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Spanish American War Open Door Policy
451 words
America had remained mostly an isolated country
until the late 1800 s when the United States was
faced with the opportunity of building a colonial
empire. By 1890 the United States, like Europe,
had began to expand its influence onto islands in
the Caribbean and South Pacific areas. They
entered in other countries affairs claiming that
it served the interests of all peoples and were
motivated by Idealism. In reality, the United
States was mostly after its own self-interest. The
Spanish-American ...
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Meyer Lansky Lucky Luciano
1,867 words
Charles "Lucky" Luciano, without doubt the most
important Italian-American gangster this country
ever produced, left a far greater impact on the
underworld than even the illustrious Al Capone. In
1931, Luciano created what can be called the
American Mafia by wiping out the last important
exponents of the Sicilian-style Mafia in this
country. Together with Meyer Lansky, Luciano was
also a founder of the Mafia's "parent"
organization, the national crime syndicate, a
network of multi-ethnic crimina...
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Woodrow Wilson Military Force
735 words
TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA FORM MILITARILIZED
INDUSTRIAL NATION TO POWERFUL MILITARY FORCE.
(1898 1941) Before 1898, Americans perspective
seems to be procrastinating to foreign wars, even
though world suffered from tyranny. In 1898,
Americans fate was altered by one major decision.
The nation experienced a historic turn from being
republic to becoming a monarchy. In this year the
government decided to host a war against Spanish
to free Cuba and Philippines from the Spanish
despotism. American pr...
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Early 20 Th Century War With Spain
1,513 words
The end of the nineteenth century was a turning
point in United States foreign policy. The paper
analyses what motivated United States to move from
isolationism to expansionism. The paper discusses
how the U. S. saw its position in the world by the
early 20 th century. Outline Introduction
Discussion Late 19 th century politics
Isolationist and expansionist views Economic and
geographical causes for expansionism Political
causes Conclusion The U. S. History Powerful and
productive in the world o...
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The Cold War And New World Order
2,165 words
The Cold War and the New World Order (1) It would
not be an exaggeration to say that Gold War served
as metaphysical foundation, upon which
international relations were based, from the time
of Churchill's famous Fulton speech in 1946, to
1991, when Soviet Union has painlessly ceased to
exist. One month prior to committing suicide in
his bunker, Hitler had prophesied: With the defeat
of the Reich and pending the emergence of the
Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South
American nationalisms, ...
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Puerto Ricans Mexican Americans
1,085 words
Hispanic American Diversity Hispanic Americans are
a large ethnic group that can be divided into four
big sub-groups: Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans,
Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. The
representatives of these groups can be known as
Latinos, and have Spanish roots. First people of
Hispanic background have appeared in the United
States since 17 th century. It is the
fastest-growing minority group in the United
States. Though the representatives of four groups
belong to the same Hispa...
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Criminal Justice System Tony Blair
2,352 words
Articles Critique The race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the
wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, Nor success
to the skilful; Time and chance govern all.
Ecclesiastes. There is a wild spirit of adventure
that looks like malice. Nietzsche. In the two
articles The Australian left to rot behind bars by
Gay Alcorn and Justice required but mercy is not
by Piers Akerman authors discuss whether David
Hicks, an Australian citizen and a member of
Al-Queda is fairly kept ...
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United States Of America Soviet Socialist
200 words
The United States of America is a country that
believes in democracy and has unfavorable ties
with communist countries. The United States has
tried for decades to improve relations with the
countries that don t practice democracy. History
shows disagreements between the United States and
dictators of these irreverent countries,
disagreements that brought the world to the brink
of nuclear war. The most recent of these
confrontations involved three countries. United
States of America, Cuba and the...
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Ponce De Leon Puerto Rico
507 words
Ponce de Leon was a sailor and explorer for Spain.
He had been given governorship of Hispaniola where
he soon discovered that on Puerto Rico gold was
found. He soon conquered the island and was given
governorship of it. From the gold he became very
wealthy. He soon learned of an Indian tale of an
island called Bimini. On the Island There were
supposedly lots if gold and pearls and a mystical
fountain that could restore ones youth. Ponce de
Leon asked for and received permission to conquer
and se...
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Make A Decision Elian Gonzalez
1,354 words
Is it possible for a six-year-old boy to
successfully seek asylum in the United Sates
against his fathers wishes? This is the main point
of exploration in the April 21, 2000 article (off
the wire) that appeared in The Plain Dealer. The
article relates, to be granted asylum, people must
show that they were persecuted or had a legitimate
fear of persecution in their home country because
of race, religion, nationality, membership in a
social group or political opinions. According to
the article, th...
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Abolish Slavery Fugitive Slave
1,818 words
What Was the Crittenden Compromise, Why Was It
Written, and Why Did It Fail? The Crittenden
Compromise was more or less a last ditch effort to
avert secession of the Southern states and the
likely ensuing civil war. The mid-nineteenth
century was a time when many people had their own
views of slavery (the main cause of secession),
and how Congress should handle it. Northern
abolitionists wanted an end to slavery; however,
southerners were opposed to such a drastic
measure. In the midst of Senato...
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Care Centers Extended Family
746 words
Cubans are Hispanics, of course, and 40 years of
socialism have not completely erased the
traditional Hispanic values that Cubans have
always held. In fact, there is evidence that the
Cuban brand of socialism has been tailored
somewhat to complement, or at least not to
confront directly, the traditional values. Cuban
Hispanics, however, has always been tempered by
influences from its Black community, and many of
these influences have been given pride of place by
the socialist government in fulfi...
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Policy Of Containment Involvement In Vietnam
1,276 words
Domestic and Foreign Policies Throughout our
history, many policies have been made to deal with
domestic or foreign issues or conflicts. One
example of domestic policies were the reforms FDR
created called the New Deal. An example of a
foreign policy was that of containment used after
WWII. In the 1930 s our country and many others
around the world went through a financial
depression. The Depression was mostly attributed
to the stock market crash in 1929. President
Hoover who served before FDR t...
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Elian Political Boy
404 words
The swarms of rumors and tons of media coverage
form a shaded cloud around one boy, his name Elian
Gonzalez. Elian has been crowded by cameras,
flashes and political leaders all poking at his
future. I believe that Elian should go home to
Cuba where he could live peacefully out of the
American medias blood hound reporters camera
flashes and editorials. Elian's father and his
family should be able to come to terms and decide
on the fate of this young child. He is just being
used as a puppet in th...
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Russo Japanese War Open Door Policy
1,046 words
Imperialism is the pursuit of colonial empires.
Many countries took part in this, but none quite
like the United States. The motivation that the
United States had to get involved in such an
enormous task was first shown in Samoa in 1889.
After that important part of United States
history, there were many more events that occurred
in the eyes of United States imperialism. There
were many positive aspects concerning America s
intervening with other countries affairs. These
proved to shape the soci...
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Parce Qu Tom Cruise
346 words
|Jerry Maguire X Certain de gagner toutes sorte's
de prix, |Jerry Maguire X marque un |touchdown X
pour toutes les personnes qui a travail sur le
film. Les vedette's sont Tom Cruise et Cuba
Gooding Jr. , qui deserve beaucoup de cr dit. Le
film se sent tr s court, et les deux heures et
demi passe tr s vite's. |Jerry Maguire X est un
des peu de films qui > toutes les emotions san
avoir l+appearance d+ tre peu sinc re. M me si le
personage central est un agent sportif qui est
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House Of Representatives Fitzgerald Kennedy
1,072 words
John Jfk John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy
was born on May 29 th, 1917 in Brookline,
Massachusetts. John was the second of nine
children born to Joseph Patrick and Rose
Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was brought up in a family
that demanded intense physical and intellectual
competition among the children and he was taught
in the teachings of the Roman Catholic church and
the political precepts of the Democratic Party. He
graduated from Harvard University, and he
published the best-seller Why Engla...
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Mambo Kings Play Songs Mambo Kings Play Night
1,081 words
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Harper Collins
Publishers 1989 407 Pages (No Bibliography, Pics,
Maps or Index) The book that I read was rather
pornographic. It was a story about 2 brothers and
6 other people who put together a band and played
in clubs almost every night. After playing their
gigs, they? d go off and get drunk and then go
sleep with about 4 different girls every night.
None of them were settled down because they always
were going places and meeting new people. They
started the...
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Vargas Llosa Latin America
2,295 words
Latin American concern about nationalism goes
beyond simply coping with routine affairs of
national existence. It is a concern over the
legitimacy of that existence and an uncertainty
over what it means. It is a question of national
identity. It is also a question of regional
identity; for no matter the distinctions between
states, the many historical, cultural and
linguistic ties also provide an ambiance of
continental nationalism, a general Latin American
nationalism, that is equally as import...
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Sleep Sleep African Religion
1,612 words
In order to understand this work better, it is
important to have a bit of background information.
This story between a man and a woman, a mother and
her son, takes place in Cuba in the early to mid
nineteen hundreds at a time of carnival. They are
both mulatto's. For the Afro-Cubans, and other
Cubans alike, this time of carnival is a time of
worship and praise. In the Afro-Cuban religion of
Lucumi, or Santeria, the gods are worshipped and
praised especially at this time of carnival. The
Lucumi r...
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