Teller Amendment

The US had vowed to free Cuba from Spanish dictatorship. In addition, the US signed the Teller Resolution whereby it forswore plans of occupying Cuba. However, the Cuban rebels were disappointed after they learned that the US had not complied with the Teller Amendment and even the Turpie-Foraker bill, which were meant to acknowledge the Cuban government in exile. The McKinley administration carried on with the war and even negotiated peace without informing the Cubans. The US occupied and ruled Cuba from 1898 to 1902 and left just because the Cubans had settled for the inclusion of the Platt Amendment into their constitution (Keen & Haynes, 2013). This amendment implied that the island was a protectorate and a virtual US colony that after the American withdrawal followed sixty years of US dominance of corrupt, unstable, brutal and incompetent Cuban governments. Conclusion Officially the US intervention in the Cuban war did have a stand on humanitarian altruism however its original motives was to eliminate Spain and prevent Cuban victory that would have ensured islands independence and thereby damage U.S socio…

avoids other reasons for warfare. In contrast to Zinn’s critique of the American elite, Schweikart and Allen cite less accusatory reasons for war, explaining that wartime “arguments combined the need for humanitarian relief for the suffering Cubans with the necessity for naval bases and eviction of Old World powers from the Caribbean, as well as good old-fashioned expansionism” (Schweikart and Allen 420 - 421). Like Zinn, Schweikart and Allen do touch upon the implications of the industrialist’s…

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who track a serial killer of fortune tellers, but encounter a genuine psychic. The episode showed watchers a realistic aspect of the show that was brought to light. The episode goes to show how people react to the search for/need for control over their lives. “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” conveyed that people become curious, desperate, and gullible as a reaction to the need for control over their lives. “Clyde…

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Chisholm was one of these women. In her “Equal Rights for Women” speech, she decided to speak out about acquiring equality for women by establishing an affirmative case for the Equal Rights Amendment. Shirley Chisholm delivered her speech on May 21, 1969 in Washington, D.C., to push for the equal rights amendment in essence to ensure women’s rights and roles within society. By using Aristotle’s theories of persuasion, Chisholm peacefully presented “a proposal that has been before every Congress…

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ratification period ERA lost momentum (Radek, 2006). Even in the 1980s after the ratification period ended more opposition increased. Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment It seems ridiculous for the U.S not to grant equal rights to every citizen but opposition to ERA is still very real. Those who opposed ERA early on were men and women who fought for protective labor laws that treated women differently. Others, like Phyllis Schlafly, were concerned for the break down of the traditional…