:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Friday, March 29, 2002 ::

yee gods so I wake up at 1:30 with with an idea(finally!!)for the thesis of my history term paper bouncing around my head... now its 3:50 and here's what i've pulled together... i'm not sure which one I like best

The subjective realities of United States at the time of its acquisition of the Philippines
colony from Spain describe not just a new player in the imperialist paradigm of
capital/market creation via industrialized nation-state competition but the genesis of a
change in international power politics; its domestic binary philosophical construct of
economic pragmatism and egalitarian political idealism, as well as the countries power
struggle--internal and external--explain this colonial acquisition as neither premeditatedly actuated nor fortuitously annexed but as a transformation in the international balance of power, the beginnings of the slow progression from an Imperial-world-order to Empire.

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okay... but not perfect so then I try...


The subjective realities of United States at the time of its acquisition of the Philippines
from Spain describe not a new player in the imperialist paradigm of capital/market creation via industrialized nation-state competition but the genesis of a change in international power politics; its philosophical binary construct of economic pragmatism and egalitarian political idealism, as well as the countries power struggle--internal and external--explain this colonial acquisition as neither premeditatedly actuated nor fortuitously annexed but as a transformation in the international balance of power, the beginnings of a slow progression from Imperial-world-order to Empire.

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better I think...cleaner but then I thought about trying to take a knife to it and just say it all in one quick breath and came up with......

The philosophical binary construct of economic pragmatism and egalitarian political
idealism, as well as the power struggle--internal and external--of the United States at the time explains the countries colonial acquisition of the Philippines as neither premeditatedly actuated nor fortuitously annexed but as a result of a transformation in the international balance of power, the beginnings of a slow progression from Imperial-world-order to Empire.

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so I don't know... I guess i'll sleep on it....

:: Jim Nichols 3/29/2002 03:57:00 AM [+] ::
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