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Foreign Policy has always been a topic that I found quite interesting, especially when it comes to the rather “spectacular” track record of the United States. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, it's really quite impressive how much damage one country can inflict on nations with not even close to half of its own population. But there was one event that caught my attention fairly quick: The Iraq war. A war dubbed by scholars as one of the worst foreign policy disasters in American history, a war filled with corruption and ignorance, a war that had a complete disregard for the facts, a war that I had to find out what went wrong.      I think the most important part about my paper is that the people in charge of the operation, like Bush and Rumsfeld, were elected officials that the population wanted to be lead by, yet support for the war hit around 20% when people realized it wasn’t going smoothly. Bush’s own base didn’t support what he was doing in Iraq and that poses ...

Liam Voycey 12-06-19 English O’Connor The Dream We Choose to Live In     In the eyes of Ta-Nehisi Coates, the dream is a state of oblivion in which the brutal history of enslavement is justified or forgotten to remove any guilt one might have. He depicts this dream as white picket fences and Sunday barbecues in which white people are asleep to the damage they have inflicted upon African Americans. On Page 29 Coates says, “Fear ruled everything around me… this fear was connected to the dream out there.” I don’t think this fear is one of violence or death, but more of a realization that white people believe that their actions have been justified. The dream then becomes a nightmare when looking upon the divide between the white picket fences and the slums of utter poverty.  Coates analyzes this sense of justification of slavery on page 33 where he says, “ Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. “Good intention” i...

voyc9.blogspot.com Our Planet, it contains everything and is almost everything we humans know. I'd like to think everyone cares for our planet, but I would be a fool to believe in such an outrageous idea. It's hard to not see the movements taken by mostly younger people to help slow this rapid increase in climate change. It's also hard not to notice the hard right-wing stances which question the legitimacy of such changes. However, both sides understand that we only have one planet for the time being. As of recently, Climate change is becoming more of an issue. Carbon Dioxide, a greenhouse gas has hit 408.55 ppm as of October 7, 2019 (DailyCO2). As this gas continues to increase, the earth gets hotter and hotter, which leads to problems such as pollution, more dangerous storms, and an increase in sea levels. It seems that the current Trump administration has no regard for the climate as they have ended the old Obama era sanctions on Fracking. (New York Times). Maybe in ...

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