As America prepares for a vicious battle with Iraq, the country is held within a battle of it's own. The country is spilt with supports on one side and anti-war mongrels on the other. The only division between to two well-meaning groups is that the current republican government is stressing ...

One day I was on my way to school when I read a bumper sticker that read, "FLUSH THE JOHNS." Of course, this sticker was referring to John Kerry. While this bumper sticker is humorous in manner, it has a very adamant symbolic importance. While John Kerry was in Vietnam, he committed s...

Morality of War In the wake of the destruction of September 11th, 2001, the United States of America were faced with an insecure future. With massive amounts of anti-American sentiments present all over the world, along with the growing threat of more terrorism against the US, President George W. ...

On Sunday, President Bush\'s administration pledged \"zero tolerance\" if Saddam Hussein refuses to comply with the international call for him to disarm. A revised UN Security Council resolution demands Iraq to do away with its weapons of mass destruction. The resolution also calls for Saddam Hussei...

Bush's Cold War For fifty years, the total purpose of American foreign interaction was to stop the spread of Communism. Only the threat of annihilation could prevent the citizens from rolling back into their traditional isolationism. George Washington himself preached that the United States ...

Two weeks have passed since the coalition granted sovereignty to Iraq. Paul Bremer, America\'s ex-proconsul in Iraq, left without plans to return because of the immense number of threats he received while in office. Now, Iyad Allawi is in charge as both Prime Minister and as president. Allawi will r...

We are a nation under attack. No, I am not confused. I am not mixing us up with Iraq, which is systematically being attacked by the U.S. government. I mean we, a nation of American citizens who are systematically being attacked by the U.S. government. No bombs have been dropped yet but the sold...

This essy explores 3 Bush quotes about the Middle East to analyze, from a layperson's perspective: 1) what is he saying (or trying to say)? 2) are his administrations policies consistent with the statement? Quote A: "There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's th...

In the article, "The Great Unwatched", by William Safire, located under the Supplemental Readings section of the English Textbook, Connections, we are introduced to the possibility of government control over unsuspecting Americans using hidden cameras. Safire discusses the pla...

After watching both Fahrenheit 9/11 and Fahrenhype 9/11, then after doing some research of my own, I have come to the conclusion Michael Moore is the most un-American, cruel, and dishonest people in the whole of the U.S. This paper is solely designed to discredit Michael Moore and his gang of comm...

Watergate is considered one of the biggest scandals in America today. Although the term Watergate refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C., it has become synonymous with political burglary, bribery, extortion, phone tapping, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, tax fr...

American Politics in Transition For the United States, as for most states in the world, the 1980’s and 1990’s were a time of change and challenge. During this period the effects of change both within the US and internationally acted as push factors in many areas of life, including e...

In the First Amendment to the Constitution, amongst other things it guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association (assembly). However, everywhere you turn today there is some group trying to take some god given right away from us. Freedom of speech is a right...

George W. Bush vs Kerry On the 2 of November in the USA the elections 2004 will be started and about 400 million Americans are called to cast their favourite for president. In the last 8 month the candidates for the vote visited places all over the country to present their opinion and program for...

At the onset of the latest war with Iraq, in the early spring of 2003, it was already certain that the cost for the war alone would be staggering. The cost of the first Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) was somewhere in the area of sixty one billion dollars (International Security Studies Commiss...

Since the establishment of our nation's history, there have been various famous and vital figures that came from it. Some of these figures came from privileged backgrounds, while others came from more humble beginnings. This is the magnificent thing about this country, you can come from all w...

When assigned to write an essay on any topic in the world that concerns me today, I have to be honest with you, I dreaded it. I can remember back to when I was in High School; you always had that one teacher who just loved to assign essays. He would find a way to include them in all their homework...

Imperialism is a policy in which a country with a strong rich economy and great military power invades a weaker country to take over their government for either money or power. "Imperialism was a caused by the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution many European countries invaded o...

When President Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, he stressed a new policy concerning a revived United Nations and the actions that would be taken by the United States concerning the "New World Order," a term coined by his predecessor George Bush depicting the post-Cold War international arena. C...

1920, this year should ring a bell in everybody's mind. Especially in the minds of over 50% of this class. 1920 is the year that women earned the right to vote. After 75 years of struggles, fighting, defeats pain & tears Susan B. Anthony and her followers accomplished their biggest goal by ...

The Soviet Union was America's great adversary in this era, but since 1960 the USSR had not had good relations with China. Nixon thought that improved Sino-American ties would undermine the Soviets. He also hoped that China would pressure the North Vietnamese to end the war. A year before his elec...

U.S. Elections The articles used to form our class research project on the U.S. Elections were based on News finding from many different countries. The basis of most of the articles was how President Bush and Senator John Kerry were viewed upon in relations with those countries. A few other thi...

John McCain\'s campaign for the office of president of the United States has been carefully thought out in order to attract the largest possible amount of voters. As in all campaigns, everything that the candidate has said and done has been screened and planned so as to not offend or scare off any...

By the time of the 1860 presidential election, the country was in a state of turmoil. There were profound differences in the views of citizens over the future of our nation. Many of these differences were strictly based along sectional lines. The division between North and South had never been so...

William Jefferson Clinton, by far the MOST controversial President of our TimeOn January 20, 1993, our current presiding president, William J. Clinton was sworn into office. For the past six years, one of the most flamboyant presidencies has been lived out and still continues to this very day. In th...