Arab Israeli conflict

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/middleeast/ig/Middle-East-Cartoons/Mideast-Lesson.-jLe.htm

This cartoon states that the middle easterners with fight right back when they get attacked to teach the enemy a lesson. They will do what was done to them right back, so when the cartoon character says "They take an eye, we take an eye" he is basically saying that if the Palestinians get bombed they will bomb right back until the Israels give up. But since they will both do the same over and over, by the end both will be in rubble and both countries in theory would have "learned their lesson".

This relates to our lesson because it kind of explains the strategy of both countries. Its also helpful because it shows that even though both countries have the same war strategies and the outcome of fighting is normally the same weather which side comes on top, The country on top in the end would think they thought the opposing country a lesson even though both sides are trying to teach the same lesson. This cartoon makes me laugh by the way the author of the cartoon put it, but it still makes me sad that both countries will go through so much just to make someone think the same way they do.

U.S and they

The U.S. Made bad decisions with good intentions during the imperialism era.

The U.S. intended to help the Filipino's revolt against the Spanish so that they would be their own country. After the war was over, the U.S. wanted to keep their presence in the Filipines until the filipino's had a steady form of government going. The whole time the U.S. was in the Philipines they thought that they were helping the Filipino's when the U.S. was just doing the same thing Spain did to the philipines.

T.R vs B.O

egalitarianism.

"Even as the world now is, it is not only feasible but advisable to make women equal to men before the law. . . A cripple or a consumptive in the eye of the law is equal to the strongest athlete or the deepest thinker; and the same justice should be shown to a woman whether she is, or is not, the equal of man. A son should have no more right to any inheritance than a daughter should have. Property is but little more likely to be mismanaged in the hands of a woman than in those of a man."

-Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt said that everybody had the right to vote and that everybody was equal. Even if he did not completely agree with all of his statements personally, he still knew that if the U.S.A. was to progress then it would have to get the help from everybody.

Obama wants everybody to be equal, he wants to get the justice system to get into better shape, he wants to completely get rid of racial profiling and hate crimes and is all for gay marriage. He thinks that is is important to be equal at this time because of the state our economy.