Communism And The Domino Movement

The Domino Theory is a piece of history that shares quite a few characteristics with the Food Movement. However, the subject of the two are totally unrelated, but the morality of the both topics can be considered identical. The Domino Theory was established around the 1950s, due to some concern that countries surrounding Europe were influencing other nations to adopt communism as their form of government; the United States stepped in to ensure that it did not happen to countries like South Vietnam and its neighboring areas. The idea behind it all was that if one country would succumb to communism then out of allegiance and trade so would its bordering partners. One thing would fall, because of that fall so would another, then so and so forth just like a row of dominoes. Much like the Domino Theory in …show more content…
Either the father gambled their money away at a casino or he drank the rent. The mother would then pick up an additional two jobs to make the money, now at a total of three with small wages. She’d only come home just after one o’clock in the morning to kiss her daughter’s cheek as she slept and to shower. Her father would only pop up with a drunken smile and whiskey-scented breath when he ran out of liquor money and skanks to roach off of. So, there to support that girl was the box macaroni and cheese her mother grabbed at their local Pak N’ Save, a day old carton of milk that was marked down by fifty percent, a box of pop tarts, and her favorite love story. The young girl sat there every night on that small sofa eating her mac n’ cheese while she watched Dirty Dancing. The fifteen-year-old became entrapped in the hormonal crave for that kind of love, naive and titillating. Never did she have the chance to sit and eat with her mother. She simply grabbed a pop tart and walked out of the door. The daughter woke up alone and went to sleep alone, all that was there were the food and