Senate of the Philippines

information, while others believe it to be unjust and a completely cruel idea. Torture is not only severely damaging to the the prisoner, it is also extremely detrimental to the perpetrator as well. According to CNN’s report on the investigation into the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 's report on the CIA and its detention and interrogation program, of 119 detainees captured between 2002-2008, 26 were found to be wrongfully held. Innocent people are losing their lives due to the…

George Dewey drove a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines on May 1, the year 1898, and devastated the anchored Spanish fleet in a relaxed morning engagement that cost just seven American seamen injured. Manila itself was involved by U.S. troops by August. By the Treaty of Paris, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, surrendered Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20,000,000. The Spanish-American…

Central America (Mexico), and they arrived on ships of the Manila Galleon. The Manila Galleons were Spanish trading ships that made round-trip sailing voyages once or twice per year across the Pacific Ocean from the port of Acapulco, to Manila in the Philippines, which were both part of New Spain. But, the first large-scale immigration of Asians into the U.S. didn't happen until 1848, around the time gold was discovered in America. The Gold Rush was one of the pull factors that led many Chinese…

Second attempt at First Draft The history of Guantanamo Bay, the current happenings with its prisoners and the educated commentary about the prison have brought forth the idea of closing Gitmo. The claim that prisoners are enduring treatment questionable to international standards factors most into this argument. Detainees of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, guilty or not, have been forced to endure inhumane conditions throughout their imprisonment. For this reason, the United States government…

After World War I, the United States became increasingly isolationist until World War II, when America was forced to become more involved in foreign affairs to support France and Britain against Germany and Japan. Originally, the devastating consequences of World War I including war costs, the failure of the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations in the US, and the harsh treatment of Germany led to America’s isolationism and neutrality. After pulling out troops from Latin American nations,…

Following the realization that the United States had already reached its goal of Manifest Destiny, the belief in the justification of the expansion of American domain throughout the North American continent, political leaders sought to discover a new way to magnify American power and influence within the world. Because of America 's acquisition of new territories through victorious wars and the successful overthrowing of political authorities, nations around the world began to decide whether to…

submarine in the attack of any type of enemy shipping. The German government wanted to stop most of the shipping that came from Britain, and to do so they would of had to do it by what they called U-boats. President Woodrow Wilson went before the Senate on April 2, 1917, to ask for a declaration of war on Germany. Two days later on the date of April 4, 1917, the House declined to make declaration on Germany. On December 7, 1917 , the United States declared war on the German ally of…

From the end of the Civil War to the 1880s, the United States remained largely isolationist. However, by the 1890s, America began to turn outward and expand onto the international stage; it embroiled itself in a war with Spain, took over new lands and territories in the process, and even entered into a world war. It was obvious that American foreign policy had experienced a drastic change from the days of the Civil War and the beginning of the Gilded Age, but what was the driving force behind…

In The Republic and certainly in many of his teachings, it was no secret that Socrates held contempt for democracy as a regime. Athens, at the time, was a democracy which meant that many people held power in politics: something that Socrates found great fault in. He felt as though the leaders of said democracy had little to no requirements. They simply had to convince people to vote for them, and after that, they did not require much, if any knowledge about the state, to rule. Although this may…

In synopsis of President Ford's life, he was born on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, he was a great college football player, and during WWII, he served in the Navy. For almost 25 years Ford represented Michigan's 5th District after being Elected House of Representatives in 1948, Ford then found himself at the crossroads of history. After such time he was made vice president, only to then be made the 38th U.S. president due to Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal which caused…