1000 Search Results for American History War and Peace
Great nations of Europe have fought their bloodiest wars." However, he implies that it is uncertain whether this new epoch is benevolent or malicious, asking Americans "Are we nearing the light -- a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or ar Continue Reading...
Hate Speech
Constitutionality of hate-speech laws and legislation
College campus hate-speech codes,
Fighting words; hate symbols
State interest in regulating hate-speech,
Arguments for and against such laws and codes,
First Amendment protection Continue Reading...
President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister
Describe the international political environment of the 1980s -- the "stage" on which these individuals were to play a critical role.
In the 1980s, the United States and Russia were still in the middle o Continue Reading...
Domestic Uniformity in the U.S. Between 1815-1830
In the glorious aftermath of a triumphant revolution newly independent Americans were intent on freeing themselves fully from the control of European interests. To attain this liberation, the first A Continue Reading...
Atzerodt also made a statement claiming knowledge of a Confederate plot to bomb the White House. The Union's failed raid on Richmond was also approved by Lincoln, and it was later believed that he ordered the death of Jeff Davis in a strategy to end Continue Reading...
Clinton has been unabashed in admitting his mistakes, such as his failure to intervene to stop the genocide in Rwanda. He vows to continue to bring international attention to what he considers problem areas of the world by using his international cl Continue Reading...
Smith and Kidron, the end of the Cold War ironically initiated a series of belligerent conflicts across the globe. The international news media reported shocking brutality that ravaged Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chechnya, and especially in Rwanda, where ne Continue Reading...
Walter Reuther's German immigrant father was a socialist, pacifist and labor leader who did not wish his sons to fight in the Prussian Army, which is why he came to the United States in 1892. He brought up his sons in the socialist-labor tradition, a Continue Reading...
U.S. President James Buchanan
James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States (James Buchanan, n.d.), was born on April 23, 1791 in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania (BUCHANAN, James, (1791-1868), n.d.). He moved when he was five to Mercersburg, Penns Continue Reading...
From what I can tell Guantanamo Bay served no real purpose it its entire existence. It was a defensive move made by the Government after September 11th because they felt as though they had to do something, even though they truly did not know what t Continue Reading...
In December of 1867, "the House defeated an impeachment resolution" (Carlton, 423), but when Johnson dismissed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, this was seen as "a deliberate breach of the Tenure of Office Act" which brought new charges against him. Continue Reading...
Andrew Jackson's Presidency: A View to Defining the Good and Bad
Andrew Jackson is lauded by many as one of the greatest generals and presidents in United States history, and is vilified as one of the most damaging of all time. The fact is that he h Continue Reading...
Free Speech vs. Security
Freedom of Speech and Homeland Security
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, 1775
Freedom of speech is one of the essential corn Continue Reading...
Rhetorical Situation Analysis: 1963 West Berlin SpeechIntroductionKennedy delivered the position of the democratic West in the 1963 Berlin Speech that challenged the world to stand with the US against the USSR in what had become the Cold War. The spe Continue Reading...
Kennedys 1963 Europe TripKennedy felt the need to strengthen the Atlantic alliance in 1963 for a number of reasons. He was suspicious of Gen. De Gaulles motives in backing away from the alliance in so far as France appeared to be withdrawing from NAT Continue Reading...
military, as exemplified in the two (2) real-Life international incidents that you have researched. Justify your response.
America is not merely a superpower -- the nation is also commonly known as the 'Policeman of the World', owing to its many int Continue Reading...
George Washington
Washington
As the Revolutionary War began to wear on and the effects were seen in the soldiers -- militiamen who had received little to no formal training in combat -- George Washington saw that something was needed to shore up th Continue Reading...
Grant and Wilson
I propose that doing a comparison of Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Woodrow Wilson would allow for a comprehensive understanding of how the leadership styles of these two men shaped the United States of America during their respect Continue Reading...
United States Survive with Half Slave-States and Half Free?
The history of slavery in the United States was a long one and subject to many twists and turns. Ultimately, the issue that was so controversial in the formation of the United States gover Continue Reading...
8% of U.S. households were headed by an immigrant and received 6.7% of all cash benefits; by 1990, 8.4% of households were headed by an immigrant and received 13.1% of all cash benefits (Borjas, 1995, pp. 44-46).
Immigrants in different categories ( Continue Reading...
Leader Analysis: Abraham LincolnBackgroundAbraham Lincoln came from humble origins: he was not born into a wealthy aristocratic family like so many of this nations presidents. Rather, he was born on a Kentucky farm in 1809, and was largely self-educa Continue Reading...
President Andrew Jackson built his political and military career on an aggressive approach to Native Americans. His exploits began well before 1838-9, when his Indian Removal Act signaled the deplorable state of affairs in North America. Around 4000 Continue Reading...
GI Bill do?
It provided health care to wounded veterans of World War II.
It allowed American veterans of World War II to go to college free and to obtain low-interest mortgages.
It gave American veterans a pension so that they would not have to w Continue Reading...
postwar relationship United States Japan.
Unfortunately, the postwar relationship between the United States and Japan has mirrored the relationship of the United States with the vast majority of countries that it has dealt with in the ensuing decad Continue Reading...
Leadership
In his Pulitzer Prize winning biography, His Excellency George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis presents a balanced and comprehensive portrait on the nation's first president that steers a course between hero-worship and debunking. He based hi Continue Reading...
The potentially socialist tone of these articles can explain a delay up through the Cold War, but it does not excuse delaying ratification into the twenty-first century. Upon further review, the socialist motive for delaying ratification does not st Continue Reading...
The struggle continued until 1980. The historian continues, "In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling in United States v. Sioux Nation. The Sioux were therefore owed $17.5 million for the land value at the time of the taking, plus interes Continue Reading...
It also illustrates how many of the same human rights that the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted and applied are protected by others in a similar way." (Youm, 2007)
It is noted that Louis Henkin stated of the U.S. constitutional system and interna Continue Reading...
Therefore he establishes a strong personal ethos which he sustains throughout the remainder of the speech, (Rowland, p. 237). Reagan knew that many in the audience which he was speaking to had actually been through the very even he spoke about. Ther Continue Reading...
George Bush & Charles Taylor
General Analysis; current affairs; George Bush & Charles Taylor"
The Objective of this paper is wholly to illustrate and depict what President Charles Taylor done to have been ordered by President George Bush to Continue Reading...
Successes of President Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was America's 40th president. He is among America's most influential presidents. He was able to make several positive contributions to the development of the American Republic. America grew to be a Continue Reading...
Successes and Failures of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society Plan
Successes of President Johnson's Great Society Concept
President Lyndon B. Johnson's political beginnings coincided with FDR's New Deal in the 1930s, and in many respects, i Continue Reading...
Role did Slavery play in starting the Civil War?
For many years leading up to the start of the Civil War there was increasing tension between the United States federal government and Southern states over a state's right to govern themselves. Althou Continue Reading...
The long debate that had occurred over taxes explained the fundamental constitutional questions that were at stake and raised many political issues. The solution would have required Parliament to abandon its claims to sovereign power in America and Continue Reading...
He continues, not by discussing the seriousness of the war or likelihood of the terrorists attacking again, but instead by praising the United States, advocating its positive aspects. This style of appealing to his audience is evident, once again, i Continue Reading...
S. citizens.
Despite all of the destruction and chaos that had crippled the South as a result of the war and his surrender to Grant, Lee was considered "the symbol of everything for which (the Confederate soldiers) had been willing to die." Thus, "i Continue Reading...
Roosevelt became a boxer, he lifted weights and climbed mountains (he ascended the Matterhorn at the age of 22). His famous charge up Kettle Hill (Battle of San Juan Heights, Rough Riders) during the Spanish-American War set him apart as an athletic Continue Reading...
Major Social MovementThe Hippie Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a countercultural movement that opposed the traditional norms and values of American society. It professed views of free love, peace, and non-violence. It began mainly as a youth mov Continue Reading...
Containment Policy of the United States
Containment was the United States' major attempt to stop the spread of communism. It involved several strategies as it tried to curtail the efforts of the Soviet Union to enlarge its communism influence to Ea Continue Reading...
Richard Nixon Achievements as a U.S. President
Richard M. Nixon was the thirty-seventh American President whose administration started functioning in January1969 and concluded in August 1974 in an abrupt manner following the Watergate scandal. Despi Continue Reading...