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In the past, the United States has had a complex variety of foreign policy decisions. However, the future of American foreign policy will need to be flexible and adaptable to allow the United States to navigate the rising problems across the world. As compared to the isolationist views of early America, and the interventionist tendencies of the recent past, the future of US foreign policy must be able to bend and flex to the demands of a rapidly changing world. The future will be shaped by many…

American Foreign Policy Foreign policy, whether you realize it or not, is at the center of American culture, and effects everyone currently living in the United States. Foreign policy decisions shape the course of this country, and in turn, affect American lives in the process. Everyone has their own idea of how the United States should deal with international disputes, and these beliefs stem from a couple of different sentiments that evolved over the last 300 or so years. Joyce Kaufman, Walter…

literature and debate on foreign aid revolves around. At the most basic level of discussion regarding the use of foreign aid, the main dispute that occurs stems from a question regarding the effectiveness of foreign aid. One would assume that such a simple question would have an easy and straightforward answer, but when it comes to interactions in the international system, nothing is ever simple. By examining several key pieces of literature that cover the effectiveness of foreign aid from…

Trump Foreign Policy Introduction President Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech recognized that the United States must work with Islamic allies to defeat terrorist organizations, like ISIS who can’t be defeated by military force alone, however his execution of following through on many of his promises from the Trump campaign have yet to be determined. Trump additionally wants to maintain an open amity with countries like China and Russia, but with open eyes acknowledging the foreign…

As one of Donald Trump’s worthy advisors, there are many foreign policy issues to handle and dealing with them is a crucial part in becoming a safer, cleaner and more stable overall nation. Given the fact that our country is one of the most powerful in the world and also has many resources, the problems that we face today can in fact be dealt with when approached with knowledge, proportionality, and empathy/sympathy. To make America great again and change the downward spiral we have placed…

important. America's foreign policy determines how we do that. In this paper, I will be briefly discussing the foreign policies of President's Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson. President Roosevelt's foreign policy was called "the big stick policy". He believed in negotiating peacefully, but carry the threat of military muscle behind it. President Taft's foreign policy, called "Dollar Diplomacy" was based on his belief that U.S. investments in foreign countries would lead to better foreign relations…

They are all equally engaging and are successful in how they present their subjects. Born on the Fourth of July is a biography of a Vietnam veteran, which is also directed by a Vietnam veteran. Suffice to say, their work is accurate, as they themselves had first-hand experience. While watching the film, the audience joins the character…

Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

In Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It,” he writes about his poignant experience visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in a way that suggests he is perhaps regretful of his time as a soldier and remorseful as a survivor. Komunyakaa explains to the readers the inner workings of his brain and how permanent war is not only in his mind but in the reality of the death toll. In order to accomplish giving a detailed and understandable explanation to the audience, Komunyakaa uses techniques such as…

The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien, tells the story of a platoon in the Vietnam War. O’Brien uses many literary devices to help him portray the overall theme including repetition, details, and through emphasizing the reasons the soldiers are a part of the war. All of these combined portray the anti-war argument and illustrate the idea that when young men go into war, they carry many burdens, but the emotional burdens are the heaviest ones that they are never able to put this down.…