As your president‚ I would make many changes to the economy‚ education‚ healthcare‚ and the military. I came here today to talk to you about the changes in the military that would come into place when I am elected. If I step into the oval office‚ I would order more expensive standard gear to every American soldier‚ no matter the rank. This is because lives are more important than money and I would be an unqualified president if I thought otherwise. As president‚ I would also invest more money into
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The American War of Independence saw the defeat of the most professional army in the world at the time to the inexperienced American army. It was a war in which colonists fought for independence from a country that was imposing taxes on them‚ despite that fact the colony had no representation in the British parliament. It saw the army of well- trained soldiers and experienced generals suffer defeat to a country which had no national army or navy at the time. There are many military factors that contributed
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The Mexican-American War was a war between the United States and Mexico which lasted from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war was the most devastating event in Mexican history‚ where Mexico lost the modern day areas of California‚ Arizona‚ New Mexico‚ Nevada‚ Colorado and Montana. The Mexican-American spawned out of land lust
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Who were the Vikings? What do we know about the Vikings? What are the myths and how do we know the truth? Where were the Vikings first discovered? Were the Vikings known as pirates? These are some of the questions that interest me about the Vikings and I plan to find the answers to these questions and many others. My goal in this paper is to learn more about the Vikings to research them and become familiar with who they were‚ how they survived and to learn what they would want us to know about them
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America’s colonial era‚ King James I divided the Atlantic seaboard into two in 1606: the northern half to the Plymouth Company and the southern half to the London Company(Virginia Company). Later on in 1607‚ the Virginia Company would send 100 male settlers to America‚ where they would land in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay area and create Jamestown. Although Jamestown was the first permanent colony of the New World‚ more than half its settlers died due to disease‚ famine‚ and local Native American attacks
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big players in the world; it is the people in the margins of our society whose stories are most compelling.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Respond to this question with close reference to one or more text(s) you have studied. The Heke family that feature in the ground-breaking New Zealand film from 1994‚ ‘Once were warriors’ directed by Lee Tamahori are clearly a family living on the margins of society. They live in a state house next to a busy and noisy motorway
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How free really were African-Americans in the North? In the North African-Americans were free but treated as if they weren’t. They didn’t have as good a life as whites. Leading up to and during the civil war‚ blacks were either slaves or unequal free men. In the South they were most likely slaves and in the North they were free but they only had certain rights instead of all they should have. While African-Americans in the North were legally free‚ they were not equal because of social‚ political
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In Coates’ book‚ We Were in Power for Eight Years‚ he explores Obama’s presidency throughout the years while reflecting on his own experiences during Obama’s two terms. Critics of Coates‚ claimed the book lacked crucial facts about Obama’s presidency and the questioned simmered to how should blacks be imagined in politics? Must blacks be obligated to involve themselves in racial‚ international politics‚ or socioeconomic issues? West and Mishra critiques evidently agree blacks should‚ while Kelley
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meanwhile 757‚208 Africans were kept bound against their will in slavery (Braudel pp. 22). Many Americans died in the war to win their national freedom from England‚ slaves in turn felt they had earned just the same respect to abolishing slavery. The American Revolutionary war and American Slavery movement were wars fought to revolutionize American freedom and were for the same purpose of equal rights. There were many causes leading up to the Revolutionary War‚ which Americans considered unjust and invasive
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book‚ Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)‚ focuses on why people justify bad decisions‚ beliefs‚ and actions. It also offers suggestions about how we might be able to challenge ourselves to honestly reflect on our choices and take responsibility for our actions. In the beginning of the book‚ the authors introduce the theory of cognitive dissonance and the ways in which self-justification resolves feelings of dissonance about a belief‚ choice‚ or action. It is the dissonance between our bad choices
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