everything”. In the video, a short clip is shown involving two well known world leaders, George Bush and Vladimir Putin. The video explains, the stride of a person can say a lot about them. Putin’s stride depicts he’s strong, both literally and figuratively. As he walks, keeping his head high, and his shoulders moving back and forth carrying his swagger, making him more appealing. Former American President, George Bush is the opposite, with almost no movement above his shoulders, giving off…
with the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ross Perot. The 2 questions we have to ask is how a sitting president with an 80% approval rating in 1990 lost the election 2 years later and what caused the right to left political shift. Republican’s seemed slightly lost after the Persian Gulf War and were leaning to a more conservation right. With no major foreign affairs to focus on all eyes were on the economy. George bush then uttered those 6 famous words “read my lips, no…
Defense of Our Nation’s Capital Throughout our nation’s history, and even before, America’s militia has answered the call to guard and defend America’s citizens and way of life. Following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, President George W. Bush authorized the activation of the Reserves of each military branch as well as the Army and Air National Guard. Initially, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld designated more than 35,000 reserve component men and women the task of protecting…
Before the terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States was at war with Iraq and had a presence in Saudi Arabia which lead to conflict to terrorist groups and terrorists attacks within the US, but no action was taken that would change American politics, society, or foreign policy. After the attacks, everything changed. The US became much strict in its search for and elimination of terrorism, both within the country and around the world. The events also brought the country together…
After the devastating events that occurred on September 11, 2001, the numbers 9 and 11 are no longer just two ordinary numbers. These numbers are a constant reminder to the American people that such a catastrophe is possible and no one can predict what the future holds. These numbers now serve as more than just an emergency telephone number. These numbers mean something personal to all Americans who witnessed this historic event not long ago. The 2,977 deaths on that day in the World Trade…
How To Be “The Donald” Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hold the highest office in our land? The prestige, the honor, and the respect that comes with the job is what 43 men have had the chance to experience. And, this year, it was explicit that our nation would have the first women president to take the oath of the presidency. But, there is one orange, beautifully haired man, who refuses to let this transpire and is leading the charge to the democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton…
unnecessary as both of them were either unneeded and harm each of the sides equally. The War of 1812 was brought about the republican government that used the war as an exercise of legislative and executive power not unlike the modern Republicans under Bush did during the Iraq War were we as a country unilaterally invade a…
Humanity Barred “I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling or the absence of it.” - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin. The Human Rights Act is a document that was drafted in a time of global crisis. Article 5 is defined as a ban on torture or cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. While this document was created to combat torturous acts, unfortunately they have been repeated through history, ranging on a small scale to a global crisis. Society will continue to repeat acts…
group of scientists created a line of stem cells out of human embryos that could be used for genetic engineering research in November 1998. When George W. Bush became president he received immense pressure to ban the funding and research for stem cell research, and it led him to ban the proposed funding for the research. To support his actions Bush argued that the stem cells found by the scientists were contaminated with blood products from rodents, and he said that they would provide unreliable…
Authority was the administrator of this act. On September 7th, 2004, the Pentagon released information on the number of military deaths experienced in Iraq. 1,000 was the number, primarily due to anti-coalition forces in central Iraq. On the 16th, Bush was informed that their might be a civil war in Iraq, due to insurgent forces still have a strong hold on many areas of Iraq and being very strong in numbers. Iraq’s election was held on January 30th, 2005, the first free one in 50 years. Even…