James Buchanan On April 23, 1791, a great man was born; fifteenth president of the United States, James Buchanan.He was born near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. His father, James Buchanan, and his mother Elizabeth Speer Buchanan, raised their son a Presbyterian. He grew up in a well to do home, being the eldest of eleven other siblings. His parents cared for them all in their mansion in Pennsylvania. They sent him to Dickinson College. Buchanan graduated in 1809, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and then moved to Lancaster to set up his law practice. His political career was initiated in 1814 with his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; in 1821 he began his first five elective terms in the House of Representatives. President Andrew Jackson appointed James Minister to Russia, upon his return in 1834. Buchanan was in the service of the United States Senate for a decade, and then became a secretary under James K. Polk, and as President Pierce’ s minister to Great Britain. During this Foreign Service, Buchanan’s name was mentioned as the Democratic Party’s for the 1856 Presidential Election. Buchanan had strived for this election in the three previous elections; it had seemed to pass over him. But by 1856, Buchanan was ready to retire from public service and only accepted the nomination out of duty and obligation. Buchanan didn’t actively campaign for the presidency, but instead remained quietly at home in Wheatland. Buchanan’s presidency was characterized by the state’s rights and slavery issues, which tore our country apart. Following the election of Abraham Lincoln, and by the time Buchanan left office, six states had seceded from the union. When seven of the fifteen stated seceded from the union, in 1860-1861, Buchanan did not force them to stay in the union. He felt that violence would only make more states leave. His policy delayed the Civil War until after Abraham Lincoln took office. So, therefore, Buchanan actually was president during the very beginnings of the Civil War . Being a minister to Great Britain, the Whig party regained the presidency in 1849, and Buchanan retired to Wheatland. He ran for the democratic presidential nomination. Franklin Pierce won the nomination and the election though. He appointed Buchanan minister to Great Britain. In London, Buchanan tried for two years to modify the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850. This treaty provided that neither nation should occupy territory in Central America.
In the election of 1860 there were four candidates running; Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckenridge, and John Bell. The Republicans nominated Lincoln, the northern Democrats nominated Douglas, the southern Democrats nominated Breckenridge, and the Constitutional Union Party (Independent/Moderate party) selected John Bell (U-s-history.com). It is believed that because the Democrat Party was split during the election, and therefore had two candidates in which the Democratic voters had to choose between, it divided the Democrat vote and caused Lincoln to win the election. The b...
Ever since Cornelius Vanderbilt was little, he had plans to be a boatman and become rich, and he did just that. Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on May 27, 1794, in Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York. He was born into a hardworking family of farmers and he had many siblings as well as a father named Cornelius van Derbilt and a mother named Phebe Hand. At just eleven years old, Cornelius Vanderbilt started working with his
As a disjunctive president Buchanan did not have the power or the acceptance to make major policy changes that would have been needed. Unfortunately, Buchanan did not understand that the old Democratic ideals that were accepted under Polk and Pierce, were not favored by the growing regionalization of the country. The people in Kansas felt that Buchanan was forcing them to become a slave state without considering the infighting that was breaking out around him. As proof of his position as a disjunctive president, as Morrison describes it “Buchanan’s failure resulted from his inability to recognize – good Jacksonian Democrat that he was – that the territorial crisis that followed the Mexican cession had separated the nation from the ebullient nationalism of the mid-1840s when he was Polk’s Secretary of State and oversaw the expansion of the Union… what Buchanan did not – or could not – realize is that by his presidency the slavery extension issue had become for Americans of the 1850’s what the conflict over the Second Bank was for Jackson: a way of identifying and rooting out subversive elements” only without realizing how vulnerable his position was in comparison (Morrison
William McKinley runs for president against William Jennings Bryan for his second term in the presidential seat (DeGregorio). William Jennings Bryan tried taking a different approach with this election, he used McKinley’s strategies from the last election. Unfortunately his strategies weren’t catching the people’s attention. William McKinley already had the people in his favor, with this second election McKinley won by a long shot
The MBTI assessments relate to Jung's theory of personality development because the purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung, (1921/1971)”Understandable and useful in people's lives. The core of the theory is that much apparently random disparity in behavior is actually quite orderly and dependable, being due to basic differences in the way individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.” (CAPT, 2014) This information will enable me to be successful as a counselor because I can incorporate the MBTI assessment as a part of my observations from a client to better understand my clients. I feel the test is accurate enough and can lead me to many answers based on my client’s results.
Tradition is a central theme in Shirley Jackon's short story The Lottery. Images such as the black box and characters such as Old Man Warner, Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. Hutchinson display to the reader not only the tenacity with which the townspeople cling to the tradition of the lottery, but also the wavering support of it by others. In just a few pages, Jackson manages to examine the sometimes long forgotten purpose of rituals, as well as the inevitable questioning of the necessity for such customs.
father died in 1833, when Garfield was only two years old and so his mother
Our personality traits are unique indicators to determine how people perceive the world and make decisions. The test consist of a series of questions that measures an individual’s temperament and personality traits. After taking the test, my four letter type is ESTJ and my two letter temperament is SJ. According to Jung’s and Briggs Myers theories of personality types, ESTJ stands for Extravert, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging; meaning extraverted thinking with introverted sensing. David Keirsey associated the different temperament types with the different personality types. ESTJ falls under the SJ group, “The Guardians”. The Guardians main objective is known as seeking security. Although, I don’t think the test is a good measurement of one’s personality traits, because there are many factors that could influence an individual response to the test. It is possible that people conform their thoughts to make themselves feel
In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” the theme of the story is dramatically illustrated by Jackson’s unique tone. Once a year the villagers gather together in the central square for the lottery. The villagers await the arrival of Mr. Summers and the black box. Within the black box are folded slips of paper, one piece having a black dot on it. All the villagers then draw a piece of paper out of the box. Whoever gets the paper with the black dot wins. Tessie Hutchinson wins the lottery! Everyone then closes in on her and stones her to death. Tessie Hutchinson believes it is not fair because she was picked. The villagers do not know why the lottery continues to exist. All they know is that it is a tradition they are not willing to abandon. In “The Lottery,” Jackson portrays three main themes including tradition, treason, and violence.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test, otherwise known as the MBTI test, is a questionnaire intended to measure and evaluates the psychological preferences of individuals in relation to their perception of the world, and generally their decision making ability. This was developed and got form typological theories that were deduced by Cal Gustav Jung. He categorized them into four psychological functions, which each unique individual uses to experience the world. They include feeling, sensation, intuition and thinking (Myers I. B., 1987).
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality test derived from Jungian concepts. Carl Jung included certain concepts of psychological attitudes, such as introversion versus extraversion, and psychological functions, such as intuition versus sensing and thinking versus feeling. The test produced results on my personality that I can agree with, but the lack of options was a downfall for me. However, the MBTI helped me understand certain concepts discussed in class because my results represented such concepts. This includes Jungian ideas and reliability.
I fit in to that category before this assignment and I find it to be quite interesting understanding the 16 personality types, especially discovering my own. It is surprising to reflect on myself and see how much the ESTJ type applies to me. I currently work as Fire Marshall for the County in which I live. My entire career has always been in some form of public service work and mostly around public safety. I have had several jobs in a part-time capacity but my career has always been some sort of para-military organization. I was a United States Marine and saw action in Iraq and left the military to pursue a career in the fire service. So, as I examine retrospectively into my career I see a lot of structure and regimented framework. I am not sure how much my military experience contributed to being an ESTJ or if the experience just magnified qualities associated with being an ESTJ. Nonetheless, as more of an Extravert I am upbeat and outgoing. At my job, this works in my favor but my desire to talk does set me back sometimes. My mind seems to never stop producing thoughts, or analyzing information I receive. Often in meetings, I end up being the person who has the most to say. I am not shy and I say things very respectively but I am compelled to express myself if I feel strongly about the subject. Part of my current profession involves investigating fires to see where and
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was developed by mother-daughter duo Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Myers. They wanted everyone to be able to understand their own personality types as well as others. When they were introduced to Jung’s (C. G. ideas in 1923, they believed his ideas were so powerful and they could help everyone make better life choices. By developing the MBTI, they completed their life goals. This gave everyone the chance to understand personality types. The different personality types are either extrovert (E) or introvert (I), sensing (S) or intuition (N), thinking (T) or feeling (F), and judging (J) or perceiving (P). All eight of these different personality traits make up the sixteen different personality types.
James a Garfield was born, the youngest of four, in orange Township, Ohio on November 19, 1831 (Duckster). His father, Abraham Garfield, died when James A. Garfield turned two years of age leaving his mother, Eliza Ballou Garfield, to fend for herself and four young boys (The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans). Garfield, around age seventeen, drove steamboats through Ohio canals for a year to assist his mother financially while in their state of poverty(The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Amer...
Religion refers to a particular system of spiritual beliefs, one’s faith, and how one worships. Religious convictions are personal beliefs that are inexorably linked to the individual’s self-identity. Those convictions influence a person’s perceptions and play a leading role in one’s personal and professional goals and choices.