The Star-spangled banner‚ the National Anthem of the United States of America is a poem inspired by the Battle of Baltimore‚ fought on September 12-14‚ 1814 during the War of 1812. During the British campaign against Washington‚ D.C.‚ an elderly and respected physician‚ Dr. William Beanes was arrested for unfriendly acts toward the British soldiers which resulted in his arrest. Francis Scott Key‚ a prominent lawyer and friend of Dr. Beanes was sent by President James Madison to obtain his release
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Andres Bonifacio‚ the Real National Hero A Term Paper Submitted to Mrs. Erlinda A. Quirap Department of English Cagayan de Oro National High School In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements in English IV – Newton By Vincent Jay C. Bacor February 15‚ 2011 Sentence Outline: Thesis Statement: Andres Bonifacio y de Castro is the real national hero based on a clear action against Spanish colonization‚ good leadership and governance among revolutionaries‚ and a great inspiration
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The Cop and the Anthem This short story written by O. Henry and published in 1904 follows a man‚ named Soapy‚ through a day in his life near the beginning of winter. The goal‚ find a place to live for the winter. The man is homeless‚ knowing that shelter for the winter is a must or the harsh cold will likely kill him. A plan starts formulating that involves getting arrested so that winter can be spent locked in an island prison on Blackwell Island‚ NY. Allowing him to have a nice warm bed‚ three
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Equine Therapy for Disabled People People with special needs and disabilities are just like us. They have goals‚ dreams‚ and wishes. It’s not like they chose to be handicapped‚ no-one does. All we can do is be there for them‚ supporting and encouraging them. A way that has proven beneficial is equine therapy or horse therapy. Horses are therapeutic for people with special needs because riding can strengthen their muscles; give them a sense of accomplishment or independence and lets them have higher
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What worries me most about my future? This question is often asked but there’s many answers to it. The books we reviewed are Anthem and Prometheus. We also reviewed Critical Thinking and the Emancipation proclamation. Failure is one of my main worries about my future. First‚ Equality is also scared of failure. An example is on the book Anthem by Ayn Rand in page 43- “Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals‚ and I loathe humanity
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Symbolizes Happiness Prompt: In the final chapter of Anthem‚ Prometheus writes that he now understands “why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.” What has Prometheus come to understand about himself? Why does his society regard the “best in him” as sinful? “It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon paper no others see.” “It is a sin write this.” So begins Ayn Rand’s Anthem‚ a dystopian novella convening the life of Equality7-2521
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“Disabled”- To what extent is the soldier a sympathetic character? The poem “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen‚ written in third person‚ presents a young British soldier who lost his legs from the First World War. The soldier is left in solitude‚ as he no longer appears charming to the others and his sufferings from the war changed him into a completely different man. Therefore‚ Owen presents the soldier as extremely sympathetic by emphasizing that one impulsive‚ naïve decision he made as a teenager
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Mrs. Logic’s Message Six feet was too tall: Equality 7-2521 stood head and shoulders above the crowd and his brothers in society looked down on him because of it. In the novella Anthem‚ author Ayn Rand explores the dangers of a Collectivist society and the freedom that comes with escaping such a place as she chronicles the life of her main character‚ Equality. Part of Rand’s motivation for writing her novella was her desire to further develop the philosophy that she created that is known as Objectivism
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In Ayn Rand’s Anthem‚ the protagonist Equality 7-2521 begins the novella as a primitive unique adolescent‚ who has realized that he might be different from those around him. He feels remorse in his differences and attempts to make himself become like the others in his society. But after the discovery of the tunnel‚ however‚ he realizes that loneliness pleases him‚ and it becomes harder for him to deny his own individuality. Rand hoped to uncover the link between the historical figures‚ Prometheus
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Party‚ disabled Germans were executed‚ murdered and tortured to wipeout their massive population. The Nazi Party persecuted disabled Germans by subjecting them to torture‚ sterilization‚ and eventually mass murder with the purposes of creating a superior German race. The disabled Germans were one of the many groups who were tortured and persecuted by Hitler’s Nazi regime. Hitler and the Nazis targeted Germans with hereditary diseases or disabled problems. To help with eliminating the disabled Germans
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