Liberal Arts short essay 750 words
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Personal situations and events |
Important historical events |
Key indicators |
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1992-2001 |
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Born in Arizona |
1992: Los Angeles Riots
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1992: Started due to the beating of Rodney King by Police Officers. Police brutality. |
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My parents were divorced |
1992: In presidential election Bill Clinton was elected as United States president. |
In 1992 at the end of cold war issue of economy dominated over foreign policy. |
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My mother re married and had another child. |
1992: Florida was struck by a very bad hurricane known as Hurricane Andrew.
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1992: Damage of about $23 billion and $37 billion was reported along with 56 and 68 fatalities. |
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We moved to northern Arizona, so my mom could have land to run her business. |
2000: George W. Bush was elected as the new president of United States. |
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2001: On 11 September World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists.
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2001: Transport Security Administration established in November 2001. Sky Marshals increased from fewer than 100 to more than several thousand by 2004. |
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2001-2005 |
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I was diagnosed with cancerous tumors in my jaw.
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2001: United states along with NATO attacked Afghanistan.
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2001: Most popular believe that September 11 attacks were planned by Osama bin Laden. |
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Family friend passed of brain aneurism. |
2003: United states also invaded Iraq. |
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Mother almost passed away of cancer
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2005: southern United States especially my home state Florida was badly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. 2005: Left Florida for California. |
2005: Deadliest Hurricane Katrina struck the United states causing lot of disruption and energy crisis.
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2006-2011 |
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Mother re married again for the third time. And I moved away to live with family due to unfortunate circumstances |
2006: Execution of Saddam Hussein. |
2006-2007: Policies of Bush towards Iraq and Katrina were largely criticized. |
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Started high school |
2007: Worst recession at end of Bush term. |
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Joined high school rodeo team
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2008: Barack Obama was elected as President. |
2008: Barack Obama first African-American President passed reforms on health care and banking during his first years in office. |
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2010: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as passed by Obama. |
2010: “Obamacare” was faced by fierce criticism. |
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Graduated high school |
2011: Combat was over in Iraq and American soldiers had left Iraq. |
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2012- 2018 |
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Left for the army
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2012: European Union’s GDP decreases while China’s increases. GDP of united states also increases but unemployment rate increased above 11%. |
2013: Unemployment rate in United states falls to below 7.8%.
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Got pregnant with my son
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2013: Barack Obama was elected as president second time. |
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2013: Obama passed number of bills to stabilize the economy and also agreed on oil drilling.
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2014: United states, Mexico and Canada become the top three oil producers. 2014: Unemployment rate drops to 7 %. |
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My husband was deployed to Africa to fight the Ebola outbreak. |
2014: Outbreak of Ebola Virus
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Had my daughter |
2014: First “Star Wars” satellite was launched by United states. |
2014: “Star Wars” satellite was used to take stronghold of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. |
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2015: Launch of Student Debt relief. |
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Got out of the army |
2016: Economic recession was officially ended by Barrack Obama. |
2016: Cleaner energy project was launched to use Helium-3 instead of oil. 2016: GDP of United States reached up to $20+ trillion. |
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2016: Donald Trump was elected as U.S. President. |
2016: Clinton received huge support from college graduates (52%-43%) by 9-point margin. While Trump was supported by non college goers (52% - 44 %). |
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Moved to Washington |
2017: Trump ordered about the tight monitoring of security concerns and suspended the entry of people belonging to Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya.
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Shelbie Inboden
Week 5 Signature Assignment
LBSU 304- Professor Brouillette
Brandman University
History’s Impact
Historical information which I gathered, greatly transformed my opinion towards the relation of one’s personal situation and historical events of the era in which we are living. In 1992 I was born in Arizona. I developed strong bonding with my mother as she was a single mother and she was quite good in horse riding and conducting riding lessons for children and adults. We often used to go for family outings riding the horses on the trails to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Arizona. Growing up as a child we had a really un stable home and things were always all over the place as far as men in and out of the home, different homes and my mother’s health.
I remember when the world trade centers were attacked. This created a sort of uncertainty and caused a total damage of about $23 billion and $37 billion. We moved and got some land in Arizona so my Mother could expand her business in child entertainment. We had a portable pony ring and petting zoo and fun small carnival games. Also, at that time we had a curve ball hit us and I was diagnosed with a small cancerous tumor inside my mouth. In the era of Bill Clinton, the economy of USA remained well and there was not any big political issue except the rumors and hiring of his scandal. In 2000 George W. Bush was elected as the new president of United States. And a sudden change in USA policies emerged after the World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists on 11 September. Tight Transport Security Administration was established in November 2001.
Through investigation lead to the common belief that the September 11 attack was planned by Osama bin Laden. So, for the search of Osama bin Laden and his group, United States attacked Afghanistan along with NATO. In 2003 United States also invaded Iraq and I remember just sitting in my school classroom in fourth grade in fear and shock and not knowing what was going to happen. Bush was highly criticized and as a result, Barack Obama was elected as President in 2008. To lighten the impact of worst recession of Bush era, African-American President passed reforms on health care and banking. In 2011, Iraq and America combat were over, and I had just graduated high school. I wanted to be apart of the fight for our country, so I joined the army in late 2010 but left for basic in January 2011.
Obama policies were effective enough and lower the rate of unemployment below 7.8%. In 2013, Barack Obama was elected as president second time. Obama passed number of bills to stabilize the economy, agreed on oil drilling handled Ebola Virus outbreak, in which my husband helped fight, launched “Star Wars” satellite program and initiated Student Debt relief program. I was active duty at this time and had always wanted to start school but was just not in place yet to do that with a deployed husband and two very young babies. Obama started a policy regarding financial aid and student loans. His Student Aid Bill helped a lot to solve the student debt problems and facilitated a lot of students in paying school loans faster.
Clinton received huge support from college graduates (52%-43%) by 9-point margin, while Trump was supported by non-college goers (52% - 44 %). Regardless of campaign efforts, Donald Trump became the President of the United States (Krugman, 2016). Trump policies were received as controversial one; he ordered about the tight monitoring of security concerns and suspended the entry of people belonging to Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya. I was quite curious regarding the Trump policies related to education and health. Mostly because I was about to be getting out of the military in 2016 and this would obviously be important for me to know and be aware of how that may affect me or my family. Fortunately having Tri Care for health coverage, we were not really affected.
This is all about my personal recollection and its relation to history. It provides me deep insight that both are interlinked to each other. History is related to study of past events and recollection is also about the remembrance of your life past events. Both are strongly interlinked to one another. It was a true joy being able to go back and remember the events that happened in my life. Some things brought smiles and others may have brought a tear or two. But also being able to compare what was going on in my personal life at the time, especially in my younger years, seeing what was going on in the big picture of the world as a whole.
References
Jakobsen, G T. (2012, 12 October). Why Did the United States Invade Iraq in 2003? Retrieved from http://www.popularsocialscience.com/2012/10/25/why-did-the-united-states-invade-iraq-in-2003-2/
Krugman, P. (2016, 24 May). Syndicated columnist Lessons from the Bill Clinton economic boom. Retrieved from https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/lessons-from-the-bill-clinton-economic-boom/
Tyson, A and Maniam, S. (2016, 9 November). Behind Trump’s victory: Divisions by race, gender, education. Retrieved from http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/
