Common Core will have significant negative and positive impacts on my Social Studies teaching. These impacts can best be seen through a general analysis of Common Core and application of Common Core to a specific Social Studies lesson plan. The goal Continue Reading...
Wiki Leaks The whistle-blowing WikiLeaks is an online organization situated in Sweden; this organization distributed records termed "the diplomatic cables" from U.S. foreign negotiators on November 28, 2010. Upon their distribution, lawmakers from a Continue Reading...
Assassination of JFK Why is your chosen turning point actually a turning point and not just another event? One of the most commonly analyzed and a questionable event in the history of the U.S., the assassination of JFK was a real turning point. The Continue Reading...
Vietnam and the Two-Sided American Dream The Vietnam era began under a cloud. Kennedy had inherited a government neck-deep in covert operations and rather than check the rate at which the U.S. exercised military might in foreign countries, he accele Continue Reading...
Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or JFK, served the President of the United States for less than a single full term in the early 1960s after serving in Congress for several terms before this. He was elected in 1960 and Continue Reading...
There were arguments that the U.S. had vital interests in maintaining control over the canal due to the need to move warships and submarines through the locks during world crises. Others cited the Soviet nuclear threat and wondered if giving the can Continue Reading...
Cold War began very shortly after the end of World War II when the Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall -- and made other moves in its campaign to spread communism -- and the United States and its allies worked to protect democratic states and to foste Continue Reading...
The lack of public support is one of the key factors that resulted to the failure of the U.S. There were false claims that the American government acted against people's aspirations and that the American youth protested against the war. Early initia Continue Reading...
Marched Into Sunlight They Marched Into Sunlight The Vietnam War was not only fought in Southeast Asia but also caused a great deal of social unrest in the United States itself. David Maraniss, in his book They Marched Into Sunlight tells the stor Continue Reading...
Political Scandals in Canada A Political Scandal Involving Fraud During the federal election in Canada in 2011 there was an electoral fraud issue that became known as the "Robocalls Scandal." This fraudulent activity took place in Ontario, in a tow Continue Reading...
Cold War During the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union dominated the European political landscape. They also engaged each other ideologically in Korea (Weber, n.d.). World War II was an enormous theatre. During the war time Presid Continue Reading...
Clinton's Lewinsky Speech Presidential scandal speeches should be considered a unique form of discoursed that follow a common pattern and have similar elements. All of these may not be found in every single speech but most certainly will, including Continue Reading...
Modern-Day Corruption and Graft The Watergate incident that occurred in President Nixon's Administration is exemplary of modern day corruption. Here, the government under Nixon's presidency was recognized to have sanctioned a sequence of confidenti Continue Reading...
The Democrats took over Congress in the 2006 mid-term elections, and while the party wished to have the administration adopt a policy to either "get out now" of Iraq, or "stabilize, then withdraw." Those suggestions were met with patriotic, even na Continue Reading...
The phrase that was popular in 1965, when Johnson got his legislation passed, was "Cultural deprivation"; that phrase, and the culture of poverty became what Stein calls "central constructs" around a policy that hopefully would help children that we Continue Reading...
American Civil Rights Movement, which garnered large support and public attention in 1960 and continued for the next decade is largely considered one of the most powerful and driving force behind significant changes that took place on both a social a Continue Reading...
Student Unrest and the Vietnam War It is certainly a fact that the widespread and sometimes violent student unrest in the 1960s was largely based on young people's objections to the war in Vietnam. But it should be noted that the youthful rage again Continue Reading...
As Vickers (1989) notes, "…the size and intensity of U.S. intervention was met by escalation in the size and intensity of opposition to the war here at home'. (Vickers, 1989, p. 100) Vickers and many other critics state categorically that the Continue Reading...
Much like African-American leaders and reformers that brought about the end of racial discrimination and segregation via the Civil Rights Movement, in 1866, Stanton created the American Equal Rights Association, aimed at organizing women in the lon Continue Reading...
DUAL FEDERALISM PHASE The Dual Federalism is the reflection of the ideology that stressed over the balance of powers between the national and state governments, and considers both the governments as 'equal partners with separate and distinct spher Continue Reading...
Rothwell also mentions the Willie Horton advertisement run against Michael Dukakis in 1988 and the increase in soft money for advertisements in 1996 as instances in which television played a role in the outcome of the presidential election. The au Continue Reading...
When then Governor George Wallace ordered state troopers to disband the marchers, using tear gas, clubs and whips, President Lyndon Johnson federalized the National Guard and the march continued (Modern 157). The national media coverage of these eve Continue Reading...
Cesar Chavez and Lilly Ledbetter versus The Triumph of the RightAs noted in The American Yawps The Triumph of the Right, for decades America had been torn between two polarizing forces. On one hand, there was an increasing drive to offer Americans co Continue Reading...
WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENTWeek 4 Assignment: The Exclusion of Health Insurance from the Social Security ActFrom the onset, it would be prudent to note that the Social Security Act was signed into law on the 14th of August in 1935 (Dobelstein, 2009). Then said Continue Reading...
The purpose of the Voting Rights Act President Lyndon Johnson appended her signature to the Voting Rights Act on the 6th of August, 1965, with the aim of doing away with racial prejudice in voting. (Mickey et.al 2017) Prior to the signing of the VRA Continue Reading...
Popular Film Cultures Have Propelled Civil and Social Rights Culture is referred as shared interaction, patterns, cognitive constructs, behaviors as well as effective understanding learned through socialization and transferred from one generation to Continue Reading...
President and Political Parties (Barack Obama) Ironically, the New Deal reforms started with the intention of liberating the executive from the chains of partisan politics that only served the opposite purpose by weakening an already poor relations Continue Reading...
Educational Diagnosis The ethical dilemma of diagnosing a learner with a disability when there are other alternatives for support Resnik (2011) defines ethics as "norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior." As Continue Reading...
Watts riots in South-Central Los Angeles (that took place from August 11-17 in 1965) cost approximately $40 million in property damage and caused 34 deaths and over 1,000 injuries. This paper puts that horrendous event in perspective, from causes tha Continue Reading...
President Nixon and his philosophy of sending weapons to countries fighting off communism without sending them troops. Vietnam War The second Indo-China War in 1954-1975, was the outcome of the long-standing conflict between Vietnam and France. Un Continue Reading...
Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator Credited with ending the Cold War and defeating Communism, Ronald Reagan leveraged an early career as a sports announcer and a lead actor in "B" movies such as "Bedtime for Bonzo" to become the leader of the fre Continue Reading...
United States War Analysis 1877-To Date Many wars have been fought in the world since 1877 to date and the U.S. has not been spared from these wars. The main wars have been the World War One and World War Two. However, America has also been involved Continue Reading...
Presidential Leadership Significant relationship has been shown to exist between the success of a president and failure both coming from the nature of the strategies used in the making of critical policies. According to Thomas Patterson, several fa Continue Reading...
Teacher Wars: Questions On page 32 at the end of chapter 1, Goldstein (2014) notes that both Beecher and Mann viewed morality as "the end of public education." Goldstein suggests that this view evolved into one that would later prioritize academic l Continue Reading...
American Morality The Rooseveltian Nation was initially envisioned by Theodore Roosevelt during the epoch in which the U.S. triumphed in the Spanish American war and heralded its largely Anglo-Saxon nation of limited diversity as the most dominant r Continue Reading...
Veteran Affirmative Action Affirmative action The concept of affirmative action has been in the limelight for many decades and most significantly in the 1965 onwards during the tenure of President Lyndon Johnson. He once gave a speech that was conc Continue Reading...
