Timeline of United States history

and sought dreams for society; especially for the Latinos community, but we do not know what are the challenges we would have to face and overcome to successfully accomplish the longed dream. When I was a kid what I desired the most was to have a united family. My dad used to spend half of the year working in California as a landscaper while my mom and I were in Mexico living our lives in our little old-traditional town located in the suburbs of the city. I used to talk with my dad almost every…

three decades of growth, and they had risen to become the world’s second largest economy. Japanese companies were eliminating American industries, from automobiles to consumer electronics. Also, Japanese companies were purchasing assets in the United States, like movie studios, golf courses, and real estate. Their stock market, Nikkei, was booming during that year. Property prices had increased so much that one square mile of Tokyo was worth more than America. However, due to its rapid growth,…

describing its history, giving the readers a synopsis as to what the argument is going to be centralized around. Anderson then presents his side of the argument on how drone warfare is strategically effective followed by the opposition. Presenting the opposition gives Anderson a chance to respond to the objections or concerns that the readers may have, as well as showing that he has considered both sides of the issue. Instead of making the opposition out to be completely false, Anderson states…

In The Benevolent Empire, Robert Kagan’s main focus is on the necessity of the benevolent hegemony of the United States as it is an empire that protects its allies more than itself. Kagan begins by making a reference to the Lewinsky scandal and how the world reacted to a possibility of having a weakened American president. He then talked about the international concern and fear from American hegemony as well as the supporters of the important American role in preserving a “semblance of global…

Unemployment is one of the biggest issues at hand in United State of America. Unemployment is when an individual gets fired, quits his/her job or is in the process of looking for jobs but unable to find anything. Unemployment is a common issue in any economy, even in a healthy economy there are many citizens that are unemployed but when the unemployment rate starts to increase that becomes the real issue. Unemployment occurs due to many different reasons. Now a day technology is becoming a big…

1960s. The question still stands if society exists in a post-racist and non-discriminatory state. The idea of a post-racist and non-discriminatory society is absurd in light of the disparities that exist among the races and immigrants in America; although, these differences do not stem from direct discrimination being factored into laws and culture anymore, rather they come from socioeconomics, existing history, and circumstances of the race or immigrant in question. The exceptions to…

In the first half of the 19th Century a young United States began to face many conflicts regarding civil rights as well as continuous opposing views between the North and South. One of the more prevalent issues at the time, even though both the Democratic and Whig parties attempted to avoid talking about it, was regarding the institution of slavery and whether or not it was “right”. Another issue that arose was whether or not the country would go to war with Mexico after Democrat, and current…

History gets to be defined and written by the victors and the people that were not involved are most likely to blindly follow what those people say. Americans have a pride about themselves that makes it necessary for them to always be on the right side of history, because that either means they were winning or they were right, and least if they were not they could make it seem like they were. One of these such moments was the events that took place before, during, and after the bombings of…

with what Kennedy had started and that he wanted to make a change "Proposed more than one year ago by our late and beloved President John F. Kennedy.". He also comes across as a very proud citizen because he mentions all the struggles that the united states when through and…

The Battle of Midway: Lessons Learned In the months following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan, the United States found itself embroiled in conflict in two theaters of war; in Europe, North Africa, and the Atlantic as well as in the Pacific. Through the preceding years, the United States cautiously escalated its support for the Allied countries in the European theater with Anglo-American partnership programs such as the Lend-Lease Act and Destroyers…