...Austin Community College George W. Bush A Life in Texas Politics Stephanie A. Wordekemper Texas Government and Local Government 2306 Stephen Black, Professor November 24, 2014 As a controversial hero of mine, when asked to write a paper on a famous Texas political figure, I found it exciting to research and submit a paper on George W. Bush. As controversial as his presidency was, Former President Bush didn’t begin his political career at the federal level, however, he was one of the most famous Texas politicians to date. George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States a fact everyone knows, but before going to Washington D.C., there was an entire political and educational life that would lead to him becoming President. First born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 6, 1946, to father, George H. W. Bush, also President of the United States and mother, Barbara Pierce Bush. Being the eldest to four siblings his family relocated to Midland and Houston, Texas. He attended Yale, the alma mater of his Grandfather and Father and also Harvard universities, which he seldom talks about or references. After graduating from college, Bush was commissioned to the Texas Air National Guard where he served as a F-102 fighter pilot and finished active duty in 1970. After leaving the guard, Bush became a business man working in the Oil Field in Midland after graduating with a Masters in business administration. George W. Bush met his wife Laura Welch...
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...Reflections on World’s Leadership Mr. Bill Gates (Good Leader) Mr. George Walker Bush (Bad Leader) Presented to: Prof. Dr. Hayfaa A. Tlaiss Prepared by: Sarwat Praveen Student Number: 3518229 Section-2 & Group-2 Table of Contents MR. BILL GATES 2 INTRODUCTION2 ABOUT HIS LIFE…2 LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF BILL GATES4 GROWING AND LEARNING4 HAVING VISION5 CARING ABOUT PEOPLE5 MY PERCEPTION, WHY BILL GATE IS A GREAT LEADER…6 BILL GATE IS MY INSPIRATION7 MR. GEORGE WALKER BUSH8 EARLY LIFE AND CAREER8 MY PERCEPTION, WHY HE IS BAD LEADER9 GEORGE BUSH FIRST PRESIDENTIAL TERM…9 FEW GOOD STEPS TAKEN BY GEORGE BUSH10 GEORG BUSH SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM10 GEORGE BUSH POST PRESIDENCY11 HOW DID HIS LEADERSHIP STYLE IMPECT ME AND MY LEADERSHIP STYLE 11 REFRENCES…13 Mr. Bill Gates INTRODUCTION William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is an exceptional leader in the business field. Being named the richest man in the world for the past decade by Forbes magazine, it was clear that Bill Gates must be an outstanding business leader taking his company Microsoft from a small firm that was founded in 1975 to a global company that is worth...
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...Judicial Appointments by George W. bush Petra Robinette Professor Lunsford SOC 205 Strayer University May 5th 2013 Soon after the inauguration of George W. Bush as a president he made aggressive approach to making life time appointments to the federal bench. On March 2001 he announced that he is not going to use the American Bar association to screen candidates for federal bench. This approach have been always used by the presidents since the 1952. May 2001 Bush announced in special white house ceremony his first eleven nominees for court of appeals. Until the November 2002 when republicans regain back the control over the senate Bushes’ nominations for federal judgeships were blocked by the senate democrats. George W. Bush made 2 key appointments to the Supreme Court. September 2002 Chief justice William Rehniquist dies and John Roberts nominated by George W. Bush wins vote seventy eight to twenty two. In January 2006 Samuel Alita also nominated by Bush gets to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor. For the United States courts of appeals George W. Bush appointed 57 judges during his presidency. There is currently 179 judges on the United States Courts of appeals. George W Bush appointed two hundred thirty seven judges to the Trial courts. According to Nan Aron “So many circuits, whose decisions affect tens of thousands of people, now have republican appointed majorities.” George W. Bush was appointing nontraditional judges. He appointed more men than...
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...By Sanat Subhash Book Title - 41 A Portrait of my Father Author - George W. Bush Publisher - Crown Publishers Year Published - 2014 Number of Pages - 294 Genre - This book is a biography of George H. W. Bush’s life. Awards - A Portrait of my Father has not won any major awards. Author - George W. Bush has also written a bestselling memoir, Decision Points, before he wrote A Portrait of my Father, and he has just released another bestseller, Portraits of Courage. How the book is organized - A Portrait of My Father is organized chronologically in a timeline of his life. However, most of the book focuses in and around Bush’s time as the President of the United States. Author’s Purpose - The author’s purpose for writing this biography was...
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...George W. Bush was America’s 43rd president. He served two full terms of presidency. In these eight years of presidency, Bush had a few large issues arise in America. Two of the main events were September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina. In both events thousands of lives were lost. Could more have been done to prevent all of the lost lives? On September 11, 2001, both of the twin towers were hit as well as the Pentagon, and there was a fourth plane heading for the White House, but it crashed in a field. When Bush received a call telling him what was going on, he ordered the Air Force to shoot down any other hijacked airlines. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, including 350 firemen doing their best to save as many lives as possible (Carnes and...
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...One of the most tragic event includes the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack. Our nation faced one of the most damaging attacks in history; and it was up to president George W. Bush, to address the entire nation and attempt to assure everyone that America still remains a strong and functioning country. His goal was to persuade Americans to feel comforted in the light of effort being put forth in resolving the aftermath of the attacks. Recognizing his audience as being innocent victims of an unknown evil, President Bush ultimately had to present a speech that mastered various techniques of rhetoric. The president George W. Bush applies logos throughout his speech in order to prove to our nation that he is qualified to take control of the situation at hand and maintaining a strong country. In one part of his speech, Bush reasons with Americans that “The functions of our government continue without interruption. Federal...
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...George H. W. Bush. A man who greatly impacted the presidency in the United States. He was the 41st President of the United States and he made a great effect on society. Because George H. W. Bush lived, the world is a better place. Former President George H. W. Bush was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts (Greene and Hartwell). When he and his family moved to Connecticut, young Bush was educated only in private schools. Though he would later be criticized for his very privileged childhood, Bush's parents made sure that he grew up in a strictly controlled environment. Boastful, showy, and pretentious behavior was forbidden in the Bush household. Bush graduated from Phillips Academy on his 18th birthday on June 12, 1942. Though already accepted at Yale University, the day he graduated he chose to join the U.S. Navy as seaman,...
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...On 20 September, 2001, President George Walker Bush addressed the Nation in a Joint Session of Congress, in the wake of the terror attacks upon America on 11 September, 2001. At this time in history, the United States needed direction and support for how it was going to deal with the most costly and bloodiest terrorist attacks in the Nation’s history: the American people demanded the President address the Nation after the attacks, and nine days later, the President delivered his speech. Across the country, emotions ran high in America and many were in constant fear for their lives and their country. “Is another attack coming?” “What will be the next target?” “Could this be the end of the world?” many pondered. Throughout the country the airlines halted service, the New York Stock Exchange temporarily suspended its operations and nearly every television station around the country relayed the latest news covering the latest developments in those uncertain times. The American people prodded answers from their leaders, “Who’s responsible?” “Why did they do this?” “What’s next?” So when President addressed the nation not only did he have to answer those questions, but he also had to quash fears and reinstill a sense of pride and stability in the American people. Hailed by many, “The speech that made the Bush Presidency,” the President utilized several techniques, explicit and implicit, that had effectively neutralized public fears and persuaded the people toward collective action....
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...George W. Snow played a big impact in the world when he came up with the idea of the balloon frame housing. It allows people to have the ability to build things that could be twice as big and twice as fast doing it. Snow plays a big role in the construction side of life than anything else. In our world today people are building stuff on every piece of ground and you see the same lay out on every house and that is the structure of the house. In figure 13.23 you can see all that goes into a house when building it. It shows all the wood that makes up the house and how it is laid out when the contractor builds it. When building the balloon framing house it is really just held up by nails that are shot in the concrete with a gun that shoots with a cab that pushes the nail through the wood into the concrete. With the use of nails it made it easier to put the wood together to have an abundance of them. Snow had the idea of using wood because it was cheaper than other materiel and that it would hold up longer. Snow also made it possible to build a house with multiple stories to live on. In figure 13.23 you can see the other floors in the house and how...
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...president George Walker Bush initiated his speech and declared war on terror. He identifies terrorists as enemies of freedom, but are they? Some people would characterize the word “terrorist” as an emotive. Some people would not know what the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is. That makes me petrified. In 1989, USA won the cold war. Many historians and sociologist expeditiously agreed that there now was brought an end to the century of extremes, and the new world order could begin. One of them was Eric Hobsbawn, who stated USA as the, now only, superpower in the world. From 1989-2001, USA transformed the western values such as market economy and democracy to the rest of the world. In this period, USA solved many international conflicts and orderly made the world a better place. I sat down and thought about, why anyone would start this war against terror, who started it, and who was to blame for it? In this analytical essay, I will go through the main points in Bush’s speech. For instance, what does he mean, when he says: “The terrorists are traitors to their own faith”? Furthermore, I will go deeply into the consequences of the war on terror. Can the war on terror have had an effect on the globalization? If so, how big an impact has it played in the last 25 years? I look forward to come up with my subjective answers and theories for you and hopefully, in the end, come up with some possible solutions to the war on terror. President George W. Bush speaks...
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...The year 2000 election between Presidential candidate George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore will forever be remembered in history as one of the most widely debated elections of all time. Not only was it controversial, but it gave great insight as to exactly how a presidential race can be ran and lost as well. The Presidential election of 2000 sets itself apart from any other election because of the controversy surrounding the outcome. Even though Al Gore won the election based on popular vote, George Bush came out on top with winning the electoral vote over Gore, 271 to Gore’s 266. Although both sides fought a good fight, only one came out on top, the Bush campaign. Many were left wondering exactly why Vice President Al Gore lost. Research shows that the reasons as to why Vice President Al Gore lost the presidential election of 2000 to presidential candidate George W. Bush are due to, the inability to During the beginning of the 2000 campaign almost everyone believed that the outcome and win of the election was to lay rest with Vice President Al Gore. Having being Vice President during the successful Clinton administration in the 1990’s, analysts believed that a win was almost inevitable. According to the readings in Pomper, the question was not if Gore was going to win but by how much. The United States at that time had been used to a period of prosperity and had been living in an economy that was doing quite well. The only problem was that people were not entirely convinced...
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...evidence against George W. Bush is this: George W. Bush read a children’s story aloud about a pet goat throughout the entire unfolding of 9/11. There were four hijacked planes, two towers hit and he still kept reading the story. He did not monitor what was going on. He did not order any action. He did not even get himself to a safe location. I know this story is true because I have him on video tape. I bought a copy of the Great Conspiracy video showing Bush at the school. . Keep in mind when this video was shot, one tower was already hit. Unfortunately, that Memory Hole video does not catch Card whispering in Bush’s ear. It just shows him carrying on as if nothing happened. Nero played the violin while Rome burned. George W. Bush read a children’s story while New York burned. Now how do you interpret this? I agree there are many ways to interpret his inaction, but it seems every possible interpretation should be sufficient to impeach George W. Bush. Unfortunately, that fact alone is insufficient for impeachment. We have to determine which particular explanation actually applies. George W. Bush was the only man in the western world who did not know what was going on. His handlers kept him in the dark. George W. Bush was just a figurehead, so it was not necessary for him to stop reading. Nor did those truly in charge really need him when he finally did stop. Getting him to read a children’s story helped occupy him and keep him out of the way. George W. Bush was so clueless...
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...searches that are required to have probable cause sometimes overlooked? In several cases, outlined in this essay, our government has performed unpatriotic acts in the name of “national security” and has repeatedly challenged the very foundation of our constitutional freedoms. Fundamentalist groups and terrorists within them have been around for decades. Our government has the ability to monitor them, both here and abroad, and determine if there will be another threat against our Nation. Where is the balance between civil rights and national security? On October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed into law the Patriot Act with an overwhelming majority from Congress. The law was intended, in Bush’s words, to “enhance the penalties that will fall on terrorists or anyone who helps them.” ("George W. Bush Signs The Patriot Act", n.d. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-w-bush-signs-the-patriot-act). The bill broadly expanded law enforcements ability to investigate and perform surveillance and altered more than 15 different statues that had been in place since the early 1970’s. This law was enacted in great haste and does not provide a check and balances approach to safeguard the American citizens’ civil liberties. The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects the right of the people to be secure in their own persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizure. This includes law enforcement...
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...SPEECH TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER By Klara, 3.d Arnold Schwarzenegger is a very well-known man. He is known for the huge amount of films he have starred in, his professional bodybuilding and then Governor of California. In his speech from August 31, 2004, he was talking about America as a strong and independent country. He was supporting the current president, George W. Bush and the Republican Party very much. His speech involves encouragement to vote for Bush at the next election and to support him in his decisions. Schwarzenegger wants to give immigrants the same opportunities as he was given himself, since he himself is an immigrant too. Doing so by supporting the Republican Party. He is addressing the audience as “fellow Americans” and it seems that he is talking to the whole American population. But I fact, he is only talking to the Republican citizens and he is identifying different subgroups of his audience, like the immigrants, the strong Republicans and the people with only some Republican beliefs. By doing so, and identifying his audience, he is creating a feeling of pride in America. A feeling of pride that is there because of the fact that they are having a Republican for their president. Schwarzenegger uses lots of rhetoric methods and forms of appeal. The three forms of appeal – ethos, logos and pathos – is used a lot in this speech. Ethos is used to make the audience look at him as a trustworthy man. The more ethos you have...
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...Samantha Weeman January 24, 2013 Inaugural Address Analysis On January 21, 2013, President Obama gave his inaugural speech. By giving an inaugural speech, this means that the president will bear witness to the enduring strength of the constitution and affirm the promise of the democracy. In the beginning of his speech, he stated the vows he has agreed to make as a country together. He says, “Together, we discover that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. Together, we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortunes.” As the speech goes on, he explains that when times change we, the people, must do the same. We must come together as one nation and one people. He talks about the middle class- how America’s “prosperity” must rest upon their broad shoulders. He believes that every citizen deserves the same amount of security and dignity; therefore, he decided to reduce the cost of health care. He will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure by not allowing other nations have the technology that will power new jobs and industries, but by claiming its promise. He wants to defend our people through strength of arms and rule of law; resolve issues with other nations peacefully. He ends his speech by saying that by being a citizen we, the people, have to set the course; by votes we cast and voices we lift. The last line of his speech is very...
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