The Metaphor The people you interact in your live influences who you become. In Budge Wilson’s short story "The Metaphor" two characters named ’Miss Hancock’ and ’Charlottes Mother’ are both important role models for Charlotte‚ who is the main character. These women have very different personalities‚ with a few similarities. Miss Hancock and Charlotte’s mother have a few similarities. One characteristic is that they are both important role models in Charlotte’s life. At school‚ Charlotte idolizes
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Lincoln The film Lincoln was directed by Steven Spielberg‚ it mainly covers the last four months that Lincoln was in office before his assassination. It’s main focus was on the Lincoln trying to pass the 13th amendment‚ which abolished slavery. The plot of the story is set in January 1865‚ centered around Abraham Lincoln ‚ who is played by Daniel Day Lewis. The president has just started his second term and the war is coming to an end. The film opens with a brief flashback
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Revolutionary Slaves It is a fact that the Americans won the Revolutionary War‚ but they could not have won without the enlistment of thousands of slaves into their army. However‚ the Patriots did not enlist the slaves first‚ but twas the Redcoats that made the move first. Utilizing every possible resource to win the war was Britain’s plan‚ which included the black slaves that were under their control. The Americans did not plan on utilizing their black slaves at first‚ but they changed their minds
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Who won the Social War? The allies war with the Romans involved hundreds of thousands of men and lasted for three years‚ this war was a turning point for Rome ’s political relations with its allies and was significant in the fact that Rome had to readjust politically. When looking at the Social War many confine the meaning of victory in terms of the battlefield‚ missing out on a vital aspect of war‚ the terms of peace and the political outcome. It cannot be determined‚ whether an army‚ even if victorious
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While both “The Machine that Won the War” and “The Interlopers” are both splendid short stories‚ the style in which they are written may lead you to read one over the other. “The Machine that Won the War” and “The Interlopers” are set in different time periods. “The Machine that Won the War” is set in a futuristic setting. It talks about advanced computers‚ and wars that were fought on distant planets. On a different note‚ “The Interlopers” is set in time that has passed. An example is shown
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The Vietnam war was a civil war between the Vietcong and South Vietnam. Until the U.S. intervened. The U.S. sent troops over because they thought that if the Vietcong won the war it would affect the U.S. The U.S. sent troops and resources over to Vietnam in 1965. The U.S. withdrew their troops on March 29‚ 1973. The United States should have taken their troops out soon‚ because there were to many casualties. The war caused divisions among the people. The U.S. wasted resources on the war. The Vietnam
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Lewis and Clark expedition. From this expedition‚ Americans received information about the landscape‚ plants‚ and animals that lied west. Abraham Lincoln is arguably the next important president. He saw the United States through its worst crisis‚ which tested “whether that nation… can long endure”. His speech‚ the Gettysburg Address‚ redefined the Civil War as a “new birth of freedom”. He issued
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elected as president of the United States in 1981. A plan started in 1982‚ an idea was released to have parts of the CIA to help the Afghans in beating the Soviets in the Iraq war in supplying them with goods and training. It is known that in 1984 a director of the US CIA wanted Afghans to learn to strike missiles and learn war tactics to fight against the soviets. They wanted to this be a covert operation‚ they didn’t want any other countries to know that the U.S. was helping Iraq. Reagan wanted
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Abraham Lincoln How many times have you quit because you thought something was too hard? Well‚ Abraham Lincoln never quit. Although‚ Abraham struggled with his home life. But soon enough he was America’s 16th president. Abraham Lincoln will be remembered by his honestness‚ abolishing slavery‚ stopping seven states from seceding and the Gettysburg Address. Abraham didn’t have an easy childhood. He was born February 12‚1809 in Hodgenville‚ Kentucky. He had a brother named Thomas Jr. He was born around
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The United States won the Cold War due to its military‚ economic‚ and political impact. The United States won the Cold War because of the military growth and impact during the Kennedy Administration‚ the economic success of the space race‚ and the political achievements under the Nixon Administration. To begin with‚ the Kennedy Administration’s impact with the policy of Flexible Response was important in the Cold War and established the U.S. as the military superpower it is today. Kennedy’s secretary
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