Ronald Reagan

job and it will satisfy my interests in art. If I am proficient or higher, I will already have skills to make it in my career. But, art is just one of my interests that I have for the future. In the next 5-8 years, I see myself hopefully going Ronald Reagan High School because they have rigorous arts and academic programs. In high school, I will study all kinds of arts, like visual arts and performing arts. Once I graduate from high school,…

Presidents, as determined by historians and the American populus alike, one cannot claim that either is the lesser of the other, for they had far too great an impact upon the history books to ever be indicted as inferior by any means. To compare Ronald Reagan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt means to celebrate their tremendous tributes to American society and history. These men both steered America through her most dire straits with the strong hands of a seasoned captain comfortably at the helm of…

Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. He served two terms for a total of 8 years. In those years he overcame many things. He passed many surprising and impressive bills and laws. He ended the Cold War and confronted the War on Illegal Drugs head on. But, during his first 4 years in office, he was almost assassinated by a delusional man by the name of, John Hinckley. The Jodie Foster fanatic planned the attack for many months, and during those months his thoughts became…

30th, 1981. On this day, Reagan delivered a luncheon address to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. This hotel is know to be the safest in Washington because it has a guarded passageway called the “President’s Walk” that was built following the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. As he was waved to the gathering crowd outside the hotel, Reagan walked in around 1:45…

different effects on different people. John Hinckley, Jr., an oddball even in his own family, attempted to assassinate the President Ronald Reagan in 1982, with a crazy motive and a shocking outcome because of his obsession. Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on May 29, 1955, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. became infamous for his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan (John) in 1981. His family was nearly perfect with his parents,…

On March 30, 1981 at approximately 2:25 pm a mentally deranged man named John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. John Hinckley Jr. was born May 29, 1955. He was 25 years old when he attempted the assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley had developed an obsession for an actress Jodie Foster. When he viewed the movie Taxi Driver a 1976 movie by Martin Scorsese’s, which was about a woman who tries to convince a taxi driver to assassinate the president in…

President Ronald Reagan was leaving the hotel in Washington D.C. and John Hinckley was crouched in the bushes waiting for the perfect time for the president to come his way. From the bushes, Hinckley yelled ‘President Reagan, President Reagan’. The president turned in the general direction where the sound was coming from and suddenly six shots were fired. The first shot hit James Brady, the second bullet hit the policeman Thomas Delahanty, the third bullet missed the president and ricocheted…

One of the biggest advocates of protecting the second amendment is the National Rifle Association. The Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyist in the United States reports that the NRA consists of over 3 million members nationwide (pg. 532) The NRA was founded in 1871 with the purpose of training the National Guard to be sharpshooters as well teaching its other members how to shoot (pg. 532). The first president of the organization was one of the Civil War Generals of the Union, Ambrose…

FAMILY BACKGROUND: Ronald Secor or ‘Ron’ as he prefers to be called was born September 1st, 1944, in Binghamton NY. Ron was born to Robert Secor and Laura (Beck) Secor. Robert worked for IBM throughout Ron’s life. Ronald described his father as a caring person with a great sense of humor, but also strict when it came to parenting. Laura was a homemaker, and spent her life raising Ron and his two siblings. Laura was described as the head of the household or “the boss of the clan”, she liked…

In the process, the 62-year-old journalist has been called ''Rambo Rowan'' and the ''Jacuzzi Vigilante'' by some of his critics, while others have lampooned him with posters and placards. He has received a stream of hate calls and letters. He has also become embroiled in a vitriolic public feud with city officials, especially Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr., over whether he should have been charged with a gun violation and whether the city secretly offered him leniency on condition that he stop…