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    itself, this landmark event of the American Revolution proved to be a magnet for popular myths and misconceptions.It was not called the “The Boston Massacre” until many years after it occurred in 1773. The first popular name popularized by Paul Revere was The Bloody Massacre in King Street. In the early 1800's it was also called the State Street Massacre. In many history books the dramatic shooting is described as the spark that ignited the Revolutionary War. Perhaps one of the reasons is

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    Nanking Atrocities

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    Nanking was not the only place of Japanese Army atrocities. Nanking held the distinction of allowing foreigners to witness and survive the atrocities. I learned from the story that the Japanese Army would take drastic measures to eliminate a people, to systematically use every means available to eliminate your enemy, people that may not have been involved, people that got in your way and people you just took pleasure in killing. To even invite fellow military personnel who were not even involved

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    Plan of investigation This investigation will assess the significance of the causes of the Boston Massacre in 1770. It will also connect the relationship and perspective of British Troops verses the colonists and will study the effects of the various events that led up to the Massacre. In June 1767, British Parliament permitted the Townshend Acts which taxed import items such as tea, lead, glass, paint, and paper. They also constructed a Board of Custom Commissioners for America to be positioned

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    There was an incident on kings street caused by the British on March 5, 1770, also known as ”The Boston massacre.” It is said that the British army killed five male citizens and injured many others. This began when a mob of people formed around a British sentry, who claimed to have been harassed. When British solder got involved they immediately took his side and fired into the crowed without any higher authority approval. This all began when Britain approved levies on its American settlements to

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    Townshend Act. The colonists took snowballs with oyster shells and threw them at the soldiers. The soldiers panicked and fired at the colonists, 5 civilians laid died and the colonist protested the massacre and the soldiers were arrested and branded. Personally, the soldiers are to blame for the Boston Massacre because the colonists were treated unfairly, the fight wasn’t fair and the Private Montgomery fired first. First, colonists were taxed for the use of paper, certain goods, and required colonists

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    Olaudah Research Paper

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    Unfortunately, because of how young Olaudah was captured there is not much information on his childhood all we know is that Olaudah was born in the Eboe province in the area that is known as southern Nigeria Africa. He was the youngest out of all his seven brothers and sisters who belonged to the lgbo tribe. One day at the age of eleven while everyone else went out to do their day’s work. Two men and a women climbed over their fence and seized him and his younger sister. The kidnapper’s bound their

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    The sound of artillery filled the air, drowning the cries of the innocent people. I struggled to watch as hundreds of unknown men, women, and children died in this tragic event, known as the Amritsar Massacre. “In Amritsar, India’s holy city of the Sikh religion, British and Gurkha troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators meeting at the Jallianwala Bagh, a city park”(History.com). The man responsible for this monstrous event is Reginald Dyer, a British general. The actions of General Dyer

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    On a freezing cold day in Boston, 1770, John and Hugh, who were redcoats, were ordered to stand guard on King Street. Silence surrounded the soldiers on the street, nervousness and anxiousness crept towards them. They knew the Boston colonists and the Sons of Liberty, who were showing animosity towards King George for charging them unfair taxes. The colonists were all enraged because of what the king is doing. The Americans totally dislike the King's soldiers on American ground, therefore they have

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    “The Bloody Massacre” shows civilians getting shot but it doesn’t say there were four naked men being shot and killed (Revere.) The Boston Gazette 2 is more persuasive because it describes the lurid details of the shooting. “Mr. James Caldwell, mate of Capt. Morton’s vessel, in like manner killed by two balls entering his back.” which shows the lurid manner in which the soldier shot and killed someone who was running and not fighting back (Boston Gazette 2.) In the picture “Boston Massacre” it shows

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    The Forgotten Genocide

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    The Forgotten Genocide The slaughtering of 1.5 million innocent people at the hands of a cruel failing empire. Families and friends torn apart for no reason and all while being silenced from the rest of the world. The Armenian Genocide was swept under the rug by the successor to the Ottoman empire, the Turkish Republic. The cruelty in slaughtering millions of people, to using them for slave labor, and numerous death camps for women and children the Armenian Genocide was a tragic time in the history

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