height of two wars challenging‚ I grew an affinity towards the challenge and thrived. I rose through the ranks as a non-commissioned officer earning the highest awards in recruiting to include two meritorious service medals and the Glenn E. Morrel medallion reserved only for the highest achieving recruiters in the Army. The challenge and
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wrapped box‚ on christmas day was electrifying. My pulse raced as I peeled back the velvet lid‚ and unraveled it. The light just caught the chain and pierced my eyes‚I slid the chain over my head while the chilled metal cooled my skin. This heavy medallion represents who I am. Making its way from inside my shirt to China. It has kept me safe in all situations. For most people it’s the Saint Christopher Medal that provides
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of the Cherokee past since they used it to move to a different territory. (Information for the Cherokee Paragraph: http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation.aspx) Secondly‚ the Iroquois were consisted up of a small amount of tribes such as Cayuga‚ Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Seneca‚ and Tuscarora. The main Iroquois considered themselves to be a superior people which lowered their numbers as time went by. One more reason the numbers went down was because they joined the British during the Revolutionary
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differently than what you would expect. These three men came into the Iroquois’ lives and changed a lot of things. The way Iroquois lived was very different from history ever. The Iroquois have five nations‚ basically what we call states. They are the Mohawk‚ Cayuga‚ Seneca‚ Oneida and Onondaga. They lived a matrilineal society‚ which means that their descent was trace through their mother. The mothers were the leaders of their families. The men were in charge of the government. The men thought their
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What is a SMSF Defined as having the following characteristics: * They have less than 5 members * Each member of the fund is a trustee * No member of the fund is an employee of another member‚ unless those members are related * All trustees are members of the fund * No trustee receives remuneration for his or her services as a trustee WHAT IS A RELATED PARTY A ‘related party of the fund’ includes the SMSF members‚ relatives of the SMSF members‚ and any partnerships
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A few years before this‚ many incidents occurred which prodded colonists to rise up against the tyrannical British Parliament‚ one of such events was the event known as the Boston Massacre. This event occurred on March 5‚ 1770. A squad of British soldiers‚ come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling‚ snowballing crowd‚ let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds. The British officer in charge‚ Capt. Thomas Preston was arrested
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African-Americans and Native Americans as a free source of labor. Iroquois Confederacy: The joining of six sects of the Iroquoian family and of the Eastern Woodlands area. By the 1700s‚ the tribes in the confederacy were the Onondaga‚ Cayuga‚ Oneida‚ Mohawk‚ Seneca‚ and Tuscarors. By combining they were a stronger force against the colonists. Native American Relations in the first settlements: Relations characterized by resistance to the expansion of English settlement‚ submission into "praying
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British’s plan on how they were going to do this. “From Canada an army of 8‚000 would move south to capture forts on Lake Chaplain‚ Lake George‚ and the upper Hudson River”(History.com). Also from the west a smaller British force would drive through the Mohawk Valley‚ and General Howe would lead a large army up the Hudson River from New York City. This was the plan that John Burgoyne planned for British forces to attack from three different directions‚ but George III ordered Howe to move south from New
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Jasanoff‚ Maya. “The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire.” The William and Mary Quarterly 65 (2008): 205-232. In‚ “The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire‚” Mary Jasanoff discusses the treatment of British sympathizers during and after the American Revolution. Loyalists included many different demographics of people such as slave owners‚ slaves seeking freedom by joining the British army‚ and allied tribes of Native Americans. In this article‚ Jasanoff
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The colonists were able to finally accomplish unity during the French and Indian War (Schultz). The Albany Plan‚ previously proposed by Benjamin Franklin‚ in which would have united the colonists somewhat had failed before the war. Once the war ended‚ with the Treaty of Paris signed and the Proclamation Line drawn on the maps‚ the colonists realized how little control they had over their destinies. The Crown decided to tax the colonies in an attempt to regain their losses‚ besides in the process
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