Donner Party

13. Conduct research on Gary Webb’s death. Based on the information you were able to find; do you feel as if his death should have been ruled a suicide? Explain your answer. Based on the research I conducted on Gary Webb’s death, I think that his death should be ruled as a suicide. The reason Gary Webb’s death should be ruled a suicide because he died from a single shot to the head. The incident took place on December 9, 2004, when the U.S. Press was at the lowest, having recently helped and…

The Jacksonian Democrats, also commonly referred to as the Democrats, were a party of President Jackson’s supporters founded in 1824. They arose as a party to oppose President John Q. Adams, who at the time had no opposition. Later in the 1836, the Whig party emerged to counter the Democrats. They were a diverse party that united in their hatred for Democrats. Although these parties seemed to be at opposite ends of the spectrum, they had their similarities as well. A big issue in the…

David Brooks begins his satirical op-editorial “Fly the Partisan Skies” by classifying two different political parties; liberalism and conservative into two imaginative airlines; Liberal Air and Right wing express as a analogy. Throughout his editorial he utilizes a mocking tone and exaggerates the partisans stereotypes in order to ridicule their beliefs, and silliness. He mentions that in a Liberal Air flight it “will take off 45 minutes late, or whenever people feel like leaving” mocking the…

The Great Depression was a time period of hunger, sorrow, and death. It began with the Stock Market Crash of 1929 when President Herbert Hoover as president. Hoover was elected after campaigning and promising prosperity. However, he failed to deliver to the people what he had promised. He tried to keep the country from falling into the Depression by keeping the government separate from the economy which only helped the country fall into the Depression in the first place. When Hoover’s term was…

He was overseer of the design, regulations and the policies of the concentration camps. Himmler chose members of the SS that was a political offshoot of the Nazi Party to enforce his policies and guard the inmates in the concentration camps. These guards were ruthless in their treatment of the prisoners as they were not your average soldier, but hard core Nazis and veteran military. The mentality of the SS was that…

Polk became the nation’s first “dark horse” candidate in 1844 when he was nominated for the Democratic Party (History). The main political party at the time that rivaled the Democrats was the Whig Party and their nomination for president was Henry Clay. The Whigs used the slogan “Who is James K. Polk?” because he was not well known (Freidel). Polk supported the annexation of Texas and wanted to negotiate…

Jon Lovett is a 31-year-old speechwriter, screenwriter, producer and comedian. Lovett was born in New York and now resides in California. In 2004 he received a Math degree from Williams College. Lovett’s career began not long after graduation as he started to do comedy. Around this time, he also became Chief speech writer to Hilary Clinton and continued this until 2008. At this point, he became speechwriter for Obama, which lasted for three years. With his humorous background, he was able to…

The former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, delivered a thoughtful eulogy to honor her close friend and former United States President, Ronald Reagan, to the American people on June 11, 2004. She honors Ronald Reagan’s legacy in her speech by attesting to his character as a leader, friend, and an American. Thatcher accomplishes this through parallelism, anaphora and juxtaposition. She also creates a fluctuating tone through her contrasting diction of playfulness and…

Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a very emotional speech regarding an event that changed history. He was a remarkable speaker during his 12 years of being a president. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech about Pearl Harbor will go down in history considering it was a time that people will never forget. An incident that killed many and scared the lives of American citizens. To truly understand this speech I researched information about Franklin D. Roosevelt, analyzed the context and state my point of…

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was written by Frank Capra in 1939. The film conveys a classic political message about the corruption of politics during the gilded age. A young Midwestern man named Smith is voted into a Senate seat where he tried to pass a bill for a boy’s camp. Incidentally the location of the camp was in the same location the other Senator from his state, Senator Paine, wanted to build a dam. The issue over the land caused an argument to ensue between the two Senators. The…