The repertory grid is a technique for identifying the ways that a person construes (interprets or gives meaning to) his or her experience. It provides information from which inferences about personality can be made, but it is not a personality test in the conventional sense.
Among James Monroe's ancestors were French Huguenot immigrants, who came to Virginia in 1700. Career Military service. Monroe graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1815, and was commissioned in the Artillery Corps. Shortly after graduating, he was sent to fight in the war with Algiers, and was wounded while serving as a gunnery officer on board the USS Guerriere.
James Monroe came to the presidency as one of the most qualified men ever to assume the office. His resume included service in the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress, and the U.S. Senate.Monroe also served as governor of Virginia, filled numerous diplomatic posts, and held two cabinet appointments.s President, Monroe occasionally suffers from comparison to the other members of the Virginia DynastyâGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Indeed, he was not a renaissance man like Jefferson; his overwhelming interest and passion was politics.