Truman Dialectical Journal

Winston is gazing out the small window with “his glasses”. The blackness of space meeting the gray landscape. He hears a door open and panics, quickly hiding “his” glasses. A man with a lab coat enters and says, “Winston, I think you have something that belongs from me. Hand it over.” Winston hesitated, being afraid of the repercussions. “I’m not mad bud. Hey wanna trade?”, showing a jar of Winston’s favorite, peanut butter. Winston gladly trades “his” glasses for his favorite. On the right of his lab coat, you can see the man’s name tag, Jack Morrison. Winston’s interest in the opening the lid soon gravitated back what lies beyond the window. Jack snaps Winston out of his gaze, “There isn’t much out there kiddo. Listen, I think

He was told directly by Christof over an intercom, that he was safe, nothing could hurt him and no one would dare to try if he stayed and that if he left he would not have that guarantee, that the world is cruel and he was likely to get hurt. Truman was aware of all this yet he still chose to leave, he had given it some thought and chose his freedom over being safe. Truman had left the scene with a grin and said “Good morning, and in case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night!” In this situation Truman had decided that he would rather live in a harsh, brutish world, independently rather than live an utterly safe life where his life is planned out for him. Truman chose the guarantee of independence over that of safety.

President Harry S. Truman had a major ethical and moral dilemma in choosing whether or not to use the atomic bomb as a resolution to the war. This came with many advantages and disadvantages. We must consider several facts. President Truman was almost thrown upon the presidential role upon Roosevelt’s death. He was a reliable party man who was well liked by professional politicians. His inexperience and desire to please the American people while keeping our country safe must be considered. Utilitarianism can be defined as a commitment to the search for the common good. In which the use of the atomic bomb would be bring. Of course the obvious disadvantages to using the atomic bomb would be there many deaths and possible retaliation from Japan. We will examine all of these in the following paper.

The Truman Doctorine was surrounded by a sense of emergency because Harry S. Truman did not forsee he would ever be president after he acting as president following Roosevelts he was forced to answer problems he had never direttly delt with before such as foreign policy. Truman was rightly under the impression that Stalin was less that a rputable character so he went to work etablishing a documnt that would combat the Soviet threatning other nations.The Truman was used as a basis for people to understand foreign policy and where exactly america stood in this hiearchy.

Zichen, your discussion for the first question is excellent. You did a great job in analyzing why it is important for the United States to help other countries. As you explained, without U.S. intervention, "Greece, Turkey and oil-rich Middle East would fall under Soviet control, which will break the international peace and make America in danger."(Out of Many, 26.2.1; The Truman Doctrine) I think what Harry Truman tried to do was to make the American people realized about the importance and urgency of this matter. He tried to make the Americans understand that only America has the financial capability to help others around the world. (The Truman Doctrine, p. 217) When the American public are successfully persuaded, Congress has no choice but

2. I believe that the role of media could cause an individual to not know their true self, because when the audience is really into the show it encourages the people who make the show to keep making it even if the person on the show doesn't benefit from it. Yes, I do believe the audiences are weak and they are unable to resist the power of the media. I believe this because on The Truman Show you see the audience and one of the waitresses at Truman's bar knows everything about Truman and when he got out a lot of people were saying "He did it!" and they were al happy that he got out but not very many people were against him even being there. Yes, people are manipulated by the media, and they

Truman had no foreign policy experience but now as the Commander and Chief he was faced with ending the war. During his first six months in office Truman announced the surrender of the Nazi Germans. After their surrender the United Nations Charter was signed. The United Nations Charter was the treaty between the Allies and the Nazi Germans. Truman still had one other problem to deal with and that was the possibility of an attack by the Japanese.

Truman Elementary located in Lafayette is a Montessori school built on Dr. Maria Montessori teaching. The campus is entirely populated with four to five year olds and is the only La4 preschool in the state. The earliest a child can attend Truman is at the age of three, but they have to be four by September 1st. At Truman, the preschoolers "rule the roost" and have the opportunity to become comfortable with the school routine in a safe environment. Truman's preschoolers and kindergarten only student body also means the students can engage in activities whenever they want, without fear of disturbing the work of older students. It also means that Truman is a unique, energy-filled campus where every day is a fun day. The goal of the program is to ensure that every child enters school ready to learn, and it is working. Every year, students are tested on their skills before school starts and again after the year is completed.

It is, and always has been a parent’s job to raise their child; to bring them up into the world as best they can to become functioning members of society. Truman’s mom, like my mom showed him the way the world worked. Unlike my mom, Truman’s lied to him throughout the process which gave him a twisted idea of what the real world is.

Truman fearful of allegations of communists working within his government established the Federal Loyalty Security Program. The program investigated all federal employees backgrounds and anyone who was determined a security risk was not hired. Tom C. Clark Truman’s attorney general put together a list of organizations which were considered to be possibly subversive which lead to them being investigated. Many private companies, city governments, and state governments adopted this program and also required their employees to sign a loyalty oath.

I think that the title fits the book. I think the title fits the book because the whole reason why everything happened was because of the “Truth About Truman” website and without the website none of this would have happened. This book has helped me in a way. This book has helped me understand what kids go through when they are being bullied and what they have to deal with when they get bullied. It has also helped me understand how important true friends are. It helped me understand that because in the book it gives an example of when Zebby and Amr go looking for Lilly in the woods even though Lilly treated them wrong and did them dirty.

Right from the start of the Cold War, after the Second World War (1939-1945), the European continent was split up once more and two ideologies were considered to dominate most countries. The Truman doctrine, established in 1947 by the President of the United States of America forged the Western bloc and put forward capitalism as a strong political ideology . Following this doctrine was the initiation of the Marshall plan, a financial and military help, which goal was to reduce The Soviet Union’s influence on eastern countries. The leading force of the Eastern bloc, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) answered to the United States’ doctrine with the Zhdanov doctrine which divided the world between “the imperialists”, the United States and “the socialists”, the Soviet Union. Communism was the ideology in the U.S.S.R. and its allied countries. Defeated after the end of the Second World War, Germany was split in four occupation zones as it was discussed at the Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945). The three zones belonging to the western countries (French zone, British zone and American zone) were unified and thus opposed to the soviet zone. Berlin, a strategic city within the eastern part of Germany, was itself divided and thus West Berlin became an enclave. In the 1950s,

Subsequently to the end of the World War II, and for almost forty years, the so called 'Cold War' crossed different phases. In fact, the political relationship between USA and URSS was constituted by periods of high tension and periods of relaxation. In fact, the most tragical period of the Cold War was recorded between the 1947 and the 1953, period in which the American President H. Truman gave way at the development of the so-called "Truman Doctrine", expressing the need for a containment of the USSR and communism. Subsequently, with the election of the American president Eisenhower and the appointment of Khrushchev as Secretary of the CPSU, the two superpowers experienced a new phase of "peaceful coexistence". In fact, on February 1956,

The concept of solipsism appears in the film as Truman realizes something is wrong with his reality. If reality did consist of only one person, then that person should have a degree of control over it. Following this idea, Truman steps in front of a bus, holds out his hand as if to control it, and it stops. Suddenly, he steps in front of a line of cars, holds his hand out again, and they all stop. Consequently, he believes he just exercised a degree of control over reality; however, it was the actors knowing what he was going to do. Solipsism appears again when Truman is talking to Marlon and expresses that it feels like the world revolves around him. Nevertheless, Marlon tries to play this off as Truman’s ego being too big. Keeping the idea

Travelers Beware: After Truman decided that he wanted to travel to Fiji, he went to a traveling agency to book a flight. While he was waiting for the agent, he looked over and saw the sign headline. This sign wanted to heighten Truman's fear of travel.