Society of the United States

toward citizens during the war time are different. In fact, both the American Civil War and the Chinese Civil War of 1946-1949 are important to the unity and future development of the nation. The American Civil War was between the Northern States and the Southern States. The cause of the American Civil War is very complicated, but mainly because of slavery.…

an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” It was first manifested in the Declaration of Independence. The definition started to spread in 1931 when immigrants began to flow in the United States but, this definition may have changed over time to allow in some factors of success other than hard work. Such as, connections, social class, race and ethnicity. People may have…

The United States of America is one of the greatest countries in the world, but it has not progressed to a point where universal truth underlies society and where society is focused on righting injustices. Some people try to stretch the truth and get away with different things. In our government, for example, officials are often caught lying for personal or political gain. In business, people often lie and sometimes steal. In school, if there is any form of cheating, there are plenty of…

critical race theory. During America’s fundamental formation of their society race played a critical role in the factoring of life chances and opportunities for people of color (Savas, 2014). Segregation through racial profiling and classification created this white supremacy ideology, that has carried over into all aspects of society including but not limited too the political, social, economical, and educational components of society (Savas, 2014). Belonging to the family of critical…

gravitation towards English as a common global language. As the United States has been the country primarily responsible for the global proliferation of capital as well as home to the largest native English speaking population in the world, it would be a natural assumption to think that English would be mandated as the official language of the country. It is not. Although the supremacy of the English language in the United States remains a prevalent, unequivocal notion, the US itself was…

There is no reason for the United States to return to internment camps and segregation with the progress for equality ongoing, but with the rise of terrorism and racial targeting, Muslims are scapegoats in a country that is constantly undergoing change. Islamophobia, or the fear of Islam, is not the reason to justify hate crimes against millions of people attempting to live their lives. Muslims do not have the opportunity to seek justice like the Civil Rights movement groups did as Muslims are…

Today, countries like North Korea are forced into states of orthodoxy--blind acceptance of a norm. Those in power work to perpetuate their holds on a people: power to perpetuate power. The world portrayed In 1984 by George Orwell plays off this power in a horrifying way. Orthodoxy so pure it has become thoughtlessness, perpetual war enough to keep people in fear, and unwavering submission to Big Brother all drive Orwell’s society, and many societies today hold glaring similarities to this…

bloody and costly conflict between North Vietnam and its southern allies, Viet Cong, and the South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States to combat communist forces. However, United States didn’t participate in the war from the beginning. Ball considered that United States involvement in the Vietnam War would be unsuccessful, firstly because United States didn’t have the right equipment that could compete with the “guerrilla warfare tactics”. Secondly, since the war was fought on…

makes a convincing point about the importance of understanding the way that race inevitably determines people’s social and economic standing in society and how it then benefits or disadvantages those people (2). He argues for a form of democratic individualism that acknowledges the way race molds and restricts individual opportunity in the United States and urges the American people to act against racial injustice (2). For Turner, white…

The Cold War created a large amount of tension not just between the United States and the Soviet Union but also within the country itself. The second wave of the Red Scare was a direct result of the Cold War and changed the overall moral of the country for a period of time. There were many cases that came as a direct result of the widespread panic and anxiety over the infiltration of Communist influence into society. Together, The Smith Act, Dennis versus U.S. and the HUAC hearings of the…