Selfish To Selfless In President Cleveland, Where Are You? By Robert Cornier

When Lori and Jeanette are growing older, they decide they want to move to New York City to start a new life, away from their parents. Lori and Jeanette get jobs and begin to earn money. They hide their earnings from their parents in a piggy bank they named Oz. One day Jeanette tries to find Oz to put her paycheck in. Instead she says to Lori “Someone has slashed him apart with a knife and stole all the money” (Walls 228). The kids knew right away who had stolen it. It was Dad. When Lori confronted Dad with the news about Oz, he started playing dumb, acting like he had not idea what was going on. But in fact he did steal the money. This action shows that Dad is very selfish and only cares about himself.

"His family were enormously wealthy – even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach – but now he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that."

Selflessness is the idea that one is able to be more concerned with the needs of others over themselves. The value of selflessness is crucial in the Younger household, and is exemplified by Mama who plans on using the insurance money selflessly to buy a house for her family, rather than taking a vacation. Despite this excellent guide, Walter has a sense of entitlement to the insurance money as he says, “He was my father too.” (Hansberry 38). Due to his poor economic conditions, Walter

“The mother removes her purse from her shoulder and rummages through its contents: lipstick, a lace handkerchief, an address book. She finds what she’s looking for and passes a folded dollar over her child’s head to the man who stands and stares even though the light has changed and traffic navigates around his hips… He does not know his part. He does not know that acceptance of the gift and gratitude are what makes this transaction complete… The mother grows impatient and pushes the stroller before her, bearing the dollar like a cross. Finally, a black hand rises and closes around green” (paragraphs 3-5).

Jerry seems to be a typical freshman, in a period of experimentation—trying out for the team, dreaming about girls, reading “girlie magazines,” but he also appears to be a dazed and confused one. He is “stunned by his mother’s recent death and by the way his father sleepwalks through life.”

Exposition The characters are introduced by Hansberry. It is the 1950’s in a tiny apartment in Southside Chicago. The Younger family has just suffered the loss of Walter’s dad, with a $10,000 inheritance check supposedly to arrive in the near future. Upon hearing about the check, Walter, the protagonist, hopes to be able to take the money to invest in a liquor store. His sister, Beneatha hopes to be able to use it to attend medical school and Mama

Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt were two men with very many things in common. They both were Presidents in the United States of America at some point in time. They each have served many years as some sort of governor with Jackson being the military governor of Florida and Roosevelt being the governor of New York. Roosevelt and Jackson were major influences towards this country. But even with those similarities between them they were two men with differences. One was a big military man while the other was an author with eighteen books written and a few other attributes. All of these are just a few examples of how important these men were and how their related or not.

As they watch their nightly Walter Cronkite and have their daily dose of lima beans, It shows that reader that Holling has the typical life of a perfect child, in a perfect house, with a perfect family, and a perfect business. As Holling said, “...you’d come to my house-which my father has figured out was right smack in the middle of town. Not on the north side. Not on the south side. Just somewhere in between,” (Schmidt 3). The perfection Mr. Hoodhood is determined to have, shows how desperate he needs to impress others for his business. Furthermore, Ponyboy Curtis lives on the east side of town with his brothers Darry and Sodapop Curtis, as Greasers. Ponyboy has a significantly different life than Holling. While Holling would watch Walter Cronkite, Pony and the gang would go to rumbles. Ponyboy also would eat chocolate cake for breakfast as opposed to Lima beans for dinner. Life in the Curtis household is relaxed while they keep their door unlocked for friends to crash. Just as Ponyboy said “We never could tell who we found stretched out on the sofa in the morning,” (Hinton 105). They never felt the need to lock their doors because they were open to all, compared to Mr. Hoodhood who would most likely call the cops if he found someone laying on his sofa in the morning.

The Jacksonian Era is often described as a time when the United States experienced the “democratization of politics.” Is this accurate? How was democracy defined in this era?

Stephan Grover Cleveland born March 18, 1837 died June 24, 1908. He was born in Caldwell, New Jersey. His father was a minister of the Presbyterian church of the English. They were the first to migrate from England to Masschusets in 1635. He was related to General Moses Cleveland, whom in which Cleveland, Ohio was named after.

Hero.Caring.Loved.Those are all words to describe Andrew Jackson.He was loved by many, but some didn’t like this war hero.Those who didn’t like him had to deal with it.Andrew Jackson was a good president because he did more good than bad.

Julian was a college graduate who wants to be a writer after college. He is taking his mother to her appointment at the YMCA. Julian's mother reminisced about how “Your great-grandfather had a plantation and two hundred slaves.” (O’Connor 2) Julian's mother dislikes blacks however she loves black children, whenever she sees a child she would hand them a nickel for whatever they want to do with it. The bus stops and a black woman and her young son step on. They ride for a bit but at the end of the stop Julian's mom has no nickel so she offers the boy a penny, in which the boys mom claimed

Jerry helps himself because of his various traits like being a leader, introverted, good person. Jerry has a personality of a leader. When everyone else choose to sell the chocolates because they were scared of Brother Leon and the Vigils, he was the only one to say no. But after the assignment from the vigils he still decided to say no and that’s where things went left.

And he began splashing and kicking like a foolish dog.” Jerry was doing this foolish act to try and get the big boys attention because they were leaving him. Another thing that Jerry did was in paragraph 21 it says that Jerry grabbed the goggles from his mother's hands. Not only is that really immature it’s also really rude, he asked for goggles didn’t even say pleases or thank you, and he snached them from her hands. Two of the two traits the Jerry have is determination.

According to The Washington Post, 70% of the American population is classified as being selfish. (“Americans are patriotic, honest, lazy, and selfish, according to Americans: The Washington Post”) Selfishness is displayed in the play All My Sons, as there is much conflict centered around one family relating to the ideas of marriage, death, and lying. In this play, the author, Arthur Miller, reveals that most people really do not care about others, by showing that they are indeed selfish, so they can look better than other people. This is portrayed by the character Joe Keller. Joe’s selfishness is shown through how he blames others, and tries to cover up his mistakes, rather than owning up to them. This interpretation is important because it makes the reader think of how they act, and if they would be that 70% of the American population that is considered selfish.