Essays on Woolley

Introduction and Thesis

Harry S. Truman is known as the 33rd President of the United States. He assumed the Presidency of the nation in April of 1945 when President Franklin Roosevelt died due to a stroke. He may not have desired to campaign and assume the Presidency of the United States, but his term in office ushered in a new age in the field of international relations, a new outlook on race relations in the country, and for the United States to assume a greater role in world politics as well.

Overview of the Presidency

Harry S. Truman had been in office as the Vice-President of ...

Creativity Fails: How To Wreck The Housing Market

On June 5, 1995, at 11:50 A.M., in the East Room at the White House, President Bill Clinton delivered his speech “Remarks on the National Homeownership Strategy”, in which he stated: “The goal of this strategy, to boost home ownership to 67.5 percent by the year 2000, would take us to an all-time high, helping as many as 8 million American families across that threshold” (Peters, G., & Woolley, J. T., 1995). To facilitate such goal, President Clinton eliminated regulatory barriers and stimulated the financial sector to find creative ways of increasing home ownership of low-income Americans (Rajan, 2010, p. ...

Technological advancements in the last century have resulted in a focal paradigm shift in terms of healthcare from the traditional service-oriented methodologies to the technological care-oriented models. Technology has played a critical role in ensuring that life has been prolonged with the intentions of having patients emerge with desirable outcomes and satisfaction. However, recent advancements on the care provision paradigm have shifted from primarily focusing on science to the incorporation of a healing environment with spirituality (Dossey et al., 2012). The major challenge however that continues to face many patients is whether healthcare settings are in a position to ...

While the literature and interest in bilingualism in education in the Middle East remains new, it is widely practiced across the world either by design or by a complete accident. Many literatures ignore or only mention the Middle East in passing, possibly due to the perception that the Arab world homogenously used Arabic, and are even hostile against English, French, Germany and others. Karmani (2005) and Karmani and Pennycook (2005) in Gallagher (2011) deconstruct the evolution of rhetoric and attitudes towards English, which was inevitably associated with the US activities in the Arab world, besides the perceptions that is is a ...