... which was abruptly stopped by his assassination. The Assassination of James Garfield President James A. Garfield was and still is one of the most respected presidents to serve in the White House. Millard book is split into parts, each part a significant chunk from Garfield's life. Millard wrote of Garfield becoming president in the first two parts, then focuses more on his death in parts three and four of her book, and I found what she wrote to be fascinating. The book switched between telling the main events mainly from three people perspectives, which were Alexander...
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...Chapter 23 Outline Politics in the Gilded Age 1. 10 Important Facts a) Ulysses S. Grant - He was a great soldier but an inept politician. Republicans would wave “the bloody shirt” for Grant which was reviving gory memories of the civil war. Grant had won with 214 electoral votes to 80 votes for Seymour. b) James G. Blaine - He was from Maine and was a radiantly personable congressman with an elastic conscience. Blaine was one of the late 19th century's leading Republicans and champion of the moderate reformist faction of the party known as the "Half-Breeds". c) Burly “Boss” Tweed – He employed briery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk the metropolis of as much 200 million dollars. Tweed’s luck ran out when the New York Times discovered evidence in 1871 and published. He then died behind bars. d) Democrats – They had a solid electoral base in the south and in the northern industrial cities, teeming with immigrants and controlled by well-oiled political machines. e) Republicans – Their strength laid largely in the Mid-West and the rural and small-town Northeast. Important blocs of republicans’ ballots came from the GAR- a politically potent organization with many Union veterans of the civil war. f) Grover Cleveland – He was a solid lawyer of 47 and was the first democrat to take the oath of presidential office in twenty...
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...Northern whites(pro business) Blacks Northern prostants Party bosses (senator roscoe Conkling) Presidents should avoid offending any factions of their party The grant administration Scandal ridden seen as on of the most corrupt in history Uses Spoil System 1872 credit mobilier: stock given to key members of congress to avoid a bribery investigation vice president Colfax and future president James Garfield implicated 1876- the whiskey ring exercise tax money embezzled by members of grants administration including secretary 1869-1877 wide spread theft/ embezzlement Corruption in the cites the rise of “ political machines” – organization that traded favors and services for votes provided immigrants with basic services ; embezzled or stole millions of $$$ from State and local governments Tammany hall of NYC Boss tweed William Marcy “ Boss Tweed Ran Tammany hall 1880 presidential election republicans Half breeds – Sen. James g Blaine Stalwarts Sen. Roscoe Conkling NYC Compromise –James a Garfield Chester a author VP 1881 James Garfield Assassinated! Charles Guiteau: I am a Stalewart and Arthur is now pres. Chester Arthur the fox in the chicken coup?...
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...James A Garfield July 2nd 1881, a very sad day for America. President James A Garfield was walking through the train station early that morning, when suddenly two gunshots were fired. The president was shot, and would die in office months later. James A Garfield was born in a log cabin home in Ohio in 1831. His home was a small farm. His parents were Abraham and Eliza Garfield. James was the youngest out of three siblings. He didn’t really get to know his father well, because he became fatherless at the age of two, when his father, a wrestler, died. He never knew his older sister growing up, and he would never meet her. Because his father died, His mother had to take care of them by herself and still make a living. She couldn’t do it by...
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...Howard William Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Alphonso Taft and Louise Torrey. His father had served as judge for the court, so Howard William Taft felt great pressure to succeed in school from his parents. Taft began his education at Woodward High; a well known and well regarded private school in his home town of Cincinnati, he ended up graduating second in his class in 1874; as well as achieving a four year grade point average of 91.5 out of 100. After Woodward high Taft continued on to Yale university in 1874, where his father advised him to stay out of school athletics in order to focus on his school work; despite his warning Taft still participated in some sports such as golf and wrestling. While at Yale University Taft joined the Skull and Bones society , which was a notorious secret society co-funded by his father. Taft graduated Yale in 1878 finishing second in class out of 132 students. After Yale William attended the University of Cincinnati Law School, while working part time as a courthouse reporter; he was tasked with transcribing court matters on paper, this gave Taft experience of the law that normally wouldn’t be thought in school. In 1880 William graduated with a Bachelor of laws. Shortly after Howard William Taft was admitted onto the Ohio bar in 1880. Thus ending his education; although he later returned to school but this time to serve as the firsts dean of the University of Cincinnati College of law; which was the merger Woodward High and the University...
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...Stand and Deliver Stand and Deliver (1988) is a film about a teacher and a group of students who went above the expectations of everyone around them and all passed the AP exam. The concept of self-concept is very evident in this film. Self-concept is the “sum total of everything that encompasses the self- referential term ‘me’” (42). A person cannot isolate themselves and develop a self-concept. It is built around social communication; it has to grow from interpersonal communication. The film is based in East Los Angeles, not a place where you want to walk in the streets alone. There, all of the students live and go to school at Garfield High School. Because they live in such an under-privilege neighborhood and go to a school in that neighborhood, they aren’t seen to be as intelligent as someone who lives in Beverly Hills. There was a part of the film during a teacher meeting when Mr. Escalante brought up that he wanted to teach calculus to his students the next school year. This was when the principal laughed and sarcastically said “Boy, that’s a jump.” Because self-concept is developed through interpersonal communication, the fact that even the principal of their school doesn’t believe they could do such a feat like pass the AP exam, they haven’t thought much about their education. School was a joke to them so they focused on their own personal lives at home and with their friends. That is, until Mr. Escalante became their new math teacher. Self-concept can change...
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...student to find and exploit their full potential, regardless of their economic or ethnic background. Jaime Escalante was born in La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, South America. With the example of his parents, who were both teachers, he found a passion for teaching in his native country. Escalante taught math for twelve years before migrating to the United States with his wife Fabiola. The first few years in the new country, he applied himself to learn English while working in restaurants washing dishes. He went to college for the second time in his life just to get certified as a teacher in the United States. He received the highest honor as Magna Cum Laide at graduation and right away found a position as a computer teacher at Garfield High School in downtown Los Angeles, California. To his surprise, the school lacked the computers he needed for the class, so he took an alternative position as a math teacher. In that first year of teaching, Mr. Escalante was confronted with many obstacles. The school was in the verge of loosing its operative certification; many students scored poorly in their academics, had problems with drugs or were involved in gang violence. As a new teacher, he constantly felt frustrated, with a sense of guilt for not inspiring his class to love math the way he did. Subsequently, and against all the odds, Mr. Escalante made a great contribution in the lives of students, and transformed the face of the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program®...
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...Reflection Paper on Stand and Deliver “At a tough school, someone had to take a stand… and someone did. Together, one teacher and one class proved to America they could… Stand and Deliver” –taglines of the movie “Stand and Deliver.” Jaime Escalante has a steady job but left it for a lowly position math teacher at James A. Garfield High School. Knowing that the school is where rebellion runs high and teachers are more focused on discipline than in academics, he is determined to change the system and challenge the students to soar high in excellence. Of course, the students will not like a teacher who engages them in the things they don’t like. But as days passed, Escalante was able to convince the students and got their attention by adopting unconventional teaching methods and conveying the necessity of math in everyday living. He successfully instilled in the mind of his students that all use math everyday. With his determination and perseverance, he was able to turn gang members, no-hopers, and even the most troublesome teens into dedicated students who are ready to learn. The school board has low expectations on the students and the teachers even called them illiterates. But Jaime Escalante didn’t listen to the concerns and skepticism of his colleagues. Instead, he realized that his students are capable of more than the expectations and criticisms thrown to them. He developed a math program which requires the students to take summer classes, including Saturdays, so that...
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...James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, had only 100 days in office because of a mentally disturbed lawyer by the name of Charles Julius Guiteau, but the bullet was not what killed him. For 80 days Garfield was dying an agonizing death because the doctors did not clean their hands and was then given many infections that would lead to his death on September 19, 1881. But what did Garfield do in his 100 days of office and what was his life like before his unfortunate death in 1881? James Garfield was born on November 19, 1831, in a log cabin located in Orange Township, Ohio, but is now known as Moreland Hills, Ohio(James A. Garfield). At the age of two, Garfield’s parents joined the Church of Christ, and that same year his father, Abram Garfield, died and was taken in and cared for by his mother, Eliza Garfield. Eliza remarried a few years later but...
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...Stand and Deliver Jodee Licavoli Baker College Based on a true Stand and Deliver centers on a math teacher at a tough high school who persuades his class of students that education is an asset. East Los Angeles Garfield High is the setting for this inspirational true story about a teacher who refuses to discard his inner city students as losers. It is an exhilarating story of hope, trepidation, trust and above all else desire. There are many organizational development theories that stand out in this movie. They are individual differences, personality, attitudes, abilities, and emotions next are perception and attributions lastly, managing change within learning environment. Furthermore, when applying our learning in Organizational Development to a real-life situation, Individual differences personality, attitudes, abilities, emotions. From the outset Mr. Escalante (the math teacher) is faced with a challenging predicament. Arriving for his first day of school, he is confronted with a set of rebellious student’s intent on making his life hell. The negative attitude of these students towards learning was clearly evident, as was their low self-esteem. Self-esteem is a belief about one’s own self-worth based on an overall self-evaluation. “If they try and don’t succeed, you will shatter what little confidence they did have” (Menendez, 1988). Through a history of meager facilitators the students believe that their opinions and contributions are not taken seriously, and to...
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...“At a tough school, someone had to take a stand… and someone did. Together, one teacher and one class proved to America they could… Stand and Deliver” –taglines of the movie “Stand and Deliver.” Jaime Escalante has a steady job but left it for a lowly position math teacher at James A. Garfield High School. Knowing that the school is where rebellion runs high and teachers are more focused on discipline than in academics, he is determined to change the system and challenge the students to soar high in excellence. Of course, the students will not like a teacher who engages them in the things they don’t like. But as days passed, Escalante was able to convince the students and got their attention by adopting unconventional teaching methods and conveying the necessity of math in everyday living. He successfully instilled in the mind of his students that all use math everyday. With his determination and perseverance, he was able to turn gang members, no-hopers, and even the most troublesome teens into dedicated students who are ready to learn. The school board has low expectations on the students and the teachers even called them illiterates. But Jaime Escalante didn’t listen to the concerns and skepticism of his colleagues. Instead, he realized that his students are capable of more than the expectations and criticisms thrown to them. He developed a math program which requires the students to take summer classes, including Saturdays, so that they can rise4 to take AP Calculus in their...
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...In 1871, before the passing of the Pendleton act, then president Ulysses S. Grant along with congress created the first United States Civil Service Commission. The commission lasted for two years, until it was disbanded in 1874 due to lack of funding. President Grant was succeeded by President Rutherford B. Hayes, whose attempts at trying to renew funding for the commission failed. However, President Hayes successor, President Garfield was a huge civil service reform advocate. President Garfield’s non tolerance for the spoils system, also known as patronage, in turn became his demise. President James A. Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau, who had been rejected by President Garfield after seeking a job in office by means of patronage, on September 19, 1881. After President Garfield’s assassination, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act took almost two years to reach congress by the means of his successor President Chester A. Arthur and Senator George H. Pendleton, who was also a long time reformer. The Pendleton act was signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur, who had also become a vehement reformer after President Garfield’s death. The act was then finally passed by congress on January 16th, 1883. The Pendleton Act made...
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...James A. Garfield James Garfield was the 20th president of the United States.He was a man who knew how to survive on his own.Garfield came to the presidency with political experience. James Garfield was an effective president who helped our country grow. James Garfield was born on November 19, 1831. He was born in a cabin in Orange, Ohio near Cleveland. James Garfield’s mother name was Eliza Ballou Garfield. James Garfield had one sibling who lived with him and his mother on a small family farm. James’s father Abram Garfield died when James was only 2 years old. James Garfield was an avid reader of adventure novels .He learn how to be a public speaker. After thinking about becoming a sailor...
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...The Assassination of President James A. Garfield On July 2, 1881, President James Abram Garfield was shot “My God, what is this?” Cried the new chief executive (McKinley pg.42). Garfield died September 19, 1881 from an infection and internal hemorrhage (James A. Garfield par.14). An examination of primary and secondary sources will reveal the significance of this key event in American history. James A. Garfield was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio on November 19, 1831. (Mowry pg.577). His parent was Abram Garfield and Eliza Ballou. He married Lucretra Randolph on November 11, 1858. He had seven children, Eliza A. Garfield, Harry A. Garfield, James R. Garfield, Mary Garfield, Irvin M. Garfield, Abram Garfield, and Edward Garfield. (James Abram...
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...President James A Garfield Assassination There is a total of four presidential assassinations in the U.S.A. President James A Garfield was our 20th president of the United States of America until he was assassinated. He died on July 2nd, 1881 nine months before he was shot. My position in this is that Garfield should have not been assassinated even though when he was shot he live nine months, but the cause of the bullet and medical attention given by the doctors he died. My position in this is that as a president Garfield could have accomplished many things in office and could have done better things for the world. Early life: James Abram Garfield was born on November 19th, 1831 in a log cabin in Orange Township, Ohio. Garfield’s father was wrestler and died when Garfield was a baby. Garfield was into academics to be in more specific with Greek and Latin. To 1851 and 1854 Garfield went to Western Reserve Eclectic Institute which later was renamed Hiram College and later on enrolled at Williams College. After Garfield had completed his studies he later went back to Hiram College as an instructor then later became an administer. When Garfield had free time in his hands he would go in public to support the Republican Party....
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