...Thesis The United States has taken a global power role due to several international events such as the Libyan intervention and the Syrian civil war. Due to the significance of the role that they have played in these international events the United States has become known as the “Policemen of the World”. The United States has shown that it can use force when required and show empathy during other times. 2 International events from the past 5 years that can be traced back to foreign policy created after the civil war. 1st event – Libyan Intervention: The U.S. was part of an international military operation called Operation Odyssey Dawn and then later was called Operation Unified Protector when the operations were taken over by NATO. These operations were to help the UN enforce the Resolution of 1973 on Libya. 2nd event – Syrian Rebels: The U.S. started arming the Syrian rebels to help them topple Bashar al-Assad’s regime, due to their use of chemical weapons on its civilians. 3 aspects of U.S. history since 1865 that has led the U.S. to rise as a super power policeman. 1st aspect – Technology: The U.S. led the world in multiple areas of technology. These areas included Military, and Production. Since WWII the U.S. had ramped up its research in advance military weapons. Due to this research it gave the U.S. The edge in conflicts to come. Next the U.S. led in the production industry. Due to the amount of goods that we exported on a daily basis. We had to create a more...
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...involvement. Many of these factors usually involve monetary and expansion goals. Therefore, these push factors created a disparity in the case of Cuba and the Dominican Republic. According, to Juan Gonzales the Latino immigration is and will be an unstoppable phenomenon. The 1860 Cuban immigration began as Spain was in control over Cuban territory. Many of these factors instigated Cuban defection from the Spanish Crown. This started from Spain’s taxation towards the wealthy. The US involvement took effect rapidly as most of these merchants and businessmen conducted business in American soil. Many of these individuals instantly were given...
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...layer to President Clinton’s concerns when it came to Cuba and Haiti was the immigration situations surrounding both countries. President Clinton felt and saw the potential for thousands of immigrants to make their way towards U.S. soil all at once if he and his administration did not act to deter this from happening. When looking at each country President Clinton had good reason to be cautious and somewhat fearful of a swell in immigration based off of his past experiences in office. Clinton, while concerned with the Cuban-American community, had greater concerns for a potential Mariel boat lift as the previous one is why he saw to be the main reason he was not reelected as the governor of Arkansas (Pastor). In 1980 the Mariel boatlift...
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...Cubans immigrants, mainly the new ones have dealt with discrimination and prejudice, partially because of political beliefs. Cubans have felt a bias from Whites, African Americans, and other Hispanic cultures. The latest immigrants have even felt an injustice from the already established Cuban American community. Cubans have an extensive record of migrating to the United States. Migration was mainly because of political reasons. More recently however, migration is because of the decline of the current economic form in Cuba. “According to the 1990 U.S. Census, there are nearly 860,000 persons of Cuban descent in the United States” (Buffington, 2008). Of that total, 63% reside in the state of Florida, while the remaining is disbursed in the following three states: New York, New Jersey, and California. According to Buffington (2008), Many Cuban migrants moved even farther afield with the encouragement and assistance of the federal government. The Cuban Refugee Program, established by the Kennedy administration in 1961, provided assistance to Cuban migrants, enabling them to move out of southern Florida. Almost 302,000 Cubans were resettled though the Cuban Refugee Program; however, many have begun to return to the Miami area (Buffington, 2008). Miami in particular, seems to be the heart of the Cuban American community. Cubans in Florida did not face as much prejudice as other Hispanic cultures or other minorities for that matter (Buffington, 2008). This may be why other Hispanic...
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...In January 2002, the first shackled and hooded men from Afghanistan were incarcerated behind barbed wire at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In April 2004, when the case challenging the legality of their detention was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, Guantánamo still appeared to many as a strange aberration, as an “animal,” with “no other like it,” as Justice Ginsburg stated. Descriptions of Guantánamo as a lawless zone enhanced this image of its exceptional status: a legal black hole, a legal limbo, a prison beyond the law, a “permanent United States penal colony floating in another world.”3 Yet since the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and the leak of the Washington “torture memos,” it has become increasingly clear that, more than an anomaly, Guantánamo repre- sents the start of the “road to Abu Ghraib,” one island in a global penal archi- pelago, where the United States indefinitely detains, secretly transports, and tortures uncounted prisoners from all over the world.4 As a rallying cry against human rights abuses in the U.S. “war on terror,” Guantánamo has come to embody what Amnesty International calls a “gulag for our times.”5 The global dimensions of Guantánamo cannot be understood separately from its seemingly bizarre location in Cuba. Prisoners captured in Afghani- stan and around the world were transported here, to a country quite close geographically, yet far politically, from the United States, a country with which the United...
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...Starts off with audio/video addressing America on crisis The Cuban missile crisis was a suspenseful 13 day standoff between the Americans and the Soviet Union. It all started on October 14, 1962, when a high altitude U-2 plane took pictures of nuclear tipped IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missiles) and MRBM (medium range ballistic missiles) in Cuba. The two proposals were set on the table: air strike and invade, or naval blockade. Ever since the Bay Pigs invasion, (which was an American led invasion where we got over 1200 Cuban refugees and sent them to Cuba to overthrow the government, but the effort failed) the Cubans wanted to be better protected. Cuba was allied with Soviet Union at that time and since the Cold War was going on between...
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...Diversity in Hispanic Americans Ethics 125 October 30, 2011 Kimberly Long Diversity in Hispanic Americans The first group that I researched was Cuban Americans. They rank third in the immigration of Hispanic Americans. An estimated 1.4 million strong today, they immigrated or were refuges from their native Cuba to escape Fidel Castro’s reign. They settled first in Florida and one of the largest manufactures of cigars, even to this day. They primarily speak Spanish, and most when they came here on the first wave of immigration were well educated. They were twice as likely to complete college and most held professional backgrounds. They consider themselves a generous group and full of hospitality and loath conflict, although most belonged to the communist party, here in the united states they prefer not to be a part of politics. They educated their children highly in agriculture and social economics. Unlike a lot of Hispanics, they prefer baseball to soccer. Their domestic units consist of multigenerational groups and are centered primarily on women and are of Catholic faith. They are one of the hardest groups to obtain diplomatic status due to the conflict in their home Cuba. The next group the Puerto Ricans, are of United States Territories. They also speak Spanish, but also very fluent in English. They are a Caribbean people with African, Indian and Spanish descents. Although they are a part of US territory, they cannot vote in the United States Presidential...
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...Historical Background In order to effectively understand the factors that influence Cuban-American relations, one must first comprehend certain historical milestones that shaped the American foreign policy towards the island nation. First, it is of prime importance to analyze the interactions between these two countries during the 19th century, rather than ignoring events prior to the Cold War. Failing to put these events into perspective would result in a limited awareness of the circumstances that paved the way for the rise of the Castro regime, which has been in place since the year 1959. The earliest antecedent that I deem relevant to this policy takes place in the 1850s, a time when the United States was ideologically divided into the...
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...Hispanic American Diversity When you think about Hispanics you might think that it is one ethnic group, however there are many ethnic groups incorporated under the heading Hispanics. For my topic today I am going to cover Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and people from Colombia. While they are all Hispanic they have different languages, traditions and family makeup. In this paper we will discuss the differences and the similarities of these diverse groups of people. It is amazing that although they cover such a vast amount of land geographically, there is so many things that they have in common. Mexican Americans are people of Mexican decent that have either been born here in the United States or became a United States citizen after immigrating here. A lot of people that believe that Mexican Americans work at jobs here in the United States that natural born citizens will not do, such as harvesting crops, bussing tables in restaurants and general labor positions. They take these jobs and are not paid a competitive wage. It seems to stand to reason that if they would not take these jobs, the employers would be forced to increase the salary, and they would not have to work for such substandard wages. While they come to this country with Spanish as their primary language, many immigrants learn English and it becomes their primary language. While it is harder for the older people to master English, when their children are enrolled in public education it is easier...
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...religion and more; opportunities that should be a right to all people. In 2008 about 11 million people were reported to be undocumented (Presten, 2012 ). While it is amazing to live in a country that can provide all these chances for people, there are several controversial issues that have arisen among the years due to the copious amounts of illegal immigrants in the residing in the country. One of the most talked about issues is that immigrants are able to readily use our resources such as health care, welfare and schools but are not legally able to pay the proper taxation for those services. In this country immigrants are often categorized as hinders to our country but they can be considered the backbone of the American society. It is more than a necessity that the American government quickly establish an equal footing for every immigrant coming from worldwide. Currently the United States government places all immigrants and illegal aliens from every country in world in one group and place Cubans in an entirely different jurisdiction. For this reason the United States has encountered an unforeseeable problem brought on by The Cuban Readjustment Act of 1966....
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...Latin American Politics and DevelopmentThe Cold War, the Cuban Revolution, the spread of guerilla warfare and the doctrine of National Security in Latin America | During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community as well as their delayed entry into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity. Post-war Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fuelled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they perceived as American officials’ rhetoric, arms build-up and interventionist approach to international relations. By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defence against the Soviet threat was a strategy called “containment.” In 1946, in his famous “Long Telegram,” the diplomat George Kennan explained this policy, The Soviet Union, he wrote, was “a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent modus vivendi...
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...Andy Newton Research Project April 12, 2016 English 120 Research Should illegal immigrants be granted a path to citizenship in the United States? This is a major topic in todays politics and is one that many have different views on. The most talked topic today is the Syrian refugees and whether or not United States should accept these people into our country and let them gain citizenship and also if by letting them enter our country is hurting our economy. So this is a major headline in our country as to let them in or not. In today’s presidential views with the current candidates running for office many of them have very different views and some many citizens find aggregable while some of the plans seem outrageous and foolish to some. Immigration whether that’s illegal or legal and also refugees was a big problem in the US but is now currently the most talked about topic as it is affecting jobs, taxes, political stances, and the economy as a whole and is something that our country needs to fix and address in hope we resolve this issue. During the WWI immigrants and being “illegal” was a huge factor as to whether or not to keep the Jews or kick them out as what was happening while Hitler was in rule in Germany and parts of Europe. A major controversy that many other countries have during this time and even some to this day have, is what the United States policies were on immigration and also the illegal ones from Nazi Germany into our country. Beginning in around...
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...legacy. Castro's regime leaves behind a polarized memory split between people who him and heroify him. Some people view him as a great liberator of Cuba and some consider him a ruthless oppressor of his dissenters. Cuba is an anomaly among countries due to Castro’s policy on decolonization that has enriched the lives of many while simultaneously oppressing and destroying the lives of countless others. While Castro created many social movements such as health care and education that benefited...
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...Vulnerable Populations- Somalia Refugees Vulnerable Populations- Somalia Refugees Referred to as the ‘Horn of Africa’, Somalia is located on the eastern tip of the continent of Africa. Somalia is bordered by Kenya to the southwest, Yemen to the north, and Ethiopia to the west, and a prosperous boating region on the Indian Ocean. Before it was inhabited by foreign countries, it has only been close to being a thriving country. History World states, “The land of Somali people, much of it arid and inhospitable, has for thousands of years been close to civilization and international trade,” (Gascoigne, 2010). Which means only within reach, but the bad luck started before the Somali War even had a chance to affect the outcome of Somali culture. All the areas surrounding Somalia became bustling with civilization and substantial living, including Saba, where the Queen of Sheba was originated, and even Ethiopia where the Aksum kingdom erected before the 6th century B.C. The boating district is and has always been bustling because it is halfway to India for trade. For the people of Somalia times have always been grueling. With initial conflicts between three countries, Somalia has always been in turmoil. The French, the British and the Italians fought to gain leadership and earn ownership of Somali land. Reaching an agreement the Italians signed the Treaty of Uccialliin over the largest part of coastal Somalia with the Ethiopians. However, with greed and violence arising with Italy’s...
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...John F. Kennedy Doctrines John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the 2nd son to Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald. He was educated at The Choate School and Graduated from Harvard College in 1940 with a science degree. He joined the Navy in 1941 as an intelligence officer and was awarded medal for heroism by the Marines and the Navy. One year after completing his military service, at the age of 29, he was elected to the House of Representatives and served three terms. In 1953 he was elected to the Senate, served one term and was elected to serve a second term, while there he served as a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He won the 35th office of President in 1960 with one of the closest victories in the history of elections. He was the youngest president to be elected to the office at that time. (The Biography Channel webite. Retrieved 04:52) During his time in office, President Kennedy was drawn to foreign affairs due to the challenges brought on due to the Soviet Unions growing nuclear arsenal and the Cold War battle that provoked fear in the hearts and minds of third world nations. He capitalized on the spirit of activism and created the Peace Corps; by the end of the century over 170,000 volunteers would serve in 135 countries. He also created the Alliance for Progress to foster greater economic ties with Latin America with the hopes of eliminating poverty and preventing the spread of communism in that...
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