Richard Branson

The role of a leader is an incredibly vital and often challenging job. With leadership comes the responsibility to set an example for followers, provide direction for the masses, and work with fellow leaders improve current situations. However, with the task of leadership also comes the unfortunate matter involving the misuse of power. Too often in history individuals have used said power to turn against those they were meant to protect. While there is a substantial time gap between the two,…

One Nation Under God Growing up in a Christian household, I was raised in believing that the United States and God went together. Even throughout all my schooling up until college I blindly participated in the pledge of allegiance, national anthem and other ceremonies that connected the country to god. I never questioned where my belief came from and for that matter where all of this nation’s god association came from. Being actively interested in history I knew that the pledge wasn’t always…

"JFK", "John Kennedy", and "Jack Kennedy" redirect here. For other uses, see JFK (disambiguation), John Kennedy (disambiguation), and Jack Kennedy (disambiguation). John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy, White House color photo portrait.jpg 35th President of the United States In office January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson Preceded by Dwight D. Eisenhower Succeeded by Lyndon B. Johnson United States Senator from Massachusetts In office January 3, 1953 – December 22,…

The Daredevil Reporter “Very well,...start the man, and I’ll start the same day for some other newspaper.”(Around The World In 72 Days, 1) That is what reporter Nellie Bly said when she was informed she had to have a male chaperone to travel. At one time, she was the best-known journalist in the world. Unfortunately, history has forgotten this star reporter. Bly changes the world with her bold reporting style, and introduced ideas of a woman being in the news. She also fought against “yellow…

On February 3, 1968, William J. Jorden, a staff member of the National Security Council, called the enemy’s offensive America’s “worst intelligence failure of the war.” U.S. intelligence analysts failed to understand their adversary because they focused on only two aspects of their opponent’s strategy: the Vietnamese application of people’s war, which relied heavily on the ideas articulated by Lin Piao and Mao Tse-tung; and the military aspects-especially military operations involving…

Kings argument makes a good case for the publics attraction to this essay why we crave horror movies. The essay tells why people like going to the theaters and spending money to watch a scary movie. It tells how people sometimes can try to show how brave they are and how some people can also just want to be a kid and just enjoy those kind of movies. Steven king also tells few names of his favorite horror movies. People always come across those who try to show off that they are not afraid of…

What makes a good president ? A good president is a person who cares about his citizens, is a good leader, and introduces new programs to help his citizens and the person who exhibited all of this was John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, At noon on November 22,1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. He was just riding on a motorcade through Dealey Plaza and then he died for something that happened. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was unjust because he was a good leader for the United…

The Vietnam war was a 19-year long battle that took place in North and South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. To Harry G. Summer, the conflict had the 18th century stylistic fighting and war strategy so many causalities of Men, Women and Children. And to Michael Hennessy the vietnam war was a strategic war that started peaceful and ended as not so peaceful. I find myself wondering what the advantage of the Vietnam war was to america. Our two Historians , as well as others, will help us find the…

the wiretap of the phone in his office. Referring to executive privilege, Nixon refused to release the tapes and instead told them to use the already publish white-house transcript. On July 24 1974, the Supreme Court decided in United States v. Richard M Nixon that executive privilege did not apply to the Watergate tapes. The Supreme Court ordered Nixon to give all the tapes to Jaworski. The House Judiciary Committee recommended that the full House vote to impeach Nixon for contempt of Congress…

In the mural of "Going to the Olympics, 1984" by Frank Romero, it shows drawings of five cars especially all different colors and it seems that the picture can be referring to the beach, near the cars there are trees and hearts drawn. It also shows on the background a horse, a blimp, two man wrestling and an iron. The cars and the trees can possibly mean life in LA especially at the beach. The background doesn't really have any meaning or at least any obvious meanings and the placements doesn't…