Presidents of the United States

Nancy Reagan Nancy Reagan was one of our country's most important first ladies. She was married to the 40th president , Ronald Reagan. During her time as first lady, from 1981 to 1989, she had a great impact on the United States. Nancy dedicated much of her time to helping charities and organizations. However, before she became the first lady she had a successful career of her own. Nancy was born in New York city on July 6, 1921 to parents Edith and Ken Robbins. She was a…

Elibhe “Elly” Francis-Thrift (formally the superhero Jammer) is super strong when she’s in pain, which makes her a C-lister by necessity. Despite being too vulnerable at the start of a fight to wade in, Elly never gives up, which is probably the attribute that’s got her into the most trouble at the start of Starfall. At 29, freshly widowed, Elly just became the prime suspect in her husband’s brutal murder. Running from arrest doesn’t help much, but how else is she going to clear her name when…

Adly Templeton The president of the United States is widely considered the most powerful person on the planet. Even so, a simple reading of the constitution does not give the president any extraordinary formal powers: Alexander Hamilton remarked that the constitution made it" difficult to determine whether [the president possesses] more or less power than the Governor of New York." While Congress derives the majority of its authority from the power of the purse, and the Supreme Court exercises…

Own Monet When I had been in first grade, my class was granted the opportunity to write the President at the time, Bill Clinton. I was a fortunate student. Only I had received a letter along with a framed autographed photo of him and First Lady Hillary Clinton. The letter together with the photo made me ecstatic. I became reclusive from a young age, and this letter helped to boost my esteem. The President wrote to me! Little did I realize that I would soon see him announce to the American people…

disaster and everyone was poor, starving and struggling due to the fact of the United States not having any backup plan causing our economy to completely shattered into pieces. The economy…

Each state in America has a number of electors equal to the amount of senators and representatives who are currently in Congress. In each state, the popular vote is used to nominate electors. The winning candidate is decided if he or she accumulates 270 majority votes in the Electoral College (Riscalla). If not, the House of…

Problems continued to grow for Garvey starting in 1919 when on October 14 he was shot in an assassination attempt in Harlem, New York. In addition internal critiques within the UNIA of Garvey began to arise noting his intolerance of dissent, poor management skills, and ineptitude in directing the organization's finances which he had increasingly used to support his own lifestyle. Even his first marriage to journalist Amy Ashwood (1897-1969) during this period was short lived and ended in…

In this new age, who is really at fault of America 's obesity problem? Many blame the fast food industries, but the full blame isn 't just on the consumers. As self reliant people that have full control over ourselves, the blame is as equal as the industries. In the last few decades the public 's food portions have been growing, companies making money off of it. Meanwhile the consumers health depleting because of it, without knowing the true harm. With no reaction to the unhealthy eating style…

Nixonland is defiantly a must read for those who are seeking to know more about our 37th president, Richard Nixon, and how his presidency really drove a steak between the liberals and conservatives, at which gave the stereotypes that we use in politics today. Throughout the book, Pearlstein uses Richard Nixon as a viewing lens, through which we, as a reader view the time period. Nixonland is much more than just about Nixon, he played such a huge role in shaping how one, debates in current times…

The economic policies of Ronald Reagan became knows as Reaganomics. Reaganomics was composed of three key elements. His first policy was to cut taxes by 25% over a three-year period. His argument was that these tax cuts would create new investment while increasing federal revenues, which would "trickle down" to the lower classes by creating more jobs. This reasoning was known as the supply-side economics. The second component of Reaganomics was to cut social programs, like welfare, food stamps,…