The American President

For many Americans, President Trump’s election has become a glorified blame-game. This upset in a widely considered “already won” election, left many pointing fingers at groups who they believed were responsible for electing our current Commander-in-Chief. As with Brexit earlier in 2016, Trump’s unsuspected victory has been largely attributed to the working- and middle-class’s fear of being “left behind” by globalization (Frankel 2016). Trump’s campaign actively addressed this concern by focusing

In Abraham Lincoln Great American President, Brenda Haugen discuss the division that the Civil War cause and how Abraham Lincoln became president so that he could rebuild and heal from the Civil War. He wanted to reunite the states but he did much more than that. He freed the slaves with little to no education or military knowledge. Abraham Lincoln was the president was the president that change America for the better. After the Civil War, America needed someone to help them rebuild and ensure that

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

Hope and Change? History was made in 2008. The first African American was elected President of the United States. In Barack Obama’s acceptance speech he described his election as a defining moment and one that would bring change to America. Has that change come? Race relations have always been a topic of great debate, even more so since an African American was elected President. Can a black president change the way people think about race and its place in everyday life? As we are

Barack Hussein Obama Jr, the first African American President of the United States, was born on August the 4th 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama’s birth is considered as an important turning point for African American’s in history, he was the first African American to serve as a United States president. Barack Obama is currently the 44th president of the United States. He was raised in a middle class family with education being the core of their lives and had very noble values. Obama was a graduate

Hope and Change? History was made in 2008. The first African American was elected President of the United States. In Barack Obama’s acceptance speech he described his election as a defining moment and one that would bring change to America. Has that change come? Race relations have always been a topic of great debate, even more so since an African American was elected President. Can a black president change the way people think about race and its place in everyday life? As we are

Americans have been blinded by the economic success so much so, that they have failed to take action as citizens against a corrupt government. President Harding claims to serve this great nation for the people. However, the White House and his administration have been plagued with rumors and scandals. Are our hard earned tax dollars going toward bettering this nation? Or are they fulfilling the selfish needs of his cabinet members who take advantage of the trusting American people? The latest and

The American Civil War is frequently called the first modern war. Never before had mass armies confronted each other on the battlefield with the deadly weapons created by the industrial revolution. The resulting casualties dwarfed anything in the American experience. Beginning as a battle of army versus army, the war became a conflict of society against society, in which the distinction between military and civilian targets often disappeared (pg. 403). President Abraham Lincoln controlled the transformations

What defines a great President and what do we mean when we say someone is “the greatest”? Firstly a great President must be viewed as person who has achieved success in the office they hold. That includes effective implementation of policies which are clearly expressed prior to election and that are in the interests of the people who elected them. This is the very foundation of Democracy within the United States and was defined by Abraham Lincoln as “government of the people, by the people, for