Ronald Wilson Reagan was a man that was good to his country. Ronald Reagan had a very successful life. He was the 40th president of the United States (1981-1989). He was an actor for 30 years before he became involved with politics and starred in more than 50 movies. Reagan was born on February 6, ...
"Calder's Playful Genius" From reading the article "Calder's Playful Genius" it is easy to say that for all 78 years of his life Alexander Calder loved art. Calder enjoyed the fact that people were intrigued by his work. It seemed no matter what he did, his devotion to art made people happy. ...
Who was compelled and carried out the killing of former President John F. Kennedy? Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone, or was there more than one person involved in the assassination? Although there have been many theories, I believe that the tragic murder of Kennedy was a conspiracy that not onl...
"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America-the chance to lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization."1 These were words spoken by Richard Milho...
Martha Washington 1731-1802 George Washington's wife was the first to be given the title "lady" by the press, as in "Lady Washington," and the first wife of a president to appear on U.S. postage stamp. Abigail Adams 1744-1818 John Adams' wife urged her husband to "remember the ladies" when he w...
In the world we live in today, unity of all races is encouraged and talked about frequently on news channels, at family dinner tables, and even classroom full of high school students. What isn't talked about as often as this, unfortunately, is the individual rights that members of the Lesbian Gay Bi...
What is affirmative action? Affirmative action is defined as a tool to monitor the consequences of employment practices. Affirmative action analyses determine whether employment practices result in a diverse applicant pool. The following quote by the former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert R...
INTRODUCTION/THESIS North Vietnam's capture of Saigon ended of the Vietnam War. The war began to slowly come to an end following U.S. and North Vietnamese officials in Paris 1972. A document titled "An Agreement Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam" ended U.S. direct involvement and ...
Early Life Richard Milhous Nixon grew up in Yorba, California the son of Quakers Frank and Hannah Nixon. During Nixon's childhood in Yorba, the family was always on the edge of poverty. The Lemon Grove was unfruitful, and there was little money for anything beyond food and clothing for the growing f...
Imagine you're at work. You know your daughter is getting off the bus just about this time. The thought of something bad happening to her never even crosses your mind--this is the same routine every day. However, a man is sitting in her closet. He knows what time you leave for work in the morning. H...
Richard M. Nixon journey to the White House began in a small, musty corner in Southern California called Yorba Linda. He was born there on January 9th, 1913, the second of five sons of Frank Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon. The Nixon's were Scot-Irish and the Milhous's of Irish English decent were members of the Quakers. His parents named him Richard after the Richard the Lionhearted. ...
JFK ASSASSINATION THEORIES There are dozens of so-called conspiracy theories that people believe. In this report I will compare and contrast three of the theories that conflict with the official Warren Commission account of the assassination. First, we look at the Warren Commission findings ...
Justice Anthony Kennedy Anthony McLeod Kennedy was born on July 23, 1936 in Sacramento, California. The second of his parent's three children, Kennedy grew up in the quietly conservative rural central California region. Growing up, Sacramento represented a quiet, hardworking and family and fai...
James Earl Carter, Jr., who was more commonly known as Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States. He served one term as president for the Democratic Party from 1977-1981, but there is much more to his life than just his presidency. Jimmy Carter was born on October 1st, 1924 in Plains...
Conspiracy Forty years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was slain in Dallas, Texas. Within hours the government had arrested their man, Lee Harvey Oswald, and there was no doubt he was guilty; he was convicted immediately in the court of public opinion. For decades after the ...
Federal funding for stem cell research has been in debate in Congress since 1995, when the annual appropriation bills put a ban on the use of federal funding for experimentation of human embryos. Nuclear transplantations are creating cloned human embryos not to make a zygote but using it for a s...
Ronald Reagan and the Rise of Religious and Secular Conservative Politics in America 1960-1980 1960 and it's subsequent decades proved to be a remarkable time for the world in general, but very specifically for America. The first Roman Catholic president was elected; the birth control pill was introduced, and we confronted the question of nuclear war. We also saw the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement and the Women's Rights Movement as we learned first-hand and up close and personal about civil disobedience and political assassinations. ...
This essay discusses many important events of US history from the 70s to the present day THIS TOOK ME FOREVER TO RESEARCH AND THEN WRITE, ENJOY! OHH AND IT WAS AN A+ 70s The Watergate incident was named after the office complex it took place in. Which at the time was the Democratic Party's ca...
The framers of the U.S. Constitution created a presidency of limited powers. It is also important to remember that when they created the office of the presidency, they did so without any model to go by. When the framers met in Philadelphia in 1787 to "revise the Articles of Confederation" and ended up creating an entirely new constitution, in no country in the world was there a democratically selected chief executive. What the framers of the U.S. ...
A Ronald Reagan Timeline 1911, February 6 Ronald Wilson Reagan Was born in Tampico, Illinois 1912 Acquired nickname of Dutch 1928 Graduated from Dixon high school 1932 Graduated Eureka College 1932 Hired as a Sportscaster for a radio station WOC in Davenport, Iowa 1937 Traveled to ...
Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States In assessing what is good in a president, one must look at that president's ability to properly govern its citizens and country and in the manner in which he does it. Richard Milhouse Nixon had it within his grasp to be the greatest post-World War II president, he was extremely intelligent, had a driving ambition, and was a political consummate. However, Nixon's coercive traits and dubious political tactics leave little faith in his legitimacy. In many respects Richard Nixon was a good president, and undoubtedly h...
