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1980's Topics 8th Period Donald Trump, Real Estate Empire (Trump Tower) Created by Jack Bebinger Donald Trump
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Task One--DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC ---Due Monday, March 12th Each topic includes an association (movement) and an individual. **PROMPT: Explain the achievements associated with both parts of your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1980s. Explain the relationship between the individual and the association or movement.** Please write **__two__extended** power paragraphs to address the above question. **Each paragraph** should meet the following expectations:   ** Donald Trump is one of the most famous and most successful real estate businessmen on the planet. Donald was born on June 14, 1946 and showed an interest in his dad’s real estate company at an early age. Trump started his business career in an office he shared with his father, Fred, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York (Trump biography). Trump joined his father’s company in 1968 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and then took over the company in 1971. He changed the company's name from Elizabeth Trump & Son to The Trump Organization. His newly found business was off to a good start but took a hit in the late 1980's. When the real estate market faltered in the late 1980's Trumps wealth depleted because most of his wealth was tied up in real estate ventures. But he got over it and stated to expand his empire. In 2009 Forbes magazine estimated Trump's net worth to be anywhere between $150 million and $4 billion. His empire consists of over 25,000 residential condos in the New York area, the famous Trump Tower, Trump park in manhattan, and the Trump plaza. **

** Trump Tower is the center point of Donald Trumps empire, it stands 68 stories tall. The building opened on November 30, 1983. The building is one of the most luxurious office buildings in the world according to Trump.com. This building in New York is just one of 13 "Trump Towers" in the United States, they are the most luxurious office buildings you can rent. Trumps first building was finished in 1983 and the newest to the Trump Tower buildings hasn't been completed yet but is predicted to be finished in 2013. Trumps real estate movement boomed with these buildings and many other residential condos and apartments. It started with a $350,000 lone from his dad and turned into a $4 billion company in 2009, so it has probably continued to grow to this day. Donald has one of, if not, the best real estate companies in the world and his legend is continuing to be placed, he might even be our president one day. ** __Task Two--EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE--Due March 15th__ Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of 3 sources: two new ones and any of the three sources used in Task One.** PROMPT: Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1980s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First Century. ** Please write two extended power paragraphs to address this prompt. **When the stock market crashed in 1987 Trump's empire didn't take an immediate how like most other companies. It took a while for the real estate market to decline and when it did, Trump took a major hit. The market decline reduced the great Trump empires income and Trumps net worth dropped from almost $1.7 billion down to barely $500 million. The company had to take out major loans just to keep the empire barely running. Trump also had bad debt, he had approximately $900 million in personal debt and almost $3.5 billion in business debt due to the three casinos he was constructing and the bad economy. But in 1994 he had eliminated a large portion of both his personal and his business debt. The public feared that trump would lose his empire and they viewed it symbolically for the other businesses, economy, and social excesses from the 1980s. But fortunately Trump climbed back up the slippery slope of the real estate market and in 1997 his net worth had risen greatly, he was worth almost $2 billion.** **The Trump legacy only grew from the scary events of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It proved to the people that the Trump empire was strong and could power through anything. The public opinion of the Trump empire was a great admiration until Donald started to get married and divorced. In 1993 he married Marla Maples and they had one child, then they got divorced in 1999. Then he married his current wife Melania Knauss and together they had one child. Public opinion of Trump started to change when people found out about his social life, opinions ranged from mild to hateful. Two opinions were "it would be be hard to have a normal social life at that point because of all his money and everyone you met would have an ulterior motive with them (W. Bebinger)", there's sympathy, and "he is superficial and shallow, and interested in money and beautiful women. I don't think that has changed since he came 'on the scene'. I have heard him give a keynote speech and he is arrogant and boastful. I think he believes that people want to emulate him (M. Bebinger)", and there's dislike. Trumps impact on the 21st century was big, he is the leading real estate owner in the world and continues to lead the way, but the publics view of him might have shifted since the occurrences in the 90s.** <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #9008b6; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Task Three--JUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATIO --Due Mar. 19th <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic and know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, identify the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the **Great Man Continuum** to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each one citing a minimum of 3 credible sources. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Encyclopedic sources are not acceptable for this task. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">**PROMPT: Explain the forces that produced or created your topic. Use the four criteria of the Great Man Continuum to analyze the topic's long-run significance in American society. Specifically, (1) describe the significance of the accomplishment, (2) the endurance of the legacy, (3) extent of the topics influence, and** **(4) impact on daily life of people then and now.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">**For Donald Trump to have gotten his start he needed an opportunity and his father gave that to him. He now had a company and immediately started to make changes, as his empire grew he started making bigger and bigger deals buying hotels and casinos. What allowed him to make great leaps ahead in real estate was the fact that his father had already started a major real estate company that was big so Trump didn't have to start from scratch, he got to jump the first 15 years of the company which is the hard times, he just got a fat juicy steak handed to him and he started devouring it right away. The significance of his accomplishments were defiantly wide spread but he didn't have a great deal of big accomplishments and they didn't last all that long, he had a couple big buys but mainly little ones. The endurance of his legacy will go on forever, you can ask anyone and they will most likely know who Donald Trump is. His overall influence in society is pretty big, just recently we had the roast of Donald Trump on comedy central. His impact on daily life was the most insignificant part of his legacy, he didn't have a great impact on most of our lives. His main impact was on the high end of luxury work offices. For most people though he hasn't had a huge impact on us. Overall I believe Donald Trump isn't a great man but he is in between Event-Making hero and Great man because someone else could have easily done what he had done but he still leads the way in the real estate business.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">
 * Great Man Criteria || ** 5=long-run ** || ** 4=wide-spread ** || ** 3=moderate ** || ** 2=short run ** || ** 1=little effect ** || ** 0=not at all ** ||
 * ** SIGNIFICANCE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT ** ||  || X ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** ENDURANCE OF LEGACY ** || X ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** EXTENT OF INFLUENCE ** ||  || X ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ** IMPACT ON DAILY LIFE ** ||  ||   || X ||   ||   ||   ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: center;">Great Man Continuum

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Great --XEvent Making --Eventful --Social X <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Men ---XHero ---Hero ---Determinism

Works Cited

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">Drexler, Kateri. "Donald Trump." // American Government //. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 28 Mar. 2012

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;">"**Trump, Donald.**" //Britannica Book of the Year, 2005//. //Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition//. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2012. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.

Middleton, Richard T. "Donald Trump." // Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society //. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">Salisbury, Joyce E. and Andrew E Kersten. "Class and Caste Experience in the Modern World." // Daily Life through History //. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.

<http://www.trump.com/Donald_J_Trump/Biography.asp>. || Mar. 2012. <http://www.notablebiographies.com/St-Tr/ Trump-Donald.html#b>. || <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Donald_Trump#Successes_.281968.E2.80.9389.29>. i used this site for background information. ||
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 * < "Donald Trump Biography ." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. N.p., 2012. Web. 28
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">**Holistic Rubric for all 3 Tasks**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">**A quality topic post for the 1980s assignment will**
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Arrange Media to enhance and extend the significance of the topic to the 1980s decade.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Support the main idea in <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">each paragraph with evidence from 3 different sources.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Select only signed sources from the LC databases.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Credit sources with internal citations, ( Author's Last Name).
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">List all <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">7 sources alphabetically in the Works Cited. Format in MLA style. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Remove web address.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Complete Great Man Continuum and Table.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Justify the placement of your topic on the continuum <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">using the evidence from the 7 sources to support your analysis of the 4 criteria.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Answer the prompts for all 3 tasks and the research question thoughtfully and thoroughly.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Task Three Rubric **


 * Support the main idea in each paragraph with evidence from the 2 new expert opinion sources, as well as one of the credible sources used in Tasks One or Two. Each paragraph must cite 3 different sources--2 new, 1 old.
 * Select only signed sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * Credit sources with internal citations and in a Works Cited
 * ** Complete Great Man Continuum and Table and justify your placement using the evidence of the 4 criteria **
 * Insert the two news sources in the Works Cited. Make sure all 7 sources are in alphabetical order.
 * Post the paragraphs to the wiki. Timely posting of completed tasks earn 10 points. Task One = 50 points.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Need Help Applying the Great Man Theory? ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">When deciding where a person may fit on the continuum, think about what society was like at the time he/she was famous. Did the person change history because of their personal characteristics, or would history have gone on in a similar way without this person? Civil Society Defined Great Man Continuum
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Refer to these handouts for additional information: **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** eed Help Using the Great Man Criteria Table? ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Use a scale of 0-to 5 to evaluate the individual’s accomplishments, legacy, influence, and impact.** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">** 0=not at all, 1=little effect, 2=short run, 3=moderate, 4=wide-spread, 5=long run **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">Individuals with high totals, mostly 5’s, should be placed close to Great Men; those with low scores near social determinism.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px;">Need Help placing individuals on the Great Man Continuum? **