Detector Pens Persuasive Essay

My presentation is on why the pictures of American presidents are placed on money, and what the other symbols on money mean. I will also discuss why Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin are also on American money, despite the fact that they never served as President of the United States, and I will compare the symbols and portraits of Turkish lira to the symbols and portraits on the American dollar.

Prominent American leaders and politicians have been on United States paper currency for decades. These leaders made a lasting impression in American history in a significant amount of ways. Some notable mentions are Abraham Lincoln, who’s preservation of the Union and Emancipation Proclamation remains vital to the unified nation today and Alexander Hamilton’s advocation of the revised Constitution and influence in the modern day political system. However, the Great Emancipator and the founding father of the United States have respectively been on the currency for almost a century. Currently, there are heated debates about the portrait replacement of Ulysses S, Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill. Despite the opposition, the portraits on the United States currency should be replaced because it is the time of a new generation that begs for change.

“Hey guys! This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you” (Qtd. In Krakauer 69). After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned everything, gave his entire savings account to charity, and then hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wild. In the novel, Into the Wild, Was McCandless justified in shunning society? McCandless was justified in shunning society because he simply wanted to find himself and be independent without any distractions from his friends or family.

The U.S. penny has been a standard in our currency system for almost as long as our country has existed as a sovereign nation, but due to inflation, production costs, and the changing times we live in, it is no longer a sustainable unit of currency and only serves to increase our national deficit and waste our time. When the penny was produced for the first time in 1792 by the U.S. Mint, it was made of pure copper, featured a woman with flowing hair, and was inscribed with the words “Liberty”. Since then, the design and composition have changed numerous times to reflect our changing nation. Despite its fading glory, the penny has been kept alive by numerous false lobbying fronts and a stubborn ideology, but

Have you ever been looked down upon? Of course we all have. Is it however right to stay in place when your life is on the line?

Between the time of the American Revolution and the Civil War the U.S. had no national paper currency. Chartered banks and their privately issued notes proliferated. Countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs—more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. The Continental was America’s currency. In Stephen Mihm’s, A Nation of Counterfeiters, Mihm weaves a historically based tale of how a shady lot of counterfeiters thrived under the American capitalist system, and then explains how the federal government effectively dismantled the archaic monetary system and in turn ended the counterfeit economy it sustained.

The famous counterfeiter, Benjamin Boyd, was caught red-handed in the making of the front of a 20 dollar bill. Boyd is a talented engraver, his best work was a five-dollar bill that some experts couldn’t tell was fake. Ben father was also an excellent engraver, and wanted his son to be skilled enough to take over the family business, so he set Ben up to study with one of the city's best engravers, and his name was Nat Kinsey. Little did Ben’s father know, Nat Kinsey also cut plates to print counterfeit money. Ben was tempted by the idea of making money and learned quickly from Kinsey. When Ben was twenty he cut his first two plates: the front and the back of a 20 dollar bill.

Look for colored fibers in the paper. All U.S. bills have tiny red and blue fibers embedded in the paper. Counterfeiters sometimes try to reproduce these by printing or drawing these fibers onto the paper, but close inspection reveals that on the counterfeit note you will see that they are printed on, rather than being part of the paper itself.

President Lincoln who is a great model of the USA, " would be ashamed to have his face on this specious specie"(Source C). Why would they put the face of a great president who did good things in the US on a piece of copper that has no value what so ever. He will feel no gratitude toward the country by repaying his hard work in a non-valuable piece of copper that should be helping but its really not. As years pass by, the economy is changing by how much money is worth by stating that, " you can't buy anything with a penny any more"(Source C). The penny was worth more back then but now you can't even buy a piece of gum with it. If the penny can't even buy a product why keep it around, its not like its being used. It can also be said that, " Two-thirds of them immediately drop out of circulation" (Source C). Meaning to say that approximately sixty-six percent of pennies disappear or just end up in a place where it will eventually be

For Americans firsts 70 years private entities and not the federal government issued paper money. Notes that was printed by the states chartered banks which could of been exchange for gold and silver. From the founding of the United States passage of National Banking Act 8,000 different countries issued currency which created a widely money supply facilitated rampant counterfeiting. By establishing a single national currency the National Banking act eliminated the overwhelming variety of paper money circulating throughout the country and created a system of banks chartered by the federal government rather than by the states. The law also assisted the federal government in financing the Civil War. Before gold and silver was discovered in the west the United States lacked sufficient quantity of precious metals for minting coins. A 1793 law permitted spanish dollars and other foreign coins to be a part of the American monetary system. Foreign coins was not banned until 1857. The highest bill ever produced by the United States Bureau of Engraving and printing was the $100,000 gold certificate. The money was printed between December 18, 1934 and January 9, 1935 with the picture of President Woodrow on the front. The notes wasn’t available to the public they were only use for transaction

In January 2005, the Secret Service field office in Los Angeles discovered a fake $100 bill of remarkably high quality. Four years later in the Specimen Vault, the Service’s collection of counterfeit examples, 14 more near-genuine 100$ bills were examined. For more than three years the creator evaded capture, and by the time Albert Talton, of Lawndale, California, was captured, he was responsible for passing more than $7 million in false bills.

In 1864, the first pennies were made. In 1909, they were made with Abraham Lincoln’s face printed into it, in honor of his 100th birthday. That was 108 years ago, and pennies are still going around today, with the same president still printed on. However, many U.S. officials are saying the penny should be obsolete. More believe that the little copper and zinc coin should stay as a piece of U.S. money. This essay will give evidence on both sides, supporting them equally in their arguments on why the penny should stay, or go.

If you have a problem Mac and Vince’s business will solve it in their little office in the boys East Wing bathroom in the fourth stall from the high window. This is their business around school; solving the students problems and the customers repaying them with cash or with small favors. With this cash they were save up to go to a Chicago Cubs game in the World Series which they haven't won is over 100 years.

Its impossible to imagine a world without money. However, do we actually know how our money is designed? Who has a say is how it looks? And how exactly does it get integrated into the public? Most would not be able to answer such questions. However, with the recent decision to change the face on the ten dollar bill, it is important that we know the process in which this takes place. Alexander Hamilton's face has always been on the ten dollar bill. Now that Secretary of State, Jack Lew, has proposed to put a woman on the ten dollar bill, who exactly should we choose? With this question, we must consider the historical and cultural facts for this monumental decision.

My object, an American one dollar bill, addresses the idea of wealth and fortune. In examining the bill, one can notice that it is a faded-light green rectangle with George Washington and has the number 1 on all 4 corners on one side. On the other side it is a light forest green with a pyramid on the left and an eagle on the right, also including the number 1 on all 4 corners. This side also consists of the saying “In God We Trust One” in the center written in greyish black ink. It feels like paper and sounds like “kaching” in cartoons. The dollar bill is used by practically everyone and is used to buy just about anything since it is currency.