Essays on Fireside

This paper will look at the similarities and differences in the Presidencies of Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt became President during a trying time for America. The Great Depression was in full swing caused by the fact that Wall Street and the banks had collapsed causing millions of people or about 25 percent of the population. to be without jobs or financial security (Miller). When Roosevelt came into office he put together an economic package known as the New Deal in order to help alleviate the crisis and get men back to work. Almost seventy years later in ...

The presidential powers have considerably extended since the time when the Founding fathers framed the Constitution of the United States. At that time, the thirteen colonies that formed a newly established state were afraid of a strong executive leadership. They feared that if a president were entitled by the Constitution to have extended powers, he would have misused or abused these powers, governed by self-interests, rather than the interests of the nation. This skepticism toward strong leadership resulted from the experience that the founders had when dealing with the English monarch (The Declaration of Independence, 1776). In order to ...

Born on November 19, 1909 in Vienna, Peter Drucker was well known for his writings in the field of economics earning the moniker “the man who invented management” from no less than the Business Week. Drucker was born in a family of intellectuals that normally played host to renowned personalities in the field of economics, politics, music, and science. Drucker considered this background his first education. He went on to study admiralty law in the 1920s and had to move to Germany in the process. He enrolled at Hamburg University and later on at Frankfurt University. He also worked ...