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- 221: The Optimist's Daughter: Summary
- ... Mount Salus adds the characteristics of a caring family to the plot of the story. The setting helps add missing characters to the plot of The Optimist's Daughter. 3.10 Wanda Fay and Hillary Clinton I believe to be very similar people. Fay is very selfish and cold hearted. She does not care what other people think as long as she gets her way. Her motives can never be figured out and might even come from some sort of mental disorder. Fay is also very demanding and all of her demands are supposed to be met immediately or else she becomes very hostile. Hillary Clinton matches Fay in many aspects. She is selfish and cold hearted, very demanding and wants all the power that she can get. Hillary is also swift and concise when she attacks, but Fay tends to ...
- 222: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... stillborn daughter. (5) Their son Patrick, who died two days after his birth, lies on the other side of John Kennedy. (5) God gave her very great gifts and imposed upon her great burdens, President Clinton said during her eleven-minute ceremony. She bore them all with dignity and grace and uncommon common sense, Clinton also added. (6) As Jackies friends knelt to pay their respects on last time and walked past the eternal flame that she lit three decades ago, 64 bells rang from the Washington National Cathedral ...
- 223: Kosovo and US Involvement
- ... Kosovo would be more welcomed if they weren't killing innocent people and instead, helping them come to a peaceful resolution between the two areas. However, the air strikes against Serbia are believed to be Clinton's goal for protecting U.S. investors and exporters. Although the humanitarian tragedies of Kosovo are in the foremost eye of the public, U.S. economic interests are in foremost eye of the government (Landlay ... is in a prime area in which a base for NATO forces would allow them to "keep tabs" on the area. To the Serbs, U.S. involvement is seen strictly as a way for president Clinton to make his time in office memorable militarily as well as historically, and help to cover up his sex and money scandals (Thompson, 1). The Kosovo conflict is growing with each day. New information is ...
- 224: NATO Airstrikes in Kosovo
- ... his throne tightly. Will NATO drive Milosevic from his position? Ironically it seems Milosevic will still be the president of Yugoslavia as NATO's bombing made him as a hero in some Yugoslavians' eyes. Bill Clinton in his latest address claimed proudly that NATO hadn't lost one serviceman in the Kosovo war. On the other side Yugoslavian forces lost 576 servicemen according to Milosevic's latest address to the nation ... is too high. The Yugoslavian economy has been destroyed and a large number of refugees from Kosovo are in other countries which is a heavy burden for the international community. Even worse, according to Bill Clinton's latest speech, the US will not provide funds for the reconstruction if Milosevic remain in power. As a result Yugoslavia will suffer the poverty caused by the war. Now the conflicts between two ethnic ...
- 225: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... at times indefensible, role in the events that took place and they were backed by groups such as the CIA, the Pentagon and US backed international aid organizations like USAID. Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton both focussed constantly upon short range goals such as winning the election in 1993 and they were willing to sacrifice long term interests in the pursuit of these goals. The US would be far better ... aid and financed the Francois Duvalier International Airport in return for Haitian support in the Organization of American States (OAS) vote to expel Cuba from their ranks.(10) In 1971 the US Ambassador to Haiti, Clinton Knox, personally supervised the transition from Papa Doc to his son Jean-Claude'Baby Doc' Duvalier. Both of the Duvaliers used the power of the centralized state to formalize a system of absolute individual power ...
- 226: Violence In Schools
- ... churches and retiree organizations. It is not only the community and the school who have to get involved in order to make a real change. At the 1998 White House Conference on School Safety, President Clinton announced a series of new initiatives in dealing with school violence. In one of the initiatives, President Clinton proposed a $12 million School Emergency Response to Violence to help schools and local communities respond to school- related violent deaths. The president also announced a new $65 million initiative to hire up to 2 ...
- 227: Affirmative Action
- ... ensure compliance with affirmative action policies. Affirmative action had little progress during the Reagan and Bush terms. However one change was made by the passage of Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 . During the President Clinton terms, Republicans have claimed affirmative action to be nothing more than a quota or even reverse discrimination nevertheless President Clintons opinions can be summarized in his own words; Mend it, don't end it. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TODAY NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 5.1 Since affirmative action is a compromise it is far from ...
- 228: Diversity Of The America
- ... women can be in contrast to one another. Men tend to put their faith in a candidate who is solid and straightforward, while women seek a more compassionate candidate. In the 1996 presidential election, Bill Clinton focused part of his campaign on soccer moms. He stressed issues like womens rights, child support, and sexual abuse and rape. The issues that Clinton raised were important to these mothers and they tended to cast their votes for him. The diversity in social classes presents a difference in needs and beliefs. A basic premise of life is that everyone ...
- 229: Racism
- ... denied federal recognition of homosexual marriage and alowed states to ignore same-sex unions licensed elsewhere. At least 30 states banned gay marriages since."http://www.mercurycenter..com:80/premium/nation/docs/gay05.htm President Clinton has acknowledege that "homosexuals in the United States still possess the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which must be protected by law regardless of their sexual orientation." in common North American ... the California Army National Guard. Homosexuals have aslo had a very negative relationship with the church, this may strongly affect them because it is another mean by which they are being attacked and discriminated. President Clinton΄s protection of the homosexuals by law may bring enourmous changes in their life style, concerning the issue of discrimination and their status in society. Women have also suffered strong discrimination by society throughout history ...
- 230: Privacy For Public Officials
- ... get the story, some argue, has led to the reporting of rumor and unverified information, as well as extensive coverage of personal information that violates the privacy of public figures. In the light of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal some argue that the press is more concerned with selling papers than educating the public. They argue that important stories are left unprinted to make room for sensational news such as the romantic ... Stephenson The Atlantic Monthly Company). It has become second nature for American's to see sensationalism in the news when it comes to politics. There have been no events that personify this more than the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. This experience has brought the personalization of politics to the front burner. This event made the public aware of what was going on with the media, people began to realize that the information ...
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