your life has changed because of the culture you’ve been used to? Think about everything you ’ve ever done in your life. All your actions and emotions towards things–how naturally did they come? The cultural background of a person sways him or her to act in certain ways. Culture is the source of what one comes out to be‚ even after many years from what he or she first saw of a culture. A person’s culture affects all of his or her life and even shapes who the individual is now. In the short story “Dave
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the privacy of the people. Our government recently used the Patriot Act as a way to invade the privacy of many people. The USA PATRIOT Act is a law ratified by the government under George W Bush on October 26th 2001. This law stood for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. It was put into effect after the terrorist attack of 9/11. At first many supported this act and what it stood for. When voted upon very few people were
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restrictive to terrorists only but to the whole American population. The privacy advocates claim that the citizens’ right to liberty and privacy is infringed‚ one cannot move about freely without being watched (Kaminer‚ 436). While it is a good act to install mechanisms against terrorism the measures should be effective and achieve the intended goal. If the American citizen is to give up the right to liberty it should be for a worthy cause. The current measures have led to a safer community. People
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Questionable factors in “The Patriot” “The Patriot”‚ Is a dramatic and affectionate film depicting a determined man’s quest to annihilate British forces during the Revolutionary war with the assistance of his local militia. The film possesses various accurate characteristics such as some states offering freedom to African Americans serving in the war for a period of three years. Though the film does express appropriate scenes it does have its flaws. For instance‚ the main character Benjamin Martin
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music of Ireland spoke to me the most. Some of this music focused on telling stories of the everyday Irish person‚ whereas other songs focused on retelling a particular historical event in Ireland. The specific piece of music I selected is called The Patriot Game by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy
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The “Patriot” takes place in South Carolina in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. It is a story about a widowed father of seven‚ named Benjamin Martin. Benjamin was involved in the French and Indian War before marrying and starting a family. He is reluctant to join the conflict as he remembers too well his own experience in the earlier French and Indian War. After his wife passed away he does everything to keep his family together and away from war. He is a patriot who wants no part in a war with
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Argumentative Essay Loyalist or Patriot Background: Various events of the 1700s led colonists to develop strong beliefs regarding the British government. The Trial of Peter Zenger‚ The Proclamation of 1763‚ the Boston Massacre combined with constantly changing taxes and rules that governed them made many think that self-governance was the best path for the colonies. Others felt that the King and his appointed officials had their best interests in mind and preferred to stay loyal to the crown. Later
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The Patriot Movie The Patriot movie has been a great movie. All the scenes were incredible and others were devastating. Having to watch this history movie has become one of my favorite movies with the scenes that I have chosen. My first scene I chose was actually a very sad part of the movie. It was when Benjamins 2nd oldest son was shot by one of the British cruel leaders. He was killed because he was trying to free his oldest son Gabriel and was shot instead. After that‚ Benjamin became upset
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December 20‚ 2011 History Independence paper Hello my fellow congressmen‚ my name is Isaac Sears‚ and I am in full support of obtaining independence for this great country. I think that we as a nation can stand on our own and not have to bow down to the British. They ask everything from us but give nothing in return. For to long have they taken away from us. We need to stand up to them and declare independence for ourselves. In the words of Thomas Paine “Man did not enter society to be
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In the text from the Patriot the author highlights many historical inaccuracies‚ one of those being the fact that in the text the British cavalry wore a red dress uniform. In reality they were given the name Green Dragoons because of the obvious fact a green coat was worn during battle. Another misleading fact in the movie The Patriot was the main character Benjamin Martin. Benjamin Martin was a made up character for movie purposes. The actual events for his character a made up of multiple real life
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