Rise to Plateau

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America, a country made from the breaking of chains from a tyrannous nation. A country that is the world’s best example of freedom, prosperity, equality, and democracy. A country who became a unipolar superpower from a meteoric rise that started with the aforementioned breaking of chains, which bound them to a king, and the conceiving of a nation of liberty. This rapid rise to becoming “the superpower” pitted the United States with many challenges but these challenges were overcome by American ingenuity and leadership. During the American Century, America rose to the top in science discoveries, in engineering advancements, in the economy, in education, and other political and social categories. This American century was filled with many American advancements and the rise to becoming, what most consider, the top nation in the world.
There have been many nations, like Egypt and Rome, with comparable rises to the United States. The rises these nations experience often lead them to become the top nation in their time period. These nations of the past all have eventually reached the summit of their achievement, resulting in an inevitable stagnation. These past nations ended up succumbing to war. While the United States may not experience a catastrophic downfall due to war, it may experience the stagnation and descent from the top like the nations of the past. America may have hit its pinnacle, because many new nations are currently rising in power, either in industrial or financial dimensions. Now as a new century has begun the question becomes, will this be the end of an American Century?
“Americans see that a new world is coming into being, but fear it is one being shaped in distant lands and by foreign people.” (Zakaria)Fareed Zak...

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...ave either constantly increased or flat lines. America’s unemployment rate has become stagnant, there have been small fluctuations up and down, but overall has remained average. The United States has also become stagnant while the debt has kept increasing burying the United States under a growing mountain.
The United States has, like Rome, Egypt, and other nations before, hit a pinnacle. The stagnation of the United States in the aforementioned fields is helping to accelerate the shift to a multipolar superpower world. This great stagnation is accelerating the rise of the rest because “the superpower” is no longer rising. The United States has plateaued and is beginning to become surpassed in engineering, science, and the global economy. If America stays on the current path this will be the end of the American century; it will instead be a century of many nations.

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