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He chose people from different backgrounds, so they could make true comparisons and solutions. With his office in order, F.D.R started his new deal plan, which included him passing many bills that would help the nation’s economy. Roosevelt reopened the banks and even held a “bank holiday” to end a run by depositors seeking to withdraw their money from faltering banks. On March 12, FDR went on the radio—giving the first of many "fireside chats"—to explain his plan to Americans and to assure them that their money would be safe in the re-opened banks. (Miller Center) Come 1934, Roosevelt created the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was charged with regulating financial markets.

A few days ago, Trump used the chance of his inaugural address to the Congress to reiterate some important promises. He mentioned that we wanted to defeat the problem of drugs in the country and echoed the previous verbal promises of presidents, such as Ronal Reagan and Richard Nixon. His anger remained directed at hard drugs, such as heroin and never once did he mention marijuana, to the delight of many Americans. Trump promised during his speech that he will do everything in his power to slow down the drug issue and stop it altogether as part of his “Make America

On October 28, 1919, Congress, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, passed the Volstead Act, more popularly called the National Prohibition Act. This act established the banning or prohibition of: selling, producing and distributing alcoholic products. This act put thousands out on the streets and angered millions of Americans. But as Americans, the citizens joined together and managed to discover a bypass for this newly established law. Bootlegging was the given name for this detour.

When Ronald Reagan and George Bush first declared a War on Drugs in America, they opened a bunch of chaos, crime, social injustice, and a lot of heartache in the black community. The Drug War policies and laws that was implemented, violates human rights, and force police officers to aggressively pursue nonviolent criminals. This system was perfectly designed to gain social control rather than relieve neighborhoods from drugs, which have a lot of citizens questioning was this a major success or failure. Since the war on drugs have been declared, Americans have experienced nothing but an elevated level of mass incarceration, while drugs and violence have reached an all-time high in our communities. The prisons in America are leading the world

Through years of hardwork and dedication, he was finally considered to be delegate in the Continental Congress. “One of the main important factor that probably impacted America the greatest was when

Both became involved in campaigns against the discrimination of minorities and promoted constitutional rights (8, 9). In August of 1846, Douglass gave the most controversial speech of his career at the World Temperance Convention held in London (1, 65). Within this oration, he attacked the American temperance movement because it failed to criticize slave owners who used alcohol to pacify their workers and because temperance activists were hostile to free blacks (1, 65). Douglass was tremendously satisfied with the outcome of his trip to England and was soon ready to go home. Even though he was ready return to America, recapture still remained a possibility for him if and when he came back.

during that period Capone was loved and hated by the media and the public. When prohibition was finally taken off in 1933 people started to argue that it was not really justice what the government did to Capone . On the other hand we can see how Capone was responsible for the murder and ordering the murders of a lot of people and his acts of violence will remain as the main point of his legacy in which people will remember him. Capone’s image as one of the most terrible persons in america history will life forever as the dangerous gangster America faced. This will remain long after his death in the many films and books that had been inspired on his

He murdered males and females ranging from sixteen to over sixty years old. Ramirez’s epileptic seizures contributed to his violence, because seizures can stimulate the amygdala in the brain, which can lead to fear, rage and direct attack. Additionally, excessive hormone secretion and synaptic misfires in the brain are known to trigger violent behaviour. Ramirez had a marijuana and cocaine habit, which escalated his violent tendencies.

In the 20s, the American government tried to enforce a ban on alcohol, but in the process, caused “the greatest crime wave in the country 's history, causing thousands of deaths from bad alcohol, and creating a general (and persisting) contempt among the citizenry for the laws of the United States.” Gore also uses logos when he writes that in 1969 the government slightly “curtailed” the supply of marijuana, and this led to kids getting hooked on more dangerous drugs like heroin, and overall increasing the number of deaths. He suggests that the government, and the crime organizations, benefits from making drugs illegal. That way, both sides are able to flip a profit. This also appeals to the audience’s opinion— many Americans distrust the government and have negative opinions about it.

On April 4, 1967 Doctor Martin Luther King Jr gave the speech, “Beyond Vietnam-A time to Break Silence.” In this powerful speech Dr. King addresses his followers, and explains why the same people who are advocating for civil rights, should also protest the war in Vietnam. Dr. King’s main appeal is towards pathos because he is explaining his reasons, most of which are moral in some way. Dr. King develops the central claim of the speech by explaining how the war is taking away resources from the poor, how the soldiers are disproportionately poor people, and lastly how the war is completely against his morals. His central claim of the speech revolves around war being an enemy of the poor.

The investigation’s goal was to expose Neil Goldschmidt for his sexual affairs with a 14 year old girl. The author also helped people know how greatly these events impacted the girl. She was a smart girl with a strong ambition prior to the raping, but afterwards she dropped out of school, had many neurological diseases such as depression and post traumatic stress disorder, and was arrested numerous times due to possession of drugs (Jaquiss). Her life was completely ruined, yet she still looked up to Goldschmidt. ““I want to personally make sure you get shit for this,” she told Portland officer Clarence Lankis, according to his report.

Expository Essay #2 Question The Synar Amendment With the aim of reducing the number of tobacco-related premature deaths per year, numerous laws restricting the underage access to tobacco products were enacted by the United States government in the 1990s. The most significant one was the Synar Amendment, which was adopted in June 1992 and afterwards changed the basis of anti-tobacco regulations at both the state and local level. In this essay, I will provide a clear definition of the term as well as state the reasons for choosing it as a source for my research paper.

Chapter two introduces the policy problems related to the War on Drugs, as well as other policies that banned or limited other use of alcohol and drugs. Authors start with the history of the regulations of mood altering substances that began in colonial times, and then it escalated with “The Father of Modern Drug Enforcement”, Dr. Hamilton Wright. President Roosevelt assigned him to be the first Opium Drug Commissioner of the United States. Dr. Wright saw drugs as a big problem, according to the text the drug prohibitions started with his opinions on limiting drug use. In 1906 the Pure Food and Drug Act was signed and required the labeling of the ingredients of the products.

He dates all the way back to tension of the oil crisis in the 50 's between Iran and U.S. Farber then explains what he feels was the immediate result of this crisis when Shah Reza Pahlavi was granted protection in the U.S by Carter, for cancer treatment. This lead to student revolutionaries to declare a break with the past history of Iran and to take America out of their system and to ulimately gain more power by allowing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to take over. A strong influence was the CIA 's role in instigating a coup which allowed Pahlavi to power. This allowed the SAVAC security forces to torture and murder those that were trying to oppose. From this the Iranians had hate that was built up, and they are assumed to feel that America was acting superior over them and that they were in mockery of their lifestlye and religion.

His role as a powerful social reformer resulted in an increased appeal to reform. The book he ended up writing, How the Other Half Lives, even caught future president, Theodore Roosevelt’s attention. Roosevelt began offering him jobs, claiming that he had “read [his] book and [he had] come to help” (Moore). The two teamed up; Riis taking Roosevelt to the slums to show him everything he explained in his book. Moved by the sights, the future president succumbed to his distraught conscience; he took action and “demanded that city officials pass the first significant legislation to improve the state of affairs in immigrant neighborhoods” (Moore).