President Essays

As one of the most destructive natural disasters in United States’ history, Hurricane Katrina took hundreds of lives and amounted to billions of dollars in damage. As victims see their fallen homes and shattered lives, they wonder how this catastrophe could have happened. Some argue that hurricanes are unpredictable phenomena …

What was Reconstruction? (Both Presidential and Congressional) How did? Or did it change the South and Arkansas? Reconstruction can be defined as the rebuilding of a city or a town after the Civil War. At the time of the Civil War, Presidential Reconstruction was divided into two phased. The two …

Manifest Destiny in combination with the slavery issue greatly contributed to secession and Civil War. Manifest Destiny was the idea that the US was chosen by God to populate the Americas. The 1800s were a time of expansion but every time the US gained land they had to deal with …

John Winthrop’s “City Upon A Hill”, described the mission and vision to start a “New England”, which became known as the United States of America. John Winthrop believed a perfect society could exist in a perfect city where everyone worshiped and worked together in harmony. He envisioned a community so …

My reaction to 9/11 was that it was a very horrific event. To borrow President Roosevelt’s words I believe that it is a day that will live in infamy. I do not know how someone could murder all those people. In my opinion Osama bin Laden and President George W. …

QUESTION FROM INSTRUCTOR: Reform movements and impulses had had a long, albeit sometimes checkered, history in the United States by the time Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised Americans a “new deal” during the 1932 election campaign. This essay focuses on the effectiveness and realism of the New Deal as domestic reform …

Jefferson reasoned that the warring nations in Europe depended on the United States for certain raw materials and foods. Keeping this fact in mind congress passed the Embargo Act in 1807. This act forbade the exports of all goods from the United States. Jefferson thought since the foreign powers needed …

Theodore Roosevelt’s ‘Square Deal’ and Woodrow Wilson’s ‘New Freedom,’ were both programs of reform. Roosevelt covered more areas of reform than Wilson (who focused mainly on economy), and was more of a progressive than Wilson was. As a governor and the first president of the era, Roosevelt set a terrific …

The Wallace Group is devised of three operational groups which include Electronics, Plastics and Chemicals (Stybel, p. 2-1). Harold Wallace was the original owner of the electronics company, but now has 45% of the group after acquiring the plastics company and then the chemical company (p. 2-4). He also serves …

The Distinguished Slave In the novel, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass was eventually able to free himself because he was able to free his mind. This was the rare quality that distinguished Douglass from the vast majority of the slaves. Several slaves during this period of time …