Bush Doctrine

“On the Pulse of Morning” Analysis On January 20th, 1993, America’s 42nd president, Bill Clinton, was inaugurated at the United States’ Capitol in Washington D.C. At this inauguration, Maya Angelou delivered her poem “On the Pulse of Morning.” She was the first African American, the first woman, and the second person to read poetry at a presidential inauguration. Her poem later won the 1994 Grammy for “Best Spoken Word.” Angelou was a writer, director, actress and civil rights activist through…

The Hurt Locker is a movie that follows an elite explosive ordinance disposal team (EOD) in Iraq. Sergeant James arrives as the new team leader of the EOD after Sergeant Thompson was killed on a mission by an IED. The other members of the team include Sergeant Sanborn and Specialist Eldridge. There are several traumatic events throughout their time in Iraq. To begin, Sergeant James becomes acquainted with an Iraqi child throughout the film. On one mission the team needed to search a building…

5.7 Foreign Policy under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon (SBY) was the sixth president of Indonesia after Megawati Sukarnoputri. SBY was the Indonesia military office, political and government official who was the first popularly elected president of Indonesia since 2004 till 2014. After Indonesia strengthen domestic politics and reaffirmed its role in international affairs in 2004, “Indonesia managed to hold direct presidential elections and general elections in 2004, created…

Remember History Repeats: Whitewashing of American history. If students of the United States learned what actually happened in our history, we would be one of two things: terrified or open minded and know about whitewashing. Whitewashing is defined as the cover up of crimes, vice, or scandals to perfunctory investigation. The students deserve to know what really happened years ago. How come we don’t get to learn about the $5 Indians? How come history books don’t really say how bad slaves…

1. In the second text, ”Arnold Schwarzenegger Recalls Lessons From 25 Years as a U.S. Citizen—Learn English, Participate in Politics, and Give Back”, written by himself, the American Dream is described in a very positive manner. Arnold’s view is very much based on the success of immigrants, but he also voices his opinion on the responsibility of the immigrants. He believes that immigrants must try to fit in by learning the Native language (which is English in America of course) and also try to…

Mujahideen “freedom fighters” during the Cold War against the Soviet Union, yet two decades later, when a new generation of Afghans are fighting against a regime installed by foreign Western powers, the United States administration under George W. Bush labelled them “terrorists”. Just last year, the Taliban…

Emails that could potentially contain information about the false claims weapons of mass destruction which were used as an excuse to go into Iraq and the firings of US attorneys for political reasons. The Bush White House also used a private server, in fact 95% of Bush 's chief staffers would emails were on a private email server set up by the RNC. This email loss also made it difficult for congress to investigate the allegedly political firings of 9 US attorneys. When the Senate Judiciary…

Many have concluded that the Electoral College should be taken away completely or just in some states. There have been cases where Electoral College has actually been bad for us, but there has also been equal amount of times were it worked in are favor. There have been a few cases where they try to abolish the Electoral College and even just remove it state wide. For example, in 2004 Colorado almost passed a bill that uses popular vote instead of the electoral votes. Another, case was in 2000…

Posting on Facebook, everyone expects only their friends to see what they have written. Surprise, they are not the only people seeing that post. That text that was sent to your boyfriend about how much you love him? He wasn’t the only one who saw it. The call from you to Goal Post Pizza? Someone else knows how much you love their meat lover’s pizza. Some people believe the National Surveillance Agency, or NSA, is invading their personal space. I believe the NSA is only doing this to keep…

Donald Trump, who is the candidate for the 2016 president election of the United States, is an active twitter user. He is well-known for his extreme political opinions such as building a wall between Mexico and the United States, banning foreign Muslims from entering the United States etc. Although his words are always very controversial or maybe even hated by some people, he gains a lot of support throughout his 15-month election campaign. Starting from the day he announced to be the nominee of…