The Collapse Of The United States

In 1970 America was a post-war country just waiting for something bad to happen. Moving to the current year, it still seems that America is still on its way down. We cannot go a month without there being a tragic shooting on the news, or protests burning down buildings. People do not expect anything great anymore, they always get ready for the bad times. This seems especially true ever since Donald Trump has become president. No one can accept him and everyone is just waiting for him to do something horrible. When I was watching the presidential election and saw that Trump won, my mood changed immediately. I was ready for World War III to happen, without giving Trump a chance with his presidency. Many Americans hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

The period from 1776 to 1815 witnessed the successful effort of the new United States in establishing a country. During that period the new country won its independence, constituted itself as a nation, developed a political system, expanded geographically, and defended itself from external and internal threats. There were four major crisis that the United States faced in this period are the Battle Long Island, Battle of Valley Forge, War of 1812, and the Battle of New Orleans, which I thought it was the major crisis that the United States faced.

There has been a terrible accident, your head is crushed and you are fighting for your life, but “they” know you won’t make it. The doctor should also be fighting for your life, but he isn’t. You realize this is no accident. This is a partial birth abortion. You are not a patient of the clinic, you are simply a fetus. Abortion, in today’s society, has almost become second nature. Women all around the world are aborting children because they “aren’t ready”. Norma McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe, was the defendant in the 1973 United States Supreme Court Case Roe v. Wade. That landmark case established a woman’s right to have an abortion, but it created serious implications for right to life in America.

For staging hunger strikes, Paul and several other suffragists were forcibly fed in a tortuous manner. Prison officials relocated Paul to a sanitarium in hopes of getting her declared insane; during this time, while Paul was separated from the others, they had her evaluated to see if she was mentally ill. One of the psychologist, so eloquently, suggested that “insanity can be mistaken for courage.” Most of the doctors did not believe Paul to be insane, only depressed and hungry. When news of the prison conditions and hunger strikes became publicized, Americans began demanding the release of these women. This sympathy for the imprisoned women brought an enormous amount of support to the cause of women’s suffrage.

The building has an innovative structure, as it was one of the first buildings to use a technique of pouring concrete in stages. This was, unfortunately, discovered when the building was 20 stories high. Though, the building is 100 stories high, so it helped the

After the Revolution, the buildings and grounds were put in order, and the hospital was ready for patients in 1791. Prior to the successful openings, in 1787 and 1788, a number of bodies for the purposes of dissection by medicals students were dug up from a lower class burial-ground in potter’s field. These were legitimate fields for corpses. The medical students and also known as “resurrectionists” began to invade private cemeteries. The people were angered, and the medical profession was looked upon with a negligible reverence by the people at large. (Sullivan, 1927)

On February 26, at 7:11 pm it was a rainy night in Sanford, Florida when a neighborhood watchman, 28-year-old mixed Hispanic George Zimmerman, calls 911 to report a suspicious person. “This guy looks like he’s up to no good, or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about” (Genius). That suspicious person was 17-year-old African American Trayvon Martin returning home after stopping by a local convenience store to purchase, the now infamous, Arizona Ice tea and Skittles. When the 911 dispatcher asked Zimmerman if he was following Martin he replied “yeah.” The dispatcher in return said, “Okay, we don’t need you to do that” (Chicago Tribune). That call would last four minutes.

Current Event: According to The New York Times, On May 27, 2016 Argentina’s last dictator, and 14 other former military officials have been sentenced to prison for the disappearance of more than 100 people during the Operation Condor conspiracy to hunt down dissidents across South America. This all began in the 1970’s when six South American dictators started the Operation Condor and used their “secret police networks” to track down rivals who were across the borders. Many of the bodies of these victims have still not been found and the prosecutors continue to try and cover up the deaths today. The court sentenced the leader Reynaldo Bignone 20 years in prison and the other 14 received eight to 25 years. One of the many victims was Maria Claudia Irueta Goyena, who was the daughter-in-law of Argentine poet Juan Gelman. Maria was pregnant when she was kidnapped and held inside an auto shop for months before someone in the air force came and took her to Uruguay. After the birth of her daughter she went missing and then years later her daughter Macarena Gelman discovered her own identity. "Operation Condor affected my life, my family," Chilean Laura Elgueta told The Associated Press outside the court room. Her brother, Luis Elgueta, had taken refuge in Buenos Aires from Gen. Augusto Pinochet 's forces, only to be forcibly disappeared in Buenos Aires in 1976 as part of Operation Condor (The New York Times, 2016).

The switch from a small place such as Odair County to Baltimore in such a fast pace leaves much room for trouble. The eagerness for Lynnea to: “disappear” (OLP) single outs her loneliness and her maturity levels as she just wants to get out of the slow, pedestrian, Kentucky. Her positioning from the move has her off put as she struggles to rise up to fame amongst the school. Her: “crabwise “, (OLP) walk ambles her secretive and wary motions as the city Baltimore is something much more bigly to her. Unlike the small comfortable Kentucky, it: “stretched black and row-house brown”, (OLP) creating this empowerment over her which soon causes destruction for Lynnea while trying to adjust. She was often scrutinized as: “an ant, foolish enough to believe that if she kept ambling along, the giant foot above wouldn't come smashing down.” (OLP). This pit her at a vulnerable state for the darkness of Baltimore to really succumb her, losing herself until she just gave in and: “Her foot slammed the accelerator [……] wailing somewhere near the front of the car’s grille.”(OLP) Baltimore changed her and made her into a different person, destroying her identity as she creates

The sixth in this series was the Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway Collapse of 1981. “On July 17, 1981, two vertically walkways collapsed at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, falling into the hotel’s lobby. 114 people

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The contractors did not properly communicate their design change to the engineers, the only made changes to shop drawings and not through a written request, (Ratay, 2010).

On July 17th, 1981, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri held a tea-dance party in their majestic atrium lobby. The atrium had suspended walkways spanning the width of the lobby. Two of those walkways spanned lobby at the 2nd and 4th floor levels directly over each other. The problem arises from the design of the structural supports of the two walkways which resulted in a catastrophic collapse, causing loss of life and injuries. The cause of the collapse is gone over in minute detail in the documentary “Seconds From Disaster: Skywalk Collapse” by National Geographic. The engineering error is not the subject of discussion, however, the ethics behind this incident is what ultimately led to the design error.

The original walkway was designed to have single load bearing rods that would pass through the fourth floor walkways supporting beams, be supported with nuts and washers and hang the second floor walkway beneath as shown in the “Original Detail” in figure 1 . Due to a late design change for apparent manufacturing issues, the change was quickly implemented to the “As Built” design shown in Figure 1.

"A Police investigation and a full Service Inquiry into the crash has been initiated. It would be inappropriate to speculate on the causes of the incident at this time."