US imperial development was conditioned by many forces, but none match the aggregate power of America's 'Anglo-ness'. Although it is too early to assess the ways in which these discourses are negotiated, critiqued and reproduced in the 'age of Obama', the American empire is likely to ...
由题干中的the Spanish Empire and the British Empire定位到最后一段。最后一段开头说:美国仍然是世界上最强大的国家,它的军事力量遍布全球。紧接着话锋一转,说从16世纪的西班牙王国到20世纪的大英王国,世界强国总是发现,一旦背负了过重的债务,并且陷在经济发展放缓的境地不能脱身的时候,好运气就会转身离去,这是...
In a medley of outtakes from his sermons, Wright is heard to proclaim 'God damn America, a startling inversion of the Irving Berlin song 'God Bless America' that serves as the unofficial American national anthem. This sound bite, regarded by many Americans as proof of Wright's anti-...
Why, then, the ascription of "empire" to the United States? One reason is to condemn American foreign policy by linking it to the unjust, destructive, and self‐destructive tendencies that are held to be inherent in a nation's quest for, and maintenance of, "empire." The variant of ...
This provision of the act, together with the recognition of the Roman Catholic religion, was seen to threaten the unity and security of British America by, in effect, reviving the old French Empire destroyed in 1763. The American colonists viewed the act as a measure of coercion. The act ...
As nouns the difference between empire and umpire is that empire is a political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority while umpire is...
The movement helped create the intellectual framework for the American and French Revolutions, Poland's Constitution of May 3, 1791, the Latin American independence movement, the Greek national independence movement and the later Balkan independence movements against the Ottoman Empire, and led to the...
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams "Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American Patriot, if they ever attempt to separate religion from politics." George Washington There exists nothing like the so-called absolute liberty, there has to be guideli...
contentment (n.) 满足感3、sanguine 充满信心的,乐观的4、lingering 徘徊的,挥之不去的 sth. still lingers...物做主语be hunted by...人做主语e.g. sb. is hunted by the idea of doing sth. 做...的想法一直萦绕心头5...
abroad in countries such as Afghanistan is hotly debated. Some argue the strikes make the United ...