...Politics of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Janell Fogle Strayer University U.S. Government Professor Stallo 11/15/2015 Politics of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Introduction Civil Rights Events that Influence Social Responsibility in American People Today In the American history, several Civil liberties events have played an indispensable role in shaping the approach of Americans to social responsibility. For instance, the signing of executive order 9981 by President Truman in 1948 was critical in eliminating discrimination among Americans (Carson, 2013). The executive order declared equity of treatment among all persons working in the department of defense. Indeed, this was a milestone in getting rid of the discrimination that was rampant among the armed forces personnel. Before, the signing of the order, only African American served in the American military frontlines. This act was highly criticized by people of African-American descent as it was an apparent show of discrimination based on color and race (Carson, 2013). However, the signing of the executive order brought about equity by eliminating discrimination of the armed officers depending on their color and race. To date, the signing of the executive order has been fundamental to eliminating discrimination and bringing about equity among Americans. Secondly, the second amendment of 1968 was crucial in enhancing the freedom of speech among the American people (Jackson, 2009)....
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...corporation. Other people however, think in a more modest way such as in the verse “There’s a black man with a black cat livin’ in a black neighborhood, he’s got an interstate runnin’ through his front yard you know he thinks he’s got it so good.” ("JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP LYRICS") This lyric references the mindset that as long as people are living free and happy, it does not matter how much they have but rather what they have. History shows that the American Dream originally held different meanings than it does today. Yesterday the American Dream meant that by living in America, a man could live free from persecution, be a land owner and raise his family with modest comforts. Other people came in search of the freedom to live without a Monarchy rule, to live in a democracy, to have the opportunity to own a home, have a family and have an equal opportunity to thrive as others have or will. This thought process has drastically changed over the last hundred or so years as immigration...
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...Breaking news, On today's news hour We will be reporting on the fact the first ammendment, freedom of speech, has now been repealed. Today I am your host, Bmud Era Slarebil which is not backwards for anything. So to start reporting, after months of liberals fighting to repeal freedom of speech because it allows for people to hurt other people's feelings, they have finally won. Two days ago at a college in Washington a safe space was invaded by a teenager who was talking to his friend, the two friends who will remain unnamed hurt all the people's feelings in the safe space because they kept on calling each other man, which they didn't get how saying man could offend people, but the feminist couldn't handle they Man being called by the pronouns...
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...Immigration Experience Dear Aunt Mia, Today is November 12, 1912 and the day is gloomy. I miss you dearly and don’t know when I will be able to send this letter. Who knows how many more days of smelling the ocean and the stench of poverty I can stomach. Father could not afford a second class ticket, so we are secluded to the deck. The first few nights it rained heavily, not to mention the cold from the open air. I fear many of us might catch an illness, and fear for the little ones on this voyage. There is nothing to protect us from the harsh ocean air, whipping our hair around and slapping out face. Sleep is very uncomfortable, we had to supply our own blankets, which are damp from the ocean air. The hard floor has really not taken well to mother, she is much pain. We receive very little water and food, definitely not enough to survive on. Many wondering if we will parents watch as their children parish from hunger. A few desperate souls attacked kitchen workers and they paid the ultimate price for trying to take food to feed their families. Father never dare cross a crew member, he knows the punishment would result in a beating and even being thrown overboard. As I gaze around our ship, we are almost elbow to elbow and I can’t wait to hit land. Tomorrow is my 14th birthday, and I hope to see the great Statue of Liberty as my present. Mother said going to America will give us a better life, and that we will be back to our home in a few years. Observing around...
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...The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (2005) is globalization in early 21st century. It emphasized the work “level playing field” with 1st world countries and third world countries by telecommunication channels. In this book, the author travelled to India and met up with entrepreneurs who are serving the needs of 1st world country (United States). The issue about Friedman’s book is, he seems like someone woke up and found a different new world (globalization) from yesterday. Globalization is not immediate change. And he is not practitioner in modern economics yet he tried to be one and touched on globalization effects. Globalization is double edge sword and it is not all juicy as Friedman suggested. Many US based multinational companies in the run up to cutting costs, are choosing to outsource some of their functions to outsourcing companies in developing or third world countries like India, China, Philippines and the likes. The advantages range from cost cutting benefitting the multinationals, to the companies residing in developing countries, and their economy. It is obvious that when a US multinational company is outsourcing their functions to the companies in developing countries, are cutting operational costs, thereby earn more revenue and getting the same work done at lower price and at an excellent quality. On the other side, this trend is also benefiting the companies in third world countries, for, they are getting more work, more work means, more employment done for...
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...Politics- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow POLITICAL 110: US GOVERNMENT Feb. 14th, 2016 Professor Mark Stallo Politics- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Civil Liberties and Social Responsibility in American Government Today Throughout our country’s history, civil liberties have influenced American social responsibility within the government. Civil liberties are fundamental rights and freedoms that are guaranteed by the Constitution. There are many examples of civil liberties mentioned in the Bill of Rights such as: freedom of speech, freedom of press, the right to a fair trial, the right to own property, and freedom of religion. (U.S. Department of Defense, 2016) The protection of these rights as guaranteed by the Constitution allows United States citizens to freely act in accordance with each civil liberty. For instance, on April 25th, 2015 local officials in Baltimore MD responded to citizens exercising their civil liberties including freedom of speech and right to protest. The events influenced the local officials and political leaders to react both negatively and positively. Although the people participating in the protest were able to exercise their right to protest and speak freely, this freedom was short lived. Eventually several protestors, civilians, and even news reporters were shot with rubber bullets, pepper-sprayed, arrested, or otherwise silenced during the demonstration. These events are very similar to another instance during 2014 in Ferguson...
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...from his family as well as his bitter attitude toward the world that changed around him reflect the cultural shift society has undergone and how the American dream has become a nightmare of crime, gangs, sex, and money. Walt’s vintage Gran Torino becomes a symbol, encompassing a time when things were simpler and the future looked bright. As he copes with the changes that occur in every aspect of his life Walt becomes an antihero, driven to do good for the people around him by using the violence built up inside of him from his years in the Korean War. Eastwood embodies a dying generation through the single character of Walt and his personality and actions allow the audience to draw comparisons between the America of yesterday and the America of today, which has immigration, innercity violence, and racism. His direction brings the audience’s attention to these social and cultural issues through his extensive camera work and a well developed screenplay. From the beginning of the film onward, Eastwood uses the camera frame as part of the narrative to show Walt’s position on the world around him. This is first seen when his teenage granddaughter enters the church for her grandmother’s funeral, the audience views her through Walt’s eyes. As shown in Fig 1, Walt does not focus on her face (as he did for the other grandchildren) but instead on her bare midriff and lack of respect at a serious family gathering. Eastwood uses a close up camera shot that clearly emphasizes that her midriff...
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...Ethical Scrapbook Part 1 Johnathan Hendricks CJS/211 October 19th, 2015 Leesa A. McNeil Ethical Scrapbook Part 1 Good Samaritan Acts- Oprah Winfrey The bulk of Winfrey’s giving has gone to educational causes, including charter schools, programs that support African-American students, and the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa. According to Forbes, Winfrey had given away approximately $400 million to educational causes by 2012, including nearly 400 scholarships to Morehouse College, and more than $40 million in operating support for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa. She’s also given at least $10 million to A Better Chance. Its mission is to improve access to quality education for students of color, and has given $1 million or more to at least nine different charter school organizations in a number of different areas throughout the country (insidephilanthropy.com, 2015). Princess Diana Diana’s interests were reflected in the organizations of which she was Patron or President. These included the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London and the Royal Marsden Hospital, which specializes in the treatment of cancer. Her patronages also included Centrepoint, an organization working with the homeless, The National Aids Trust and The Leprosy Mission. The Princess's love of the arts was underlined by her involvement as Patron of the English National Ballet. During her lifetime she was at some time patron...
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...popularity, he started to DJ at more parties. While performing, he realized that having someone on a mic interacting with the crowd is just as important as the music behind it. He then decided to call on his good friend Coke La Rock to be the official MC of Clive’s parties. One of Coke La Rock’s first rhymes was “ There’s not a man that can’t be thrown, not a horse that can’t be rode, a bull that can’t be stopped, there’s no disco that I Coke La Rock can’t rock”. It made him the very first rapper in Hip Hop and birthed a new genre of music we know today as Rap . (Mize History of Rap) After the outbreak of hip hop began, local DJs and MCs began to showcase their talents at social events, gatherings, and especially parties. Some of the most famous DJs from that time where DJ Afrika Bambaattaa, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Grandmaster Flash. Rap began to evolve everywhere and would slowly but surely become the huge powerhouse it is today. Although rap was becoming a big hit in Bronx, it did not gain popularity across the nation until songs like “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang and “Rapture” by Blondie made it onto Billboard's Top 40. These songs were considered the first rap songs. Rap music then started to become apart of pop culture. Artists like Run DMC, Whodini, and Marley Marl made major impacts on the music industry. Rap then became a cultural phenomenon. Although rap music gave off a fun and funky vibe, rappers started to use rap music as an outlet to confront serious...
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...Daniela Escudero Eng-101 Prof. David Schleicher Narrative Essay 5/27/2014 Moving to America Transformed My Life In the past I came across many changes but leaving my country was the toughest change in my life. I had to learn how to live away from people I love and how to start a new life in a new country. Immigration is a life changing experience; learning a new language, adapting to the culture and lifestyle changes are all strenuous things that were thrown at me once I became a part of this country. Even though moving away from my family and friends was a difficult decision, it changed my live for a better. It taught me how to deal with change, how to become an independent and responsible person, and how to feel this country my home. I never imagined living in another country. I remember as it was yesterday when my mom said, “Daniela, I know you do not want to leave Colombia but I have to take you with me, you are my youngest child and I will not let you here” I started arguing with her, saying that how she could do that to me when I already had plans to start college and that I was happy in my country but at the end I gave up and decided to come to America. It was February 10th, 2010, when I left Colombia and was forced to leave my friends, my grandmother, my school, my language and culture to move to this big new country to start a new life. As I took my last look at my home, I remembered all the fun times I had with my mom and sister and friends...
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...Outline Thesis: The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shock to the world, yet was no surprise to FDR’s administration, for he needed an excuse to push his country into war. I. Introduction A: What happened at Pearl Harbor? B: Who / When / Where II. Japan’s reason A: Trade agreements U.S.A and Japan. B: Japan and American relations. III. FDR’s conflict A: Representative of American people. * Need to stay out of war. B: Global leader * Pressure to join the war. IV. U.S.A enter the World War2 V. Conclusion Pearl Harbor is located in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. On Saturday, December 6, sailors, soldiers, and pilots at Pearl Harbor enjoyed their weekend liberty. No one knew what would happen the next day. Early Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese navy. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shock to the world. At 7:00 a.m. soldiers found a large number of the planes coming from the north on the radar screen, but they thought that the fleets were U.S. planes flying back from the mainland. Moreover, the planes were so low above the roof tops and somebody saw the orange-red emblem of the Rising-Sun. That meant the Japan army. Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson, author of Pearl Harbor Child, reports that: “ We heard the sound of low flying planes, then almost immediately, a loud explosion, followed by more planes passing directly over our house”(15). Moreover, many U.S military were sleeping, eating breakfast or preparing...
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...News! 1. 6/6/2013 Doug Gross. * Barack Obama believes that there should be internet access in all schools. He wants to provide funds to around 99% of public schools for them to be able to have internet, even in libraries. He says that he wants all American students to be connected online in five years. Usually, adults don’t go for this type of thing they want children to not be so ‘connected’ to the internet. They want kids to not spend so much time on computers, but he almost wants just that to happen. People are becoming way too dependent on computers and the internet, which even libraries are eventually only going to be used just for that. Although Obama is more so moderate, this idea is clearly making him to be a liberal. He wants the change and wants to continue to further the change on technology. 2. 6/8/2013 Maureen Dowd * In this article, she quotes the book 1984. She is talking about how Bush felt about 9/11 and some of the after effects. It turns out that, for seven years the N.S.A was taking information from our phone calls. This all started while Bush was president through a program called prism. Prism would let the F.B.I. and N.S.A. into many social media websites and was able to access all of our information. These people were trying to spot out terrorists, and will go to any means necessary. According to Obama, they necessarily can’t hear the conversations; they are just able to learn about who we call. They also are saying that they don’t...
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...Causes and Effects of Broken Family Family is the basic unit of society. This is the most essential component of a country. Governance will only be effective if the citizens are properly oriented with good values and virtues, which is commonly taught by the family. A home is where a family lives. It may be alternated to the word ‘house’ but a house is more appropriately referring to the material structure, whereas ‘home’ refers to the intangible things that bind together the family members. It is the immeasurable love and care that keeps together the mother, father and their children. However, no matter how ideal a family in the terms of their relationship, there are still hardships and misunderstandings that will come along the way. It is just part of any relationship anyway. But, the sad part is when one of the family members gave up and the others have no choice but to accept and let go. Thus, the family starts to be broken. Broken family varies from numerous reasons why it had to be that way. But usually, misunderstanding starts from simple domestic quarrel that grows impertinently damaging the long-forged relationship between the family members. When a couple split up, it is the children that are greatly affected scarring them physically, emotionally and socially. The most common dispute between a husband and a wife is the financial issue. This is rooted when the father, which should be the provider for the family, can’t give enough money for the sustenance...
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...had been the highest since World War II and its aftermath.” Displaced people often have to endure harsh conditions once they leave their homes and leave behind the areas that in some cases is all they have ever known. A Times article follows a Syrian couple and their son who have been displaced for over five years after according to Aryn Baker “His mother scooped him out of bed one night to escape a bombing raid on his village of Deer ex-Zor in 2012.” IDPs often face horrid conditions inside camps such as starvation, disease, and mental health problems. Patrick Kingsley from The Guardian states that “Conditions inside this (Nigerian) makeshift camp are abject. Streams of slurry trickle through the sit. A family mourns a child who died yesterday of hunger.” Even if the Nigerian army had cleared villages of the terrorist's people were unable to return due to it being unsafe to farm with Boko Haram often being within a close proximity of the village. The people who returned often were forced to return to the poor conditions of the camps making the “Choice between war and starvation” Similarities can be found in today's problem of displaced people and the one that happened after world war II where immigrants in today's in efforts to escape war and poverty travel on poorly equipped boats across dangerous waters to places such as Italy and Greece in order to reach safety often knowing they will be detained if they are caught or drown if the boats they are in sink. During the crisis...
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...LONDON — Europeans are watching the final stages of the U.S. election campaign closely, concerned about how the outcome might affect global issues. Europeans can't vote in the U.S. election, but, like people everywhere, they have a stake in its outcome. From economic issues to Iran and the war in Afghanistan, the future of Europe is very much linked to the United States. And the two men who are vying to lead it for the next four years would seem to have very different views of the continent. "I think the president wants to turn us into a European-style welfare state, an entitlement nation. That model has not worked anywhere in the world," Romney said on the campaign trail. Barack Obama usually strikes a different tenor when he talks about the continent. "Each step points to the fact that Europe is moving towards further integration rather than breakup and that these problems can be resolved, and points to the underlying strength in Europe's economies," said Obama at the G20 summit last June. Senior fellow Xenia Dormandy of London's Chatham House says that difference in tone has been noticed on this side of the Atlantic. "Romney talks about a strong, exceptional America, a leading America. And he talks about increasing defense spending. All of those things are things that make Europeans a little bit nervous," noted Dormandy. "Contrarily, Obama, I call him a European leader. He's very consensus-driven. He's wanting to work in multilateral institutions, wanting...
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