Although President Richard Nixon is known more for the Watergate scandal and as the only US President to have resigned from office, he was responsible for introducing a number of bold and innovative foreign policy initiatives during his presidency. When Nixon took over the office of US President in 1969, the Vietnam War was the main issue in the country. During his election campaign, Nixon had promised to bring the American soldiers home. He started to implement a "Vietnamiza

The United States first got involved in Vietnam when President Harry Truman extended official international recognition of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia on Feb. 7, 1950 (according to Professor Sandra Whittman, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines Illinois). This recognition by Truman was by way of taking sides with the south, as the north's communist-led aggression led American presidents to fear the "Domino Theory": when one country falls

This is a two page paper that compares how three Presidents dealt with civil rights.

Life in the U.S. and throughout the world in the 1950s was in a state of flux. It was anything but stable and quiet. Rather, it was a time of change, rock and roll and international instability. The United States was undergoing a new "look." Tract homes as those constructed in Levittown, Long Island, introduced the world of suburbia, and families started to make their way from urban to the once rural areas. This move was furthered by the expansion of the nation's interstate highway system and the affordability and need for an auto

It was the year that encapsulated all the tumultuousness, the violence, the anger and the idealism of the 1960s. So many important and tragic events occurred in 1968 that it is rightly considered the most pivotal year in recent American history. Vietnam was on everyone's mind in 1968 and it was the bloodiest year of the entire War[1]. The astonishing Tet offensive by the North Vietnamese forces that swept through South Vietnam and even threatened to over-run the American Embassy in Saigon exploded the myth of an imminent American victory in the War. The event shocked the

Three different e-business models will be presented in this paper, using specific corporations to illustrate several different aspects of each e- business model. Leaders in each category were selected to illustrate the various e-business models, with Intel as an example of a B2B company, Eddie Bauer as a B2C company, and eBay as a C2C company. Each model will be explained individually, and then the similarities and differences between these three businesses and their respective business model will be presented in the conclusion.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of the Internet and language. Specifically, it will explore and discuss how the Internet has affected our language and our understanding of language, along with the cultural changes that have influenced the Internet use of language, and how the Internet has influenced our society. The Internet has changed the way people communicate, and it has created a new language of its own. Language is always evolving, and the Internet, and the language it has created, is a constant reminder of how language changes, and how it can never remain the same.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was truly one of America's greatest presidents. Regardless of nay hindsight or revisionist historical perspective assaulting his choices he was an integral part of America's recovery from two of the most devastating events of modern times, the Great Depression and WWII. "FDR may be credited with holding the nation together during the catastrophe of the Great Depression, patching together a welfare state American-style, and bringing a reluctant citizenry to support the embattled nations of Europe." [1] FDR was elected into challenging times and he prematurely left office, due to an untimely death during challenging times. The New Deal legislation that helped end the Great Depression was a huge challenge overcome. Yet, arguably the most difficult times FDR faced were associated with WWII and especially the attack on Pearl Harbor. Public outcries were rampant as the news of Pearl Harbor hit the media and began to spread through graphic photographs of U.S. ships burning and other visual atrocities. The death toll was a striking blow to the American public, who had so adamantly attempted to remain isolationists through the war in Europe. Yet, America had neve

In Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, we are introduced to the young Indian boy named Pi Patel. The novel follows Pi as he goes from India to Canada, and the challenges he faces along the way. These challenges are more extreme than most. As the son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, India, Pi and his family travel on a cargo ship along with the animals from his father's zoo. "Animals were sedated, cages were loaded and secured...the ship was worked out of the dock and piloted out to sea...I wildly waved goodbye to India...I was terribly excited." (chapter 35). When the ship sinks, Pi is forced onto a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra and a Bengal tiger. Life of Pi tells the story of how the protagonist survives this ordeal and makes it to North America, against all odds. The story of Life of Pi takes places almost entirely on the lifeboat where Pi is stranded with Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger. Although this could seem far-fetched or become boring after

Two years ago there was a student in my school I will call "Aaron." Aaron was a serious behavioral problem. He would repeat offensive phrases over and over, for instance repeatedly saying "Miss Murray farted! Miss Murray farted!" He would look around to see if the other students were paying attention to him, and then do it again. He struggled with academics unpredictably and resisted any work that involved writing. Sometimes his misbehavior seemed deliberate, such as in the case of repeating phrases that seemed designed to disrupt the class. At other times, however, he seemed to be in genuine distress. Unfortunately when he was stressed, he would run from the classroom. Aaron was thoroughly evaluated, including an extensive evaluation for autism, and was found to be autistic. He was provided with a full-time paraprofessional who was to be supervised and trained by the special education teacher. However, the paraprofessional had no formal training, and the special

The process of critical thinking involves "â€following evidence where it leads; considering all possibilities; relying on reason rather than emotion; being preciseâ€; weighing the effects of motives and biases; being concerned more with finding the truth than with being rightâ€." (Fowler, cited Kurland, para 10) Thus, it is evident that the process of critical thinking requires the assembling and organizing of data and thoughts in order to enable logical thinking. In addition, the organizing and ordering of data and thought facilitates inquiry, a process that is critical to the generation of new ideas. The importance of the role played by "organizing" in critical thinking is evidenced by the very fact that human kind owes much of its knowledge and progress to its efforts to learn and reproduce the patterns of order that exist in the universe (Kirby & Goodpaster, 1999, p. 119). Indeed, the origins of order or the organizing principle is to be found in the natural order of the universe itself. In fact, it is the observation of these natural orders that has enabled sci

Morocco is currently the world's sixth olive oil producer, with 550,000 hectares planted to olive trees, Moroccan agriculture minister Habib El Malki said (Morocco, Agriculture 1999). From these trees, Morocco produced 480,000 tons of olives, making the country the second largest exporter of olives. The minister also said that more oil-producing fruits would be planted in an additional 500,000 hectares in the next decade to increase their current production, which was only a third of the Morocco's potential, he added (Morocco, Agriculture). When this happens, the country could turn out more than 80,000 tons or a 78% increase (Karam 2003), given abundant rain currently present. Morocco used to be one of the largest olives groves in the Mediterranean Basin until massive deforestation and drought brought production levels down in the last decades. (An official was quoted as saying that Morocco's annual oil needs wer

While not to the extent of the paranoid, delusional schizophrenia that Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin suffers, in many ways, the novel "The Double" (Dostoyevsky, 1997) mirrors the social and moral attitudes of its author, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. Some of these attitudes come from Dostoyevsky's life experiences. These views he transmitted through his work. This essay will show that the author's protagonist Golyadkin is a metaphorical struggle for Dostoyevsky's soul and also the dichotomy that was Russia. It is a struggle to find an identity. And even the creation of a multiple personalities still leaves us looking. Without delving into a summary of the novel, consider only Golyadkin's character. He is hardly the physical Adonis-like specimen that we see heroes of novels, even if they are tragic heroes. He is slim of build. He is balding. He is also miserly. He hoards away his money from his job as a clerk i

The criminal justice system is designed to find and bring to justice individuals that have committed crimes. However, in some cases the innocent people are tried and convicted of crimes and end up serving prison sentences. In recent years, the advent and accuracy of DNA testing has exonerated many prisoners and aided in the finding of the individual (s) that committed the crime. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how prisoners are and can be serving prison sentences for crimes that they did not commit. The discussion will also discuss the decision-making process for the sentencing of prisoners.

The media provide links between people on many levels and in many facets of life. This is evident by the ubiquitous presence and use of the Television, Radio, and the Internet in modern day society, all over the world. In fact, to a large extent, human society today is organized around the mass media since it is the media that disseminates the information, news, views, and entertainment that is seen as essential to staying in touch with the events and trends in the world: "We are connected by the media as members of a global information cooperative. Information and culture are the raw materials of our civilization; the media are the web that holds civilization together." (Lowe, 1995, p. 12) Thus, it is pretty much irrefutable that the media can, and does, play an influential role in influencing and molding societal and cultural values. As such, it is important that the media fulfill its social responsibility by giving due precedence to issues and events that are impo

There is no stronger association in history than between the Middle Ages and religion. It seems that there is no work of history written during or since that does not make this connection. The faiths of the middle ages were the source of great triumph and great strife. There is no point where religion does not play a part from politics and law to individuality. The historical impression is one of countless individuals living and dying for their faith. Within the context of the Middle Ages there are three main faiths that all impacted the lives people and the reality of institutions and governments, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. This work will briefly address the impact and importance of all three faiths within the context of the Middle Ages. The foundational effects of religion upon the Middle Ages did not simply begin at the mark of the era change, whatever date is used. The importance of faith travels backward for almost as long as the records of hi

Within the school of thought associated with the ethics and morals of Christianity and Judaism there is a rift. Due to the history of Christianity being rooted in the Judaic tradition many theology experts and philosophers believe there to be many similarities between the moral infrastructures of the two faiths yet, believers often wish to point out the differences, as they represent additional reasons for the departure of the two faiths from one another. The reality is that on the issue of suffering, and God's purpose for it the Judaic and early Christian ideas are very similar to one another. It is for this reason that the issue of suffering can be seen as a grounding point or a point of middle ground between the two faiths, in both their history and their present. Our identities join us to communities of suffering. Being Jewish or Christian, for instance, is a manner of suffering and a way of valuing one's suffering. Veterans of wars as well a

"I didn't know what to do," the woman on the other end of the phone sounded near to tears. "I couldn't understand a word the person told me; I don't speak very good English." I could tell by her accent that like me, the woman was not a native English speaker. "Don't worry. We are here to help," I reassured her. "I can also help you to understand some of what the insurance company was trying to tell you so that you can decide which treatment program would best suit your needs. Don't ever be afraid to ask for helpâ€"that's what we are here for!" I continued the conversation in Spanish, explaining how the health care program worked and eliminating the jargon that all too often accompanies such conversations. I immediately noticed a change in her voice as I assured her that she was eligible for full coverage for her upcoming surgery under her current plan. She no longer sounded on the verge of tears and luckily, her health issue was not severe and we scheduled

During the early history of the United States there was little, if any respect for the principle of women's rights. In an intensely patriarchal society a man "†virtually owned his wife and children as he did his material possessions. If a poor man chose to send his children to the poorhouse, the mother was legally defenseless to object". [1] The history of the women's movements in the United States is largely a reaction to this system of exclusion and male-dominance. The start of the history of the fight for women's rights begins with a tea party hosted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in New York. Mrs. Stanton expressed her feelings of discontent at the situation of women in society, Stanton poured out her discontent with the limitations placed on her own situation under America's new democracy. Hadn't the American Revolution been fought just 70 years earlier to win the patriots

Immigration, into the United States, both legal and illegal is one of the most controversial issues in our society. Contrary to the popular belief that the United States has relatively open borders there are many restrictive laws limiting immigration and naturalization of citizens, often race or origin specific. Though most people, in the information era are more aware of these issues than they have been in the past, not honestly believing in the "poor and huddles masses" of the infamous quote on the statue of liberty there is still much common myth associated with immigration in the U.S. One of the most prevalent myths among the U.S. culture is that the immigration laws of the United States are fair and judicial, and contain little if any unethical foundations, such as racism. Speaking of the possible assumptions created by revisionist history Spiro points out a possible problem: One arrives at the following syllogism: The American experience is one

I feel good about the government using 18 to 21 years old to serve in the Peace Corps. It is because the Peace Corps provides inspiration to the young people to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. Moreover, Peace Corps offers a vital purpose to the young people to improve the condition of down trodden people in developing countries. Today's Peace Corps can be considered playing

1. Erik Erikson is responsible for developing the epigenetic principle. This principle is a stage theory that describes human development and growth from birth to death. Unlike Freud's stage theory, Erikson's epigenetic principle extends into adulthood and describes the theories through which one must pass in order to develop psychosocially. Each of Erikson's stages has an optimal time frame during which it occurs. The stage consists of a challenge, or "crisis" that the individual must resolve in order to develop as a healthy person. The stages are progressed through in sequence, with the initial stage dealing with the development of trust as an infant, and the final stage (in old age) posing the challenge of integrity versus despair. The first stage of the epigenetic principle is the trust/mistrust dichotomy that appears shortly after birth and typically lasts until age one. In this period, the infant is faced with the crisis of developing trust (appr

Quebec-General information Quebec is an important province of Canada with a population of around 7, 487, 200 according to current statistics. The significance of this province lies both in its size and its interesting rich history. Majority of Quebec population is composed of French speaking people, making it one of the most influential and biggest French areas in North American region. Quebec is a huge province as far as occupied area is concerned. It is almost three times the size of France. Early History Quebec's history goes back to early 16th century when it first explorer, Jacques Cartier, set foot on this region in 1534. The province has been known as the cradle of Canada because of the fact that it served as a gateway to other Canadian regions. Some history of the place must be known in order to understand why French-speaking people largely occupy Quebec. It also helps in understanding the problem that Quebec has faced due

Both the Rule of St. Francis and the Rule of St. Benedict pertain to how to live a life in chastity and how to live a life with God. The major rules of both focus on the foundations of a life in being a God's servant, particularly the apostolic way of life and that of belonging in a monastery. According to the article Rule of Saint Benedict (Alston, 2003), St. Benedict's rule is comprised of the following. Of the seventy-three chapters comprising the Rule, nine treat of the duties of the abbot, thirteen regulate the worship of God, twenty-nine are concerned with discipline and the penal code, ten refer to the internal administration of the monastery, and the remaining twelve consist of miscellaneous regulations. Oliger (2003), on the other hand, describes St. Francis' rule in the following statement. The ideal that St. Francis laid down in his rule is very high; the apostolical life was to be put in practice by his brethre

The world's population has grown more in the last 50 years than it had done in the previous 4 million years[1]. This quantum leap in the human population has put severe strains on the finite resources and the fragile environment of our planet. What is more, the present rate of the galloping population growth shows no signs of slowing down, especially in the developing countries. Such a high rate of growth is clearly unsustainable and needs to be controlled before the runaway human population proves to be the ultimate undoing of the human race itself. In this essay I shall discuss why the population growth is such a serious problem and the effect it is having on the earth's environment. Debate about the effects of population growth has raged ever since, Thomas Malthus, a British intellectual wrote his famous Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798. Malthus contended that the tendency for the population was to grow exponentially while food supplies could onl