criterias and rules: Mark Antony may not blame Brutus and his men for the death‚ Antony has to say he may speak because permission was granted for him to do so by Brutus‚ and Antony must speak after Brutus finishes giving his own speech about the assassination
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In the Thirteenth Century‚ England was ruled by Kings. One famous king was King Richard. The people admired their king‚ as he was honest and trustworthy. King Richard’s desire was to fight in the Crusades. He left his brother John in charge of his kingdom. There were many great forests; the most popular was Sherwood Forest. John being an ambitious hunter went there to hunt the king’s deer. The forest also camouflages a gang of brass men‚ called outlaws. The year 1377 is the earliest reference
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“God cannot pardon me if I have done wrong‚” is what John Wilkes Booth said in his diary after he shot president Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth was an actor during the Civil War supporting the Confederates. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president‚ Booth didn’t agree with what he did. Booth decided to kill Lincoln‚ but he wasn’t insane. There were reasons for Booth’s actions. First‚ John Wilkes Booth was motivated to kill Lincoln by the fact that he believed Lincoln was a tyrant. Booth thought
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Have you ever wondered who has stood up to segregation. This person has also started a boycott. Are you ever wondering who was one of the first colored people to win a Nobel Prize. Martin Luther King Junior was a very impacting man. He was one of the biggest voices for colored people. When he gave his I have a dream speech he stated‚ “I have a dream‚ that little black boys and little black girls will go to school with white people.” This speech had a humongous impact on my life. I decided that if
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The Assassination of Martin Luther King On the 4th of April 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated by the convict James Earl Ray. He was shot on his hotel balcony though his neck and spinal cord at 6:05 in the evening; he died an hour later in St Joseph’s hospital‚ Memphis‚ Tennessee at the age of 39. James Earl Ray was locked in a bathroom of a motel less than 200 feet away from where Martin Luther was standing. It is thought that he killed him to be remembered or because he was extremely racist
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engraving their name in both of these two important times in American history‚ they were prompted with some serious road bumps that test their morals and intelligence as leading the people of the United States. Rauchway describes how McKinley’s assassination made Theodore Roosevelts America possible by proclaiming the events of the Spanish-American War‚ the time period McKinley was presented in with the economic boom‚ the problems that came with this economic boom‚ and how Teddy
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Abraham Lincoln‚ this only explains‚ it does not excuse‚ the action (O’Reilly‚ 26). John Wilkes Booth pulled the trigger in Ford’s Theater on April 15‚ 1865 and assassinated the 16th president of the United States of America‚ Abraham Lincoln. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was unjustified because he worked to end slavery and lead our country humbly through the tremendous pressures put on him during the Civil War; however‚ some may believe the President was attempting to remove the Constitution
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John F. Kennedy‚ also known as JFK was the 35th President of the United States. He was elected in 1960 and was 43 years old which makes him the youngest person to be elected as president in U.S. history. As a young boy‚ Kennedy had an elite education and was born into one of the wealthiest families in the U.S. In 1946‚ he ran for congress and won and became a senate in 1952. He is considered one of the best presidents in U.S. history because of how he handled the cold war‚ Cuban missile
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“Am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong‚ nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think‚ and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.” The person’s face on the cover of the book “Created Equal” it is the 16th President of the United States of America‚ Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was born the 12th of February‚ 1809 at Hodgenville‚ Kentucky. He is well known for his great
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people died during the war‚ which lasted from 28th July 1914 to 11th November 1918. (PBS) The war started when a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ an Austrian-Hungarian prince‚ and his wife Sophie on July 28‚ 1914. This assassination lead the feuding‚ competitive empires of Europe into making treaties‚ asking for help‚ and plotting revenge. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia‚ which asked Russia‚ France and England for help. The Germans and the Ottomans forged ties to help
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