Congress then passed Mckinley's war message on April 25, 1898. ... "Also, the war assured that the Panama Canal would be built since the United States now needed a two-ocean navy and commerce would flow to both the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean."...
The newly "United States" now had a mission this mission was Manifest Destiny, to eventually cover an area soon to span from one great ocean to another and Americans believed it was their God given right. ... Theodore Roosevelt shows this very sense of control in his Annual Message to Congress, "If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States." ... Mahan states, "The position of the United States, between the two Old Worlds and the...
President Polk the Thorton Affair was an act of war and approached congress with the following message on May 11th, 1846, "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil.... The war was for the first time being fought by an Army made up predominately by volunteers, volunteers who believed in the ideas of expanding the United States westward toward the Pacific Ocean. ...
The speaker's recollections of the Americas' natural beauty, as exemplified by the imagery of "ocean waters,""(line 62) and "dizzying geography,""(line 64) reveal the great love he feels for Latin America and its potential for "sylvan freedom-(line 59) The allusion to the tyrants Machado, Batista, and Trujillo (line 56,57) serves as a powerful example of the imperialists' political oppression of Latin America and as a reminder of brother turned against brother (the three dictators are all Latin American natives). ... Thus, the message presented in "Ode to the Americas- is a si...
Much literature has underlying themes and messages that we can learn from; through it's practical application in the stories that form novels. ... The setting of an island also represents the inherent separation of the Japanese and American inhabitants of San Piedro; just as the island is separated from the mainland by ocean water, so too do self-imposed cultural barriers separate the two races. ...
The amount of people who could be helped compared to the number that are being helped is like comparing a raindrop to the ocean. ... The government also works out deals with television stations that require them to play public service announcements or have an anti-drug message in one of the program's scripts. ...
