...the European monarchy to rule in Spain former colonies. Monroe exposed the general ideas were first to proposed to the U.S by the British Foreign Minister George Canning who had suggested that the U.S and the U.K has made a joint declaration with an eye towards the future. But Monroe and the Sectary of State John Quincy Adams were rejected from Canning’s overture instead of issued the doctrine unilaterally knowing the full well that the British naval power would still be enforcing it. The Monroe Doctrine was one part of America’s two-pronged strategy for establishing a regional harmony foe establishing regional harmony over the Western Hemisphere it was also the heart of the foreign policy debates within the U.S during the 19th Century although recent scholarship has shown this was just often for a domestic political reason for foreign policy ones. In the border sense the doctrine has an unpinned on what the U.S has done abroad to date its participation WW1, WW2 and also in the Cold War was aimed at preventing a regional hegemon from emerging in Europe and Asia the rational behind this objective is that if another regional hegemon emerges in a crucial region it will have all the power and the interest to challenge the U.S hegemony over the Western Hemisphere so long as states are busy vying for power regionally they will not have the motivation to mount a serious challenge to the U.S in it...
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...international relations. It is argued that the United States’ military act as the world’s police. What are two real-life international incidents where the States have used military action abroad? What are two factors that propelled America into a dominant military and diplomatic force after World War II? What are the key differences in American foreign policy before and after World War II? What are the main reasons in the changes of pre- and post-war policy occurred? In what manner does the justifications used for America’s overseas involvement during World War II still play a role in United States military action abroad? What example can be provided of such justifications in action? In what fundamental ways in which the rise of the United States to a world superpower has shaped the country’s responses to domestic spending, Fourth Amendment protections, and Americans’ choice of leaders in Congress and the White House on the home front? These previous topics covers the manner of America’s shift of power occurred and the consequences that the United States faces as a result of this elevated status. What are two real-life international incidents where the States have used military action abroad? In 2011, the United States aided in NATO’s successful intervention in Libya. According to the website of foreign affairs, the United States facilitated the intervention, took its led in cutting off funding to Libya as well as freezing Libya’s thirty-two billion dollars of assets, and also instigated...
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...The topic that I chose for this expository essay was titled: Black Men In the Army. I chose this topic because one, I am a black man. And two, I feel like the blacks’ had a very important and vital influence on the wars that the U.S fought. They risked their lives to help make america the country that it is today. That is why I chose this topic. The first article that I used is titled, “What Was Black America’s Double War?” I used this article to help support my reasoning. This entire article's main idea was mainly talking about how many African Americans helped during the pearl harbor attacks. As it says in paragraph #1 “ 5,000 black men fought for the Patriot cause in the American Revolution.” and to me that is very important. The key ideas of this entire article was basically saying that discrimination and all types of hate were brought upon the African Americans during the wars. And how they fought for their freedom. The article also shows how important these men were to our...
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...The last key force was America’s involvement in War, which in the short term provided American women with work opportunity typically reserved for males, also paving the way for second wave feminism. Many women began working outside the home for the first time When America entered WWI in 1917, a male labour shortage, meant that women took over traditional male roles while they were at war. The Woman's Land Army of America, brought over 20,000 women to rural America, these "farmerettes" were paid wages equal to male farmers and an eight-hour working day protected them. 11,000 women, served abroad as nurses; others became ambulance drivers. For many, this provided an example of women mobilizing themselves. They challenged conventional thinking about gender roles which celebrated by many e.g. The Los Angeles Times proclaimed "farmettes" were “To turn new earth in history of the...
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...When a group of people have the same political goal they join together to form factions also known as interest groups. Interest groups main purpose is to influence the government decisions on issues that they are concerned about. Interest groups have many different roles and they all have to do with making their people issues a priority in the government. The NAACP, Sierra Club, and CLASP are all interest groups that fought for their people issues and influenced elections. Even though interest groups tried to help out people in society, because they got into lobbying with Congress, them supporting America’s democratic institution is questionable. Americans has formed many different associations throughout the history of America...
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... engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is impacting our nation’s potential in national defense, economic strength, and other societal needs, according to John F. Sargent Jr., a specialist in Science and Technology Policy(1). In 2005, three prominent reports, entitled Innovate America, Tapping America’s Potential, and Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, were released which discussed the controversy whether United States of America is falling behind other countries in STEM. The three reports consider wide perspectives of issues concerning STEM from competitiveness to the workforce in the United States. According to Innovate America, all issues...
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...America. Ever Since United States of America won the World War 2, the desire to control and dominate has been constantly increasing among the Americans. The question of whether the United states should act as a policeman for other countries has been long debated over the past couple of decades, On one side there are people who support the quest of Usa being given the role of the world peace maker and on the other majority are those who question; “Who is USA to control or act as a policeman for other countries?” History of wars to dominate other cultures, creeds, races and nations goes back to thousands of years. As over the centuries resources have become limited and the fight and the desire to control the world’s resource has intensified. Relations between countries has defoliated and has brought the world to the levels of mass destruction in the form of World War 1 and World War 2. At the time of both WW 1 and WW 2 there were not many genuine reasons to fight except to control, dominate and show superiority over the others. The first WW1 was won by Germany followed by the dominance of the United States in the WW2. It was at the end of the...
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...The Atomic Bomb: A Necessity or a Desire Tanmay Bhanushali Year 10 Historical Paper “Great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint” Leo Szilard - Hungarian-born Physicist and main scientist to oppose the atomic Bombings This was spoken in an interview titled “President Truman did not Understand”. This was between a US news reporter and Leo Szilard the key figure among the scientists opposing the use of the bomb. The interview was in August 15, 1960. Why was their so fierce Opposition? In what Way did Truman Not Understand? These answers lie in the depths of the controversy about the Atomic Bomb. Introduction The atomic bomb was a topic of major controversy but the main debate was about the necessity of the atomic bomb. Many say that the atomic bomb was dropped because it would save millions of American lives. However at that period the Japanese were also at the point of surrendering. Huge amounts of incendiary bombs were used in large-scale cities against japan. Many of the scientists in the Manhattan Project were disturbed about it. The incendiary bombs reduced much morale from the Japanese army and crippled the will power. However this small cripple made Japan even angrier because these incendiary bombs were used on innocent civilians and not the Japanese army. Many think that it was necessary to use the Atomic Bombs because Japan attacked America first and not the other way around. It is a fact that when Hitler attacked...
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...Labor Unions Objective Labor unions in the United States have been prevailing forces in the workplace since their establishment in the late 1800’s. The two main purposes for unions are union security and overall improvement in wages, working conditions and benefits for their members. While only 12% of the U.S. workforce today is under union contract; they still are establish a presence by way of strikes, mediation and impasses. Unions will form when employees believe that company management is practicing unfair labor standards and acts and will take action accordingly to meet their goals. This report will look into the history and implications labor unions have had on the U.S. workforce and what they mean for both companies and employees alike in today’s world. General History Famous Labor Strikes The Great Postal Strike of 1970 involved 200,000 postal workers who walked off the job to protest their pay rates, which when accounted barely surpassed the average cost of living in the United States during that time period (in accordance with inflationary rates). President Nixon sent 23,000 U.S. army and marine personnel to handle the mail system, but that failed due to the limited training they possessed working with the massive government operation. Within a week, the government reached an agreement with the worker’s union, allowing for a 14% pay raise for postal workers. As a result, the American Postal Workers Union became a powerful force in bargaining...
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...The Sources of Japanese Militarism Source: J.B. Crowley, “A New Deal for Japan and Asia: One Road to Pearl Harbor” (1970)1 Introduction While the events of Pearl Harbor (1941) became “a date which will live in infamy” for the Americans, it is doubted by many if the attack was to be expected due to the rigid U.S. policy toward Japan. Crowley argues that by not acting against the 1931 Japanese intervention in Manchuria the U.S. “condemned itself to Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War”. In the perspective of the Vietnam War the aspects of Asian nationalism, the heritage of colonialism, communist ideology & national movement emerged. America’s role in Asia should be reassessed, and a better understanding of Asian racism and nationalism is needed. In this perspective Pearl Harbor will be seen as a by-product of Asian nationalism and as a conflict between an Asian country and the Occidental nationalism. As he assumes for the Japanese Pearl Harbor portrayed “a blow against the efforts of the Occidental powers to strangle Japan”. He quotes Tokutomi Sohō’s comment on the Imperial Declaration of War: “We must show the races of East Asia that order, tranquillity, peace... can be gained only by eradicating... [the Anglo-Saxons] ...and by making Nippon the leader of East Asia.” The essay of Crowley aims to help the better understanding of nationalism, colonialism, communism and imperialism in the Asian setting. The post-WW1 situation 1 Besides this essay, I relayed on the Wikipedia...
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...Dystopia Regrettably it is at this point that we find a gradual switchover from Utopia to Dystopia - societies whose planning is far from ideal, and which all too often come to grief. As a concept, Dystopia emerges at the end of the long Eighteenth Century, possibly as a result of social upheaval and the long wars. it comes to the fore towards the end of the Nineteenth Century with gloomy forebodings as to the impact of industrialisation. Some go for a mechanical paradise. Others foresee a world order where things have got beyond repair - and that's not just the machines. Jack London in The Iron Heel (1908)sees the collapse of the American republic between 1912 and 1932 with the rise of 'The Oligarchy' (though he also thinks that international worker solidarity will avert a world war in 1913). Dystopia is highly pessimistic in tone. It traces what happens when things go wrong, either in an ideal world which has gone into crisis or decline, or else is a portrayal of of a world where society has collapsed at some time in the past. It is form of writing with a moral - and a warning. The irony is that reality can be stranger than fiction. The finale of The Mission is a case in point. The humanitarian goals of the Jesuit Fathers ironically contained the seeds of destruction for the Missions. The presence not only of rational Indians, but Christianised ones who were highly skilled proved to be too much of a temptation for the bandeirantes, slavers who came across from Brazil and...
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...Introduction The period between 1870 and 1913 has often been referred to as Mach-1, in reference to the speed of economic growth that it presented. This was a period of peace especially when its compared to what came soon after. Under the Hegemonic leadership of Great Britain, Trade and the movement of people with and within Europe grew at rates that were then unprecedented. All these gains crumbled just before the start of the Great War of 1914. For the next thirty years attempts were made to bring the world economy to its glory years without any success. At this point, nation states had retreated back to protectionism and a wave of national identity and anger of one state against another was sweeping across Europe. State debts, the just ended war, Fascism, Nazism and other various anti-International economic policies and philosophies made it difficult for cooperation amongst states. Cooperation and success was not realized until another undisputed economic power (United sates of America) rose to the occasion in the summer of 1944, to plan and re-arrange the post war economic order. If we were to follow the same naming style as the above mentioned, then this period would in turn be termed Mach-2. Once again the world united under a new Hegemonic leadership. Just as in the previous hegemon, Markets began to recover the good practices of the classical economic system were adopted and the lessons learnt in the thirty years of economic turmoil since the first world war were also...
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...missionaries on drug policy and law, the nature of creating criminalization of addiction, the traditional justifications offered by pharmaceutical industry and psychology experts and in conclusion, he suggests that all of these are used to cover up deeper societal issues that existed previous to drug-induced conditions and that drug users are the “scapegoats” for all the wrongs in our society today. One of the core issues that Fish presented is the effect of America history on drug policy and regulation. The beliefs of Christian missionaries, which originated in the opium control policies in the Dutch colonies, helped to drive the control of the use of narcotics (Fish, 2006). Many religious-minded people who believe behavior plays a key role in maintaining social order also instigated prohibition of alcohol. Nonetheless, these people have neglected the economic impact that these inhibitions may do to our society and that the government’s involvement may actually create and perpetuate a larger concern of all of society than the mere misbehavior by the users of the substance (Fish, 2006). Throughout the book, Fish explored the various facets of how U.S. drug policy has not alleviated the problems it sought to control, instead, it has created larger problems that led to a dangerous black market which now calls to the fore a demand for drug control policy reform. The compilation of authors in the book, ranging from sociologists, economists, psychologists, to lawyers, offers a...
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...Jay Hughes Professor Vincent Ferraro World Politics 12/06/2012 “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.” This was vocalized by President Harry Truman in his famous speech where he declared the bombing on mainland Japan and, educated the American people of the capabilities their military had. Developed by a group of American scientists, atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 10th 1945 respectively. These are the only two times that these bombs have ever been used to inflict damage on other countries but, physicists estimate that both bombs only used about 1/10th of 1% of their total capacity. From a moral standpoint, dropping the atomic bomb was the right thing to do because it ended up preventing millions of people from being killed by military warfare. Politically, it was also the right thing to do because it strategically helped end the war and, reminded the rest of the world of the supremacy of the United States as a Hegemon and militaristic power. If put in the position of President Truman, after careful analysis, I would choose to only drop one atomic bomb on Hiroshima. First, with the Japanese unwillingness to surrender, the United States was ready to commence with a...
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...people. You just stand in awe, thinking to yourself, “Thank God I’m on the right side of those missiles.”. Well, Major William Orville Hickok, only 19 years old at the time, did just that as a soldier during Desert Storm. This experience was one in a lifetime for him and will forever stay with him. This is just one of the many things that made this war special, different, and one to remember for Hickok, and many like him, during Desert Storm. William Orville Hickok grew up in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, with one older and one younger sibling and his parents. He lived on a small farm where he did a lot of mowing and took care of their family sheep. At a young age he was fascinated with joining the Army with his dad's influence and his biggest role model, he decided to enlist before he even began his senior year in high school. He knew that when he graduated he was going to head right off to basic training in Fort Knox, Kentucky, to prepare for the long journey ahead of him. Most of Europe including Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Israel wanted to keep the balance of power in the Middle East, so that no one county became dominant over the others. This was to ensure that the oil kept flowing between countries. Iraq messed this plan up by invading Kuwait on August 2 1990 and by also intimidating other neighboring countries. This in turn, caused a worldwide support for the war, in hopes to get the Middle East back on track with keeping equality between counties. Desert Storm began on...
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