Jimmy Carter

October of 1973: Energy crisis begins. This specific energy crisis was actually an oil crisis when members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries declared an oil embargo. The embargo was directed towards nations who were believed to support Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The importance of the oil embargo was that after it happened oil price remained high. Also, environmentalism gained huge attention during the time of the oil embargo. The oil embargo was eventually…

How would you feel if your vote in deciding the next president of our country didn’t matter? Well, this is true for many people due to our broken Electoral College system of voting. I strongly feel that we should get rid of it for many reasons. My first reason is that it doesn’t give equal representation to certain states. My second reason is that it doesn’t match up with the popular votes that were taken by the people. This two reasons alone are more than enough to show this system needs to be…

Using the canal as a chemical waste dump Hooker Chemical Company sold to 99th street school for $1 Abnormally high birth defects, miscarriages and, illnesses 239 families were relocated In 1978, people in the neighborhood Love Canal of Niagara Falls, New York were discovering all sorts of different illnesses and noticed that there was an abnormally high percentage of birth defects and miscarriages. Later on they figured out it was because of former owners of the contaminated 15 acres,…

I remember back when I was a child more than 30 something years ago, my mother talking about John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how good of a President he was and how people around the world loved him. You would think that my mother was an American but no! Back then when she was stating these words she lived in her native country; Panama Republic of Panama. I learned in an early age to see the US as something heavenly and magical. John F. Kennedy helped Panama a lot with humanitarian relief back in the…

Rubin Carter, Lezra Martin, Lisa Peters, Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton and Lt. Jimmy Williams was necessary to create the image of goodness, as we associate attractive people with being good and kind hearted. Athletically appealing actors have been cast in all these roles in order for us to automatically assume them to be good. However, Det. Sgt. Della Pesca and the Prison Warden (the major villains) are cast as old, overweight, balding men to assure us of their wickedness. By casting Rubin Carter…

The beginning of the end of the Cold war stated in Jimmy Carter’s presidency, and finally ended in Bill Clinton’s presidency. Throughout the time period, each president had a different approach to ending the Cold War. In the end, it was the little contribution made by each of the presidents in this era that lead to the end of the Cold War. In 1977, Jimmy Carter was elected President of the United States. This was a couple years after the U.S. finally ended its 12 year war with Vietnam. After…

Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. He served two terms for a total of 8 years. In those years he overcame many things. He passed many surprising and impressive bills and laws. He ended the Cold War and confronted the War on Illegal Drugs head on. But, during his first 4 years in office, he was almost assassinated by a delusional man by the name of, John Hinckley. The Jodie Foster fanatic planned the attack for many months, and during those months his thoughts became…

stated in a study of Israeli terrorist attacks in 2002. U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, wished to help with Middle Eastern peace but everything he tried did not help. To help with the Middle East crisis, he started by learning about the background of the conflicts in the Middle East. Once he knew a significant amount about the Israeli Palestinian Conflict, he decided to hold a summit in Camp David, Maryland…

Besides the Iran and Hostage Crisis, Carter did not have any other corrupt policies. However, he was not that great because his policies didn’t help create big differences in the Cold War. In addition, under his leadership, the nation faced economic problems. One of the foreign policies was the Panama Canal and the Torrijos Carter Treaties. Because Colombia refused to allow the United States to build a canal, the United States decided to help Panama gain independence from Colombia in exchange…

by a commission appointed by President Jimmy Carter. The USIP has published many books on the prevention and resolution of violent conflict, such as, Origins of the Cold War and Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War. The institute also has a blog, has had several news features, and a well accomplished board of directors. Among the board is Judy Ansley, who has served in various positions in the U.S. Senate for twenty years, and Ashton B. Carter, who works with the Department of…