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    Illyrian Provinces The Illyrian Provinces was an autonomous province of the Napoleonic French Empire‚ founded by Napoleon on the north and east coasts of the Adriatic Sea between 1809 and 1813. The creation of the Illyrian Provinces raised great expectations among adherents of the Serb and Croat movements in Dalmatia‚ and the Slovene cultural movement in Carniola. Founding of the Provinces‚ Territory and Population After the battle of Wagram‚ which took place from the 5th to the 6th of July

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    Vanessa Puga POL201 Professor Mishler November 16‚ 2010 A Presidency Determined to Change a Nation On Tuesday January 20th 2009 in Washington D.C.‚ our 44th president Barack Obama stood before a record breaking crowd of Americans to deliver his inauguration speech which marked the commencement of his four year term. Being the first African American president‚ the journey that Barack Obama embarked on was difficult but he worked hard to win over voters with his many speeches that promised “Change”;

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    You think we would learn from the first fire that burned down the city of Salisbury‚ right? The city of Salisbury had two fires that brought great devastation to the city of Salisbury. We learned how to handle the fires after most of the entire city was burned down and when we learned how dangerous fire can really be. There was a fire that burned down most of the city in 1860‚ but the real devastation happened 20 years later on Oct 18‚ 1886 when another fire burned a lot of the city. The city of

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    Dorothea Dix: A Women Not Forgotten In History Dorothea Dix worked as an educator‚ a reformer for the treatment of mentally ill‚ and as an author in the mid nineteenth century. Dorothea Dix formed many schools at different times in her life and worked towards educating young minds. She began teaching when she was around 14 or 15 years of age. She worked to teach young girls during a time where doing such was controversial. Dix also focused her efforts towards writing educational books‚ such as Conversations

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    Liz Flanders PoliSci 391 Personality and U.S. Presidents in the 21st Century Paper 10.19.10 The presidency of the United States is arguably the most important position to hold in the entire country. The president is the figurehead of the country; the person people look to for reassurance and the person they blame when something goes wrong. Of the forty-four presidents that our country has seen to this day‚ each of them has their own distinct character and personality. Some will argue that

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    MLK/Obama Comparative Essay On September 18‚ 1963‚ in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ tragedy struck Sixteenth Street Baptist Church when a bomb planted in the basement detonated and killed four young teenage girls‚ who were changing into choir robes. Nearly 50 years later‚ a similar tragedy occurred in Newtown‚ Connecticut. Twenty-six were shot multiple times at Sandy Hook Elementary school‚ 20 of those killed victims being kindergarteners. After the bombing‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a public eulogy

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    No Response to 911 Calls: “Aint Nobody Got Time for That” Violent crimes in Chicago are trending up. Every day there are multiple homicides. Living in the Chicagoland area people are exposed to Chicago media and their coverage of these violent crimes. In a Wall Street Journal article “Chicago Dials Back on 911 Responses‚” Jack Nicas reports on this argument. He is trying to bring the issue to a national audience and let them know about the policies Chicago is putting in place about dealing

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    Kobe Simms  11/10/14  Mr. Horwits  Social Science       After Hope and Change     Chapter 1 Questions  Show three facts that illustrate why 2012 was “a fairly narrow victory” for Obama.     1. President Obama had won reelection by a close margin of only 3.85 percent. He earned a  rank of 24 out of 30 past elections since the year 1896.    2.  President Obama became the only incumbent in history to win reelection while losing  vote share. Obama lost vote share in nearly every state during the election

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    Katana Grau 3.04 Free from fear essay Economic/political stand point analysis view Obama and Roosevelt speeches Are the poor and the wealthy equally concerned about the “freedom from fear”? Compare and contrast both speeches to answer this question. President Obama and President Roosevelt’s speeches were different but fairly similar. Although President Obama’s speech doesn’t have equal thought or care about the freedom of fear from both the poor and the wealthy but in President Roosevelt’s

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    Andrew Hrywna Mrs. Stasiv English 12 October 1 2010 Barak Obama Speech Analysis On November 3rd 2008‚ President Barack Obama addressed the people of Virginia. This was the night before the ballots would be cast for the 43 President of the United States of America. He expressed to the nation that his experience was incomparable and like no other. Obama is known to use three main manipulative devices in his speeches. His effective use of Anaphora‚ Anecdotes‚ mixed in with his own personal

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