In a complete sentence(s), state the name of the political figure you will research. Also, state the subject about which this figure showed courage.
For example, John F. Kennedy showed courage during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Submit your statement to this blog by Wednesday, October 2.
All students must choose a different politician to research. First-come, first-served. Read through all of the topic statements. If your person is already posted to the blog, you must choose someone else!
Also, be sure to adhere to the requirements concerning which politicians are eligible for research.
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ReplyDeleteEdmund G. Ross lived from December 7, 1826 – May 8, 1907. He does not meet the guidelines of the assignment. Please choose someone else.
DeleteObama with the obamacare
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DeleteThe blog directions ask you to write your topic as a complete sentence. Please re-submit.
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DeleteKentucky Senator Rand Paul's filibuster in opposition of the voting of John Brennan as Director of the CIA, questioning the Obama Administration's use of drones.
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DeleteKentucky Senator Rand Paul showed courage when he did a filibuster on the Obama administration's use of drones during John Brennan's nomination to director of the CIA.
DeleteBill Clinton showed courage when he cut almost 100,000 federal positions.
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ReplyDeleteThomas Jefferson lived from 1743–1826. He does not meet the requirements of the assignment. Please re-read the guidelines and choose someone else.
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Deleteit said mine was the second comment?
DeleteTimira has already chosen Obama so you will need to choose someone else.
DeleteRuss Feingold was the first senator to call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
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DeleteRudolph Giuliana and how he approached everyone after 9/11
ReplyDeleteTopic approved. Be sure you can provide support for how he showed political courage including the specific obstacles, pressures, risks, and consequences that he faced during this event. You will need to discuss specific actions/decisions that he made.
DeletePat Toomey and gun rights
ReplyDeleteThe blog directions ask you to write your topic as a complete sentence. Please re-submit. Topic approved.
DeletePat Toomey saying how people lack the knowledge of gun rights.
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DeletePat Toomey shows political courage by supporting (or opposing) gun rights.
Illinois senior Senator Richard Durbin's decision to hold congressional hearings on "Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims".
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ReplyDeleteEleanor Kinnaird and how she left her office to help her community.
ReplyDeleteI choose Lyndon B. Johnson and the civil rights bill
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DeleteI choose Ralph Yarborough; he showed courage by riding in a convertible with Lyndon Johnson after Kennedy assassination even with not agreeing with Johnson.
ReplyDeleteMake sure there is enough information on this topic for a research paper. If you can show risks, obstacles, and consequences for his act of courage, your topic is approved.
DeleteChanged my mind...Tom Graves; leading GOP charge against Obama care.
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DeleteGov. Mario Cuomo. The Legislature keeps passing laws calling for capital punishment and Cuomo keeps vetoing them. He doesn't approve.
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DeleteI choose to write about Chokwe Lumumba, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi; he is essentially the only elected official in the U.S to express radical leftist viewpoints.
ReplyDeleteTopic approved. Be sure to be able to provide a specific act or acts of political courage. You must be able to show the risks, obstacles, and consequences of such acts.
DeleteRonald Reagan helping bring down the Soviet Union.
ReplyDeleteTopic approved. Be sure to point out a specific act of political courage. Identify the risks, obstacles, and consequences of the act.
DeleteI am choosing John Boehner and his political courage on trying to delay Obamacare.
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DeleteChanging my topic. I am going to write a paper on William Proxmire and his outspokeness toward Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon also on how he filibustered on the debt ceiling increase.
DeleteSenator Elizabeth Warren for pressing the white house to release the pacific trade text and advocating for transparency.
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DeleteGabby Giffords and how she has shown, out of that pain and tragedy, we must find the strength to carry on, to give meaning to our lives, and to build a more just and peaceful world.
ReplyDeleteAlthough you posted this a few minutes before Jessica, she chose the topic when we first arrived at the library today. You will need to choose someone else.
DeleteSissy Farenthold. Was the only woman serving when she was elected into the Texas House, and she was apart of a group called "Dirty Thirty," which were legislators who rebelled against a corrupt speaker.
ReplyDeleteSounds interesting. Topic approved.
DeleteI changed my mind. I want to do Wendy Davis. She is a Texas State Senator, who held an eleven hour filibuster to protect abortion rights.
DeleteOkay. Topic approved.
DeleteGabby Giffords and her recovery from being shot in the head at point blank range is the topic I have chosen.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to show a specific act of political courage. Then, describe the risks, obstacles, and consequences associated with the act. Topic approved.
DeleteJoe Lieberman asking citizens of America to vote for John McCain showed political courage.
ReplyDelete*though he was a Democrat
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DeleteI choose Pat McCrory and his decisions to take out teacher tenure, and get rid of the automatic pay increase teachers receive for earning a master’s degree
ReplyDeleteBe sure to explain how these actions show political courage. You must also discuss the risks, obstacles, and consequences of his courageous action. Topic approved.
DeleteJesse Helms was a U.S. Senator and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He definitely had courage, but in my personal opinion his views are horrible. The senator was against civil rights, he was very racist, often called a white supremacist, against women's rights, against gay rights, and was often referred to as Senator No and was called a master obstructionist. One of his most controversial acts -which I intend upon discussing in my essay- is when he stalled King's Day in the senate in 1983. This was EXTREMELY controversial: ""I will not dignify Helms' comments with a reply. They do not reflect credit on this body," an angry (President) Kennedy said, adding that what Helms said should be "shunned by the American people, including the citizens of his own state (North Carolina)." Later, Kennedy accused Helms of using "Red smear" tactics." (Washington Post)
ReplyDeleteTopic approved. I like how you are choosing a figure with whom you do not agree yet have found courage in his actions.
DeleteI choose Kay Hagan because when amendment one was passed stating that the union between same-sex marriages was banned. Hay Hagan was not for or against this issue, she respected the different opinions but on her personal conclusion, she believed that people should not be told who to love or whom they can marry. She showed courage by stating her beliefs and going against what many Democratic were opposing.
ReplyDeleteMake sure your research shows that she was indeed going against her own party (the Democrats, as you state above). I'm not sure that this is the case. She certainly went against the state majority, but I'm not sure she went against the Democrats. Topic approved.
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ReplyDeleteCan you be more specific? What was courageous about his foreign policy? Of what policy do you mean? With what country or area?
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ReplyDeleteI am going to change my person to Paula Carter, who devotes herself on fighting for the disadvantages of the people. She fought to provide her Missouri citizens health benefits.
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DeletePresident Dwight D. Eisenhower showed courage pushing for Civil Rights for African Americans considering the how racist things were in the 1950's is the topic i chose to write my research about.
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DeleteI am going to change my person to Ted Cruz; Ted Cruz showing courage by doing a filibuster against Obamacare.
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DeleteMy topic is Wayne Morse, the man who set the filibuster record. He was referred to as "The Tiger of the Senate," and had many enemies... Including four presidents.
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