He teaches the U.S. history surveys, Nevada History, American Constitutional History, The Civil War, and History of Las Vegas. For UNLV’s Honors College, he teaches advanced undergraduate seminars on those topics. His books on the Civil War era are Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War (Fordham University Press, 2004), Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War (ABC-CLIO, 2010), and Lincoln and the Election of 1860 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011).
He seeks to examine crime, law, violence and values in the United States and its relationship to the American Frontier. He relates past history to the present and focuses on how the adoption of the concept of no duty to retreat has impacted not only American value system but the criminal justice system in the U.S. He focuses the reader’s attention on increased violence and homicide in America and compares this with the British system and other developed countries that have maintained the duty to retreat in their laws. “In the wake of the Persian Gulf War, Brown looks at line-drawing in the sand by the Reagan-Bush administrations, and also at contemporary urban shoot-outs in racial and
Week 2 Case Study: Solving the Medicare Crisis HSM 544 Health Policy and Economics Memo: Congressman Howard Hughes, As Chief of Staff my task is to prepare a written response for you. You have been asked to participate in a panel discussion and give a response on the Medicare funding crisis. The panel discussion will focus on the proposal of reducing Medicare expenditures by enrolling participants in HMO’s. The National health insurance system for Americans began back with President Teddy Roosevelt, his platform when he ran for president in 1912 included health insurance. Roosevelt’s idea for a national health plan was put on hold until U.S. President Harry S. Truman pushed for the program.
Terrorism can be defined as, ‘The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.’ (FBI). Strategic Warfare can be defined by breaking it into two parts. Merriam-Webster defines Strategic as, ‘A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.’ and warfare as ‘Engagement in or the activities involved in war or conflict’. Thus in essence strategic warfare is planned actions during a conflict with the aim of victory, but in context Strategic Warfare is the use of attacks, whether it be on military or civilian targets, with the aim to push the enemy into surrender. Using a variety of tactics, such as, demoralization of enemy population (Nazi Blitz of London WWII) and, embargo and seizure of materials entering a nation (British policy on goods travelling to Germany during WWI), militaries have changed the parameters and rules of war to those of a ‘Strategic’ nature.
Schlesinger points out that many came to view the unifying American melting pot phenomenon as an Anglocentric conspiracy to undermine and devalue other ethnicities. Although there was one glaring failure of American democracy; the racist exclusion of blacks from the promise of the American creed. Mr. Schlesinger goes on to enumerate the events which took place over the past half century which, from the springboard of the new creed of cultural pluralism, have brought America to what he sees as a dangerous era of multiculturalism with the potential to rend the nation . He begins with the culmination of World War II and its effect of confronting Americans with their own bigotry in light of the Germans' racially motivated atrocities toward the Jews. Soon thereafter came the collapse of white colonialism.
The question to examine here is are they really terrorists? Or are they simply the most powerful partisanship in the world today? “...The West presents a threat to Islam; ... loyalty to religion and loyalty to democratic institutions and values are incompatible; and that violence is the only proper response” (mi5.gov.uk). This is the belief system that is instilled in members of Al Qaeda which has stemmed from the global message by such figures as Osama Bin Laden. Amongst the teachings of Osama Bin Laden, former Al Qaeda leader, towards his followers is that the removal of Western influence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Palestinian Territories is crucial for the survival of Islamic faith, and that the destruction of these “infidels” is the only means of maintaining the strength and existence of Islam.
one consistent characteristic is the use of violence on non-combatants to gain publicity for a group,cause, or individual. Since 1994, the United Nations General Assembly has repeatedly condemned terrorist acts using the following political description of terrorism: Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them. Terrorism is not a new concept it has been around for centuries. The first recorded use of terrorism and terrorist was in 1795 because of the Reign of Terror instituted by the French Government. The use of terrorists against the government was first recorded in 1866 in Ireland and 1883 Russia.
POLS 2401 Section #14 Fall 2015 Ronick Nathan Terrorism is a goal in which to threat, fear, and intimidate in regards to political issues, religion crisis or Ideological impacts on society. Terrorism is the interaction of violence to solid and substantial ways of terrorizing a population from most often a group to grasp the acknowledgment to and issue, cause, political change or to gain political authority. Terrorism also intrigues in the resisting of a government system. There are several different types of terrorism come from the initiative of certain types of issues in regards to our society. Five forms of terrorism are state terrorism, religious terrorism, issue orientated terrorism, narco- terrorism, and right wing terrorism.
In 1917, the need for psychological testing arose when the United States entered into World War I. Psychologist Robert Yerkes and his committee of psychologists designed the Army Alpha and Beta tests that lay the groundwork for future standardized tests (Sass, 2005). The committee of psychologists led by Yerkes, included Thorndike, Thurstone, and Otis. The committee also included Lewis Terman, the developer of the Stanford-Binet IQ test. Their goal was to create a method could help the war efforts in areas of selection, categorization and assignment decisions for troops.
HEIDEGGER AND TERRORISM by ANDREW J. MITCHELL Stanford University ABSTRACT Terrorism is a metaphysical problem that concerns the presence of beings today. Heidegger’s own thinking of being makes possible a confrontation with terrorism on four fronts: 1) Heidegger’s conception of war in the age of technological replacement goes beyond the Clausewitzian model of war and all its modernist-subjectivist presuppositions, 2) Heidegger thinks “terror” (Erschrecken) as the fundamental mood of our time, 3) Heideggerian thinking is attuned to the nature of the terrorist “threat” and the “danger” that we face today, 4) Heidegger rethinks the notion of “security” in a manner that alerts us to the oxymoronic character of “homeland security.” The epoch of terrorism is likewise the era of political transformation that Heidegger identifies with “Americanism.” In this essay an effort is made to think terrorism qua metaphysical problem and to inquire into the perhaps privileged role of America for the thinking of terrorism today. Heideggerian thought is a thinking that is engaged with its times. Whatever we might make of Heidegger’s political choices, the fact remains that even these decisions can be seen as attempts to think with and against the times. It is no stretch to say that our time today is the time of terrorism—an uncommon time, no matter how common a claim this may be—especially in the United States.