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    As the Civil War came to an end‚ the South experienced an era of changes. One of the most popular speeches‚ explaining how the post-war South had grown out of its old customs and made progress‚ was Henry Grady’s The New South. This document is an important historical speech when comparing examinations of how life was for Southerners in the years following the Reconstruction and the Compromise of 1877. Although this speech is very motivational‚ it differs from the reality of how the South was managing

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    Henry Ford Do you know who Henry Ford was? Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company. The Ford Motor Company was a car company That now thousands of people use and is loved a lot. Henry Ford trusted his cars that he made like the car called the ford Model T. His first gasoline car was called the Quadricycle which he built in a shed behind his house. Henry Ford went to the Detroit Business Institute. He was born on July 30‚ 1863. Making the Ford Motor Company took hard work. Why

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    On January 20‚ 2005‚ President George W. Bush was sworn into office for the second time on Capitol Hill‚ Washington D.C. exactly four years later‚ on the same date and in the same location‚ President Barack Obama was sworn into office. Both men gave an inaugural address to the American Nation on the day of each man’s inauguration. Bush and Obama both used a great deal of allusion and rhetoric in the inaugural speeches. While Bush was speaking to a country continuing on in a war‚ Obama spoke to that

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    The words I’ve found that are significant to the plot‚ character‚ setting‚ and theme‚ and decoded are; marauding‚ pandemonium‚ forlorn‚ improbability‚ and crystalline. I came across the word “marauding” in page 119 and the meaning it is going about in search of things to steal or people to attack. In this case the hyena was one of the characters in this story who’ve ended up marauding‚ it did not attack Pi or steal anything from him‚ but it did attack and kill its fellow boat mates one by one starting

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    The best way to live is to remember that you’ll die. The CEO and founder of Apple and Pixar‚ Steve Jobs presents his speech‚ about finding and doing what you love‚ to the Stanford graduating class of 2005. Job’s purpose in his commencement speech was to convince and encourage the graduates to follow their heart in their pursuit of happiness‚ no matter what obstacles get in their way. Throughout his speech he adopted a serious tone as he convinced them to “…find what you love…” (4)‚ through anecdotes

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    St. Patrick is the Patron saint of Ireland‚ who was born in 387 AD. His feast day is March 17. He is one of the world’s most popular saints. Originally‚ he was an apostle of Ireland. His birth is often debated‚ but is agreed upon as being born at Kilpatrick‚ near Dumbarton‚ in Scotland. He is among the group of saints that are celebrated to date. These celebrations are Christmas‚ St. Patrick’s Day and Valentine’s Day‚ which are the saints St. Nicholas and St. Valentine. They all share our love of

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    AP TEXT ANALYSIS    During the time of the 1800’s as Civil War in America had just broken out‚ many  blacks were just being given some new found freedom. They were in full support of the  Union army‚ but were not allowed to join the forces yet. Speeches such as the one  given by Alfred M. Green inspired African Americans to strive to be enlisted to the ranks  of the Union army. The way that Alfred M. Green brings up all the struggles they have  faced and the hope for the future is what really makes the speech inspirational

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    prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley by the end of the 1700s and early as the 1800s. Shawnee‚ Ohio‚ tranquil and antique‚ one would not recognize that it as the twentieth century‚ the present. The aging‚ yet fit‚ Henry Gandy commenced his morning as usual with a lite breakfast‚ a steaming mug of strong black coffee laced with a good dose of boubon whiskey‚ then a fetch for his hiking stick and an embarkation for his dense woods. Moreover‚ this particular morning

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    Letter From Birmingham Jail In King’s essay‚ "Letter From Birmingham Jail"‚ King brilliantly employs the use of several rhetorical strategies that are pivotal in successfully influencing critics of his philosophical views on civil disobedience. King’s eloquent appeal to the logical‚ emotional‚ and most notably‚ moral and spiritual side of his audience‚ serves to make "Letter From Birmingham Jail" one of the most moving and persuasive literary pieces of the 20th century. In Birmingham

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    Speeches throughout time have swayed the the history of mankind. This has been seen time and again from Patrick Henry’s Virginia Convention speech to Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis No.1” and even Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Patrick Henry swayed the minds of America’s founding fathers by showing the people the liberty that was needed. Thomas Paine gave people the motivation needed to fight for the freedom and independence of the American colonies. And the so many other patriots have influenced

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