US Foreign Policy

         One major current event that the United States is affected by is sending rations to all the refugees in Kenya.  The United States is the largest donor to the world food program and they send around 111 million dollars in rations to Kenya. The United States are worried about sending rations to 500,000 rations to refugees to people Dadaab and Kakuma camps in Northern Kenya. Camps throughout Kenya have been flooded with refugees from Southern Sudan since the country descended into civil war. The United States of America are worried that they will not have enough rations to send over to Kenya since the increasing number of people living in the refugee camps. The U.S. urges and need other countries around the world to help donate more rations to Kenya.Without the help of others, the people living in refugee camps will have less food.                            
          The three lasting principles of the Monroe Document is separate spheres of influence, non-colonization, and non-intervention. The part of the Monroe Document that states separate the sphere of influence is really saying that you stay in your region, i'll stay in mine. This U.S. would have to disregard this part of the document in this situation because the wont to help Kenya to thrive, not help it collapse. The part of the Monroe Document that states non-colonization would affect the ration problem in Kenya because the U.S. wants to help them by giving rations to help their country thrive. the U.S. doesn't want to take over the country, they just want to help them. Finally, the part in the Monroe Document that states non-intervention would affect the U.S.. The U.S. and other countries donate millions of dollars to the World Food Program so they can give rations to help other countries survive.  This would affect the U.S. because they are donating millions of dollars to a country that they want to help, so it would directly affect them. The ration problem in Kenya is a major problem for the U.S. foreign policy.                                          

           

Race and Identity

          Race and identity played a large part in the Gran Columbia revolution. Simon Bolivar was the leader of the Gran Colombian revolution and he was originally from Venezuela. In 1810, Bolivar takes control of Venezuela from Spain and in 1811 they are officially independent from Spain, but Spain would eventually regain Venezuela. In 1813,Bolivar retakes Venezuela by defeating Spain in six successful confrontations and in that same year, Bolivar's troops take control of Caracas. By 1814, he loses Caracas to Spain. In 1819, two years after he fled to Jamaica, Bolivar rallies a army of 2,500 and takes over Boyaca and Bogota. After he takes over these two Cities from Spain, the Republica de Columbia is proclaimed. It covers  modern Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Bolivar tried to keep Gran Colombia together but eventually retired and died without knowing that Ecuador and Venezuela seceded from Gran Colombia. The reason why race and identity played a large part in the Gran Colombia revolution was because the people from South America did not see themselves as Spaniards, they saw themselves as Venezuelans, Colombians, and Ecuadorians. Simon Bolivar was originally from Venezuela so he did not see himself as a Spaniard and he felt that people in South America shouldn't be viewed as Spaniards. A lot of people agreed with him that is why identity played a large part in the Gran Colombia revolution.
           In today, race can still play a part in the national identity of politics. One example is in Ferguson Missouri, a white police officer named Darren Wilson shot an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. Darren Wilson states that the boy was reaching for his gun so he shot and killed Michael Brown. The grand jury decided that Darren Wilson would not be punished and would get no jail time. This outraged many people so there protests throughout the country. The protesters believe that Michael Brown should have justice and that Darren Wilson should have been severely punished for killing this unarmed 18 year old. Race still plays a large part in politics.