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The majority of Trump’s speech consists of him talking down on Hillary Clinton and her campaign. He makes claims about how Hillary will only help those who donate to her campaign and he brings up the email scandals she was involved in, claiming that she is a dishonest person and cannot be trusted to run a country. Along with every claim he makes against Hillary Clinton, he has some claim to make about himself about how he will fix things or make them better than she ever would. Throughout…

In his piece, The Plot against American Foreign Policy: Can the Liberal Order Survive?, John Ikenberry paints a bleak picture of what’s to come from the Trump presidency. Ikenberry warns readers that the new revisionist leader is going to end the liberal international order as we know it. Trump’s transactional view of foreign policy is unique from past approaches, but America, consequently, displays a far more hostile image. William Galston is baffled by what he sees, the Leader of the Free…

Americans have been questioning whether government surveillance has passed the limits of the right of privacy. The controversy is set whether the violation of the right of privacy is in exchange for security. In other words, is the government really providing security or control the citizens? Is it really to benefit the people or the government? With that questions, more questions are made like: Is the government correct on doing what is being done? The discussion here is; Has the government…

In his memoirs Ishmael Beah recounts his experiences of fighting a war as a boy soldier. Ishmael and his friends went on the run after their village was attacked by rebels. Not long after they were on the run from town to town, and eventually being caught and recruited by the army. The army was against what the rebels were doing, and how they were attacking the different villages and burning them to the ground. During the war ,Ishmael during the war is selected along with a group of his friends…

In Richard A. Clarke’s book, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, Clarke explains America’s long war on terrorism. This book contains Clarke’s self-written narrative of his experience in counterterrorism and national security. On September 11th, 2001, Richard A. Clarke, chair of the Counterterrorism Security Group, the CSG for short, guided the United States’ instantaneous response to the terrorist attacks from the infamous Situation Room located in the West Wing of the White…

Within the reading of Predicting the Next President, the author showcases “13 Keys to the White House” that have been successful in assisting the author in predicting numerous outcomes of presidential elections. The rule of the keys is simple. If there are five or less keys labeled as false, then incumbent party wins. As these keys can have differing outcomes through differing opinions, it will be interesting to see if mine and my classmates’ predictions correlate with the author’s. The first…

In the article, “Peace process or war process? Israel and its enemies” by Daniel Pipes talk about how the peace process should be termed the war process. The main attempt in peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict was in 1993, where the prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, shook hands in the white house with a Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat. They shook hands on the Oslo accords and this handshake was considered as a resemblance of peace. The Oslo Accords are a set of agreements between the…

In the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Samuel L. Jackson gives this quote in one of the scenes “Never Trust Anyone”. From what this quote is trying to tell us that people can’t be trusted with important responsibilities. When the quote applies to me, it’s more than not being able to trust my own instincts in certain decisions than trusting others. The decisions I make are seen as my regrets, I do make good decisions but when I need to make a decision fast I regret it. The peak of all…

Atul Gawande’s Look on the Normalcy of Terrorism in The United States in His Article “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready” Atul Gawande, a literary writer and doctor in Boston, portrays the devastation of the bombings at the Boston Marathon and the heroic acts performed by emergency medical teams, nurses, and doctors alike. However, there is one primary element that Gawande focuses on throughout the article: terrorism is becoming a normalcy in The United States. To explain further, since 9/11…

I chose an article called "The American Way of Refuge", written by Kori N. Schake and it was published in January of 2016 by the Hoover Institution. Mrs. Schake establishes that America should accept more Syrian refugees for various reasons by using strong examples to appeal to her audience. Schake has written this particular article to appeal to all American voters in an effort to gain more support and agreement with her claim. Also, in the article, she suggests that Americans are acting as…