Essays on Theodore Roosevelt

1. Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” is one of the most-loved picture books of all time. It also won such accolades as the Caldecott Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, but it is also on the New York Public Library’s list of “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing.”

Of all the elements of design that Giorgis lists in her discussion of picture book design, line is the one that stands out most vividly. When Max is sent to bed without supper, even when his room becomes a jungle, the closely packed group of Continue reading...

"No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," this is according to Alan Brinkley in his outstanding biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States of America. The presidency of Franklin Roosevelt was marked with several ups and down during the early years. It is mainly because he assumed office at a time when the U.S. was undergoing through the Great Depression, one of the worst if not the worst financial crises ever to face our country. Roosevelt started his political career in 1910 after being elected in Continue reading...

In December 7th, 1941There were attacks on the Pearl Harbor base in Hawai’i by the Japanese. At the time of the attacks, the numbers of soldiers in the base were minimal since some had closed whereas others were on weekend leaves. The incoming Japanese planes that attacked the naval base were detected, but were mistaken to a group of American planes that were expected to arrive in the naval base from the mainland. These attacks were survived and took about two hours, and the reason that made them have a big impact is the fact that it had Continue reading...

Introduction

In times of civil strife, leaders of nations, of religious groups, or military forces have addressed the public in such authoritative way through their powerful speeches. In some remarkable cases, their words served as catalysts to action and a result of it; reform (Crespo 2007). My research will be based on specific rhetoric devices used in wartime speeches, and one speech from the Pope.
This research topic is very significant in that it tries to bring out clearly the role of the war speeches; how they have been used in the past and the resultant reactions that followed. In Continue reading...

Edmund Morris is best renowned as a biographies’ writer; especially for writing the biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, the United States’ Presidents. He acquired his early tutoring in Kenya. Afterwards, he went to South Africa to attend the Rhodes University. Later, he moved to London and became an advertising copywriter. In 1968, he migrated to the USA. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” is a classic non-fiction historical account of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris and stands out as one of the best biographies of the contemporary times. In 1980, the mentioned biography won the Pulitzer Prize and Continue reading...

The 1912 United States of America presidential elections can be termed as the most progressive in America's political history. This election attracted frontrunners, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt who both demonstrated Progressive philosophies. Woodrow Wilson can be compared to Theodore Roosevelt in terms of policies. Progressive era, where citizens were the center of focus was the primary policy of these two leaders. Both of them formulated strong foreign policies with Roosevelt building a national park and a strong navy. Wilson tried not to overexert his authority over businesses and unions as opposed to Roosevelt who was bold by his Continue reading...

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The Presidential election conducted in 1912 was one of the most competitive in the history of United States. President Theodore Roosevelt had failed to clinch the Republican nomination and formed the Progressive party .The new party was nicknamed Bull Moose Party by the American Electorate. Republican Party, with the support of the conservative wing nominated William Howard to be their flag bearer in the incoming presidential elections. William Jennings supported Woodrow Wilson and managed to get the Democratic Party nomination. The Two significant front runners, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson espoused progressive philosophies. However, their policies differed in theory.
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History stands witness, even today to the fact that that The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis to have ever hit the nations of the world. Nearly all the countries across the world bore the brunt of this economic crisis and were left to fend for themselves without the support of one another. There are varied timings of the origin of the Depression all over the world that fall in the 1930s to the 1940s. America however, was the worst victim of this recession as the Depression basically originated Continue reading...

American History through the Concepts of Civic and Racial Nationalism

Being a New York City police commissioner and assistant secretary to the navy in 1890s, Theodore used his powers to mastermind the war between America and Spain over the insurrection in Cuba. He was so occupied with the fight until he resigned his position and raised a volunteer cavalry regiment, the Rough Riders. Theodore led the rough Riders to Cuba, and it’s through his tireless efforts that the troop emerged victorious on a decider battle. He then returned to America and became the US’s president in 1901. As a president, Roosevelt helped the US to heal the Continue reading...

Introduction

Great Depression was the most serious economic crisis in the inter-war world. Almost all European countries and the USA suffered from economic problems that couldn't be solved by traditional means. The best way to overcome the crisis was proposed by the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt was an excellent politician. He knew how to listen and to reconcile enemies, and besides that he was an optimist by nature. Actually, he didn't have any premeditated targeted programs and his policies often consisted of the series of improvisations. A brilliant orator, he was among the first ones to use a Continue reading...

Bourne defines “transnational America” as a country that is a mix of cultures and people and that America would be able to become a “transnational nation” and have connecting cultural links with all the other countries. Bourne believes a “transnational America” is more desirable than a culturally homogenized America because he believes that immigrants won’t assimilate easily to another culture. Since they won’t assimilate easily, he argues that the US should accommodate the immigrant cultures instead of forcing them to assimilate (Bourne, 44). Bourne's view on nationality is related to the connection between a person and their Continue reading...

Fundamental principles of decision-making and management

The process of decision making is fundamental in any organization. This is more so for those in management positions who have to ensure that they solve issues and plan for the future in order to achieve the organization goals and objectives. The decision making process is fundamental and provides foundation to organization management teams. There are many principles that guide mangers when they are making crucial decisions in regards to the organization. One of the principles of decision making and management is assigning priorities. In an organization not everything has the same importance. It is, therefore, crucial to prioritize Continue reading...

In 1904, President Roosevelt in his annual note to the Congress announced that the Unites States would act as the “policeman” in the Caribbean. This reaction was the result or countermeasure by the President for the interference by the Europeans in the Caribbean affairs. This was also called the Roosevelt Corollary to the previous Monroe Doctrine. In 1902, the Monroe Doctrine was issued when German, British and Italian gunboats obstructed the Venezuelan ports as the government of Venezuela had not paid their foreign debts. The Monroe Doctrine was brought to life prevent these sort of European distortion and interference Continue reading...

Compare and Contrast the Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and F. D. Roosevelt

Introduction

Throughout history, there have been many notable speeches given by leaders of various causes and political parties. These speeches are meant to convey a message to the listeners about the goals and ideas that the speaker seeks to accomplish while in a leadership role. As different significant events may have been taking place at that time in history, the speeches are given for different reasons. The leaders that gave the speeches employ some of the same tactics. Additionally, their methods of speaking to their listeners Continue reading...

English

When the depression hit, Franklin D. Roosevelt took immediate action by introducing a number of counter measures that helped to save the economy, and to give it the needed momentum for further development. Franklin D. Roosevelt came up with a Bank Holiday, which was effective in stopping large and small of collapsing, therefore, rescuing people’s savings in banks that was the cornerstone of the economy. After easing the situation with banks, FDR identified the major flaws that the American economic system was suffering from at that time, issues that made the Stock Market crash, and banks fail, and Continue reading...

President Roosevelt was considered as a moderate who often too pragmatic approach to reforms. It is argued, however, that Roosevelt’s search for answers about the Great Depression was not very successful. What underlie his attitude was his willingness and attitude to experiment with proposals that seemed feasible. He undertook a persistent and bold experimentation because he was certain on how to cure the Great depression. To him, the free market was the malaise of Great Depression.
The experimentation and pragmatism approach that was used by Roosevelt was not successful in dealing with the Great Depression. This is despite Continue reading...

African-Independent political party movements can be understood in the context of the two-party system era. This is demonstrated by the theory of black electoral participation by Ronald Walter. According to Walter, there are two broad strategies that characterized the nature of African-American participation. These are: dependent leverage; this refers to paternal relationship between the Republican Party and the black political elites after the end of the Reconstruction period. Despite the fact that the Republicans retreated from promoting black policy interests, African-Americans still remained loyal to the party. This was due to lack of viable alternative and easy access to Continue reading...

Franklin Roosevelt approach to the Great Depression dubbed, as the New Deal was effective. The New Deal comprised of domestic programs that were aimed at offering relief to the poor and unemployed, reforming the American financial system and recovery of the economy. All these efforts were made possible through Roosevelt determination and political influence. Roosevelt was renowned for his hands-on approach as compared to his predecessors who took up a laissez-fare approach in the management of the economy. The Roosevelt administration initiated five policies that resuscitated the American economy.
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Was Roosevelt’s Approach to the Great Depression Successful?

Franklin D. Roosevelt beat Hoover in the 1932 election for president at a time when the nation was amid economic turmoil. He promulgated massive amounts of legislation in order to remedy this problem and bring the country back to economic stability. He instituted such programs as the Civilian Conservations Corps, the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act. Furthermore, he created the National Recover Administration and the Public Works Administration. Another things that Roosevelt did to try to lessen the effect of the Great Depression is to put money in the hands of the needy and try Continue reading...

FDR – Advocate of the American People

In his seminal essay, David M Kennedy speaks about Franklin Roosevelt’s politician’s sensibility which he brought to the White House. According to his press secretary Theodore Joslin, Roosevelt had an incredible memory especially of localized politics and the officials who populated several far flung counties across the whole United States. Kennedy also compared Roosevelt with Hoover with the latter having a mathematician’s taste for things while Roosevelt was much more the consummate politician in every way.
Kennedy’s essay focuses on several important elements which revealed Roosevelt’s unique personality especially the Cermak incident where the Continue reading...

Women have been at the forefront in advocating for women rights in particular and human rights in general. We examine a few figures in history. Betty Friedan founded the National Organization for Women(NOW) and the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL).She argued that the decision to abort or not should be left entirely to the woman and acting in the affirmative should not be labelled criminal. She advocated for better education, employment and opportunities for women even in the political arena through the National Women's Political Caucus (Blau, 10). Margaret Sanger founded the American Continue reading...

President Herbert Hoover was born from a relatively humble Midwestern family in Iowa. His father was a blacksmith. As an administrator, Herbert Hoover considered himself progressive. His ideas were encapsulated in what was called the “new era” politics. His premise was on American individualism that argued for less regulation from the government. Hoover had a sterling reputation having been a successful an entrepreneur. The crash of the stock market of 1929 happened after a series of tough financial times. The fall of real estate prices, the reduction in demands of American produce declined due to recovering European manufacturing industries. Continue reading...

The Pearl Harbor on the West Coast was attacked by the Japanese militant on December 7th, 1941. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president on the United States during the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese (Roosevelt, 1995, p.20). As a result, the president of United States had to give a statement concerning the attack of the American land and strategies to counter the attack on Pearl Harbor. This paper will discuss how Roosevelt used moving words that played an effective role in propelling the US to declare war on Japanese empire. Firstly, the paper will discuss the role of Continue reading...

Discussion 1

The New Deal refers to measures aimed at achieving a steady economic recovery, providing relief for the poor and unemployed, and reforming the financial institutions. These measures were taken by President Roosevelt in his first term in office. The significance of the introduction of the New Deal during President Franklin Roosevelt’s first term in office to constitutionalism in the United States cannot be gainsaid. However, during the mid-1930s, there was a major disagreement between the constitutional aspects regarding the New Deal and the Supreme Court (Strout, 1933). As a result of the disagreement the ‘Court Packing Plan’ emerged Continue reading...

Book Review: Destiny of the Republic

Candice, Millard. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President. New York: Random House, 2011.

Introduction

In both her books that she has written about American presidents, Candice Millard has concentrated on historical events that other authors have largely overlooked. Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic, follows her superb first book, River of Doubt (2005). She conduct the same interesting research to the life and assassination of Garfield, the same way she did to Theodore Roosevelt’s exploration of more than a thousand unknown and potentially lethal river miles in Brazil. Candice Continue reading...

Renewable energy pertains to energy that is continually replenished no matter how much of it is used as energy resource. Examples of renewable energy are sunlight, rain, wind, waves, and geothermal heat. Among these, the sun is the best source of renewable energy considering that there is never a shortage of it despite advanced technologies' dependence on solar energy. It is also good for the environment unlike other traditional energy sources. Using solar energy, locations that depend on solar energy save a lot on electricity costs as they generate power through natural means. One of these areas is the Continue reading...

Which presidential leader ever made effective usage of the mass media as Franklin Roosevelt? Organized through fireside chats, Roosevelt made effective means of pioneering his policies regarding the New Deal (Foner, 879). Being, the only American president who served for 12 years, the life, and influence of FDR is critical in the history and development of America. Therefore, many leaders who face major challenges have a way of facing their crises openly. From the analogies of Roosevelt, it emerges that he set a track for many leaders who came after his tenure in office.
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial, also known as the Shrine of Democracy, is a sculpture of the heads of four presidents of the United States: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson. The sculptor Gutzon Borglum supervised the carving of the four faces into a peak of a mountain located in South Dakota’s Black Hills (CyArk, 2013). Originally, the sculpture was to depict the presidents from the waist up but Congress decided to find the sculpture complete with the finished faces after the death of Borglum in 1941, followed by a refusal to continue funding due to Continue reading...

One of the most basic American history trivia questions would have to be who is the only president to in this history of this nation to be selected for service for nearly 16 years. The answer is Franklin Delano Roosevelt who is best known for steering the United States through two tremendous crises, World War II and the Great Depression. A multitude of historians and/or scholars have examined every aspect of Roosevelt’s life, views, and political decisions. While many consider him to be a staunch liberal as a result of his expansion of the role of the federal Continue reading...

Theodore Roosevelt was born in famous and wealthy family in New York City on October 27, 1858, He was to be the second oldest of four children.
Since childhood, the future president didn’t show up by the great health and suffered from asthma. In late 1860 and early 1870 Roosevelt family made a trip to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. His primary education he received at home. Theodor was taught by his parents and tutors. He was brilliant in geography, history and good in biology.
In 1876 Theodore Roosevelt entered Harvard University, and in 1880 graduated. He Continue reading...

Part A

United State was initially very reluctant to join the World War 1 as it was aware of the consequences it would have on the economy and to the many Americans who had emigrated to various parts. However, it reached to some point when it was decided that America had to join. The first reason in this case was because of a decline in business and commercial activities. This is because many countries in Europe were commercial partners and hence their participation in the war resulted into economic downturn of the country (Murphy, 2004).
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Progressivism is a reform movement that arose in the late 19th century and ran through the first decades of the early 20th century. Proponents of progressivism sought to address social, political and economic reforms. This was necessitated by the need to address the changes brought upon by industrial revolution and capitalism. There was also the need to prohibit child labor and create better conditions at home and at work. Among the first proponents of the progressive movement were Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (frontrunners of the 1912 US presidential election). Both men were fortunate enough to serve as the Continue reading...

Arguably, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the most know women leader in the world. Leadership in woman's career was a difficult task to undertake, but the wife of Franklin Roosevelt was an exception. Driven by her personal character, philosophies, and tremendous leadership skill, she became one of the influential individual with re-known leadership skills. Eleanor Roosevelt was born in the year 1884 in New York City. In her entire life, Eleanor Roosevelt was a courageous leader who could always stand on her philosophies, as well as being in the forefront in helping does who needed her help. In fact, Continue reading...

Arguably, the Great Depression was the worst international crisis in the 20th century. This crisis began in America following the decline in the value of the capital market. This was on the fourth day of September, 1929; a day that later came to be referred to as the black Tuesday. During the great depression, many political leaders held different ideas on the way out of the appalling economic situation (Boezi, 2005). The need for an economically pragmatic leader saw Franklin Roosevelt elected to power. The leader, whose election was a sign of relief, had many philosophies relating to the Continue reading...

The Alienist by Caleb Carr is one of the most imperative works, not only of the author, but also in American History. It portrays the initial rough days of America. The novel basically presents the take of the author on the violence and grotesqueness which was then a common part of New York streets. A series of murders take place in the novel, description of which is heart wrenching. Moore along with Roosevelt and other young police officers try to find the serial killer without involving other government officials because they are aware of their lack of interest.
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Throughout history, there has been a tendency to view minorities differently, with politicians perhaps viewing these differences as a threat to territorial integrity or political unity. As such, most governments normally take swift action to eliminate any differences that might exist amongst any minorities and majorities. These differences usually come about due to objective markers of identity, such as language, religion, race or even socioeconomic status, as these may bring about distinctions between minorities and others (Wippmann 598).
In Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s radio address to Congress, we see the initial stages of an evolving quest to ensure the Continue reading...

The United States attempted to maintain neutrality initially during World War II. There were two main reasons that this was done: business and politics. The United States was recovering from the Great Depression and was finding ways to make money from countries during the war. President Roosevelt was running for reelection.

Germany was dependent on oil from outside of its own borders and the borders of countries that it controlled. Before Germany controlled Rumania, oil was seen being carted on tanker cars for Germany with the words American Essolube and German – American Oil Company on the side. This is Continue reading...

American historians have long agreed with Eric Rauchway’s central thesis that the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 was a fortuitous event that opened the door to the Progressive Era of the next two decades. Theodore Roosevelt and other Progressives used this assassination by a self-described anarchist immigrant named Leon Czolgosz as a warning that the American political and economic system had to be reformed and become more equitable for the working class or revolution would be inevitable. Roosevelt did “set himself the task of implementing radical changes for conservative purposes", by which he meant that the conditions Continue reading...

In 1961 W.R. Schilling published the article “The H-bomb Decision: How to Decide without Actually Choosing.” That was eleven years after the initial decision by President Harry Truman to explore the possibility of building a thermonuclear bomb. (Schilling 44) Schilling researched the decision to build a hydrogen bomb and concluded that the least that could be decided was decided was decided by Truman (24). His article explains the reasons he reached this conclusion. M. J. Sherwin (1973) published a different view twelve years after Schilling in an article titled “The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War: Continue reading...