Lets say that the government decides to legalize pot. now people no longer have the need to be in possession of ridiculous amounts of the once illegal substance, they can just grow a small amount of their own, because it is no longer necessary to hide pot farms. You might be wondering why im such an advocate of legalizing pot, but its because the only reason it is now illegal is because tobacco companies didnt want people smoking something other than tobacco. And to me, tobacco is much more disgusting than pot.

right. of all the things the government is spending useless money on, this isnt the only ridiculous example.

its true, drugs ruin your body and your mind, but its nothing thats threat to the government or the general public. if someone thinks its worth it to do drugs (provided that it doesnt harm other people) they should be legally allowed to do that to themself.

Legalizing marijuana would not increase violence. marijuana is fairly easy to grow at home, and believe it or not, it grows everywhere. But i do agree with you that there should be restrictions about age associated with marijuana.

Like I said above, explain to me one thing he has done for the state, and why it is good. There are way too many people who think he is good, but can't explain why they think he is good.

It would be like eating spam at every meal. have you ever had spam? its canned meat, in case you didnt know.

I think that the guy is a jackhole. I think right now he's trying to set things up to make it easier for large businesses and fat cats to make more money, taking advantage of the middle class. You may know more than me at this point, but I challenge you to explain one good thing he has done and how it is good for the state.

A lot of modern nations, china is a good example, have not had a progressive movement. Their government is not oriented on the well being of middle and lower classes as the united states. That being said, our government is starting to revert and begin to favor the upper class citizens.

The renaissance was when people came out of the dark ages, and finally started to ask what was over the hedge, in more than just a geographical way. The age of exploration started to happen when people decided that it wasn’t really possible for you to fall off the edge of the earth. If this had never happened, it might have been quite a bit longer before people discovered that there was an entire continent on the other half of the world. And this would mean that Americans might not have been angered by unfair tax policies, and we might still be a colony of a European nation today, provided that things went better than they actually did in history.

Exactly. Its like imperialism without killing people. Its an example of how interfering in some world affairs can be beneficial to everyone involved in the long run.

Yeah. I dont think that pulitzer and other journalists had bad intentions, they just didnt realize the impact that public sensationalism would have on world affairs.

If people think abortion is okay, or if they dont, I think it is their business and I dont think the government should interfere unless theres someone who has way too many abortions over and over again.

There is also a lot less going on economically in western states, meaning that cities there are likely to be less busy. this could be a pull for the population moving from more busy eastern areas.

When the USS Maine blew up, yellow journalists used propaganda to turn Americans on the Spanish. In reality, the explosion was an accident, and if the journalists had not influenced readers’ opinions just to sell papers, then the Spanish-American War never would happened. We really had no other reason to go to war. Any challengers? http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq71-1.htm

Do you think that this form of imperialism is good or bad, and how does it affect our domestic issues as a nation?

Read part of this article and elaborate how roosevelt influenced the progressive movement

I think its pretty cool. its a good example of how imperialism can have a positive impact on the world.

The Jungle was a 1906 novel written by the muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair, to expose the crimes of the meat packing industry to the general public, who were also considered lower class. The novel discussed that meat packing industries did absolutely disgusting things to the meat to maximize profits, while paying off inspectors to “not notice”. They were pretty much taking advantage of the lower class by having bad working conditions, and then selling them crappy meat. Sinclair’s work influenced President Roosevelt to start the FDA, and was a major milestone in the progressive movement.

I agree with your statement that we need to focus on ourselves more, and not things we are not involved in. However, I think it is important to maintain a certain level of involvement in world affairs, and take action when things get out of hand and may affect us in the future.

How is the situation of the industrial era similar or different to how the business owners act today? even though working conditions and stuff are better, are the business owners still being fair?

How are we starting to be less imperialistic? Compare our imperialism now and then.

and usually that doesn't happen today because the middle class is larger than the lower class, when the middle class didn't really exist in the progressive era.

Yeah I agree. The main reason children had to work that hard was because their parents and families were paid very little in their jobs.

All Quiet on the Western Front was that movie about WWI. The movie communicates to the audience on an emotional level the hardships of the soldiers on all sides. The soldiers were basically thrown into a war, fighting people they had no beef with. Most of them didn’t even know what the fighting was all about, the Germans especially. It was this, along with the screwing over of the Germans at Versailles, that fueled their hunger for revenge, allowing Adolf to rise.