Overthrow Research Papers Samples For Students

The United States and Cuba continue to share a strained and fragile relationship based on the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion over fifty years ago. This strained relationship had a long term effect on the Kennedy government. The attack at the Bay of Pigs started with a group of Cuban refugees who were trained and financed by the American group the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 1960. They arrived in Cuba and attempted to overthrow the government headed by Fidel Castro. This socialist government, led by Fidel Castro fought back and the attack on the government failed.
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The road to obtaining independence in colonies was never easy. Lives were lost, property destroyed, families separated but still independence had to be achieved from colonizers. There are several leaders in history remembered for leading their countries towards independence through organizing and uniting the people and educating them on the importance of self-freedom as well as the independence of their state. Such leaders are known for being at the forefront in leading revolutionary movements in their countries through their ideas and actions. This paper, therefore, focuses on revolutionary ideas of individuals such as Marx and Engels, Lenin, Gandhi, Fidel ...

Introduction and Thesis Statement

St. Aquinas believes that way is sinful and waging war is unjust. He argues that “those who take to sword will die by the sword.” According to him, war is a detriment of peace and therefore a sinful endeavor. However, St. Augustine explains the validity and the justifiability of war. He believes that war, to some extent, is just and necessary (White 269). However, for a war to be just, it has to follow three conditions. A just was must that that has been sanctioned by the highest authority. It will be unjust to wage war at a personal ...

At the beginning of the Paradise Lost we are introduced to Satan, who has found himself on the surface of a boiling hot lava after falling from Heaven. He has fallen from Heaven because he no longer wanted to be subservient to God. As an alternative he wishes for there to be more equality between God and the Angels. Throughout Paradise Lost Satan, continues to be obsessed with equality. This is something that is inferred throughout much of Paradise Lost. This paper will examine Satan’s need for equality.
Satan’s desire for equality is seen from the very ...

The military controls much of the political and economic state of Egyptian affairs. Throughout history, the images of Egypt's revolution show that the Egyptian military supported the civil disobedience in Tahrir Square. The recent events in Egypt show that Egyptian military forces maintain opposition to terrorism. Some Egyptians believe that the Muslim Brotherhood can gain unity amongst the Islamic countries in the future and create a united country and free Palestine. However, the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), brought the military body to avow a peaceful conversion of authority within a democratic system. This fact ...

In this paper, I will give an account of Benito Mussolini’s rise to power. I will conduct a research on his development from his schooldays through his editorial profession, to his transmission from being against the war and eventual support of the war. Further, I will report on his character, especially his ability to influence the masses despite of his humble family backgrounds. Finally, I will provide the factors that eventually propelled him to power, one of these significant factors being his closeness to the king, and the coup d’état in Rome.
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini wasborn ...

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on 29th July 1883 in a small town called Dovia di Predappio Forli province in Emilia-Romagna. He was the son of a blacksmith Alessandro Mussolini and a catholic schoolteacher Rosa Mussolini. He was born in a family or three children and was the eldest among them. In his childhood, Mussolini spent most of his time with his father who was a socialist. Unlike other catholic children, Mussolini was not baptized at birth as his parents had different religious views. He was however baptized later in his childhood. His father inspired the political knowledge into his young son. Even ...

ABSTRACT

The United States was founded on the principle that all persons had natural rights to life, liberty and property, which is to say that the Framers of the Constitution accepted the theories of John Locke rather than Thomas Hobbes. Government did not simply exist to maintain law and order and keep the masses under control, but to preserve, defend and guarantee the rights of the people. By popular demand in the 1780s, the Bill of Rights was also added to the Constitution, which stated expressly which rights were guaranteed to the people and what the exact limits of government ...

Introduction

The United States government was probably reluctant to entertain any relations with a communist state or nation. During the cold war between the US and the Soviet Union Republic, the two countries engaged in shuttle diplomacy, economic policy determination amid other foreign policies in a bid to win over nations into their own principles. Interestingly, Cuba, a country located in the American continent, embraced and supported communism under the leadership of Fidel Castro. The United States of America was not amused. They decided to engage in a number of activities primarily determined to get full control of Cuba. The government, under the leadership ...

The Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizens, both published in 1791, were important documents in the history of the world that greatly influenced the 1984 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both these articles provided the foundation for the United States Constitution, as well as the creation of the first republic government of France. Guided by the spirit and philosophical ideology of liberalism surrounding the aftermath of the French Revolution, both documents endeavored to create and establish an ideal liberal democratic government in both United States and France
However, the French revolution ...

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator released in 2000 explores a number of important issues that are not limited in time or in space. This is not just a story that could have happened in the Roman Empire with a Roman military general only. It is a universal story about family values, loyalty, justice, friendship and a lot more. One of the main themes of the film is the struggle for fairness. Gladiator advocates the idea of a regime without totalitarianism and argues against the dictatorship in any form. One of the primary forms of inequality in the Roman Empire was ...

Introduction and Thesis

A reflection on various countries all around the world depicts the persistent emergence of revolts against the ruling government (s). In the year 2011, the world woke up to the news that a major revolution was developing in Egypt. Often connoted as the “Arab Spring,” the revolution was characterized by the polarization of the Egyptians who had developed a negative notion against the government. The Egyptians perceived their government as corrupt, tyrannical, and oppressive. As a result, a significant portion of the Egyptians occupied the Tahrir Square in Cairo protesting against the ruling regime. In the beginning, only thousands ...

The French revolution is an exercise which saw the French people redesign their political landscape and the ultimate overthrow of the monarchy which began in the year 1789 and came to an end in the late 1790s. The French revolution just like the American Revolution which had occurred before took place majorly as a result of the Enlightenment ideals such as the sovereignty and also the rights that can be said as inalienable. It can be said that the revolution was not much successful in terms of achieving its intended goals but on the other hand it showed to ...

Introduction

There has been a cold war between the United States and Cuba since the island was under the rule of Spaniards. Cuba lies only ninety miles of the coast of Florida, and this proximity has lent a viewpoint of many American decision-makers. This proximity to the United States also meant that their harbors were of strategic importance. Cuba's harbors could be used by enemies to threaten the US, and conversely, the US could use the harbors as its first line of the defense against its enemies. This island was factored into the United States economic system, and its economy ...

The CIA has been used to initiate numerous coups in South America including Venezuela whose intent has over time been shown to be to advance the interests of the United States by overthrowing leaders that do not tow its line and replacing them with less reactionary leaders that it can easily manipulate.
The involvement of the United States of America in South America has by all means been open, especially following the Cold War. These relations range from diplomatic, trade, security to political engagements as evidenced by the Organization of American States (OAS). However, deeply tacked in the historical ...

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2B. Introduction
Egypt is one of the few countries in the world that is mentioned in the Scriptures several times. There Moses the prophet was born and bred. Moreover, to there, after the birth of the promised Messiah, Jesus fled from Herod's persecution. There labored the early Christian hermits, who became the founders of monasticism. Today, this ancient country is in a difficult political environment, compounded by the religious factor that causes instability in the whole region. Throughout history Egypt saw many religions becoming a national policy, however, never before has one religion overpowered others and was as superior ...

The novelist Claire Messud promoted The Woman Upstairs, in which the protagonist is a woman of 42 years who rebels against the role of a nice girl which society has given her. Readers expectations with The Woman Upstairs were at a height had not reached, or Edmund Hillary reached Messud dreams not even muss. It is a book that humor dictates whether you like it or not and, like the sons of the emperor, create followers and detractors alike due to the lack of plot and characters that not everyone will fall into grace. It is a reading over appearance and reality, disappointment and ...

In December 2010, Tarek Mohammed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia set himself on fire to protest the humiliation he suffered at the hands of a police patrol officer who assaulted him in the street and police officials who refused to hear his complaint. Bouazizi’s death would not only be the catalyst for the overthrow of Tunisian President Zine Ben Ali but would also be the spark to the overthrow of governments in Libya, Egypt and Yemen as well as civil war, protests and popular agitation in over ten countries across North Africa and the Middle East. While the nations ...

The Cold War was a global confrontation between the two military and political blocs led by the Soviet Union and the United States, which did not come down to an open military conflict. The concept of the "cold war" appeared in journalism in 1945-1947 and gradually stuck in the political dictionary.
After the Second World War, the world was actually divided into the spheres of influence of two blocks with different social systems. The Soviet Union and the United States have sought to expand their spheres of influence. But the rough equality of forces between the blocks, and then ...

China vs. Taiwan

One of the longest going conflicts of the 20th century is the one between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of Taiwan (ROC). Taiwan was once a province of China. In 1863, the Qing Dynasty took control of Taiwan eventually making it, its own province in 1885 (Spence, 1999). After falling to the Japanese during the First Sino-Japanese War, it returned to Chinese control, under the authority of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in 1945. Today, while Taiwan may seem to be a fully functioning nation-state; it is officially, still considered by both the Chinese Communist Party ( ...

One of most common of these activities used by the United States is coups. One perfect example is the coup that was used to overthrow the Iranian government in 1953. Here the United States worked in strategic collaboration with the United Kingdom’s government to overthrow the government of Iran that was led by Mohammad Mossadegh. The involvement of the United States in this coup was through the CIA.
The United States held the belief that the Prime Minister of Iran at the time, Mohammad Mossadegh had communist leanings and was consequently bad news to the west (History.com). ...

- Evaluating media/news sources
In the United States of America, the mass media plays a crucial role in transmitting information to the wider audience that is the American public. Mass media may include the television channels, newspapers, radio and to some extent, the internet. These sources give different types of information to the consumers, depending on their preference or orientation to the political parties.
- CBS Corporation
The CBS Corporation puts much of its emphasis on publishing, commercial broadcasting and television production. Most of the corporation’s operations are based in the United States of America. Currently, ...

Introduction

The rise of the Spring Revolution in Egypt marked a new discussion of the role that social media has played in creating political and social mobilization. Until then, the use of social media was entirely described as bringing people from different parts of the world together to socialize and update one another on the various cultural and social activities around them. Social media is the current social trend that almost every person is using to get keep up with the current events and also interact with friends and families.
However, after the 2011 protests in most Middle East and ...

In terms of ethnicity, the shift from dominant minority to dominant majority is noticeable on an international level in recent times. A major principle of the pre-modern organization is domination by minority groups, usually an ethic minority, but in the modern era, the ethnicity of dominant majority is on the rise. The focus on popular sovereignty, democracy and the intermingling of politics and culture has made the principle of ethnic dominance more untenable. The latest example of this change is evident in Iraq; it is easy to spot the vulnerability of societies dominated by minority groups like Bahrain and ...

Introduction

The war in Iraq has been seen to have been there for a long time. The wars have been speculated to have been caused by the strife to have oil in the two countries. This has been seen to have effects on the relations of Iraq in the UAE. This paper will focus on the history of the wars in Iraq.

Persian Gulf Wars

The first episode of the Gulf War was in the year 1991. This took place between January and February that year. This was a conflict of the armed forces between Iraq and a coalition of 32 nations. The coalition included the ...

The Gulf war can be attributed to a number of factors expressed in the disagreement over the level of the price of oil all intertwined together. Other reasons for the Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait may be attributed to the property rights to Kuwaitian oil and especially the oil fields of Rumaila. The ambitions of Saddam Hussein to feature in international arena and politics play a role in the attacks.
A study of the history of the Middle East and the United States involvement proves a point of Iraq’s motivation to venture into war. The geopolitical perspectives explore the tendencies ...

The Egypt revolution was considered the greatest success of the country as it paved way for more employment opportunities among the youth. This was meant to solve the unequal representation of the youth in key positions of national building. The youth form the highest population of the world and it is only fair if they are given the opportunity to express themselves and participate in national building. Before the revolution, the case of Egypt was different. There was unequal representation of the youth in the government as most of them remained unemployed. Most of the people in Hosni’s ...

Introduction

The aim of the research paper is to discover and investigate the principle of tragedy so that we can get an insight relationship between human conditions and the tragedy in literature. The research paper aims to discover the various types if tragedy that befell Macbeth and other characters in Shakespeare’s play. This dissertation will also identify how these tragedies are important in defining and modeling the society. Shakespeare uses the character Macbeth to communicate the theme of tragedy that can lead to destruction and failure of all ambitions of a human being. He discusses a series of tragedies that Macbeth ...

Thomas Ertman identified four types of territorial states in early modern Europe, all of which faced significant strains, challenges from below and demands for change that finally culminated in the French Revolution of 1789. Even Britain, which had already experienced two revolutions in the 17th Century that overthrow the absolutist monarchy and established the principle of parliamentary supremacy, underwent significant strains and conflicts at that time, with demands for greater democracy in political and economic life. Britain’s bureaucratic constitutionalism, which had replaced the absolute Tudor and Stuart monarchies, managed to weather the storm more or less intact (Ertman ...

ABSTRACT

Suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism are tactics, not goals or strategies, and since the Afghanistan War began in 1979, the main political, religious and ideological purpose of men like Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki was to overthrow the regimes in Muslim countries that were allied with the Western powers and restore the medieval Islamic Caliphate based on Sharia law. They used terrorist methods at any time and in any countries that they thought would best accomplish their overall purpose, and also searched for countries in Africa, East Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia where they ...

Adolf Hitler’s National Socialism was a system without any redeeming features at all, although it obviously appealed to the majority of Germans who were pleased that the regime ended unemployment and made Germany a great power again. Nazism was a racist and militaristic ideology rather than a form of socialism in the Western sense, and was based on Hitler’s own delusions and paranoia, and his obsessions about the Jews infecting the body of the ‘healthy’ Aryan Volk. Unlike most of the other Communist and nationalist revolutions, it also took place in a highly urbanized and industrialized economy that was second only to ...

Introduction

The United States is one of the most multiracial societies in the world today. The population in the USA is composed of all races with origins spanning from the Far East, Europe and the Americas. This multi-ethnicity has been attributed to immigration that has been taking place for several centuries. Most institutional teaching on American ethnic backgrounds concentrates on the United States after the British invasion and subsequent colonization. However, history indicates that the Spanish had been in the continent way before the British. In fact, southern parts of the United States such as Texas and California were occupied ...

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

Terrorist Profile: Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

Aliases: Listed in Terdman (2005)’s analysis of the group, the group is also known in the following names: the Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-

Muqatilah bi-libya, the Libyan Fighting Group, the Libyan Islamic Group or the Fighting Islamic Group. It is collectively known as the LIFG in the international community.

Founded: There is no particular date noted on when the group was founded but it is estimated to be somewhere around 1992-1995.
Areas of Operation: Most of the group’s bases are found in Northeastern Libya and in the lesser ruled Eastern borders, ...

Introduction

When Karl Marx wrote his seminal work, das capital, he never thought that his work would be as influential as events in the 20th century testifies. Karl Marx is thought to be one of the most influential economists of all time (Barnett 46). His ideas were first put in practice by Lenin in Russia. Marx had predicted the revolution of the proletariat to depose the owners of capital in the industrial societies. But this revolution happened in one of the most backward societies in Europe at the time. Together with Leon Trotsky, Lenin established communism in Russia. Lenin came ...