in 1905. In doing that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. He showed his strength again in 1908 when he sent battleships to visit Japan in a "muscle-flexing" display of sea power. He did this because of the tension in California about the anti-Japanese racism. In the cartoon, Two Views of The President, they are showing two different sides of Roosevelt. On one side it shows him as a mad savage and the other shows him a clean-cut man. Starting with the mad savage picture. It appears as a frontiersman side. There is a dead bear skin on the wall with two guns holding it there. The bear skin symbolizes his courage, for it takes a lot of courage to kill a bear. To the side of the bear skin is an arrangement of hatchets. Theses could describe Roosevelts ability to survive on his own. The statue of the Spartan symbolizes the strength of the warrior in Roosevelt. Other items in the room such as the guns and knives and the cannon wastepaper basket can only describe the feeling of war and survival. The last thing that caught my attention was the spurs, these are showing the Power Roosevelt has over his country and other countries. On the other side of the picture is the side where Roosevelt is sitting up straight, has on a suit, and is very clean looking. This shows the seriousness of Roosevelts presidency and his beliefs. This picture in a whole shows the "Two Views of the President" in that it shows his strong side "the frontiersman", and it shows his serious and business side as a world leader. The essay "In Cowboy-Land" again Roosevelt shows his strength as a frontiersman, that he took to the presidency. He tells about how the thrills of the wilderness can lead a man to kill another man. He said that these people had good sides but that the "man-killers" were drove to kill by there surrounding conditions. After killing a man these peoples good sides were useless. He also tells about how unpredictable the west cou...
