Have you ever done a report for school on FOL or someone on FOL? I did 2 last year one on Kim Fields for Black History Month and one on the whole show for my final report of the year!

I have never done a report on just FOL but I did an 80s project and I mentioned FOL and I did little thing on Molly Ringwald since she was a big star in the 80s.

I did one on... well duh. Lisa. And I got an A+ on it!! *dances* I should have Lisa sign it then I'll frame it. :D

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever
I did one on... well duh. Lisa. And I got an A+ on it!! *dances* I should have Lisa sign it then I'll frame it. :D

I think I'm going to send mine on Kim to her to sign it!

I wrote a paragraph about Charlotte.......and then I wrote an essay abotu meeting my friend Jessie, which basically meant writing about the whole Sean Rae thing which was basically writing abotu Charlotte again. We do these papers every once in a while that we call " Building Paragraph's" and we are giving certain topics like, "describe a time when people exchanged surprised glances" and I wrote out a scene from FOL, dialoge and all...LOL.(When Blair broke an engine Jo was working on and Jo was like, "No big deal!"Mrs. G, Tootie, Nat, and Blair HAD to exchange surprise glances there!!!;))

Karli, that is TOO COOL!!!! A+!!!!! I hope everyone realizes that Haven is going to become president when she grows up!!!! Think of all the great presidents: Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Haven Cauble!!!! I wonder who's going to write a report on her!!!! (BTW, if I've offended anyone by omitting Hayes or Coolidge, I'm really really sorry. BTW, one of the places where I bought a SIGNED photo of Lisa had an $800 photo of President Rutherford Hayes!!!! Should I have bought it instead??)

I wrote a biography on Nancy McKeon in 7th grade and one about Lisa Whelchel this year. :D

Originally posted by Tad Warner
Karli, that is TOO COOL!!!! A+!!!!! I hope everyone realizes that Haven is going to become president when she grows up!!!! Think of all the great presidents: Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Haven Cauble!!!! I wonder who's going to write a report on her!!!! (BTW, if I've offended anyone by omitting Hayes or Coolidge, I'm really really sorry. BTW, one of the places where I bought a SIGNED photo of Lisa had an $800 photo of President Rutherford Hayes!!!! Should I have bought it instead??)

Whoa wait I have no clue who Hayes is but anyways Haven can't be pres!!!! I'M going to be PRES!!!!! Unless we run at different times..... and OMG, she'd be my sister and law..... AHHHHHHHHH not good

Originally posted by FOLrocks1
I think I'm going to send mine on Kim to her to sign it!

Yeah!! She'd probably sign it! That would be cool :D

See, NO ONE has any idea who Hayes was!! Shows how popular he was. (1822-1893, president 1877-1881) The only thing he was popular for was that he had a huge ZZ-Top style beard and
a wife named "Lemonade Lucy". There was some debate if he was duly elected in 1876, but he did end the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War. In other words,:sleep2: BTW Karli, if you're British, I don't think you can get to be American president. (Unless you were born a citizen here.) Unless the laws change so that COOL people win the right to rule.:cool:

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


Whoa wait I have no clue who Hayes ...


Okay Karli, we are going to take a break from our Texas Language course and do a crash course on American History.


Rutherford B. Hayes

Beneficiary of the most fiercely disputed election in American history, Rutherford B. Hayes,19th president of the United States, brought to the Executive Mansion dignity, honesty, and moderate reform.

To the delight of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Lucy Webb Hayes carried out her husband's orders to banish wines and liquors from the White House.

Born in Ohio in 1822, Hayes was educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School. After five years of law practice in Lower Sandusky, he moved to Cincinnati, where he flourished as a young Whig lawyer.

He fought in the Civil War, was wounded in action, and rose to the rank of brevet major general. While he was still in the Army, Cincinnati Republicans ran him for the House of Representatives. He accepted the nomination, but would not campaign, explaining, "an officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer... ought to be scalped."

Elected by a heavy majority, Hayes entered Congress in December 1865, troubled by the "Rebel influences ... ruling the White House." Between 1867 and 1876 he served three terms as Governor of Ohio.

Safe liberalism, party loyalty, and a good war record made Hayes an acceptable Republican candidate in 1876. He opposed Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York.

Although a galaxy of famous Republican speakers, and even Mark Twain, stumped for Hayes, he expected the Democrats to win. When the first returns seemed to confirm this, Hayes went to bed, believing he had lost. But in New York, Republican National Chairman Zachariah Chandler, aware of a loophole, wired leaders to stand firm: "Hayes has 185 votes and is elected." The popular vote apparently was 4,300,000 for Tilden to 4,036,000 for Hayes. Hayes's election depended upon contested electoral votes in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. If all the disputed electoral votes went to Hayes, he would win; a single one would elect Tilden.

Months of uncertainty followed. In January 1877 Congress established an Electoral Commission to decide the dispute. The commission, made up of eight Republicans and seven Democrats, determined all the contests in favor of Hayes by eight to seven. The final electoral vote: 185 to 184.

Northern Republicans had been promising southern Democrats at least one Cabinet post, Federal patronage, subsidies for internal improvements, and withdrawal of troops from Louisiana and South Carolina.

Hayes insisted that his appointments must be made on merit, not political considerations. For his Cabinet he chose men of high caliber, but outraged many Republicans because one member was an ex-Confederate and another had bolted the party as a Liberal Republican in 1872.

Hayes pledged protection of the rights of Negroes in the South, but at the same time advocated the restoration of "wise, honest, and peaceful local self-government." This meant the withdrawal of troops. Hayes hoped such conciliatory policies would lead to the building of a "new Republican party" in the South, to which white businessmen and conservatives would rally.

Many of the leaders of the new South did indeed favor Republican economic policies and approved of Hayes's financial conservatism, but they faced annihilation at the polls if they were to join the party of Reconstruction. Hayes and his Republican successors were persistent in their efforts but could not win over the "solid South."

After election, he kept his promise as he helped heal the wounds of the Civil War (1861-1865) by taking the last federal troops out of the South and thus ending the post-war period known as Reconstruction.


Hayes had announced in advance that he would serve only one term, and retired to Spiegel Grove, his home in Fremont, Ohio, in 1881. He died in 1893.

Originally posted by Tad Warner
BTW Karli, if you're British, I don't think you can get to be American president. (Unless you were born a citizen here.)

Well I was born here but I'm also a citizen of Ireland, even though I don't think my birth certificate shows it. It's screwy...

Originally posted by Ags2000
Okay Karli, we are going to take a break from our Texas Language course and do a crash course on American History.




LOL thanks, D!

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


LOL thanks, D!

No prob :)

D

To Ags2000, I guess Hayes wasn't such a nobody after all!! That was very interesting. When I was 9, I was obsessed about learning about the presidents. Funny that I missed this information about him. See, you DO learn things on this site!!
I guess I was thinking about this musical play they were doing on the Simpsons where they sang about the "average" presidents:
"There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes,
There was William Henry Harrison--'I was dead in 40 days!'"

No never.

well for a project i did a section on different strokes but last year we made magazines and i made one on the 80s and put fol in it of course...lol got an A too...BOYAH lol

Originally posted by hockeybabe528
BOYAH

LOL... *gives Keightee that "Jinny Look"*

I'm gonna be doing a project on the 80's in the spring so, of course, I'll include FOL. My teacher even said I could dress up like Jo for the presentation!! LOL! Oh, and every project we've done so far in computer class (except for when we were assigned a topic) has been on FOL (a website, web site review, and ad). My teacher probably thinks I'm crazy. LOL :crazy: