Henry Kravis

It all began with me, a young boy searching the internet for my first truck. All of my friends were starting to get the cars and I still hadn’t found the perfect one. My father told me that it was time for me to start looking at what I wanted to drive. I was looking and there it was I thought in my head. A 1967 Chevy truck. I bolted out of my room to show my father what I had found. He said that it looks like a nice well built truck and that we could go look at it. We made the drive to Tulsa…

During the 1970s, President Richard Nixon was beginning his run for re-election when a burglary took place at the Watergate Building in 1972, which ultimately changed things forever; it lead to the first resignation of a United States president, and changed American politics. Journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began writing about the case which changed the way people trusted their American government, as well as the way they viewed the President(All the President’s Men). The system of…

The radio was invented in 1913, Edwin Armstrong is an american engineer that invented a special circuit that transmitted voices from one place to another. The radio was important because it spread information across the nation to let people know what was going on with the current day world. The radio also played jazz music and children would dance and sometimes parents would too, some old people did like the radio because of it “killing the children”. The radio brought cultural and social…

Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and born in 1863. He found an apprentice job as a machinist at the Michigan Car Company in Detroit after leaving his home at the age of 16. Ford had a determination to enhance on his prototype. Thus, he sold the Quadricycle that he built in 1896 so he could persist building other vehicles (History 2016). He joined up with a group that founds the Detroit Automobile Company in 1899. However, he left the company after 3 years as his partner keen to…

Henry Ford Essay Henry Ford was a prodigious inventor and mechanic. He was born on the 30th of July, 1863, on his family farm near the Wayne County in Dearborn, Michigan. He revolutionised the car industry forever by making the assembly line that is still in use today. He also made one of the most dominant and impressive car company of all time. Along with all the cars he designed and created he also made a city in the Amazon! Henry Ford perfectly demonstrated the quality of leadership and…

Maxwell Straus APUSH Period 2 May 20, 2015 How did the Watergate Scandal and other major events impact the already diminishing views of United States Citizens towards the government during the 1960’s and 70’s? United States History is filled with scandal and misconduct. From the corrupt bargain, in 1824, where Andrew Jackson was cheated out of winning president, to the Iran-Contra Affair, where weapons were sold secretly for the release of U.S. hostages. The biggest scandal in United States…

Many amazing things happened during the industrial revolution, but one of my favorite things that happened was the invention of the Model T and eventually the Model A. The inventor that made these things was Henry Ford. When he was a kid he used to take apart watches, to find how they worked then put them back together, when he was 13 he was a watch repairman. But he didn't want to stop there, when his mom died he left the farm he lived at, he said that he never liked farm work, just the mom…

Richard Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974 due to the crimes that took place during Watergate and his presidency. Nixon’s public appearance appealed to many, promoting anti-communism and his military background gained him the support of America, but Nixon led a different life filled with subterfuge and trickery. The events unraveled at Watergate opened the minds of Americans revealing what was truly happening behind the scenes in contrast to how a president is perceived in public.…

20th Century, there were 8,000 cars in the US and 25,000 worldwide. By 1985 there were more than 375 million cars worldwide (“car”). One company that changed the way of car production was The Ford Motor Company. The owner of this company was named Henry Ford. He was born on July 30, 1863, and died on April 7, 1947, (Gelderman). Ford came up with an idea where he would just make one car model called the Model T so he could mass produce cars. He did this so that he would use the same types of…

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel about the Joad family living in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the era of the Great Depression. They were driven off their land and decided to travel to California in search of jobs, land, and a better future. However, California was not what they expected it to be. Throughout the novel, there were many struggles for the Joads but Ma Joad was the most resilient and strongest character in the story. In the novel, the narrator describes Ma as the backbone of the…