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Bertha Wilson was a remarkable woman who changed the face of the Supreme Court of Canada forever. She was the first woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first female partner in a major law firm. Even though she wasn’t a Chief Justice, it was a huge accomplishment for a woman to be a Puisne Justice. Bertha Wilson was chosen for my Heritage Fair topic because Bertha worked hard even when she knew that no woman had been where she had been before. This

Realism versus Idealism. This argument is almost as old as the world we live in. The Unites States has gone through a lot of stages in its history. The United States was sometimes realist and sometimes idealist and that led to different presidents, governments and polices. A Realist is a person who believes that the word and the people of the word can’t change. They believe that we can make the world a better but the people will still be the same no matter what you do to them. For example Mahan

resulted in Roosevelt splitting the Republican vote between him and William Howard Taft and gave Democrat Woodrow Wilson an advantage (Bardes, Shelley, and Schmidt). The Progressive Party took a platform that was new and innovative for the time period in which it began. To understand the the start of the Progressive Party one must acknowledge its political platform, the outcome of the presidential election between Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, and the outcome and end of the Progressive Party. After failing

Overview What is Campaign Finance Reform? Campaign finance regulation refers to attempts to regulate the ways in which political campaigns are funded. This includes all spending done to promote or support the promotion of candidates, ballot measures, political parties and more. Regulations can be applied to natural persons, corporations, political action committees, political parties and other organizations. They can come in the form of incentives, such as providing public financing to candidates

urban boom, Economical, Social, Political, and Environmental corruptions became very prominent. Soon enough, people gathered together for change, a time for progression. These people became Progressives, and eventually, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson became the face of the Progressive Era. The Presidents all had their different Ideals, but they all pushed for the same goal, the progression of the United States. The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt happened very suddenly. After

Progressive responses and shaped The very famous Theodore Roosevelt once said, “A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.” From 1900 to 1918 the progressive era took America by storm. This era progresses reform and try to change the social activist way of thinking. We see how this era main goal was to eliminate corruption to make society whole. However, the first closest related factors-industrial, imperialism, and nationalism were being combined for a

fight has just begin, and I do not want to make any mistake” Pinchot’s friends in the Forest Service were quite willing to take the issues to the press and each department began an unprecedented battle for public support. The controversy only grew when Taft cleared Ballinger of all charges and allowed him to dismiss Glavis. Pinchot took this as evidence the president was willing to cover up Ballinger’s actions and despite Taft’s pleas for peace stood his ground. As Pinchot took a two-week vacation

ohn F Kennedy JFK was an amazing person, president, and actor. He was born on May 29, 1917. He went to Canterbury, but he was a very mischievous boy. He then continued to The Choate school for most of his life then sent off to Harvard for college. John was a very brilliant boy but didn't show it much. He preferred spending his time playing sports, hanging out with girls, and of course joking around. His first few years at Harvard was all about laughter but some studies. Later, John, and

We have all heard about the one and only Theodore Roosevelt also known as Teddy Roosevelt. There are many significant facts about this president before and after he was elected. But let's start from the beginning. Theodore roosevelt was born on Oct.27 ,1858 and died on Jan 6 ,1919. But before he died, he had lots of jobs like working in the civil war, he was a secretary of the navy, and was a New York police officer. Later on in his life he married a woman named Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and

In 1900, the government was unresponsive to the wants of laborers because lawmakers favored business owners rather than employees. This can be shown in the Supreme Court’s undermining of the ICC which was a direct response to farmer-labor demands. With hostile courts and Congress, labor turned to collective bargaining with employers to get their demands addressed. (Henretta, Hinderaker, Edwards, & Self, 2015, p.520). The government would become more responsive very shortly due to Theodore Roosevelt’s