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    I originally did not believe we, the United States, should go to war but now I believe we have no choice. President Wilson tried to keep us neutral during the war for two and a half years, but many circumstances are forcing us to enter the war. I believe that the invasion of Belgium by Germany and the sinking of ships was not a good reason to go to war, but because of the Zimmerman Telegram and the soul purpose to save democracy, I believe we should. Germany invaded Belgium when they were neutral

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    Caleb Pegley 11 / 11 / 2017 WW1 I feel like the U.S. should not have joined World War 1. I think the reasons we joined the war were not big enough reasons to send our soldiers to war over. I believe our reasons for joining the war are good reasons, but still not good enough to send people into battle to lose their lives for. For three years from 1914 to 1917 the U.S sent supplies over to help with fighting the war. We sent things like food and bombs. The total american

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    In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, there were many problems in America which needed to be solved. During this time, there were a group of people who worked to solve these problems. These people were called the Progressives. There were many issues and topics the Progressives worked towards fixing. These problems included child labor, political corruption, and industrial abuse. There were also many reforms that were proposed in order to address these problems. The first issue that was worked on

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    Fences: A Short Story

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    Some people in this world build fences to keep people in while other people build them to keep people out. Rose Maxson wanted to keep her husband troy and their son Corey to build a fence to keep others out .But in reality she had them do it to keep them in so they could spend time together . Everybody has their own fence to build these to make sure them or the people they love never gets hurt . Troy was the type of person to build his fence to keep people out .One person especially “Death” He

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    In his play Fences, August Wilson focuses a good deal on the father-son relationships surrounding Troy Maxson. We see the dysfunction of those relationships between Troy and his own father as well as Troy and his two sons, Cory and Lyons. Set in the 1950’s, Fences takes the conflict of the changing times for black folks and applies it to the generational conflicts between father and sons, bringing about the question of whether or not the dysfunctional cycle can ever be broken. Troy Maxson’s own dysfunctional

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    The destroying of relationships is one of the lasting effects that occur when the consequences of feuds, grudges and revenge take place. In the novel, Fences by August Wilson, an African American character named Troy has the grudge of thinking he couldn't play major league baseball because of his color. Because of this, he prevents giving his son, Cory the privilege of playing football. His wife, Rose then tries to tell him he didn't make it big because of his old age. He replies with, “What do you

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    Rabbit proof fence directed by Phillip Noyce is a film about a true story involving three half-cast Aboriginal young girls from a school they were obliged to attend, far away from their hometown under the laws made by A.O.Neville - a government official. In 1931, they were taken away from their mothers and were forcibly moved to the Moore River Settlement School in Perth, Western Australia. They were educated in the British ways eventually to become servants and compulsorily had to adapt to a new

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    The U.S. had a stuck with the central theme in foreign policy avoiding entangling alliances. Woodrow Wilson was quite dedicated to maintaining the peace, he stated it was “Europe’s War”. President Wilson wanted Americans to remain neutral in spirit and deed. It was a sticky situation America was helping the allies by supplying war materials through trade; this meant the U.S was more entangled in the

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    Pro: The United States was successfully able to end WW1. The Great War was a conflict that occurred in 1914 between the Triple Alliance (Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary) and the Triple Entente (Britain, France, Russia). The four main causes were militarism, alliance, imperialism, and nationalism, which concentrated on the forms of management. The alliance was built between foreign nations in case of a conflict due to the great amount of tension and interests of surpassing others. The event that sparked

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    The Fourteen Points was a set of principles intended to peaceably resolve World War One. They were first presented by Woodrow Wilson on January 8, 1918 to the United States Congress. The leaders of the Allied countries were skeptical that Wilson’s points were too idealistic. This draws the need to evaluate if the points were truly idealistic, or if the Allied leaders were simply too cynical. The points may be divided into three sections, one concerning international diplomacy, one regarding the

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