SHIN+HEE

What conclusions can you draw about Republicans and Democrats?

The images of Republicans and Democrats vary. I thought that Republicans focus more on big business and Free Market, but I realized that they were pushing for looser legislation on corporations and they believed that States should govern over big businesses. They want the States to worry about the rich, or poor, or the middle class. The Democrats, on the other hand, believes in stronger Federal Government - meaning, stronger government intervention. They believe that the government should care and control the people's lives.

Give a one paragraph summary for each.

The Republicans give authority to the States to control the rich, the poor and the middle classes and State should authorize over the big business. They desired for a more loose registrations on corporations. The Republicans supports fiscal conservatism, low taxation, free market and strict judicial systems. Republicans redistribute wealth, and nationalized health care. Although, the public believes that Republicans care more for the wealthy and rich people. By observing the graphs, Historically Republicans won many elections. Also Republicans seem to be pro-war, and many people believe that the pro-war belief of Republicans made America more safe.

The Democrats are more realistic and cares more about the world. The Democrats care about the environment, citizen's abilities to pay for their housing and solutions to how rationally the government can help people. Democrats invest more on education, science, technology, innovation, environmental stewardship, and economic development. The Democrats seek for vision and any back-up plans for future failures. They prepare more for the future. The Demography shows that the White Americans support more for the republicans whereas variety of other races support for the Democrats. Moreover, big cities have a tendency to vote for the Democrats.



Describe one thing about these interviews that surprised you.

I thought that rich people in general would vote more for the Republicans and the poor people in general would vote more for the Democrats. In the interview, it corrected me. The Author said that statistically IN RICHER STATES wealthy people are NOT more likely to vote for Republicans whereas the poor people are more likely to vote for Republicans. in POORER STATES wealthy people are more likely to vote for Republicans whereas poor people are more likely to vote for Democrats.

How does each interviewee fit and Not fit into the typical party member?

Dave said that he is a non-stereotypical party member, when it comes to fun control, the environment and investments. He believes that the access to weapons should be banned and oil-based energies should be substituted with solar energy. As a republican, he believes that investment strategy should be focused on urban areas. Lastly, he is against the war, which most Republicans support for.

Peter is liberal, but when he faces fiscal issue he becomes extremely conservative and supports for the Democrats. Although he is a democrat, Peter is not very passionate about issues concerning guns or abortion. He believes that his indifference on Democrat issues keeps him from being a typical Democrat.

Both of the articles evaluate the misconceptions about the republicans and the democrats. The first one defend more for the Republicans. It explains that people usually think they rely more on the market of big businesses and Free Markets, but the article says that it is not true. The Republicans give authority to the States to control the rich, the poor and the middle classes and State should authorize over the big business. They desired for a more loose registrations on corporations. Moreover, it said that the core belief of Democrats, which is believed to be "for the working class", is actually the less power given to the States and more power to the Government.

The second article also defends more for the Republicans. The author says that the conception that Republicans are rich is not true. She uses herself as an example. She said that she is not rich, but still is a Republican. The author says Republicans do care about the environment and does not neglect the existence of Global Warming; however, they believe that it is not something that the Politics should care about. The author strongly argues that the fact that Republicans "hate" gays is not true. She believes that the Democrats are more resentful of gay marriages and referred to them as hypocrites. Lastly, the author says that the Republicans are supportive of black people. She proves this by saying that there exist African American republicans.

Describe one thing about these interviews that surprised you.

How does each interviewee fit and Not fit into the typical party member?

Feminism

Feminism is the idea that women should have rights equal to those of men. These include social, economical, political, and educational rights. Also, feminism pursues a better perception of women - the removal of typical perception that they have to be pretty, skinny and enjoy house work. Feminism a belief that there are injustices against women and it should be banned along with the stereotypes.

__Should there be any restrictions on what newspapers can print?__ __Should newspapers be able to report without revealing their sources? Why or why not? Is this important?__

No. If there are restrictions, this is violating the first amendment, which is the Freedom of Speech. Newspapers should not be able to report without revealing their sources. They must reveal their sources to make their reports more objective and evidential.The audiences should have the rights to be exposed to the primary sources that the report was based on. This is very important because if people to not reveal their sources, there are possibilities that they might've made up stories and built their own ideas into a certain source.

Because this is violating the Freedom of speech, this is not allowed. Nixon's actions restricting the press to write their interests and opinions indicate is violating their freedom to express their opinions to the public Injunctions meant that continuing these publication is bad for the national interest. Nixon restricted this because it was harming his authority. This is wrong! This is giving disadvantages to the people/writers for Nixon's advantage.

You can keep your authority figures honest by making strict punishments. By setting certain rules and laws, people will be careful about the possible violation of the laws and be prudent. Having checks and balances can avoid people from being honest. If an authority figure is abusing me, like a teacher, then I would tell more powerful authorities to deal with him or her. For example, Nixon abused his power. He lied about the water gates. He lied to the people. McCarthy used his authorities. He said that he has the list of government people who were under communism and arrested 10 Hollywood stars.

Cost?

Many Vietnamese were homeless, lost their jobs, and their properties were taken away. Their fears of the war and American soldiers psychologically affected the Vietnamese. The lost lives, injuries and the immense loss of their properties were the cost. The pictures showed me a good idea of how much innocent Vietnamese children suffered. The picture on the board where one girl running away from the smoked place with half of her body gave me a sympathetic and sorrow feeling. The Americans must have felt the same - they must have also felt sympathy towards the children and moved their hearts that the war must be stopped immediately. The panicking soldiers on the magazine indicate that the American soldiers are not winning.

Affect?

The Vietcong wrote this. Vietcong pursuit to abolish many American system that they are not willing to accept - these include program involving extension of democratic liberties, eliminate U.S. cultural enslavement;this shows that Vietcong is wanting to get any "Americanism" out of their country. They say that they are trying to establish equality among genders of the civilians and begin diplomacy with the countries that respect the independence and sovereignty of Vietnam. The attitude is filled with hostility against America. Vietcong speaks as if America is intruding their independence and trying to build their egoistic systems in Vietnam - they want to end the intrusion of the Americans. The goals depict Vietcong's desire to gain independence, away from America yet their goals does not seem realistic enough to be successfully processed. This is because the America's power is so great that it would be hard for Vietcong to stop any of their systems established in Vietnam all of the sudden. I think the Vietnamese who were satisfied with the democratic liberalization and the American system and support would go against these goals.

Why Did they go?

The man who wrote "The Volunteer" talks about the brief hstory of threats of Communism that affected the America. He believes that college years can come later - he said his country needs him, and he respects the country's necessity more than his attendance in college. With his pride, and a will to become the "super hero" by fighting evil powers. He said that Moscow's communist henchmen were by this time clearly escalating their drive to conquer the free people of South Vietnam, yet Johnson seemed afraid to confront them with anything more than words. So he decided to go to the war to put his words in action.

How does the US justify escalation?

They say they are escalating to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. Also, Vietnam is threatening other surrounding countries, so America should help out. Also,they desire that these peoples should be left in peace to work out their own destinies in their own way

What are the stated US goals?

The US goal is to leave Vietnam in peace to work out their own destinies in their own way.

What does it authorize the President to do?

The Congress approved and supported the President to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US and to prevent further aggression.

Does the resolution have a firm expiration date?

No, because this resolution shall expire when the President shall determine that the peace and security of the area is reasonably assured by international conditions

Journal: Read quote on page 929. What does this tell you about the risks and resistance Black activists faced in working to get the vote. Is it worth it? What would you do in this situation?

The quote tells me that Black activists had to avoid contacting their relatives and people of their own identities because they feared that the white people will attack them. Black activists risked their opportunity for jobs to work to get the vote. In the picture, it shows how the Black Activists are facing resistance from the Police Men. Specifically, Black Activists got arrested, beat up, pushed to the ground and were attacked with dogs. I believe this was worth it because the near to equal rights they have today was the outcome of their efforts of the Black Activists. If I was in this situation, I would do the same because I believe that gaining equal rights for the people of my ethnicity is much more worth than getting a job, or anything.

Is it ever justifiable to treat people differently based on race, religion, gender, handicaps, etc.? Think about all situations.

Yes. This is because cultures are all different in the world. For example, gestures and signs - a gesture or a hand sign that mean something good in a certain country can mean the opposite way in another country. Therefore, people should treat people from other countries according to their culture based on race, religion, gender and so on. Also for handicaps, people should treat them different because they need extra attention and a different treatment in order to help them survive.

Why was George W. Bush criticized during his years of presidency?
 * Axis of evil
 * Environmental policy
 * Fiscal Policy
 * Bush's role in Iraq war

**Homework 3/5** 1. The CIA intervention or Eisenhower's plans in Guatemala and Iran had more U.S. military involvement. Also, the U.S. overthrew their government and their president and replaced them with "Pro-American"government and president.Whereas in the Suez crisis, Eisenhower used diplomacy rather than cover actions to influence foreign policy. U.S. did not act justly according to its values because Eisenhower basically aided Guatemala and Iran to build pro-American government, and during the Suez crisis, Eisenhower basically withdrew all countries (France, Britain and Israel) by silently supporting the U.N. and later earned his one and only power in that region by issuing Eisenhower Doctrine - which means that Eisenhower purposely withdrew the countries in order to intervene in the region by the U.S. itself. These were purely for the U.S.'s benefit and not for the anti-communism values. The motivations for for the intervention in Guatemala and Iran were to avoid communism and build pro-American values and get in control of the oil fields. The Suez crisis' motivation was to ease the chaos in western oil trade and here, also, to build american power and control. Suez crisis was handled better because the U.S. settled the conflicts between the countries and at the same time get more involved in Middle Eastern nations, without unfair covert actions and violence. This also soothed diplomatic relations

3. The significance of Gary Powers is that due to this incident, the proceeding improvement in diplomatic relations between U.s. and Soviet Union was collapsed. Soviet leader Khrushv visited the U.S. and promised another summit conference in Paris with the U.S. Yet, in may 1960 Soviet shot down a U-2 American __spy__ plane. The capture pilot, Gary Powers, admitted that he had been on a spying mission. Khrushev requested for an apology from U.S. so that they could continue the summit, yet the U.S. refused to apologize as Khrushev, from then on, refused to meet Eisenhower again.


 * Homework - Feb.26th**

The Truman Doctrine states that U.S. will help any nations that are struggling under the threat of the armed minorities or outside pressures. The continament policy is for the restriction of the expansion of Soviet communism. The Korean War was affected by the tensions of the Cold War. Korea was divided into two - North Korea (Communists) and South Korea (Non-communists). U.S. government, fearing that the South Korea will fall to the Communist country North Korea, built up the South Korean army. After the pull-out of the U.S. army in South Korea and leaving the two Korean armies face each other tensely across the 38th parallel, North Korea invated South Korea on June 25, 1950. U.S. fearing that the fall of South Korea would override nations closer to America's shores, supported South Korea with the U.S. army. The UN army also contributed its support to South Korea. China entered the Korean war by supporting North Korea. The North Korea's attack went far as to the bottom of South Korea, and the Korean War ended with U.S. and UN's force pushing the finish line at the 38th Line. Now, Korea remains divided at the 38th Line. The continament applies to the Korea War, because the U.S. gave aid to the South Korea in order to block South Korea from falling to the Communists, North Korea. They were helping South Korea to restrict the spread of communism.

One other example of containment is Turkey. When Soviet Union was motivating an invasion in Turkey, Truman knew straight away that Soviet's control of this area would give the Soviets a dominant position int he eastern Mediterranean. Thus, Congress approved his request of giving $400 million to aid Turkey. This is a good example of containment because Truman fearing that the Communist invasion of Turkey will affect the whole eastern Mediterranean area, he quickly gave aid to Turkey in order to not be invaded from Communism.

Homework due November 24th 

To start off before indicating the differences between these two arguments, it is agreeable that both Wilson and Senator LaFollette are literally fighting for the “right” cause and for those innocent people who are inaccessible to detailed information of the war; however, their true intentions and opinions differed. Wilson waged emphasis on the “neutrality” that the United States and the peace that they should protect the world from egoisms of other nations because he believed that wars are taking lives of innocent people, which can not be replaced or reconstructed after the war. Also, since Wilson believed that the war had challenged all mankind regardless of discriminations by breaking the world’s peace; thus, Wilson believed that US should participate in the war to neutralize the chaos. Meanwhile, Senator LaFollette rebuked Wilson’s opinions. He was skeptic of Wilson’s addressed words by stating that Wilson’s statement that the war is challenging only the mankind is wrong. In fact, he believed that the war was regarding discriminations. He raised his voice by saying that US was nowhere close to being a neutral nation in the war, since they failed to trea t the belligerent nations of Europe alike. US had failed to even-out German’s respects concerning their naval authorities; Thus, Senator was arguing that under any circumstances, US was fighting for their own advantages regardless of their intentions – in fact, the US was hiding the true causes of the war to its people.  One major unstated reason of the U.S.’s interventions was the fear of economic failure. The U.S. had loaned a load of money to its Allies for their financial support in the war. Therefore, the U.S. thought it was their right to protect the vast debt they’d face after the war with their Allies. Meanwhile they kept their innocent reputation by saying that “… with tremendous loss of life, [U.S. intervened] to make secure the loans of private bankers to the Allies” (Senator Gerald Nye) On top of the matters of the loans, Wall Street wanted war in the first place. Since Wall Street was a main stream of the U.S.’s economy, it would’ve been utterly difficult for President Wilson to neglect its desire. In fact, the U.S. intervention to the war against Germany brought back an overloading profit to the American finance. According to John K. Turner, “…The war created 21,000 new American millionaires … during war, 69,000 men made 3 billion dollars more than their normal income…” Thus, U.S.’s contribution to the war was intentional based on the desire of economic and financial advancements.

**In class #10.** 1) I see Vultures with humans standing on bones, skulls and corpses. 2) The Subject is the boss Tweedy – he is represented as luxurious, fat, wealthy (jewelries) 3) The bones, skulls and corpses are a symbol. It represents the poor people – as the jewelries represent Tweed’s wealth and extravagancy. 4) He’s opinionating that he is a selfish man, cruel and act only as a group. He wasted to tell the public – people who can not read could observe the picture. 5) The poor people will agree with the cartoonist. 6) Treasury is written on a bone – Tweed had used up all the poor people’s money


 * IMMIGRANTS**

There was a boom of immigrants in the United States due to their searches of opportunities of work and jobs. (economically) Some were successful, but some suffered a lot from discrimination. The immigrants mostly arrived by the support of cheap fares of steamships. Many of these immigrants gained an improvement on the conditions of their homeland; however they had hardships. Most of them had to be settled into crowded cities where they could find only low-paying, unskilled jobs. Thus they had no privacy and always had to sleep and live in crowded house with their neighbors. Depiste ll the hardships, there were many religious institutions (such as churches, synagogues, and temples) Catholic churches tave them economical assitances and offered day care for children, gymnasisums, reading rooms, sewing classes and socil clubs, and training courses for new immigrants. On top of all these, immigrants did the country's "dirty work" and In contruction, mines, or sweatshops, most immigrants found their work to be difficult and physically exhuasting. Hours were long, and wages were low.

**Industrial Revolution** I found that railroads were significant in the industrial revolution, because its expansion was easily obtainable because the material to make the railroads (steel) were cheap. People were able to travel easily (e.g. from New York to Chicago). It had a vast improvement in the railroads because in the olden days people took over two days to ravel but after the development of the railroads they were able to travel within 24 hours. Also when the "transcontinental railroads" (which connects various countries to te Pacific ocean) linked the rural areas to the urban areas. Not only that it was convenient for the people, it also developed the transfer of sending and receiving messages, in other words, //communication//. Also it increased the western settlement by making the travel more cheaper (affordable) and could travel within short hours. Moreover, the railroads encouraged the merchants to sell their products nationally; which was a big contribution to the economy of America. It is funny how even cultures were enlightened by the development of the railroads. Things as popular culture and folk music were expanded through the railway.
 * 2nd October 2008**

Notes from class:
 * east to west

What rights do you believe should be guaranteed by the government?**
 * 23rd September 2008:

The government should have the rights to obey the positive statements but also follow the normative statements. This means that they be guaranteed with the control over many states and powers – this does not mean that they can control anyone’s general/overall rights at anytime, but if they notice a problem, they should control/manage to adjust it. Thus they should guarantee their safety, and adjustments. Also, they should guarantee to smooth their hardships such as minimum wages. This is because one person, or a group of citizens has a rather weak power when compared to the government. Citizens can speak up or may participate in rebellions as a group – rebelling as a force of “quantity” rather than “quality” however the government are a representative who has more power to control many things.  So they should guarantee to promise that they will support the citizens using their power, rather than maliciously using it for negative purposes. Also, laws should be guaranteed for example, if certain citizens face car accidents or so on, the government should guarantee the right to support them with the proper law, repaying the victims and determining the guilties.


 * Government?**

I would have a Democratic government, without any prejudices within the politicians. I’d want the politicians to be role models for the people of the country; the importance in the government is to treat the people of the government with equality and respect, always listen to their opinions and do not make any engagements or negotiations with other countries without the people’s opinions. The government should always take slow steps regarding pros and cons when making decisions. Although fulfilling every citizen’s desires and happiness is impossible, the government should always be there for the people, working hard to at least support their pursuit of happiness.