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    F. Kennedy? The facts of the most famous assassination of an United States President in history are clear. The assassination happened on a routine visit to Dallas, Texas on the Presidential campaign trail. At 12:30pm shots are fired and President John F. Kennedy is mortally wounded. President John F. Kennedy is rushed to nearby Parkland Hospital. At 1:00pm President John F. Kennedy is pronounced dead. Approximately 1:15pm, 45minutes after the assassination, John F. Kennedy’s suspected killer Lee Harvey

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    Fitzgerald Kennedy delivered a speech with a backdrop of snow and a twenty-degree wind blowing in his face in Washington D.C. In his speech, he starts off with saying that his victory is not for a party but it is for freedom. At the climax of his speech, JFK delivers a call to action which is also the most well-known line from his speech: “…ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.” Following that extraordinary remark, he extends that call to the world by asking

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    Kennedy’s assassination is one of America’s most fascinating and infamous conspiracies. Though we still do not know who is actually responsible, evidence points towards the communistic Cubans as being the killers of our nation’s young president. Even Lyndon B. Johnson, the President inaugurated after Kennedy’s death said, “I’ll tell you something about Kennedy’s murder that will rock you…Kennedy was trying to get Castro, but Castro got to him first.” President Kennedy’s mysterious assassination can be

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    Jackie O’ Kennedy and her Influence on Fashion Jackie O’ Kennedy was one of the biggest fashion influencers of the 1960s. Jackie was the wife of John F Kennedy. Since she was married to John and she was able to be in the white house this put her in the spotlight. This made is to many people around the world could see her clean and feminine style. She was one of the most influential people in fashion ever. She was in plenty of magazines for her chic style which put her in the spotlight which made

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    A story is generally comprised of five essential elements: characters, setting, plot, conflict and resolution (Penguin Young Readers Group). The characters are a critical component of any story because they allow the readers to relate with different types of behaviour, visualize personalities and engage accordingly. The following stories are centralized around a single character and they all succeed in capturing audience interest: Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Agamemnon by Aeschylus, and Secret

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    On April 10, 1962, the United States steel companies decided to raise the price of steel by 3.5 percent during one of the nation’s most traumatic wars that affect the veterans still to this day: the Vietnam War. To put things in perspective, steel prices have effects on nearly everything, such as the cost of homes, the cost of appliances, and the cost of building infrastructures. President Kennedy had been calling for stable and affordable steel prices for a long time at this point in time; however

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    At a time of hardships, a generation who had lived a life of war and troubles came together to celebrate the inauguration of the 35th president of the united states. The three pieces analyzed use different methods to portray what exactly went on on that cold January day, but managed to impact the readers and portray John F. Kennedy the same way. His inauguration speech uses different rhetorical terms and Ethos as a method of persuasion. The article Inside Kennedy´s Inauguration by Eleanor Clit on

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    “President Kennedy was dead. I stopped by a giant live oak tree on the vast front lawn of Parkland Hospital and cried." As this reporter said, people everywhere were distraught when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated. News reporters from other countries flew in, called up, and sent letters back to tell the people in their country what had happened and to give advice to the Dallas Police Station. Everyone everywhere was upset by this tragic loss. People were sent home from

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    The year is 2325 and this researcher has come upon a time capsule entombed beneath a long forgotten memorial in Washington D.C. When this researcher opened the time capsule there was a note dated December 31, 1969 that read “Within this time capsule is evidence of a time gone by but within it is our hope for the future and we are hoping that whomever reads this in the future sees that our ideas about a peaceful, accepting and proud America have held true in the time that you open this humble box”

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    the tension between the two nations much higher. With the distrust between the nations, there was still a lot in our own nation; with the assassination of many political and peace figures. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated November 22, 1963. A president whose goals involved creating peace and landing on the moon; were short lived after his assassination. He created the Peace Corps and his goal of landing on the moon prevailed. As for another highly known peace icon, Martin Luther King, Jr

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