U.S congress sanctions China

China, in the early part of June of 1989, Chinese troops and police made some actions towards a group of protesters, they smashed and making a sick response towards these people, who wants to voice out about more freedom into their own home land. This even took place in the well-known landmark in Beijing, which is the Tiananmen Square.President George Bush immediately ordered sanctions against the Chinese government, including a ban on arms shipments, the cessation of high-level talks with Chinese officials, and a suspension of talks about nuclear cooperation. Bush hoped that these sanctions would be enough to indicate the American government’s displeasure and anger over the events in Tiananmen Square, but many members of Congress felt that the president had not gone far enough in punishing China for its egregious human rights violations. 

The House of Representation objected most of it and passed a new package of sanctions on this day in June 29, 1989.  It is more clearly viewed that in this new package China would only be sanctioned if only there were assurances that China was making progress in the area of human rights. It is friendlier and is more into the trade relations between the China and the United States. It would took for almost a year before some of the arrested protesters were being released from the prisons. China remained undiminished and somewhat no feelings at all by what their fellow people did to their own people. Most of those sanctions was only put aside and not being raised into discussion and talks about it and what so ever.

To this day, China is again making some violations not to its people, this time, to other territories specifically the West Philippines Sea, treating it as a part of their territory already. This is really clear that they don’t have any evidence stating that its part of China. Most of the people here in our country, hoping that they would not continue making progress in the area and hoping that these matter would later be resolved for the better future of everyone.



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Two Presidents married their First Ladies this day in history

   Marriage, a part of a person’s life where in you commit to be one with a chosen partner. This day is remembered not only by Americans, but by some who knows about dates and all other details of the biography of the U.S presidents. 

On this day in 1810, at age 26, Zachary Taylor the 12 president of the United States married his wife named Margaret Smith aged 31. Smith met Taylor in 1809 when Taylor was an Army officer. A couple of years later, they have produced 6 children. And some of their children made their own names, one was their son Richard who later in his life became a general in the Confederate Army. And their daughter married a well known man in the name of President Jefferson Davis the future confederate president. According to some historians, during the presidency of Taylor, they noted that his wife was not happy, that she let her daughter Mary do the White House duties instead of her.

A century and 30 years later the same day, another President married the other half of his life. He is Richard Milhous Nixon the 37^th president of the United States.  The name of the woman was Patricia Ryan, which is known to some as a very supportive wife all the way into the entire presidential term of Nixon. They had 2 daughters namely Julie and other one named after her mother, Patricia.  During Nixon’s political career, he was squashed by lots of interventions, especially the Watergate scandal. His re-election committee was implicated into criminal activities Democratic Party candidates and other organizers. Because of this scandal, this leads the Congress to have some proceedings in it. His family supported him until his resignation in 1974, which Nixon decided to leave voluntarily.

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The death of the 11th president of the United States

Today I’m going to tackle about an American political figure and in my own view for this president, he is one of the least known president in US history. But he gained a reputation for his territorial expansion of the nation chiefly through the Mexican-American War.  He is James Knox Polk the 11^th president of the most powerful country in the world. He was born around 1795 and graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina.  Leaving his law practice behind, he served in the Tennessee legislature, where he became friends with Andrew Jackson the 7^th president. Polk moved from the Tennessee legislature to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1825 to 1839 (and serving as speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839). He left his congressional post to become governor of Tennessee.

James Polk took office on March 4, 1845—and, at 49 years of age, he became the youngest president in American history. Before Polk took the oath of office, Congress offered annexation to Texas, and when they accepted and became a new state, Mexico severed diplomatic relations with the United States and tensions between the two countries escalated. He continued serving as president until March 4, 1849. Since that time Pres. Polk’s health deteriorated he began to lose a lot of weight, due to a suspected cholera contraction during his good will visit in New Orleans. Because of that he died on June 15, 1849 exactly 166 years ago today.

Polk had the shortest retirement of all Presidents at 103 days. He was the youngest former president to die in retirement at the age of 53. Along with George Washington, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Calvin Coolidge and Lyndon B. Johnson, he is one of six presidents to have died while his direct successor was in office.

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Founder of Islam dies

Today I would discuss about religion, which is precisely the unending debate of different kinds of people around the world. Every people has it’s own grasp of beliefs that most of the time cannot be changed until they die. Today, this person is considered as one of the most influential religious figure ever in history, his name, Muhammad. He established the Islam religion which is so dominant particularly in the Middle East.

He was born around Mecca, which he has considered from a humble ancestry. Muslim religion believed to have started of a cave in Mount Hira, stating that he saw the image of God speaking to Angel Gabriel commanding him to lead a “true religion”. He regarded himself as the last Judaic- Christian prophet tradition. He has adopted the theology of these older religions and also introducing new doctrines. Because of these acts of his, he unified tribesmen particularly in Arabian area.

Around year 622, he gained a lot of religion convertions, and because of this the local authorities have gone their attention towards Muhammad, attempting some assassination, just to preserve the pagans as their Gods, but he manage to escape from all of it. Few years after this he came back to Mecca as a conqueror, after his founding of a a great state in Medina. He died on June 8 632 at the arms of his 3^rd and favorite wife called Aishah.

In the next succeeding years, vast continued upon his allies and successors. About a hundred years later, the world has seen a large empire of Muslim, from India into some parts of Northern Africa and of course across the Middle East. Until this day it is considered as the 2^nd largest religion in the world.




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