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The famous American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, once said "Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." Franklin D. Roosevelt brings attention to the importance of one 's immigration history that has shaped the Western societies of the present. Being part of a first generation Canadian family, my family 's immigration history is still very recent. However, the decision to come to Canada was not one made in an instant

Americans with Disabilities Act passed by Congress in 1990 and signed by President George H. W. Bush to become law takes effect, to prevent discrimination against persons with disabilities in accordance with the same way that contributed to the Civil Rights Act of him to prevent discrimination on grounds of religion, race, and sex. Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination by businesses and government 's side against persons with disabilities in the areas of employment, during the

My Inspirational President Obama I have never seen a person so good at giving public speeches in my entire life. That person became memorable in my life immediately after I saw/heard him speaking on television in front of a thousand people as he became the first African-American president of the United States of America. I thought this person simply cannot be an African-American, but the most honorable gentleman. He introduced himself without a fear, but with confidence and belief that

Breaking News: The President addresses the American people on live TV from the oval office: My fellow Americans: As promised during my presidential campaign, today we passed legislation proposing that all employers are required to offer health insurance. The United States of America is the leading nation of the free world. We have the moral obligation to take executive actions to take care of our citizens by providing health care access to all. From the late 1800s to the present day the delivery

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln, his wife Mary, an army officer named Henry Rathbone and his fiancé Clara Harris were seated in a private box at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. attending a production of the comedy, “Our American Cousin”. President Abraham Lincoln sat quietly and unassuming, not realizing that within moments his life would come to an end. At 10:15 PM a single shot was fired to the back of his head leaving a metal ball lodged in his skull, and a trail of blood running down

The reasons why President Kennedy wants to send Americans to the moon by the end of 1961. The invention has not been invented yet, he believes that our leadership in science and industry and the hope for peace, and security people had it was their obligations to ourselves as well as others, all this require a lot of effort to solve for the good men that were going to be the world's leading space- fairing nation. President Kennedy believe that they were capable of standing heat and stress for several

Harry S. Truman is a part of the American Presidents Series and is written by Robert Dallek with the help of Arthur M. Schlesinger and Sean Wilentz. The biography details the life of Harry Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States. Truman was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Vice President and took office when Roosevelt died during the last few months of World War II. Truman was faced with the difficult task of ending the war and caring for his country during the aftermath. Truman went on

How far did US presidents hinder rather than help the development of African American civil rights in the period from 1865-1941? During the period 1865 to 1941, there were as many as 18 presidents in office and in one way or another, they would’ve had to deal with the ongoing issue of black civil rights, whether that be improving them or reversing them. 1865 was the year of the end of the civil war, which has been a war over the question of whether slavery should be allowed. The South was defending

The iconic figure, John F. Kennedy, an American president of the United States, once famously said, "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." Education is the single most important factor in the development of a country. When I started thinking about why education is so important, I remembered my high school years when I enrolled in Robert A. Millikan High School in Long Beach, California. It was there, where I was amazed by academia – a rigorous community

W. James Popham, former president of the American Education Research Association, defines standardized testing as, “Any tests that are administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard predetermined manner.” (Background). Standardized tests, such as the SAT or ACT, have been included in the American education ever since the mid-1800s. These certain tests incorporate multiple choice questions which could be graded easily with haste by the usage of automated test scoring machines. The tests also