May 22‚ 2013 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington‚ D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: You recently attended President Bush’s inauguration of his memorial library and‚ you must be thinking about your own legacy while you complete your 2nd term in office. It’s not too late for you to put your name next to some the greatest Presidents we’ve had in this country like Ronald Reagan and many others. But you need to have the political courage to do the right
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My Worst Vacation Ever The purpose of the first leg of our ill-fated trip was to attend my sister-in-law’s wedding in a tiny suburb of Nuremburg called Weilersbach. Weilersbach is an adorable little town where men push empty wheelbarrows and women stand on their doorsteps sweeping nothing. I assume that the town was bombed during the war‚ but the Germans have restored it to what it looked like when gingerbread men roamed the earth. There are several businesses‚ quite a few homes and a windowless
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Barbara Baynton in her series of short stories Bush Studies‚ has an imagined view of life in England. She portrays the bush as a dark and evil place to reside. She places England at the top of her psychological and social hierarchy. She views the lifestyle there to be safer and more acceptable. Baynton places Australian society below that of England. She does this due to the fact that at the time of writing Australia was only a new fledgling country and it didn’t have the predetermined social order
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President Frankenstein For each of the categories that were decided to be the most important qualities in a president‚ there were many past presidents that appeared to excel in each area. Communication: We decided that our President should possess the communication that President Reagan had. During his time in office‚ he was considered to be “the great communicator”. While he was president‚ almost everybody could relate to him‚ he had everyone’s trust‚ and used the technology of his day to his
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MY WORST JOB I have held a couple of jobs in my short yet young life. I have not so much as hated a one particular job but rather didn’t like a certain conditions or a particular person‚ but at Western Inventory I recall too many things that were unpleasant‚ intolerable and unbearable. The first job I ever had‚ that I recall I hated the most was working at Western Inventory Service where I worked for roughly about three years. It isn’t a classy job and it isn’t the cleanest one either
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As a teenager I had many goals for myself in mind for the future. I decided that for my goals to happen I need to pursue a college degree after I graduated high school‚ but I knew that my parents wouldn’t be able to afford my college tuition. Before joining the service‚ I had plenty of part-time jobs as waitressing in different restaurants which at the time I thought it was a stressful job. If I had only known that going through army basic training was going to involved double the stress and aches
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The Watergate scandal was massive‚ but I don’t feel that it is the worst in history‚ although it would appear that way in the eyes of others. Maybe because this was before my time‚ but I don’t find the Watergate scandal surprising. Since then‚ there have been other scandals involving different presidents‚ including sex scandals and controversy around accurate voting counts. In my honest opinion‚ I feel the counting of votes controversy to be far worse. But to most people‚ during that time‚ I see
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through a new tax on corporate franchises. His efforts at moderate reforms included a number of conservation measures and improvements in public education. In 1900‚ Platt and other New York Republicans urged President McKinley to take Roosevelt as his running mate; the previous vice president had died in office and Platt was anxious to be rid of the hard-charging governor. Roosevelt was initially reluctant‚ but quickly realized that he had no base in the Republican Party and that his only hope for
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A Mothers Worst Nightmare On a very cold March day my son Garrett and my daughter Jordan were playing ball in our backyard when Garrett’s ball went into the neighbor’s yard. Garrett proceeded to go into their yard to get the ball not realizing how long their dog’s chain was. The dog lunged forward and grabbed Garrett by the back of his jacket and pulled him in and then proceeded to viciously attack him. This colossal fury wolf like dog began to assail my feeble little boy. While
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THE ILLEGAL BUSH MEAT TRADE The second half of the 20th century has seen the continent of Africa in continuous turmoil. Civil wars‚ the AIDS epidemic‚ deforestation‚ and desertification are just a few of the problems facing Africa. A more recent threat to this ancient and fragile environment has emerged and is quickly gaining strength at devouring life the bush meat trade. "Bush meat" refers to the smoked carcasses of various wild‚ and often endangered species that are sold illegally at rural
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