Mikhail Baryshnikov

Assignment #3 - Who 's Responsible for the Cold War? To begin, after reviewing the assigned material and deliberating, I have come to the conclusion that both are equally as responsible for the Cold war. While the U.S. tends to paint pictures of the USSR as cold, calculating, and an evil void of all emotion, it is truly the rivalry of both countries that brought upon the cold war. In a way, both the United States and the Soviet Union were like feuding siblings trying to prove superiority over…

lost to Bill Clinton, but while president Bush helped the country in many ways while he was in office. In July of 1991 President Bush tried to help the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union by meeting with the Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev. There they signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which was made to limit and reduce the use of strategic offensive arms, like nuclear weapons. Later after the treaty was signed the Soviet Union collapsed. On December 26, 1991,…

Even though Reagan and Bush were republican presidents and Clinton was a democratic president their polies were very alike and in some cases almost identical. Clinton’s policies were really more conservative than liberal. To start off, each of these presidents were elected during times of very low voter moral. United States citizens were not excited about government in general during this time, as well as the Reagan Bush eras. It did not matter if you were democratic or republican, citizens most…

The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics by Shane Hamilton and Sarah Phillips highlights the debates of Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev and USSR are the clear victors of the kitchen debate. Khrushchev’s concern about the Soviet population as a whole is a key reason as to why he is the winner of the debate. Instead of being concerned about individualism, his focus was on the people and how he could better the country. To begin, unlike Nixon, Khrushchev sought out…

This article shows the least biased and gave credit to both Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan for the end of the Cold War. Basically, this brings together both of the previous articles to form a nonbias essay. The author says if there was to be a name to who won the Cold War it would be Reagan. However, he states…

When asked about the end of the Cold War, many people will state that either General Secretary Gorbachev or President Ronald Reagan brought it to a close. Americans will most likely explain that Reagan’s military powers and strategic thinking had the most influential impact, while past Soviet citizens will support Gorbachev, and say he contributed to the end of the war for the better of the Soviet people. However, there are many other significant variables that had an impact and should be…

George Sand’s Indiana and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time interrogate the conflict between individual and collective identity in the nineteenth century through presenting the individual as a site of ambiguity and hybridity that disrupts the supposed coherence and homogeneity of the collective identities cultivated by national and colonial power relations. Collective identity attempts to bound and border individuals within binary categories, presenting groups defined by national, ethnic,…

Ronald Reagan 40th President President, actor, and Congressman are three things that represent Ronald Reagen. Many people knew that Ronald Reagan was a president, but he was so much more than a president. As a well known president of the United States, Ronald Reagan showed Americans that even though they are not a politician you can still do something good for society and if you put your mind to something you can do it. He left a lasting legacy as someone that will do things that nobody had…

Benton Whitley Mr. Netkovick Honors Senior Seminar 3 November 2016 Ronald Reagan: “The American Hero” Communism and Capitalism. This was all anyone in America cared about during the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980’s. During the 80’s, political hostility during the Cold War was near its peak. The Cold War was what defined the political tension that existed between the Soviet’s eastern “bloc” countries and the US-led Western powers. However, there was no bloodshed during this war, thus…

After a tragic loss for the United States of America, Thatcher reconciled the nation with her appeal to patriotism in a dire time, both politically and emotionally. At this time of great loss and tragedy following the death of a beloved president, Ronald Reagan, Thatcher used his accomplishments in life to reconcile those of the United States. Along with reconciling them, she indirectly urges, that we find our lost values that Reagan and the country possessed at the time of his presidency.…