“The Machine is Us/ing Us” is a short video created by Michael Wesch. The video reveals how technology has advanced throughout the years and how it has affected our daily lives. As displayed in the video in the beginning‚ about how he writes in paper and shows how difficult it is to do the things that we can do digitally way more easier and faster. Later in the video‚ it shows how easy it is to change texts digitally and how hypertexts can be linked and shared with the entire world. This is something
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World War I is probably one of the most underappreciated wars from the US perspective. This war between the Allies and the Central powers had so much effect on not only the US but on the whole world. Although the US entered late to this war they still were one of the biggest winners. The unilateralism and realist sentiment before the war gave the way for US intervention when it helped American’s self-interests. Although US power increased during interventions like the Spanish-American‚ it wouldn’t
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US and Soviet Relations throughout the Cold War Even though World War I appeared to have a strange beginning and truly proved modern world history that it was a new kind of war compared to any previous war fought prior to 1914. World War II would be fueled by its ashes and rise to become an even more total war. While an alliance between the US and the Soviet Relationship appeared unlikely due to their different ideologies‚ Germany was quickly overwhelming much of western Europe. (William J. Duiker
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{text:bookmark-start} Why the United States Entered World War I {text:bookmark-end} The US entered the war for a variety of reasons. Here are some summaries of explanations. There were unauthorized German submarines along the US East coast. Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in the spring of 1917 provided the final straw for US politicians‚ and America declared war. The first and foremost answer would be the sinking of the Lusitania‚ an British cruise/transport
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The United States’ objective in post-World War II intervention in both Vietnam and China was to primarily contain the spread of communism. The interventions were driven by strategic concerns about the domino effect of communist expansion and the defense of key geopolitical interests in the regions. In Vietnam‚ the goal was to contain communism in Southeast Asia and to support a pro-Western government in South Vietnam. In China‚ the U.S. aimed to support the Nationalist government against the Communist
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In efforts to contain communism‚ the United States created the Containment Policy. This US Policy was put into effect as response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to expand and spread throughout Eastern Europe‚ China‚ Korea and Vietnam. The doctrine was written by George F. Kennan an American diplomat‚ in the year 1946. The idea was that if superpower Soviet Union can be contained‚ Soviet troops would be forced to push back in effort to update their priorities. Four “tools” made the Containment
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money. In this paper‚ I will discuss the why high deficits of today will reduce growth rate of the economy in the future‚ look at the history of our nation’s debt and deficits‚ different elements that causes of deficit and why the cause actually matters‚ what role the fiscal and monetary policies have to lead to higher or lower budget deficits and how deficits affect the overall long-term economic growth and debt of the U.S. Let us first begin by learning the difference between the terms debt and
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Dialects refers to how words are pronounced. Your demographic location and social class can affect your dialect; how you pronounce and say certain words. I am from Texas and when I speak you can easily hear my southern accent so I identify with other texans. Also‚ jargon’s that are used can help classify individuals into a category. But I think to answer your question language helps to define individuals easily because when a person speaks it is very easy to detect where they might be from and also
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going to Cuba‚ and threatened to take military action. This caused a lot of international anxiety‚ but after a few days the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missile base. Peace Corps were created by J.F. Kennedy to establish the authority of the US in Asia‚ Africa and Latin America. Young volunteers were sent to the Third World countries‚ they worked there and helped the population to gain progress. Also Kennedy passed the law against segregation in education and got society support for this
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How far was the Korean War a militant and political success for the US? The world was by taken by surprise when North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel in June 1950. The war that followed soon snowballed out of proportion‚ spreading out to involve China‚ the Soviet Union‚ and the UN and is said by historians to have shaped US foreign policy as it is today. But was the war a success‚ or was it merely another black whole swallowing the lives of American‚ Korean and Chinese soldiers? From
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