DBQ: Access the validity of the following statement using background knowledge and the provided documents. "Theodore Roosevelt was not a true progressive reformer‚ but rather a politician that responded to the political climate of the age." Progressivism originated as the optimistic vision that society was capable of improvement‚ and that continued growth and advancement were the nation’s destiny. This‚ however‚ would require direct‚ purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs
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walking‚ Brad’s correctional officer side came out and he was very protective of me‚ making sure I was at his side at all times. This surprised me because my brother’s usually personality was him being a troublemaker but I guess on the inside‚ he was a teddy bear. As we slid down slides‚ you heard brad’s deep‚ loud‚ and rough voice let out giggles and squeals. The day at the water park came to an unfortunate end when the park had to close due to an atrocious thunderstorm. After Camelbeach‚ my family
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Story of Teddy Stellard‚ M.D. The story about the life of Teddy Stellard and his teacher Miss Thompson had a strong impact on each and everyone’s heart. It had touched my heart because I wasn’t expecting that a simple help from one person can build up the future of a child like Teddy. It had enlightened not only my mind but also my heart on how to deal with other people and how I should try to understand someone’s past before I judge them. The initial reaction of Miss Thompson to Teddy was disappointment
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The Teddy Boy Youth Movement The consumer boom of the 1950s America did not reach Britain until the 1960s but nevertheless working class teenagers could for the first time afford good clothes‚ a bicycle or motorcycle and entertainment. Teddyboys were the first group of youths to dress to impress‚ they made it acceptable for young people to care about what one looked like all the time and dress purely for show‚ instead of just having one’s work or school clothes. The style was tailored‚ and featured
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of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. It was clear to Salinger that the Americans‚ equipped for the first time in a long while with a good amount of money‚ flooded to the suburbs and replaced any sorrows they might have had with material products and consumerism; creating an America of conformity and extravagance that Salinger would devote much of his writing to critiquing. There is a strong resemblance of Holden Caulfield to J.D. Salinger in which one could say it is quite autobiographical about
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Teddy Roosevelt’s face deserves to be on Mount Rushmore for numerous reasons. For example‚ he made it his job to improve public health. After reading Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” he was baffled and extremely disappointed. So he took matters into his own hands and fought for a more sanitary meat packaging industry. Roosevelt made sure that instead of having rats‚ rat poison and bread mixed into your meat there was 100% sanitation. Also‚ he created the Pure Food and Drugs Act. Additionally‚ this act
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Jerome David Salinger The famous American writer Jerome David Salinger is a representative of the existentialism and neo- realism styles in the literature. Existentialism is a term which has been applied to the work of a disparate group of late nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who‚ despite profound doctrinal differences‚ shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject - not merely the thinking subject‚ but the acting‚ feeling‚ living human individual.
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The Catcher In The Rye By: J.D. Salinger “People think being alone makes you lonely‚ but I do not think that is true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” - Kim Culbertson Holden’s attitude to life in general in this novel is a very confusing and abrupt one. His consistent criticism and dislike for “phonies” along with his ideas about life and the ways people should live it‚ creates an abstract image of a confused‚ and socially unstable youth. He believes
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"Good people...are good because they come to wisdom through failure." According to William Saroyan‚ this means that a person can learn from mistakes and become a better person. This statement is confirmed in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies. J.D. Salinger’s Holden is constantly trying to preserve the innocence in children throughout the novel. In addition Holden also attempts to keep his brother Allie‚ alive in his thoughts and actions. William Golding’s
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Tunes For Bears To Dance To – Robert Cormier. Plot – Chapter 1 In chapter 1 of Tunes for Bears to Dance to by Robert Cormier we find out that Henry lives next to a crazy house and sees an old man who is Mr. Levine everyday walking in and out and he wonders why they let him go without anyone else. We find out that Henry had broken his knee by falling down the stairs of where he lives‚ which is on the third floor of a tenement building. Eddie which was Henrys brother had died about a year ago of
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