United States Foreign Service

Americans are accustomed to. Even throughout the English verbiage, there are different styles and accents to the language that represents the United States. It can easily be said that English is the dominant language of our country but can it be said with the same easiness that English should be the only language used within our borders? The idea that the United States should be an English…

On September 11, 2001 a group named al-Qaeda sent four airliners to the United States carrying suicide attacks. We didn’t expect any attacks at the time or knew there would be any soon that day, it was all a surprise. Two of the planes flew all the way to New York City and crashed into the towers known as the twin towers, the third plane hit the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. These crashes resulted to be an extensive death and…

The author of Vietnam Since The Fall of Saigon is William J. Duiker. He was a professor at Penn State University where he spent his years teaching history with a concentration on East Asia. He also worked as a U.S. Foreign Services officer where he spent numerous years in Vietnam. He is fluent in foreign affairs and has written many books. A majority of his books are World History books used in several universities and colleges. He has also wrote a book on Ho Chi Minh which was the first…

as international or foreign students. In a similar study, Sengstock (2009) reported a good number of cases of discrimination against students on the basis of gender, skin color, ethnicity, belonging to minority groups and sexual orientations in the United States. In a more recent study, Seider and Hillman (2011) examined, through interviews, the discussions about race and social class among the ‘privileged group’ students who participated in a university-based community service learning program.…

In the 1930s the Dominican Republic began to peg its currency against the US dollar after the abandonment of the gold standard by the United States of America and Great Britain . In 1955 the annual budget in the Dominican Republic did not have expenditures which were greater than the amount of income the country was generating and there was no foreign debt, this meant the standard of living was on the rise and there was no inflation. The Dominican peso was exchangeable at a rate of 1-1 for US…

regards to age is also prevalent when applied to nations, particularly the United States at the turn of the twentieth century during the time of William McKinley’s presidency. As is evident in Eric Rauchway’s book, Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America, this fragility became much more obvious to the people of the United States when he was assassinated by the anarchist immigrant, Leon Czolgosz. His foreign background was simultaneously brought into question and…

food establishments in the United States of America, but had mainly stayed in the home country. By the 1950’s both chains had a very strong presence in the United States and had began to invest abroad. After a lackluster attempt in Japan, KFC set its sights on China. China was and continues to be the one of the fastest growing economies on the planet. This is extremely enticing to companies operating in mostly saturated economies like Canada, Europe and the United States. China offered a…

Introduction The Marshall plan has been largely considered the greatest instance of foreign aid ever created by the United States of, but to what extent was the Marshall plan employed to contain communism? The Marshall plan was passed in 1948 and it’s publicly known main purpose was to help rebuild Europe’s economy and landscape during the post world war two crisis that many countries were dealing with following the war. Europe had spent tremendous amounts of money and used many resources on…

Market failure is the situation when products and services are not allocated efficiently or lack of equity in the market. One of the market failure regarding TPP is that trade regulations are keeping away the market from the possible consumers outside the U.S. As trade barriers are cut down, the U.S. export…

Donald Trump a Republican millionaire running for president of the United States has caused great controversy due to some comments made in the Freedom Fest in Las Vegas Nevada. Among his audience are the Unemployed, persons without a paid job but available to work, watching him from the audience and home. This audience might be somewhat unconventional, not your common audience in a republican convention, which might include those liberals watching from home. This audience is in dire need of hope…