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In 1980 Republican candidate Ronald Reagan assumed the highest office in government, that of the presidency, defeating incumbent president Jimmy Carter in a decisive victory that saw him win in forty-four of the nation’s fifty states. Reagan secured 51% of the popular vote, and 489 electoral votes, making it abundantly clear that the populist New Right movement that propelled his ascension in politics would usher in a new age of conservatism for the troubled nation. Reagan’s victory in the…

The 1980’s would forever go down in history as the decade America would find its self-identity. While economists and historians will show that it was the decade of great overspending and excess, America would find itself as the decade for American entertainment. movies, music, introduction to video games all being run by an actor out of Hollywood know as President Ronald Reagan. Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union or the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev would take the head of the office in the Soviet Union.…

Jimmy Carter was a very influential person in the history of united states of America and especially in the state of Georgia. His story is very inspiring, how he came from a small place in Georgia to eventually became the 39th president of the United States of America. He worked very hard to get where he is today. Jimmy carter was born October 1, 1924, 7:00 am in Plains, Georgia. He was the first president to ever be born in a hospital, five feet, 9 1/2 inches tall, Blue eyes, Light brown…

really had antithesis nor were there any opposites because, for example Ocean and Island are not opposite but I do believe he had contrasting ideas. As per “Martin Luther King I Have a Dream Speech” (2001), he says “One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity” this compelling sentence is only a mixture of poverty and…

Kobe Dawson Period 3 Defining the Period Project 2 Describe Richard M. Nixon's leadership in the normalization of relations with China and the policy of détente? To keep relations with China, during which many of the people in the United States knew China was a communist country, Nixon sought to speak with the national leader of the country to have good relations. In order to reach his goal, he sent Secretary of State Kissinger to China. “Kissinger flew secretly to China” (Forner 1028). This…

Music has been around since the dawn of time. It has gone through many changes. "The whole idea of music from the beginning of time was for people to be happy." Quoted by Robert Plant lead singer of Led Zeppelin, who was one of the first to introduce the world to heavy rock. When Robert Plant was a teenager he was obsessed with rawest blues and always wished for for the painly whiny blues voice and ended up getting something more. Robert Plant began his early life in West Bramwich,…

The second issue was the American economy. On assuming office in 1977, President Carter inherited an economy that was slowly emerging from a recession and stagflation, this being the worst economic climate since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Carter had a stance that high inflation was the main culprit of a stagnant economy. Even though the President was a Democrat, he took this opportunity to introduce conservative policies such as tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulated truck and airplane…

Background Information David Berkowitz was born on June 1, 1953 as Richard David Falco. Berkowitz’s parents were Betty Broder and Joseph Kleinman. Betty Broder was married to Tony Falco at the time the baby was born. When Tony Falco abandoned her, she had an affair with Joseph Kleinman. Becoming pregnant shortly after, Betty Broder was told by Tony Falco to get rid of the baby. She did not and she even listed Tony Falco as the father. Shortly after the birth, Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz adopted…

Introduction Abortion is a highly controversial topic; people say that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances, some say only under certain circumstances, and others say it should be legal no matter what. Abortion should be legal under certain circumstances, yet banned under others. People should have the right to decide what they want to do with their body. However, with abortion, it is not your body. It is the life of someone else that is inside the female body. An argument is that…

When parents are divorced, most of the times, the child can choose whom he/she can live with. Jasira, the character of the book Towelhead, has divorced parents. At first, she lived with her mother in Syracuse, and then later, she is sent to live with her father in Houston, after her mother get jealous of her own daughter. Her life with her mother though is very different for Jasira than life with her father, but both of them have a different way to punish her, they didn’t help her when she got…