POL Final Assignment

Assignment: Due 12/17 Choose a passage from JFK, Reagan, or Obama, write it out and explain what it means.

The Portion of Text I chose was from President Kennedy's Inauguration speech since no specific choice pertaining to the three presidents were given

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This we pledge and more."

To me JFk was saying during this portion of the speech that he has plans for stronger america. He wants everyone to know that when it comes to Americas core which is liberty and freedom for all that he and America would go to any means to preserve these principles set down by our founding fathers. This was one of my favorite inaugural speeches and one of the most powerful in my opinion.

POL Assignment 11

Assignment Due 12/10 : Choose a passage from Wilson, or Roosevelt, write out the passage and interpret it and explain why you chose this passage.

Go to the link for the The Great Depression. Choose a passage from this website and write it out and interpret it and explain why you chose this passage. Also choose a picture or painting and explain the content of piece and how it relates to class.

 

The Passage I chose is from Roosevelt's second bill of rights. The passage reads as follows: I do not think that any of us Americans can be content with mere survival. Sacrifices that we and our allies are making impose upon us all a sacred obligation to see to it that out of this war we and our children will gain something better than mere survival.

 

I think Roosevelt is trying to say that survival is not the only thing to be gained out of this war and due to all the sacrifices made by our own people and allies we need to gain more than just survival to justify the lives we have lost.

I chose this passage because I liked the way It sounded as a motivation piece and I think it greatly complies with the status of the war they needed to have moral victories as much as physical ones.

 

The passage I chose from the great depression website is as follows: Almost all nations sought to protect their domestic production by imposing tariffs, raising existing ones, and setting quotas on foreign imports. The effect of these restrictive measures was to greatly reduce the volume of international trade: by 1932 the total value of world trade had fallen by more than half as country after country took measures against the importation of foreign goods.

 

This passage is very straight forward and to me and because of the economic failing foreign trade was ceased and so the revenue generated from foreign trade would also die out. I chose this passage because I found it interesting because I feel that foreign trade would help keep the economy more stable but apparently the same was not thought back then.

 

 

 

This picture shows of the struggle of trying to secure a job during the time of the great depression. I choose this picture because to me it relates to class by showing a piece of the time period and the economy has its roots in politics somehow someway which is what this class is about

POL Assignment 10

Assignment Due 12/3: Choose a passage from the Gettysburg Address or the Second Inaugural Address. Write out the passage and interpret its meaning and explain why you chose it.

The Passage I chose is from Lincolns Gettysburg Address.

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure."


What I think this passage means to me is that when the four fathers of our country founded this new land  they wanted to build a foundation for future generations that would be built on the foundation of equal rights and freedoms for anyone willing to live in the new land. However now we are in a war and a war against our own brothers in order to keep alive the foundation this country was built on watch it fall in battle

I chose this excerpt from the Gettysburg Address because it states in only a few lines what the civil war was about we started out one way but people decided along the way that it was alright to take these privileges away and only keep them for ourselves but that goes entirely against what this country started on and now this war will be the model to see if country's of freedom can exist or if they were meant to fail.