TODAY‘S MENU 1. Origins of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny 1.1 Rhetorical Origins 1.2 Manifest Destiny 2. American Exceptionalism and American Imperialism 2.1 American Imperialism 2.2 “America’s Destiny” 2.3 Strategic and Imperialistic Reasons 2.4 Translatio Imperii 3. Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism in the 21st Century 3.1 G.W. Bush’s Address to the Nation (2001) 3.2 Barack Obama and the American Exceptionalism 3.2.1 1st Inaugural Address (2009) 3.2.2 Obama’s View
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Stanley Milgram conducted an examination‚ in the 60’s‚ based on the justification for the acts of genocide offered by those who were accused in the Nuremberg War Criminal Trials of WWII. Their defense‚ as they claimed was solely based on “obedience” and that they were in fact only following their superior’s orders. This eventually led to the study on the conflict between obedience toward authority and one’s personal conscious. His experiment was a model of simplicity. The idea was to take an ‘experimenter’
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the universal law. This is also called destiny or fate and it means that people believe their role in this world is given and they cannot change it. However‚ people’s life is not destined by a universal law or by God. With the new discoveries in science‚ it has been claimed that 18th century scientists were wrong in their view on universal law. The chaotic scientists of the 20th century claimed that the chaotic system is random and not related with destiny because any change in the initial condition
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Manifest Destiny is the term for the attitude that was prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only was able to‚ but was actually destined to‚ stretch from coast to coast and expand its territories‚ even if it was at the expense of others. While terrority would expand and progress‚ it would also be liberty and economic opportunities for individuals that would expand as well. The term Manifest Destiny actually originated sometime in the 1840s‚ when
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"The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent " John L. O’ Sullivan At the time of the mid- 1800’s most Americans thought that it was destiny for the United States to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. There were many reasons why people wanted to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A few reasons were free farmland was offered to people out west. As well as the growing population along the Atlantic‚ gold‚ and other
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Manifest Destiny: Manifest Destiny was a wide belief held in the United States in the 19th century‚ it was beliefed that American settlers were destined to expand throught the continent. Manitfest Destiny came from the idea that it was their job to reedeme the old world. Mexican American War: In 1846-1848 the first U.S. armed conflict fought on foreign soil happened‚ the Mexican-American War. The administration of the President‚ James Polk‚ believed they had a "manifest destiny" to spread across
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Professor Joseph Schantz History 100 28 November 2012 Manifest destiny was originated in the 1840’s. It was the belief that Saxon Americas expanded their civilization and institutions across the North America. This expansion was territorial but the progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity. Americans began to buy into settling unexplored western frontiers‚ they first moved into Michigan‚ Arkansas‚ Wisconsin and Ohio (Norton 2007). The nation expanded quickly in just five years
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In 1963‚ Stanley Milgram was interested in the psychology behind people who blindly follow authoritative figures. His interest in this idea peaked because of WWII and the atrocities practiced by the subordinates of Hitler. As a way to test this question‚ Milgram came up with a university study that would put people’s conscience to the test. This observation of the human mind would lay a groundwork and test the boundaries of understanding the thought process behind genocides. It did not examine
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With "Daughters of Destiny"‚ Netflix portrays the story of Shanti Bhavan‚ a residential school in India founded by Abraham George‚ whose objective is to improve education and break the cycle of poverty of families from the lowest caste‚ "The Untouchables". Throughout the series‚ the viewer is introduced to five different girls and their daily struggles living in between two completely different worlds; Shanti Bhavan‚ where they have access to many resources‚ and their villages‚ where their families
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exceptionalism not to be confused with the ideology of americanism. American Exceptionalism: Belief that U.S.A. is historically and politicaly a completely unique nation and therefor superior to other nations (Hebel 2008) Rhethorical origins: - especially John Winthrop´s ’’A Model of Christian Charity’’ - sermon by Puritan layman and leader John Winthrop‚ who delivered on board the ship Arbella while on route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony - biblical aproach - Puritan colonists are god’s ’’chosen
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