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    I chose to study and analyze J.M.W. Turner’s Slave Ship for this project and found it to be very interesting. Immediately while looking at the piece you get a strong sense of emotion and drama that is being portrayed. There is a lot of depth and warmth in the colors that are used and wide swift brush strokes to create the images. The first image that caught my eye was of waves crashing on the left side of the painting. The white tips of the waves are very noticeable against the softer shades of the

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    more evident in British minds. With the first few acts such as the Stamp Acts, Quartering Acts, Tea Act, and etc., the British had placed on the colonists, the sense of patriotism becomes more common in all Americans. But the event of the Boston Massacre, which had troops of British soldiers fire upon a crowd of colonists, boosted the idea of freedom and furthered the hate of Britain by the colonists. This occurrence, although tragic, did help the colonists unite together and aided the revolution

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    Introduction The Bosnian-Herzegovina genocide or “ethnic cleansing” went on from April 1992 to December 1995 around the end of the Second World War. When Bosnia became its own independent nation on April 5th 1922 it wanted to “cleanse” its country of any non Serbian residents. The killing of Bosnian Muslims during this time was stated by international tribunals to be an ethnic cleansing however the events that took place in July 1995 in Srebrenica was so horrific it was deemed a genocide. The United

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    Boston Massacre as the slaughtering of innocent Patriots fighting for liberty, for justice, for freedom. Yet if you are British, the Boston Massacre is an irrelevant event in your Civil War. The victors dictate history, therefore, perspective is skewed and history is fabricated. Because of historical inaccuracy, you were probably unaware that the Boston Massacre was not a massacre at all; it became a “massacre” through propaganda, specifically, Paul Revere’s engraving, The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated

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    colonists like the newspapers. The newspaper would show dramatize images to get the colonists to buy their newspaper just as patriot Paul Revere did for the printing of the Boston Massacre. He showed and exaggerated image of what had happened at the Boston Massacre. The newspaper that was published based on the Boston Massacre change the way some people saw Great Britain. There was a mob that had started to attack the British barracks and then started to attack Hugh White, who got surrounded by the mob

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    Raif English Comparison Essay Red Jacket and Olaudah Equiano have different opinions on the people of the United States of America because they had different roles and were in different situations, they were in different locations, and they experienced different types of treatment and behavior. Olaudah Equiano was a captured African from Benin; his home in Western-South Africa. He worked as a slave in Barbados and Virginia but surprisingly bought his freedom and headed to England to support the

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    The Boston Massacre took place on March 5th, 1770. This historic event was caused because of an ongoing conflict between the British soldiers and the people of Boston. According to George Hewes account, “Crowds of artisans and laborers joined the elite in protesting British policies, although their differing points of view revealed the divisions within colonial society.” People were upset over the British passing the Towsend Act, which was a surplus of unpopular taxes. The people of Boston also resented

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    The engraving of the Boston Massacre mislead people's thoughts about what happened on the said day. The engraving was considered to be propaganda because it was especially of a biased, and was used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. The day of the Boston Massacre rose several questions about what happened and who was at fault. Paul Revere intentionally changed details about the Boston Massacre in order to influence the decisions of the Bostonians. The setting

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    The American Revolution was a major turn point in American History. The main question is what started this revolution? The seven-year war caused the Parliament to reconsider their primary revenues to be more beneficial to their large national debt. The rioting and rebellions started from multiple acts being implemented on the colonists, whom did not approve these laws. They came up with multiple acts such as The Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and Townshend Act to possibly reverse this tremendous amount of

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    1. Equiano and his sister are kidnapped from their home while their parents are working in the fields. He is separated from his sister when he is sold into slavery; he later reunites with her for one night until she is ripped away to be sold again. He is sold to many different owners; the majority of them had a similar language and culture as his, a few were completely different. On the sea coast aboard the slave ship, Equiano faints; when Equiano regains consciousness he is forced below the deck

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