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    Richard Bassett was considered one of the many other founding father of the United States, but sadly he did not get to live long, he only lived for about 30 years, Richard was born In Cecil County, Maryland on April 2,1745 and died in kent county, Delaware on August 15,1815.Basset’s father abandoned him and his mother when he was young. When richard father abandoned his mother, richard was raised by a relative whose name is Peter Lawson, richard attended a school in Philadelphia, where he read &

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    British are taking over, men are falling at gun shot, chaos consumes us all. There are countless deaths among us, the men fall from sickness and murder. With every fallen soldier there is another family without a son, father, or husband. This war needs to end, soon. I have decided to re-enlist for three reasons which are to fill in for others that left or died, the Congressmen are here to support us, finally if we do not win this war we are nothing but slaves to the British. Madness started

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    Governor Wright twice rejected elected leaders of the Common House (Noble Jones and Archibald Bulloch) in 1771, however via 1775 royal strength was long gone in Georgia. On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was enacted, with Lyman Hall, George Walton and Button Gwinnett signing for the state of Georgia. It would take a month for Georgians to find out that all three of their representatives voted for the document and what the record said. Major battles involving Georgians (Battle of the

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    The American Revolutionary War was the most influential war in American History. The Background of the war is the British were taxing the colonists heavily and creating outrageous laws. Such as the Intolerable Acts, where the British took away access to the Boston Port. They also took away some of their rights to self government. They made trail for British officials available in Britain and made it legal to search homes and buildings.The colonists were fed up with the British and started rebelling

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    Saratoga Turning Point

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    Web. 22 Oct. 2015. "George Washington to Charles Cornwallis, October 18, 1781." Web. 22 Oct. 2015. "The Battle of Saratoga." Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association. Web. 22 Oct. 2015. "Battle of Saratoga." George Washington's Mount Vernon. Web. 22 Oct. 2015. "Battle of Yorktown Begins." History.com. A&E Television Networks. Web. 22 Oct. 2015. "The American

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    Hamilton and Washington are scared for an uprising in the states. They eventually decide to stay neutral. This is bad decision making, bias towards Hamilton and his inability to make tough decisions because we should have given assistance to France. George Washington was an ineffective leader because of his bias towards

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    Cut Off When the government tries to control every part of someone’s life will they rebel? Anthem is a novella by Ann Rand. The novella is about a guy named Equality 7- 2521 that lives in a collectivism society. This means the government controls everything they do. The government has been controlling everyone’s life, but equality soon finds out the truth and starts gaining individuality. One of the many laws this society has is that you can’t be with the opposite gender. Equality had been getting

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    Loss Of Freedom

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    Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” Freedom is unexplainably valuable. The only way to truly understand freedom and the obtainment of it is to understand the roles of those involved. Namely, the freedom complex is made up within the role of the dictator, the role of the individual, and the role of society. In the

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    How To Be Courageous

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    Louie was beaten and tortured in the hellish Japanese POW camps that made prisoners such as Louie feel dehumanized but Louie wasn’t frail and didn’t let the Japanese guards destroy him. To recap, Louie fought in World War II and crashed in a bomber plane. Louie miraculously survived the crash and the ocean and lived of of albatross and fish in the ocean for about one and a half months and then got captured by the Japanese where Louie had to be moved to a Japanese POW camp where Louie lived in

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    family, and it featured his mother, grandfather and housekeeper. The figures present at the lunch table appear to be in silence. It portrays a family that lacks interaction and a feeling of home. Signac’s style was very similar to his good friend, Georges Seurat. For example, Signac's oil painting "Breakfast in the Dining Room" appears to look like Seurat's "Sunday in the Park on the Island of Grande Jatte".(Jackson) Signac based this pinwheel design on a Japanese print, but replaced it with his own

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