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    Action will delineate and define you.” -Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was born in Virginia on April 13‚ 1743 and later died on July 4‚ 1826. Jefferson grew up in the Shad well ‚ Virginia where his father peter Jefferson was very wealthy. Jefferson and his family moved to Tuckahoe in 1745 ‚ and later his father died in 1775. He is the third of ten children. On June 11‚1776 anticipated that the vote for independence would be unfavorable. Something that you may not have known is that his favorite device

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    How We Are Influenced

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    How We Are Influenced Social psychology is the “scientific study of how people think about‚ influence‚ and relate to one another” (Myers‚ 2010‚ p. 4). There are many different “external social forces” (Myers‚ 2010‚ p. 8) that influence our thoughts‚ feelings‚ behaviors and attitudes‚ such as our family‚ peers‚ culture and gender; all of which persuade us in one direction or another. Any social situation we may encounter can be so powerful that it “leads us to act contrary to our expressed

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    John Jay‚ a Founding Father of the United States‚ served the new nation in both law and diplomacy. He held the position of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as well as a variety of other top government positions. The New York native drafted the state’s first constitution in 1777 and the following year was chosen president of the Continental Congress. He then became U.S. minister to Spain‚ helping to broker the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. Jay was appointed

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    Name: * Teacher: * ENG2D1 27/05/2012 Benito Mussolini‚ Founding Father of Fascism Mussolini once stated that “It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.” As you would expect words like these from the mouth of Mussolini himself had been the inspirational backing to this dictator’s rain as sole leader

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    William Wordsworth as Founding Father of Romantic Poetry Although love may occasionally show itself as a muse of Romantic poetry it has very little to do with Romanticism. Romanticism is considered to be an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.(Brooklyn College) The early Romantic period begins with the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth - co-written

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    In the late 1700’s‚ ideas of the Enlightenment began to come into affect. In North America‚ the American government started to form after two famous documents were finished‚ The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States. The Political and Social ideas of Rousseau and Baccaria from the Enlightenment are replicated in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The Declaration was used to declare independence‚ and the Constitution was written to limit the

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    George Washington‚ elected the first president in 1789‚ set up a cabinet form of government‚ with departments of State‚ Treasury‚ and War‚ along with an Attorney General (the Justice Department was created in 1870). Based in New York‚ the new government acted quickly to rebuild the nation’s financial structure. Enacting the program of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton‚ the government assumed the Revolutionary war debts of the states and the national government‚ and refinanced them with new federal

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    The Enlightenment

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    World The Enlightenment‚ Age of Reason‚ began in the late 17th and 18th century. This was a period in Europe and America when mankind was emerging from centuries of ignorance into a new age enlightened by reason‚ science‚ and respect for humanity. This period promoted scientific thought‚ skeptics‚ and intellectual interchange: dismissing superstition‚ intolerance‚ and for some‚ religion. Western Europe‚ Germany‚ France‚ and Great Britain‚ and the American Colonies generally influenced the age of

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    Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) is the abbreviation for an energy nuclear reaction that has low energy‚ in which the low energy nuclear reactions take place in the experiments such as room temperature that is close. They make nuclear-scale energy and nuclear products; however‚ they do not make harmful effects of the nuclear energy. Another word for the LENR‚ as researchers named it: “cold fusion.” The scientists however‚ proved through experiments and theories that LENR is not “cold fusion‚” as

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    What values did the founding generation believe were important to a successful America? If more Americans pondered this question‚ they would have a more clear understanding of why those brave men who came before us risked their blood‚ treasure and sacred honor to create the greatest nation on Earth. The Founding Fathers were a revolutionary group whose goal was American liberty. They believed in religious freedom in order for a successful America. They understood that the citizens should have a say

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