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Imagination In America
Imagination brings new inventions and ideas into ours world. Without inventions America would be nothing, our day to day lives would be harder, and more of a strain. Some of the inventions that made America are cars, airplanes, and the steam turbine. They changed America by bringing us at the peak of our game and making us a dominant nation. Cars for example were invented because people wanted to be transported faster. Now we don't have to take a tiresome horse carriage ride everywhere we go. Pursuing this further, inventions like guns and bombs made us more powerful and helped us defend ourselves from our enemies. The t.v and and the internet also where brought to our world from the cranium of whimsical people. Life without T.V would make

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