Primary Source Essay 3: The “Four Freedoms”
The Author of this document is Franklin Roosevelt. He was the 32nd president of the United States and was elected four times. Roosevelt was a man of change and he knew how to get it done. He wanted to change for the better of American people. Roosevelt instituted the New Deal during his first two terms whose revolutionary policy initiatives established a pervasive and active role for the national government. The active role that the government took part in were policies designed to promote economic recovery and social reform. This New Deal was to counter the Great depression, a long and severe recession in an economy or market. Roosevelt knew that if the federal government ran correctly, the way
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Roosevelt addressed some issues that he has that Congress needs to approve of in order for it to be put into effect. As I have mentioned before he was a man of change. When he first started his presidency he immediately began to get to work to fix what he could. Many of the issues that he wanted to get through were to help society for the better and I can bet he had to face congress time and time again for 1. To check that his plans are in order and 2. For Roosevelt to make sure they put in their own part. He made sure that they were doing their part correctly instead of poorly. This document also targets the American people. He tells us that we have these freedoms that’s the same as everyone else “everywhere in the world”. We must be aware of the things that we have and sometimes take for granted. By the end of the 1930’s the Depression was still taking its toll on American citizen. Growing Congressional opposition made it difficult for president Roosevelt to introduce new programs. At the same time, as the threat of war loomed on the horizon the president turned his attention away from domestic politics. In December 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States had entered World War 2. This war effort had stimulated American industry and the Great Depression was …show more content…
These four freedoms include: freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship God however you please, freedom of want, and freedom of fear. These all have a common interest that we must recognize: they are the same “everywhere in the world”. You may think that you have nothing in common with other people from the other side of the world, well you’re wrong. Allow me to go into each freedom more descriptively. The first freedom (freedom of speech and expression) states what it’s titled. We’re all free to say and express the way we feel with ease without some high authority telling us that we cannot. This freedom is derived from the 1st amendment in the constitution: freedom of religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. The second freedom (freedom to worship God) also ties in with the 1st amendment with the freedom of religion. No one can force you to worship God a certain way. Worshiping God comes from your culture and family history. It would make no sense to me if someone said that I couldn’t go to my church on Sunday’s because that’s not the law. No on has the authority over me to do such things. The third freedom (freedom of want) talks about us having the essentials to live a “healthy peacetime life”. The fourth freedom (freedom of fear) describes that if every nation in the world had firearms
With those words Roosevelt gave birth to an idea that gave the majority of the American people hope enough to elect him president, it also coined a phrase that will forever be synonymous with his administration as its flagship policy for the recovery and betterment of America. At the time Roosevelt did not outline his plan or further go into the minutiae of the New Deal, but if he had would people have seen it as a collection of imaginative and revolutionary responses to the crisis that beset America at the time? Or perhaps they would have seen it as the next step in an evolutionary process that found it origins earlier in time in populist and progressive doctrine. Or would they rather have seen it as change couched in reformist rhetoric to veil the true purpose of maintaining and preserving conservative institutions and values.
Director Steven Spielberg and auther Markus Zusak, in their intriguing production, movie Saving Private Ryan and book The Book Thief, both taking place during World War II. However , in Saving Private Ryan Spielberg focus on a lot of complications that occur during war , but guilt was one difficulty that stood out to me. Zusak, on the other hand , showas that having courage during war can be a advantage and also an disadvantage depending on the situation. Both director and author grabed the audience attention with emotional and logical appeal.
Roosevelt’s speech covered 4 main points. It encouraged Britain to become a democracy. Also make trade between Alli and Axis powers, Americans to support neutrality in WW2.He also prepare American for entry of WW2. Roosevelt's speech was to get the people of America ready for war. He wanted neutrality, but he knew that America was going to enter the war soon.Both historical speeches did have one thing in common, they spoke of freedom. But they had different views of what freedom meant.
In his speech, he stated how he would continue his New Deal program that he started in 1933. He states how one hundred and fifty years ago from the day he made his speech, the Constitutional Convention was made, creating the nation we see today. He believes that the Constitution of 1787 “did not make our democracy impotent.” (Franklin D. Roosevelt) Roosevelt’s powerful part of the speech is when he talks about how America is still climbing out of the depression but is making progress.
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” was the famous slogan of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After long periods of continuous downfall, the people of the nation were consumed with negative feelings due to the lack of effort put forth by President Hoover during the Great Depression. Not only were the people agitated with his poor effort, but more with his method to resolve the situation they were in. Hoover believed in the concept of rugged individualism. This was a term he used during his presidency in the stages of the depression. The idea of rugged individualism was created in order so that the government would be less depended on and that the people of the nation should fend for themselves more in times of distress. It would be obvious that during this era, a majority of the United States would not appreciate or accept the concept of rugged individualism. In fact, there was much tension and turmoil that was set out against President Hoover in the later stages of his presidency due to this factor. It was more so that the people were ready for a change. The nation needed the help and support of a dedicated government. It was more of a need that they longed for to be put out of the economic and social depression that they were in. It was certain that Hoover was not the right man to help them get out of it (Kingsbury). Luckily, the nation soon did find that there was someone out there who would be dedicated enough to get it out of its distress. There was no greater man for the job than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Being a Democratic politician, Roosevelt would not only win the nation over with his social tactics, but more so with his political party. With...
The Constitution of the United States of America protects people’s rights because it limits the power of government against its people. Those rights guaranteed in the Constitution are better known as the Bill of Rights. Within these rights, the Fourth Amendment protects “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizures […]” (Knetzger & Muraski, 2008). According to the Fourth Amendment, a search warrant must be issued before a search and seizure takes place. However, consent for lawful search is one of the most common exceptions to the search warrant requirement.
A rhetoric analysis can be defined as the breakdown of components used to make a persuasive argument or judgment on a particular subject or topic. The ability to make a conclusion or decision on a given thought or idea in a moment of seconds is a result of rhetorical analysis. “Because media rhetoric surrounds us, it is important to understand how rhetoric works. If we refuse to stop and think about how and why it persuades us, we can become mindless consumers who buy into arguments about what makes us value ourselves and what makes us happy”. In Carroll’s essay “Backpacks Vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis”, she discusses the nature of rhetorical analysis, how it affects our everyday lives and explains the role context plays.
... to reorganize and redistribute. In his campaign speech, Roosevelt indicated that people’ living conditions were improved by hydroelectricity; he confidently said that people would continue to help for “the crippled, the blind, the unemployed, and the aged.”[ Richard Polenberg, The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945, 55.] Roosevelt’ words showed that some of his goals were accomplished-- the TVA brought hydroelectricity which could be used to control floods; the Social Security Act provided welfare to people who needed helps. Roosevelt’s proposal about rights in An Economic Bill of Rights was a response to movement organized by people suffered from discrimination. Actually, people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors were all important things which strongly affected the president. These three influential speeches exposed social changes at that time.
This quote from his inaugural speech, sums up the mood of the American people as Roosevelt was elected to be President of the United States in the deepest part of the depression. He faced numerous challenges as a result of the mismanagement of the previous successive Republicans governments such as a large proportion of the American population were out of work and the banking crisis. Roosevelt had promised the American people a ‘new deal’ at his acceptance of the democratic nomination for president in 1932, however, his campaign only offered vague hints of what it would entail. He put the question of economic security on the agenda. President Roosevelt explicitly and consciously defined the New Deal as the embodiment of freedom, but of freedom of economic security rather than freedom of contract, or freedom of every man for himself.
“The Fourth Amendment wasn't written for people with nothing to hide any more than the First Amendment was written for people with nothing to say.” (Dave Krueger). The Fourth Amendment protects the people's values, including the right of privacy. The Fourth Amendment includes, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, paper, effects, against unreasonable searches and seizure, shall not be violated.” When the founding fathers created the Constitution they ensured the people fundamental laws that would be used to any issue portrayed in the Supreme Court. That gave the people a relief that no one is ever above the law that is created. The privacy of the people was a very big value enforced by warrants. In the case of the
Because of the hands off policy many people at first didn’t want any government interferences however it got to the point where Roosevelt felt that it was necessary. This gave Americans a positive outlook on the future and the push that was needed to get back on track Roosevelt also shut down all banks as soon as possible to have an inspection to figure out what went wrong and how to avoid it from ever happening again. “Banking and stock systems become stabilized and regulated (FDIC, SEC, Glass- Steagall) (Impact of the New Deal).” The FDIC for example was one of the acts passed made to protect bank depositors from anything fraud which was one of the many steps that helped protect the people’s money from being taken without any
Ramsis #53 Mon. 4:00-6:40 History 110 Nobiletti 12/12/13 Four freedoms 11 months before the United States of America would declare war on Japan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech to the American people known as the “four freedoms” on January 6, 1941.1 The main purpose of this speech was to rally support to enter World War 2, however in order to declare war the United States of America had to abandon the isolationist policies that emerged out of WWI. These four freedoms would establish human rights after the war, but more importantly they would resonate throughout the United States for decades after the war. Some of these freedoms have remained the same, and some of these freedoms have changed throughout the years. We will be looking at three periods and comparing how the freedoms varied from each of the three periods.
In his presidential acceptance speech in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed to the citizens of the United States, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” The New Deal, beginning in 1933, was a series of federal programs designed to provide relief, recovery, and reform to the fragile nation. The U.S. had been both economically and psychologically buffeted by the Great Depression. Many citizens looked up to FDR and his New Deal for help. However, there is much skepticism and controversy on whether these work projects significantly abated the dangerously high employment rates and pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression. The New Deal was a bad deal for America because it only provided opportunities for a few and required too much government spending.
Franklin Roosevelt’s “optimism and activism that helped restore the badly shaken confidence of the nation” (pg. 467 Out of Many), was addressed in the New Deal, developed to bring about reform to the American standard of living and its low economy. It did not only make an impact during the Great Depression. Although, many of the problems addressed in the New Deal might have been solved, those with the long lasting effect provide enough evidence to illustrate how great a success the role of the New Deal played out in America’s history to make it what it is today.
But Roosevelt never intended to overthrow the constitution, nor did he wish for an end to capitalism and individualism. He harboured the American Dream just like the millions of people who sent him to the White House a record four times. That, indeed, was precisely why they loved him so much: because the American Dream had turned sour in the Great Depression, and they trusted that he would be able to find a way back towards it. As Europe gave in to totalitarianism, the New Deal set out to show that democratic reform represented a viable alternative.