Carlton Sharpe Reaction to Regan’s Speech In Ronald Regan’s speech at the “Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention”, he claims that “America has been sleepwalking far too long” and that they should begin to “Honor the dead by helping the living” – “Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention”. Regan wants to begin reform in America by first, honoring and taking care of veterans and ensuring that their well-being is takin care of. He states that veterans that are in need of medical care are denied hospital and medical care because of inadequate funding which has closed hospital beds and cut health care programs. Throughout the speech Regan touched on America’s involvement in numerous wars and tries to justify why we were involved and he also truthful explains …show more content…
his outlook on them, like in regards to the Korean War and how it became our first “No Win War”. Regan also states how because of actions that America took we “find ourselves increasingly in a position of dangerous isolation”, meaning that other nations including our allies are looking at America as a bully that feels it can do what it pleases. Regan feels that America can find an alternative path for peace, we must remember that we have allies that look to us to provide leadership and remain strong and not only consider their interests, but also their security. I feel as though some of Regan’s point were accurate, veterans do deserve proper health care and I personally feel that we could have went about certain situations differently when it came to wars, but I feel as though Regan didn’t address certain issues that he should have.
The first more pressing issue is the issue of racial discrimination. America had made some strides in this regard, but it was still an issue that needed to be address in matters of; employment, fighting in the military and education. Until 1960 African Americans were treated as second class citizens, black student usually had less resources and less quality of teachers and facilities than white students. In college segregation lead to the development of black private and public schools. Some of these colleges could only teach curricula at a secondary level because there was no public high schools for blacks. Health care for blacks wasn’t much better, segregation has been linked to lower health outcomes for African Americans. Research showed that most black communities were located in highly toxic environments that were not well served by public services and lack adequate medical services and have higher housing costs and cost of living. The rate for infant mortality for African Americans was significantly higher than whites, the death rate for southern blacks was much higher than for whites. “Segregation 101 …show more content…
http://segregation-opportunity-race.tumblr.com/”. The US involvement in Guatemala initially seemed like it had good intentions, but in turn America’s attempt to help another country seemed to make things almost no better than they were before. The US involved itself to prevent the spread of communism throughout Guatemala because it would eventually reach US soil given how close Guatemala is to the US. President Eisenhower authorized the covert group “PBSUCCESS” in 1953 to use “psychological warfare and political action” to help get the President of Guatemala, Arbenz, out of office. Apparently there was a list of memos of “Guatemalan Communist Personnel to be disposed of”, this list contained 58 names of people who were to be assassinated all of these names the CIA excised from the declassified documents. The option of assassination was not considered by the psychological group “Operation Sherwood”, but the last step called for the roundup of all communist collaborators. Once the CIA installed Castillo Armas in power, hundreds of Guatemalans were killed, between 1954 and 1990. Human right groups estimate the military regimes murdered more than 100,000 citizens. “Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh, CIA and Assassinations, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/”. So details of what happened in Guatemala were excluded from what the public was told, using fear to control their people and the US could have prevented it from happening. Despite me stating certain events that are not the most honorable in the history of America there are also points in time when we handled thing accordingly and compromised for the better of all.
In 1959, Fidel Castro became leader of Cuba and aligned himself with the Soviet Union who at the time were still involved in the Cold War with the United States. A pilot of a U-2 spy plane photographed a Soviet SS-4 medium range ballistic missile being assembled. President Kennedy got word of this and assembled a team of advisors and officials known as “ExCom”. The threat came from the fact that nuclear missiles were being assembled so close to US soil. On October, 24 Soviet ships headed to Cuba, but encountered a blockade from US ships. After President Kennedy and Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev went back and forth, Nikita agreed to dismantle all Russian missiles based in Cuba and send them back to the Soviet Union. President Kennedy had agreed that the US would not invade Cuba and would eventually lift the US naval blockade imposed on the island. The blockade continued until effective UN inspection ensured that the missiles in Cuba were dismantled.”1962: World relief as Cuban missile crisis
ends”. America has made questionable decisions in regards to things that happen here in the US and the way we went about helping other nations. On one hand we preach about freedom and equality to other nations yet people here in our own country weren’t always afforded the same rights, so why would other countries rely on us. We have a history on excluding important facts and telling some of the truth, so how can you be credible? On the other hand we have extended our hand and helped certain situations improve. I feel as though each person has to look at America’s history for themselves and come up with their own conclusion, I believe we have had good intention’s at times and just horrible execution and we have also went about things the wrong way.
In January of 1959 , Communist dicator Fidel Castro took over Cuba. The United States in 1961 tried to overthrow Fidel by arming rebels and attempting to support them. This was the failure known as the Bay of Pigs. In October of 1962 , The US finds evidence that medium range nuclear sites had been installed in Cuba. They annonce that on the twenty-third that a quatntine was being Cuba and that any ship carrying offensive weapons to Cuba wasn’t allowed. Five days later , the crisis was averted when the Soviets began to remove the
1 The missiles were being brought to Cuba by Russian leader, Nikita Khrushchev, who guaranteed President Kennedy that the missiles would never be used as a weapon against the United States. This is a lie. Khrushchev fully intended to use the missiles as a mechanism of defense against the United States and as a way to further pursue a relationship with Fidel Castro, who was the President of Cuba at the time. The United States needed to find a way to stop the development of missile sites without causing a break out of violent warfare.
The Soviet Union and the United States were very distant during three decades of a nuclear arms race. Even though the two nations never directly had a battle, the Cuban Missile Crisis, amongst other things, was a result of the tension. The missile crisis began in October of 1962, when an American spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba. JFK did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles, so he made his decisions very secretly. Eventually, Kennedy decided to place a ring of ships around Cuba and place missiles in Turkey. Eventually, both leaders superpowers realized the possibility of a nuclear war and agreed to a deal in which the Soviets would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US didn't invade Cuba. Even though the Soviets removed took their missiles out of Cuba and the US eventually taking their missiles out of Turkey, they (the Soviets) continued to build a more advanced military; the missile crisis was over, but the arms race was not.
Though social problems affect a wide variety of people from all races, classes, and cultures; minorities, specifically African Americans, encounter social problems on a multi-dimensional basis. Poverty, employment rates, discrimination, and other social problems strike African Americans in such a way that it is nearly impossible to separate them; each individual has different background, socially and physically, that would determine in which order his or her social problems need to be solved. Impoverished blacks in the inner city may have difficulty finding or keeping jobs, while others may have jobs, but face troubles with work discrimination that prevent them from moving upward .Underemployment, workplace inequalities, and unbalanced medical attention are three closely related social problems that, if ameliorated together, could increase upward mobility, decrease poverty levels, and tighten the lifespan gaps for not only blacks, but also other minority groups. The purpose of this paper is to show what effects these three problems have for blacks.
The Cuban Missile Crisis began with a set of photographs taken over Cuba by an American pilot.2 These photographs showed that Russians were building missile bases in Cuba and placing missiles and atomic weapons there that were easily within range of the United States. President JFK and Robert Kennedy were both stunned. From this point a board of advisors was created and called the Ex Comm, who met every day during those thirteen days and debated the various courses of actions, and consequences of each, that the president could take. Kennedy emphasizes the making of this board as a lesson for future government officials because he believes that it "proved conclusively how important it is that the President have the recommendations and opinions of more than one...point of view."3
Millions of viewers tuned into the National Broadcasting Company television network for a special broadcast on the 27th of October. Viewers were anticipating Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” speech. Reagan was acknowledged for his acting in motion pictures and television episodes since 1937, and was now being seen in an unfamiliar role. Reagan emerged in support of the Republican nominee Barry Goldwater. Barry Morris Goldwater was a businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election. “A Time for Choosing” was effective, because he gave personal examples to capture the audiences’ attention, and gave humor to a tough subject.
In 1987, the President of the United States at the time was Ronald Reagan. Everyone has their differing opinions when it comes to judging the quality of the job a President has done. There are many factors that cause biased opinions. Some of these include your political party affiliation, your viewpoint on the social matters that were going on at the time, and your economic standing. Despite all these varying viewpoints, people can agree upon one thing when it comes to Ronald Reagan. That one thing is that in 1987, when turmoil due to post-war political issues split Germany into two sides, Reagan made a speech that is known as “The Speech at Brandenburg Gate” that altered the course of history. His exalted rhetoric was highly touted at the
This obstacle caused Blacks to not have a voice in the USA’s political decisions. Furthermore, they were left with the worst jobs in town and had the poorest schools because of segregation (The Change in Attitudes.). In the southern states, compared to White schooling, the Blacks received one-third of school funding. The White people dominated the states and local government with their decisions and made sure that the Blacks were weak. They weren’t being treated in hospitals because the doctors refused to do treatment on them.
Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, segregation in the United States was commonly practiced in many of the Southern and Border States. This segregation while supposed to be separate but equal, was hardly that. Blacks in the South were discriminated against repeatedly while laws did nothing to protect their individual rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ridded the nation of this legal segregation and cleared a path towards equality and integration. The passage of this Act, while forever altering the relationship between blacks and whites, remains as one of history’s greatest political battles.
On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy reached out to America and the Cubans with his Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation. During this time, the Cold War had occupied several countries of world. This war resulted from tensions, military and political, between Russia and its allies and America, its allies, and the Western Hemisphere. When President Kennedy gave his speech, Russia had occupied Cuba and began building military bases that contained nuclear warheads and other deadly missiles. People of America saw this as a threat to the freedom of the U.S. and the Western Hemisphere. In a time of great tension and fear, President Kennedy delivered his spectacular and reassuring speech that appealed to the citizens of American in several ways.
In the final decades of the 20th century, education has continued to evolve in order to meet society's demands. The transformation of society has created numerous problems in the educational system. These problems consist of the segregation of races, religions, social classes, and politics. In the earlier part of the 20th century, African-Americans were segregated within schools. They were placed into lower-class school systems with little extra-curricular activities, limited resources, and lower quality teachers.
“The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader” edited by Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh and “Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse” by James G. Blight will be evaluated by referring to their origin, purpose, value and limitation.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the United States. Reagan was 69, making him the oldest president to be elected. He was commonly known as the two-term president who redefined American politics during the 1980’s. Before presidency, Reagan served as the governor of California. He even had his five minutes of fame as in actor in Hollywood! In 1980, Reagan received the Republican party nomination in the general election. Reagan and his running mate, George H. W Bush, faced off against Jimmy Carter. Reagan won the election by an electoral margin of 489 to 49. He also captured 51% of the popular vote. In 1984, Reagan was in the running for re-election. His campaign trail took him to various cities in the United States. One important stop being Parkersburg, where he spoke at Parkersburg High School.
The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted two weeks in the midst of the Cold War, and brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before. In October of 1962 multiple nuclear missiles of the Soviet Union’ s were discovered in Cuba, a mere 90 miles south of the United States. Given the communist ties between Cuba and the USSR, this poised a considerable threat to our national security. Throughout the 14 days the two leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev struggled to clearly understand each others‘ genuine intentions. Actions taken by each state during this crisis demonstrates the realist point of view, in a variety of ways. The fundamentals of Realism will be explored and explained along with actions taken during this crisis from a realist point of view.
Diversity, we define this term today as one of our nation’s most dynamic characteristics in American history. The United States thrives through the means of diversity. However, diversity has not always been a positive component in America; in fact, it took many years for our nation to become accustomed to this broad variety of mixed cultures and social groups. One of the leading groups that were most commonly affected by this, were African American citizens, who were victimized because of their color and race. It wasn’t easy being an African American, back then they had to fight in order to achieve where they are today, from slavery and discrimination, there was a very slim chance of hope for freedom or even citizenship. This longing for hope began to shift around the 1950’s during the Civil Rights Movement, where discrimination still took place yet, it is the time when African Americans started to defend their rights and honor to become freemen like every other citizen of the United States. African Americans were beginning to gain recognition after the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, which declared all people born natural in the United States and included the slaves that were previously declared free. However, this didn’t prevent the people from disputing against the constitutional law, especially the people in the South who continued to retaliate against African Americans and the idea of integration in white schools. Integration in white schools played a major role in the battle for Civil Rights in the South, upon the coming of independence for all African American people in the United States after a series of tribulations and loss of hope.