The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories‚ seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation‚ the Confederate States of America. The incoming Lincoln administration and most of the
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emotions and have had a lot of questions regarding my life: the purpose of my life‚ where I’m headed and who I am. I’m not sure if it’s normal to feel this way at this stage but it’s overwhelming and rather stressful. I’d like to think of myself as two people. The person I am when I’m around my friends and the person I am when I’m alone. Complete opposites of one another. I’m loud‚ talk way too much and way too fast‚ full of energy and life when around my friends. But when I’m alone‚ I feel empty
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the others and be different. What if I tell you that in this modern society‚ being bilingual is just being one of the many thousands? A bilingual person is one who has the knowledge or intelligence of knowing two or more languages. However‚ there are different levels and stages of bilingualism. There is individual bilingualism which is when a person knows his/her mother tongue and another language that is used in society‚ as well as elective bilingualism which is a person who chooses to learn a new
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I wake up surrounded by suffocating darkness‚ gasping for a breath that won’t come‚ my heart pounding. I don’t know what time it is and for a minute I don’t know where I am‚ I’m still trapped in whatever hellscape I was in. It takes me another minute to realise that I am home in my bed‚ and another minute to calm my racing heart and even out my breathing. In and out‚ in and out‚ over and over again until I’ve calmed down. At this point I’m too exhausted to go to find my parents so I settle for trying
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dying‚ or so every part of my being was telling me. The immense‚ clutching pains radiating from my chest to my jaw could be only one thing… a heart attack. I lay there silently‚ overwhelmed with crippling fear and panic; frozen‚ immobile‚ waiting for what my mind had deemed inevitable. Wait…the pain was beginning to ease. The powerful clutch of dread freezing me was beginning to weaken. My mind flooded with hope. I’m going to be okay. Once able‚ I quietly crawled out of bed and ambled through to
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The narrator uses a third person’s point of view making us understand who Okonkwo was from an outsider point of view and the Igbo culture . The use of the third person gives us a non-biased opinion on the character the description in the passage : ‘He was tall and huge‚and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look .’ we can interpret that he was sturdy and imposing. The way he was described fits perfectly with his character. Okonkwo was a wrestler‚ one of the greatest of all time
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At this very moment‚ there are three sisters sitting on a street corner somewhere‚ begging for food‚ all because their parents have abandoned them. There is a teenage boy in the city who is running away from home because his dad hits him and he has had enough. There is a five-year-old girl standing in the kitchen of her two-bedroom house‚ making mac n cheese. She wonders why mommy is in prison and daddy never comes home. A childhood spent lost‚ alone‚ abused‚ and neglected could be the beginning
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Proud Moments in our history Canada has had many proud moments in the past 100 years that makes us who we are now. Vimy Ridge was one of our first proud moments in the 1900s where all four Canadian divisions in World War I fought in one battle together. After the First World War Canada became its own country by the Statute of Westminster stating that we were no longer was about of Great Britain. In the 1920s Canada invented many useful things that we still use today like the telephone‚ radio
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Life is what you make it A little boy called Andy was asked to audition with his classmates for a part in the school play. His mother knew that he had his heart set on being in the play and she was worried about how he would react if he wasn’t chosen. On the day that the parts were given out‚ Andy’s mother went to the school to collect him feeling anxious about the outcome. Seeing his mother Andy rushed up to her‚ his eyes were shining with pride and excitement. "Guess what Mum‚" he shouted
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to be‚ or not to be...a famous person?! " I think that this could be an interesting question‚ don’t you agree?! Nowadays‚ we are continually surrounded by news‚ or scoops about famous person that make normal people wishes to be one of them. I think that at least for a moment‚ anyone has dreamt to be a famous person!!! But‚ have you ever thought that maybe‚ "to be a famous person"‚ couldn’t be always how you imagine it?! Yes‚ we are always accustomed to see them lucky‚ beautiful‚ loved‚ full of wonderful
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