The Cold War Lessons Learned - 938 Words

The Cold War: Lessons Learned After World War II, continuing tensions between the United States of America and primarily, the Soviet Union caused the Cold War. The Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1991, the Cold War is defined as a bitter, typically non-military conflict between the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and America. The Soviet Union and the United States had contrasting views about most things, including political systems, economic systems and societal values. At the end of the Cold War, the U.S was declared victorious but they outcomes were anything but successful. If aspects like the least amount of casualties and who has the most money dictate victory, is it really victory? In fact, millions died due to the cold war and many were harmfully affected on both sides and these outcomes could have easily been avoided if instead of concluding that war was the only option, the two superpowers could promote peace rather than emphasizing on differing values. Lessons that should be learned from the Cold War are that ideological differences are not sufficient enough to declare war and that taking over nations does not make a country stronger or better. In any conflict, differences in ideologies must be respected. America believed that Capitalism, Democracy, Freedom and Individualism was the key to a successful nation, while the Soviet Union believed in Socialism, Totalitarianism, Equality and Collectivism. These differences caused many conflicts such as the division ofShow MoreRelatedLessons Learned From The Cold War2147 Words   |  9 PagesDuring the Cold War, many lessons were learned. The United States had to learn these lessons to survive in a rapidly changing world. It learned lessons from the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin and the resolution that followed that lead to the invasion of Vietnam. It learned lessons from the horrors of war in Vietnam. And it learned lessons from The My Lai massacre in Vietnam, one of those very horrors. 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Though the Cold war itself wasn’t a war fought in battle, there were parts caused by it such as the Korean WarRead MoreThe Cold War And The Soviet Union1139 Words   |  5 PagesThe Cold War is a period following world war II which was marked by political conflict between former allies; the United States and the Soviet Union. It is considered â€Å"a state of conflict that stops just ever s o short of direct military combat. Instead, the fighting mainly takes the form of economic competition, political maneuvers, propaganda and, at times, proxy wars between nations allied to one of the more powerful nations.† (Pelz 171). Once allies, the United States and Soviet Union experiencedRead Moreâ€Å"Today It Is Becoming Increasingly Apparent To Thoughtful938 Words   |  4 Pagesapparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.†(Willkie). 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Executive Engineer Of The Caribbean Bauxite Company

SUMMARY †¢ John Baker, chief engineer of the Caribbean Bauxite Company was promoted to Keso Mining Corporation near Winnipeg, a Canadian enterprise as a production manager of fast-expanding. †¢ His final task is the assessment interview with the successor, Matthew Rennalls, the able young Barracanian. †¢ Baker is an English expatriate, who preferred working overseas, because he felt that he had an innate knack. (bakat semula jadi) †¢ It was pointed out to Baker that not only was Rennalls one of the brightest Barracanian prospects on the staff as at London University he had taken first class honours in the BSc engineering degree but he was also the son of the minister of finance and economic planning, he also had no small political pull. †¢ Baker in the beginning of his interview with Rennalls, encouraged him by listing his good points, which were his technical abilities. †¢ He then told him that he had noticed that Rennalls was more friendly and get on better with his fellow Barracanians than he was with Europeans. †¢ A few more comments were given by Baker to Rennalls stating the superiority of the Europeans. †¢ As a result, Rennalls gave his resignation in the company the next morning. †¢ There was a miscommunication between John Baker and Matthew Rennalls. †¢ Different culture between European and barracanian, there is some racialism. Even though Baker knows Rennalls background. †¢ Rennalls is sensitive to political, racial, and equality issues. †¢ Baker always emphasize that

What Happened to JFKs First Casket

At 10 a.m. EST on February 18, 1966, a large pine crate was pushed out of the open tail hatch of a C-130E military transport plane approximately 100 miles east of Washington, D.C. After watching the box hit the frigid water of the Atlantic Ocean and then sink, pilot Maj. Leo W. Tubay, USAF, circled the drop point for another 20 minutes to make sure the crate did not resurface. It didnt, and the airplane returned to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, landing at 11:30 a.m. This ultimately was the fate of the casket used to transport President John F. Kennedys body from Dallas back to Washington, after the presidents assassination. This curious tale concerning what happened to JFKs first casket begins 27 months earlier, however. 1963 After doctors at Parkland Hospital declared President Kennedy officially dead at 1 p.m. CST, November 22, 1963—only 30 minutes after the fatal shot captured in Abraham Zapruders film ended the presidents life—U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Clinton Hill contacted ONeils Funeral Home in Dallas, stating that he needed a casket. (Hill is actually the individual seen leaping onto the back of the presidents limousine in Zapruders film a moment after the assassination occurs.) Funeral director Vernon ONeil selected an extremely handsome, expensive, all bronze, silk-lined casket and delivered it personally to Parkland Hospital. This casket carried the body of President Kennedy on Air Force One during the long flight from Dallas, Texas, to Washington. This all-bronze casket was not the same one seen three days later during the televised funeral of Americas slain leader, however. Jacqueline Kennedy wished for her husbands funeral to replicate, as closely as possible, the services of previous presidents who died in office, particularly the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, who also died from an assassins bullet. Those funeral services usually featured an open casket so the public could offer a last goodbye to its leader. Unfortunately, and despite efforts to prevent it, blood from JFKs massive head wound escaped the bandages and the plastic sheet in which he was wrapped and stained the white silk interior of the casket during the flight to Washington, rendering the casket unsuitable. (Later, both Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy decided against an open-casket funeral entirely due to the extent of the physical damage to the presidents body.) President Kennedy was therefore buried in a different casket—a mahogany model crafted by the Marsellus Casket Company and supplied by Joseph Gawlers Sons, the Washington funeral home that handled JFKs funeral services. After transferring the presidents body to the new casket, the funeral home eventually placed the original bloodstained casket in storage. 1964 On March 19, 1964, Gawlers sent the first casket to the National Archives, where it was stored at all times thereafter in a specially secure vault in the basement. According to an official document dated February 25, 1966 (and declassified on June 1, 1999), only three top officials of the National Archives and a historian commissioned by the Kennedy family received access to this casket. Meanwhile, the General Services Administration (GSA) continued to dispute the invoice that funeral director ONeil submitted to the government for the Solid double wall Bronze Casket and all services rendered at Dallas, Texas. Originally sent by the funeral home January 7, 1964, for a total of $3,995, the GSA asked ONeil to itemize the goods and services he provided and resubmit the bill. ONeil did so on February 13, 1964—and even reduced the invoice by $500—but the GSA still questioned the amount. Roughly a month later, the GSA informed the funeral director that the total he sought was excessive and that the actual value of services to be billed to the Government should be in a greatly reduced amount. On April 22, 1964, ONeil visited Washington, (one of two trips he made to collect this bill), and indicated he wanted to obtain the casket he provided that housed President Kennedys body on the Air Force One flight back to the nations capital. According to a telephone-call transcript dated February 25, 1965, and later declassified, ONeil revealed at some point he had been offered $100,000 for the casket and the car in which the Presidents body was handled from the hospital to the airplane. While in D.C., the funeral director apparently indicated that he wanted JFKs first casket back because it would be good for his business. 1965 In autumn 1965, the United States Congress passed bills intended to acquire and preserve certain items of evidence pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This prompted Texas Fifth-District U.S. Rep. Earle Cabell—who also served as the mayor of Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated—to write a letter to U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Dated September 13, 1965, Cabell stated that JFKs first bloodstained casket has no historical significance but does have a value for the morbidly curious. He concluded his letter to Katzenbach by stating that destroying this casket is in keeping with the best interest of the country. 1966 The ONeil Funeral Home invoice still unpaid and the casket in question still securely stored in the basement of the National Archives building in Washington, U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy—the slain presidents brother—phoned Lawson Knott Jr., GSA administrator, the evening of February 3, 1966. After noting that hed spoken to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara about getting rid of President Kennedys first casket only to learn that McNamara is not able to get release of the casket, Sen. Kennedy asked what could be done. Lawson informed Kennedy that the very historian commissioned by the Kennedy family—one of only four people granted access to the original JFK casket currently stored in the National Archives, as noted above—was quite outraged at the idea of destroying the first casket. According to Knott, the historian (William Manchester) planned to devote an entire chapter of his book to this particular subject. The GSA administrator added: I think it is going to raise loads of questions about the release of the casket. At issue was whether the first bloodstained casket constituted evidence in President Kennedys assassination, which the bills passed by Congress in 1965 sought to preserve. Unlike the rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository, however, Sen. Robert Kennedy didnt think the casket was pertinent at all to this case. After stating that [the casket] belongs to the family and we can get rid of it any way we want to, Kennedy told Knott that he would personally contact Attorney General Katzenbach to, essentially, cut through the bureaucratic red tape and secure the release of the original casket used to fly the body of President Kennedy from Dallas to Washington. Not surprisingly, Katzenbach sent a letter to Knott a mere eight days later (February 11, 1966) indicating final settlement with the Undertaker [Vernon ONeil] who supplied the casket has been accomplished. Moreover, Katzenbach concluded his letter by stating: I am of the view that the reasons for destroying the casket completely outweigh the reasons, if any, that might exist for preserving it. On February 17, 1966, GSA staff prepared JFKs original casket so that it could be disposed of at sea without fear of resurfacing. Specifically, among other things, three 80-pound bags of sand were placed inside the casket; after locking it, metal bands were placed around the casket lid to prevent it from opening; and roughly 42 half-inch holes were randomly drilled through the top, sides, and ends of the original JFK casket, as well as the outer pine crate containing it. Finally, metal bands were placed around the pine box to prevent it from opening. At approximately 6:55 a.m., February 18, 1966, the GSA officially turned over President John F. Kennedys first, bloodstained casket to representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense. Less than two hours later (8:38 a.m.), the U.S. Air Force C-130E military transport plane took off from Andrews Air Force Base and delivered its unusual payload to its final resting place roughly 90 minutes later— where it currently rests some 9,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. A memo issued February 25, 1966, summarizes the extraordinary measures taken by the federal government and includes the following assurance to the Kennedy family and all others: The casket was disposed of at sea in a quiet, sure and dignified manner. Sources:Memorandum for File by John M. Steadman, Special Assistant, Office of the Secretary of Defense, February 25, 1966. Document in authors possession after National Archives released declassified documents June 1, 1999. Letter to U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach from U.S. Rep. Earle Cabell, September 13, 1965. Document in authors possession after National Archives released declassified documents June 1, 1999. Telephone call transcript, February 25, 1965. Document in authors possession after National Archives released declassified documents June 1, 1999. Telephone call transcript, February 3, 1966. Document in authors possession after National Archives released declassified documents June 1, 1999. Letter to General Services Administration Administrator Lawson Knott Jr. from U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, February 11, 1966. Document in authors possession after National Archives released declassified documents June 1, 1999. Memorandum for the Record by Lewis M. Robeson, Chief, Archives Handling Branch, General Services Administration, February 21, 1966. Document in authors possession after National Archives released declassified documents June 1, 1999.

Attracting Non-Traditional Students in Post-Secondary...

Despite the similarities between traditional and non-traditional students, differences in adult students’ experience of and perceptions about education make their transition to college unique. In order to be successful in recruiting and retaining non-traditional students, universities need to provide resources and incentives to this sector of students. In American in the mid 1970’s, only 30% of all jobs required higher education (Gonzalez). Today, the reality is that 63% now require post-secondary education (Gonzalez). The immense number of job losses in the last few years due to the declining economy has had a large impact on the non-traditional student population. With this growing trend in education, universities need to compete†¦show more content†¦(Early Childhood Education Programs). Students can also opt to volunteer at the center to help defer the cost. Not only does this help the student afford care, but it would cut down the cost of this progra m by reducing the amount of paid staff that would be on site. In addition, to defer the cost of this program to the University, internships could be offered to students that are pursuing a degree in Elementary Education or Human Development and Family Studies. For children that are in elementary school UC Berkeley also offers transportation to and from the campus to your child’s school. Types of programs like these are invaluable to the non-traditional student. Programs such as these make attending classes easier on the non-traditional student that may not be available at the times the classes are offered due to their commitments off campus. For a non-traditional student, financial aid is difficult to find. Most grants are tailored toward the traditional student. A substantial amount of non-traditional students are unable to quit or cut back on their career to attend classes especially when they are taking on an additional monetary hardship. Penn State University offers a 30+ program (30+ Program). This program allocates $2000 lifetime award per student. The amount you receive per semester is determined by the amount of credits that you carry each semester. While this is a great program, in the big picture, that doesn’t even begin to put a dent inShow MoreRelatedSample Resume : National Product1025 Words   |  5 Pagesnational product.† (Darden, 2009 p. 15). Consequently, if America is going to be successful in the twenty-first century, education is essential. Currently, manual labor is machine operated. Historically, individual persons built back-roads, dug for coal, and worked on assembly l ines. Today, workers operate a machine that assembles packages with the push of one button that is designed to accomplish the task (Darden, 2009). 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Porcelain and the economy of china Free Essays

Introduction In studying the history of the United States, we come to learn of its rise as a worldwide power. The Global economy has weakened in recent times, especially due to wars and unhealthy banking, leading many economies to major financial setbacks and crisis. China has long been a critical player and worldwide force in the economy, and still stands strong today despite the economic crisis. We will write a custom essay sample on Porcelain and the economy of china or any similar topic only for you Order Now As a key contributor to the economy, we have to look at it history and how it has affected the economy in the past. New York City is one of many places that was harbored Chinese immigrants in the early years of this country, and has a great cultural heritage of the Chinese people. At the Museum of Chinese in America, we see a diverse distribution of this installment. An item that I found at the museum was a porcelain teapot, titled â€Å"Teapot with gilded berry knob† (picture show in the appendix). This item caught my eye mainly because of its elegance, but also because of its age. As the city is so clustered together, one can easily miss the museum. It is a small building in the heart of China town in downtown. This makes it easy to navigate though; the artifacts and items are arranged in a chronological order, starting from the 1400s going to the early 2000s. It shows a historical journey and development the culture and arts of China people. Being an object dating from about 1775 to 1800, the teapot was displayed at the beginning of the tour. I wondered why the museum chose to include it, as it is the only sample alongside a beer cup, also porcelain. It is about 6 inches in height and 3 diameters wide. Like many porcelain pots it was white, with a painting of early Chinese 2 floor building in navy blue. It is cylindrical in shape with a simple handle and a straight spout, unlike modern teapots. The lid is about half of the top, with a small knob in the shape of a strawberry dotted with gold. The museum included this item donated by the New York Historical Society, to show its importance in the time period and how it became popular in the west. The curator mentioned that it was used mostly by the hierarchy in China; it was a symbol of wealth and power. It is also there as one of items used in trade when china began exploring the West, a popular item in high demand and interest, used by aristocrats and upper middle class in Europe and America. According to the curator; the hand painted structures were used as residential, religious, or governmental buildings, while the trees in the background were used to show the weight of hierarchy in the Chinese community. In this art form, depiction of items is of great importance, and is used as symbolism to show different attributes. We also see the horizon and few clouds. Chinese porcelain made its way to the West through the voyages of Admiral Zheng He. Born in 1372, the Ming Dynasty, he was captured by the ruling army at a young age and sent to work in the household of Prince Zhu Di. As he renowned himself during war and became commander of Chinese oceangoing imperial fleet. In his expeditions, he went to different places including India, Arabia and East Africa where he traded â€Å"Ming porcelain dishes and silks for medicinal herbs, spices, rhinoceros horn, ivory, exotic animals†, among other goods. Zheng had about 300 ships in his expeditions, given rise to the debate of the reasons he was sent out on the voyages. However, Finlay states the purposes included â€Å"diplomatic displays, military exercises, and trading ventures, with emphasis on these aspects shifting in response to both Chinese intentions†. From this we can we can see the ambition of trade and its significance from early civilizations of China. From an article entitled â€Å"Prosperity in Porcelain†, the product is commonly believed to have originated from china. The Chinese are well known for their tea, and that it is has been part of their culture for a very long time. Growing of tea for long time has led to the evolution of teapots as well. In this article, we learn that the earliest porcelain products where fine roughcast and light grey. Items made included bowls, jars saucers and even candlesticks. They were usually decorated with lotus flowers symbolizing purity and enlightenment, as Buddhism was growing as well about 420-589. As generations passed, so did the teapots; reaching a level of excellence around the year 960, with the changing styles and shapes, thinner roughcast and a smooth glaze. After the invention of the Blue and White porcelain, it became the foremost product for a very long time. The article mentions that this was in great demand from a very long time and became the embodiment of Chinese porcelain. In his article, Shangyun also describes the growth of the industry. Production and exportation boomed to a point that a ban was placed on unofficial maritime trade during the Ming dynasty, but smuggling of the ceramic goods became prevalent. At this time merchants from European countries such as Britain, Portugal, and Holland, began businesses and build companies in East China. The products have become so popular especially among the royalty and nobility, that one of the authors sources recorded 16 million pieces of porcelain were transported to Europe in the 1600s, and another showed half a million pieces per year after 1648. It was after development of companies in Europe that the exportation declined. I believe that this is when the Chinese economy begins to grow and become insular; from the article â€Å"Admiral Zheng He Voyages Across the Indian Ocean, 1405-1433†, we can see that it was after his death that china began to focus more on internal trade. Voyages where disliked by the empire and sanctions on fleets became more widespread, leading to a decline in western trade. A quote from the museum stated: â€Å"China possesses all things†¦and has no use for your country manufacturer†. This was from a letter to king George of England by the emperor Qianlong, showing the confidence he had in his economy. In today’s world the Chinese are still a giant in global economy, despite lagging behind other developed countries. Its leaders are optimistic and assert â€Å"†¦Chinese people are not reticent to boast that the stock market capitalizations of their corporations in energy, telecommunications, and banking are among the largest in the world†. This portrayal of confidence surely comes from a long tradition of trade that led the world for centuries. The vice president was quoted, saying pride China’s history â€Å"is the historical driving force inspiring people today to build the nation†, (Lawrence, p.5). This is the sense of pride and patriotism that the Chinese express. China is very well known for its cheap labor, cheap goods and growing economy, but also for its political beliefs. It is currently under communist regime, which may hinder its economic growth among democratic states. With booming industries ranging from technology to agriculture, it is has had a growing economy for centuries. In conclusion, resilient economy of China has been influential for many centuries, and still plays a vital role in the world. From creation of porcelain teapots to technological gadgets, its presence is felt all over. References â€Å"Admiral Zheng He Voyages Across the Indian Ocean, 1405-1433.† www.people.hofstra.edu. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jun 2011. . Beijing Review, 6/24/2010, Vol. 53 Issue 25, p40-41, 2p, 6 Color Photographs Color Photograph; found on p40. 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