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Great American Political Thinkers In the year of 1776, the United States became an independent country. At that moment, the great men who fought for its independence began to create the government and shape American politics. In Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, he identifies twelve of the most influential men and the political traditions they created, including the Founding Fathers who started it all. Additionally, Hofstadter informs the reader of other

As cities across the country continue to age and show signs of deterioration, planning boards and city councils push for urban renewal projects that, not only updates existing infrastructure and city amenities, but also sets aside land for cleanup and conversion into parks and greenspace. This wave of green investment is just the latest turn that “urban renewal” has taken since its conception during the 1940s by master builders such as Robert Moses. However, the various stages that are reflected

The writer and Nobel Prize winner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner was the first of four sons to Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. His family settled in Oxford when he was about five years old, and Faulkner spends most of his life there. Faulkner was successful early in his life, but during the fifth grade he lost interest in school and started missing classes. He did not graduate from high school, and later on he was able to go

Muckrakers   The term “muckraker” was originally coined in a speech in 1906 accredited to President Theodore Roosevelt.  It was alluding to the man with the Muck-Rake in Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Process.  The Man with the Muck rake seeks material advances by raking filth.  Roosevelt defined this term as "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders".   Muckrakers in the Progressive Era, a time from 1820 until 1920 when America quickly industrialized

parks and recreation to be ever increasing in both the public and private sector. To accomplish my goals in the future I must first be able to get my foot in the door, Internships with Miami-Dade County assistant director's office or the operations office seem to be the best way to get into a job with the county government. Nevertheless, there are skills that I must be proficient before attempting to continue

World War I was the first major war in history, conflicts between the Europe itself and of course US. The war lasted four years, from the summer of 1914 to fall of 1918, there are a few causes that led to the war, and there is the immediate and the underlying cause of the war. The immediate cause would be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sort of like a spark for the war, the underlying cause is the long term effect of the war that it would consist, would be the military power, imperialism

I was waddling around in my playpen like any happy four-year-old would. Picking up and grabbing random toys and hurling them as hard my my chubby arm could. I looked at my brother with the biggest grin I could muster, as we heard my mother’s off-pitch voice, singing our favorite Disney songs to us, currently one from Sleeping Beauty, much to my brother’s dismay. It was the best day I can remember. My mother finished up with the song, and I thought it was the best thing I had ever heard. I didn’t

The Treaty of Versailles was first and foremost the end to World War 1, the Great War. The Great War was a war of slaughter on a new scale as all countries involved had suffered massive loss of life; 1.8 million Germans, 1.7 million Russian, 1.4 million French, 1.3 million Austro-Hungarians and 750 thousand British soldiers. As a result, the victors were bitter and were uninterested in Woodrow Wilson’s promise of a gentle peace agreement. They wanted to receive money and territory as compensation

1. The relationship between Czar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm was tense, but friendly. Through their letters, you can tell that these two men had a friendship that neither wished to end. They talked about being saddened that their friendship may come to an end due to this was. 2. The tone taken in these letters are friendly, but urgent. Both leaders required an immediate response due to possibility of a war being so immediate. Towards the end of the document, Kaiser Wilhelm without much resistance

There were four main leaders during the Versailles Conference and they were: Woodrow Wilson, George Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, and Vittorio Orlando. Each of them had major goals that would benefit them since the war was on their land. Vittorio Orlando, the Prime Minister of Italy, worked to get the extra land for Italy. Originally,