The Destiny of The United States of America 2nd Edition : The United States of America: Facts, Analysis and Strategy

By Dr. Wenyi Yu

The first edition of the book The United States of America: Facts, Analysis and Strategy has captured the attention of readers in the United States, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Hungary, South Africa, India

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bookside Press
• Release date: Mar 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781990695308

Dr. Wenyi Yu

The author is the President of American Environmental Energy, Inc., a public company listed on the OTC Market with a symbol of AEEI. AEEI was initially formed in 1988 with the first business title Kensington Company, Inc. Its initial purpose was to develop oil and gas properties in Kentucky. The SIC was Drilling Oil & Gas Wells. AEEI was registered in Nevada State and is headquartered in The City of New York. Dr. Yu published his thesis on environmental protection in 1993 and completed his post-doctorate dissertation on the petroleum capital in 2002. Dr. Yu has created five books since the 4th quarter of 2019. (1) The United States of America: Facts, Analysis and Strategy (Author House, Indiana, USA, 2021); (2) China: Facts, Analysis and Strategy (Author House, Indiana, USA, 2021); (3) The Destiny of the United States, 2nd edition of The United States of America: Facts, Analysis and Strategy (Bookside Press, Canada, 2022); (4) Russia: Facts, Analysis and Strategy (Amazon Kindle, USA, 2022), and (5) Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Planning (Bookside Press, Canada, 2022). Dr. Yu is a member of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition (GWRCCC). The global interview planning for climate change initiated by Zizhao Yu and the author received the confirmation of US President Joe Biden on January 26, 2022. Dr. Yu initiated the research of the "Green Index" that reevaluate the public companies. He is also interested in low-carbon industrial park planning. He has rich experience in real estate development, industrial park planning, renewable energy study, surgery, cultural industries financing, high education, and public company management. Dr. Yu has lived in New York State for over ten years.

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CONTENTS

Second Edition and Neutral Standpoint Statements

List of Diagrams

CHAPTER 1: The Mirror of History

Visible Tradition

Fictive drama: The Mirror of History

Buffalo, New York

Reverie

Reference of Chapter 1

CHAPTER 2: The United States in 1946

1945

1946

Worker’s movement

Reference of Chapter 2

CHAPTER 3: Korean War, Vietnam War, and Star Wars

Korean War

Vietnam War

USSR and Star Wars

Reference of Chapter 3

CHAPTER 4: President Donald John Trump

Before being President

Presidency

2020 election

Reference of Chapter 4

CHAPTER 5: President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

Before being President

2020 election, Nancy Pelosi, and Democrats

Presidency

Reference of Chapter 5

CHAPTER 6: Cultural Transformation

Christopher Columbus

Benjamin Franklin

Francis Scott Key and American Anthem

Statue removal

Comments

2020, BLM, and cultural transformation

Reference of Chapter 6

CHAPTER 7: US Economy

Working-class country

Presidential campaign economy (PCE)

US economy model

Technology economy

Population and immigration economy

Human rights and economy

Media economy

Antitrust

Trump economic war against China

Economy during pandemic period

Space Economy

Biden administration: Climate crisis and economy

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

Reference of Chapter 7

CHAPTER 8: US Foreign Affairs in 2020-2021

2020 Trump administration

2021 Biden administration

Military-backed diplomacy

Reference of Chapter 8

CHAPTER 9: The US during 1944-2021

Overall development trend

Reference sources

Facts and data by year

Reference of Chapter 9

CHAPTER 10: The Destiny of The United States of America

Bad news

The self-healing function of the city

The self-improvement function of American-style capitalism

Loving America is the original power for America’s sustainable development

US economy remains healthy

Courageous people

Inherent risk in presidential election system

Lenin’s theory of imperialism does

not apply in America

Risk of self-destruction of American system and US destiny

Isn’t it scary to have civil wars and country divisions?

Reference of Chapter 10

CHAPTER 11: Strategy

Strategic topic 1: Population and Immigration

Strategic topic 2: The development of community economy and the regional economy engine (REE)

Strategic topic 3: USD and new Marshall Plan

Strategic topic 4: Party and campaign reform

Reference of Chapter 11

Special Thanks to the Citing Sources

Note: US President Joe Biden’s response to the author about the first edition of the book. The first edition was published by Author House, Indiana on April 11, 2021.

Note: US President Joe Biden’s reply to the Program Proposal of Global Environment and Climate Change Interview (CEI) — A proposal for an interview-based documentary on climate change, environmental protection, and the application of new energy and environmental protection products in developing countries across the world. This program is initiated by film director Zizhao Yu.

Second Edition and Neutral Standpoint Statements

1. General Instructions

First of all, thanks to Ms. Sophia Olsen, the Senior Marketing Consultant of Bookside Press for her attention to the first edition of this book The United States of America: Facts, Analysis and Strategy, and Ms. Lorie Jones, the Publishing Services Associate for her help with the publication of this book. As it was, this revision was not on my creation schedule.

Author House’s Marketing Team proposed to do a promotion on radio stations across the United States immediately after the publication of the first edition. They have the resources to do successful distribution. I did not accept the invaluable offer because I wanted to observe the changes of the situation for a certain time. I apologize for that.

There are no party or personal biases in this book. They are case studies only. The case is so huge – it is The United States of America.

To analyze objectively, the pros and cons were weighed on the topics involved.

The author did not intend to offend anyone and apologized in advance if occurred.

The only purpose of this book is to make all those who live in the U.S. or love America to be better off in the new century.

This book copied paragraph (s) of the texts of reference materials. The purpose is to let readers experience the emotions of the original authors while they are creating their articles and stories. To prevent copyright issues, the author urges readers to find original documents. The references are posted at the end of each chapter for your convenience.

2. Significance of the first edition of this book

While every day in America is a special day, every year is a special year, and every administration is one that goes down in history. However, as far as many people who are alive now, they did not participate in the labor movements of the 1940s, did not follow Martin Luther King to Washington D.C., did not participate in the anti-war marches, or even did not earn a lot in the computer and IT industry that has been growing fast from the 1970s; new immigrants may not have experienced 9/11. Many people live in the society at a superficial level, let alone a profound spiritual experience whether it is a large-scale political struggle or an epoch-making industrial revolution. We, US residents, have experienced the same events recorded in the first edition in 2020. Now it is February 2022, and new events are constantly washing out old ones. If not for the revision of the first edition, the author’s memory of 2020 has almost become blurred. Although everyone views society from a different angle, but for me, who is neither a Democrat nor a Republican, when I reread the book’s first edition today, I can feel the anger that I had when I wrote it, although the emotion was basically rational but remained hard to hide. After more than ten years of peaceful life in the United States, the feeling was a mixture of being unacceptable and barely comprehensible towards the social instability. This emotional note that cannot be eliminated by scientific analysis is precisely the authenticity and historical significance of the first edition of this book. The reader may not savor every word I typed with my hands, but you can feel my psychological changes. The updates made in the second edition reflect exactly what has happened in 2021, so I say that the first edition is irreplaceable and the second edition will be irreplaceable as well because they are separate real existences and the appearance of two consecutive editions exhibited the course and transformation of history. Works written in different years, even if the author does not specifically refer to a certain background, readers can still sense the atmosphere of the times -- that is what I call the experiential history of the alive people, rather than the fiction taught by the university from the viewpoints of future generations -- a reconstructed history. Documenting what happens around us is a social responsibility and an interest, although the author has no spare time to simulate Victor Hugo to write a novel similar to Les Misérables set in the Paris Revolution, which will have more readers and bigger value of dissemination, but I believe that the American of 2020, created with life, blood, wealth, and freedom, will be in art in the future. or even soon. Those who have participated in the events of 2020, regardless of what reality and history say about you, you are all recorded in history so you did not waste your time and life and therefore are valuable. You don’t have to worry about the impression you make when you come on stage because historians and artists will portray you from all perspectives. In a word, no one should be burdened with pressures other than real life.

3. How to understand 2020?

It’s difficult to understand America when you already have a set of values. For example, people may ask why when they see an athlete taking a knee while singing the national anthem before the game. When you ask the question, you already criticized America with your values. America is a country of immigrants. Americans come from different countries and regions. Different groups of people have different languages, religions, cultures, and customs. People like to be respected. In the United States, excluding one thought from another is considered to deprive others of their liberty, even if the thought exists only in one person’s brain; it is considered racism to oppress other groups with the majority group, which are taboos. America is a nation that lives on theory, ideals, and beliefs. Inclusion is a trait of the American spirit. Excluding is not America, it is America that coexists. Trying to have one mind unite all minds is seen as tyranny, unifying all values by one value is seen as a dictatorship, which is unacceptable in the US, and perhaps that’s why Trump is criticized, although many of the values Trump upholds are worthy of approval. Trump may think that the uniform criticism of him is itself a tyranny. Relying on commonality to coexist, relying on differences to make people live naturally rather than distorted, and relying on differences and tolerance to build a comprehensive spiritual world, this is the real America that exists like a dream. Such a person may not be a true American in spirit if he cannot accept the difference in political views or even leave the United States because of 2020; the person who understands what 2020 happened without leaving the United States is a conceptually qualified American. Criticism and anti-criticism, debate and reverse debate, and failure to starting over again, constantly creating and changing ideas, making the United States a collection of various ideologies, this is the United States in the concept of inclusiveness. 2020 turmoil is a test of inclusiveness that justifies American cultural identity and American spiritual identity. If the years without turmoil are a constant, 2020 is a variable. Variables are also a common pattern of historic existence.

4. 2020-2021

Why is the book titled The Destiny of The United States of America and not simply The 2nd edition of The United States of America: Facts, Analysis and Strategy? 2020-2021 is the pressure test period for the sustainability of the United States as a nation. 2020 is the year of destruction; 2021 is the year of testing America’s destiny. Americans were monitoring the results of the presidential election, the Capitol attack case, the Derek Chauvin case, the death of thirteen US troops in Afghanistan, the Democratic Party’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure investment bill, the $3.5 trillion budget bill, the federal government’s debt ceiling, the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse case, the repeated pandemic widespread, and the Fed’s ignorance of the continued rise in prices leading to increased living costs. All those risks might lead to new waves of damage and the superposition of shock waves would directly lead to the division and war of the country. 2021 is actually American Choice Year, and the year of testing American destiny because all those issues were extremely sensitive and sources of struggle. Those multiple-choice problems appeared in 2021, but the politics in 2021 was gradually cooling down and the two parties reached consensuses on some issues. The media has been calming down gradually when the election hotspots disappeared. There is a stable trend in society. In January and February of 2022, people are looking forward to the return to normal life, such as the stabilization of prices and the disappearance of the pandemic, indicating the cyclical characteristics of conflict mitigation. The results of the "2020-2021 National Survival Stress Test¹" for the United States will be specially recorded in the history of the country.

5. A Note on the concepts Enterprise Economy and American System

Some fundamental issues cannot be bypassed in the studies of American national destiny -- what substantive logic lies beneath the phenomenon?

Criticizing Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin is not the task of this book and has never been the author’s job. The study of the United States is the main business of this book. Every social science theory has its time limitations, just as this book needs constant updating. But Marx’s critique of capital’s pursuit of profit is representative and has no alternative term; Lenin’s critique of the connection between capitalism and imperialism and the unchecked expansion of imperialism is also unique and has no alternative theory. The author of this book admires the epoch-making research results achieved by Marx and Lenin, and at the same time, he found that the simple economic, political, and legal system of the United States is very different from the capitalism that is usually identified, which makes the author have to re-evaluate the assessment and hypothesis of Marx’s capitalism and Lenin’s imperialism.

Before the independence of the United States and the establishment of the country, there were enterprises. Enterprises integrated capital, technology, equipment, talents, land, workshop, and raw materials to form an organic organization to provide products and services for the society and gain sustainability by making profits; the legal protection of private property rights enables the sustainable development of enterprises; the state protects human rights, prevents enterprises and other organizations and individuals from doing evil, and collects taxes from enterprises and individuals to maintain social order and public expenditures, this form of production organization and maintenance should be called Enterprise Economy. The enterprise economy is the foundation of all social systems in the United States. So far, it seems that this is also a natural attribute and commonality of human activities. It transcends national borders, ideologies, religious beliefs, and nations because it had existed in the European and Asian countries before the independence of the United States. The enterprise economy should not be defined uniformly and politically as capitalism.

Enterprise economy plus human rights protection, democracy, liberty, equality, competition, choice, service, and social responsibility is equivalent to the political, economic, and legal system practiced in the United States today -- Americans usually call it a democratic system. Based on the fact that every country with an enterprise economy implements different or even unique national management models, this book refers to the system of the United States as the "American system², which can only be impressed deeply by living in the United States for a long time. The American system is distinct from other capitalist or socialist or other modes of state governance. The concept of the American system" is not put forward to praise or belittle the United States, but a basic theory that must be prepared while understanding the United States. It is the primary premise when studying the national fortune of the United States.

The Enterprise economy and the American system is explained preliminary in Chapter 10 and will be discussed in detail in the author’s next book. It must be pointed out that one of the features of the concept of the American system proposed in this book is that the government does not organize enterprises to compete with the private sector for profit. In general, the U.S. government’s revenue is not generated by state-owned enterprise or holding or taking a stake in private business.

6. Population

In 1993, the author’s doctoral dissertation Economics of Employment Surplus was completed on the basis of the research in population economics. The score was excellent. In fact, the full text provided an idea rather than a results of empirical research because population, employment and economic development were not random experiments conducted by a scholar. Entered the 21st century, the world was still worried about overpopulation but I don’t think it’s right. Traditional records have exhibited that an overpopulation is indeed a burden which directly leads to a reduction in the quality of life. The United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States have all demonstrated that a medium-sized population can build world top powers, and that the value of a population depends on the quality of the citizens rather than the number of them. However, the authors still felt that this conclusion was incomplete. The author shared views with President Obama on population topic in 2012.

In the first edition of this book, the author pointed out that the United States will become a populous country with a population of 1 billion provided that the country’s natural fertility policy is maintained and the population curve is not rigidly distorted. The importance of population in the United States is apparently. When Asian countries lagged behind 40 years ago, the United States had a demographic advantage over European countries; but when emerging market countries with absolute demographic advantages caught up with the United States economically, the United States’ population scale became a disadvantage. When the billion-level-population-country develops, the return of talents from overseas will become a natural tendency, and the comparative decrease of foreign talents in the developed countries will be an inevitable reality, and the possibility that the United States will win foreign talents by relying on the competition of economic strength will be significantly reduced. An indisputable fact is that the number of patent applications and published papers from the United States is no longer the first in the world. When the author visited Harvard University in 2014 and chatted with the staff, he mentioned that the top universities of India and China selected the best talents among the 1.3-1.4 billion people, but the other party’s answer was that Harvard University selected the best talents in the world. At that time the author felt speechless but also felt that something was wrong. However, today’s facts show that the author’s thought is increasingly correct.

The population is not the interest rate. Interest rates adjust GDP and prices quickly, but the population will not be able to produce large-scale increments even if the economic stimulus is given. In general, the elasticity of the population is relatively small. Therefore, it is necessary to grant permanent resident status or citizenship to various immigrants who have settled in the United States, as well as a policy of moderately open borders. Excessive restrictions on foreign immigration go against the natural growth trend of the population and harm the United States itself strategically in the long run.

One of the characteristics of the human being is the ability-jumping phenomenon -- the ability-average-parents may give birth to Nobel Prize winners or national leaders or the most famous basketball players. As long as there is a large enough population base, it is possible to get more outstanding talents. After the $1.2 trillion stimulus package, the bipartisan debate should add a population topic. This book retains the immigration policy and population perspectives from the first edition and considers it a significant difference and one of the most valuable research results compared to other books of its kind on the United States.

The United States is now in an embarrassing situation: if the population does not increase significantly, it may be surpassed by the large-population-country in terms of economic scale and national comprehensive strength; but increasing the population is generally opposed domestically. Waiting for natural population growth is the only way out.

7. Country, destiny, destruction, and repair

Aside from complex legal and political expressions, the so-called state, nation, or country is nothing but a group of people who live and develop together on a piece of land for a long time; the so-called destiny is the final result of people’s efforts; the so-called destruction is the action of people to change the reality; the so-called repair is the capabilities of restoration, renewal, and revitalization. Repairs include refit, retrofit, and conversion. The Trump administration was shaken by such a storm that the president almost lost power in the final days of the transition in early January 2021 but the Democratic and Biden administrations launched a $1.2 trillion stimulus plan in November 2021 – a bipartisan infrastructure bill.

The United States added elements of the planned economy on the basis of the Enterprise Economy in 2021. This is completely different from the federal government’s traditional investment in technology under the name of Grants.gov or the tax reduction plan. If the passage of the $3.5 trillion bill realized, it would be a bigger plan and clearer American-style socialism -- the transformation of the United States to a planned economy. When Trump took office, he pointed out that the airports in the United States were inferior to those in the third world. The infrastructure of the United States is already lagging behind. That is to say, the United States is under the pressure of international competition, leading to actions to strengthen the planned economy.

The Biden administration’s emphasis on climate change and the green economy in order to maintain U.S. leadership in the world is a repair to the Trump administration’s heritage by getting rid of the burdens of negative international relations over the U.S.; the $1.2 trillion bill is a repair to the undersized government investment. The nation is an organism. All non-lethal damage stimulates repair. The nation’s fate depends on its ability to repair. If all destruction is not aimed at killing, regular destructions will instead stimulate repair and regeneration, which is ultimately beneficial to the health and strength of the country. Therefore, when evaluating the results of destruction, you must also observe the increment brought by repair – an approach of balance analysis. A set of comprehensive possibilities may glimpse the fortune of a country.

8. President Biden is an invaluable resource for studying U.S. politics and foreign policy

Biden’s election appears to have lowered expectations for America, but that may be a misconception.

They are young at hearts and have more things to do when people got old -- this is a portrayal of President Biden as well. Joe Biden is an evergreen tree in American politics ecology. His political achievements are not outstanding, but he has accumulated far more high-end experience than other politicians. His thoughts today are actually the thoughts that the United States has evolved from World War II to today.

No thoughts are empty. Thoughts are carried by a specific person. In 2022, this person is Joe Biden. His open-mindedness, stamina, and ultimate victory are the true portrayal of the American spirit. The $1.2 trillion bill launched in 2021 – a LOGO of Biden’s time, indicated that Joe, like previous presidents, still wants to create a new fortune for the United States, but what stage the national fortune of the United States is at is a hard constraint on him.

The formulation of his climate crisis, rather than the expression climate challenge, points to his administration’s approach to leading the world in a new historical period when the US has very limited cards to play on international political arena.

There are certainly not as many interests in Biden for the public as it were for political newcomers such as John Kennedy and Donald Trump. But Biden’s nature of representative for US politics after WWII throughout today is of high value for academic studies. So, please cherish this precious political heritage, regardless of the results of his re-election and eventual accomplishments.

As a researcher, what you can do is to hold a scientific attitude. It does not matter whether your studying target is this or that. Our task is to try to get closer to the truth and at most give advice based on research. That is it.

History always surprises people.

Maybe Biden can create miracles, who knows?

9. Trump’s social media

This is the age of social media and no big event can do without it. As stated in the chapter Strategy of the first edition of this book, the fairness of the campaign requires the fairness of the media, and the increase of professional media is beneficial to the campaign. After the defeat of Trump’s re-election, he invested in the development of social media to break through the monopoly of public opinion. The social impact and political value of this project remain to be observed. The economic value of this project cannot be ignored. But how long it will last is an unknown which is entirely dependent on Trump’s decision-making and the changes of Trump’s opponents, including rivals from within the Republican Party.

In any case, Trump’s philosophy and outlook on the world and life are still very representative in the United States, especially in the context of the changing international and domestic situations.

Wenyi Yu

February 21, 2022

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1 Note: The term National Survival Stress Test was created by the author. Bank uses stress test to assess the liquidity and safety at various situations.

2 Note: American system here refers to the natural economic system based on enterprise economy and the related political and law systems as well as the culture tradition in and around it, not the national economic plan put forth by Senator Henry Clay and the Whig Party in the 19th century. The latter was a series of economic measures.

List of Diagrams

Diagram 1.1 Fordham Drive, Buffalo, New York 14216 and the Pan-American Expo 1901 monument, President McKinley Memorial Site, and Historical Buffalo Bungalows

Diagram 3.1 The geography and Korean War, 1950-1953

Diagram 3.2 South Vietnam and North Vietnam during 1955–1975

Diagram 5.1 Nancy Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers observed the silence for nearly nine minutes

Diagram 6.1 Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years for the murder of George Floyd

Diagram 7.1 Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)³ was 30,997 on January 22, 2021, and closed at 34,105 on January 21, 2022

Diagram 7.2 The resilience of US stock market during the pandemic period in 2020 and 2021

Diagram 8.1 The US global military presence

Diagram 9.1 The growth trend of the US real GDP and population during 1944-2021

Photos copied 10.1 13 US service members killed in Afghanistan on 08/26/2021

Diagram 10.1 Schematic diagram of the closed subway platform

Diagram 11.1 The double and triple population growth of China and India in thirty-one to forty-seven years—both reached one billion population fast, showing an inherent, natural growth inertia of population

Diagram 11.2 Japan’s population growth tendency was not significantly affected by WWII

Diagram 11.3 A forecast of one billion population in the US by 2061

Diagram 11.4 The down tendency of the populations of China and India in the second half of the 21st century, estimated by United Nations

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3 DJIA, CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/.DJI, https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.DJI:INDEXDJX?window=5Y

CHAPTER 1: The Mirror of History

The Mirror of History

Visible Tradition

■ ■ ■ ■⁴, Buffalo, NY 14216

At this address is a two-story house painted green. It was built before the 1901 The Pan-American Exposition. The wall on the garage driveway side seems a slight askew, but it’s sturdy enough to live safely.

In summer, the ivy crawls all over the wall, and some ants snake along the ground. The concrete steps in front of the house lead to a red–painted wood plank balcony on which a steel swing with a grass-green canvas roof stands. The front door of the house is a product of glass and wood. The mailbox is mounted on the right lower side of a glass–wooden wall beside the frame of the door. The postman drops letters inside by pushing the one-way copper valve. It is a safe community. The front door of the house is often unlocked and ajar.

Fordham Drive is a medium-size community road with a green belt in the middle. Residents put their flowers neatly here. The block club holds meetings to discuss the landscaping, road construction, and other issues twice a year. Neighbors actively put forward comments and suggestions. They are very familiar with the planning and development of the city. The discussion is quite lively. One hour may not be sufficient. People bring homemade foods, drinks and so on. Buffalo snows for almost five months a year, and neighbors are happy to help when the wheels slip occasionally. No matter what season it is, dog owners walk on the sidewalk regularly–once or twice a day, and short and warm greetings will be encountered from time to time.

Diagram 1.1 Fordham Drive, Buffalo, New York 14216 and the Pan-American Expo 1901, President McKinley Memorial Site, and Historical Buffalo Bungalows

In the green belt opposite the house is McKinley Shooting Rock, where President William McKinley (1843–1901) was assassinated. Visitors stop to hang out or offer flowers, and occasionally tour guides come with them. The thrilling moment of firing two shots 120 years ago has long passed, and now it is calm enough to be inaudible to the sound of car horns. Take a few steps east to the intersection of Fordham Drive and Lincoln Parkway, and walk three blocks south, there is a pedestrian overpass on which people can ride bikes up and down into Delaware Park.

The Olmsted Conservancy’s Delaware Park, built during 1868 and 1876, belongs to the historic park system and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The big land was also a migratory bird habitat and ecological reserve. To the north of the park is mirror-like Hoyt Lake, with fountains in summer, and fish roaming quietly under the clear bottom of the lake. The white open building by the lake has the bride and groom’s party. The west side of the lake borders Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Hoyt Lake was also built for the Pan-American Exposition in 1901 and was regarded as a feature of the Exhibition venue by the 50,000 attendees.

The creativity of the Buffalo people did not stop after the Exposition. Since 1976, there has been an annual open-air Shakespeare drama festival on the south side of the lake: Shakespeare in Delaware. The 2013 show includes Hamlet and Measure for Measure. You don’t pay the show.Performances run at 7:15 PM from Tuesdays through Sundays from mid–June through the third week of August, except for Mondays and heavy storms. The two-hour show is also one of the largest outdoor Shakespeare theatrical festivals in the United States. The audience always arrives a half hour prior to the start. They take chairs and sit on the hillside to watch the performance on the temporary stage built in the valley. This hill, which is about twenty-five degrees oblique, is called Shakespeare Hill.

To the west of Shakespeare Hill is a flat soccer field surrounded by trees. It has no stands. Youth like to play soccer here, which is free of charge as for other sports facilities, such as the golf course, cross-country running, and tennis courts. On the top of the Shakespeare Hill is Rose Garden, in which all kinds of rose are planted. The west side of the Rose Garden is Lincoln Parkway. There is a statue of young Lincoln on the meadow next to the entrance to the park. On the right side of the road, heading south of Lincoln Parkway towards downtown Buffalo, is a well-preserved mansion belt in which the prices of houses are between $1 million and $2 million. Those luxury buildings have the stories of prosperity, wealth, and glory of Buffalo.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery was founded in December 1862. The former US President Millard Fillmore (1800–1874) was on the roster of its incorporators. It is the sixth-oldest public art institution in the United States. One of its collections could be worth tens of millions of dollars in the auction market. The existing gallery was built for the 1901 Fine Arts Pavilion of the Pan-American Exposition, but it was not completed until 1905. It is a four–season art gallery that hangs the original paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and more on the walls of the hallways for the convenience of visitors to look at. A middle-sized, quiet restaurant is placed on one side of the museum’s central, huge, transparent courtyard for the relaxation of visitors and the gathering of ladies and gentlemen.

To the west of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is Burchfield Penny Art Center, a new gallery of Buffalo State College, New York State University, which focuses on the collection of art products from western New York. Buffalo State College evolved from a teacher-training school, offering solid skills in teaching art, music, drama, literature, history, and creativity. It is also home to a variety of domestic and overseas students who major in the humanities and natural sciences.

At the midpoint between Buffalo State College and Fordhan Drive, at the northwest corner of Delaware Park, is a Japanese garden that was founded in 1962, after Buffalo and Japan’s Kanazawa became sister cities. The garden is known as Cherry Blossom Park. The park is small but exquisite, and now visitors can’t smell the air of the Pacific War between the United States and Japan eighty years ago. To the east of the Japanese garden is a statue of musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), which creates a good cultural atmosphere. At the center of the garden is a small lake. On the north shore of the lake, a splendid building stands on a flat lot. It was originally built by the Pan-American Exposition, and is now the museum of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. It is the only building that the Exposition has retained to this day since 1901, when it was New York State Pavilion.

Fictive drama: The Mirror of History

September 2013

Japanese Garden Buffalo

Eight students from Buffalo State College, who loved American history, were inspired by Shakespeare’s play festival. They were holding a rehearsal of a time-travel play The Mirror of History that imitated famous American politicians. The eight students were Mike, Jake, Kenneth, Ben, Edward, Jon, Jimmy, and John, who played the parts of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and Grand Justice of History, respectively. For the sake of simplicity, let’s replace them with the names of the people they acted. They sat randomly on a forty-five-degree hillside meadow by the small lake, with Grand Justice of History sitting on the last row—the highest place. The actor of Grand Justice of History was a master’s degree candidate who had good knowledge of US history. The most impressive part of the plot was the judgment that Grand Justice of History read before the politicians. They wanted to know their influence on US history so they were a little nervous.

Grand Justice of History read about McKinley’s contribution to the United States first. Born in 1843, McKinley was promoted from a private in the Union Army to a brevet major in The Civil War. He now stood up, and others listened respectfully and silently.

Grand Justice of History opened the notebook. He read:

During your time from March 4, 1897, to September 14, 1901, the US economy was growing rapidly. In order to push the US economy to a new peak, on September 5 and September 6, 1901, while the security official sent you the alert of risk, informed you that the security was difficult to guarantee, and gave you the case as the last year’s assassination of the king of Italy by anarchists, you insisted on attending the events for two consecutive days. Finally, you exposed yourself to the assassin, who had waited for the opportunity to get close to the front desk. You were shot in the abdomen, and sacrificed your life at the age of 58.

Grand Justice of History continued:

You imposed tariffs to protect the manufacture and the factory workers from foreign competition, and in 1900 you built the international reputation for American finance through the Gold Standard Act. In 1898 you led the US and won the Spanish–American War. You used peace talks and purchases to bring the Spanish colonies Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines into the United States, and gave Cuba independence under US military protection. You drove the Europeans out of South America and held South America under US asylum. You said We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California, and finally got Hawaii. You expanded the southern frontier of the United States and the nation’s influence on the Pacific Ocean and gave the United States a strategic geographical advantage hence become a great power. You are Peter the Great of the US. You extended the United States of