Speak Softly And Carry A Big Stick Analysis

The four of us immediately spotted each other when we discovered that this would be a group project, but besides that, every other aspect of the project was not so simple. Theodore Roosevelt’s quote, “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” immediately caught our attention because we have all heard about him and his foreign policies in our U.S. history classes; however, we had never stopped to think about how this maxim represented his policies as president and as a person. This project would give us the perfect opportunity to learn the greater meaning behind this quote, and luckily, we got to use it for the project.
After, we had to come up with people that would agree or disagree with the quote, and we immediately came up with Donald Trump. It was kind of as a joke, but we convinced ourselves he would disagree because he was so ostentatious. We also came up with Sia for her enigmous persona masked by her hair

It was a challenge to find any articles about Sia because she is a modern pop star and there is not much research in that field. We scrapped that idea and thought of using Lyndon B. Johnson instead. He was not the best option we came up with, but it seemed the easiest so we went along with it.
None of our research really surprised us. In fact, we were just even more convinced that we picked the perfect people to agree or disagree. Someone found an article that explained why Donald Trump’s foreign policy is radically different from Theodore Roosevelt’s, and Lyndon B. Johnson really admired the Roosevelt family as well. In fact, Johnson made a speech about Roosevelt during Roosevelt’s funeral. Alexander the Great had different motivations for his foreign endeavors, including revenge and a God complex, which resulted in his different ideology. We personally found this to be very