United States territory

Prior to the military invasion and occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898, the Puerto Rican was already emigrating to the United States. Many of those heading to the mainland were “Puerto Rican revolutionaries who were conspiring on U. S. territory to break once and for all with the yoke of Spanish colonialism.” The four-century-old resilient stronghold of Spanish imperialism over the island was beginning to be confronted when, in 1868, the first pro-independence uprising against Spanish rule…

regards to their use of nuclear activity. On December 31st 1992 both North Korea and South Korea merged to create an agreement banning nuclear weapons. According to the text, both parties were allowed permission to inspect “objects on the other’s territory”. However, the conflict with the agreement was there was not a set procedure explaining how these inspections should take place. This left the agreement to be more of “an expression of principles” as quoted by Lee Dong Bak, a South Korean…

determine a state behavior and state interaction by using the structure. This structure is defined by the complex of some principles of the international system such as anarchy and the states' capabilities. Not only military power and the ability to use it with regard to other states are significant in the neorealism theory but also the combination of states' capabilities is one main part of this theory in International Relation. Undoubtedly, power is able to give too much to each state due to…

In 1909 then Nicaraguan President Adolfo Diaz took power and called for the “Platt Amendment.” The amendment ensured the United States involvement in Cuban affairs, both foreign and domestic, and gave the U.S. legal standing in claims to certain economic and military territories on the island. Diaz was a business man and he had an agenda that conflicted with that of the U.S. As a result of this conflict, the U.S. drove Diaz into exile. At this point, the major problems of Nicaragua were that…

As the Civil War came to a close, the United States entered the Second Industrial Revolution causing enormous developmental changes across the Nation. The Second Industrial Revolution kicked off a time in which rapid growth occurred and continues to occur within today’s society; “ The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the "Technological Revolution," was a phase of rapid industrialization in the final third of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.”(Boundless…

later years of dominance. In the nearly sixty-five years between the years of 1877 and 1945 the United States underwent dynamic changes in many respects. Its social framework for many of its citizens and immigrants changed radically, both in the roles that they functioned with in society but also in the changes to their political incorporation and disenfranchisement. Economically the United States was equally striking in its changes where the differences in the roles that…

ideologies of the USSR and a large number of western powers, mainly the United States of America. Though the two never directly fought, a number of Proxy Wars (Conflicts between countries in which the two countries never directly engage in battle) took place with various amounts of involvement from the two. The USSR saw the spread of Communism to Korea and Vietnam as something profitable during their periods of unrest, and the United States, realizing that it was essential to stop the spread of…

José Enrique Rodó’s postcolonial reading of The Tempest was inspired by the new age of imperialism that succeeded colonialism. While now technically free from European powers and free to govern as they wish, the political arena was far from peaceful. In fact, it was filled with strife and frequent regime changes. Uruguay had twenty-five governments in the span of 73 years . Averaging a regime change once every three years or so, Uruguay could not find a government that would make everyone happy…

Doc D shows that even though almost everyone is oppositional to the syrian regime everyone is stuck fighting each other so this conflict will not rest, the only peace is between the kurds and the syrian rebels. In Doc E it states that Isis a very dangerous terrorist group is joining the war not to fight for or defend a group but to fight to take down governments that they don't agree with. It is also shown in document E that Isis is also as hated as the regime in this war…

break away to become a part of the United States in the venture westward. Others believed that the Mexican government was to blame for viewing the people of Texas as of little importance. In fact there were a number of factors that led to the revolution. Probably the greatest cause of the Texas…