George W. Jenkins

Life, Liberty and the Dispute of Happiness "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (Lazarus, lines 10-14) This excerpt is from Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” which is on a bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty represents the welcoming of tens of thousands of immigrants from around…

In the Republican primaries and caucuses as of March 10th, the number of running candidates have been narrowed down to four, Donald Trump being in the lead with a total of 458 delegates and Ted Cruz behind with 359 delegates. And the last two Marco Rubio and John Kasich with 151 and 54 delegates respectively (Andrew, Bennett, and Parlapiano). So far it is likely that last two competitors for the presidential nominee of the Republican Party will end up being Trump or Cruz, though no…

Do you ever get up in the morning for work and say this is going be a decent day? Will you get a promotion or a pay increase on your job? Well consider going to work and seeing planes collide with your employment. This day was known as 9/11 when George W. Bush reported a War on Terror. The war on terror has been going on as far back as Sept. 11, 2001. This war is murdering people. The answers for ending the war on terror is to make a Peace Treaty, to forgive and never look back, and to bring…

The responsibilities that the enlightened have to society is to overcome the wave of stubbornness that they will receive from all those people that they would have to convince. They have to keep on trying to really alter their ways of thinking and maybe show some examples that what they’re saying is true. There are many examples of acts like this in history and today of people trying to share some new ideas or “enlighten” them. One example of this act is Donald Trump running for President today…

President Carter had consistently argued that the Islamic students likely took hostage all the missing diplomats for negotiation purposes. For this reason, reports about the rescue of the six by the Canadian government would ignite a media explosion with the news that the Carter administration was either inept or was lying to the public. Apparently, the public, as well as the media, were caught by surprise when they were rescued. According to Nacos, the reporter’s descriptions, background…

Donald Trump has recently been making large waves in the political community. He began with his announcement to run for president, from there he overtook and swept the rest of the Republican candidates away—becoming the Republican nominee. Many people credit his success to his means of communication. In the debates and events leading up the Republican Convention, Trump seemed to exhibit the communication competence that all sixteen other candidates lacked. He used the same channels and methods…

Congress is the bicameral legislative branch of the federal government that represents the passions of the electorate and composes the nation’s laws. Article I of the United States Constitution describes congressional powers with the most significant being the power to declare war and the power to investigate. Upon President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration in January, the Trump administration has displayed a few neoconservative traits that have resulted in some controversy amongst Congressional…

The United States Invasion of Iraq In 2003 Iraq has been the focus of the international community and has been featured prominently in the media in recent times. America’s interest grew after WWII because of oil. The United States was Iraq’s biggest guest, through the oil-for-food program. Before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraq’s domestic oil was fully nationalized and closed to oil companies. Later that year, it was privatized and dominated by foreign firms. Oil was not the only…

In the wake of the September eleven terrorist attacks, congress quickly threw out our fourth amendment rights by passing the USA PATRIOT Act. In order to combat the rise of terrorism and to keep up with the advancement of technology, the National Security Agency was expanded to be able to spy on most forms of electronic communication, including phone calls, text messages, and emails, domestically by the 2001 Patriot Act. Despite what the name implies, the Patriot Act is a blatant violation of…

This term ‘Rogue States’ are primarily associated with the Clinton administration. Rogue States (or ‘backlash’ states) are those “recalcitrant and outlaw states that not only choose to remain outside the family of nations but also assault it’s basic values” (Lake 1994:45). However, R Looney (2009:264) goes on to state that “despite the absence of any evidence, he [Lake] contended that the rogue states were developing ties among themselves allegedly to curb the “global trend to which they seem…