During the 2000's America had plenty to worry about. Politics were changing as well as American values, we were entering wars and involving ourself, our economy was Improvong after the recession, out innovations became common, and our culture spread rapidly. America was on the way to achieving much more than anyone knew. Every aspect of America seemed indulging. Women started demanding better treatment, which they received. The increasing role of women owning there own businesses Has increased to 50 percent. (the Americans 1121) Although women are getting more opportunities they still are making 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. (A 1120) Conflict started to rise, the attack on September 11 made the United States realize they needed to …show more content…
fight terrorism. The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center recorded over 14,000 terrorist incidents worldwide in 2006. (A 1100) After the attack on 9/11 the U.S. called for a renewal of arms inspections in Iraq. (A 1104) These are some examples of why the 2000's were great but horrific as well. In 2006 women received a record number, 50 percent of all doctorate degrees.(A 1120) Women have started gaining control and have achieved the closest thing to equality.
Research in 2004 states out if 10.6 million firms at least 50 percent were owned by women. ( A 1122) Along side respect for women out immigrant system changed dramatically. America increase funding, Bush passed a home land security act that tried to prevent future terrorist attacks. The U.S. Increased the number of criminals deported from the United States. A new immigrant enforce my program began. All in an effort to stop immigration. (Tod Hesson …show more content…
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/ways-immigration-system-changed-911/story?id=17231590) Pop culture also changed in the 2000's, the first iPod was released and that was a huge start to the innovative iPhone. Flip flops became a fashion. Adult swim and Cartoon Network were both added to the television. Jay z was popularized in the 2000's. In 2001 the Yankees a near perfect team lost, something nobody thought would happen. Pat Tillman was on the verge of greatness stated by Tyler Thompson ( bleacherreport.com) He was going to change the NFL when he decided to enlist in the army. This hero thought nothing could happen to him but sadly he was wrong when he was shot and killed by U.S. Soldiers unaware of his presence due to lack of radio communication as well as failure of radio communication. ASU dedicates several things to this hero including a Pat Tillman run to raise money for the Pat Tillman foundation. Lastly us aim Bolt dominates the 200 and 100 meter and gets 2 world records this occurs in 2008 and 2009. The economy was was a disaster, unemployment rate was high and the country was panicking.
The Great Recession started in late 2007 when an 8 trillion dollar housing bubble bursted.(stateofworkingamerica.org)/great-recession/) 8.4 million jobs were lost which was about 6 percent of the American work force. The recession lasted about 2 years and effected America harshly. American households lost around 16 trillion dollors in net worth in the 2 year span. At the end of the recession America recovered about 14.6 trillion dollors of the lost money. Stated by the article near the end of the recession the economy still had 5.4 percent fewer jobs than it did at the beginning of the recession, this reason along with the extraordinarily slow recover grants this time period as
horrific. The achievements and goals the U.S. have accomplished in the technology field have been outstanding. The iPhone was created and Innovated several times throughout its lifetime. This was a mini computer that fit in your hand basically doing anything you need, except making you a sandwich. The basic function of Wi-Fi was created and expanded soon coming to every household. This helped to further creat technology for several purposes such as war. A high energy laser was designed to shoot down artillery fire in 2007. This leads the way to plasma research as well as a pulse laser that could push you over. George W. Bush was president of the United States from 2001-2009. He was the leader who brought America back from depression after the attach on 9/11. He made a lot of trips out of the country for example on March 1, 2006 him and his wife visited American troops in Afghanistan. He also met with the president Hamid Karzai. He had a tough job as president but managed to do well. American soldiers have been fighting in Afghanistan from 2001-2014. They were searching for the Al-Qaeda terrorist group and their leader Osama bin Laden. The Iraq war which started in 2003 and lasted 7 years was an attack by America and Great Britain trying to destroy the government of the dictator dames Saddam Hussein. The attack on terrorists have been an ongoing search starting with the 9/11 attacks. We to this day are trying to protect ourselves from these terrorist groups. The Great Recession was a huge crisis for America changing the lives of a large portion of America. The 2000's were full of great accomplishments and several disasters. The Great Recession and 9/11 are two examples of negative occurrences that happened. The U.S. also had plenty of positive experiences with their technology and innovations of ancient technologies. Politics technology and our American values were extremely positive. Advancements made life easier and a strong president to keep the United State's moral high was an attribute. While economics our foreign affairs were at a severe downfall. The 2000's had a tough time dealing with the terrorist attacks and loosing trillions of dollars and for that reason the 2000's were the worst decade in the past 70 years.
2007-2008-2009 global financial crisis - many people compared to the experience to another large scale depression - now coined “great recession”
middle of paper ... ... It is evident that although we may be entering into a recession on different terms than the one before, the United States is still in danger of once again becoming a victim of another Great Depression. The Great Depression is a time in the history of the United States that people have learned and gained knowledge from. Its harsh times and conflicts have been written about in books, seen in movies, talked about on radios, and told to families throughout the generations.
Throughout the 1980s, which was one of the most interesting decades there were, Americans only focused on the things that life offered them…not life as it was. The materialistic, glamorous, and technological aspects were obviously great contributors, there was some down fall with the economy also.
Since being founded, America became a capitalist society. Being a capitalist society obtains luxurious benefits and rather harsh consequences if gone bad. In a capitalist society people must buy products and spend money to keep the economy balanced, but once those people stop spending money, the economy goes off balance and the nation enters a recession. Once a recession drastically takes a downturn, the nation enters what is known as a depression. In 2008 America entered a recession and its consequences were severe enough for some people, such as President Barack Obama, to compare the recent crisis to the world’s darkest economic depression in history, the Great Depression. Although the Great Depression and the Great Recession of 2008 hold similarities and differences between the stock market and government spending, political issues, lifestyle changes, and wealth distribution, the Great Depression proved far more detrimental consequences than the Recession.
The 20th century brought about many changes, with several events molding society in the way we know of it today. With the Great Depression, World War 2 , and the Cold War, America faced many internal and external threats, that endangered the American way of life and forced the country to reshape it’s views to move past events that seemed, at the time, to be the lowest points.
Every citizen of the United State was grant the right to vote since their birth in the United State or when they passed
Every few years, countries experience an economic decline which is commonly referred to as a recession. In recent years the U.S. has been faced with overcoming the most devastating global economic hardships since the Great Depression. This period “a period of declining GDP, accompanied by lower real income and higher unemployment” has been referred to as the Great Recession (McConnell, 2012 p.G-30). This paper will cover the issues which led to the recession, discuss the strategies taken by the Government and Federal Reserve to alleviate the crisis, and look at the future outlook of the U.S. economy. By examining the nation’s economic struggles during this time period (2007-2009), it will conclude that the current macroeconomic situation deals with unemployment, which is a direct result of the recession.
Looking back to the Carter and Reagan Administration’s, you can begin to see where the Recession originated from. Prior to the Reagan administration, the United States economy experienced a decade of rising unemployment and inflation. Political pressure favored stimulus resulting in an expansion of the money supply. Reagan wanted to increase defense spending while lowering taxes, Reagan's approach was a departure from his immediate predecessors. Reagan enacted lower marginal tax rates in combination with simplified income tax codes and continued deregulation. During Reagan's presidency the annual deficits averaged 4.2% of GDP after inheriting an annual deficit of 2.7% of GDP in 1980 under President Carter. The real
The nineteenth century encountered some of most revolutionary movements in the history of our nation, and of the world – the movements to abolish slavery and the movement for women’s rights. Many women participated alongside men in the movement to abolish slavery, and “their experience inspired feminist social reformers to seek equality with men” (Bentley, Ziegler, and Streets-Salter 2015, pg. 654). Their involvement in the abolition movement revealed that women suffered many of the same legal disadvantages as slaves, most noticeably their inability to access the right to vote. Up until this time, women had little success in mobilizing their efforts to gain the right to vote. However, the start of the women’s rights movement in the mid-1800s, involving leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, paved the path for the expansion of women’s rights into the modern century.
Feminism is a political movement that seeks equality between the sexes. Motivated by the search for social justice, feminist analysis provides a wide range of perspectives on social, cultural, economic, and political ideologies. Important topics for feminist politics and theory include: the body, class and work, family life, globalization, human rights, popular culture, race and racism, reproduction, sex work, human trafficking, and sexuality. From early beginnings, to its current state, feminism has been a pervasive movement that has incited social, political and economic change and advancements. Generationally speaking, over the decades feminism has taken on many different meanings. Feminism has become a spectrum; each generation, or wave,
The Women’s Suffrage Movement was successful in that it achieved its original goal of earning voting rights for women. This movement officially began in the United States in 1848 at the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. They drafted 12 resolutions calling for voting rights for women and overall equal treatment of women. This historic conference created a primary goal of obtaining voting rights for women. The first national women’s rights convention was held two years later in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts. This convention held over 1,000 participants and started an annual national convention.
The women’s movement had been characterized by women's wish to acquire equal legal status to men by obtaining civil and political rights recorded in the Constitution and legislation. In Romania, the first wave of the feminist movement had been held simultaneously with the women’s movement in West, and it had been a movement of the elite, educated women with access to international information. An important period of this movement was before the establishment of the Romanian Constitution in 1923. It was the most democratic Constitution and women started an intense activity of lobbying for their rights until 1947. Between 1947 and 1989 Romania was pushed under Soviet influence by the Red Curtain, and the feminist activity was eradicated. Although Communism proclaimed gender equality between men and women, this had been acted contradictorily in public sphere and private life. Freedom has been detracted by the Communist Party, and women’s private lives had been controlled by the Party by limiting their legal rights. After the Romanian Revolution in 1989, it was taken a modest initiative on the situation of gender equality and women’s rights in Romanian society. Since 1989 until the present, Romanian women’s roles and rights in society is becoming a priority in Romania. In addition, the promotion of equal opportunities for women and men is also a priority in the democracy, and under Western influence and European legislation. This essay will attempt to outline the difficulties representing the causes of the women’s movement and some of the effects of social, economic and political rights.
What caused the Great Recession that lasted from December 2007 to June 2009 in the United States? The United States a country with abundance of resources from jobs, education, money and power went from one day of economic balance to the next suffering major dimensions crisis. According to the Economic Policy Institute, it all began in 2007 from the credit crisis, which resulted in an 8 trillion dollar housing bubble (n.d.). This said by Economist analysts to attributed to the collapse in the United States. Even today, strong debates continue over major issues caused by the Great Recession in part over the accommodative federal monetary and fiscal policy (Economic Policy Institute, 2013). The Great Recession of 2007 – 2009 enlarges the longest financial crisis since the Great Depression of 1929 – 1932 that damaged the economy.
Social movements refer to informal groups of people who focus on either political or social issues. The goal of the social movement is to change things in society, to refuse to go along with the norm, and to undo a social change. For example, the Women’s Rights Movement that began in the 1840s was geared towards getting women more equality in relation to political, social, and economic status in society (Foner). Along with this, women gained a louder voice to speak out about what they wanted to change and implemented the change. Prior to the Women’s Rights Movement, women were often timid, compliant, obedient, and mistreated. After the 1920s, a movement towards more equality was shifted in society views, however not all were convinced or changed by the new ideas of women. Although women began to get increased rights, the typical gender roles, which they were expected to follow did not loosely lesson. Women still found themselves doing the same gender roles, house roles, and family roles even after the 1920s. It was not until the 1960s when the Feminist movement began (Foner). The literary piece is “Why I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady and the goal of the Feminist Movement was to create new meanings and realities for women in terms of education, empowerment, occupation, sexual identity, art, and societal roles. In short, the Feminist Movement was aimed to gain women freedom, equal opportunity and be in control over their own life.
“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality,” this was stated by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a very crucial women’s suffragist. Over time, women’s history has evolved due to the fact that women were pushing for equal rights. Women were treated as less than men. They had little to no rights. The Women’s Rights Movement in the 1800’s lead up to the change in women’s rights today. This movement began in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention. For the next 72 years, women continually fought for equal rights. In 1920, they gained the right to vote which ended the movement and opened the opportunity for more change in women’s lives. Because of the Women’s Rights Movement, women today are able to vote, receive