Fareed Zakaria

CNN host, Fareed Zakaria, suggested that, “During the Cold War, we [Americans] were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war.” The Cold War refers to the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1991. The two sides never confronted each other within battle. Americans, however, still lived in constant fear of communism and a war with Russia. A technique I learned earlier within this class was that our…

Education is an ambiguous term that is frequently debated but rarely defined. To American lawmakers, education is simply a matter of funding and curriculum. Many school boards across the United States have decided that education is best administered through student compliance and frequent testing. However, these perspectives fail to address the most important aspect of education: the student. Because the hallmark of an educated person is their need to acquire knowledge, one must create an…

STEM offers a curriculum that incorporates four major subjects, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, into a learning program that applies to real world functions, In reality, when has the average student used geometry in their daily life or chemical equations to conclude if mixing two components will combust, after they have finished their education? Common core education does serve us in positive ways for educating our populus; the uses for core education gives us a standard…

Did you know that the United States currently imprisons more than 2.2 million people off their population? Making it the nation with the most increased imprisonment rate worldwide according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. This shocking statistic alone uncovers that the prison systems are overcrowded, understaffed and expensive to keep up with. This means many children and families have a loved one or someone they know behind bars. Which also leads to questioning when overcrowding began?…

no active weapons of mass destruction was found in Iraq (Drum); so Iraq was not attacking the US and also didn’t have firepower to present a future treat for the US which invalidates some of the previous reason to invade Iraq. Accordingly to Fareed Zakaria “more than 8,000 Iraqis were killed in violent attacks in 2013. That makes it the second most violent country in the world, after its neighbor Syria.” This fact shows that, even without Saddam Hussain, a lot of Iraqis are still dying because…

“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.” --- William Howard Taft William Howard Taft exploited the idea that that “laying down rules of conduct” is a strong desire within everyman in which the government has the power to do. Throughout the time period of 1897 to 1945 governmental was largely expansive; Meaning the government used their power to lay down rule to benefit the actions of others. Even though the focus of the…

information that is given in the text and the writer (Excelsior College “Modes of Persuasion"). Ethos is attained by using reliable sources for the text. The author of this essay Kristof had read a the book “In Defense of a Liberal Education” by Fareed Zakaria. Moreover, Zakaria’s book defends the liberal arts by explaining how liberal arts degrees create critical thoughts, by teaching writing and how to find your own opinion which is valuable in every job. Therefore, humanities make people and…

To remain focused on potential threats globally, we must first realize the danger or significance of them to the United States. Bret Stephens, in America in Retreat, quotes a reader of one of his articles stating, “please repeat after me: ‘we should not be the world’s policeman’,” and continued by asking to Stephens to repeat this statement over and over, “repeat again” (xi). Her sentiment is easily detectable in her passion, a sentiment shared by most Americans, even our leaders. President…

Do you own a gun? Or are you in favor of the no gun policy that is being debated in The United States? Gun laws are currently being evaluated and debated due to the large numbers of massacres and murders by guns in the US. All in all, most people can agree that America has too many crime cases relating to guns. Something needs to be done, the question that has everyone stumped, to add gun laws or to take away gun laws? Our Founding Fathers would not have hoped to see America like it is…

Political Theory Term Paper “Islamophobia in Movies” Submitted to: Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Department of International Relations By: Aditya Prakash Arya (M.A International Relations) South Asian University Introduction Phobia, as Oxford dictionary defines it, is an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Being phobic just adds to negativity towards a particular thing or a group. It is just the ignorance that leads a person to remain phobic and…