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What is the true definition of a hero/role model? What criteria must a certain person meet to be recognized as a hero/role model? These questions can never truly be answered because everyone has their own opinion, making it impossible to create a universal criteria that an individual must meet to be considered a hero/role model. Though society as a whole may never agree on the criteria that one must achieve to become one; individuals within it are constantly judging others, with their own standards, to see if they are worthy of such an outstanding honor. In order for an individual to become a hero/role model in my mind they must always rise under the pressure, no matter how great it may be, and make the big decision, hit the big shot, or do whatever is necessary to get the job done; and no matter how serious the consequences may be of failing, he or she is always willing to step up and put their neck on the line. But just because a person is great and superior to everyone else at his or her profession, does not mean they are by any means worthy of such a prestigious title. This certain individual also must conduct him or herself in a well-behaved and morally right fashion. How can you look
Again FDR won by an enormous margin, being elected for his third term as president. A lot of the debate in his second term was on the issue of the war, and FDR choose to stay out of it, considering it really didn't affect the U.S. But, on December 7, 1941 it did become a U.S. problem, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a United States Navy base in Hawaii. The attack killed 2,300 Americans, wounding 1,200, and destroying much of the U.S. Pacific fleet at anchor there. (The Life History of the United States, Volume11: New Deal and War, Time Life Books, Pg 101) The next day FDR asked congress to declare war, and congress obliged with a unanimous vote. FDR was one of the big three that met in Yalta in February 1945, where Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, and himself discussed postwar plans. Not only was FDR a great president he was a superb diplomat. But only two months later he died in office, while serving his unprecedented forth term. He died April 12, 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia. Though he never got to see the U.S. win the war, he did get to see his greatest accomplishment of all, pulling the U.S. out of its worst depression ever. After having an amazingly successful first term in office, FDR won his second term election by the largest electoral vote landslide in history! That is how much confidence the people had in him to further pull the country out of depression. The main concern, other than the continuation of rising out of the depression, in FDR's second term was weather or not to enter the war, but by the beginning of his third term that question was answered, by the Japanese. Franklin had a lot of experience in politics before he made the big jump to running for president, which might explain why he was so efficient in office. His first taste of politics was as a New York Senator, serving two terms from 1911-1913. As a young senator he supported farmers, laborers, and woman's rights, which stayed consistent all the way through his presidency. After his two terms as senator, he took a huge step up in the world of politics by being appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson, which is a bit of a surprise with him having absolutely no military experience, but he still performed very well. As Assistant Secretary he proposed expansion of the Navy, which was a good idea since World War I was going on, and drew up preliminary plans do so as early as 1913. He was also among early advocates of U.S. entry into the war. In 1920 he resigned, and took another big step up the political ladder, to take the Democratic vice presidential nomination on the ticket with James M. Cox. After getting absolutely killed by Harding-Coolidge, Roosevelt took a nine-year leave-of-absence from politics and began to practice law. But, he just couldn't stay away, and in 1929 he was elected Governor of New York and re-elected in '31. Again he was very pro-labor, farmers, and woman's rights. After these two stints as Governor he was ready for the big time. In 1932 he announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. up to someone that gets arreste
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