...The significant factor that leads the United State becomes the most powerful country actually depend on its presidency and the policy to control their society. In fact, the United States has survived from several situations that should have brought them down to the crisis, but, the national political leaders such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, who intense to the social and political changes in America, have successfully raised a betterment for the United States, especially in the period of Progressive movement (1890-1920). Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were the national political leader that regarded as the Progressive president since they introduced dramatic political reforms in the United States. They establish several legislations that considered made the condition of America during the progressive era become better; more organized government, the new banking system, more control over the big business and monopolies, development of modern presidency, were some example of the progressive actions during the presidency era of Roosevelt' and Wilson'. Particularly, T.R. elevated the importance of his presidency by understanding the importance of the press corps and promote his own image as well as to promote the press of the policies in his presidency (Bauer 8). Meanwhile, Wilson enacted the progressivism by reducing the prohibitive tariffs, creating a major transformation of the banking system, and generating new stronger of trust in order to re-establish fair...
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...Being the President of the United States Josh Wainwright Sociology 101: Principles of Sociology- Word Count: 2111 Abstract The purpose of this essay is to express how to address current issues in today’s society. The issues that I have to address are poverty, crime, education, health and a 5th problem of your choice. The 5th problem that I chose to address was jobs. I go about addressing these issues as if you were the President of the United States. This essay gives I a chance to express how you feel about these issues and what would you do to fix these problems. As President of the United States, it is my duty to address problems in this American society. The five main problem that I want to address are poverty, crime, education, health and jobs. These are important issues that I am working on fixing immediately. My plan is to dramatically decrease the poverty and crime rate. I am also going to improve education, health insurance and job opportunities. Poverty America’s poverty rate is too high. Let’s look back on 2013 poverty rate. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013, there were 45.3 million people in poverty. For the third consecutive year, the number of people...
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...On February 4, 1789 George Washington become the first president of the United States. Over 200 hundred years later after taking the same oath I stand before you as the first female president to be elected. In this time America has faced numerous adversities and accomplished great feats. We have fought through the depression and survived numerous wars. Women have earned to right to vote and men have been sent into space. However, we must face that fact that new problems have arisen and it is up to us to face them and determine our future. Over the course of presidential terms many famous quotes have been said, but I quote one today that is not so well remembered. Over a hundred years ago our 23rd president Benjamin Harrison said “Not all of...
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...In the early 1900’s women had and successfully tried to get President Wilson, and the government to give them the right to vote. There were two main women’s groups that tried to fight to get what they had wanted the NWP, and NAWSA. Both groups had faced many critics from people on the streets. However, the women still protested, and used banners to tell what they had wanted. Their right to vote was important, and progress to show that women were not week. For the NWP leaders Alice Paul, and Lucy Burns including their fellow protestors had stood in front of the White House with their banners telling the President that he should allow women to vote. Yet, during the time of their protest Wilson had declared war against Germany which made the NWP...
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...As Henry Alfred Kissinger said: “it is a shame that ninety percent of politicians give a bad reputation of the ten percent remaining”. I come from a country in west Africa called Ivory Coast where we’ve never seen these ten percent remaining. Indeed, we have always been in and out of coup d’état ever since our first president Felix Houphouet Boigny died during his term of office. Unfortunately, everybody wants to be president, not for good reasons like helping the population or develop the country, but for the power and the wealth that come with this position. The worst thing is that they don’t really seem to care about the people who suffers in the middle of their caprice. Being young and incapable of voting yet, I felt inutile while people...
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...Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt or Teddy Roosevelt was the 25th Vice President and 26th President of the United States. He is known as the conservationist president because of his accomplishments in protecting wildlife. He won both the Nobel Peace Prize, as the first president to do so, and also the Medal of Honor. Teddy Roosevelt was born to Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Martha Bulloch on October 27, 1858 in New York, New York. Though Theodore has asthma and many ailments he lived a pretty active life. He attended both Harvard and Columbia University Law School. After graduating from Harvard he married Alice Hathaway Lee who later died on the same day as his mother in 1884. After tragedy has struck, Teddy moved to his ranch locating...
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...Donald J. Trump has made a lot of promises during his campaign to become the next President of the United States. If elected, however, many of Mr. Trump’s proposals would be moderated by Congress before being passed. This is not the case with promises Mr. Trump has made regarding international trade policy, however. Although Congress has the power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations”, they have actually delegated much of the power to do so to the president. In this regard, Mr. Trump has made several threats including, but not limited to: raising tariffs on imported goods from China and Mexico, ripping up the North American Free Trade Agreement, and withdrawing from the World Trade Organization. Although Congressional approval is...
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...The Constitution of the United States by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and 35 others With a Side-by-Side Translation in Simple English by ELizabeth Claire, MA TESOL Editor, Easy English NEWS The Constitution in Simple English ©2010 Elizabeth Claire, Inc. 1 A Note from Elizabeth Claire Thank you for your interest in the Constitution. It is the foundation for the government of the United States. The Constitution was written in 1787. This was four years after the U.S. signed a peace treaty with Great Britain. This peace treaty gave the thirteen British colonies their independence. They formed a new country, the United States of America. The men who wrote the Constitution are called our “Founding Fathers.” Some of them were: George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Gouveneur Morris, and Benjamin Franklin. The Founding Fathers took ideas from many places. They took parts from their state constitutions. They took parts of Britain’s Magna Carta. They studied the governments of ancient Greece and Rome. They got ideas from philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu and Thomas Paine. They used some ideas from Iroquois Indians union of tribes. Cover painting; “The Signing of the Constitution” by Chandler Howard Christie hangs in the House of representatives...Courtesy TeachingAmericanHistory.com 2 The Constitution in Simple English ©2010 Elizabeth Claire, Inc Fifty-five delegates...
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...POL 300 05/11/2013 The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, came into office at the height of the Cold War. The president decided to keep the foreign policy of his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and also decided that he could expand upon that foreign policy doctrine. President Kennedy wanted to be able to provide the United States with the flexibility to respond to communist expansion. The President believed that the expansion of communism would become a direct threat to the United States and Europe. While Truman and Eisenhower created policies that were mainly based on containing communism in Europe and the Middle East, President Kennedy’s doctrine’s differed from his predecessors in that his doctrine focused on Latin America, especially leading up to and after the Cuban Revolution. President Kennedy believed that the United States should contain the spread of communism by using other alternative means. During President Kennedy’s term in office there were several diplomatic crises that challenged his foreign policy doctrine. The challenges included; The Bay of Pigs in 1961, The Vietnam War in 1962, and The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Although The Bay of Pigs and the United States involvement in Vietnam were seen as major efforts that supremely impacted U.S. foreign policy, it was the Cuban Missile Crisis that almost brought the United States to the brink of a nuclear disaster and clearly solidified President Kennedy’s doctrine as a success...
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...Important Events That Occurred in the United States During the Past 50 Years Lawsianita Charles Axia College of University of Phoenix Important Events That Occurred 2 There were so many different events that occurred in the past fifty years that help to shape the United States. These events have brought good and hard times to the United States Politically. Huge contributions were contributed to the American society every decade by the past leaders. These Contributions has help mode the United States into what it is today. There has been a great deal of wars fought by this country for its civil rights and people. After the many battles and wars that the United States endured, the United States never let their dreams die. Many of their dreams came true, many of their dreams failed due to different programs and policies from our former leaders of America. For instance, the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s was one of the great events that became memorable. The drastic tax cut in the 80’s by President Ronald Reagan also became memorable. Almost every president in the United States past has left some sort of significant legacies with their leadership in some sort of way. The leaders that made mistakes also help to shape the country to what it is today because of their past mistake. Their past mistakes help to create a solution for success further down the road. Our education, businesses, homes, and...
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...displacement of U.S. state law by U.S. Federal law. "Preemption" is also sometimes used in the United States to refer to the displacing effect state laws might have on ordinances enacted by municipalities, especially in the context of alcoholic beverage laws, gun laws, and in the area of FDA approved pharmaceuticals. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority, federal law in certain areas entirely preempts state and local governments from the field. Sometimes federal law provides for partial preemption in establishing basic policies but requires states to administer them. Some programs give states an option not to participate, but if a state chooses not to do so, the national government steps in and runs the program. Even worse from the state’s point of view is mandatory partial preemption, in which the national government requires states to act on peril of losing other funds but provides no funds to support state action. An unfunded mandate is a statute or regulation that requires a state or local government, or private individuals or organizations, to perform certain actions, yet provides no money for fulfilling the requirements. When a federal government imposes a law or regulation without necessary funding, for example, it becomes the responsibility of the state or local government...
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...|What is the supreme law of the land? | |The Constitution | |What does the Constitution do? | |It sets up the government | |Defines the government | |Protects basic rights of Americans | |The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? | |We the People | |What is an amendment? | |A change (to the Constitution) | |An addition (to the Constitution) ...
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...President James Monroe, for his focus on the domestic issues that laid before him bare, receives the presidential ranking of four out of five. President Monroe had done a phenomenal job expanding the United States with states such as Mississippi and Missouri. President Monroe with the help of his secretary of state, John Quincy Adams, forced Spain into an ultimatum which allowed the U.S. to gain Florida in the end. James Monroe had helped build up a strong and safe country with the Monroe Doctrine and Rush-Bagot Agreement. James Monroe’s focus on protecting his citizen’s lives from potential threats from Central and South America along with the Eastern Hemisphere. Every President has thoughts about what they will accomplish to better the nation however, every thought may not be accomplished. President Monroe, for the most part, had accomplished the goals any President would want for his nation. President Monroe plans for the United States included the American System and his infamous Monroe Doctrine. The American System however did not come to fruition but it was replaced by the extension of the Cumberland Road. The Cumberland Road had increased the...
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...When Dwight Eisenhower became president, the United States had entered an arms race with the Soviet Union. This became a big step for President Eisenhower because the Soviet Union was under the possession of nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower insisted on making amends and deals with the Soviet Union but since he kept making deals in favor of the United States the Soviet Union began to reject these deals. The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union weakened because President Eisenhower kept trying to make deals with the Soviet Union in favor of the United States. The United States fell in a sort of frenzy because the Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite into the space system. This put the United States behind the Soviet Union in the space race. The Soviet Union was under the control of Joseph Stalin, a communist. Once Stalin died, this gave the United States hope that they would be able to finally make an agreement on a deal that is presented. President Eisenhower made a speech proposed to the Soviet Union and proclaimed that if the Soviet Union would stop expanding their territory the United States would help them and cooperate.The Soviet Union declined. During that meeting, President Eisenhower proposed an “Open Skies” agreement where both parties would agree to show each other their military background and even give the other permission to investigate the skies for any flight actions. Since the United States would benefit this agreement...
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...of a process that was establish in the U.S Constitution by congress and electors, in which they the people would decide on voting for the President and Vice president of the United States of America. Within the qualification of voting, each presidential candidate running to become the next president of the United States of America, must have their very own electors of the state that they reside in. The future president of the United States, must make a selection of electors, from the political party in their state. In some states laws and restrictions, may apply to future presidential candidates on what electors they may choose in their political party. The Electoral college vote was formed and established during the positioning of the 23 Amendment in 1787. During this process, the United States Constitution, which consisted of Congress, were trying to reach common grounds in how to properly to choose a presidential Candidate for the United States of America. In the methods and steps concluded to take place, in this political matter, consisted of gathering important members of congress together, which was chosen and established, by a body of people whom had a direct popular electoral election or vote. The United States Constitution plan of incorporating the electoral vote, won favor in many states, and was approved by the house of congress and has since become a great progress. By establishing this political matter, this keeps individuals...
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