"Speak And You Shall Be Heard"
.... even changed.
The tone expressed through Martin Luther King Jr's speeches was not of
hatred or resentment, just love for all mankind no matter what color or
creed they may be. Martin Luther King Jr. came across as a kind human being,
not a person full of anger and violence. In speaking to one another we
should have the same tone in speaking as Martin Luther King Jr. in order to
be heard.
We should watch that we do not offend someone when speaking. We
sometimes do not realize our tones o .....
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The Spanish American War And Its Causes
.... they were now demanding war
more than ever. They blamed the explosion on Spain and told McKinley to go
to war.
McKinley had decided to go to war even though Spain had given in to
America's demands. He didn't want to look like a coward to the American
people. He was also afraid that resisting war would cost Republicans
control of Congress in the fall elections.
The battle for the Philippines was very important to the war. This
is where Spain's fleet was. The US took it out. This was very important
becau .....
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The Watergate Scandal
.... of CREEP were breaking into the
Democratic National Committee's headquarters for the first time. In fact
CREEP employees had broken into the Democratic National Committee's
headquarters six times between August 21, 1971 and June 17, 1972. During
their sixth break-in on June 17, they were caught. (Secret Agenda) At
approximately 2:30 in the morning on this date, they were caught by police
in the Watergate Hotel. Police seized a walkie talkie, 40 rolls of
unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock p .....
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The Manhattan Project
.... emitted in each fission, which elements
would not capture the neutrons, would they moderate or reduce their
velocity, and whether only the lighter and more rare isotope of uranium (U-
235) or the common isotope (U-238) could be used. They learned that each
fission releases a few neutrons. A chain reaction, therefore, was
theoretically possible, if not too many neutrons escaped from the mass or
were captured by impurities.
In 1942 General Leslie Groves was chosen to lead the project, and he
immediately pu .....
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How The Women's Movement Has Improved
.... shift
in attitudes encouraged women to work. The status of women changed after
the war because they took on the same jobs of men while they were at war,
proving that what a man could do a woman can do also. The war gave an
opportunity, a chance for women to show off their knowledge, abilities and
capabilities. Quite ironic, the jobs women obtained were partly forced
into voluntarily jobs. Some of the women wanted to prove themselves
capable of doing a “man” job, while others were indirectly forced i .....
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The Spanish-American War
.... and revolution again broke out threatening to
go on indefinitely as the rebels would be strong enough win, nor would the
Spanish forces be powerful enough to defeat them.
American newspapers, especially the yellow press of rival
publishers, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, printed outlandish
stories of the Spanish oppression in Cuba. They included wildly exaggerated
accounts that a quarter of the Cuban population had been killed at the
hands of their Spanish oppressors. President William .....
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What Really Happened At Roswell, New Mexico?
.... was cordoned off while the debris was moved to
Roswell Army Airfield, and then eventually relocated to Write Field in
Dayton, Ohio.
"On the morning of July 8, 1947, Colonel William Blanchard,
Commander of the 509th Bomb Group, issued a press release stating
that the wreckage of a ‘crashed disk' (UFO) had been recovered"
(Kent Jeffrey, Time For The Truth About Roswell).
This press release made the headlines of over 30 U.S. newspapers in time
for supper. It appeared that .....
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Comparison Of The American Revolution And The French Revolution
.... of Nations
embodied the Physiocratic attack on mercantilism and argued that nations
get rich by practicing free trade.2 Of Smith, Turgot, and the Physiocrats,
the great French statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) wrote:
"The basis of their whole economic system may be truly said to lie in the
principle of self-interest. . . . The only function of government according
to this doctrine is to protect life, liberty, and property."10
Embracing the principle of free trade not just as a temporary .....
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The American Civil War
.... with his General, and the war continued.
This paper will follow the happenings and events between the winter of
1864-65 and the surrender of The Confederate States of America. All of
this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end
of a tragedy.
II. CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH
In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army
cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so
briefly. It was from there that General Sherman and his army began its .....
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The Reformation
.... which were pardons for sins without making it clear that
people must sincerely repent their sins. He attacked the monk Johann
Tetzel for decieving the people. Eventually, he became angry enough, and he
nailed a complaint, called the 95 theses to a Church door. The 95 theses
complained about the sale of induldgences and other corruptions in the
Church. Luther also created new ideas against the Church. He rejected the
authority of the Pope and said that priests had no more authority than
laymen did. .....
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The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
.... Encarta Encyclopedia.
Computer software. Buffalo, New York: Encarta 97 Encyclopedia, 1993-1996.
CD-ROM.
This article is a summary of the events leading up to, the
assassination, and the events after Abraham Lincoln's death. He was killed
April 15, 1865. His assassin was a man by the name of John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln was planing to attend a play at Ford's Theatre that night. Booth
shot him that night.
Booth shot Lincoln with a small pistol known as a derringer. Booth
managed to escape but was cau .....
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Runaways And The Abolition Movement: The Underground Railroad
.... slaves escape from slavery. Usually agents hid or destroyed their
personal journals to protect themselves and the runaways. Only recently
researchers have discovered the work created by courageous agents such as
David Ruggles, Calvin Fairbank, Josiah Henson, and Erastus Hussey. The
identity of others that also contributed to this effort will never be fully
recognized. Though scholars estimate that Underground Railroad conductors
assisted thousands of refugees, the total number of runaways whom they
aide .....
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The Boston Massacre
.... The purpose of the Boston Massacre was to try to make liberal and
moderate people become radicals. It was really an accident and the radicals
tried to use propaganda and turn something small into something big. The
British soldiers were accused of Murder and manslaughter. To represent them
was John Adams, a relative of Samuel Adams. Adams wanted the trial to get
over and didn't want the truth to come out. The Boston Massacre and
misleading visual representation by Paul Revere could have been one .....
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The Cause Of The American Revolution
.... of self-government England began to take
notice that the colonies could be used as a source of profit.
“Benign neglect” was an important aspect of the revolution. Without
having been left alone for many years America would have not have
developed the taste of independence. Independence was what the American
Revolution was all about.
Many Navigation Acts had been passed starting in 1650 but none were
enforced until Britain noticed they could cash in on the now prospering
economic system of the coloni .....
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The Battle Of Gettysburg
.... dedicated
to the great task remaining before us– that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure
of devotion– that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain– that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom– and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from this earth." Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863.
It seems only appropriate to begin a report devoted to the .....
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