Timeline of United States history

were not for trying to seduce other countries into its way of thinking. Wilson’s Fourteen Points would eventually go on to creating a nation “committed to the principles of liberal democracy and free enterprise...the values distinguishing the United States itself (Bacevich, 11). Bacevich argues how that same Wilsonian paradigm is still present in our society today. After the catastrophe of September 11, President George W. Bush would go on to show that he also believed it was America’s destiny…

Great Depression. The “good life” idea goes all the way back to the famous phrase from the Declaration of Independence, “The right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” This right follows Americans to the modern day along with the American history that helped shape what we know as the good life. The way of life in the 1960’s was dependent on more than just being an American. There was extreme racism and classism in the 1960’s…

The Oregon State Lottery There are still many improvements to be made to America’s health care system, but it has improved tremendously since 2010 thanks to the Affordable Care Act. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of uninsured people living in America has significantly dropped from 15.4% in 2008 to 10.4% in 2014. As this data and the Oregon health lottery case demonstrate, health care in the United States was either inaccessible or too expensive for many Americans and still…

made it so that wrongdoings, such as denying God, or fighting our Mother and Father carried the punishment of death. Statistics shows that crime rates continue to increase in states that has the death penalty verses states that does not. (Recinella, 2004, pg18-20) The death penalty should be prohibited in the United States of…

One Expensive Game When most people think of the Olympics, common words that first come to mind are pride, uniting, competition. But behind all of the glitz and glamour of ceremonies, games and celebrities, stands the hard truth of the cost of the Olympic games. From 1968 to 2010 an average Olympics costed the host city an average of 3.6 billion dollars, and the numbers have been skyrocketing ever since. A prime example of an immense budget overrun was shown in the 1976 Olympic games held in…

few U.S. states including: Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, California, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont (Kafer 2016). Although it’s legal in some places, there are many requirements and steps to applying for assisted suicide. These requirements are enforced by acts, such as the Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act and the Death with Dignity Act (Friedman 2007). Most of the acts written to legalize assisted suicide in the United States were…

The United States has had a very gruesome past many could say. War is one of the first things that pops into my head when I hear “United States”. The U.S has participated in a handful of wars throughout a long period of time, and in some of them the U.S should not have been involved. An example of one war they should have not participated in was the Vietnam war, one of the most despised wars in American history. The Vietnam war was the first conflict displayed to the public and that is what…

After the victory of World War 2 with the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, America lived in constant fear, especially children in schools. A film was shown to all students demonstrating survival techniques on a nuclear attack, and the image of little johnny showed how a nuclear attack can occur at any moment, thus giving them nightmares.(Cnn Duck and Cover).Living daily life with the fear of nuclear attacks isn’t a “happy” life since fear is a negative connotation. Happy days falls on the…

Before the terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States was at war with Iraq and had a presence in Saudi Arabia which lead to conflict to terrorist groups and terrorists attacks within the US, but no action was taken that would change American politics, society, or foreign policy. After the attacks, everything changed. The US became much strict in its search for and elimination of terrorism, both within the country and around the world. The events also brought the country together…

bad habits into his carrier. He was a deceiving and powerful man. He twisted all the information he obtained and used it against innocent people. Ultimately, nothing came out of his investigations except for fear and chaos.Joseph McCarthy was a United States Senator during the 1950s who ran a series of anti-communistic trials blaming many innocent Americans and essentially ruining their lives and or careers. It is interesting to notice that all of McCarthy’s bad habits and ways stemmed back to…