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    report is on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd . Franklin Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York in his family home on January 30th 1882. HIs parents were James and Sara Roosevelt. During his childhood, Franklin Roosevelt spent a great deal of time on his family ranch. In his childhood, he was educated by private tutors and learned how to handles horses. In his teenage years, he received a formal education from a Massachusetts prep by the name of Groton. Franklin Roosevelt married his fifth…

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt also was known as FDR was as the best president getting America out of the Great Depression. Also, the only president to have four terms being the 32nd president. He Was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis at the time, but his symptoms are more consistent with Guillain–Barré syndrome. When Roosevelt ran for president in 1932, it wasn’t his first appearance on a presidential ticket. In 1920, he ran for vice president on the…

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    moment in the world and had a huge impact on the growth and development in America. This era created people that bought into the changes that were taking place known as progressives. Several pioneers for progressivism was former president Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Winslow Taylor, George Washington Carver, Jane Addams, and many more. These influential individuals aimed at making America better by adapting to the changes out of the new lives that progressivism was creating. Progressivism…

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    it can almost remake itself (Roosevelt, Foreword).” This is a very accurate quote from the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt that describes herself personally. Everything she did, she did full-heartedly, devotedly that she remade how the position of First Lady should be. She was remembered as not only the wife of the 32nd president of the United States, but also as a fiercely loyal activist, a fair spokeswoman, and the kind-hearted First Lady of the World. Eleanor Roosevelt was a marvel piece at a…

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    for oneself. Eleanor Roosevelt is an example of the American Dream. She redefined the position of the first lady, helped to create the Declaration of Human Rights, and leads as an example for all women. Roosevelt portrays the American Dream because she overcame hardship in her youth and achieved success through her hard work and determination while serving as a first lady and, afterwards, when serving as a leader at the United Nations. Although Eleanor Roosevelt's family had money, it does…

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    Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York, New York. Her parents were Anna Hall and Elliott Roosevelt. At a young age Eleanor mother and father died. She lived with her grandparents then went to boarding school at age fifteen. When she returned, she married her distant cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt. She had six children Anna, James, Franklin Jr., Elliott, the second Franklin Jr., and John. The first Franklin Jr., died of the flu at the age of seven months. Eleanor Roosevelt…

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    the facility to the Red Cross and the Wilson Administration’s Interior Secretary, the conditions of the hospital improved greatly (“First Lady Biography: Eleanor Roosevelt” 1). After FDR was elected New York’s governor, Eleanor became more and more independent, traveling across the country, inspecting state facilities, and becoming politically active. Segregation between Caucasians and African Americans was an issue in the country and one of the many causes that Eleanor dedicated her time to…

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    Theodore Roosevelt had a rough start in his early life in his hometown of Manhattan, New York City in October 27, 1858. Theodore looked up to Theodore Sr. and Martha “Mittie” Roosevelt his parents. Roosevelt’s parents were very wealthy, Theodore Sr. was a businessman and philanthropist. Martha was a Southerner, she grew up in George on a farm. Roosevelt grew up surrounded by the love of his parents and siblings he looked up to his whole family. He was a very sick child he suffered from asthma.…

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    Changing The Name of Leadership “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” Eleanor Roosevelt once said. Growing up in a harsh life full of loss at only the age of 10, both her mother and father had died. Eleanor had nothing. What really opened her eyes to the real world, was when she was sent to England to go to an all girl’s school. The headmistress at the school, Mademoiselle Marie Souvestre, took Eleanor…

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    Roosevelt. The situation during his presidency was somewhat different, though. This was not a time of economic growth for anyone in the United States. This was a time of unprecedented economic depression. When Roosevelt was elected in 1932, one out of every four Americans was unemployed (Tindall and Shi, p. 1100). He was burdened with the responsibility of…

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