CHAPTER  22

HELPS   AND   REQUIREMENTS    FOR   STUDY

Some of these topic sentences are simply sentences selected from the text because the thoughts they express are so important and so valuable that it is worth while for students to prove their comprehension of them by developing paragraphs upon them.  The rest of them are expressions of thoughts that naturally occur to a thoughtful reader, and the attempt to develop which will mean a much more comprehensive grasp of what is contained in and suggested by Mr.  Hagedorn's text.  It is not expected that student or teacher will, in every case, agree with the point of view expressed.  Some of the sentences are so formulated as to be challenges to develop the opposite points of view.  And the student should be encouraged to formulate and develop topic sentences of his own. 

CHAPTER 1
1. 	Enumerate the influences   affecting  Theodore  Roosevelt
while a young child.     What kind of person will he become
because of them?
2. 	What traits of character do you discover in him?   What
kind of man will he become?
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	'Born into such a home, Theodore Roosevelt would naturally
become a great man. 
2. 	From generations back of both father and mother Theodore
Roosevelt inherited the instinct to strive fearlessly for high
ideals of freedom. 

CHAPTER 2
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	The reading that Theodore had done by the time he was
nine years of age must have been of great value to him in
boyhood and in later life. 
2. 	Theodore was fortunate to have such a father. 
3. 	Theodore was an observer as well as a reader. 

CHAPTER 3
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
1. 	The influences that molded Theodore Roosevelt during boy
hood. 
2. 	Theodore Roosevelt's handicaps (?). 
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	Theodore Roosevelt was a boy of great persistence. 
2. 	Theodore Roosevelt was far more purposeful than most boys. 
3. 	At fifteen and sixteen years of age Theodore was laying deep
foundations for a life of great usefulness. 
4. 	Theodore Roosevelt's handicaps (?) really operated greatly
to his advantage. 
5. 	I should (not) have enjoyed Roosevelt as a chum. 

CHAPTER 4
ESSAY TITLES
1. 	How to Get the Most out of Four Years at College. 
2. 	How to Get the Most out of Four Years at High School. 
TOPIC SENTENCES
Roosevelt's act of giving a dollar to the boy with the black eye is just what I should expect of him.  Roosevelt's life  during youth  and young manhood was dominated by the desire to become a man who could do things. 

CHAPTER 5
TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION
". . .  business is extremely important and everything else must bow to it. "
SUBJECTS FOR COMPOSITION
1. 	Explain the composition of the legislature that Roosevelt
entered. 
2. 	Write a brief speech that might have been delivered in the
21st district advocating Theodore Roosevelt's re-election. 
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	We need more politicians like Joe Murray. 
2. 	Joe Murray taught Theodore Roosevelt that .  .  . 
3. 	Roosevelt's fight against Westbrook was a success. 

CHAPTER 6
TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION
Was Roosevelt right in refusing to bolt, or was he acting the part of a partisan in politics?
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	This hunt certainly proved Roosevelt no "tenderfoot. "
2. 	Had Roosevelt continued to regulate his conduct in public
life by the consideration, "How will this affect my career?"
he would have greatly limited his usefulness to his country. 

CHAPTER 7 TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	It seems that Roosevelt did not know what fear is. 
2. 	Roosevelt took many unnecessary risks. 
3. 	Roosevelt's efforts for Blaine were consistent with his attitude after Blaine's nomination. 
4. 	Winter in the bad lands meant extreme hardship for men
and animals. 
5. 	Roosevelt commanded the respect of friend and enemy alike. 

CHAPTER 8 COMPOSITION SUBJECTS
1. 	Give your explanation as to why "Jim" the "bad man"
and Roosevelt became friends instead of having trouble. 
2. 	Why didn't Roosevelt "hang 'em offhand"?
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	There were many attractive features in the life Roosevelt
lived on his ranch. 
2. 	Roosevelt will become a better soldier because of his ranch
life in the West. 
3. 	Roosevelt had a high conception of a sheriff's duty. 
4. 	When he goes back East Roosevelt will make a fine chief
of police or police commissioner. 

CHAPTER 9 TOPIC SENTENCES
i.     Roosevelt's western life and experiences transformed an eastern aristocrat into a democratic American. 
a.    Roosevelt's life in the West was the kind in which men come to know each other. 
3.    Roosevelt was guided by no fixed purpose in life from the end of his career in the New York Legislature to his acceptance of Harrison's offer.  Anyone who had followed Roosevelt through the preceding chapters expected from him as a soldier just what this chapter records. 
2. 	It was a miracle that Roosevelt was not even wounded. 
3. 	Such leadership must have an inspiration to every soldier in
Roosevelt's regiment. 
4.    Roosevelt's investment in his ranch was unwise and a failure. 

CHAPTER 10
What opportunities do you know about for the application of Roosevelt's "opposite theory"?
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	While   civil   service   commissioner,   Roosevelt   made   the
American people his allies in the fight for good government. 
2. 	". . .  a flaming spirit burns his mark on the hearts of men. . . "
(Show how this is true of Roosevelt. )
3. 	Instead of attacking this bear Roosevelt should have done
his best to get away from the vicinity without attracting
the bear's attention at all. 

CHAPTER 11 TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	Roosevelt fought with the same strategy in the "tiger's den"
that he had used in the "graveyard'' and only this strategy
could have brought him success. 
2. 	Of inestimable value to him was Roosevelt's ability to
understand characteristics and motives of other men, and
to judge how they would act under given circumstances. 
3. 	What a relief home must have been to Roosevelt after a
week of his "grimy" struggle!
4. 	Roosevelt was right in his views and policy as to administration of the law for Sunday saloon closing. 
5. 	Roosevelt was a great moral force in the life of New York
City. 

CHAPTER 12
TOPIC SENTENCES
1.    It was Roosevelt's duty to remain at his post as Assistant Secretary of the Navy rather than go into the army.  

CHAPTER 13
POINTS TO BE EXPLAINED
1. 	Explain how Platt dominated the Republican Party in the
interest of the "interests. "
2. 	Explain Roosevelt's statement that the independence of
some independents "consisted in one part moral obliquity
and two parts mental infirmity. "
3. 	Explain Roosevelt's statement " the blows from the dark
will only help me in an out-and-out battle. "
4. 	How and why are bills "lost in committee"?
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	Roosevelt's great service to the state was   (Complete and
show the truth of your statement. )
2. 	Roosevelt had no political ambitions. 
3. 	Roosevelt had no right to take such risks as he did during
his wild night ride to North Creek. 
4. 	Franchises should be taxed. 
5. 	It was of vital importance to the public that Roosevelt
should win the fight over the insurance commissionership. 

CHAPTER 14
What arguments might Roosevelt have used to show the coal-mine operators that in their own interests they should yield?
POINTS TO BE EXPLAINED
1.     Look up and explain fully the process by which the federal government brings a case before a federal court.  
2.     Look up and explain how and to whom rebates are granted by railroads.     What are the evils of rebate granting?
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	Not for an instant did the anarchist who shot McKinley
shake the structure of orderly government. 
2. 	That the government did not become a plutocracy "is due
largely to the clear vision and unfaltering leadership of
Theodore Roosevelt. "
3. 	The chief element in Roosevelt's strategy in national af
fairs is still the same that he used so effectively in "The
Graveyard" and in "The Tiger's Den. "
4. 	Roosevelt   "crystallized"  the   "cloudy  musings"  of the
people. 
5. 	Roosevelt's settlement of the coal strike was a service of
tremendous value to the public. 
6. 	President Roosevelt was a tireless worker. 

CHAPTER 15
POINTS TO BE EXPLAINED
1. 	Explain what it ought to mean to be a citizen of the United
States. 
2. 	Explain the importance to us of the Panama Canal. 
3. 	Explain the significance to 1906 readers of the Philadelphia
Press of the "Big Stick" cartoon. 
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION
1. 	Should  we have  been justified in following  Roosevelt's
recommendation "to take possession of the isthmus by force
of arms" if Panama had not revolted?
2. 	Was Roosevelt right in the belief that the overturn of the
existing order is inevitable unless the forces of capital and
the forces of labor meet on the common ground of govern
mental regulation and control?
3. 	Write an article to commend or to criticize Roosevelt's act
of sending our fleet on its world-girdling voyage. 
4. 	Would it have been to the advantage of the country if
Roosevelt had served it as President a third term?
5. 	Was Congress right in calling Roosevelt ambitious and
dictatorial?
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	"Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far. "
2. 	"The rights of the public to the natural resources outweigh
private rights. "

CHAPTER 16
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	Only a man of great physical endurance could have come
through an experience like Roosevelt's in Africa. 
2. 	Roosevelt was a man of great courage and self-control
in the face of danger. 

CHAPTER 17
TOPIC SENTENCE
Roosevelt was the personification of the moral force in man which translates ideals into accomplished benefits. 

CHAPTER 18
POINTS TO BE EXPLAINED
1. 	Explain fully why each great party in the United States
was hoping that Roosevelt would speak in its favor in Egypt. 
2. 	Explain what may have passed through Roosevelt's mind
when he saw the bullet hole in his manuscript, and explain
fully what nerved him for the delivery of his speech. 
3. 	Explain as fully as possible what  Roosevelt meant  hy
"Human rights must have the upper hand. "
4. 	Explain Roosevelt's defeat in the New York contest. 
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	Our newspapers exert a tremendous influence for right or
wrong. 
2. 	Roosevelt's acceptance. of nomination by the Progressive
Party was a great political mistake. 
3. 	"The leader is but an instrument. "
4. 	"We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the
world. "
5. 	Roosevelt's recovery from the wound received in Milwaukee
was due to the way in which he had lived. 

CHAPTER 19
TOPIC SENTENCES
1. 	Roosevelt's life was full of the most extreme contrasts. 
2. 	What will power!
3. 	To take such a trip was folly. 
CHAPTER 20
POINTS TO BE EXPLAINED
1. 	Show that the Republican Party had the chance of a century either to achieve a glorious victory or to go down to
a scarcely less glorious defeat. 
2. 	 How was it that one who had been so popular and had rendered such services could become so unpopular?
TOPIC SENTENCES
Develop "Safety First!" and "Duty First!" to show what each meant, as they were used in 1915, 1916, and 1917. 
GENERAL ESSAY TOPICS
1.  Roosevelt said, "I owe more than I can express to the West. " Prepare an address or an essay upon "Roosevelt's Debt to the West. " Roosevelt's Greatest Service to His Country. 
2. 	The Menace of "Privilege" in American Life. 
3. 	Roosevelt's Conception of Government. 
4. 	Roosevelt, the Great Democrat. 
5. 	Roosevelt in Private Life. 
THEME SENTENCES
(To be kept in mind throughout an essay, and made its dominating thought, as a topic sentence is similarly developed in a paragraph. )
1. 	Roosevelt always put his case before the people as a last
resort. 
2. 	Roosevelt's indomitable determination was one of the greatest factors in his success. 
3. 	Roosevelt always took defeat with a grin and came back
strong. 
4. 	Roosevelt was the embodiment of all that we think of as
typically American. 
5. 	Roosevelt was "always a boy in his heart. "
THE END