Society of the United States

Talk given by Jared Diamond titled Why do societies collapse?, Diamond explores different reasons why societies are bound to collapse. Even more specifically, Diamond has a five-point framework of why societies collapse. These five points are: 1.) Human impact on the environment 2.) Climate change 3.) Relations with neighboring friendly societies 4.) Relations with hostile societies and 5.) Political, economic, social and cultural factors that make a society more or less likely to perceive and…

Anti-Police movement in the USA About 1.2 million law enforcement agents in the United States are good citizens who risk their lives to protect and to serve the innocent. But with high tech now capturing dubious incidents caused by unprofessional acts of very few Police Officers, it is easier for some people to stablish an argument and in many cases, easier to distortion the truths and condemn the entire Law Enforcement community. Police Officers are citizen in the service of their country with…

communist subversion within American society, this fear became known as the Red Scare. This fear of communism was compounded during the Cold War because of the paranoid beliefs of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who developed a set of anit-communism ethos known as McCarthyism. The purpose of McCarthyism was to minimize the communist threat to America by accusing and detaining suspected communists by claiming that they were a national security threat or disloyal to the United States. McCarthyism…

something from a particular setting or group. However, when this word is brought into the realm of everyday conversation, it portrays a negative connotation. Often more times than not, the concept of segregation associates with race separation in society. To set a minor example, this would be the separation of two groups of people such as Hispanics and Asians. In reality, when racial segregation is referred to, it typically insinuates the separation between white and black Americans. This…

of peace and violence play a significant role in the discussion of how both are seen in the United States. To begin, violence is not merely when one is being physically attacked, shot at, or abused. Individuals tend to think that in order to have violence one must be physically ailed or assaulted. However, that is not the case. There are much subtler occurrences of violence seen throughout the United States. Such instances can be divided into two groups: Cultural violence and Structural…

The Cold War was a very rough experience that lead two powerful nations to attack each other. The same concept is happening in today's society but with three very powerful nations, which are: Russia, North Korea and the United States. The rulers, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are threatening each other with nuclear threats. These nuclear threats and the new creations of nuclear weapons is to show the other countries that they are stronger and more powerful. With the constant back…

have a comprehensive voting rights law, the United States should implement affirmative steps to mobilize potential voters and make sure the right to vote is strongly protected. A barrier to voting in the United States is systematically mandated through voter registration practices. The requirements that are mandated for registration significantly lessens voter turnout which are aimed at the low-income and younger people in our society that cannot afford State Issued Identification Cards or…

of the United States not being made for all people to succeed. Not all people in the United States have equal access to resources and this country began that way. This was previously mentioned when the issue of privilege was addressed and will further be reviewed in this paragraph. The method in which the United States began was that the white man came to the country to take over the land against the American Indians, then the white man shipped Africans from their home countries to the United…

Arjun Patel Harry Truman’s Point Four Speech: An In-Depth Analysis of the Modernization Theory With the conclusion of World War II, the globe was left in a frazzled state of destruction from the aftermath of many vicious battles. Harry Truman was then elected President of the United States of America in 1948 and needed to address the issue of how to help the world rebuild after such a devastating war (Smith). Subsequent his election, his inaugural address proposed four points. Of the four, his…

Introduction Is the United States dominance as a country related to what Jared Diamond terms in his book Gun, Germs and Steel as the Yali’s question? Where Mr. Yali Jared Diamond’s New Guinean friend who was a politician asked him the reason why it was mainly the whites who developed so much consignment and brought it to New Guinea but they the black people had little shipment to call their own?” Yali’s use of the term cargo/ shipment/consignment connotes material goods such as steel axes,…