In creating the Diversity Index, Allstate established an advantage in the competitive business world. Through the Diversity Index the company developed a way for its management to evaluate what is working and what is not working as far as service, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, work behavior, and utilization of employee skills. In communicating the results of the survey to all employees, employees are able to observe management making an effort produce and improve a diverse work environment. When employees know that management is looking to find areas within the company that need improvement and that such improvements will help make the company a bigger success, employees tend to become much more self-driven to make the company a success as well. This has worked well for Allstate as according to numerous sources like â€Å"Fortune Magazine†, â€Å"DiversityInc Magazine†, â€Å"Working Mother Magazine†, â€Å"Diversity Executive magazine †, and â€Å"Forbes Magazine†, to name a few, which have awarded Allstate such titles asShow MoreRelatedEssay on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)3709 Words   |  15 Pagesof their everyday routine. Various companies have modified their ways of conducting day-to-day business routines and manufacturing processes in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint and help maintain sustainability. Companies are encouraging employees to volunteer and make a difference in surrounding communities. 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Biography of Gilda Radner, American Comedienne and Actress

Gilda Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne  and actress known for her satirical characters on Saturday Night Live. She died of ovarian cancer at the age of 42, and was survived by her husband, actor Gene Wilder. Early Years Gilda Susan Radner was born on June 28, 1946 in Detroit, Michigan. She was the second child born to Herman Radner and Henrietta Dworkin. Gildas father Herman was a successful businessman, and Gilda and her brother Michael enjoyed a childhood of privilege. The Radners employed a nanny, Elizabeth Clementine Gillies, to help raise their children. Gilda was particularly close to Dibby, and her childhood memories of her hard of hearing nanny would later inspire her to create the character Emily Litella on Saturday Night Live. Gildas father ran the Seville Hotel in Detroit, and served a clientele that included musicians and actors who came to the city to perform. Herman Radner took young Gilda to see musicals and shows, and had a fondness for silly jokes that she shared. Her happy childhood was shattered in 1958, when her father was diagnosed with a brain tumor and subsequently suffered a stroke. Herman languished for two years before dying of cancer in 1960, when Gilda was just 14 years old. As a child, Gilda dealt with stress by eating. Her mother, Henrietta, took 10-year-old Gilda to a doctor who prescribed her diet pills. Gilda would continue a pattern of gaining and losing weight into adulthood, and years later, would recount her battle with an eating disorder in her autobiography, Its Always Something. Education Gilda attended the Hampton Elementary School through the fourth grade, at least when she was in Detroit. Her mother didnt care for Michigan winters, and each November she would take Gilda and Michael to Florida until the spring. In her autobiography, Gilda recalled how this annual routine made it difficult for her to establish friendships with other children. In fifth grade, she transferred to the prestigious Liggett School, which was then an all-girls school. She was active in the schools drama club, appearing in many plays throughout middle and high school. In her senior year, she served as the Class of 1964 vice president, and performed in the play The Mouse That Roared. After graduating high school, Gilda enrolled at the University of Michigan, where she majored in drama. She dropped out before earning her degree, however, and moved to Toronto with her sculptor boyfriend, Jeffrey Rubinoff. Career Gilda Radners first professional acting role was in the Toronto production of Godspell in 1972. The company included several future stars who would remain her lifelong friends: Paul Shaffer, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy. While in Toronto, she also joined the famed Second City improvisational troupe, where she performed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi and established herself as a bona fide force in comedy. Radner moved to New York City in 1973 to work on The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a short-lived but influential weekly show. Though the show only lasted 13 months, National Lampoon brought together writers and performers who would push the boundaries of comedy for decades to come: Gilda, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Christopher Guest, and Richard Belzer, to name a few. In 1975, Gilda Radner was the first performer cast for the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live. As one of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, Gilda wrote and performed in sketches with Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, and Dan Aykroyd. She was nominated twice for an Emmy as a Supporting Actress on SNL, and won the honor in 1978. During her tenure from 1975 to 1980, Gilda created some of SNLs most memorable characters. She parodied Barbara Walters with her recurring Baba Wawa character, a tv journalist with a speech impediment. She based another of her most beloved characters on a local New York news anchor named Rose Ann Scamardella. Roseanne Roseannadanna was a consumer affairs reporter who couldnt stay on topic in the early Weekend Update segments. As punk rocker Candy Slice, Radner channelled  Patti Smith. With Bill Murray, Gilda did a series of sketches featuring The Nerds, Lisa Loopner and Todd DiLaMuca. Gildas characters were so well received, she took them to Broadway. Gilda Radner – Live from New York opened at the Winter Garden Theater on August 2, 1979, and ran for 51 performances. Besides Gilda, the cast included Don Novello (as Father Guido Sarducci), Paul Shaffer, Nils Nichols, and the Candy Slice Group. After her Broadway debut, Gilda Radner landed roles in several movies, including First Family with Bob Newhart and Movers and Shakers with Walter Matthau. She also appeared in three films with husband Gene Wilder: Hanky Panky,  The Woman in Red, and Haunted Honeymoon. Personal Life Gilda met her first husband, George Edward G. E. Smith, when he was hired as a guitarist for her Broadway show Gilda Live in 1979. They married in early 1980. Gilda was still married to G. E. when she landed a role in a new Gene Wilder movie, Hanky Panky, that began filming in 1981. Already unhappy in her marriage to G. E. Smith, Gilda pursued a relationship with Wilder. Radner and Smith divorced in 1982. The relationship between Gilda and Gene Wilder was rocky at first. In an interview years later, Wilder said he found Gilda needy and demanding of his attention at first, so much so that they broke up for a time. They soon reconciled, however, and on September 18, 1984 1984, Gilda and Gene married while on vacation in France. Cancer Gildas happy ever after with Gene wouldnt last long, sadly. On October 21, 1986, she was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. While filming Haunted Honeymoon the year before, Gilda couldnt understand why she  constantly felt fatigued and rundown. She finally went to her internist for a physical exam, but the lab tests only showed a possibility of Epstein-Barr virus. The doctor reassured her that her symptoms were likely stress-induced, and not serious. When she started running a low grade fever, she was instructed to take acetaminophen. Gildas symptoms continued to worsen as time passed. She developed stomach and pelvic cramps that kept her in bed for days. Her gynecologist didnt find any cause for concern and referred her to a gastroenterologist. Every test came back normal, despite Gildas deteriorating health. By the summer of 1986, she was experiencing excruciating pain in her thighs and had lost a startling amount of weight, with no obvious cause. Finally, in October 1986, Gilda was admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles to undergo extensive testing. A CAT scan revealed a grapefruit-sized tumor in her abdomen. She underwent surgery to remove the tumor and had a complete hysterectomy, and immediately started a long course of chemotherapy. Doctors assured her that her prognosis was good. In June of the following year, Gilda had completed the prescribed chemotherapy, and her doctor scheduled an exploratory surgery to make sure all signs of the cancer were gone. She was devastated to learn that it wasnt, and more chemotherapy was required. Over the next two years, Gilda endured treatments, tests, and surgeries that would ultimately fail to eradicate the cancer. Gilda Radner died on May 20, 1989 at Cedars-Sinae Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 42. After Gildas death, Gene Wilder joined two of her friends, cancer psychotherapist Joanna Bull and broadcaster Joel Siegel, to found a network of cancer support centers. Gildas Clubs, as the centers are known, help patients living with cancer by providing emotional and social support as they go through treatment. Sources â€Å"Gilda Radner.†Ã‚  Biography.com, AE Networks Television, 28 Apr. 2017, www.biography.com/people/gilda-radner-9450459.â€Å"Gilda Radner (1946-1989) - Find A Grave Memorial.†Ã‚  (1946-1989) - Find A Grave Memorial, www.findagrave.com/memorial/848/gilda-radner.â€Å"Gilda Radner - Live from New York Broadway Winter Garden Theatre - Tickets and Discounts.†Ã‚  Playbill, www.playbill.com/production/gilda-radner-live-from-new-york-winter-garden-theatre-vault-0000011534.Hevesi, Dennis. â€Å"Gilda Radner, 42, Comic Original Of Saturday Night Live Zaniness.†Ã‚  The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 May 1989, www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/obituaries/gilda-radner-42-comic-original-of-saturday-night-live-zaniness.html.Johnson, Hillary. â€Å"Goodbye, Gilda Radner.†Ã‚  Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 13 July 1989, www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/gilda-19890713.Karras, Steve. â€Å"Gilda Radner Remembered.†Ã‚  The Huffington Post, TheHuffingt onPost.com, 6 Jan. 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-karras/gilda-radner-club_b_2366303.html.Radner, Gilda.  Its Always Something.  Simon and Schuster, 1989.Saltman, David.  Gilda: an intimate portrait. Contemporary Books, 1992.

Juvenile Justice System in California - 1815 Words

Shawn Straughter Professor McClain English 28/ Research Paper May 27, 2013 Does the Time Fit the Crime? This is a call to action, how much do we actually know about the California Juvenile Justice system? Have we given up on today’s youth? There are more than 2,500 juvenile offender’s states wide that have been sentenced to life in prison or life without parole. They are sent to adult court in which they were convicted for their crimes. This is costing California tax payers 2.5 million dollars a year to house each offender, and approximately 252,000 a year per youth in the CYA (Krinsky, Pierce, Woodford,p1;Kita,p1). How does this affect their psychological development? Of the†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Which relies heavily on mass incarceration of teen offenders, is badly broken? The violence and abuse within youth facilities is bad enough, but these institutions also fail to rehabilitate the youth within them. (Mendel, p.1) Adding reinforcement that something must be done immediately to save our youth; leaving us to wo nder how these effects will ultimately shape their lives for the better or the worst. There is a sense of hopelessness and despair that illuminates over these juveniles. Are the sentences handed down in these cases justified? Has justice being served in these cases? Supports of juvenile reform has provided data and research that back their claims that black youth are being sentence to much long terms than any of other race. The Human Rights Watch organization conducted research in California and found that there is discrimination when sentencing black youth offenders: † The states application of the law is also unjust. Eighty-five percent of youth sentenced to life without parole are people of color, with 75 percent of all cases in California being African American or Hispanic youth. African American youth are sentenced to life without parole at a rate that is 18.3 times the rate for whites. Hispanic youth in California are sentenced to life without parole at a rate that is five times the rate of white youth in the state California has the worst recordShow MoreRelatedThe U.S. Census reported that 1.6 million individuals under the age of 18 were arrested in 2010, a700 Words   |  3 Pagesof 18 were arrested in 2010, a substantial increase from previous years (OJJDP, 2012; US Census Bureau, 2012). Of those individuals detained, over nine percent were convicted as juveniles and entered into a juvenile detention facility (Risler, 2009). Approximately 500,000 children are currently in the foster care system, while almost 300,000 have medical pr oblems, have neurological impairs, and developmental delays (Earls, 2013). 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Motivating Employess Most Effective Leadership Style Essay

Abstract Part of being a successful leader is knowing what things lead to failure as well as what things leads to success. Effective leadership must have cognitive, interpersonal, and political skills; project management skills; and technical expertise (Yukl, 2006). Leaders must also be able to envision, organize, socially integrate, and externally span to ensure that his team is effective and efficient in achieving goals, maintaining team cohesion, and keeping the decisions compatible with the organization’s needs. Leadership must be able share this complex monitoring with his employees/teams in order to track information on trends and developments (Yukl, 2006). Leadership should be able to also develop strategic plans to address†¦show more content†¦Transformational leadership is a contemporary leadership model. Transformational leadership enables followers to rise to a higher level of performance than presumed possible. According to transformational leadership theor y, leadership does not reside in an individual but, in the relationship between individuals. According to Bass (1985), leadership should be oriented to social vision and change rather than focused solely on attaining organizational goals. Transformational leadership focuses on changing the human condition and can spring from any source. Transformational leadership empowers individuals at all organizational levels to assume leadership roles. Therefore, leadership plays a major role in the development of an organization into a less stressful environment and enjoyable place to work. Leaders and leadership behaviors are a vital part of organizational effectiveness (Yukl, 2006). Every organization needs leaders at various levels of operation. Leaders is instrumental in creating stability and directing managers at all level of the organization towards attainment of long-term goals and ensuring success of the organization (Navahandi, 2006). Some of the required skills a leader demonstrates are influencing, motivating, andShow MoreRelatedIntroduction to Motivation16686 Words   |  67 Pageswho fail to motivate their employees. Theres often a single element that differentiates companies with enthusiastic employees from those that suffer high rates of dissatisfaction and turnover: motivation. While theres no formula for becoming an effective motivator, maintaining open lines of communication is a good start. Your willingness to answer questions, provide feedback and encourage creative expression can be a catalyst for new ideas. Frequent praise and recognition are also critical. On aRead MoreBusiness Studies Notes Full Syllabus22444 Words   |  90 Pagesof Directing Supervision - concept, functions of a supervisor. (Periods 16) Motivation - concept, Maslows hierarchy of needs; Financial and non-financial incentives. Leadership - concept, styles - authoritative, democratic and laissen faire. Communication - concept, formal and informal communication; barriers to effective communication, how to overcome the barriers. Unit 8: o o o Unit 9: o o o o o Controlling Concept, nature and importance Relationship between planning and controlling Steps

Neural Basis of Conciousness

Question: Write an essay on "Neural Basis of Conciousness". Answer: Consciousness is viewed as one of the 'far outskirts' in present day science. The marvel appears to escape all endeavors to logical decrease, and some philosophers contend that we may never have the capacity to uncover its actual nature. Amid the most recent decades, the subject has been taken up by neuroscientists, attempting to locate the 'neural corresponds of cognizance's (the NCC). It appears. Nonetheless, this is not illuminating the question in any genuine sense. What might we find out about cognizance if we knew what neurons or cerebrum structures includes? I think the answer lies in taking an alternate methodology than finding the NCC. Our beginning stage ought to be neuroscience itself, not awareness (which is somewhat not well characterized in any case). I have conceived a speculation about how wonders like outwardly guided conduct, visual consideration, visual memory and conscious visual experience may rise out of various neural instruments. This speculation can be tried (and encourage refined) with examinations utilizing alert carrying on monkeys and human subjects, doing electrophysiological recordings and electrical and pharmacological controls, and also mind imaging (fMRI/EEG) tests. On the off chance that upheld by these examinations, this speculation will uncover that awareness is not what we think it is currently. It is unique about consideration, working memory, reportability, or 'considering'. In some cases, we may even be outwardly cognizant without knowing it ourselves. Along these lines, this new approach in contemplating cognizance, motivated on neuroscience instead of brain science or rationality, may uncover the genuine way of cognizance. In any event, we will learn new things about awareness, not available through our contemplative instinct of it, or using test perceptions which take this ability as a beginning stage. The answer will be: Yes, neuroscience can uncover the genuine way of consciousness. What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging or FMRI? Practical Magnetic Resonance Imaging or FMRI is a non-obtrusive method for imaging the actuation of cerebrum ranges by various sorts of physical sensation (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) or action, for example, critical thinking and development (restricted by the machine). Consequently, FMRI sweeps are an inexorably standard instrument for "mind mapping" in subjective science. How Are MRI Machines Constructed? The development of MRI Machines has advanced to some degree throughout the years. Two variables have affected the advancement of MRI configuration; (1) the longing to upgrade picture quality and (2) The craving to make the scanners less binding for the patient/subject. The following are a portion of the configuration advancements acquainted with make MRI scanners less claustrophobic and permit the subject more flexibility for performing assignments while being checked. Figure 1 demonstrates a run of the mill MRI scanner where the subject almost encases inside the great container of the scanner. Figure 2 illustrates how architects the abbreviated the scanner burrow. Short-exhausted plans are less claustrophobic for the patient. These methods facilitate the feeling of incarceration, yet at the same time restrict the subject's capacity to participate in assignments. Stand-up scanners like the one appeared in figure 3 are more advantageous for patients and permit imaging in the ordinary disposition and weight-bearing conditions. The scanner is brought down around the subject, who sits on a customizable seat. Finally, figure 4 indicates open MRI scanners, which take into account a more noteworthy scope of the undertakings in issue and also facilitating the subject's feeling of repression. In spite of the fact that specifics of outline fluctuate, the essential components of an MRI scanner stay the same (See underneath). The scanner comprises a substantial magnet (blue) that makes the required attractive field. Magnet quality in MRI frameworks measures in units of exciting flux thickness called a "Tesla." A Telsa is sufficient attractive power to incite 1 volt of authority in a separate curl circuit amid 1 second of time for each square meter. 1 Tesla is proportional to 10,000 gausses, another measure of attractive power characterized as one line of authority for each square centimeter every second of time. Current magnet quality differs from 0.5-tesla to 2.0-tesla. Be that as it may, analysts created 3-tesla MRI scanners in the late 90's which are turning out to be more basic. To put those numbers in context, the Earth's attractive field is around 0.5-guass or .000005-tesla. Notwithstanding the primary magnet, there are additionally inclination loops (red). These slope curls are electro-attractive loops which experts use to adjust the attractive major field at exceptionally specific focuses and for unequivocally controlled times. Inclination curls can change to conform the machine for the sort of body material to image. Finally, MRI scanners additionally join radio recurrence curls which can send an engaged radio recurrence beat into the scanner chamber. Professionals can change the radio recurrence curls to modify for materials and body parts What does FMRI measures? When you say 'Brain movement,' numerous individuals first consider action maps created by functional, attractive reverberation imaging (fMRI; see figure 1). As a non-obtrusive braining imaging strategy, fMRI has turned into the go-to workhorse of subjective neuroscience. Since the principal papers distributed in the mid-1990s, there has been a blast of studies utilizing this procedure to study cerebrum capacity, from fundamental observation to psyche perusing for speaking with bolted inpatients or recognizing lies in criminal examinations. Taking care of business, fMRI gives unparalleled access to a point by point examples of movement in the sound human cerebrum; even from a pessimistic standpoint, fMRI could decrease to a costly generator of 3-dimensional Rorschach pictures. To comprehend the relative qualities and shortcomings of fMRI, it is fundamental to see precisely what fMRI measures. Without diving too profoundly into the low down (see beneath for further understanding), we w ill cover the rudiments that are fundamental for comprehension the potential and points of confinement of this ever prevalent and capable apparatus. "fMRI does not straightforwardly quantify mind movement." Above all else, power is the dialect of the mind. At any minute, there are an enormous number of modest electrical driving forces (activity possibilities) zooming around your mind. At synaptic intersections, these driving forces discharge particular chemicals (i.e., neurotransmitters), which like this adjust the electrical action in the next cell. It is the basic premise for neural correspondence. By one means or another, these procedures support each idea/feeling/activity you have ever experienced. Our test is to see how these electric occasions offer ascent to these wonders of the psyche. Nonetheless, fMRI does not precisely gauge electrical movement (analyze EEG, MEG, intracranial neurophysiology); yet rather it quantifies the strange results of neural action (the hemodynamic reaction). Strengths and Limitations of FMRI The huge point of interest of fMRI is that it doesn't utilize radiation like X-beams, figured tomography (CT) and positron outflow tomography (PET) filters. If done effectively, fMRI has no dangers. It can assess cerebrum work securely, noninvasively and adequately. fMRI is anything but difficult to utilize, and the pictures it produces are great determination (as itemized as 1 millimeter). Likewise, contrasted with the conventional survey techniques for mental assessment, fMRI is much more target. However, fMRI likewise has its disadvantages. To begin with, it's costly. Second, it can just catch a clear picture if the individual examined stays totally still. Also, third, specialists still don't totally see how it functions. FMRI measures of inhibitory control Inhibitory control in healthy people connected with a for the most part right lateralized system, including the IFG, ACC/presupplementary engine region (SMA) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and besides parietal and subcortical ranges, including the thalamus and basal ganglia.15,36,37 Experimental studies have given data on the particular commitment of these areas in actualizing inhibitory control. A late theory recommends that the privilege IFG, in inhibitory control, distinguishes behaviourally significant jolts (e.g., no-go or stop-signal boosts) in participation with the substandard parietal projection (IPL) and fleeting parietal intersection (TPJ) through its impacts on jolt driven consideration, which is a critical component of both go/no-go and stop-signal undertaking performance.1820 Given the nearness of the pre-SMA/dorsal ACC (dACC) to the engine territories, the capacity of this district might be reaction determination and overhauling engine plans.38 notwithstand ing frontal and parietal locales, the association of subcortical regions in inhibitory control entrenches through input circles that interface these areas with prefrontal and motor areas.15,36,39 As a broad premise of fMRI studies has reliably demonstrated that initiation in this corticalstriatalthalamic system is connected to inhibitory control in sound members, contrasts in mind actuation in this order amid the execution of inhibitory control standards in people with addictions in respect to controls can be deciphered as the nearness of neural shortages in inhibitory control in these people. FMRI measures of Error handling The essential part of the ACC in mistake handling proposed by ERP thinks about has been affirmed in fMRI concentrates on. All the more particularly, Ridderinkhof and colleagues24 recommend that the dACC/pre-SMA is reliably actuated amid checking of progressing conduct. A few specialists recommend that this locale screens reaction struggle or the probability of errors55,56 instead of mistake preparing as such. Two free meta-examinations have demonstrated that both reaction strife and reaction blunder enact the dACC.8,57 Functional MRI contemplates exploring mistake handling the further show that an active neural system coactivates with the dACC, including the respective insula, DLPFC, thalamus and right IPL.57,58 Functional cooperations among these locales have accounted for, particularly between the dACC and the DLPFC.59 Performance mistakes in the human cerebrum prepared by a neural circuit that broadens past the dACC and incorporates the insula, DLPFC, thalamus and parietal areas. This blunder making course all things considered screens and alter conduct when important. 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Financing Elections Essay Financing elections is one of the major and disputable problems that American politics face presently. Analysts became worried that the rising costs of campaigns distort elections in the interests who have the money. Also another problem that worried people and analysts was that the politics seemed to be leaving the realm of political parties, and those who had the money to afford expensive media campaigns won the privilege of governing us. Next reformers required and applied new reforms in the campaign financing. Many more people are concerned about where the money for campaigns comes from. This type of concern led to the laws that prohibit individuals from contributing large sums of money to specific campaigns. The assumption is that these individuals contribute huge sums of money in hope of some later benefit. Let me talk a little about history of reforms. Reformers put restrictions on campaign money for more than a century. In 1907, the Tillman Act prohibited contributions from corporations and national banks to candidates for federal office. Enforcement and further legislation to restrict campaign money were weak. for decades after that, until the Watergate scandal erupted before the 1972 election. Secret and illegal contributions had been made to Nixons re-election campaign in1972. Congress responded by amending a 1971 law that required reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures. The amendments imposed strict limits on both contributions to candidates and parties and spending by candidates in federal elections. An individual, for example, could give a maximum of $1,000 to a candidate for federal office and $20,000 to a political party. But the major change in the funding came with the case Buckley v. Valeo. Conservative New York Sen. James Buckley and liberal former Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy challenged the law. They argued that the limits in the lawviolated their own First Amendment rights as candidates, as well as the rights ofcampaign contributors and political and other organizations. They filed suit against Francis Valeo, secretary of the U.S. Senate. An appeals court supported most of the law, and the challenge moved to the Supreme Court, where it was argued in November 1975. So what did the court actually decide? It ruled that the post-Watergate limit placed on the amount of money a candidate for federal office might spend was anunconstitutional violation of the candidates freedom of speech. Another provisionof the law, limiting the amount of money that individuals and organizations couldcontribute to a candidate, was deemed not to be unconstitutional, because it servedthe important interest of preventing corruption. Campaign spending by candidates, the court reasoned, was closely related topolitical speech, which the court has always given the highest level of FirstAmendment protection. Campaign money is spent on flyers, campaign advertisingand generally getting the candidates message out? are all political speech. While striking down the limits on campaign spending, the court said limits werepermissible for presidential candidates who agreed to the limits in exchange forfederal funding of their campaigns. Sources of campaign funds:So nowadays, generally, campaign funds come from the following sources: the candidate himself or herself, other individuals, political action committees, political parties, and public financing. In the prenomination phase of the presidential election, contributions come from three sources-individual contributions, PAC contributions and federal matching funds. PAC contributions play a minor role in presidential nominating politics than they do in congressional elections. In short, the sources of funds for the presidential primaries are basically individual contributions and public matching funds. Even as millions in contributions fuel the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and George W. Bush, both candidates say they want to reduce that excess of money next time. Even as the presidential candidates decry soft money (independent donations that support candidates without being coordinated with the candidates campaign) it still flows ever faster into party coffers. Both Gore and Bush have attacked the use of ?soft money?. Gore says he would do away with this kind of donation altogether, while Bush would only ban soft-money contributions from labor unions and corporations. This years elections are the most expensive campaign cycle in American history, with an estimated cost of $3 billion. 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EssayCritics say that because the Buckley decision left campaign spending unregulated,the demand for money in politics has increased uncontrollably, creating incentivesto get around the contribution limitsNonetheless, many organizations and scholars still argue that the First Amendment does, and should, prevent restrictions on campaign money. So for most of the part the issue of financing campaigns is pretty disputable and is going to be changed over the time for sure. Speech and Communication Essays