...Kimberely Keith Louisiana has been plagued with a lot of problems. Our current governor, who is Bobby Jindal, lost the previous election to Kathleen Blanco. Kathleen Blanco was one of the state’s worst governors. She was governor when Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana coast. Jindal was able to win after Blanco’s disastrous term as governor. He also was able to cinch the election with the promise of an overhaul of the state’s health care system. Governor Jindal is trying to unite the health care system so that it is no longer a fragmented system. He believes that our health care system is fragmented; there is nothing to link any aspect of the health care system together. There are so many people that have no insurance, because they are falling through the cracks of the health care system. The uninsured either make too much money to qualify for the programs that they need and make too little to be able to afford any kind of health insurance coverage. My problem with Jindal’s proposal is that I believe it does not go into enough detail. When President Clinton was trying to pass his health care reform, there was a lot of information that we could research. While researching Governor Jindal’s position he only talked about three areas to change the whole policy. I went to about five websites and most of them said the same thing over and over. The state of Louisiana passed Jindal’s Health Care Reform Act in 2007. In November of 2008, our administration offered the “Louisiana Health First”...
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...it's impact on American domestic and foreign policies, and the Louisiana purchase and it's consequences.” Colonial era diplomacy focused on the European balance of power. The competition between the French and the British often influenced the course of events in the North American colonies. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775 For almost three centuries, the European colonial powers of France and Great Britain, maintained...
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...Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Background • June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in “White” section of the East Louisiana Railroad • Considered black despite of his light complexion • He was “creole”- black person w/ background of French, Spanish & Caribbean • Violated 13th & 14th amendment Decision • The precedent that “separate” facilities for blacks & whites were constitutional as long as they were “equal” • This satisfies the 14th amendment • Facilities were always inferior to whites( restrooms, theaters, public schools) Chapter 3: Industrialization, Workers, & New Immigration Industrial Revolution • 18th and 19th century • Major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transport & technology • Marks turning point in human...
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...of radio, and his broadcasts won him a national following,” (Speeches). Long used this strategy to help create a massive base of supporters which made him a strong political force of the time. With this new technique, Huey Long was naturally a well spoken man who could persuade and influence his audience. A mix of Huey Long’s self assuredness, intensity, and conviction made his amalgam of populism, and the Share Our Wealth Program especially appealing (Speeches). His oratory won him popularity that made it easy for him to spread his ideas. “Long’s rhetoric was a distinctive blend of humor and invective, scripture and profanity, brutal fact and absurd analogy, couched in a populist vernacular that made the impoverished citizens of rural Louisiana feel that he was one of them,” (Speeches). The use of pathos in his speech help him to be accepted by his intended audience. All of these devices contributed to Long’s reputation that the common people adored. His wide base of followers in turn passed his ideas along and supported his intentions in high numbers. By 1935, about 7 million Americans welcomed local “Share Our Wealth” societies that furnished a formidable foundation for his anticipated presidential bid (Speeches). With a massive base of supporters, Long was unable to be suppressed. In an article, Michael O’Malley describes Huey Long and his “Share the Wealth program” as a force so strong that opponents could not alter public opinion against him. Huey Long’s mass popularity allowed...
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...He was also a member of the US Senate from 1932 to 1945. His main goal during his time in office was to ensure control of his home state. Huey Long came from a poor background but was able to get formal schooling to be able to pass the bar exam in 1915. He won the state railroad commission at age 25. And a 1924. He ran for Louisiana Governorship and was defeated, but in 1928 he won the Governor's position due to his support team of rural districts. c. After winning this election, his unconventional list made him famous throughout the states and people soon began to give him the nickname "kingfish." Long was always in favor of the poor white due to his upbringing as a child. Long also launched a massive program where poor kids would be able to get free...
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...States. More specifically, he states, “…the urban-rural divide isn’t really so much a red state versus blue state issue, it’s red country versus blue country.” He goes on to say that, “…the blue counties are along waterways, where early river transportation encouraged the formation of cities, and surround state capitals. This is also where most investment and infrastructure and services are made: Rural Americans recognize that this is how it must be, as the cities are where most of the people are, yet it’s a sore spot.” Leonard’s statements provide another way of looking at the Democratic and Republican Parties in relation to President Trump and his plans to boost the economy. The rural Americans find that a vast majority of our nation’s tax dollars go to industrialized cities to enhance the productivity within urban areas unfair considering that the farming industry has decreased and roads need to be repaired. Andrew Soergel, an Economy Reporter from U.S. News states that President Trump’s first economic promise was not focused on immigration, but the revitalization of infrastructure. Trump says, “We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals…We’re going to rebuild our...
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...Bill Clinton Research Paper President William “Bill” Clinton, the 41st president of the United States of America, proved to be a great president, facing some obstacles in his childhood, early political career, great success in his domestic policies but mediocre in his foreign. President Bill Clinton left behind a positive legacy which reinforced his great status. He was a great president which shows in his actions and all his other reforms and attempts to try and become the best there was. Nathaniel Neef, Family Life. President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident. Needing to find a way to support herself and her new child, Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Cassidy Blythe, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing. Bill Clinton stayed with his mother's parents in Hope. There he was surrounded by many relatives who gave him love and support and who played a significant role in his upbringing. His mother returned from New Orleans with a nursing degree in 1950. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton, an automobile salesman of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In 1956 Bill’s half-brother, Roger Clinton Jr., was born. In high school, he took the family name, and became the president as we know and loved then William “Bill” j. Clinton. After Clinton graduated from high school he went on to college at Georgetown University. After he had graduated from Georgetown University...
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...universities typically have shifted back in time to include more on the colonial period and much more on the prehistory of the Native peoples.[1][2] Indigenous people lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. The Spanish had small settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast. By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. In the 1760s the British government imposed a series of new taxes while rejecting the American argument that any new taxes had to be approved by the people (see Stamp Act 1765). Tax resistance, especially the Boston Tea Party (1774), led to punitive laws (the Intolerable Acts) by Parliament designed to end self-government in Massachusetts. American Patriots (as they called themselves) adhered to a political ideology called republicanism that emphasized civic duty, virtue, and opposition to corruption, fancy luxuries and aristocracy. All Fourteen colonies united in a Congress that called on them to write new state constitutions. After armed conflict began in Massachusetts, Patriots drove the royal officials out of every colony and assembled in mass meetings and conventions. Those Patriot governments in the colonies unanimously empowered their delegates to Congress to declare independence. In 1776, Congress declared...
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...Simple, Elegant, and Wrong A topic from the very man who brought the country out of the Great Depression is again the issue of debate between many people in the US. In the 1930’s then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt along with former President Theodore Roosevelt pushed for universal healthcare reform but it was not passed because it was opposed by the American Medical Association (AMA), and almost the entire general American public as being socialist and un-American. But in 2010 the 111th congress passed the President Obama’s healthcare reform bill, this time without a public opinion. The bill calls for a healthcare modeled after those of the most industrialized countries in the world like Canada and Britain. Countries where at any given moment nearly 900,000 citizens are waiting for admission into national health service hospitals and where shortages of supplies and money cause the cancellations of over 50,000 operations a year. People in these countries may wait as long as 25 weeks for heart surgery and an average of over a year for a hip replacement. Many individuals suffer from chronic pain and may even die before they receive treatment under this type of healthcare. Obama’s universal healthcare is a mistake that will not do any good for this country and more importantly the people who live in it. Firstly, the costs associated with the law are completely outrageous. In order to expand healthcare to 45 million Americans is estimated to cost over $1 trillion...
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...over Roosevelt’s New Deal program and regrets supporting him in the election. The second document is about the conservative criticisms of the New Deal. Herbert Hoover’s anti-New Deal campaign speech centers on limiting government involvement and self-reliance of the people. Minnie Hardin’s letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, it comes straight from the heart of every conservative that looked down on these “reliefers” for “voting theirself a living at the expense of tax-payers” (184-185). Huey Long and the conservatives agreed on their disappointment of the New Deal, but they differed almost entirely on policy. I’m going to compare the two in order to find out how much both Hoover and Long actually differed. Huey Long was a Southern wing Democrat and former Governor of Louisiana that challenged the New Deal during the devastating Great Depression. The reforms of the New Deal failed to reduce poverty and the suffering of Americans. In 1932, he was elected into the United States Senate. There he introduced his “Soak the Rich Tax Bill.” The Senate instantly rejected this proposal. Senator Long decided to run for President because he whole heartedly believed in his “Share Our Wealth Plan.” He attracted more than five million Americans behind this plan. Long announced his intention to challenge Roosevelt, but was assassinated in 1935. He was killed for championing the poor over the rich, country people over the city folk, and the humble...
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...The Securities and Exchange Commission The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is a federal agency that provides protection for investors and regulates the bulk of the securities industry including: U.S. stock exchanges, options markets, and other electronic exchanges and securities markets. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 created the laws that regulated it. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is a law governing the secondary trading of securities in the U.S. The commission's division of enforcement investigates possible violations of federal securities related laws and can take civil action with other law enforcement agencies when it comes to criminal cases. The market crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression took a toll on the public's trust in capital markets. Investors looking to go from rags to riches turned to the stock market during the roaring 20s. According to the SEC, an estimated $50 billion in new securities were offered, and half became worthless. Congress passed the Securities Act of 1933 and The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (which created the SEC) in an effort to restore confidence in the markets. Publicly traded companies were now obligated to disclose investment risks and provide full information about the state of their business. Brokers, dealers and exchanges were now legally required to put the interests of the investors first and treat them in a fair and honest manner. Congress established the SEC to enforce these laws for the sake...
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...Face-off Anyone hoping for an outbreak of good government is likely to be disappointed Nov 15th 2014 | WASHINGTON, DC | From the print edition * * * SPEAKING at the White House after a stinging mid-term defeat, Barack Obama adopted a conciliatory tone. “Both parties,” he said, “are going to have to come together and compromise to get something done here.” Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, agreed, adding that he hoped the president would work with Republicans on spending, energy and trade agreements. “The question,” said Senator McConnell, “is how do we meet in the middle?” That was in November 2010. There followed a government shutdown, two flirtations with a sovereign default over the raising of the legal limit on government borrowing, and the least productive Congress since anyone began counting. The president and Mr McConnell once again made similar pronouncements about working together after another disastrous mid-term election for the Democrats on November 4th. Those who believe that this time will be different argue that divided government works better when Congress is wholly controlled by one party and the presidency by the other. When the House and the Senate are in the hands of different parties, according to this line of thinking, it is too easy for one to blame the other for intransigence and avoid governing. In this section * Face-off * From olive branch to big stick * Dealing with denial * Bush on Bush ...
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...The Seven Years' War also known as the French Indian War. It lasted from 1754 to 1763. The war resulted from ongoing tensions in North America as both French and British officials sought to extend their regions. In North America the war pitted France, French colonist and their Native allies against Great Britain, the Anglo-American colonists and the Iroquois Confederacy. Prior to the war Great Britain controlled the 13 colonies up to the Appalachian Mountains. Beyond the mountains lay New France a large sparsely settled colony that stretched from Louisiana through the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes to Canada. The French and British border was not well defined and one territory that was disputed was the upper Ohio River Valley. The French built forts in the area to try and bolster their claim of the land. The British had other plans. They sent in British forces led by colonel George Washington in an attempt to get rid of the French. The British were outnumbered and defeated by the French. This was the start of a very rough war for the British. The British Government sent General Edward Braddock to the new colonies as commander of the British North American forces, but things did not go well for him he alienated the Indian allies and colonial leaders failed to cooperate with him. He died on July 13th 1755 on a failed expedition to capture Fort Duquesne. In 1757 things started to change for Britain. They defeated French forces in India and in 1759 they invaded...
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...He “nominated William Windom of Minnesota as Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Hunt of Louisiana as Secretary of the Navy, Robert Todd Lincoln as Secretary of War, and Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa as Secretary of the Interior. At his inaugural address, he discussed the need for education, denunciation of Mormon polygamy, and the need of civil rights for African-Americans(James A. Garfield). The speech was not very good ,though, because he was distracted with creating his cabinet. Garfield was only a president for 100 days because he was assassinated, but he did do some things. One such thing was the Star Route Scandal, which was an investigation into mail route contracts that “were being awarded fraudulently with tax money lining the pockets of those involved”(James Garfield - Twentieth President of the United States). What made this so important was that once Garfield realized that members of the Republican Party were involved in the scandal, he pushed the investigation forward, and in the end resulted in civil service...
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...Ruby Bridges is the small 6 year old little girl that comes to mind when I think of the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. This young brave little girl was escorted on her first day to school by U.S. Marshalls, as her parents stood close by. She endured being called names and threatened and feared being poisoned if she ate anything besides a packaged bag of potato chips (Davidson, Gienapp, Heymann, Lytle & Stoff, 2006). Ruby was the only students for several weeks until white students finally began coming back to school during the first year since the segregation of the schools (Davidson, et al., 2006). Ruby’s parents had different views about her being the only black child to attend, William Frantz School, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father didn’t want any part of the school mixing whites and blacks. He feared that angry people, who wanted to keep blacks and whites separate, would hurt his family if Ruby went to the all-white school...
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