...Essay: Do you think social networks are a tool to gain friends or a means of isolation? During the wide distribution of the internet, social networks are more and more used for means of communication. But does this new type of development provide a better way to find friends or does it lead to isolation instead? First of all, one can say that social networks like facebook make it easy to keep in contact with friends and family as it is convenient, fast and for free. Therefore it offers a good way to maintain a relationship. To actually make friends through facebook though, seems to be more debatable. These particular types of friendships are based on a non-physical relationship, in which gestures, expressions and the outward appearance are not presented to each other. As these are important chracteristics of a person, the question occurs if one really gets to know the true personality through facebook. Hence, facebook friendships are rather acuaintances and therefore superficial. However, social networks give members the opportunity to contact old friends they havent seen in a while. Furthermore especially facebook allows members to find people from the same school or class. In this case facebook can help finding friends for people who are too shy to approach somebody personally. Nevertheless, social networks should not be overused but can be used additionally to normal cummunication. I believe that isolations only occur on very rare occasions. This can happen, members...
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...The US foreign isolation policy consists on focusing the interest in the internal affairs of the country in search of prosperity, and to ensure safety. It was against of making alliance with other nations, or the participation in international conflicts outside the United States (United States History, n.d.). The US Isolation policy started during the presidency of G. Washington, who placed it in his Farewell Address. Later on, in 1823, Monroe established the Monroe Doctrine, which shared the same ideology as Washington (United States History, n.d.). However, when the Democratic party took the presidency of US failed in her aim of making the nation a protector of the world’s peace and democracy, which gave the power to the Republican party of reestablish the distrusted Isolation policy. When Woodrow Wilson entered to power, who was from the Democratic party, and this policy changed. He distrusted the Neutral policy, and took US into the First World War in order to “make the world safe for democracy”. He thought that it was a responsibility of the US to aimed it (The White House, n.d.). Nonetheless, because the great number of american soldiers dead casualties during the war, economic depression in an international level, and the need for increase attention to internal/domestic problems led the Republicans to argue against Wilson’s desire of enter into the the Covenant of the League of Nations (US Department of State: Office of the Historian, n.d.). Moreover, after the WWI...
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...APUSH Study Guide 8 A weak Confederacy and the Constitution, 1776-1790 Themes/Constructs: The federal Constitution represented a moderately conservative reaction against the democratilizing effects of the Revolution and the Articles of Confederation. The American Revolution was not a radical transformation like the French or Russian revolutions, but it produced political innovations and some social change in the direction of greater equality and democracy. The American Revolution did not overturn the social order, but it did produce substantial changes in social customs, political institutions, and ideas about society and government. Among the changes were the separation of church and state in some places, the abolition of slavery in the North, written political constitutions, and a shift in political power from the eastern seaboard toward the frontier. The first weak government, the Articles of Confederation, was unable to exercise real authority, although it did successfully deal with the western lands issue. The Confederation’s weakness in handling foreign policy, commerce and the Shays Rebellion spurred the movement to alter the Articles. Instead of revising the Articles, the well-off delegates to the Constitutional Convention created a charter for a whole new government. In a series of compromises, the convention produced a plan that provided for a vigorous central government, a strong executive, the protection for property, while still upholding republican...
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