“Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League”, got published by Carl Schurz in 1899 and it appeared to be a political opinion piece. The purpose of publishing this article this may have been to influence people who supported the idea of imperialism. Schurz claimed that imperialism held a lack of compatibility with the values that the American government claimed they stood for. Hence, when the United States seized control of the Philippines by force, Schurz felt compelled to write this article. The Philippines had been under a self-government and the Unites States only took control of the Philippines as a response to their rift with Spain. Due to this it gave the impression that the United States and the other powers at the time, saw this…
The U.S. melting pot was the result of what Turner describes as “in the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race.” (Turner, paragraph 3) As a young nation in the late 19th century, the US hadn’t lost a war and therefore, felt that they were better than most other nations. In fact, as Albert Beveridge said in his “America’s Destiny” speech, “[God] has marked us as His chosen people” (Beveridge, Paragraph 1). Within his speech, he is harsh…
They had absolutely no rights and even protested when African Americans were granted rights before them. However, when the women suffrage movement occurred, women started heading up in the political scale. The nineteenth amendment granted women the right to vote. Soon after, women were expected to work and make some family income when men had to fight for their country. Thus, when prohibition occurred it is believed that the women were the ones who made the most impact during this movement.…
Introduction of Prohibition Prohibition was introduced to all American states apart from Maryland in 1920. Prohibition was the banning of alcohol; you could be arrested for sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol. There were many factors that influenced the introduction of prohibition, One of the main factors was the temperance movements two examples of this were the anti-saloon league and Women’s Christian temperance movement. The temperance movements…
a home. The exosystem is meant to hold the intangible policies and entities that affect the individual. The macrosystem is the community or world at large, as it is seen or experienced by the individual. Most of our students are focused within the microsystem and mesosystem for their more immediate concerns of safety and violation, because they are scared for those close to them and the spaces that they had once held to be safe spaces meant for people who identify as they do. While some of them…
movement, which had tons of supporters across the nation. The temperance movement of the 1920s failed because the demand for alcohol was not eliminated among many Americans, and the law was hard to enforce due to numerous illegal acts produced by it. The elimination of alcohol provides many opportunities for Americans to focus more on life than getting wasted at a bar. The Prohibition of alcohol will cut…
“A league of their own” is a film which follows the story of a women’s league baseball team. The film was set in 1943, a period when baseball was predominately a male sport. The sudden arise of a women only team was met with ridicule. This essay analyzes the social structure of the women’s baseball team with a focus on the concept of status inconsistency. We examine the negative view of the females as baseball players and how the females developed to overcome that problem. The film is set…
book, details the struggle of the Oakland Athletics, a major baseball team. The Oakland A’s overcome some seemingly impossible obstacles with the help of their general manager, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), by applying a new innovative statistical analysis, known as sabermetrics. Sabermetrics is the empirical analysis of baseball, or the use of statistical analysis to question the traditional measures of baseball (Birnbaum). The underlying theme of this movie is to outline basic economic principles,…
In the movie Moneyball (based on the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis), Billy Beane attempts to form a competitive baseball team for Oakland Athletics by assembling undervalued talent through a sophisticated approach of Sabermetrics. As demonstrated in the movie, a strong team can be built with empirical analysis of the game, answering objective questions and making data based decisions in athletic recruitment as against prejudice, wisdom and gut instincts. The…
afford any players so he started to look more in depth into unwanted players of other teams, and discovered a lot of good players. In the Million Dollar Arm the scout J. B. Berstien went all the way to India to search for players, taking an unusual route to look for great players by going to India to see if they can find any cricket players. The film Million Dollar Arm, directed by Craig Gillespie and the novel, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, written by Michael Lewis, exhibit…