Herbert Hoover

When reading about president Coolidge’s life, there was one particular detail and recurring theme that I empathized with: Coolidge’s dedication to the public and his selflessness in pursuing his dreams. Coolidge made it a priority of his to chase after his goals not for vanity, but to improve himself in his capacity to serve others. He was a man who improved himself to serve the public, not a man who simply ruled the public to serve himself. One especially poignant example of this struck me on…

President Herbert Clark Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States of America. He was born August 10, 1874. Herbert Hoover died at the age of 90 on October 20, 1964. Hoover was the middle child. Hoover only did one term as president, Herbert served from March 4, 1929 to March 4, 1933. ”("What Were President Herbert Clark Hoover Accomplishments?" What Were President Herbert Clark Hoover Accomplishments? N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.) Hoover took office in 1929 that…

The Hoover Dam was an engineering marvel of its time period. This project was one of the largest construction projects ever attempted in the U. S. history. The original purpose of the dam was for irrigation, water supply, flood control, and hydroelectric production. The dam project was interesting to study because of the history involved, the construction phase, and the different benefits to the country. During the early 1900’s, the U.S. bureau of Reclamation wanted to find a way to help…

How did Franklin D. Roosevelt repair the problems that Herbert Hoover put the US in? Herbert Hoover was elected on March 4, 1929 and his 4 year team ended March 4, 1933. When it was time for him to leave office he had got the US into a time known as the Great Depression (1929-1939). The Great Depression was caused by the stock market crash in October 1929. Franklin Delano Roosevelt known as FDR was elected March 4, 1933 on April 12, 1945 he had passed away from Intracerebral Hemorrhage.…

Subsequently in 1919, Hoover was named Chief of the General Intelligence Division, the General Intelligence Division would later become a part of the Bureau of Investigation, and in 1921, Hoover would be promoted Assistant Director of the Bureau of Investigation (Early Years With The Department Of Justice.) In 1924, Attorney General promoted Hoover to Director of the Bureau of Investigation. Hoover accepted to be Director on the conditions that the Bureau must be divorced from politics, and…

Engineering Feat: Hoover Dam One of the largest dams in the world, the hoover dam provides hydroelectric power thanks to the Colorado River and forms Lake Mead. This dam was completed in 1935 and has the world’s largest reservoir of water. This dam is an engineering feat due to its ability to control the Colorado River’s flooding problem, contain such high quantities of water, and provides water and electricity to Los Angeles and Southern California. This project also resulted in a new kind of…

the entire world. Back then, the Hoover Dam was the largest structure of its time, standing seven-hundred and twenty-six feet tall with, “Enough concrete to build a road from New York to San Francisco,” (National Park Service 1). Due to its unprecedented size and the minute section of time spent to build it, this structure claimed numerous lives; despite that, this project offered 21,000 people the chance to avoid unemployment during the Great Depression. The Hoover Dam offered irrigation, some…

Everybody has different strengths and imperfections that make them unique. Some traits that make me unique are my cooperation and independence, the fact that I can be very demanding, my athleticism and my impatience. A lot of people may have some qualities in common, but everybody is their own unique individual. Throughout your life you will start developing and/or losing different qualities that will alter who you are as a person. There are also some qualities that you have as a child that will…

The culture industry argument, established by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, is a critique of mass media, which refers to the industrialization of culture, where the masses are not the only source of mass culture; capitalism serves the masses, and treats them like commodities for their own benefit (McAnany & Wilkinson, 1996). Adorno and Horkheimer chose to call it culture industry, rather than mass media, because they believed that in mass media, masses had some influence upon the creation…

After reading the chapter “Project Classroom Makeover”, readers may have spotted that expert knowledge and collective knowledge, as well as crowd sourcing, were mentioned in the story, and more importantly, were being labeled as two completely different forms of knowledge acquisition that are in constant battle with each other. In fact, Cathy Davidson, the author of the story, stated how “crowd sourcing is suspicious of expertise, because the more expert we are, the more likely we are to be…