Mrs. Christensen 12/10/07 Rhetorical Analysis In today's society, people are lying and being lied to every single day. Bill Clinton's presidency was no exception when people started to question his honesty on various issues. At the same time, a U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas was accused of sexually harassing a woman named Anita Hill. His denial of the allegations proved that someone was lying. Along with the chaos of liars and dishonest people came Stephanie Ericsson's essa)"The Ways We Lie."
The 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck took place during the beginning of the Cold War, specifically around the time when Senator Joseph McCarthy was rising to power. During his reign as the chairman for the Committee on Government Operations of the Senate, he accused several public figures of being Communists. His speeches were frequently reported on in the media, and the determined factor for censorship during the Red Scare was based on ideology, rather than actual content. Many people unjustly accused of being Communists were persecuted and discriminated, and the Republican Party began advocating the rise of ideological conformity. A great deal of the American public became extremely paranoid, and the general atmosphere of the era was nihilistic due to fear of Communist infiltration.
A scandal is defined in the dictionary as a disgraceful action that causes damage to ones reputation. What this definition leaves out is the damage that a scandal does to the people and country around it. Scandals affect our political system, our citizens, and our attitudes concerning politics. One of our biggest scandals in the history of the United States has been the Watergate scandal. This was in 1974 when five men broke into the democratic national headquarters to try to bug it to gain information.
Causes of the Great Terror In 1918, the Bolshevik party, through means of insurrection, seized control of the government in Russia and, in so doing, forever changed the lives of the Russian people and their society. Promising to bring an end to repression and tyranny by the rich and powerful, the new Soviet government quickly transformed itself into one of the most cruel and repressive regimes that human beings have ever been forced to endure under. While the terror and repression was something that continually waxed and waned from 1918 until the death of Stalin in 1955, there occurred a most vicious and peculiar period of violence at the end of the 1930’s that has forever been remembered since as the “Great Terror”. What makes this period of violence so noteworthy is that during this time the Bolsheviks launched their campaign of carnage against members of their own party. Indeed, those caught up in this nightmare thought that Stalin’s only perceivable motive was to destroy the best people in the party.
Institutions Over the past few years, the nation has been temporarily outraged by many different government scandals such as the leak of a CIA agent’s cover by their own government; the firing of United States Attorneys who weren’t blindly loyal to the administration; the suspension of habeas corpus rights, the friendly-fire death and subsequent cover-up of soldier Pat Tillman; the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. That last scandal is in the news again, because the President managed to have the laws changed retroactively, so his once-illegal surveillance program is now the law of the land. The military has covered up many things that have happened in the past to prevent from ruining their reputation and to discourage people from
Khrushchev shocked the world by delivering his famous speech in 1956 in which he brought down the “cult of the personality” of Stalin. The First Secretary revealed a hidden letter written by Lenin containing criticism against Stalin. Khrushchev denounced the Father of Communism by talking of his violent rules and practices and especially the purges that Stalin used to get rid of his political enemies("Khrushchev's "Secret Speech,"). According to the speech Stalin had established “dictatorship and terror,” and Khrushchev accused him of “violations of the Socialist legality.” The effects of the de-Stalinization showed that the people from the Soviet Camp were not ready
The findings of the study were sensationalized by the world press and are the bases of the murder theory. Scholars also suggested that Tutankhamen may have been a victim of a murder plot by high officials in the royal court, because he was the son or nephew of Amenhotep IV, also known as Akhenaten. Akhenaten shocked Egypt by changing its religion from worship of many gods to one God: he desecrated temples of other gods and in doing so, made enemies in the process (Sayre, 2001, p. 86). However,
1、Austrian army officer Alfred Redl takes the cake. Before and during World War 1, Redl worked as a spy for the Russian military and sold secrets about the Austrian army. Redl leaked the Austrian invasion plan for Serbia, which Russia in turn sold to Serbia. He continued to double cross his countrymen by supplying the wrong information about Russia’s military strength and exposing Austrian agents to the enemy. The results were catastrophic for the Austrian army: his actions contributed to the deaths of half a million Austrians.
Seven percent of conspiracy-loving Americans blame the Central Intelligence Agency for Kennedy's death. After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961, Kennedy and the CIA were on rough terms, leading conspiracy-minded individuals to suspect the CIA retaliated by having the president killed. CIA conspiracies often overlap with mob conspiracies because of revelations that the agency worked with organized crime on its Castro schemes. * The Cubans were also a popular candidate for conspiring on the President’s life. The American government made numerous attempts at killing the infamous Fidel Castro, but it is believed that Castro got to JFK first.
Chiang was notorious for launching “reign of terrors against wealthiest inhabitants of the city” (Spence 361). Jonathan Spence argues that Chiang raked in millions of dollars from wealthy businessmen and big corporations; this influx was used to run the country – mostly for its military needs. He also arrested children of industrialists by “identifying” them as counterrevolutionaries or communists, which led to their rich fathers having to pay large sums to the GMD (369). The GMD’s approach in running the government was by following Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s five-power constitution that asserted the values of democracy and bureaucracies with checks and balances. Spence argues that this five-power