In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s American’s were very scared that communism would influence our country. This period of time was referred to as ‘the second red scare’. Americans had seen the way that Russia had been transformed by communism, and did not want their country to undergo the same changes. Communism was a scary concept at the time, and it was something that we as a country definitely did not want any part of.…
Joseph McCarthy was a junior senator from Wisconsin who gave a speech in West Virginia in February 1950 in which he made the threat of communism clear to the people, “Today, only six years later, there are 800 million people under the absolute domination of Soviet Russia - an increase of over 400 percent. On our side the figure has shrunk to around 500 million. In other words, in less than six years the odds have changed from 9 to 1 in our favor to 8 to 5 against us” (Document G). The Soviet Union, whose form of government is communism, are extraordinarily dangerous. With the rate they are spreading world domination would not be far. With the 800 million the Soviet Russia has under their hand they can take on big powers such as the US. The…
One evening in 1950 a Houston couple entered a Chinese restaurant. The woman, a radio writer, wanted the proprietor's help in producing a program on recent Chinese history. Overhearing their conversation, a nearby man rushed out, phoned the police, and informed them that people were "talking Communism." The couple was immediately arrested and jailed for 14 hours before the police concluded they had no case. At about the same time a policeman in Wheeling, West Virginia, discovered some penny-candy machines dispensing goodies with tiny geography lessons. One lesson, under the hammer-and-sickle Soviet flag, read: "USSR Population 211,000,000. Capitol Moscow. Largest country in the world." "This is a terrible thing to expose our children to," pronounced…
Communism is a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals. In practice, a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic systems. ‘During the Cold War period Australia responded in various ways to the external and internal threat of communism. The most potent weapon used was the use of visual media.’ The Australian Government responded to the threat of communism after World War 2 in a number of different ways. The most powerful way was the use of visual media, using a variety of methods including signing treaties such as ANZUS and SEATO, changing the constitution and committing troops to overseas battles.…
Mankind just never seems to be able to come to their full realization of how it is bad. To this day, not everyone is treated same all the time, sometimes some are indeed treated different due to their sex, gender and race. There are still some anti- communists out there but very few or no attention is driven towards them. But one major issue that had been continued is the fact that some countries still don’t want to accept others’ unique opinions. According to the WSWS, the Polish parliament recently adopted a de-communization law, giving local governments one year to remove all symbols representing communism from the public space. This indicates that to this day people are still against communism and very few have failed to…
order to survive and maintain a healthy lifestyle, everyone needs Food. How much do we actually know about the food we buy and serve to our families on a daily basis? There has been little awareness and understanding of food in America until the film Food Inc., which helps show us how our food is produced, packaged and sold in our native stores. Our nation’s food supply is being controlled by a few amounts of corporations that often put their income ahead of customer health. It’s time that the truth is heard about what we are putting into our bodies, and what is being hidden from us by the food industry.…
of macadamia nuts (12.3 g/kg) one hour earlier. The dog was reported to be moderately ataxic with muscle tremors and mild dyspnea. In this case, the attending veterinarian administered an enema and provided pain relief combined with other symptomatic and supportive care before contacting the ASPCA APCC. No additional treatment procedures were recommended. Within nine and a half hours, the clinical signs resolved, and the dog fully recovered” (Macadamia nut toxicosis in dogs,…
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It. Karl Weber, ed. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009…
It was November 18, 1918, the day WWI had officially ended. The last cry of help had been heard and peace was supposedly coming to the United States or it had seemed. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia had caused, among many other things, what would be known as the Red Scare (****). The Red Scare was the label given to the actions of legislation, the race riots, and the hatred and persecution of "subversives" and conscientious objectors during that period of time. The purpose of this research is to explore the threat that plagued the United States in its’ time of great panic and anxiety, during the “first” Red Scare which lasted between 1919 to 1921. This powerful threat turned out to be Communism and it was greatly feared by almost every U.S. citizen. Communism is “system of social and economic organization in which property is owned by the state group, to be shared in common or to be disturbed among members of the community equally or in proportion to their respective needs. In 1919, no more than one-tenth of the adult American population belonged to the newly formed communist movement, and even this small percentage were greatly persecuted.…
Communism offered a scapegoat for the confusion, fear, and insecurity Americans felt after World War II. The Red Scare may have incited paranoia and unease in the American government and people, but it also consolidated all of their concerns onto a single rival. This unification also unified the American people, under a common suspicion. “Consensus mentality offered a refuge in an anxious and confusing world. It represented an attempt to shift the burden of individual responsibility for one’s fate to an impersonal monolithic whole” (Samuels, 222).…
In the years following the end of World War II, the American population's attention was diverted to one threat: that of a Communist takeover by Soviet Russia. The Eisenhower Administration responded to the crisis by promoting government investments into defense systems and education; such responses did not completely eliminate the fear of a Communist takeover. As a whole, communism was the direct antithesis of the American principles of democracy and free-enterprise. Communism promoted social, political, and global equality under the rigid control of a central government. Specific reactions both by the general American population and the Eisenhower Administration will help identify the effects of the threat of communism in the United States.…
Hutson said, “for nearly 3 million Americans, the most dangerous aspect to air travel is the complimentary in-flight snack called peanuts and every year, about 150 people are killed by a common ingredient of a first-grader’s brown bag lunch (Hutson, 2006).” Johnson Publishing Co stated, “an estimated 1.5 million Americans are allergic to peanuts and about 100 people die annually after ingesting them (Johnson Publishing Co., 2004).” Johnson Publishing Co indicated that all it takes is a little piece of a peanut to cause a person to die from peanut allergies (Johnson Publishing Co., 2004).” Rubin states, “About 1.5 million Americans are allergic to peanuts, and 50 to 100 die each year from accidentally consuming even just tiny amounts (Rubin 2003).”…
The first interesting fact that I found out about Food Inc was that their tomatoes are ripened with ethane gas. I thought that was interesting because I never thought that they did that but they do. Ripening tomatoes on gas makes them get to people like us two times quicker because it is like putting them on steroids. This makes you really think about what you eat and what you are putting into your body. This makes me not want to eat tomatoes because the ethane gas can’t be good for the human body. I think people who do this to their food should be punished and should not be allowed to sell tomatoes. They are probably affecting so many people now and they will not feel it till 20 years now. The word that I think that relates to this is epidemiology. Epidemiology is the study of patterns of disease and disability in a population. I think that relates by how some day people…
In Joshua Adler’s essay, “Our Alarmist Society,” Adler point out a serious problem; alarmist have a lot bad influence in our society. In his essay, he said that “Scientific alarmism is becoming a way of life in the United States.” We all know that alarmism can cause misunderstanding and trouble for listeners, but it can cause our life to become miserable if it becomes part of our living element. Based on Adler’s essay, in 1989, the U.S. Customs Service banned South American grapes because people were poisoned by the grapes from Chile. The U.S. almost destroyed the economies of Peru and Chile, both countries are struggling countries and need U.S. business to maintain their living standards. Once the U.S. stops business with them, they will lose their basic quality of life. When South American countries are not making enough money for their daily living, they start selling illegal crops to America and give Uncle Sam a drug addiction in order to make him weaker. The media plays a big role in this ball game, if the press thinks an event is important, they can make it sound as significant as they want and make it sound uncontrollable. However, when Joshua returned home on spring break and saw an old couple waiting for their food, the old woman said she heard other people say that eating yolk will kill you for sure so she wanted her eggs scrambled. She believed what other people said without finding the evidence and realized the yolk in her scrambled eggs. If everyone believes in the same logic that she does, our egg-producing farms will immediately shut down. Alarmism could be both bad and good depending on how we use it; in today’s society, news can be spread very easily and we don’t really have time to think, we always try to find the solution to the problem without looking at the bigger picture. Critical thinking is one of the best ways to solve this problem, communication is…
I don’t know if the world really understands the living conditions of communist countries. The static number of deaths due to communism is approximately 94 million. Compared to the deaths of the holocaust which would stand at 11 million. 94 million is a to high number, when dealing with innocent lives. The Potato Eaters, a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, a novel by George Orwell published in 1954, and “Dog,” a 1977 song performed by Pink Floyd and written by David Gilmour explore the idea that communists countries have harsh conditions that will be apart of their everyday lives, and an average person has no idea. To explain to the average person the true realities that lies behind the wall of communism. I have chose a specific art, novel, and…