Ronald Dworkin

the mid-80s, a series of official and journalistic investigations that assured the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the Nicaraguan Contra and cocaine trafficking, came to light. This studies claimed that the government of Ronald Reagan, US President at the time, had illegally helped an army of counterrevolutionary mercenaries in Central America. However, and despite the conclusive evidence, the intelligence service executed a number of ruses to clear its name and even to…

1979 President Carter was on the decline and his approbation rating was not looking good. It was Election time and Future president Ronald Regan asked a question to the Americans that was visually examining the debate as it was shown on TV “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” An astronomical majority of the voters in America verbally expressed No and elected President Regan by 10 points in the popular vote. The term was engendered in 1979 during a time in which the Coalesced States…

The article “Iran and the Shah: What Really Happened” by James Perloff is biased as the article lacks coverage of the other side and how discontent they were. The author identifies the Shah to be a long-term ally of the United States explaining that while the Shah was in power, he made his country have a well established economic growth even though not everyone seemed to enjoy the growth, and he made women have the equal amount of rights as male citizens of Iran. However, he doesn’t include the…

Pandemonium broke loose within the United States this past Friday as the Supreme Court legalized same marriage in all 50 states. Supporters and couples from all walks of life rallied in the streets of Washington and all over the country for the historic day in modern American history. As expected, the internet was at the mercy of social media platforms as news spread across the globe. In addition, much of the conversation was facilitated on social media by some of Hollywood’s finest. “It's a…

Collaboration offers an effective approach for organizations to resolve complex problems, maximize resources and improve innovation. However, the organization must establish the conditions for collaboration to be successful and use a deliberate approach to collaborating with other, external stakeholder organizations. This paper identifies a few historical challenges that the Department of Defense and other federal agencies faced in the past, how those organizations sought to overcome those…

Davenport, Iowa, as a radio sportscaster in 1932, starting with a $10 per game income (“Ronald Reagan; Life Before the Presidency” 2). Reagan had to retell the events of a game with the little information that was given to him (Degregorio 639). “He found that if he memorized the first line of a commercial, everything he said would sound ‘natural,’ a technique he used in radio for the rest of his life” (“Ronald Reagan: Life Before the Presidency” 2). This shows that Reagan was naturally gifted…

Yes, I believe the Challenger disaster was a result of groupthink. There were many things presented in the brief reading above that leads me to think this. One sign of groupthink is that members are pressured to go along with the go along with the group. A prime example of this is that Morton Thiokol management advised against the launch, but reversed their decision at the behest of their engineers. Another sing of groupthink is that the members are very concerned with reinforcing the…

Prominent Leader: Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan is by far one of the most charismatic leaders I’ve ever heard of. His charisma is clear in all of his speeches and so simple to understand. Rallying Americans across the United States to take a stand and keep government small and the people’s interests big. Some of the issues he faced was a continued race war (which is still being fought now) throughout America. In a speech, as the Republican Presidential nominee he told a crowd of African…

America has been leading from behind in the world for far too long. The instability throughout the world has increased at an ever-expanding rate in the last couple of years, and it does not seem to be slowing down. The inaction of America has contributed greatly to this instability by not forcefully deterring actions threatening peace. Adversaries have become emboldened to pursue their interests unabetted because of the lack of will on the part of the American Government to do something about it…

On January 24, 1995, O.J. Simpson was brought to trial. Simpson was charged with the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Both bodies were found with repeated injuries that imitated being stabbed with a knife. There were 72 witnesses presented; the majority of them suggested that Simpson had a motive and the opportunity to kill Nicole. The prosecutors were doing an excellent job tying Simpson to both of the murders. After the second prosecution, however, they started losing the…