Puerto Rico spent most of its history under the control of Spain. ... While the U.S. expanded trade and industry, it continued to exercise control over many aspects of the Puerto Rican economy, taking advantage of the Puerto Rican people and exploiting the island for its own purposes. ... (Dietz 112)" Since the U.S. controlled the sugar and coffee industries, their desire to expand the world market was at the expense of the people of Puerto Rico. ... The United States insisted that both because the island had been subjugated by Spain for so long, and because Puerto Ricans were a primitive peop...

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Saddam Hussein's Baath party have ruled and controlled Iraq's vast resources by subjugating its citizens, as well as fellow government officials, to extreme, and often fatal forms of intimidation, terror, and fear. ... To understand why a dictator like Saddam Hussein is a threat to the international community, it is important to understand his brutally insane nature that has made him comparable to the likes of some of the most atrocious dictators in world history. ... A 1992 U.S. government report estimates that Iraqi forces executed or tortured to death over 1,000 Kuwaitis durin...

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The exhausting journey form slavery to citizenship cripples to depict the miseries of those countless people who were just turned out of doors with ingratitude and detestation, ruthless than the stabbing winter's wind. ... Citizenship of the Freed Slave is not only an event to waffle about, in actual fact its start of a new chapter in American history. ... The acceptance by a large group of workers and farmers of the second class citizenship of the freed slaves spelled the doom of the movement at that juncture in history. ... Nevertheless, the Radical Republicans in the U.S. ... The acce...

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But then in the sunset decades of the nineteenth century, a momentous shift occurred in U.S. foreign policy. ... Strong trumpeted the superiority of Anglo-Saxon civilization and summoned Americans to spread their religion and their values to the "backward- people. ... The development of a new steel navy also focused attention overseas, during both centuries. (19th and 20th) captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. ... Some anti-imperialists argued a moral position: it was ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate