Henry Kissinger

In Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger asserted that it is, “above all to the drumbeat of Wilsonian idealism that American foreign policy has marched since his watershed presidency, and continues to march to this day.” Accordingly, Kissinger recognized that in Wilson’s approach America was, “inseparable from the security of all the rest of mankind,” and that the country inherently maintained the responsibility to, “oppose aggression everywhere.” Altruistic in nature, and guided by the recognition that,…

Scholars like Hans Morgenthau, Henry Kissinger and Kenneth Waltz who are mostly associated with realism consider anarchy as the primary characteristic of the international system meaning that there is no central authority to settle disputes among competing member states. States therefore compete with each other due to the lack of a central authority. Realists view the world in terms of competition and conflict whereby there is a recurring struggle for power and its management. Kenneth Waltz…

Henry Ford is an example of how economic and social policies of successive Republic Governments contributed to a world of inequality. Henry Ford Henry Ford the genius behind the successful assembly line mass production of products; in his case; the motor car. Born in Dearborn Michigan in 1893 into a farming family. Henry was educated at the local school. At the age of sixteen he became a machinist apprentice. Henry was raised as an Episcopalian. He had very strong views, he believed in…

“Ever’body’s askin’ that. What we comin’ to? Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way. Always goin’ and goin’,” Casy stated in chapter 13 of the Grapes of Wrath. The end of the novel is strange, and incredibly open-ended. It is never revealed what happens to the Joads or who finally makes it in the end. It isn’t even known if the starving man actually survives. The final act and image in the novel is also a bit out there, with Rose of Sharon suckling this grown man to keep…

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a heart wrenching and eye opening novel. Steinbeck gives a clear and precise picture with the words he employs. One recurring perspective, abundantly obvious, is prejudism. Anger, fear and misunderstanding flow between the Californians and the Oklahoma immigrants, all of which cause a double-sided prejudice. As the Oklahomans come in droves from their devastated lands and attempt to build a new life for themselves, the Californians angrily look at them…

Journalist Linda Ellerbee, once stated, "People are pretty much alike. It 's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities." People do not realize how similar they are until they determine what they have in common. We can see that people accept our differences because our differences make us who we are. Linda Ellerbee 's statement reminded me of the main characters in the stories "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "Rip Van Winkle". Tom and Rip are two…

Cars of the 1920s started the age of the automobile which over time became faster, stronger, more fuel efficient and more reliable. Henry Ford plays a major role in the automotive industry in this time period. His model-T was and still is a very popular car. The cars of this time period could not reach very high speeds and the safety of these cars were dangerous. Cars were a new thing during the 1920s and have forever changed transportation and life of the average american. These cars changed…

soldiers ' hospital.” After this failed attempt, Booth relentlessly continues thinking about the assassination and ends up coming up with his new plot, which gets carried out. Twenty-eight days later, accompanied by his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Clara Harris, who was Rathbone’s fiancee.4 The four of them were watching a performance of “Our American Cousin”. During the play, Booth emerged from the curtain behind the presidential box, and Booth shot at Lincoln. The…

views on slavery that Henry Clay did. Clay was opposed to slavery but he owned slaves (15). If both Lincoln had the same views on slavery then Lincoln did not want to end slavery, he just wanted it to be controlled. Abe Lincoln had an interesting view on colonization for a guy that “ended slavery” “According to Roy Basler, the editor of Lincoln’s collected works, as of 1857 Lincoln had no solution to the problem of slavery “except the colonization idea which he inherited from Henry Clay” (16).…

and Mrs. Henry Jennings and their older children. I ought to explain that in 1905 and 1906 my parents summered with me and my sister Elisabeth (5 years older than I) at Woodington on Lake Rosseau. My father, an ardent fisherman, hearing of charms of Blackstone wrote…