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American Political and Social System with reference to the Mexico City and Beijing Olympics Name Institutional affiliation Introduction Both the 1968 Olympics in the Mexico City and the 2008 Beijing Olympics played a significant role in reflecting the political and social mood in the United States. The two historical events portrayed the American society at different eras and reflected both the social and political environment surrounding the American people. The Mexico City Olympics in 1968 stood out to be one of the most politically charged Olympics ever witnessed characterized by students protesting against misuse of the funds on the Olympics by the Mexican government instead of funding the social programs (Witherspoon 2016 p. 123). These protests claimed over 200 hundred lives and above 1000 individuals injured marking the event to be recognizable in the human history thus worth being used as a reference point to the American society during this system composed of all races including the black. References The Black Power Movement. (2006). Brownell S. (2012). Human rights and the Beijing Olympics: imagined global community and the transnational public sphere1. The British Journal of Sociology 63(2) 306-327. Documenting the Beijing Olympics. (2010). Li J. (2014). Nation and globalization as social interaction: Interdiscursivity of discourse and semiosis in the 2008 Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony. Semiotica 2014(200). Mexico City Olympics 1968. (n.d.). Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Olympic Pressure on China | Council on Foreign Relations. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.cfr.org Shum C. (n.d.). A critical review of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Spencer N. E. (2009). Reproducing Olympic Authenticity: Representations of 2004 ‘Olympic Portraits of US Athletes To Watch.' Olympic Women and the Media 232-256. Summer Olympics 2008. (n.d.). Retrieved from georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov Witherspoon K. B. (2016). Repression of Protest and the Image of Progress (Mexico City 1968). Surveilling and Securing the Olympics 110-125. [...]
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APA format Compare and contrast the social, political mood and atmosphere of the United States in reference to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and the 2008 Beijing Olympics Need by Midnight Sunday
