Debbie Harry

bomb was dropped, but it still remains that the main reason given to the public was to end the war. However, the US used this opportunity to initiate a sense of power over the Soviet Union in order to discourage the spread of communism. President Harry Truman spoke of this bombing at the White House to inform the American public of his reasoning for this atomic bomb, and how it will be known for much more than “the size of the enterprise, it’s secrecy, [or] its cost.”. The immense amount of…

General George C. Marshall was born December 31, 1880 and passed away October 16, 1959. General Marshall played a huge role in United States History. During General Marshall’s lifetime the United States was being reformed and military power and strength become key components to be a successful free country. The United States was building their military power to become the strongest country in the world and General Marshall helped the United States get there. These changes in the United…

great depression of the 1930’s, and broken by a six year world war. Most of the hospitals in the U.S. were crumbling and becoming obsolete, and large portions of the nation’s counties were without access to healthcare. During this time President Harry Truman wanted to go the way of other industrialized nations and offer universal health coverage for the American people. At the time it was deemed too costly, so legislators were looking for other options to improve our lagging system, and as…

Throughout history there has always been a defining pop-culture moment or moments. Billy Joel’s song and video “We Didn’t Start the Fire” encapsulates the events starting at the end of the 1940’s through the 1980’s. The chorus, “We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning since the world’s been turning. We didn’t start the fire. No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it.” (Joel) sets the premise of the video. The lyrics in the song are rapid fire historical moments while the video…

The Election of 1948 and the twenty years that followed were the years that saw the beginning of political polling on a wide scale, and how wrong it can be. Each election has its own unique characteristics, but the presidential elections of 1948 and 1960 will be looked at in detail, along with a general overview of the methods, usage of polling results, and the failure of the polls. Each election year mentioned had their own peculiarity in one or more of the general overview topics and will be…

I find many of the beliefs expressed in Mein Kampf to be rather disturbing. Somehow, through some pseudoscience, Hitler came to believe that people could be measured by their race, by their blood, and that the German people were the best; the highest form of humans. The arrogance apparent in this belief alone boggles my mind, never mind the entitlement present in his belief that this inherent “superiority” entitled the German people to more land. It is bad enough to view one people as ethnically…

In this essay I will be analyzing Richard Nixon’s use of ethos, pathos and logos in his Checkers Speech part 2. Nixon’s goal in this speech is a campaign for former President Dwight Eisenhower. By establishing credibility, getting people to become emotionally involved with election and stating clear facts Nixon helps aid Eisenhower into the White House. Using ethos, pathos and logos, Nixon is able to successfully persuade the public through credibility, emotion, and logic to ultimately get…

A major economic challenge facing America today would be is welfare system. Welfare was first made the job of the government during the Great Depression but ever since then, it has become a mismanaged economic burden in need of reform. One example of these welfare programs is Social Security, costing America 888 billion dollars a year and scheduled to use up its reserves by the year 2034, according to the Social Security Administration itself (United States. Board of Trustees…). Another program,…

Sam Rayburn Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, also known as Sam Rayburn, was an American politician born January 6, 1882. He was born in Kingston, Tennessee. Later, Sam and his family moved to Flag Spring, Texas, were they lived on a 40 acre cotton farm. Sam worked the farm with both his parents, William and Martha Rayburn, and his 10 siblings. Sam graduated from East Texas Normal College, now Texas A&M University-Commerce. He taught school for some time until he was elected as a representative in the…

“The date which will live in infamy,” December 7, 1941, was everything that Franklin D. Roosevelt feared during his vision in 1937, during the Japanese invasion of Manchurian China. Roosevelt recognized that the rise and militarization of air power made the world much smaller. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had been an adequate protective zone for much of the United States’ history, but that was rapidly changing. Similarly, the rapid change in Europe towards totalitarian governments gave…