The Best Years of Our Lives

In the year of 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as our 16th President of the United States. His four year term was during the Civil War. Before he was elected President, he was a lawyer and served in the House of Representatives. However, at the time of his presidency, he was not very liked by the people. They thought he was a bad president but now many individuals view Abraham Lincoln as one of the best. President Lincoln was also against slavery which led to the Emancipation Proclamation that…

Baer met her best friend for the first time in person. They had never met before, but when they saw each other they instantly ran to each other and hugged and squealed happily. This is because for two and a half years they communicated online, on the phone, and through various social media sites. They were as close as friends that had lived next door to each other, yet the most they met was on the internet. Kyle Chayka in his op-ed for The New Republic makes an argument that in our age of…

A few years ago, my wife Diane and I packed our lives into six suitcases, Diane tucked our beloved Chihuahua, Carmine, under her arm and we set off to build a new life in a small coastal village on Ecuador's northern coast, a country we had never visited. To say we had a fair amount of fear and anxiety would be putting it lightly. As we were riding from Quito's airport high in the Andes mountains to our destination on Ecuador's northern coast about eight hours away, all the familiar fears we'd…

Twenty years ago in the year 2030, I was a middle aged women striving to be the world 's best historian. I had so many plans to give the current generation at that time the best knowledge than any of us had gotten. I gave the world a chance to see History in a new light, the real light of how History happened. My plan was to create and build a time machine for me and my college class to travel back and see History for what it really was. My Goal was to educate the future of the past so they…

can have and it can’t be taken away by anyone. Our parents are example of sacred cow because they expect us to pursue for higher education because they think it’s the only thing a young person should do immediately after they get done with college. However, most of the young people want at least a year break right after they finished college, so they can work and make money for themselves. We usually have to follow the same pattern which is created by our society, to become successful as a…

I am student at Montevallo High school and as part of our school curriculum we take a semester long government course. Within this course we break down the structure of our federal government and how certain policies can affect us. Recently I have learned of the bill H.R. 2142, also known as the Interdict Act, that deals with drug screenings at our nation's borders As a concerned citizen I urge you to pass H.R.2142. It deals with the issues of drugs being imported into the united states. With…

“What were the best and worst parts of your day?” My mom asked me and my sisters at dinner when we were kids. We always joked, “Being here with my family.” It wasn’t an acceptable answer for either part of the question. I hated that part of dinner. But for the rest of my life, past the age of five, I couldn’t even answer the question with that sarcastic response, because my whole family wouldn’t be there together again. I now, at 22, long for that nightly moment. I was 5 years old and home from…

Greece on a traveler’s road. This road is a main road to travel between Athens and Sparta and on this road two woman run into each other. They start to talk to each other and ask how each other cities and lives are. After a few seconds they start to argue about which one is better and who as the best lives. Athens woman: “Hello there, are you traveling from Sparta?” Spartan woman: “Why yes I am, what parts of Greece are you traveling from?” Athens woman: The Athenian women shouted with…

Over the years, the discipline of ethics has increasingly gained relevance. Also, the need for proper ethical conduct has become pertinent to individuals and organizations, in order to maintain a positive image and avoid lawsuits (Salehi et al, 2012). Although a new field, ethical leadership has grown in relevance over the years, with an increasing need for organizational leaders to gain trust from employees and stakeholders (Monahan, 2012). Also, major organizational failures, such as Enron,…

their fellow man was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. During his first years in office Johnson obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative programs ever before in the Nation's history. Great Society programs sought to eliminate poverty and racial injustice. During a speech describing his domestic agenda and vision for a better America in May of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stated "We are going to assemble the best thought and broadest knowledge from all over the world to…