Rakhine State

As the global hegemony, the United States has both a great deal of power and plenty of responsibility. The United States is recognized all throughout the world as its superpower and it has legitimacy to back it up. Even if we were in a decline from being the global hegemony, no other country comes close to our GDP. Many suggest that China is the next hegemony and that they will be the next authority, but no one can really tell by just using raw data alone. As we discussed the debate of what…

The American Dream The American dream is one of the most acclaimed and sought dreams for society; especially for the Latinos community, but we do not know what are the challenges we would have to face and overcome to successfully accomplish the longed dream. When I was a kid what I desired the most was to have a united family. My dad used to spend half of the year working in California as a landscaper while my mom and I were in Mexico living our lives in our little old-traditional town…

three decades of growth, and they had risen to become the world’s second largest economy. Japanese companies were eliminating American industries, from automobiles to consumer electronics. Also, Japanese companies were purchasing assets in the United States, like movie studios, golf courses, and real estate. Their stock market, Nikkei, was booming during that year. Property prices had increased so much that one square mile of Tokyo was worth more than America. However, due to its rapid growth,…

Presenting the opposition gives Anderson a chance to respond to the objections or concerns that the readers may have, as well as showing that he has considered both sides of the issue. Instead of making the opposition out to be completely false, Anderson states that the opposing side is reasonable and partially correct. This shows that Anderson understands the oppositions are not completely false, and that both sides have their rights and wrongs. Next, Anderson counters the opposition,…

In The Benevolent Empire, Robert Kagan’s main focus is on the necessity of the benevolent hegemony of the United States as it is an empire that protects its allies more than itself. Kagan begins by making a reference to the Lewinsky scandal and how the world reacted to a possibility of having a weakened American president. He then talked about the international concern and fear from American hegemony as well as the supporters of the important American role in preserving a “semblance of global…

well and there is no guarantee that man will not kill one another in the natural state of things in order to follow his appetites and aversions. This is why government was created. Man chose to create government to ensure self-protection; he gave up his power and rights to a Soveraigne to keep from dying by the hands of another man. The fear of death is the foundation for man’s creation of government. In a natural state of nature there is nothing to stop one man from killing another and man…

Unemployment is one of the biggest issues at hand in United State of America. Unemployment is when an individual gets fired, quits his/her job or is in the process of looking for jobs but unable to find anything. Unemployment is a common issue in any economy, even in a healthy economy there are many citizens that are unemployed but when the unemployment rate starts to increase that becomes the real issue. Unemployment occurs due to many different reasons. Now a day technology is becoming a big…

Discrimination of immigrants and race have been points of interest in American society for decades after the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The question still stands if society exists in a post-racist and non-discriminatory state. The idea of a post-racist and non-discriminatory society is absurd in light of the disparities that exist among the races and immigrants in America; although, these differences do not stem from direct discrimination being factored into laws and culture anymore,…

In the first half of the 19th Century a young United States began to face many conflicts regarding civil rights as well as continuous opposing views between the North and South. One of the more prevalent issues at the time, even though both the Democratic and Whig parties attempted to avoid talking about it, was regarding the institution of slavery and whether or not it was “right”. Another issue that arose was whether or not the country would go to war with Mexico after Democrat, and current…

in the article about the bomb, “The sacred gospel was that the atomic bomb ended World War II in a glorious American victory over fascism and saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers” using this as an example of how the United States chose to hide the truth from its citizens. (Franklin) This is how many times we convince ourselves of things that we feel or wrong or can be perceived that way, because we all want to be on the right side of the story. When we commit an action…