American Imperialism In The Philippines

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) Miss Columbia’s School House at 1894 and Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines at 1899 illustrates the perception of being foreigners among the Americans. Among the short male figures outside the gates, is Hawaii (the men is carrying the Hawaiian flag) and Alaska. Around the 1950’s, the two states became part of America. Miss Columbia is the teacher and is in charged among the students. But inside the school house there is somewhat chaos happening with the different diverse people. An African American is running away from the school because a white male is stabbing him with some type of weapon. In 1865, slavery was outlawed but segregation was still permitted until 1964. African American were treated poorly among …show more content…

Chinese immigrants were treated unfairly and normally were attacked. As Chinese immigrants grew, so did the sinophobia. On the swing, a Native American is pushed aggressively by another men. United States did indeed pushed Native Americans around. Their freedom, land, tradition, and family were all changed. Many Natives American were moved into reservations, surrendering large portion land to United States. Aguinaldo was the military general for the Filipinos. Aguinaldo quickly explains that Americans mistook the Philippines as an unfit country. America expect much less from the Filipinos. As Aguinaldo explain that America was too a rebel and fought to be separate from Great Britain, to gain freedom. America made great promises to the country but instead a war broke out among the two countries. The two documents showed how Americans treated the foreigners more differently. Majority of the people were the white population and the minority of the country were treated …show more content…

America is only great because the millions of God-feared people who represent it. But there is challenges that America faced, for example birth control pills permitted to underage girls. Regan completely disagree that businesses allowed underage girls to get birth control pills without parents. Parents should be involve because they are not adult yet. United States should practice on good morals because that is how the country was founded upon. The Founding Fathers permitted the First Amendment, to protect churches from government rule. Even, United States’ currency implicates, “In God We Trust”. Reagan also states the importance of schoolchildren the approval to pray in school. Abortion shouldn’t be permitted in the country, because they are still living beings. A survey was taken to question the percentage of people who had faith, which is 95 percent. But there is evilness among the world which is communism. The Soviet Union who practiced communism, don’t permitted faith in the country. Senator Barack Obama address the “A More Perfect Union” Speech (March 18, 2008) This untimely won his election presidency while he address the past history of America. During, the election Obama got criticized because he was, “too black” or “not black often”. But, states the problem is not the skin color but who is going to bring order in United States. In the past,

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