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John Reed was an active socialist who no matter his position in life, he would always question and challenge the status quo. In the beginning of Reed’s academic livelihood, he ran into a problem that many great minds go through, where he began to notice that the school had a curriculum to create good citizens and not to stimulate the imagination (Rosenstone, 17). This shows that as Reed was growing up his mentality was to always challenge and to question what everyone is being led to know. By…

Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis As the title states, the book is a memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis through the lense of the White House. In span of 13 days, the world faced one of the most critical event in history. The stakes were nuclear war, which could have obliterated much of the life on earth from nuclear fallout. In a nutshell, after World War II, the two superpowers in the world were, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Without telling the US,…

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…

Friedrich Hayek, who had great impact on the period of Thatcher’s administration, was one of the most prominent economists in the 20th centuries after the Second World War. Although he was not a libertarian, Hayek was considered to be a classical liberal with a relatively conservative view on the government involvement in economy. In the early decades of 1900s, due to the Great Depression in the U.S in the 1930s, many European and American economists started to doubt “liberalism” and the…

abolitionists involved in the revolution believed that slavery violated human's natural rights. Also, industrialization meant that slaves weren't even needed for economic practices anymore. Abolition was soon accepted everywhere except for the Southern United States, who still used slaves for their economic purposes. Progressives- People who fought to right the societal wrongs brought on by the Industrial Revolution, and solve the problems brought on by rapid industrial and urban growth. They…

It also states that it is not inevitable. Oxfam argues that when wealth and capital is concentrated in the hands of a small minority it stunts economic growth and claims that if wealth was distributed more equally it would facilitate growth and reduce inequality…

Russia Have you ever stopped and really thought about Russia? Have you thought about how big Russia is, the problems they have, the treaties they have signed, or even the wars they have fought? They have a quite interesting history with other nations. Although Russia in not part of NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, they still seem to help out countries in need. Russia was founded in the 12th century. Russia was named the Russian Empire under the control of Peter I, who ruled in…

reacting to contemporary challenges of liberalism, in his book ‘Liberalism’ (1964) he attempts to redefine liberalism through more socialist ideals as, ‘unlike earlier liberals such as Tocqueville, he saw no necessary opposition between liberalism and socialism’(Haddock, 2008). Hobhouse promotes an, Organic view of society and promote the notion of a common good which the state should promote through involvement in social relationships such as an education system and healthcare system and not…

choose from since 1917 and eventually led to the fall of the Berlin wall. By early 1990 socialist regime was falling apart at the seams. Therefore, Gorbachev was unable to regain the control demanded by the Communist party. Nor could he meet the demands of the people for the more independent democratic government. Ultimately, by the end of 1990, Gorbachev resigned his position, the Commonwealth of Independent States replaced the Soviet Union and the long standing Kremlin flag was replaced…

group that supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. Organizers included trade unionists, civil rights activists, and feminists, with a large majority being African Americans and socialists. According to the article, some believe that the March on Washington was…