Theodore Kaczynski

Theodore Roosevelt What makes a president a great leader? First off, the President leads the United States by making choices that keep our nation together. Many people look up to the president and hope that he or she will do the right thing. While the president has a bulk of work to do, they still try to do what is right. One well-known President was Theodore Roosevelt. We will travel through his life as a young boy until he was president. First, President Roosevelt had a life unlike others.…

Since the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, the United States had been unable to escape war, despite its best efforts. One of the most significant wars in United States history is the First World War (WWI). WWI was a pivotal event for the United States as well as for all of the countries involved. Like most wars, the origins of this war are unclear and complex. However,Germany and the United States each had an exact reason for joining WWI. For Germany, the assassination of Archduke Franz…

Civilization Badge Session One 2016-2017 Signatures: MS:___________________________________ MS:___________________________________ LP/Guide:_______________________________ Badge Requirements Earning a Civilization Badge For each Civilization Badge: Lead at least one Socratic Civilization Discussion where your group agrees you were well prepared and submit the Launch, Socratic Questions and Close you prepared. For each discussion you don't lead: Post your answers to the research question plus…

The American dream led the country to believe that every citizen could achieve prosperity if they had the initiative and determination. America’s amber waves of grain and cherry trees drew enticed others to come to America. A man named Dennis Daley came over to America at age seventeen. He came because he wanted a better life than he had in Ireland. He has $15.00 in his pocket and that was it. He landed in Boston and every sign discouraged the Irish from applying. The Irish did not have a good…

A Change in Economy A Political Scientist, Cas Mudde wrote, "Many observers have noted that populism is inherent to representative democracy; after all, do populists not juxtapose the pure people against the corrupt elite?" In the late 1800s, at the time of the Gilded Age – an era of economic growth and development -- monopolies dominated the economy, and the wealthy controlled the working class. Subsequently, due to the advanced technology and brilliant inventions that overtook manpower, and…

From the beginning of the poem, one can already sense that this poem seems dark since the poem introduced the father as drunk, as the line clearly goes like this: “The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy.” The father might have had too much to drink to make the little boy say, “it could make a small boy dizzy.” Then the word, “death”, is seen in the third line of the first stanza, and the line goes, “But I hung on like death.” I could imagine that the father might have lifted the…

The building of the Panama Canal was overseen by Theodore Roosevelt who was president at the time. This was a goal that the United States was reaching at for a long time. This was a trans-isthmian canal that would later help in the transportation of materials across the coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific. In the mid nineteenth century, the United States and Great Britain began to discuss a Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to that would rival a proposed canal through the Central American Republic of…

The Progressivism started in the nineteenth century, more specifically in 1900 to 1920 the was a reform movement complex and fascinating political movement. Its goal was a greater democracy, honest, efficient and active government making more justice for the society and regulating the business. The purpose of the government was to expand the power so government can play more positive role in the society and its principal role was to use the government as an agency of human welfare. The…

One Muckraker’s Societal Influence: The Movement of Federal Food Regulation Issued in the United States Upton Sinclair, once said due to public recognition of his 1904 novel, The Jungle “I aimed for the public's heart, and by accident I hit the stomach instead”. A socialist, and muckraker railed for public outcry of labor equity. He launched a consumer movement through the midst of a harsh stockyard strike from unfairly payed wage workers, socialist writer Upton Sinclair visited Chicago’s…

Theodore Roosevelt lead the United States as president during the Progressive Era (1890-1920). It was an important time for the country in which goals were to refine political and social life of Americans. Roosevelt seemed to have really cared about the citizens of the United States, and worked hard to have a relationship with the people in order to improve the nation. He had a drive to not only society but also government. He is considered a good president because he worked hard for the…