There are many people across the world that have impacted their community in a variety of ways. In the United States of America there have been people who have shaped America into the free country it is today. The Founding Fathers of the United States of America are great examples of people who transformed the United States into what it is today. Benjamin Franklin was the most influential developer of America. After America encountered Benjamin Franklin as a printer‚ a publisher‚ and an inventor
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Why does all of the evidence point to one man‚ Lee Harvey Oswald? First‚ before getting into why evidence points to him what made this day take a wrong turn.. On November 22 1963‚ President John F Kennedy was riding in a motorcade with Jacqueline‚ his wife then Governor Connally‚ and Nellie Connally. He was shot as they were turning onto Elm Street in Dealey Plaza in Dallas‚ Texas at 12:30. The Warren Report‚ a commision of the assassination has came to a conclusion that three shots came from the
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Samuel Crompton. c. Josiah Wedgwood. d. James Watt. e. Edmund Cartwright. Answer: a Page: 653 6. The invention of the flying shuttle a. powered the first steam-driven locomotive. b. made the steam engine possible. c. led to the passage of the Calico Acts. d. gave the British an unquestioned military advantage. e. sped the weaving process. Answer: e Page: 653 7. Which of the following is NOT a correct pairing of inventor and invention? a. James Watt and steam engine b. Josiah Wedgwood and “mule”
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occurred through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase. All of this expansionism and lust for territory comes from a belief called Manifest Destiny‚ the idea that America was destined to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Josiah Strong‚ an author from New York‚ argues that God expects the U.S. to expand until they have fulfilled their destiny‚ and he attempts to convince American citizens that
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Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham‚ Josiah Amberley‚ to look into his wife’s disappearance. She has left with a neighbour‚ Dr. Ray Ernest‚ taking a sizeable quantity of cash and securities. Amberley wants the two tracked down. Holmes is too busy with another case at the moment; so he sends Dr. Watson to Lewisham to observe what he can‚ although Watson is keenly aware that this is more Holmes’s province. He does his best‚ observing that Amberley is busy painting
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morality continued upon his return to the United States‚ where he began working as a journalist‚ alternating between Chicago and New York‚ participating in the literary and reform circles that had developed in those cities. From his friendship with Josiah Flynt Willard‚ Frances Willard’s nephew whose fascination with the transient lifestyle led him to dress as a hobo and write about his first hand experience with the tramping life; to his brutal beating at the hands
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The slavery in the British Empire was abolished in July 1833 by the slavery abolition bill. There have been a lot of views over the factors that led Britain to the antislavery act in that particular time. First of all the Britain changed its economic interests‚ as the industrial revolution took hold in the 18th century set a new system which no longer required the slave work. The country could get more profit from the free trade and free labor. Besides that the sugar was replaced by the cotton‚
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Benjamin Franklin‚ Our Renaissance man? Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts on January 17‚ 1706. He was one of the seventeen children of Josiah Franklin‚ a soap maker. Josiah’s second wife‚ Abiah Folger mothered young Benjamin. As a child‚ Benjamin loved to read and at twelve years of age was apprenticed to his older brother‚ James‚ who was a printmaker. The family decided this would be best for young Benjamin after his father could only afford one year of studies in clergy for his
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Homer Adolph Plessy v. Ferguson In 1890‚ the State of Louisiana passed Act 111 that required separate accommodations for African Americans and Whites on railroads‚ including separate railway cars‚ though it specified that the accommodations must be kept "equal". On any other day in 1892‚ Plessy with his pale skin color could have ridden in the car restricted to white passengers without notice. He was classified "7/8 white" or octoroon according to the language of the time. Although it is often
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Biography Early life Henry Sy was born to a poor family in Xiamen‚ China on December 25‚1924. He is the son of Henry H. Sy. He immigrated to the Philippines and got his start by selling rejected and overrun shoes from Tondo.[2] He completed his secondary education in a school now known as Chiang Kai Shek College [3] and earned his Associate of Arts degree in Commercial Studies at Far Eastern University in 1950.[4] Foray into business In 1958‚ Sy established a small shoe store in Quiapo‚ Manila
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