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    I have been living in the war zone a fighting for it feels like ages. But I feel as if we as a colony‚ we may pull away from Britain and win this war. After our two losses we banded together won at the battle of the turning point. The Battle of Saratoga. Tide tide has turned and we Americans are riding it to victory. The battle was won by the Continental Army‚ on October 17‚ 1777‚ and it was amazing. After Burgoyne’s surrender‚ we gained hope and we believed we may win. Us colonists also gained

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    different effects on lives of the black people‚ these effects built up to become the defensive mechanism for freedom of the African Americans. During the Revolutionary War the majority of black people were slaves‚ and free men were denied citizenship and equal right‚ while being used for manual labor. The victory in the Revolutionary War needed more soldiers for both sides‚

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    the nation. Soldiers faced harsh conditions not only on the battlefield‚ but also in their camps. The daily life of a Union soldier consisted of hours of drills‚ minimal food rations‚ and harsh conditions while fighting to end slavery. The Union soldiers shared many similarities. To enlist as a soldier the boy had to be at least 18 years old. Most were in their late teens and early twenties though boys as young as 15 reportedly enlisted and lied about their age (“Life as a Soldier During the Civil

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    Massacre 1770‚ was used as Propaganda at the time shortly after the event to show that the British fired on unarmed colonist. Colonist try to make it look like the British just fired for no reason but really some of the them were antagonizing the soldiers. Yet‚ the colonists made the attack look like British were the bad guys (Document 4). Geographic issues were included between America and Britain because of differences in the way they thought. American colonist thought of the British as monsters

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    and below are used in combat‚ according to Jeffrey Gettlemen’s article Armed & Underage. Child soldiers who have been psychologically examined and rehabilitated should be granted amnesty because they are often forced to commit crimes by their commanders. These children are often forced to “kill or be killed.” If a youth tries to leave or fails to follow orders‚ the soldier may be killed. Child soldiers’ brains are not yet fully developed. Because of this‚ a child may make a decision that he/she will

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    enough funds to support six more years of war. If the French never leant the colonists’ money they would still be under British command to this day. The loaning of money from the French kept the colonists in the war and was the turning point of the Revolutionary war. If the French never lend the colonists money‚ the colonists would have not been able to continue much longer after Saratoga and would eventually have had no choice but to surrender.  It is obvious that in order to win a war one must have

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    Child soldiers are defined as children‚ meaning they are under eighteen years old‚ who are used in the military. The military purposes for which they are used include fighting in combat‚ but may also entail jobs such as being cooks‚ porters‚ messengers‚ informants‚ or spies. Both boys and girls can be child soldiers. Children in the military are at the mercy of their commanders and must do whatever they are told to do or else risk being killed. This issue is completely unjust because child soldiers

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    When it comes to the topic of child soldiers‚ most people agree that it is immoral and wrong. Where this agreement ends however is on the question of whether child soldiers should be prosecuted‚ or granted amnesty.Whereas some believe that soldiers are criminals and should be punished‚ others maintain that child soldiers have been forced to carry out immoral acts and should be granted amnesty by the United Nations. I feel that child soldiers should be forgiven and granted amnesty because they were

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    ’The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke is an Italian sonnet that plays with the idea of war being romantic. The whole poem is a metaphor for what he believed the war meant to him. In the first verse‚ he is saying that if he died in battle‚ even in some corner of a foreign field‚ he will forever belong to England. He then uses a series of metaphors to state that England is what raised him‚ gave him an identity and that his soul will be immortal because he died fighting for his country. In the second verse

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    taxed tea into the Massachusetts bay‚ this was called the Boston Tea Party. Also‚ after the war‚ there were a lot of British soldiers looking for a place to stay‚ the Quartering Act made people house British soldiers and they needed to feed them food. There was a group of people that called themselves‚ “The Sons Of Liberty” They mostly caused trouble for the British soldiers‚ by throwing snowballs or other objects at them. This caused the Boston Massacre‚ which led to 3 people dying and 2 more injured

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