Knute Rockne

CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois. He was the son of Jack and Nelle Reagan and the younger brother of Neil Reagan. During Ronald’s childhood, his father drank often, and their income soon became unsteady. On the other hand, Jack was adamantly against racism and religious intolerance. He was also a supporter of the Democratic party. Meanwhile, Nelle attempted to involve both of her sons in her church’s activities such as religious…

The Big Idea: Reagan is considered today as the greatest president of all time. Pop culture consistently calls Reagan as the most influential president of all time. But why? Was it his charisma? His system of Reaganomics? His assassination? His quick response to international relations? His memorable phrases? Or was the media that bloated him up? An Era before Reagan: The era of F.D.R, JFK, Harry Truman, and LBJ has ended. In this drastic era of America, forgotten presidents Gerald Ford and…

My journey with literacy has been a part of my life and began before I even entered school. During my early days you would say I was a “repeater”. I repeated things that I would hear from my parents and people that were around me all the time. Some of them were good to say and some not so good to say. My parents always sat down and read to me. While growing up as well my parents worked a lot so my grandparents basically raised me by watching me in the morning and taking me to two by two,…

spent the majority of his life as a B-movie actor in Hollywood. Though he began as an A-lister working in motion pictures, Reagan’s acting career never took off, and so he instead auditioned for supporting roles in smaller motion pictures like Knute Rockne, All American(1940) and Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). During this time Reagan was twice-elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, where he assumed the responsibility of weeding out communist subversives from the Hollywood film industry. Later…