Anwar Aliy Essay #3 According to Gary Gerstle, Theodore Roosevelt was probably the most decisive historical figure of early 20th century America and its later developments. Throughout the book Gerstle brought up the importance of Rooseveltian Nation and its legacy in the shaping of American 20th century nation building and nationalist discourse. The Rooseveltian Nation, which paradoxically combines racial and civic nationalism together, has flourished from the first decade of the 20th century through its mid-century heyday until its collapse in the 1960s.
Just a Theodore Roosevelt did, I have fallen victim to the Ethical Trap, Ethical Relativismand failed to display the Essential Intellectual Trait, Intellectual Humility. In 2011, I wasdeployed to Kandahar AB, Afghanistan. As a young Master Sergeant I was leading 80 personnelat a Deployed Radar site. One day an Airman approached me and requested to coordinate on-sitereligious services. I jumped at the opportunity.
Theodore Roosevelt, often referred to as Teddy or TR, was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States, from 1901 to 1909. A leader of the Republican Party, he was a leading force of the Progressive Era. Born a sickly child with debilitating asthma, Roosevelt embraced a strenuous lifestyle and successfully regained his health. He integrated his exuberant personality, vast range of interests, and world-famous achievements into a "cowboy" persona defined by robust masculinity. Home-schooled, he became a lifelong naturalist before attending Harvard College.
On December 8th, 1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a speech to the House of Representatives, Members of the Senate, the House Speaker, to the Vice President, and to the American people. Franklin spoke of the incident of the attack on Pearl Harbor the day after it occurred. Mr. Roosevelt was stern and concise. He spoke on the occasion of tragedy to inform the House and the American people what the Japanese have done.
Many people know Theodore Roosevelt as the 26th president of the United States,but many people don’t know he was also a rancher. He loved to go hunting for Bison in the Badlands. He loved it so much he invested $14,000 in cattle and started a ranch south of neighboring towns of Little Missouri and Medora. Teddy wasn’t the typical cowboy he was 5-foot-8 and 135 pounds, he was anything but robust because of him shaving his beard and brushing his teeth. The other cowboys thought he was to clean and dressed too nice to be a cowboy.
In this article “FDR’s Body Politics” by Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe discusses about how a crippled man become the president in the context of the culture that elects. It is about Franklin Roosevelt understood that a politician is not able to control his own body would be perceived as unable to control the body politic. While giving his speeches, he was physical bearing with it when delivering them. He tried to project robust health for himself while imputing disability, weakness, and even disease onto his political opponents and their policies.
Theodore Roosevelt is the right man to become once more President of the United States of American. Roosevelt is, from the looks of it, a charming and very active person, who has faced problems with this country head on and fixed them. He has already been president before now, and he already knows what this country will need in the future when he becomes president once again. The Square deal, he passed, had already helped workers with problematic owners, from making sure the business was a safe place to work, kept riots from starting up, made it that they just needed to work eight hours, and kept business owners from gaining more power by breaking them into smaller businesses. It also made new laws for the treatment of meat and medication,
As a history buff, having dinner with an influential character in American History is more like a dream rather than a hypothetical question. There are so many greats and personal favorites in our history to choose from like Harper Lee, Abraham Lincoln, or Thomas Paine. Although, when I consider only choosing one American figure to have dinner with and engage in conversation about current issues, one man stands out to me: Theodore Roosevelt. I imagine dinner with him to be a night of endless entertainment and compelling conversation. We would eat old fashioned chicken fried steak with gravy and talk about the wilds days when he was cattle rancher and a deputy sheiff, but also his days as a United States
The student who wrote this essay had good, supporting pieces of evidence and made a strong use of transitions, However, the structure and flow of the essay was edgy and sometimes unclear, where random ideas that should have been mentioned in the thesis or the introduction paragraph, show up randomly in the middle of the essay. There were also a few times where the author wrote in the first person, which weakened the overall goal for the essay. The voice of the essay also was strong, but did not keep consistency. There is more emotion when talking about Roosevelt’s view of men and women then there is when the author talks about those of color. There were phrases such as “Probably Roosevelt is made to think . . .”
In the year of a presidential election every informed citizen has to make a choice. They must choose which qualities and which stances they want our president to have. This leads to a large divide among many citizens. Many citizens will look at only the candidates party and not consider their actual focus. It is my belief that our president must focus on his/her citizens, focus on being trustworthy, and focus on his communication.
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.” - Theodore Roosevelt. Americans today are in a character crisis considering now it's all about reaching for the goal but it doesn't matter how you succeed just matters if you succeed. So in other words, people cheat to be at the top instead of trying and learning how to perform it in the right way. Years ago, churches and schools would preach to have moral ethics, but nowadays it's barely ever taught; what is taught is that you have to succeed no matter how you did it.
Theodore Roosevelt’s speech, Strength and Decency, included a variety of rhetorical strategies that allowed him to persuade educated, mature, and, strong men to become powerful and decent human beings. Roosevelt’s purpose of presenting this speech was to persuade the audience to behave like the strong men they are but with decency and manners because, in the 1900s, men behaved in a very manly fashion. However, men lacked manners and morality. Due to the very questionable propriety of men, Roosevelt was driven to address how men should act the way a real mature man would in order to further improve society. By using rhetorical strategies such as repetition, Christian appeal, and a serious tone, Roosevelt is able to show his audience how strength and decency go hand in hand.
