Julius Caesar, a Roman general and statesman, served on the First Triumvirate that ruled the Roman Republic during 60 B.C. Although he was popular among the common people and also a great and outstanding military commander, he wasn’t a good leader to govern Rome due to his ambition and inner-weakness. One of the main reasons that Julius Caesar was not a good leader was his ambition. He was a corrupted tyrant, lusting for power. Becoming a governor in his region of Rome wasn’t good enough, he wanted to be crowned king and serve as a dictator for life, something that Rome didn’t have for five hundred years.
“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” - Alexis de Tocqueville. After the horrific and devastating World War II, independence was in high demand. Many independence movements along with revolutions, stopped colonization and imperialism and shaped the present world. These movements and revolutions needed strong leaders to create change. Many were against Nationalism such as Communists, causing rises for independence and unification.
Key Problem in the Port Huron Statement The Port Huron Statement was a written declaration by an American student activist movement called the Students for a Democratic Society, SDS. The key problem found within the Port Huron Statement addresses the dissatisfaction and disillusionment many young people were feeling in the 1960s and also that there was a big gap in the society, or in America, on what life should be and what it actually was. “The United States was the wealthiest and the strongest country in the world; the only one with the atom bomb, the least scarred by modern war, an initiator of the United Nations that we thought would distribute Western influence throughout the world. Freedom and equality for each individual, government of, by, and for the people- there American values we found good, principles by which we could live as men” (Albert 176). This was not at all how the sixties really played out though.
Therefore the reconstruction of early America demands a great amount of imagination for the interpretation of the era’s anthropology, archeology, and oral tradition-later recorded by Europeans. Richter uses his first chapter ‘Imagining a Distant World’ as a double entendre. He is describing the motivation that drove tens of thousands to leave Europe in search of a storied new land, while simultaneously admitting that he too is using his imagination to reconstruct an image of early America. Richter sites Carl Becker’s “Every Man His Own Historian”, which was published in American History Review, to support his admitted use of imagination in the reconstruction of events through the eyes of those who were facing
With the king still a minor- and with the authority of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset as Lord Protector, the control of religious affairs had passed to Parliament. In being so religious change under Somerset from 1547-49 followed a more radical but moderate path of Protestantism. Guiding or can been seen as dominating Edwards reign for the first two and a half years, Somerset alongside Cranmer were intent on making England a truly Protestant state. The road to Protestantism had begun with the abolishment of the Act of Six Articles and the heresy laws, while the
The passing of Lee’s resolution was the formal “declaration” of independence by the American colonies and technically this was all that was needed to cut the British tie. An important rupture of this kind called for some formal explanation and an inspirational appeal was also needed to enlist other British colonies in the Americas, to invite assistance from foreign nations, and to rally resistance at home. On July 4 of 1776, the Continental Congress formally endorses Thomas Jefferson’s statement on
In order to fight the Cold War, President Harry S Truman oversaw a revolution in American foreign policy. Characterized by policies and institutions such as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Berlin airlift, the strategy of containment redefined liberal internationalism and involved the United States in the world as never before. Despite such programs, however, the Communists made gains in atomic weapons, propaganda, Europe, and China in the late 1940s. In 1950, NSC 68 — primarily and theoretically — and Korea secondarily and practically — confirmed for Truman what he already believed: In the end, the Cold War would be won or lost on moral grounds. But he could not turn to the United Nations for moral authority, since
Section IV - International Studies in Peace and Conflict To what extent can it be argued that by the 1960s, Diem’s rule of South Vietnam had been successful?? By the 1960s Diem’s rule of South Vietnam was not successful. His policies were deeply unpopular, his regime was corrupt and based on a system of brutality, and nearly every sector of society opposed him. However, Diem was clearly successful in consolidating his rule and providing early stability to the regime when he first came to power in 1954. Ultimately, Diem was a failure as his rule determined that either Vietnam would become communist or face another war.
President Obama's statement on Aug. 13 endorsing "the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan" has unleashed another storm of partisan bloviating. Obama is "pandering to radical Islam," says Newt Gingrich; John Boehner finds Obama's comments "deeply troubling." On this issue, the
Depictive Accuracy of Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front The world-famous All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is revered as the greatest war novel of all time. However, there have been claims in the past that the novel inaccurately depicts the First World War, though there are many documents, diaries, and photographic evidence to the contrary. All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as its 1930 film adaptation, have been banned in some countries during the wartime, all for the same reason: it disrupts the home-front war effort, causing dissatisfaction of the countries’ military goals among the population. Though the bans would eventually lift, belligerents of either side of the Second World War would end up banning All Quiet on the Western Front due to its negative portrayal of the First World War. However, the novel’s depiction of the war as viewed from main character Paul Baümer proves to be quite accurate to the experiences of Bundeswehr (German army) infantrymen fighting on the western front.