Jefferson Davis

breaks out between the U.S. and Great Britain. Causes of the War of 1812 include merchant grievances – Britain didn’t respect U.S. citizenship, and native conflict because Britain was enabling the natives. The underlying cause was national pride. Jefferson reverts back to earlier years and chooses not to go to war. The war is brought to an end in 1814 when the Treaty of Ghent is signed. Britain relinquishes the gained territory. In 1815, the U.S. wins the Battle of New Orleans. This leads to an…

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” This quote by John F. Kennedy exemplifies the insight Ray Bradbury portrays in “Fahrenheit 451” about a future world in which society has finally carved the perfect people with the perfect lives. Everything seems to be okay for Guy Montag, as he has completely conformed to what is expected of him, until Clarisse, a woman who has been raised knowing the truth of the world, unknowingly displays human connection that Guy himself has…

Wallace Nutting was a purveyor of a past that fit his own conservative ideas. A charismatic salesman of history, he constantly sought to challenge the status quo. Thomas Denenberg uses Wallace Nutting’s brand of colonial idealism as a parallel with an American society on the precipice of social change at the turn of the century. Nutting successfully provided the middle class an escape from the adversity of the “machine age”. Using Wallace Nutting as a tool to discuss anti-modernism, Denenberg…

Machiavelli wrote his Discourses on Livy in 1517, as a response to the Roman historian Livy, in which he goes in depth about his take on republican ideals, including the guardianship of liberty, the effects of religion on the state, and the danger of conspiracies against the sovereign. He argues about who should be responsible for guarding the liberty of the republic, whether or not this power should reside with the people or the noble classes, using the political structure of ancient Rome and…

The American dream was an idea that everyone had the equal opportunity to achieve success through the works of determination, hard work, and initiative. We can see in The Mason and Bricklayer’s boy, expresses the hard work and determination of both Bates and Lubrano’s father had to go through by being long-term blue-collar bricklayers in order for their sons to become “office” white-collar workers representing the achievement of the American dream. In The Mason interview of Carl Murray Bates,…

Throughout the excerpt from the book, “The Greening of America” written by Charles A. Reich, he interprets his theory, emphasizes the differences, and explicates what Consciousness I, II, and III are per his model. Reich starts off by stating that the American Dream is “—the dream shared by the colonists and the immigrants…. —a dream premised on human dignity, a dignity that made each man an equal being in a spiritual sense, and envisioned a community based upon individual dignity”. This feeds…

2. "Salus populi suprema lex esto” "Salus populi suprema lex esto” means let the good of the people be the supreme law. This idea ties in with the declaration of independence which becomes a justification for the American colonies to break free from Englands rule. Under Englands rule, the laws placed on the people of the colonies were not for the good of the people, but rather for the good of the English who were in debt 137 million pounds after the 7 years war that lasted from 1754-1763.…

The Motivational Manifesto was written by Brendon Burchard, this book is a powerful and poetic call to reclaim our Personal Power. This book starts you off with a couple of strong quotes; one by Albert Einstein and another by John F Kennedy. JFK’s goes as follows; “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”. As you read the book you start to feel the weight of the quote, even in the first section of the book as it breaks down human nature; on freedom, on fear, and on motivation…

Book Summary: Thomas Jefferson versus Alexander Hamilton: Confrontations That Shaped a Nation Name Institutional Affiliation Date Summary The literary scholar Noble Cunningham widely known by his documentary right-ups penned down the book Thomas Jefferson versus Alexander Hamilton: Confrontations That Shaped a Nation. In this case, it is the book under viewing window that needs articulation of a summary note as presented by the author. As per Cunningham, the book is all about the…

As the political theorist and philosopher, Edmund Burke said; “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” The United States of America was ruled by a tyrant king in 1776; they fought back which lead them to declare freedom and seek a new form of government. How does our written plan of government prevent all the power from going to a single place? Our plan of government stops a single place from getting too much power by federalism, separation of…