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This weeks assignment: TR monologue Part Two! Write a first person monolofue describing TRs life as a young man. In your monologue describe some interesting tales of your time as a "cowboy".

I'd always envied the cowboys of the west, and spent many a times as a boy daydreaming about adventure. My daydreams turned into reality when I guide took me on a seven day journey riding the west, sleeping under the stars, and hunting buffalo. One night a pack of wolves scared off all of the horses. Excitedly, we quickly got to our feet and chased off after them. The next morning we awoke sleeping in four inches of rain.

I was at Harvard studying to be a scientist when I got word that my father (whom we called "Greatheart") had passed away. I decided to go into politics, knowing that this is what my father would have wanted. I became a legislator in New York's Assembly, and married the beautiful Alice Lee. She gave birth to our daughter and passed away that same night and my mother, Mittie, died of typhoid fever.

I didn't know what to do with my life. Everything was taken away from me. So I journeyed on back to the west where I learned to rope steers, wrestle calves, and ride bucking horses. I once caught three theives and walked them fourty-five miles to the nearest sheriffs office!

My second journey to the west helped me to begin my life again. I went back east and accepted a job as police commissioner of New York. I then married my childhood playmate Edith Carow.

My name is Theodore Roosevelt, but my family calls me Teedie. I was born October 27, 1858 in New York. I was very sick when I was younger. I had asthma and my eyesight was very poor. It was probably from all the reading I did. I read one book every day! When I was 11 my father sat me aside and told me that I needed to build my body to match my mind, so I took up boxing, hunting, horseback riding, and I rowed. I had always been interested in science. I had 250 different specimens of insects, and decided to set up a natural-history museum in my house. I charged a penny per person and earned quite abit of income...or what I thought was alot when I was a little boy. I never attended a schoolhouse like the other kids in my town. Instead, my parents hired tutors and governesses to teach me and my siblings. My siblings and I were studying art, geography, and history, my parents took us on a year round trip to Europe! I loved playing war with my siblings. I would be a union soldier, but my two sisters and brother never could decide which side to take. The funniest thing that happend to me in my childhood? I was once riding in a streetcar, as an elderly lady walked by. Doing as my father always did, I politely lifted my cap as several frogs fell out.

This weeks assignment: Imagine you live in the "Gilded Age"and you are writing a note to put in a time capsule to be opened in August 2010. Describe some of the things happening in your time.

The "Gilded Age". A time of optimism, worry, delight, of poverty and corruption. I never thought it was possible to be filled with so much emotion at the same time. Americans now have washing machines, sewing machines, stoves and factory produced clothing. It is amazing how life can be so much easier because of these inventions. America now has leisure time. Unfortunately not everyone has enough time to enjoy these luxurys, and I blame it one the immigrants.

It seems as though hundreds of immigrants pour into our country every week. They're taking jobs that are mean't for American citizens only. The immigrants are crowding up America. With all this polution and dirty water, it sometimes feels as though I am choking. At first I thought, "When one place gets too polluted, we can just move on." But now, I realize that is not the truth. We need to keep our drinking water pure, and the rivers and beaches clean, and Gifford Pinochet is one of the few who realize this.

Some people call this time the "Progressive Era". The populists take it as their duty to spread the word of Americas current problems, while the Progressives put their ideas and thoughts into actions. The Progressives are fighting for childrens education, they're fighting the problem of business monopolies, higher pay and lower hours for workers, and the problem of waste of our natural rescources. To sum it all up, I'm living in the age of extremes.