But people still need to recognise we have an institutional responsibility to do oversight on the President” Garry Bass, Congress. This quote supports my view on the Congress being a watchdog. If the Congress is a lapdog, the President can have a free ride on running the country how he wishes and not represent the people’s view. However that is not the case as the President cannot do everything which pleases him. However, looking at the statistics such as Bill Clintons presidency, in the first 2 years which was a united government, Congress exercised limited oversight, and when needed to, asked softball questions, however , when Republicans took over Congress, things got much harder as they seek to hold the President to account, and after a while, impeach.
11/22/14 Summary Event in Chile: The United States has declared the Monroe Doctrine that Latin America is to govern itself without the influence of European nations. Since then, Americans have intervened militarily to protect Latin America from these threats. However, US interventions in Latin America, including Chile have been a source of discontent between the two regions for many years. The participation of the United States was of a political nature, which involve blows to put candidates who disliked the United States in power in these countries, such as Chile and Nicaragua. In Chile, the intervention of the United States began in 1964 when the United States had a secret campaign to elect the Democratic President Eduardo Frei rather
This opened the door to a series of affirmative action policies that would change the way business and government carry out their basic functions. A few years later, the federal government set goals for its departments with respect to the amount of federally contracted dollars it should award to minority-owned businesses. In 1995 the Supreme Court was asked to decide the constitutionality of affirmative action regulations that supported the government in reaching its goals. The case that would change the way affirmative action regulations are interpreted is called Adarand v. Peña. In 1989 Mountain Gravel and Construction Company (Mountain Gravel) was awarded a $1 million prime contract from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to build highways in southwestern Colorado.
This translated to the military machine as well. Blacks were not mixed with whites in units. Black soldiers could serve under a white commander, but whites never served under a black commander. This all changed in 1940, and helped to pave the way for equality. Under the pressure of activist groups and President Franklin Roosevelt, the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC), who had not allowed black Americans entrance into its academy, finally gave in and allowed blacks to enroll for the flight program.
One reason is that America hasn’t even progressed at all since Malcolm X’s time. There is still racism in this country and it’s not only towards African Americans, but every race in this country. People are still fighting against the same hatred and injustice Malcolm X had to face during his time. The fact that not many people realize this or care to realize this is because people have lost their passion and motivation to create the country that our forefathers promised us in the Constitution. They have become satisfied by the simple changes that America has made over the years just like Colin Powell.
After the Civil War, many changes were made. The ones that relate to the story are the freedom of the blacks and tax raises due to inflation. Firstly, as Miss Emily was determined to ignore the new way of life in the South, she still had a black servant Toby, who is always seen “going in and out [of the house] with a market basket” (2, Faulkner). There are no indications that any other household had servants, as their freedom was a result of the Civil War; Only Miss Emily is mentioned to yet ‘have’ one. Secondly, when the Mayor tries to collect taxes from Miss Emily, she refuses and calls on Colonel Satoris to settle the matter, even though he has been dead for ten years already.
Role of Women in Chilean History Women in Chile, like in most Latin American countries, have always been looked upon as 2nd class citizens. From the time they are born they are raised as future housewives and rarely are they given the opportunities that men enjoy. The “traditional” role of women has always been a major concern in Latin American counties, and therefore through out history they have been denied once and again the right to vote, the right to get an education, and to have the same basic rights that men do. During the Decade of the 1970s, Chile transitioned from a democratic socialist government to an authoritarian military dictatorship. The role of women in this period is crucial in order to understand modern day Chile.
After several months of exploration and studies, French people said the same thing as Spaniards, “no oil in Equatorial Guinea”. However, everything changed with the arrival of Americans in Equatorial Guinea. Americans discovered in mid-1990s that there was in fact oil in the country. This moment changed the dynamic of Equatorial Guinea. After oil and other natural resources were discovered, the life style and the environment started and keeps changing.
Politicians in Latin America are not politicians anymore, as explained by Lawrence E. Harrison “(Politicians) to be elected have to demonstrate that they are not politicians at all but something quite different: military officers, beauty queens, technocrats-anything at all except politicians” (Harrison) We have seen Fidel Castro wearing military uniforms so we can agree that Harrison is not wrong. Politicians don’t wear military uniforms because they are comfortable or they look good, they do it so the population remember they were in the military and they suffered countless years for the liberation of their people. This leads to a thinking of “He helped us before and he will do it again!” there is nothing wrong with this but when people stops paying attention to everything politicians do and only base their arguments in that way of thinking it becomes dangerous, politicians are really smart and they may use this to their advantage.
Ch.3" para.4). These laws became an important step in the development of the issue of citizenship in the USA. Finally, voting laws also influenced greatly on American society. For decades only white men were allowed to vote, while slaves and women were deprived of this possibility (Field 114). However, abolitionist and women rights movements, which appeared as the answer to this discrimination, made society to rethink its priorities and create voting laws which took into account needs of all layers of society and guaranteed them the right to