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    Enhanced Interrogation is Justified By: Nathan Ciatti English III 4A March 2‚ 2015 Throughout the past century‚ the United States has faced a multitude of foreign and domestic threats against the homeland.  Several of these terror plots have been successfully executed‚ most notably the September 11 attacks of 2001 and then recently the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013.  While a country cannot fully advert such attacks‚ it is the responsibility of the acting government

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    that the Declaration of Independence be read before the American army in New York -- from his personal copy of the "Dunlap Broadside." 4.Why do you think he gave this order? To inspire his troops and to remind them of what they are fighting for. Part 2 In the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson listed twenty-seven abuses committed by Great Britain’s King George III against the colonies. These alleged abuses formed the main justification for independence. Read the entire list

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    The definition of “justified” is having‚ done for‚ or marked by a good or legitimate reason. The second definition is declared or made righteous in the sight of God. The war with Mexico was both of these definitions. It was justified. In 1836‚ Texas had won it’s independence and had become apart of America. Mexico had attacked U.S. soldiers on Texas territory. Polk became president. He believed in Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that God wanted America to spread across the continent

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    The Irish War of Independence Not all revolutions are won all of the time. Most would say that freedom is something worth fighting for. Thomas Jefferson once said “Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants”. Freedom is an inalienable right all people are born with. Some who have had their freedom snatched away by the hands of some foreign country‚ try to fight to get it back. That is exactly what Ireland did in the early 1900s. For both the Irish and

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    people were the American colonists. The British’s government had tighter control with the laws (Acts) they made making‚ the colonists revolutionize. In many of the acts it shows the British overpowering the colonists through force which leads the colonists to get hasty and so the rebel. One of the things Britain did was passed the stamp act making colonists furious and speak out. British Control is seen throughout the Sugar Act‚ Quartering Act‚ and Intolerable Acts which made the colonist revolutionize

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    singing and rejoicing‚ we need to recall the past to remember and pay homage to the builders of our nation. My dear friends‚ we are the privileged lot to have been born in a free India. We are able to breathe in a land that is free from the day we were born. If at all we want to know the pangs of agony of being slaves under a foreign rule‚ we must ask our elders born before 1947. It was indeed a Himalayan task for every Indian in those days to fight against those powerful giants – the British rulers

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    Topic #1 “COMMISSION OF INDEPENDENCE” THE COMMISSION OF INDEPENDENCE – For the purpose of studying all matters related to the negotiation and organization of the Independence of the Philippines. November 1918 – The Philippine Legislature created the “Commission of Independence”. The Commission of Independence was composed of 11 SENATORS and 40 CONGRESSMEN. The membership was expanded to include all the Philippine Legislature members regardless of the party affiliation. The most important undertaking

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    Americans today have slowly forgotten how our society came to be. The first Americans had to struggle a ton to get to where we are today. Colonists of America had to develop European settlement and nation building by introducing the political‚ social‚ and cultural exploration of each colony. The colonists had to build communities with these explorations to help control and grow the colonies. The three colonies that started America included New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern. Settlers had to explore

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    The colonist and the Indians faced each other with many prejudices‚ many times leading to war. Most of their problems were due to the misunderstanding of cultural differences between the two people. Each side struggled with trust amongst one another making it easier to not to work with each other. The problems between the colonist and the Indians are exemplified in two different stories‚ “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary” written by Mary Rowlandson and the film The Last

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    The Declaring of Parental Independence When in the course of human events‚ it becomes necessary for one Teenager to Emancipate from the restrictive and uncompromising Barriers of Parental Control that have so deprived the Partaking of a fulfilling liberal life and emerge into the world of Adulthood‚ that teenagers at will‚ will propel to embody through act of ruthless rebellion for We do not desire Limitations. We hold these truths to be self evident that all teenagers are mortal Creatures

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