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When it comes to finding ways to earn money, consider a Denver (Colorado, USA) woman that lost her upper management job. She started a simple business picking up dog droppings that led to earnings of over $75,000 a year, working outside, setting her own hours, and could be done using a bicycle as transportation. It is also something a child age 10 and up can do alone, an adult can do, or a whole family can do together. This article describes how.
http://waits4u.com/WorkingInABadEconomy

In this economy, you need to think outside box. Companies are refusing to take applications from the unemployed resulting in many giving up.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/job-listings-unemployed-not-apply-133143362.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109471/meet-the-unemployable-man?mod=career-work
http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/careers/2009/07/22/states-where-the-unemployed-are-giving-up.html
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Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. This "pre-adulthood" has much to recommend it, especially for the college-educated. But it’s time to state what has become obvious to legions of frustrated young women: It doesn’t bring out the best in men.

Between his lack of responsibilities and an entertainment media devoted to his every pleasure, today’s young man has no reason to grow up, says author Kay Hymowitz. She discusses her book, "Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys."

"We are sick of hooking up with guys," writes the comedian Julie Klausner, author of a touchingly funny 2010 book, "I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters and Other Guys I’ve Dated." What Ms. Klausner means by "guys" is males who are not boys or men but something in between. "Guys talk about ‘Star Wars’ like it’s not a movie made for people half their age; a guy’s idea of a perfect night is a hang around the PlayStation with his bandmates, or a trip to Vegas with his college friends…. They are more like the kids we babysat than the dads who drove us home." One female reviewer of Ms. Kausner’s book wrote, "I had to stop several times while reading and think: Wait, did I date this same guy?"

Yes, at other points in Western history young people have waited well into their 20s to marry, and yes, office girls and bachelor lawyers have been working and finding amusement in cities for more than a century. But their numbers and their money supply were always relatively small. Today’s pre-adults are a different matter. They are a major demographic event.

What also makes pre-adulthood something new is its radical reversal of the sexual hierarchy. Among pre-adults, women are the first sex. They graduate from college in greater numbers (among Americans ages 25 to 34, 34% of women now have a bachelor’s degree but just 27% of men), and they have higher GPAs. As most professors tell it, they also have more confidence and drive. These strengths carry women through their 20s, when they are more likely than men to be in grad school and making strides in the workplace. In a number of cities, they are even out-earning their brothers and boyfriends.

Still, for these women, one key question won’t go away: Where have the good men gone? Their male peers often come across as aging frat boys, maladroit geeks or grubby slackers—a gender gap neatly crystallized by the director Judd Apatow in his hit 2007 movie "Knocked Up." The story’s hero is 23-year-old Ben Stone (Seth Rogen), who has a drunken fling with Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl) and gets her pregnant. Ben lives in a Los Angeles crash pad with a group of grubby friends who spend their days playing videogames, smoking pot and unsuccessfully planning to launch a porn website. Allison, by contrast, is on her way up as a television reporter and lives in a neatly kept apartment with what appear to be clean sheets and towels. Once she decides to have the baby, she figures out what needs to be done and does it. Ben can only stumble his way toward being a responsible grownup.

So where did these pre-adults come from? You might assume that their appearance is a result of spoiled 24-year-olds trying to prolong the campus drinking and hook-up scene while exploiting the largesse of mom and dad. But the causes run deeper than that. Beginning in the 1980s, the economic advantage of higher education—the "college premium"—began to increase dramatically. Between 1960 and 2000, the percentage of younger adults enrolled in college or graduate school more than doubled. In the "knowledge economy," good jobs go to those with degrees. And degrees take years.

Another factor in the lengthening of the road to adulthood is our increasingly labyrinthine labor market. The past decades’ economic expansion and the digital revolution have transformed the high-end labor market into a fierce competition for the most stimulating, creative and glamorous jobs. Fields that attract ambitious young men and women often require years of moving between school and internships, between internships and jobs, laterally and horizontally between jobs, and between cities in the U.S. and abroad. The knowledge economy gives the educated young an unprecedented opportunity to think about work in personal terms. They are looking not just for jobs but for "careers," work in which they can exercise their talent

In every culture, boys have had to go through a rite of passage to be considered a man. It was like you’re stepping into a new world and new things were expected of you. However, the feminists claimed that this rite of passage into manhood was an example of the oppressive patriarchy. It was teaching men to be the leaders of their families and the protectors of society and therefore, in the warped minds of feminists, it was teaching men to oppress women. Now that this expectation is practically gone, men are extending their adolescence. They’re treating dysfunctional women like their queens who deserve all of their dysfunctional expectations instead of embracing their natural male authority.

In schools, they are taught that traditional masculinity is oppressive and evil. Co-ed classrooms attempt to create the illusion that boys and girls are the same, but what they really do is teach boys like they’re girls. They wonder why so many boys drop out and feel that education is a waste of time. This only goes to show that feminists are so self-centered that they can’t see what they’ve done wrong. The ideal of a genderless society lives on in the shadow of ignorance.

Society has largely become hedonistic. People are obsessed with how much pleasure they can gain in the absence of pain, struggle and responsibility. This goes for both men and women. This also effects the behavior of the modern man.

I just need the year that these occurred, and they’re all in the 1960s

Thurgood Marshall First African Amer. on Supreme Court
James Meredith Enters E. of Mississippi
Alfred Hitchcock’s book, "Psycho released
March from Selma to Montgomery
Cuban Missile Crisis
"Beatle Mania" Hits the US
Mass Vietnam Draft Protest
Nixon Elected President
3 Austronauts killed during launch simulation
ARPANET created
first sit in takes place in greensboro,NC
Charles Manson and family tried for murder
Medicare+Medicaid programs begin
Marilyn Monroe found dead
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Police crash w/ anti-war protesters at Democratic Nat. Convention
First Super Bowl
U2 Spy Plane shot down over soviet union
cassius clay wins heavyweight program
massive blackout hits new york city
voting rights act passes
Star Trek series aires
lasers invented
massive anti-war march on washington
black panther party established
watts race riots
first televised presidential debates
betty freidan publishes the feminine mystique
first ground troops sent to vietnam
LBJ defeats barry goldwater to become president
Newark and Detroit race riots
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
rock&roll concert @woodstock,NY
sesame street airs pm TV
Kennedy elected president obver Nixon
supreme court bans prayer in public schools
MLK makes his "I Have a dream" speech
vietnam peace talks begin
alcatraz island occupied by native americans
Tet Offensive
Malxolm X assassinated
Civil Rights Act Passed
By the way, if you don’t want to answer so many, a good timeline with a lot of the things on it would be great! Thanks!

1. 1967
2.1962
3. 1960
4. 1965
5. 1962
6. 1964
7. 1967
8. 1968
9. 1967
10. 1969
11. 1960
12. I think this one happened in 1970 (?)
13. 1965
14. 1962
15. 1964
16. 1968
17. 1967
18. 1960
19. 1964
20. 1965
21. 1969
22. 1966
23. 1960
24. 1965
25. 1966
26. 1965
27. 1960
28. 1963
29. 1965
30. 1964
31. 1967
32. 1968
33. 1969
34. 1969
35. 1960
36. 1962
37. 1963
38. 1965
39. 1969
40. 1968
41. 1965
42. 1964
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I just need the year that these occurred, and they’re all in the 1960s
Thurgood Marshall First African Amer. on Supreme Court
James Meredith Enters E. of Mississippi
Alfred Hitchcock’s book, "Psycho released
March from Selma to Montgomery
Cuban Missile Crisis
"Beatle Mania" Hits the US
Mass Vietnam Draft Protest
Nixon Elected President
3 Austronauts killed during launch simulation
ARPANET created
first sit in takes place in greensboro,NC
Charles Manson and family tried for murder
Medicare+Medicaid programs begin
Marilyn Monroe found dead
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Police crash w/ anti-war protesters at Democratic Nat. Convention
First Super Bowl
U2 Spy Plane shot down over soviet union
cassius clay wins heavyweight program
massive blackout hits new york city
voting rights act passes
Star Trek series aires
lasers invented
massive anti-war march on washington
black panther party established
watts race riots
first televised presidential debates
betty freidan publishes the feminine mystique
first ground troops sent to vietnam
LBJ defeats barry goldwater to become president
Newark and Detroit race riots
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
rock&roll concert @woodstock,NY
sesame street airs pm TV
Kennedy elected president obver Nixon
supreme court bans prayer in public schools
MLK makes his "I Have a dream" speech
vietnam peace talks begin
alcatraz island occupied by native americans
Tet Offensive
Malxolm X assassinated
Civil Rights Act Passed

1960
•Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho Released
•Brazil’s Capital Moves to Brand New City
•First Televised Presidential Debates
•Lasers Invented

1961
•Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
•Bay of Pigs Invasion
•Berlin Wall Built
•Peace Corps Founded
•Soviets Launch First Man in Space
1962
•Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell’s Soup Can
•Cuban Missile Crisis
•First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
•Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
•Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring
1963
•Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique
•JFK Assassinated
•Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
1964
•Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
•Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
•Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
•Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
•Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
•Warren Report on JFK’s Assassination Issued
1965
•Japan’s Bullet Train Opens
•Los Angeles Riots
•Malcolm X Assassinated
•New York City Great Blackout
•U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam
1966
•Black Panther Party Established
•Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
•Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
•Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
1967
•Australian Prime Minister Disappears
•Che Guevara Killed
•First Heart Transplant
•First Super Bowl
•Six-Day War in the Middle East
•Stalin’s Daughter Defects
•Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch

1968
•Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
•My Lai Massacre
•Prague Spring
•Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
•Tet Offensive
1969
•ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
•Charles Manson and "Family" Arrested
•Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
•Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
•Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
•Sesame Street First Airs
•Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO

2. What does the article say has changed about young women during this same time period?
Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. This "pre-adulthood" has much to recommend it, especially for the college-educated. But it’s time to state what has become obvious to legions of frustrated young women: It doesn’t bring out the best in men.

Between his lack of responsibilities and an entertainment media devoted to his every pleasure, today’s young man has no reason to grow up, says author Kay Hymowitz. She discusses her book, "Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys."

"We are sick of hooking up with guys," writes the comedian Julie Klausner, author of a touchingly funny 2010 book, "I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters and Other Guys I’ve Dated." What Ms. Klausner means by "guys" is males who are not boys or men but something in between. "Guys talk about ‘Star Wars’ like it’s not a movie made for people half their age; a guy’s idea of a perfect night is a hang around the PlayStation with his bandmates, or a trip to Vegas with his college friends…. They are more like the kids we babysat than the dads who drove us home." One female reviewer of Ms. Kausner’s book wrote, "I had to stop several times while reading and think: Wait, did I date this same guy?"

Yes, at other points in Western history young people have waited well into their 20s to marry, and yes, office girls and bachelor lawyers have been working and finding amusement in cities for more than a century. But their numbers and their money supply were always relatively small. Today’s pre-adults are a different matter. They are a major demographic event.

What also makes pre-adulthood something new is its radical reversal of the sexual hierarchy. Among pre-adults, women are the first sex. They graduate from college in greater numbers (among Americans ages 25 to 34, 34% of women now have a bachelor’s degree but just 27% of men), and they have higher GPAs. As most professors tell it, they also have more confidence and drive. These strengths carry women through their 20s, when they are more likely than men to be in grad school and making strides in the workplace. In a number of cities, they are even out-earning their brothers and boyfriends.

Still, for these women, one key question won’t go away: Where have the good men gone? Their male peers often come across as aging frat boys, maladroit geeks or grubby slackers—a gender gap neatly crystallized by the director Judd Apatow in his hit 2007 movie "Knocked Up." The story’s hero is 23-year-old Ben Stone (Seth Rogen), who has a drunken fling with Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl) and gets her pregnant. Ben lives in a Los Angeles crash pad with a group of grubby friends who spend their days playing videogames, smoking pot and unsuccessfully planning to launch a porn website. Allison, by contrast, is on her way up as a television reporter and lives in a neatly kept apartment with what appear to be clean sheets and towels. Once she decides to have the baby, she figures out what needs to be done and does it. Ben can only stumble his way toward being a responsible grownup.

So where did these pre-adults come from? You might assume that their appearance is a result of spoiled 24-year-olds trying to prolong the campus drinking and hook-up scene while exploiting the largesse of mom and dad. But the causes run deeper than that. Beginning in the 1980s, the economic advantage of higher education—the "college premium"—began to increase dramatically. Between 1960 and 2000, the percentage of younger adults enrolled in college or graduate school more than doubled. In the "knowledge economy," good jobs go to those with degrees. And degrees take years.

Another factor in the lengthening of the road to adulthood is our increasingly labyrinthine labor market. The past decades’ economic expansion and the digital revolution have transformed the high-end labor market into a fierce competition for the most stimulating, creative and glamorous jobs. Fields that attract ambitious young men and women often require years of moving between school and internships, between internships and jobs, laterally and horizontally between jobs, and between cities in the U.S. and abroad. The knowledge economy gives the educated young an unprecedented opportunity to think about work in personal terms. They are looking not just for jobs but for "careers," work in which they can exercise their talent

its the new generation and theres more technology and everything. Plus the economy is bad soo most people in their 20s are still living with their parents bc of lack of work. Also kids are doing drugs at younger and younger ages. And doing drugs prevents you from maturing mentally. Thats my theory.

1. How did television affect Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s?
(Points : 1)
It was a disruptive force and often caused problems in communities.

It had the tendency to bring people together in social settings.

It had little effect; most people thought television was bad and refused to watch it.

It caused a significant drop in school attendance nationwide.

2. The invention of television is a good example of which of the following?
(Points : 1)
Technology can only advance as a result of war and conflict.

Inventions are always a result of collaboration between several people.

Inventions often rely on previous inventions and innovations.

Technology is always theresult of research conducted at universities.

3. How did the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union affect the Cold War?
(Points : 1)
The space race caused tensions to rise between the superpowers.

The space race resulted in several small conflicts between the superpowers.

The space race lowered tensions and resulted in closer ties between the superpowers.

The space race did not affect the Cold War in any significant way.

4. What event started the space race and made Americans feel their security was threatened?
(Points : 1)
the launch of Explorer

the launch of Sputnik

Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight

the Cuban Missile Crisis

5. Whose efforts in Mexico helped start the Green Revolution?
(Points : 1)
Jonas Salk

Neil Armstrong

Marshall McLuhan

Norman Borlaug

6. What was the goal of the Green Revolution?
(Points : 1)
to invent several new types of grains that could be grown throughout Southeast Asia

to increase crop yields through the use of technology and modern agricultural methods

to prevent drought and famine by developing techniques for changing weather patterns

to decrease world population through education and thereby prevent global starvation

7. Which of the following was an unintended, negative consequence of the Green Revolution?
(Points : 1)
The use of artificial fertilizers has harmed the environment in many areas.

New agricultural techniques have caused traditional values to disappear.

New crop species have crowded out and destroyed all of the original species.

Irrigation projects have resulted in famine in many regions.

8. What is Jonas Salk known for?
(Points : 1)
developing a vaccine to prevent polio

advancing the science of plant genetics

creating new agricultural methods

inventing a drug to cure polio

9. What helped create a "global village" and the emergence of a new international popular culture?
(Points : 1)
newer, more advanced agricultural methods and techniques

American pop culture, such as rock and roll music and cars

a decrease in Cold War tensions as a result of the space race

technology, such as television, artificial satellites, radio, and movies

10. Why were some people concerned about the new pop culture and "global village" in the 1960s?
(Points : 1)
They believed a new pop culture would generate more distrust among nations.

They were concerned that local cultures would disappear in an international pop culture.

They thought that a "global village" might become one large communist nation.

They did not believe an international pop culture was good for nations’ economies.

11. Which of the following are examples of culture finding its way from other countries into the United States?
(Points : 1)
rock and roll, gossip magazines

Coca-Cola, hamburgers, milkshakes

yoga, Nehru jackets, sitar music

blue jeans, leather jackets

1. B
2.C.
3. A
4. B
5. D
6. A
7. C
8. A
9. D
10. – B
11. – C

14.
After Charlemagne’s death, Europe split into two parts, France and Germany. Germany then separated into several small states. Which of the following events followed this time period?
A) Hugh Capet organized a revolt in Germany, which eventually led to its reorganization.
B) The pope began ruling over German lands through the use of religious clergy.
C) Otto the Great united Germany and eventually created the Holy Roman Empire.
D) William the Conqueror established peace between the states, leading to modern democracy.
15.
Harold, an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and William, the Duke of Normandy laid claim to the crown of England in 1066. Their conflict started the
A) Norman conquest.
B) Crusades.
C) Britain conquest.
D) Saxon wars.
16.
The Reconquista was a series of campaigns that involved
A) Charlemagne and the French fighting for control of Northern Europe.
B) conquering parts of northern Italy to form Germany.
C) taking control of all of Italy and forcing the Italian citizens to live under Roman rule.
D) the Christians attacking the Moors for control of the Iberian Peninsula.
17.
For about 400 years France was under the control of many powerful nobles loyal to no one. In the mid-900s which noble family rose to power and, through force and treaties with other nobles, gained control of most of France by the 1300s?
A) Napoleon
B) Capetians
C) Monikers
D) Montagues
18.
Which document was the outcome of the English noble uprising in 1215?
A) Parliament
B) Domesday Book
C) Magna Carta
D) Royal Papers
19.
What was the reason behind Leo IX’s dedication to the reformation of the papacy?
A) He believed that the Catholic Church had become corrupted and greedy.
B) Too many people had drifted away from the church, so there was a need to restructure the faith process.
C) There was a need to rebuild the physical churches, because of the destruction from all the wars.
D) Most of the popes had become too involved with politics and needed to focus on religious matters.
20.
The pope’s influential rise in the Middle Ages resulted from
A) the kings and emperors needing more spiritual guidance before going into war.
B) the fact that almost everyone in Europe was Christian.
C) the church taking control of collecting taxes while the kings were at war.
D) the peasants being so poor they looked to the church for support.
21.
In 1054 the patriarch of Constantinople refused to recognize the pope’s authority, so the pope excommunicated the patriarch. How did this impact the Christian church?
A) This action caused the start of the Crusades.
B) The pope instituted stricter rules on the people to demonstrate his power.
C) The pope increased taxes to build more churches and increase the church’s power.
D) It split the church, creating the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches.
22.
The popes had the ability to raise armies like they did against the Muslims of southwest Asia, launching a series of wars known as the
A) battles of piety.
B) invasion of Normandy.
C) Crusades.
D) religious wars.
23.
The popes started to gain power and influence in society by being involved in both
A) collecting taxes and building more churches.
B) the emperors lives and the lives of the noble class.
C) people’s religious lives and politics.
D) military policies and the collection of taxes.
24.
During the Middle Ages, the popes became powerful political leaders by
A) the elimination of corrupt clergy, appointing bishops, building armies, and ruling territories.
B) aligning themselves with kings, lords, and monarchs.
C) raising taxes to build more churches and naming those churches after kings and nobles.
D) contributing church monies to the kings to help fund the king’s wars.
25.
Which pope had enough political power to make Emperor Henry IV wait three days in the snow for a meeting?
A) Pope Paul I
B) Pope Leo IX
C) Pope Urban II
D) Pope Gregory VII

Your learning process would be greatly assisted if you gave us your answers and asked us to evaluate them.

1.
When using the MLA style to format your list of citations, you should arrange the list in alphabetical order according to ___________.

A. the date of publication
B. the title of the book, paper, or article
C. the author’s last name
D. the number of times it appears in your paper
2.
Complete the following sentence with the best word. Because criminals are “innocent until proven guilty,” the _____ rests on the prosecuting attorney in a court of law.

A. proposition
B. negative side
C. rejoinder
D. burden of proof
3.
Directions—Use your knowledge of fallacies to answer the question.

The statement, “As senator, she’d only care about women’s issues because of her background in the women’s rights movement” is an example of straw man.

A. true
B. false
4.
Why are fallacies harmful to arguments?

A. They strengthen logos.
B. They strengthen ethos.
C. They weaken pathos.
D. They weaken logos.
5.
Imagine that you are debating against a proposed rule that would require all students to participate in an after-school program to clean the schoolyard for an hour each day. Your opponent has just argued that full participation in the program will beautify the school and enrich learning opportunities for students. Now, it is your turn to respond.

Which of the following statements would be the most effective response?

A. Students who do not participate will be penalized
B. Although the program may enrich student learning, many students have other, personal commitments, like working to help support their families
C. There are many other opportunities after school which are more enriching than yard work
D. Although the program may enrich student learning, many students have other, personal commitments that are equally enriching, such as lessons, tutoring, or sports practices
6.
When you are preparing a debate around a specific topic, such as mandatory schooling, you may accidentally create the following fallacy:
School is hard. Many teens drop out. Therefore, the laws for attending school should be changed.
Why might this be considered a non sequitur?

A. Evidence is missing when you draw your conclusion.
B. Overstatement is used.
C. Extreme or exceptional evidence is used to make a point.
D. Conclusions are also used as evidence.
7.
Imagine that you are arguing for the affirmative side in a debate about free school lunch programs. Because you are arguing for the affirmative side, you support free school lunch programs.

A. true
B. false
8.
Directions—Read the following excerpt from the 1960 presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy. Using your knowledge of fallacies to answer the question.

Excerpt—
MR. VON FREMD [Moderator]: Mr. Vice President, a two-part question concerning the offshore islands in the Formosa Straits. If you were president and the Chinese Communists tomorrow began an invasion of Quemoy and Matsu, would you launch the uh – United States into a war by sending the Seventh Fleet and other military forces to resist this aggression; and secondly, if the uh – regular conventional forces failed to halt such uh – such an invasion, would you authorize the use of nuclear weapons?

MR. NIXON: Mr. Von Fremd, it would be completely irresponsible for a candidate for the presidency, or for a president himself, to indicate the course of action and the weapons he would use in the event of such an attack. I will say this: in the event that such an attack occurred and in the event the attack was a prelude to an attack on Formosa – which would be the indication today because the Chinese Communists say over and over again that their objective is not the offshore islands, that they consider them only steppingstones to taking Formosa – in the event that their attack then were a prelude to an attack on Formosa, there isn't any question but that the United States would then again, as in the case of Berlin, honor our treaty obligations and stand by our ally of Formosa. But to indicate in advance how we would respond, to indicate the nature of this response would be incorrect; it would certainly be inappropriate; it would not be in the best interests of the United States. I will only say this, however, in addition: to do what Senator Kennedy has suggested – to suggest that we will surrender these islands or force our Chinese Nationalist allies to surrender them in advance – is not something that would lead to peace; it is something that would lead, in my opinion, to war. This is the history of dealing with dictators. This is something that Senator Kennedy and all Americans must know. We tried this with Hitler. It didn't work. [...]

What type of fallacy most accurately describes Nixon’s overall response to the moderator’s question?

A. Ad Hominem
B. Straw Man
C. Non Sequitur
D. Hasty Generalizations

Are you asking me to give you all the answers? …. I mean what you have to do is read the paragraph, and answer the question, . The last one is C though, i’ll give you that.

Is this a non-story or is this something we should all be concerned about?

Military experts are seldom asking anymore if Israel will pre-empt a strategic strike upon Iran’s nuclear site(s). Mostly, they now ponder the possibility that a strike is imminent and potentially disastrous for world economies still struggling from the global financial crisis. Such a strike runs the real risk of opening a Pandora’s Box in the Middle East and one of the casualties could be the flow of oil presently coursing steadily through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran’s apocalyptic minded president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has publicly threatened the closing of Hormuz in retaliation for an Israeli or American strike upon his country. Additionally, two significant correlating events made the news in May, 2010. First, the Islamic Republic of Iran warned that it would launch terrorist attacks and suicide strikes inside of America in the event of a strike upon Iranian soil. Second, the Iranian Navy conducted a massive war exercise in the Strait of Hormuz, and Persian Gulf called “Judgment Day.” This drill reportedly demonstrated Iran’s sole and sovereign ability to control those strategic bodies of water.

Regarding the possibility of Iran playing the “OIL CARD” against America, on September 15, 2009 The Wall Street Journal published a Bret Stephens article entitled “Obama is pushing Israel toward war.” In the article Stephens suggested that a Middle East War could push the price of oil up to $300 per barrel. Lately, on average that precious black gold has been closing between $70 to $80 per barrel. Stephen’s estimate suggests an oil dependent world could be about to experience a spike at the pump of about four times the present amount. Iran still ranks number two behind Saudi Arabia in the OPEC oil cartel, which is responsible for two-thirds of the world’s oil supply.

Are Americans, Chinese, and Europeans ready for such a steep increase? Such a dramatic and possibly overnight rise in the price of oil would certainly spill over into the economic essentials of their respective societies. Presently, America is the number one consumer of Oil and China ranks number two. Americans could expect to feel pain in the waiting lines at the pump and in their pocket books, as increased transportation costs would certainly be reflected in the price of goods sold over the retail counters across the country.

Many Muslims believe it is a fake battle of words. In actual
fact Iran is aligned with Israel and USA. US could not have
invaded Iraq and Afghanistan without tacit support of Iran.
Iran is patronizing the all shia government of Iraq. USA has
also promised to give oil rich eastern province of Saudi Arabia
to Iran.

So, nothing is going to happen, except for some hard hitting
statements from Israel, US and their cronies.

Muhammad Javed Iqbal

Or stop annoying them about the Spectrum scam etc, in which the Congress involvement / abetment is also highly evident / suspected? For, she would very much wish to tarnish the DMK image, the way the Congress does with BJP! But the scams of DMK beyond Tamilnadu would have been played with the collusion of the Congress men, with knowledge of their power centres only!

Jaya is a very vindictive woman, no less dangerous than Karuna! She had wasted a whole term scanning the works carried out, purchases made, tenders finalised etc during DMK regime! Many dept officials and police officials in particular, who had carried out the orders of the DMK govt against earlier AIADMK ministers were victimised by her!

Or do you think that she may have mellowed after losing to DMK in last elections and still facing court cases launched by them? After all the Congress often quotes BJP corruptions but never chases any of the criminal lapses professionally to book the culprits! The politicos seem satisfied to use allegations to pull down the opponent rather than move the allegations toward proper judicial culmination!

Would Jaya follow the congress example and stop pestering for Raja in the event of a win, so that congress does not feel annoyed?
hello friends, you have all nearly hijacked the subject from Raja centric impact, to the probable coalition formula and its impact! Yes, Senthil, the seat sharing would be big issue since they may not be able to bargain much with Jaya, as with Karuna whose interests are woven into congress at the Centre!

GCS sir wants to say what he wishes to, rather than about what is under discussion. Problems gathering against the DMK seem more and more intensified day by day, more on livelihood issues of people rather than political issues alone, as we guessed so far! I hope you are following the news! Karuna is capable of spoiling his chances under pressure, as much as Jaya! If you recall his behaviours in Indiraji period, you may get an idea and he is more vulnerable now, if you notice his trying to annoy the Centre on simple pretexts also! So it is probable that the Congress would have a rethink.

Raj Krish, great answer! Apt illustrations too. Though different from my perceptions at present,

The Congress Party and the DMK are tied together with what I prefer to call the
"Gordian Knot" which as in ancient times,cannot be untied because the ends of the rope are not visible.Also in ancient times it required an "Alexander the Great" to untie the knot with what was then called the "Alexandrian Solution".Our very own
Gordian Knot also requires an Alexander to undo it.The question therefore would be whether Madam Jaya would "do an Alexander" on the "Tie That Has Bound" two of the greatest scamsters.Given her propensity to turn ally into foe at her whim and fancy,no party leadership in its right senses would ever want or even wish to have any truck with her.In such a scenario,the Knot will remain untied and probably like all knots become that much harder to untie.The Congress and the DMK both have excellent survival instincts which will fuse the knot into an
"untieable" one.Your poser therefore becomes merely a hypothesis.But still,in the unlikely event that the Congress decides to ally itself with the AIADMK,then it is a given that Madam Jaya will go hammer and tongs at the DMK to the extent that she may even attempt to decimate that outfit (which is not possible).The Congress much to its embarrassment would not be able to rein in the Mustang Mare and
would have to watch from the sidelines the havoc that may be caused.It would even be a Holocaust the effects of which will be felt by only the people and not by any politican or political party as they will all be well insulated.
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