...Chains: Confronting the Military, Industrial and Academic Complex discusses how democracy is disappearing on university campuses across America and the rise of “ideologies and practices in militarization, corporatism and political fundamentalism” (1) is taking its place. The author gives many possible directions for hope but still his writings lack possible more in depth directions to stop this growing trend. The author defends this with discussing how this type of logic is exactly what he is fighting against. Pre-written instructions that society has become so used to that it doesn’t know what direction to go when faced with difficulty and if it wasn’t taught that way then don’t do it that way. Democracy is something we hear more and more since the beginning of the Iraq war up to the next presidential election. But one question this book asks and as scholars we must ask ourselves, “Is our society, in all aspects, really democratic?” In the first essay of the book Giroux discusses how universities have become bedfellows with the American war machine. Giving the reader a raw look at how far universities have become militarized. The beginnings can be traced back to the post-WWII years. Giroux argues that even though it has been at least 50 years since this invasion of militarism into universities, since 911 this militarism has spread beyond the walls of the university into mainstream society. The concept of militarism is the dominance of the military over the state or the...
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...The second objection to complete integration concerns the country’s gradual trend towards political correctness and the effect that has on an institution whose goal is to be efficient and powerful, not unbiased. Marines of all ranks have protested this change, as a socially engineered experiment influenced by the ranting of liberal politicians who have no military experience. While a co-ed friendly structure may work for many professions, the hyper-sexualized military culture creates a plethora of issues for co-ed units. “In the case of nontraditional jobs for women, men see women as women first, workers second [...] they prefer to respond to women as potential sexual partners when they fit that image.” (Gutek, 1987, p 101) One needs to look...
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...a global benevolence that should be lauded, regardless of the reticence of political supporters, as they attempt to supplant the xenophobic notions that are rampant in the United States; the global scope of his economic concerns earns him one point. However, several of his trade proposals have met opposition from both parties in Congress, which cuts my assessment of its potential efficacy down to half a point. It should be noted, though, that while his trade proposals may not ultimately be reflected in his performance, they have begun a political dialog and swayed the public to a more amiable view of international relations than the one most commonly adopted over the past fifty years. President Obama receives three-and-a-half out of five points by my assessment, though perceptions of his performance in the economic arena will inevitably change after he leaves office. Though Obama’s administration has not been defined by excessive action, the public perception of Obama’s indomitable character stems from his strong rhetoric. In fact, as much as Obama’s public perception hinges on his mellifluous rhetoric, he may be able to convince the populace that he is an economic policy guru by...
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...On January 12, 2016, President Barack Obama presented the State of the Union Address to the American people. In this speech, President Barack Obama spoke about many different issues. In this paper, I will review and evaluate President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address using the two checklists from Catherine Smith’s book entitled, Writing Public Policy. I will evaluate if President Obama’s speech addresses a specific audience about a specific problem, the purpose related to a specific policy action, that it represents authority accurately, uses the appropriate form and design for use. I will also review the clarity, correctness, conciseness and credibility of President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Features of Effectiveness President Obama’s State of the Union speech addressed a specific audience about specific problems. The audience is composed of Senators, Democrats, and Republicans. The President’s speech is the final report on the State of the Union. President Obama’s speech...
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...Critical Thinking HU345-02 Unit 9 Final Project Gays in the Military Diana Brown Professor RonaldDean Davenport Kaplan University Gays in the Military The United States has been faced with different debates. Gays in the military has been one of the strongest political debates since the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy started almost two decades ago. A majority of democrats wanted to allow gays to serve openly in the armed forces, and the republicans completely opposed; they wanted to keep this policy, solely to ban gays from serving openly in the military. The policy completely prohibited homosexuals from serving in the military; if it was any suspicion of a person being homosexual, regardless if they were or not engaging in homosexual conduct, they were put under investigation; if it was determine that the person in fact was homosexual, they were immediately discharged. This was not only unfair, but discriminatory and at the same time unconstitutional. It is hard to understand how they got away with this for so long; this simply did not make any sense. For some Congress’ members and military officials the fear was that by allowing gays to serve openly in the military could cause more casualties and would endangered the troops.. In an interview with newspapers and wire service reporters at the Pentagon, Gen. James F. Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps at the time said: "you don't want anything distracting. . . . Mistakes and inattention or distractions cost...
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...for Juveniles Loren L Broadwater CJA/374 February 8, 2016 Dr. Pamela Knothe Death Penalty for Juveniles In society today, the discussion of Capital Punishment - or the Death penalty - is a highly controversial subject. The political correctness stance that the country has taken only compounds the discussion exponentially. The death penalty is often associated with heinous crimes that are committed by adults. Capital punishment is highly publicized by the media when adults commit senseless acts against humanity. When adults are placed on death row society acknowledges that justice has been served. However, adults aren’t the only members of the community that commit unspeakable acts of crime. Juveniles also have been arrested for murder, charged as adults, and then sentenced to death. The thought of executing a juvenile is a double standard when compared to the laws in place to protect the same juveniles. Rehabilitation is the norm when dealing with juveniles who commit delinquent acts against the community. The question then arises as to whether Capital punishment is the correct form of punishment when a youth commits murder? Legal adulthood starts at age eighteen, the age at which a young person can vote, buy cigarettes, join the military, and live however they want as long as they follow the law. When young adults choose to break the law they need to be held accountable for those actions. “Do the crime and do the time”, is the philosophy for adults. When someone under...
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...the traumatic event or sleeplessness, last for more than a month and causes problems in important areas of functioning. PTSD is considered an invisible wound of war, mainly because for the soldiers overseas, there is no typical enemy (Tanielian & Jaycox, 2008). Christopher was in the Spec Ops of the US Army. He was a staff sergeant that was in charge of a squad. He has been stationed all around Europe and Southeast Asia. After he was injured, Christopher was transferred back to the States. He has shrapnel in his left leg from a tour of duty and the hospitals said that they could remove it but if they did, they might as well amputate his leg. Refusing to lose his leg, Christopher decided on the answer that most military Cause 3 veterans or even active duty soldiers decide on. They would “soldier on” and finish their job no matter what. This...
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...Ideologically driven actions taken by Communist China during the Vietnam War critically impacted the results of the conflict as well as having a decisive impact upon the implementation of policies within the United States and the Soviet Union. Qiang Zhai’s, “Beijing and the Vietnam Peace Talks, 1965-68: New Evidence from Chinese Sources,” showed how the Communist Chinese desired to continue the war in Vietnam for ideological and imperial desires, thus rebuffing any peace overture made from Western powers. Mao Lin’s, “China and the Escalation of the Vietnam War: The First Years of the Johnson Administration”, stated that there clearly was a political struggle between the Soviet Union, Communist China, and the United States in Vietnam. Lin stated that Vietnam simply was another battlefield in the Cold War struggle. Melvyn P. Leffler stated the United States in Vietnam continued to fight to save face and credibility as defender of the free world. During the 1960’s Communist China perceived itself as the defender of national liberation movement, sent aid to the North Vietnamese, and refused to allow them to discuss peace with the United States. Additionally, Communist China wanted to gain influence within Southeast Asia and stamp out any influence from the Soviet Union in addition to the United States. Ideologically driven actions taken by Communist China in Vietnam when tied with events of the Sino-Soviet split had drastic implications upon actions that were taken by the United States...
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...ETH/125 Final Exam – Multiple Choice Name: _Katrina Winters___________________________ Please note: There are 56 questions. Each question is worth 2.5 points. 1. Which term is used to describe a group that is set apart from others primarily because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns? a. social group b. ethnic group c. racial group d. formal group 2. Members of a minority or subordinate group a. share physical or cultural characteristics that distinguish them from the dominant group. b. have less power over their lives than do members of a majority. c. acquire membership by being born into that group. d. all of these apply 3. Secession is a. the physical separation of groups of people. b. the withdrawal of a group of people from a dominant group to establish a new nation. c. the withdrawal of a subordinate group from one neighborhood to another. d. none of these 4. Which term is used by sociologists to describe a group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences? a. social group b. ethnic group c. racial group d. formal group 5. Which term is used to refer to a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant group have over theirs? a. minority group b. majority group c. stratified group d. social group 6. Which of the following is considered...
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...Arrival of Islam Islam arrived in the area of modern Pakistan in 711 CE, when the Umayyad dynasty sent a Muslim Arab army led by Muhammad bin Qasim against the ruler of Sindh, Raja Dahir. Muhammad Bin Qasim's army was defeated in his first three attempts. The Muslim army conquered the northwestern part of Indus Valley from Kashmir to the Arabian Sea. The arrival of the Arab Muslims to the provinces of Sindh and Punjab, along with subsequent Muslim dynasties, set the stage for the religious boundaries of South Asia that would lead to the development of the modern state of Pakistan as well as forming the foundation for Islamic rule which quickly spread across much of South Asia. Following the rule of various Islamic empires, including the Ghaznavid Empire, the Ghorid kingdom, and the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughals controlled the region from 1526 until 1739. Muslim technocrats, bureaucrats, soldiers, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, theologians and Sufis flocked from the rest of the Muslim world to Islamic Sultanate and Mughal Empire in South Asia and in the land that became Pakistan. Islam and the Pakistan movement The Muslim poet-philosopher Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal first proposed the idea of a Muslim state in northwestern South Asia in his address to the Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930. His proposal referred to the four provinces of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and the NorthWest Frontier -- essentially what would became Pakistan. Iqbal's idea gave concrete form to...
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...granted access to military operations to report to our society the facts as they happen. Some may argue that certain military facts should not be revealed to the United States public. The media and the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (www.constitution.net). The law prohibited the publication of false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame or to stir up sedition within the United States. What the media seems to overlook is that specific acts in a combat zone have a purpose that may or may not comply with the morals of our society. The media takes utilitarianism the ethical theory that determines the moral value of an act in terms of its results and if those results produce the greatest good for the greatest number and uses it to report sensitive information. They also use another theory to appeal to the good nature and moral upbringing of Americans and that is their virtue ethics they focus on the morality rather than the act. The media also feels it is their moral obligation and necessity, finding the source of ethical correctness in the rules according...
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...3 Types of Authority • Charismatic Authority ❑ Those in authority possess charisma ❑ No fixed hierarchy of officials ❑ No legal rules governing organization ❑ Short-lived: dependent upon personality of leader. Examples: Jesus’s disciples Religious cults ❑ After leader’s death the movement must become ‘routinized’ or collapse traditional or bureaucratic control/authority. • Traditional Authority Two forms a) Household – relatives, favourites and servants (e.g. ‘Biraderi’ in Pakistan. ‘Family’ in Sicily). b) Vassals – feudal lords who swear loyalty to monarch and hold land in exchange for military service. In both cases social actions are based upon custom/ingrained habit. Bureaucractic Authority • Weber constructed an ‘ideal type’ of bureaucratic organization. He argued that bureaucracies were increasingly moving towards this ‘pure’ type. • The ideal type of bureaucracy contains these elements ❑ Specialization: Each administrative official has a clearly defined area of responsibility and competence: ‘The regular activities required for the purposes of the organization are distributed in a fixed way of official duties’. ❑ Sub-division: Complex tasks are broken down into manageable parts: state administration divided into various departments – social security...
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...Narnians, and wield scimtars. They are also described to be prone to violence and exhibit expansionist motivations as well as a being slave holders. Every physical trait Lewis gives the Calormenes seems to correspond to negative stereotypes of Arabic and middle-eastern people. If there are any doubts an even less subtle hint is given, in that Lewis uses almost the exact same word from Arabic culture; “the Calormenes live in the desert, have long beards, wear turbans and pointy slippers and are ruled by Tarkaans, which some have pointed out is vaguely similar to the Middle Eastern military rulers known as Tarkhans.” (John champion), merely swapping out one letter not altering pronunciation. The similarities are so blatant and shameless that the calormenes comes over as a satiric caricatures; “While the book's storytelling virtues are enormous, you don't have to be a bluestocking of political correctness to find some of this fantasy anti-Arab, or anti-Eastern, or anti-Ottoman. With all its stereotypes, mostly played for belly laughs, there are moments you'd like to stuff this story back into its closet.”(Kyrie O’Connor) Reducing the Calormenes to racial stereotypes of Ottomans and other Eastern Cultures might be somewhat tasteless and Politically incorrect, it at least doesn’t have any real negative connotations. However Lewis takes it a step further by morally antagonizing just about all representatives of the Calormene people that play a role in the plot. The main character...
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...factors are responsible for the increased fragmentation: • The proliferation of international regulations; • Increasing political fragmentation (juxtaposed with growing regional and global interdependence in such areas as economics, the environment, energy, resources, health, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction); • The regionalization of international law due to a rise in the number of regional fora engaged in the formulation of international regulations; • The emancipation of individuals from States; and • The specialization of international regulations. Presently, there exists no homogeneous system of international law. International law consists of erratic blocks and elements; different partial systems; and universal, regional, or even bilateral subsystems and subsubsystems of different levels of legal integration. All these parts interacting with one another create what may paradoxically be called an “unorganized system, full of intra-systematic tensions, contradictions and frictions. In theory, fragmentation could have either positive or negative effects on the rule of law in international relations: • On the one hand, fragmentation could have the positive effect of inducing States to comply more strictly with international law. States would more inclined to comply with norms of a regional nature that better reflect the particular political situation of the States in that region. On...
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...Jordan Quinzon Company Analysis and Research Assignment Due September 30th, 2014 There is a list of things that say “America” when you see them. Baseball comes to mind, Ford Motors is another one, and nothing says American better than a Dodger Dog fresh off the back rollers of the convenience stand. When I look back at America I think of strength, the willingness to fight no matter what, and above all being muscle toned, risky, loud and obnoxious badass on a bike. This isn’t exactly what Harley-Davidson wanted to portray, but it’s what made them into the company they are today. Harley-Davidson was started by no other than William S. Harley and Arthur and Walter Davidson, a few friends fascinated by motors and bikes in a rural part of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The first blueprint sketched by William S. Harley was in early 1901, but the first actual sale of a completed bike wasn’t till late 1906. With nothing more than a small machine shop, a handful of old motors, and a few bicycles the friends started on their road to fame and fortune. They wanted to manufacturer these modified bicycles to the public in hopes they would make money, the main driving force behind any entrepreneur back then and now. Beginning its journey through sales in World War I and II the Harley brand was thrust onto the scene of racing and leisure riding from veterans and active duty members to civilians and celebrities. Being one of the only manufacturers to survive not only the war, but also the Great Depression...
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