...Historical Fiction How would George Washington advise President Barack Obama? “Mr. President, your press conference regarding Ukraine will start in a hour.” informed Joseph Jones. “Thank you, Mr. Jones”, answered the President. “Anytime”, he said says as he leaves. The President paced the room. What was he going to say at the meeting? He still had no idea what he was going to do about Ukraine. He walked over to the wall of past presidents and looked at George Washington’s portrait. “If only you could come and give me advice about my situation.” All of a sudden, the cloudless, blue sky turned black and lightning struck. The front door of the White House flew open and a man in a trench coat came walking in. “Um, excuse me sir, but do you know where I can find the current president?” , says the strange man. The President straightened his tie and said, “I am he.” The strange man looked at him doubtfully. “I am here for a short time. I have no time for jokes. There is no way an African American like yourself could ever think of being President? Now step aside so I could go search for the President myself” The strange man started to walk by him. The President, surprised by such comment, stopped him in his tracks. “Who are you, exactly?” He asks trying to get a better view of his face. The strange man put his hood down to show his face. “I am no other than George Washington.” The President was at a loss for words. He attempted to speak but could not...
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...In the 50 years since SGI President Ikeda embarked on his journey for worldwide kosen-rufu, arriving in Hawaii on October 2, 1960, the SGI movement based on Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism has spread to 192 countries and territories. The August and September 2010 issues of the Soka Gakkai monthly study journal Daibyakurenge featured several experiences by SGI members sharing their personal encounters with President Ikeda and their endeavors to promote kosen-rufu in their respective countries. In commemoration of this 50th anniversary, the SGI Newsletter will introduce a selection of these experiences. “A Rainbow over Niagara” By Elizabeth Izumi SGI Canada Executive Advisor It was about six months after I married my husband, Hugh Izumi, a Japanese-Canadian businessman, and was living in Toronto that I received a letter from my mother saying: “Soka Gakkai President Ikeda will be visiting Toronto. He will be an internationally renowned leader someday. As there are no Soka Gakkai members in Canada, please go and meet him at the airport.” Though it was my mother’s request, I wasn’t eager to comply. I was pregnant and not feeling very well, and I also didn’t want to be pressed into practicing Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism. Nevertheless, to please my mother, I went to the airport (on October 11, 1960). I saw a group of Japanese people who looked like they had just arrived. It was President Ikeda and his party. I went up to greet him saying: “I am not a Soka Gakkai member...
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...I have always thought about who I would vote for president, if I was 18. Well, if I were able to vote , I would vote for Hillary Clinton for a variety of reasons. I would vote for Hillary Clinton because she is more experienced, she would be the first women president, and Donald Trump is a horrible person, in my opinion. Hillary Clinton should be president for many more reasons, but this is just one. If you want even more reasons, you should go to www.hillaryclinton.com. Before anything else, I would vote for Hillary Clinton because she has more experience. Clinton was the First Lady while her husband, Bill Clinton, was the 42nd president of the United States. Also, Hillary Clinton is a former U.S Secretary of State. So, this is just saying the experience she has , but it goes deeper than that. While Hillary was the First Lady, she did many things for the United States. For example, she led the fight for a change in health care. When she was the 67th U.S Secretary of State, Clinton said that we need to address the threat of climate change. Furthermore, Hillary Clinton would make a good president because she would be the first women president. I know that this is an obvious choice, but just think about it. Barack Obama was the first African-American president, and Hillary would be the first women president. Although, Clinton wasn’t the first woman...
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...I argue that the President of our Country must use signing statements because every President has made one deal, two deals or another to guarantee a individual, personal interest group, political interest party and/or lobbyist for their vote and support to get into the White House. Once the President is in office the laws and bills begin to shuffle in. The President probably does not agree with all that is written in the bill and must instead of veto it and draw out a long political fight he writes down his thought of agreement and disagreement in the bill. In reviewing President Bush’s signing Statement at the Library of Congress website. When Congress passes a bill it is titled by them and they are able to give themselves credit for passing the bill by stating 109th Congress and enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. The President is not given credit. One reason I believe the President provides a signing statement is to give themselves a public voice and to explain the parts of the bill they agree with or do not agree with and as to why they do not agree with parts of the bill. A signing statement in not a bill or a law and some critic say if he does not agree with the bill or law he should veto it. There were only two statements in the bill that were set in by congress that the President did not agree with. I believe that a signing statement from a President allows for him to record his thoughts and beliefs and reasoning for signing...
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... Richard Nixon Library Extra Credit Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) after previously serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from California. After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. On May 31 I had the experience to visit the Nixon Library. The Nixon Library exhibits Presidents Nixon life and career. My experience in the museum was very good interesting too I was able to learn more about this president his life and the things he did for the United States. Also, able to watch video interviews with Nixon administrator’s officials and others who played important roles in twentieth-century. I was able to distinguish many different things that president did in the past from the present. For example, many of the ads were different in the past presidents I many ads in the elections now I think that presidents don’t use that much advertising the use it but not a lot like in the past. In the Nixon library they exhibit the presidential car now the presidential car has changed its more protected for the president’s safety. Even though President Nixon resigns from office due to the Watergate scandal he had many people that were there his whole presidency...
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...01, 2012 Introduction There have been many events over the years that influence the world. One in particular was the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Many events that have occurred since can be traced back to the Assassination. After 49 years the world is still questioning the facts of the assassination. There have been many investigation yet the questions are still there. Section one President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1962. President Kennedy was shot during a motorcade ride through Dallas, Texas. The President’s motorcade had just entered Dealey Plaza when several shots were aimed at the President. President and Mrs. Kennedy and Texas Governor and Mrs. Connally were passengers in the Presidential Limousine along with two Secret Service agents. Governor Connally was seriously wounded during the shooting. The President was taken to Parkland Hospital where efforts to save his life were unsuccessful. The President was pronounced dead 30 minutes after the shooting. There were hundreds of people in the Dealey Plaza that day to see the President and First Lady as their car passed by. Many spectators with their cameras were there to capture a once in a lifetime chance to see the President and Mrs. Kennedy. These people were witness to one of the biggest events in American History. One of the most notable videos was the Zapruder film that captured the entire incident. This film made it hard to explain the sole gunman theory, which...
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...Connolly Government April 11, 2013 1. Democrat a. I feel that President Bush took a foot instead of an inch when he sent troops to Iraq after the 9/11 incident. The war led to a great amount of debt which did not need to happen and the losing the lives of our citizens. I think that the war lasted for too long which just had more problems Obama had to fix when he went into office. b. I feel like people’s perspective of Bush’s presidency affected how Obama was viewed when he went into office because people had already had no hope for the American govt. Obama’s approach to the national debt was handled greatly with the new reforms he made- for example the health care laws he tried to put into effect. c. The power of the President has definitely changed. I think that with changing times the president should stay up to date especially with keeping his presidency more modern than what it used to be. 2. Democrat a. It is hard to say whether or not the president has too much power or not because people do not truly know what it’s like to be president until they can actually experience it. I think that as the leader of our nation, Obama is under a lot of stress. We cannot forget that he is trying to fix a country that was basically ruined and it is going to take time for those changes to take action. b. With all these problems happening with North Korea, I feel that Obama should have more authority. I feel like the citizens of this country do not exactly know...
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...there is a rich family restaurant, their father was sick; Eventually he died. he left the building to his oldest son and the company to his middle child the chimp butler named puss to his youngest named John. The oldest and the middle child were happy with what got because they combined the company and the building. the youngest son was upset. “what could I ever do with this chimp?” He said. Suddenly the chimp started beating his chest; he was giving the morse code. He told the boy to make him some boots. He also told him to make him a bag to carry his things around. So the boy gave him the boots and the bag, before he could look up puss had the boots on his feet; and the bag around his shoulder walking down...
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...Suppression, Advanced Products, I got an opportunity to apply concepts that I have learned in the class into practice. Company IV was able to implemented decision successfully despite many ongoing communication barriers and conflicts. Communication and influence tactics played a major role in decision-making and helped resolve conflicts within the company. In the beginning, I felt that my interpersonal communication skills were very distorted, because I was overwhelmed with available resources and quite confused about how to prioritize given work. My feelings about the subject matter at hand acted as a barrier to communication, therefore, it took me a while to completely understand concerns regarding advanced products in my company. I feel that if I were able to talk to other managers at my company before starting the day at the company IV, I would have conducted the given tasks differently. I experienced multiple meanings of a word as a barrier to communication. During my meeting with the Director of advance products, I was trying to explain, a “fire incident” at the supplier of advanced products. However, my director interpreted word “fire” as “a layoff situation at the supplier factory”. I tried to explain her the situation twice with words, then used non-verbal gesture to explain the word “fire”. I believed that our communication was affected by recency error. Not a long ago, we were informed that Manager of Electrical – Utility products quit the job. So, I assume that the interpretation...
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...Who is the best President? In this arguementative essay i will be debating who is the better president Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington. I will be telling some strengths and some weaknessess of each president. First i will be talking about Abraham lincoln and what some of his strengths and weaknessess are. Some strengths that Abraham had was that he "would, however, be the figure to eventually end slavery." and he also finished the civil war between the North and South. Overall he was one of the nations strongest leaders and president. Next on the list is Thomas Jefferson America's third president. Along with being the writer of the Declaration of Independence, contributing to the creation of the Constitution, he was...
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...Impeachment Speech by Barbra Jordan on Jul 25, 1974 Mr. Chairman: I join in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. Mr. Chairman, you are a strong man and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assistance as possible. Earlier today, we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, “We, the people.” It is a very eloquent beginning. But when the document was completed on the seventeenth of September 1787 I was not included in that “We, the people.” I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.” Today, I am an inquisitor; I believe hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. …The subject of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men. That is what we are talking about. In other words, the jurisdiction comes from the abuse or violation of some public trust. It is wrong, I suggest, it is a misreading of the Constitution, for any member here to assert...
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...the Battle of Antietam was one of the historical circumstances surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. President Abraham Lincoln, would issue the proclamation, however, he would only issue the proclamation for the border states that owned slaves. The issue of the proclamation would also be for the border states that remained loyal to the union. He issued that those states would be exempt from this proclamation. His advisors encouraged him to hold off on making the announcement of the proclamation, to see if the Battle of Antietam, would result in a confirmed union victory (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration). Finally, in September of 1862, word was given, the Battle of Antietam had been won. As a result, President Lincoln had issued his first announcement that the slaves in these areas of rebellion, would be set free. On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln made a final announcement for the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared, all salves would be set free to include rebellious states (Wilson, DiIulio, Jr. and Bose)....
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...Democracy in America Michelle Caddell POS/110 May 20, 2012 Cawas Mody Democracy in America On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed. This was a significant start to democracy in America. The fore fathers of our country had big plans for America. This essay will include my opinions of Democracy in America, as well as some of the strengths and weaknesses that exist in our government system in America. I will include a description of the roles of the President, and other members of our government structure in America. The role of the government has done some major changing since the beginning of democracy. Some of these changes that have occurred have weakened our government system. The definition of democracy is a government run by the people of the country. My personal definition of democracy is having officials that will do what is best for the citizens of the country. I also feel that this should be done with the utmost respect and morals. I feel that this is the way that our fore fathers would have wanted it. I truly believe that our country started on these values and beliefs. Is that where it has really ended up? Democracy has a different meaning to everyone. One fact that we can all agree on is that democracy is one of the most important things in our life in America. The fact that we all wake in the morning to living in a free country is something that we as Americans thrive on. Some things that we must pay close attention to is the control that...
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...Imagine being around back when President McKinley was our President and when you knew he was a good person trying to make his nation greater and stronger and all of sudden he’s assassinated by a man who was so against the presidential Policy. I will be explaining the reason in my opinion on how President McKinley death was unjustified. William McKinley, Born January 29,1843 and was the 25th President of the United States Of America. He became US President in 1897 and served in the union army during the civil war and he got the job and started leading as president. He also studied and practiced law in Ohio and became an active member of the Republican Party and he was the first president who studied that which was one of the United States two main political parties, formed to support protective tariffs and industrial expansion. During the period of 1877-1891, William McKinley served seven terms in the house of representatives which is the lower house of a legislative body and also served two terms as Ohio state governor in the years 1891-95, so he was always busy and hands on so he was a loved man by many and he had no issues to anyone until he had to go against “Anarchism”....
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...Assassination of President John F. Kennedy My early childhood memory of growing up in Korea is vague but for some unknown reason I remember the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I don’t know why I remember this event at the early age of 6, but I clearly recall I was walking down the street from my house passing a store that sold electronic devices such as radios and televisions. The store had large speakers outside that played radio programs and a loud emergency news broadcast stated President Kennedy had been assassinated. People were gathered around the speakers and the TV displayed in the window watching and listening to a long news broadcast in grief, sorrow, and disbelief over the assassination of the American President. The grief, sorrow, and disbelief felt in Korea must have been felt all over the world and it must have been much worse in America. President Kennedy was popular, highly respected, and liked all over the world. To be assassinated in public view in front of the world changed the USA in many ways and still impacts the USA today. President Kennedy’s assassination is considered by many to be the start of the loss of America’s innocence. It represented the end of an innocent time and the coming of turbulent times. The race relations, the Vietnam War, the threat of Communism, and the distrust of government all combined together to make it a time of anxiety. President Kennedy represented hope and the prospects of a "new generation" and it was devastating...
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