W. H. Auden

As our 40th president, Reagan was someone to look up to. Conservatisms began to take hold and republicans began to be the majority in the government. Many people had renewed hope in President Reagan and his policies he promised to enact during his campaign for presidency in 1980. President Reagan was known for many things including the way he stood up against the Iranian/American hostage crisis under the Carter administration and most importantly his economic policy. The President’s economic…

The grandson of immigrants who were coal miners, and is a prodigy politician who talked his way into a meeting with President Nixon at only eighteen years old, John Kasich is the emblem for a true American president. He has spent over two decades in congress writing bills that helped Ohio have a balanced budget, which hadn’t happened since 1997. Through his sheer dedication of being a better man, he also wrote two best seller novels and lived an adventurous life when he was kicked out of a…

A cowboy at heart, and a God fearing man describes Ronald Reagan. Even though he went through a lot in his life, Reagan ended up being famous in more than one way. The 40th President of the United States is what he’s well known for. However, being a President was not the only thing he did in his life. In his early twenties, he was a movie actor, staring in at least 14 movies. Later in life, he became the Governor of California. Through this all, he remained a valuable man, and always tried to do…

Using his success from radio, Reagan transitioned into acting. After being offered a contract from Warner Brothers, he quit his job as a sports announcer. An agent he met in Hollywood obtained him a screening which led to the $200-a-week contract offer from the studio. As Degregorio says, “He had by this time decided to use radio as a stepping-stone to an acting career, despite advice from fellow announcer Hugh Hipple that he just did not have what it takes to make it in show business” (639).…

Some of our deepest secrets correlate with our wrongest doings. We hide the truth with the hope of either keeping ourselves from trouble or protecting someone from the truth. We make these decisions out of spite or personal pleasure not considering its long term effects. We believe that the truth won 't come out and we will succeed in getting away with it. It is not usually the fact that we lied that makes us upset but the fact that we got caught. Secrets are not exclusive to a certain age or…

Throughout history we have had 44 presidencies that spanned back to the early days of our nation. Each president, know for there great triumphs or terrible failures, has a place in the past that will never be forgotten. Of course some stand out more than others, especially a man named Ronald Reagan. Recent polls show show Ronald Reagan is now rated as one of the best presidents ever, better than Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. He, in himself, is the essence of the American…

Since his service in office, Ronald Reagan has been known to be one of the few presidents that is still glorified today. According to the ABC News Poll, taken in February 16-20, 2000, out of 1,012 adults Reagan was ranked fifth. He was ranked above George Washington and below Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a president I think some of his best leadership characteristics shown while in office were his public persuasion, moral authority, and economic management. Even with his good approval ratings…

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, also known as L. Ron Hubbard was an author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. Scientology is a religion based off of a fiction piece of work, Dianetics. Dianetics describes a program of self improvement and spiritual awakening and continues to be the Scientology bible. The church currently has over seven hundred churches, missions and groups, and Dianetics still sells over four hundred thousand copies a year. As a result of L. Ron Hubbard’s determination,…

1979 President Carter was on the decline and his approbation rating was not looking good. It was Election time and Future president Ronald Regan asked a question to the Americans that was visually examining the debate as it was shown on TV “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” An astronomical majority of the voters in America verbally expressed No and elected President Regan by 10 points in the popular vote. The term was engendered in 1979 during a time in which the Coalesced States…

Rick Perlstein Nixonland takes us back to the 1960’s and 1970’s in America, during the time of Richard Nixon. Through times of riots happening in Los Angeles which were the Watts riots to America being divided within. Richard Nixon did not have an easy life with family hardships, and the death of two brothers it was not easy for Nixon. At school Nixon was a very good at debating which he became the Debate Team president, and the only way to his father’s attention which Perlstein wrote “the…