Richard Linklater

Although his early career was prosperous, Reagan’s political career helped him change the world. Reagan turned from movies to politics in 1964, when he helped Barry Goldwater run for president (Ritter and Henry 12). After helping Goldwater, many conservatives influenced Reagan to run for governor of California (Orr 35). In 1966, Reagan ran against Edmund Brown for governor of California (Banks 200) and won (Sidey 143). Regan’s fame and training from Hollywood helped him win the election for…

President Richard Nixon left office with dull presidential approval ratings. The decades since haven’t really helped restore his public image. But Nixon started his presidency with strong approval ratings, with a comfortable majority approving of his performance. That early strength, continue at least through the end of 1970, means that his average average across his whole presidency wasn’t that bad compared to other post-World War II presidents. It wasn’t great, either, but Jimmy Carter, Harry…

In 1972, Republican President Richard Nixon was running for reelection and United Stated remained divided internally regarding the involvement of the Vietnam War. The political climate was under the gun with the public, therefore the presidential campaign and some of the key advisers used aggressive tactic, turned out to be illegal espionage, to help re-elect the president. This was known has the Watergate scandal ("Watergate Scandal"). On June 17, 1972, five members of Nixon’s Committee…

Paragraph 1. Race car driver Dale Earnhardt won a record-tying seven NASCAR championships. He died after crashing during the final lap of the Daytona 500 in 2001. 1 2 Dale Earnhardt born on April 29, 1951. He was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Brenda Lorraine Gee are his parents. Dale died on February 18, 2001. The location he died in was Daytona Beach Florida. How he died is when he was racing on his last lap of Daytona 500 he lost control of his car…

Calvin is a very wise man. Very friendly and was a great president to others. Calvin had two sons named John Coolidge and Calvin Coolidge jr. He had acceded the presidency after the death of Warren Harding. He was then the 30th president of the United States of America. Coolidge was in the office from 1923-1929. On July 4, 1872 in Plymouth, Vermont a little boy named Calvin Coolidge. As a little boy Calvin attended in Plymouth Elementary. He graduated in 1895 at Amherst college.He went to…

Social/Economic Impacts: • While others were fighting in the war there were a lot of anti-war movements around the country that caused a great separation within American society. • Hundreds of thousands of young people became part of a large nonviolent, diverse and developing popular culture of war resistance group. • employing tactics ranging from comical street theater to industrial sabotage. Students, government officials, labor unions, church groups and middle class family increasingly…

Political Impact John F. Kennedy, who stood tall with Ngo Dinh Diem in defending Vietnam proved to be the first snowball in the great avalanche that was the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson had to inherit the decisions of the previous administrations and ideologies when it comes to containing the spread of communism with the ever escalating war in Vietnam and popularity of it rapidly decreasing due to factors like Tet and the unpopular draft Lyndon B. Johnson chose not to accept the Democratic…

On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson delivered his “First Inaugural Address” in front of a few thousand citizens in Washington, D.C. Jefferson talks about how thankful he is that he got elected president and how he thinks the government should be like. He gave 13 principles that the government should follow to make a good government. One hundred and sixty years later, President John F. Kennedy gave his “First Inaugural Address” in front of thousands of citizens, but also addressed the world.…

On a small island in the caribbean. There is a man. A man that is evil in every way. His prey is others. His name is General Zaroff. Welcome to ship trap island. The title to this awakening story is “The Most Dangerous Game” By Richard Connell. The other character , the main character is Sanger Rainsford. He is brave and filled with immense amounts of courage and skill. He is honest and full of integrity, He is a very skilled hunter also. This story is about the feud between two professional…

From the 1970s 56 players were inducted into the Hall of Fame for baseball but there are hundreds inductees from all sports that came from the 1970s. The 1970s was a great time for many athletes in their playing days. The 1970s, made it hard for athletes to play due to the press, sports have accommodated many great athletes, and many things that influenced the decade like basketball, football and boxing. In the 1970s, it was harder for people of great athletic ability to play sports due to the…