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    Georgia did not believe he would become so great. His speech changed the world bring peace and somewhat harmony. The true reason behind this speech and why it was so great lays in what he did. To start‚ one voice can change the tone or the mood of how everything goes. Dr. King would use his voice throughout this speech. His voice raises and lower lots of times. This causes the audience to cheer and stir. He would start to scream of joy

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    Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famed speech‚ I have a dream‚ in his pan-African campaigns. King presented his speech to thousands of Americans who had congregated in Washington DC for a political rally which they referred to as the March. They marched on the streets of the nation’s capital‚ advocating for freedom and equal treatment in jobs. With a vast knowledge of the blacks’ history‚ King inspired an empowering determination in his argument. He came armed with the constitution and the nation’s

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    On September 12‚ 1962‚ President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University Stadium‚ in which he appealed for support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s program to land humans on the Moon. In his speech‚ Kennedy uses process analysis‚ figurative language‚ and appeals to hope and responsibility to hopefully persuade Americans to donate towards NASA’s pursuit of space exploration. To start off his speech‚ Kennedy uses a "capsule history" to chronologically describe the

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    else‚ at the edge of my seat almost. To know what our ancestors may have went through and sacrificed for us to have better lives today even if it wasn’t by choice. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is an epitome source of one of the obstacles that African-American slaves had to face. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated that in which slaves were to escape they were obligated to return them to their masters upon discovery. Criminal sanctions were also given to those who‚ in any form helped any slaves’

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    John Bradshaw‚ whose ideas about family dysfunction and the damaged “inner child” concealed within most adults made him one of the most popular and influential self-help evangelists of the 1990s‚ died on Sunday in Houston. He was 82. The cause was heart failure‚ his son‚ John Jr.‚ said. Mr. Bradshaw drew on his unhappy childhood as the son of an alcoholic father‚ his own drinking problems and his work as a counselor to develop a set of explanations for myriad psychological ills. In his television

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    My favorite image that Martin Luther King Jr. used in his speech is “one day even the state of Mississippi‚ a desert state‚ sweltering in the heat of injustice and oppression‚ will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.” I like this one because Mississippi was a horrible state that threatened African Americans‚ but King gave the people hope that even states like that can change. “One hundred years later” is the repetition that I find the most captivating to me. I love this repetition

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    The Missouri Compromise was written in the year of 1820 on March 3rd and was also passed on the same day. This compromise approved Missouri to come to America as a slave state‚ but conserved the correspondence between the North and the South by modeling the land of Maine out of Massachusetts and stopping slavery from territories accomplished in the Louisiana Purchase which is the north of the line of 36 30’ and this is the southern boundary of Missouri. The South and the North was not satisfied with

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    the best plan if they wanted to become a successful country. They began to form a new constitution with multiple changes; however‚ they first had to create compromises so that both the small as well as large states would be pleased with their new system. These compromises include the Great Compromise‚ the Three-Fifths Compromise‚ and the compromise over commerce‚ all leading to a stronger country. With the Articles of Confederation‚ each state‚ no matter what size‚ got one vote when making important

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    and regulation of any country. So‚ how is it that after hundreds of years we still have the same constitution that our forefathers created? The answer to this and why the constitution can be considered a bundle of compromises is quite simple. The constitution was built around compromise because all the constitutional writers believed in a system of checks and balances which resulted in a government based on the people. When the Articles of confederation did not satisfy all the constitutional writers

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    well from his famous speech I’ve been on a mountaintop we learn that he was a very caring person. Not only that but martin also showed a very determined and helpful spirit‚ but how can we tell that this was a part of his personality‚ well in his speech it shows his personality and his beliefs best. Martin talked about a lot of things but in this speech we see that his focus was on human rights and bettering a community that was of his own kind. As doctor king gives his speech I’ve been on a mountaintop

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