Washington Roebling

The two speeches I decided to compare and contrast are, Republican President, Ronald Reagan’s 1983 speech on the Creation of the Martin Luther King Jr., National Holiday and Democratic President Bill Clinton’s 1995 address on Race Relations. In Reagan’s speech he addressed the King family, the members of Congress and honored guests, about Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a national holiday and how racism still remains in the United States, however every Martin Luther King Day we as Americans…

A few years after the United States was founded, the Constitutional Convention met to decide how the nation would be governed. They decided that they needed a leader to govern the nation. Based on experiences, the delegates knew that they needed find someone who was not a tyrant and did not abuse their power. The delegates did not believe that the president should be chosen by popular vote. They did not contemplate that voters would be perspicacious enough to make a worthy choice in choosing the…

In the United States, the government is based off of the Constitution, which was drafted in the formation of the United States. The Constitution has many different facets that are basically requirements that eh United States government has to follow in order to give all the citizens their rights. Within the constitution, there is a system called the Electoral College, which assists in electing a President and Vice President (Patterson, 2013). The Electoral College can be disadvantageous,…

In Henry Clay’s American System, the southern states were to serve as subsides for the internal improvements in the urban areas in the northern states. Without the South, Lincoln only had the Border States, and the New England states left. The Border States were “shaky” in whose side they were going to be on, especially lukewarm, Maryland because of its diverse population. When Lincoln called for arms after the attack on Fort Sumter, Maryland revealed its conflicted soul. It had both…

I would like to share to Abraham Lincoln about pancakes because they are the best things to ever eat during morning breakfasts. Why I pick Abraham Lincoln as my person? Well he has shown a lot a democracy to the people in the northern part of the United States, for there he was a great leader of all of the people in that time era. Furthermore, I want to show Abraham this type of food because I like to eat pancakes during the morning wherever we go to eat, so showing this type of food to him…

America has been known as the world that makes dreams come true since the early 1600s. America was the New World and everyone wanted a bite of the big apple. Founded on the hopes of being a fresh start the voyage to America became great. In a sense, America is a fresh start. The variety of people that immigrated into the states was incredible. In the early 1900s, there were neighborhoods upon neighborhoods of any culture you could think of all in the small area of New York City. America was an…

Chinese immigrants started to arrive in the United States in significant numbers in the late 1840s, specifically 1848, when the California gold rush began to make headlines. People from around the globe came to California in hopes of getting rich quick, and then returning to their home countries. By 1852, California had passed a Foreign Miner’s Tax, specifically targeting the Chinese and forcing them to pay $3 a month for a license to be able to mine for gold. Chinese immigrants were in numbers…

My vision for America is to have a free and successful nation that everyone will be proud to call home, and a nation with rights and values people are proud to show and embrace. We as proud Americans should be standing up to defend our rights and our freedoms. We as Americans should be rushing out our doors to make our nation a better place for us and for our future generations. America was and still is the symbol of freedom, to us and to many other countries around the world. America is full…

Exam 2 Answer ALL of the following questions. Answers should be a minimum of 300 words each. All sources other than the textbook should be properly and fully cited. 1. Describe some of the different strategies that interest groups might employ to gain influence with policymakers. What types of interest groups choose what types of tactics, and why? In order to achieve a certain goal within the law, interest groups have to find a manner to get the government to know the issue they want to…

For the 2016 Presidential Election, there are many non-political figures competing in the presidential race such as Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Recently, current actor and semi-retired professional wrestler, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has told the public that he will be running for President in 2016. Johnson was born in Hayward, California and grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (HollowVerse). Johnson is among the few African Americans who have…