In his essay "The Strenuous Life," 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt challenged Americans from all walks of life to attempt to accomplish great things while redefining their gravitas and sense of purpose as Americans. Roosevelt stressed the importance of reinforcing ideals of greatness through action and warned against the perils of a life of "mere easy peace" that was becoming all the more apparent in the modern age. Roosevelt preached a doctrine he had spent his whole life embodying and hoped his fellow Americans would adopt- he called this way of life: The "Strenuous Life." Roosevelt brought about a resistance movement against modernism and "over civilization" at the end of the twentieth century. The protest against
