Ronald McNair

On October 23, 1983, United States President Ronald Reagan’s administration issued National Security Directive 110A, authorizing the landing of U.S. and allied Caribbean troops on the small island nation of Grenada. The document’s stated purpose for the invasion was threefold: Assure safety of American nationals, eliminate and prevent further Cuban influence, and restore democratic government. Reagan, in public speeches and as a justification for the conflict, cited 800 American citizens held…

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 “both views have their…

Preserving and strengthening the position of the United States when it makes treaties or sends ambassadors abroad is practicing foreign policy. The United States is an independent and sovereign country that requires the protection of that sovereignty as the priority duty of its foreign policy. The Constitution created the institutions to serve “the separate and equal station to which the Law of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them” (Declaration of Independence of the U.S) as the central…

In 1964, Ronald Reagan a B grade movie actor and TV commercial actor found himself involved in Hollywood politics as President of the Screen Actors Guild, but had thought it to be insignificant. Reagan soon realized that his acting career was on a decline and began doing work for GE (General Electric) doing a half-hour television series to promote the company’s products, image and boost the employee’s morale. In doing this he was able to tour the United States and meet with many regular working…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s metaphor of solitude to describe Latin America’s relationship with the rest of the world was very relevant in 1982, when he presented his Nobel Prize lecture. Today however, Latin America is diverging from this so-called “fate” and proving itself to be an emerging relevant power in the world. Despite gravitating away from Marquez’s metaphor of solitude, this is exactly what Marquez predicted within his lecture speech. This essay will explore how Latin America was, from…

then labels them as criminals and felons, keeping them locked up for extensive periods of times only to release them into the underclass where there is no hope to achieve higher living. Since the introduction of the War on Drugs in the 1970’s by Ronald Reagan, where “over four decades, the [Drug Policy Agency} says, American taxpayers have dished out $1 trillion on the drug war”, the influx of prisoners increased 700 percent. Black Men are singled out for imprisonment 5 times more than white…

Should the United States government have more scientists than politicians? Paul Krugman, staff writer of The New York Times, expresses to his audience that since the government doesn’t care about science, the United States is doomed. In the article Conspiracies, Corruption and Climate, Paul Krugman writes about how the government is corrupted and the conspiracies about Hurricane Irma. Paul Krugman is a passionate and aggressive writer that knows how to get his points across and how to express…

The O.J Simpson murder trial took place in Los Angeles, California in 1995. It was one of America’s most interesting court dramas; however, the characters were real life people, jurors, lawyers, celebrities, and victims. After an eight-month trial, the not guilty verdict stunned the nation. Underneath a mountain of criminating evidence, a jury of his peers had found O.J Simpson not guilty. Numerous pre-trial factors may have contributed to the outcome of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. This…

Reagan spent one trillion dollars on military. The largest peace-time military spending in history. By the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, most of the victories made in the 1960s were overturned (Barrett). Reagan and "The New Right" supported neoliberalism. In the 1970s, western governments, academia, and media understood relationship between state and market according…

Margret Thatcher's sole purpose of writing her eulogy was to make the American people remember all of the great deeds Ronald Reagan did for the country. She comforted the grieving nation by sharing her own personal experiences that had with the now deceased president. Along with this, Thatcher also uses repetition to get her point across to the American people. Thatcher uses direct quotes from the late president in order to show how much of an influence he had on the country. In the beginning…