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    first African American president being sworn into office. For many in the technological era there were both times of sorrow and hope. There will be many times where people will look back into history years from now and remember the significant events of the 2000s, and a big reason for that is the advances both in technology and society that took place. On the day of November 4, 2008, a man of strong beliefs from Hawaii named Barack Obama announced that he was running for president of the United

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    All the women in my family, myself included, love the Rob Reiner film American President (the one where Michael Douglas is the president and falls for Annette Benning) to the point where my mother and two aunts can quote the whole thing without missing a beat. While I’m not quite on their level yet, one quote that I can always jump in on is: “We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them.” I want to be one of those people—a relentless problem solver with new, creative

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    out more about the most controversial American presidents: George

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    As American citizens, it is our obligation to set up a future for the next generation.We have not achieved this goal yet. Right now America is divided. There is the conservatives ( the republicans ) and the liberals ( democrats). Conservatives are all about the preservation of our rights and our children’s rights. Presidents with conservative ideas and good Christian faith are what has helped this country last this long. Ronald Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Donald Trump are

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    and became the first African-American president of the United States in 2009. It gave hope to all minorities that as long as you work hard and educate yourself in America all things are possible. As an African American man was elected president despite America’s racial history of oppression. Such event promoted a sense of acceptance, fairness, and diversity. In America all things were possible. However, many people were unhappy about having an African American president and criticized all things he

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    Encourage Innovation President Abraham Lincoln once advised George McClellan, “if we never try, we shall never succeed (Phillips, 1992).” Lincoln was an innovator and the only American president to hold a patent. He constantly pushed his generals during the Civil War to move the war effort forward and he considered mistakes to be “learning events, or steps in the right direction (Phillips, 1992). In addition to encouraging his generals, Lincoln personally sought out new weapons such as repeating

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    unique structure of the American Government and the many interesting facets of its President, the American Presidency can assume such roles. Since the military is headed by civilian control, the President’s status as Commander-in-Chief declares him as one of and head of the civilian population. The American President is the leader of his political party as chief of party, the ceremonial head of the American Government as chief of state, and a representation of

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    President Obama, as a Commander-in-Chief, is responsible for safeguarding and protecting Americans, their interests (whether in the United States or abroad), and foreign nationals in the United States (US). Thus, the president is accountable to the American people and the international communities to provide leadership during crises to assure the well-being of American citizens. Consequently, the recent Ebola epidemic developing in West Africa presented the president and his administration with

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    stated during the first Presidential elections, that “many of the members cast their eyes towards General Washington, as President, and shaped their ideas of the powers to be given a President, by their opinions of his virtue” (“George Washington” 127). He meant that George Washington was a man that, in the eyes of all the chair-holders, fit all the categories that a President should have. America at the time of George Washington was a colony of England. For over 150 years, England was the dominant

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    Ronald Reagan was a beloved American president. However, he didn’t represent the prodigious archetype all citizens should follow. Reagan declared that the “government isn’t the solution to our problem” rather, “the government is the problem”. He decried that years of new deal-style tax- and- spend programs created a federal government that reminded him of a create who was all appetite at one end with no sense of responsibility on the other. In essence, he argues the government undermined one major

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