1) What does Bryan say about the status of working people?
Bryan defends the rights of working people, their force and importance at the moment of building progress. Bryan compares workers and businessman and mentions that both are necessary for cities improvement.
Also, he mention that the status of workers is underestimated. Nobody can displace the art of sowing fertile prairies that supply the greatest cities, he tolds. From this work, we take the resources that make the difference.
2) What does Bryan say about the importance of farming?
Bryan defends agriculture over other related business activities. Also, he claims against the political decisions related to gold standards. Workers of the nations will join forces in order to defend the importance of their work.
The gold standard consists of an economic system, valid during the Depression of the 1930s in America. It sets the value of an activity in terms of gold.
3)Explain the point Bryan is making by using the thorns and cross metaphors to describe the gold standard
Bryan is trying to convince an auditory that he is right: workers deserve to be valued. In order to persuade the listeners, he uses the ancient strategies from rethoric, that consist on different figures of speech. For example, the thorns and cross metaphors.
Also, the thorns and crown metaphor connect with very symbolic religious symbols. People value this allegory because they can identify with it.
I believe D is the correct answer. If Japan (or any country) were to be hit with the largest natural disaster in recent history, it would most likely sway people away from migrating into the country.
The United States’ approach to foreign policy had not change conceptually from the days it signed its independence. These ideas were primarily based on protecting US interests overseas and restricting foreign influences in the Americas. Once they furthered themselves politically and
economically, they gained the status of being a world power and they still wanted more. They figured they had to strengthen the country industrially as they needed worldwide markets for its growing industrial and agricultural
surpluses as well as sources of raw materials for manufacturing. They could only achieve these foreign markets with more concentrated efforts on its foreign policy as America was principally guided by economic motives.
The internal economic growth of the United States made them want to look outward for foreign markets. Export earnings increased from 450 million to over a billion from 1870 to the early 1890’s. US business’s were soon
overpowering foreign competition as even American steelmakers could easily compete with any British producer in the world. Everything seemed to be inciting the US to expand abroad. Expansionists throughout America emphasized the resources of what other lands could provide and the wealth that could result from their establishment. For example, Cuba offered an abundance of sugar
plantations and land in Panama would offer America control of the canal.
The economic benefits of a foreign land can be seen through an example of Americans exploring the distant islands of Hawaii. During the course of the early 1800s, missionaries from America traversed on a laborious voyage to Hawaii and ended up settling there. They offered accounts of incredible economic opportunities and possibilities in the Hawaiian islands. Consequently, other Americans proceeded to Hawaii to become sugar planters and to establish lucrative businesses.
Because of imperialism, countries now had access to colonies. When the war started, they were able to equip their colonies to fight for their side. This led to higher tensions and increased involvement in the war.
