Final Exam Flashcards
Identify: President Roosevelt’s request of Mr. Vannevar Bush in the reading “Science: The Endless Frontier”
(1) What can be done to make known to the world the contributions which have been made during our war effort to scientific knowledge?
(2) With particular reference to the war of science against disease, what can be done now to organize a program for continuing in the future the work which has been done in medicine and related sciences?
(3) What can the Government do now and in the future to aid research activities by public and private organizations?
(4) Can a program be proposed for discovering and developing scientific talent in American youth to continue the future of scientific research in this country on a level comparable to what has been done during the war?
Identify: Bush’s reply to the President in “Science: The Endless Frontier”
Progress in the war against disease depends upon a flow of new scientific knowledge. New products, new industries, and more jobs require continuous additions to knowledge of the laws of nature, and the application of that knowledge to practical purposes. Similarly, our defense against aggression demands new knowledge so that we can develop new and improved weapons. This essential, new knowledge can be obtained only through basic scientific research.
Explain: how Bush’s advice to the President, if followed, would constitute state imposition of a particular “lifestyle” on the American people
The rewards of such exploration both for the Nation and the individual are great. Scientific progress is one essential key to our security as a nation, to our better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living, and to our cultural progress. One of our hopes is that after the war there will be full employment. To reach that goal the full creative and productive energies of the American people must be released. To create more jobs we must make new and better and cheaper products.
Explain: the difference between honest and dishonest graft
Honest: To charge a good price and make profit from ones investment and foresight. To see your opportunities, and take em.
Dishonest: blackmailing gamblers, saloonkeepers, disorderly people etc.
Identify: the mistakes to be avoided by the would-be “statesman”
- Don’t go to college.
- Don’t practice speaking or orating.
- Get a marketable commodity. One vote. Then 2, Then 3, Then 60, Then an association.
Explain: what civil service reform is, and why Plunkitt is opposed to it
Civil Service Reform: 1883 federal law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called “spoils system.” Opposition: patronage is the best suited method of providing jobs to people because the people that will be hired really are working in the interests of the state because of their patriotism and determination to serve the nation, not because they can answer any random question of the civil service examinations and know every and “any part of the Greek language.”
Tammany Hall is not concerned with idealism, but with the concrete everyday needs of citizens; explain, making reference to specifics in the Riordan book
Tammy believes world leaders have a sense of how the things should be governed. They have an “Idea.” However, he does not believe this “ideas” are in the best interest of the citizens because politicians are not on the same level as the people they are working for.The fact your “ideas” are republican or democrat is irrelevant. Going back to Aristotle views the closer and smaller a community is the more justice there is.
Identify: three specific similarities between Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany
1) The propaganda they had
2) The public work/ jobs created during their time. (Autobahn and Tennessee valley authority)
3) The power granted to each person
4) The economic state of each leaders country
