Proxy voting

With the recent attacks on Christians by Isis, people have been wondering whether or not America should step in militarily for those whose rights are being consistently violated. However, the U.S. should not militarily step into foreign human rights violations; the U.S. must prioritize its own citizens. America shouldn’t step into foreign human rights violations so that we can prioritize what is best for American citizens. The historical precedents set by previous American wars support only…

The overarching theme of chapter 4 was to demonstrating the historical past of American Foreign Policy and how and what leaders and events lead the shaping of policy to what we see it as today. In addition to, that war is can be broken down into three alternative factors/components political, military, and economy all effect each other and war in different aspects. While all the matter stressing the notion that each specific foreign event should be handle not by past presidents, but by a…

Eighty-seven. Eighty-seven rounds of tear gas catalysed the 2014 Hong Kong Occupation, a big tent civil disobedience campaign for democracy, and served as my awakening moment. It set me on discovering deeper issues and how the intertwined disciplines of philosophy, politics and economics are able to explain and solve issues beneath the surface of the movement. Academically, the movement prompted me to read Mill's 'On Liberty' and Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience,' only questioning whether it is…

Brutal, lengthy, and traumatizing are all words that can be used to describe the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, which spanned from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975, was a conflict between the Communist North Vietnam (and their ally the Viet Cong) and South Vietnam (and their ally the United States of America). In the film “The Fog of War”, former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara explains the lessons America learned from the changes made during and after the war. In 1965, the…

The Vietnam war is probably the most controversial war in United States history. Many people wanted the U.S. to never join the war, but then when we joined, people got mad. People in the U.S. even rallied to leave the war. There were many new weapons and war tactics that were introduced in the Vietnam war and have become well known today. The biggest thing that was introduced and was a huge factor in the war was the war tactic, Guerilla warfare, that the Vietcong used. It was a very successful…

political process. Per David Truman’s ‘Pluralism Theory’, this desire to participate manifests itself as formal aggregations of common interests or interest groups, social movements, and political parties (among others). To explain what each of these proxies entails I will be going into what each of these three divisions necessitates, as well as their structures and relationship with the government. To begin, organized interests have significant sub-divisions that preclude them from uniformity.…

When people hear stories, most of the time they can tell if they are real, but sometimes it can be hard to tell. Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried shows his and the experiences of many other soldiers in the Vietnam War. He describes all the horrible things they see, what they feel, and the impact of the war on them. Along with the memories of war, he also includes the art of writing and the importance of stories. In some of the chapters, O’Brien even writes about events that never…

This bond that the soldiers formed helped them to survive, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. "The bond that men form with each other in the heat of battle is incomprehensible to those who have not experienced warfare for themselves...You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood - you give it together, you take it together." (O'Brien, 192) This bond of friendship helps the men of Alpha…

The Vietnam War was considerably much more than American soldiers going out in combat to fight the enemy, but rather a mental warfare fighting themselves. Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” is an American classic that conveys the physical things the soldiers were carrying while also expressing the mental burdens they carry during the Vietnam War. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, like many other soldiers, long for the love from the ones they left back home. Cross yearns for one girl…

America from the 1950’s to the 1970’s was in complete turmoil. The Vietnam War had taken over and fear was instilled into the lives of Americans everywhere. There was the fear of being drafted, the fear of loved ones leaving, the fear of loved ones dying, and the fear of war itself. Although society wanted to believe the war was notable and heroic, many did not think that way. Men who were sent over to Vietnam during the war were stripped of their lives and forced to adapt to life under attack.…