He ended up getting attacked by an angry mob within one minute of starting his speech. Very interesting ideas about free speech they have down there. They are actually protesting for more government interference in their lives. They want government to seize assets of the rich. They want government to dictate to corporations and take their money from them by force.
Aside from reducing state revenues for overseas expeditions, the domestic policies of Philip II further burdened Spain and would in the following century, contribute to its decline. This caused inflation and a high tax for all the workers under his rule. The Spending of all this money lead to Spain's first bankruptcy in 1557 due to rising military costs. This eventually led to a failure in leading his people, and it was his debt that truly ended his reign. (http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Philip_II_of_Spain) (Spielvogel,456, The Human
He used his families charm and connections to win over the public and his fathers enormous wealth to advertise himself. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, once said, “It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what people think you are.” (9 Hostages to Fortune, 1990) He only let the public see a good, hard working American man. Many people did not know that Kennedy suffered from Addison’s disease and lived a life of pain. As a politician in his early career, Kennedy was all style. This changed however, when he became a senator.
Roosevelt had realized this great potential and purchased the equipment and rights from the French to pursue this project. While at the same time as the purchase, a bitter conflict between Panama and Columbia was taking place, where Roosevelt had stepped in and offered Panama independence from Columbia in exchange for exclusive rights and control of the lands surrounding the projected Panama Canal. Though the building of the Panama Canal was considered one of the greatest achievements of his administration – for it nearly doubled the efficiency of America’s navy , it has also caused conflict and severe criticism against him
Several modern rulers (from everyday fathers to leaders of the country) have begun as ‘brave soldiers’ and ended as crazy destroyers because of their poor choices and the consequences. Psychologists have shown us that, behind seemingly straightforward human motives (good or bad), there are often extremely complicated emotions and intentions. From Macbeth killing practically everyone in his life for his own gain, to the armed robberies and riots happening all over the world, we see greed, violence and people struggling with the concept of right and wrong in our everyday lives, no matter how far we think we’ve come from Macbeth. Lately we’ve been hit by a tidal wave of armed robberies. From general stores to petrol stations and even a train station in Perth has come under attack from guns and knives.
An example is in the Rwandan Genocide in which 800,000 Tutis were killed by Rwandan extremists. The Hutu controlled the radio stations which encouraged them to kill the Tutis “cockroaches”. The group were dehumanised in which their members were seen as worthless and not worthy of moral consideration. The last idea is that of situational variables. ZImbardo argues that the powerful influence on situation can have on people’s
Over 6,000 lives, most of them American, have been lost because of his actions. Many Muslims have now been given a stereo type of being “violent terrorists,” just because of the alacrities of a handful of extremists. Due to bin Laden’s interfering with the United States, they abortively invaded Afghanistan, punching a dent in President Bush’s presidency, and throwing the economy into turmoil. Any hope of returning to the former lifestyle that Americans had once enjoyed has been long dissipated. Al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that he founded in the early 1980’s, has been encouraging other minor terrorists to take action, making the world an over-all more dangerous place to live.
Apart from the colonist being harassed with taxes, their trade with all parts of the world except Britain was another reason why the colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence. The illegal imposition of rules over their trade and production, commonly known as the Navigation Acts, which have been pressed on them for over a century and made worse by the Sugar Act and Townshend Acts was controlled once the Declaration of Independence was written and signed. Furthermore, the colonists were being deprived in many cases. The Boston Massacre was when a mob of 50 colonists gathered to protest against the officials. As fists and clubs began flying a soldier dropped dead, this forced the soldiers to fire, killing five civilians and wounding six.
Without Nixon, there would be no battle because he, as president, was a part of the Watergate Scandal. At the moment he is winning because he has the possession of the tapes. Another symbol the cartoonist used was the drawing of the two arms (labeled executive and legislative) gripped in a intense wrestling battle. The cartoonist was able to use this symbol to illustrate his point because the arms represent the battle for power between the executive branch and legislative branch. (The big battle between the executive and congress did not really arise until the Watergate Scandal brought out a major problem.)
The conservatives resisted the change of the decade by the police and courts cracking down on radicals: prohibition outlawed liquor, the Klu Klux Klan attacked immigrants and radical minorities, and fundamentalist Christians decried the changing code of morality and the teaching of evolution in schools, while congress drastically restricted immigration. The shift of population from rural to urban led to heightened social tensions in the 1920’s. Intent on pressuring traditional social values, rural Americans saw in the city all that was evil in contemporary life. Saloons, whorehouses, little Italys, little Polands, communist cells, free love, and atheism; these were all identified within the city. The countryside struck back.