History Paper

Respond to ONE of the following questions. Submissions should follow APA format

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html

and be at least 500 words in length. Be certain to cite resources used.

This weeks essay addresses topics much closer to you, the student’s personal experiences. These questions are designed thought and opinion and there are no correct answers, just you answer in 500 words. Try to make a coherent argument, while sharing what you really feel.

1. 1992 marked a transitional election for the United States. President George H. W. Bush, a decorated WWII veteran was defeated by William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton, despite Bush’s having presided over the defeat of Iraq in Desert Storm. In contrast to Bush’s war record, Clinton accepted a Rhodes Scholarship to study in England and was given a student exemption from the Vietnam draft. Why were Americans willing to turn away from traditional leadership and accept Clinton?
2. The 1990’s saw a rise in domestic terrorism and violence as witnessed by the events at Waco, Texas (1993 ), Oklahoma City (1995), and Columbine, Colorado (1999). What, in your opinion, has caused members of arguably the freest country on the planet to consider violence as a recourse to address grievance? Explain your position.
3. Immigration is characterized as “legal” and “illegal”. There are specific US laws that define each. Migration has been a constant since the dawn of humanity, a product of PUSH, something bad pushes people away, and PULL, something desirable draws people towards a new place. Nothing has changed in that regard. US laws allow for legal immigration, but the system that exists to qualify legal immigration is too small, and thus too slow to allow as many immigrants as the laws allow to come to the US annually. That is why people choose illegal avenues. Given the opportunity how would you address the immigration situation in the US? Explain your proposal.
4. The culture wars have resulted in an increasing divide between Americans with political perspectives in variance with each other. There is a very obvious “us” and “them” mentality. How do you see the positions of each side? Do they have valid concerns, and if so, how can they be fairly addressed?

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