system‚ unemployment hitting double digits‚ a $455 billion deficit‚ a banking crisis‚ and massive layoffs. Simply put‚ there were not enough taxes to make up the federal government’s extravagant spending. Eight years earlier‚ Former President George W. Bush inherited a surplus and envisioned tax cuts for his presidency. These cuts exceeded $1 trillion over 10 years and were‚ mostly‚ to the wealthy. Since former President Ronald Reagan‚ Republicans institute a tax-cut approach to the economy. However
Premium United States United States public debt United Kingdom
Machiavelli Vs. George W. Bush The Bush Administration was a very controversial topic after the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01. While some people said‚ “It was the right thing to do‚” others believed it was an outrage‚ and blamed Bush’s ideas on former‚ dictator-like philosophers. Niccolo Machiavelli was a famous political philosopher‚ who was in my opinion‚ the most similar to the Bush Administration. Machiavellis’ ideas on civil liberties‚ what government is supposed to provide and protect against
Premium George W. Bush Political philosophy USA PATRIOT Act
“This a strange time‚ Mister. No man may longer doubt the powers of the dark are gathered in monstrous attack upon this village” (Miller 62). This was stated by Reverend Hale in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. This play takes place during the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller provides a setting in which chaos and terror make this play dramatic and enjoyable. There are many themes involved in the play‚ and many characters that represent these themes. One might say the theme of scapegoating
Premium Salem witch trials The Crucible Salem, Massachusetts
Outside Reading Part 1 Setting 1 My book‚ Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler is primarily in a prison. The book takes brief intermissions of setting into Berlin right after Hitler has taken it over around 1933‚ during this time period Rubashov (who is the main character) is a high ranking member of an extremist party of some sort. During the flash backs scenes of havoc are depicted as you learn of the inner turmoil of the dying extremist party. But during the majority of the book when he’s not
Premium Fiction Great Purge English-language films
Стилистический анализ текста: Leslie Poles Hartley “W. S.” The text under stylistic analysis is taken from the book “W.S.” by Leslie Poles Hartley.The story is told by author. The main character of the story - Walter Streeter - gets the postcards with messages from anonymous and starts thinking them over. The author uses simile “like other novelists” to show that he is not the only one who gets such postcards. Walter was used to getting communications from strangers‚ sometimes they were friendly
Premium Thought Character Psychology
"For every good reason there is to lie‚ there is a better reason to tell the truth" (Bo Bennett). Arthur Miller once wrote a play that had a scandalous lie called‚ "The Crucible." A crucible can be a metal container where other substances may be melted or subjected to be very temperatures. It also can be a situation of severe test or trials. The play relates so much to the title because a crucible separates the good from the bad when pressure is applied‚ and due to that there was a trial going on
Premium Family Salem witch trials Mother
In January in the year 1917‚ the Zimmerman Telegram was sent ultimately to the Mexican president Venustiano Carranza by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire‚ Arthur Zimmerman who had the intention to slow us down from entering the war. Mexico declined Germany’s offer because Mexico knew it could not beat us‚ but on February Germany still implemented unrestricted submarine warfare and assumed that we would declare war on Germany and enter World War 1. After British intelligence intercepted
Premium
is it that separates a creator from an artist? Or what separates a work of art from a mere object? One may think that any creator is an artist and anything created could be art‚ but there is more to an artist and the art in which he or she makes. Arthur Danto and George Dickie explore how and what makes an object art in Danto’s “The Artworld” and Dickie’s “What is Art? An Institutional Analysis”. With the knowledge of what is required for art to indeed be deemed art‚ it becomes reasonable to conclude
Premium Art Aesthetics Cognition
In 2015‚ Carlton W. Reeves‚ a U.S Mississippi District Court judge talks about how racist brutalism is in its wake again. Reeves is on the verge of giving his sentence about a murder case where an African American‚ James Craig Anderson‚ was murdered by three young men named: Deryl Paul Dedmon‚ Dylan Wade Butler‚ and John Aaron Rice. The murder of Anderson is a part of resurgence of black killing that happened before in Mississippi. Reeves extensively used the three rhetorical appeals: ethos‚ logos
Premium African American Southern United States Rhetoric
management allegedly took money from other investors to pay off the current investors which the court held that there is a Ponzi scheme going on. Here‚ the auditors of Arthur Andersen has clearly compromising their integrity and honesty by issuing a false information to the public. The next company up in the sacks is Sunbeam whereby Arthur Andersen audits failed to address serious accounting errors while they issued an unqualified opinion. Losses to the shareholders amounting to well over $4.4 billion
Premium Audit Arthur Andersen Financial audit