Essays on Theodore Roosevelt

Heated hose pipes are the pipes that offer constant water supply in freezing temperatures. Mostly, they are built and designed to fit personal equipment, structure and requirements. Mainly, they are made up of thermostat switches. As temperature approaches freezing zones, the heat from the heaters keeps the water flowing if need arises. Mainly, the heating element used is copper wire. It’s mainly inside the hose pipeline. It mainly regulates the water flow by turning on and off the heater. The element is usually 50 feet long as it runs with the hose pipe. The length and diameter plays Continue reading...

The New Deal was basically a series of programs that then then Democratic president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt enacted between 1933 and 1936 to alleviate the financial and to a greater extent, the economic suffering that had struck the United States as well as other foreign countries. This phenomenon is known today as the Great Depression. The New Deal was the president’s response to the allegedly ineffective economic recovery approach that his predecessor, former president Herbert Hoover implemented.
The New Deal approach was meant to fix the economy from the ground up by making programs that 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...

Polio: An American Story is a scholarly book written by David Oshinsky, a historian from the University of Texas, examines American medical research in the 20th century where there was Polio epidemic. Poliomyelitis is a dreadful disease that has claimed a lot of lives before the discovery of a vaccine. Though children are considered to be more prone to getting the disease, adults could also be infected with polio. This means that no one was excluded from attaining an infection despite their age, gender, or class. Oshinsky writes, “Polio hit tidy and stable neighborhoods harder than the areas marked Continue reading...

1 .What lessons, if any, can be learned by comparing and contrasting Hoover and Roosevelt’s differing approaches to combating the Great Depression?
The Great Depression is remembered as the worst economic slump that has ever hit the industrialized world. The Great Depression was experienced during the presidency of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. Their approaches towards the crisis were similar and dissimilar in a number of ways. Both the presidents utilized government resources more than any other previous US presidents in a bid to resurrect the struggling economy. Americans insists that Hoover was less committed to save the Continue reading...

Dr. Seuss emerged as a staunch opponent of isolationism in America in the late 1930s as well as early 1940s. He saw inaction in United Sates to German as well as Japanese expansion as appeasement and cowardice. While the world was in a war, America had isolated itself and just sat to look the other countries fight. Dr. Seuss felt the weakness and thought that Americans were leaving their victims exposed to Japanese and Nazi brutality. Again, just before the Pearl Harbor attack, Seuss used to depict isolationists together with appeasers as lazy, cowardly and unintelligent.

First Cartoon by Dr. Seuss

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Impact of Technology on the Military

Impact of Technology on the Military
The American civil war was fought from 1861 to 1865 in many different locations around the USA. Approximately, six hundred thousand soldiers died in the war. In that war between the Union and confederacy, it was the union states that won the battle. The secession of the southern states was due to the differences in ideologies between the slave and free states (Lovelace, 1997). The major forms of weapons used during the American civil war were smoothbore cannons, rifled cannons; crude forms of grenades, and ironclads were also used for naval battles.
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The Second World War has been regarded as the Good War for many reasons, and many have defended the participation of the United States in it as morally and rationally justified. This justification is based on the belief that Germany and Japan were threatening the power balance of the world and would have posed an impending danger to America and the rest of the free world if they were not stopped.
The book was written in 1972, in a time where the United States had waged many other wars, and the public had started to question the stand taken 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...

American Foreign Policy on the Cold War and Modern Russia

History has long portrayed the United States and Russian Federation (or the former Soviet Union) as bitter rivals since the time of the Great Wars and the onset of the Cold War. Both became the leader of the West and the East as the world’s superpowers in the Cold War, with one becoming the de-facto leader of the international community and the other becoming a silent entity in the European region. For years, both countries remained in conflict in several aspects within the international arena and in the side of the United States, their foreign policy had indicated 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...

Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan was a program of assistance to Europe after the Second World War. Nominated in 1947 by the American Secretary of State George C. Marshall and came into effect in April 1948. In the implementation of the plan involved 17 European countries, including West Germany. The Marshall Plan helped to establish the post-war peace in Western Europe. The aim was to restore the U.S. military destroyed the European economy, the elimination of trade barriers, the modernization of European industry and the development of Europe as a whole.
The Marshall Plan was launched on 4 April 1948, when Continue reading...

A Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy.
A Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy.
U.S. foreign policy is directed by the need for homeland security and defense. It also seeks to protect its national interests overseas. Non-intervention in global affairs, while maximizing U.S. interests had been the constant factor in U.S. Foreign policy ever since the country’s birth. The United States interacted with foreign countries like France and Spain to counter the British, whom it distrusted for a long time after independence. Foreign relations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were also limited to expansion on Continue reading...

Impact of Technology on the Military

The American civil war was fought from 1861 to 1865 in many different locations around the USA. Approximately, six hundred thousand soldiers died in the war. In that war between the Union and confederacy, it was the union states that won the battle. The secession of the southern states was due to the differences in ideologies between the slave and free states. The major forms of weapons used during the American civil war were smoothbore cannons, rifled cannons; crude forms of grenades and ironclads were also used for naval battles.
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Introduction

American healthcare sector has seen significant changes for past few decades. Psychological innovations brought modifications and improvements to American healthcare sector. Obama care is a dream project of US president Obama that was introduced on 23rd march 2010. Obama care is the popular name of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that was signed by the US president to provide high quality health services at an affordable cost to Americans. Obama Care got a mixed response from Americans across the United States of America. A large number of uninsured people welcomed Obama care, but the same was also criticized 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...

Since the early civilizations, man has desired to establish his dominance to the world and find alternative means to improve living and sustain progress. The struggle to progress had been difficult and marred with conflict and mortalities despite the advent of technology and international politics. However, progress cannot be attained without consequences as several nations are now experiencing cases of extreme poverty and hunger, mortality and inequality even in developed Many proposals have been given by world leaders, especially on the issue of poverty, hunger, and child mortality, but none had been extensive as compared to the United Nations Continue reading...

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Terry Cooper’s, Integrating Ethics with Organizational Norms and Structures, and Louis Gawthrop’s, A Vision of the Common Good, offer illuminating discussion on the moral and ethical premise that need to inform the public worker’s mindset. The nexus in the two authors’ arguments lies in their recommendation that the public administrator ought to pursue the common good of the citizenry. It is this line of thought that is captured by Gawthrop’s coverage of the energized governance system adopted upon the election of Roosevelt to the presidency. Indeed, what pervaded the public administration at that point in Continue reading...

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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The Second World War happened in the year 1939 up to 1945. Its primary cause was Poland and Britain decided to declare war on Germany since Germany had invaded Poland. It led to many countries participating in it. For instance, America, Spain, japan, Italy, Britain Germany among many more. This war had diverse effects on different continents and many countries of the world. Here we shall discuss the effects it had on America. Both positive and adverse impacts. First we shall consider the positive effects the Second World War had on America. One of the positive impacts that this Continue reading...

Healthcare

Background
While the right to life, happiness and the pursuit of liberty are enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the concept of a ‘right to health’ has proven evocative and also divisive in the national discourse over the past three centuries. A mix of pragmatism, opportunism and pressure from special action groups has dogged the issue.
A yellow fever epidemic in 1793 forced the American government to evacuate from Philadelphia. In response, George Washington came up with the first federal health law, proposing powers for the Executive to convene the government outside the capital in the event of an Continue reading...

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Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 shocked the globe and was considered as the beginning of the new war that came into history as World War II. This global disaster became the most devastating and tragic event in the world history and the memory of the Second World War continues to be historians’ and researchers’ concern. Although USA proclaimed its neutrality during the war, soon after this American soldiers also were forced to become involved in World War II. It had taken two years after the outbreak of the war before “the day of infamy” changed Americans. Continue reading...

“We should never have entered the war against Germany. The Germans were no threat to us. We had been attacked by Japan and that's who we should have gone after, no matter what!”

The following lines give a backdrop of the statement.

This is a statement thought by many Americans after the Second World War. The Americans initially maintained neutrality in the war. The war started in the year 1939 with the attack of Poland. The main powers fighting in the war were –Axis power and the Allied power. Axis power consisted of Germany, Italy and Japan. The Allied powers were Soviet Union, British and France. The Axis Continue reading...

During the reconstruction of America towards the end of 1870s and the 1900th century, the concept of progressivism was the organizing principles of liberalism and progressive reformers. However, the ideology was a divided opinion among democrats and republicans. Some thought it was a perfect way to revolutionize power and organizations, and a way of political game; while others thought it was a way of comprehending social and rhetoric thoughts.The mixed reactions resulted in disagreement on progressivism characteristic. These developments led in an emergence of progressive politics, that in itself was not factual reforms but rather aggressive politics. According to Continue reading...

The mechanism used by the United States to curb matters pertaining to international relations has raised questions with some individuals referring to it as the world police. U.S after the civil war that occurred and destabilized some of its important pillars such as the economy resorted to maintenance of order in every occasion thus contributing to their dominance in international relations (Hook&Spanier, 2013). Every ethnicity, religion, country of its capability has the mechanism that it can use to quell violence suppose such circumstances arise. Because of its ability to suppress violence and reinstate order in most countries in the Continue reading...

The years between 1945 and 1963 saw some of the world’s superpowers engage in what Historians have since termed the Cold War. As the strategies revolved around threats of using nuclear power and sabotaging societies, the feuding countries never took up arms. Thus emerges the term "cold" depicting the aforementioned sabotage attempts and threats to wipe each other out. The key players in the cold war include the United States of America and the Soviet Union. However, allies of the countries engaged in actual war, a good illustration being North and South Vietnam, the proprietors of the Vietnam Continue reading...

Autobiography Assessment of Bernard Baruch

Introduction
Bernard Baruch who was as referred as, ‘the park bench statesman’ is one of the American icons who made his fortune on the Wall Street. Historical records indicate that, though he had many challenges, he managed to succeed in diverse fields. As an icon, he made varied strides in varied fields. As documented, among all the greatest was the time during which he provided service to his country as an adviser in the economic sector. These services were mainly offered during the world wars I and II. He further provided his services as a confidant to six United Continue reading...

Introduction

The World War II is the deadliest war that the world has ever faced. Major Powers of this planet fought World War II under flags of axis and allies powers. The world war started in the year 1939 and continued till 1945 but various other battles were fought earlier that caused this war. Millions of soldiers and civilians from both sides lost their lives in this war and hundreds of millions people were directly or indirectly affected by the World War II. Winners of the war, allied forces altered boundaries of nations that lost the war. The world war Continue reading...

Dust Bowl in the Great Plains

ABSTRACT
The nineteen thirties was the time of great tragedy and crisis in America. Together with the recession that hit its economic fields, an ecological and agricultural problem came next as drought brought the Dust Bowl. It was caused by environmental changes and man-made land degradation. The effects of the Dust Bowl added to the recession and downfall of the American economy, but have resulted to the development of technologies that helped agriculture. It was a remarkable moment for the west as it moulded what it is and where it is in the map of the world today.

INTRODUCTION

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Summary of Chapter 3-7 of American Crucible

American Crucible by Gary Gerstle stems from the racialism and ethnicity. This was after Roosevelt led his riders to victory in a war between America and Spain he boasted a lot about Americans been strengthened by war and years later would still inspire the Americans. The objective of this paper is to analyze the book from chapter 3 to chapter seven focusing on the key points and arguments of the author.

Chapter 3

In chapter 3 Gary tries to focus on the boundaries of the nation, 1917 to 1929. Roosevelt’s dream in this chapter is coming true in a battle Continue reading...

The 20th century is perhaps the most interesting period in American history. It is during this time that America faced a myriad of challenges, most of which positively impacted the nation and made it what it is today. The time period between the 1920s and 198os saw America face challenges, and the leadership of the time had to make decisions that would change its destiny forever. The nation took part in the major world wars recorded in history; the First World War, the Second World War and the cold war. the presidents and citizens alike made decisions, formulated Acts Continue reading...

Introduction

The word segregation is commonly used to describe the obligatory separation of certain ethnic group based on the racial prejudice. The racial segregation in America was viewed as a discriminatory practice that oppressed the African American. This is because it was associated with the consequences such as perpetual urban poverty, lack of affordable houses, and economic oppression of the minority community. Although this led to the Civil Right Movement in the history of America, the segregation practice prevails in the present lives and is mainly affecting the American minority groups. For instance, from the education perspective, the African-American student Continue reading...

Introduction

One of the most depictable historic events was the appointment of Roosevelt as the president of the United States. Before becoming the president, Roosevelt had realized that many people were calling for the attention towards the exploitation of the child labor, the corruption in the city governments, the ruthlessness of the business empires owned by a few individuals and the lynching of individuals. In order to tackle the issue of business exploitation, Roosevelt had to deal with the already grown corporate power. Through the introduction of the Anti-trust laws, the Justice Department sprang 44 anti-trust suits, impeaching railroad, beef, Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

The Great Depression, which hit the US in the late 1920s and was largely blamed on the Hoover Administration policies, ushered in the landslide victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democrats in 1932. The Hoover policy of raising tariffs of goods entering the US was created to please American farmers, but it boomeranged against the US when many governments imposed retaliatory tariff policies against its exports. This, in effect, started a domino effect that caused the Great Depression (Saint-Etienne 11-16). As businesses went bankrupt and many found themselves unemployed, the landslide victory of Roosevelt and the Democrats was, Continue reading...

Intentions (Thinking) Over Impacts (Results): A Critical Analysis of New Deal Liberalism through the Themes of Crisis Control, Community Construction and Creating Confidence
Often when we pause to reflect on history, in remembering what occurred, we tend to focus primarily on the impact and results of initiatives which were implemented. At the same, however, we forget or are unaware of the original thinking or purpose behind those same initiatives, policies, programs, and movements, etc.

New Deal Liberalism - Roosevelt administration – represents just such a space in time.

New Deal is credited for facilitating the development of several programs. For example, social security; agriculture; industrialization; and, growth in union membership. Banking and Continue reading...

Abstract

The paper looks into the life history of King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, and how he gained power, creating the united Saudi Arabia. It analyzes the role of Saudi Arabia in WWII and its relations with US. The essay studies the current situation in Saudi Arabia, and how the country is preparing for leadership changes.
Abdullah ibn Abdilazīz is one of the most influential people in the world, according to a report by Forbes and became king in 2005, after the death of King Fahd, his half-brother. He is one of the most influential people in the world, according Continue reading...

Economics

Introduction
The concept of a ‘right to health’ has been strongly emotive and politically charged in the United States. The politics of health have evolved in the United States in fits and starts. Political settings and the influence of organized groupings such as the American Medical Association and the American Association of Labor Legislation have played a major role in the evolution of the concept of the right to health.

Historical Background

In 1793, a yellow fever epidemic forced the central government to impose quarantine on cases suffering from yellow fever. This was the first instance when public health occupied the Continue reading...

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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...