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    War is a decision made using human lives to sacrifice and save.Transition- “My Brother Sam Is Dead” by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier, is a book not just about fighting, but also Tim’s decision to decide between injustice, and freedom. Thesis- Tim’s pronouncement was to be neutral towards the end of the book, due to the ironic deaths of Ned, Life, and Sam. 2- TS- The death of Ned really captured reality and death all in one.TR- In other words he died as living proof of racism as he

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    colonies to help with the arduous task of preventing violent protests of tarring and feathering the colonists were participating in. Tarring and feathering was a brutal act of stripping British loyalists or officials of their clothes, and then pour hot tar on them to stick feathers and publicly shame the loyalist or official. The colonist were out of hand and needed soldiers to enforce peace among the civilians. The actions of the colonist were not justified for separating from Great Britain, as their

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    Bloody Sunday occurred on the 30th January 1972. On this day, a group of 15,000 rioters arranged a civil rights march in Londonderry. While the events leading up to the shootings are unclear, they ended with the Parachute Regiment opening fire on a group of protestors. 13 people were killed, with many others sustaining injuries. While it is still not known what motivated the Parachute Regiment to fire into the crowd, there are many theories and ideas, many of which still make Bloody Sunday relevant

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    Propaganda influenced American colonists to join the war effort, either supporting the British or the Colonies. To start with, the “join or die” poster with the snake cut up, is from the Patriots trying to get the colonist to join the Patriots and not the Loyalist. The snake by Benjamin Franklin, is showing the snake all cut up and separated representing the colonies. And if they join it will be a whole snake. This means the more and all together the stronger they will be, and separated they will not be successful

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    I would say by accepting death and understanding with aging comes with certain defaults that can’t be prevented. After reading “Did You Think About the Six People You Executed?” by Robert F. Worth does a documentary in Libya about a man who is a loyalist to a dictator name Qaddafi. Qaddafi was the leader of Libya who has slaughtered, tortured, and murdered people who didn’t follow him such as the rebels. Worth goes to this Prison to do a documentary to speak with a man name Marwan who executed six

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    Andre stayed with a Loyalist attorney named Joshua Smith. While not permitted to wear civilian attire, he got clothes and road horseback with Smith towards Tarrytown, New York near British lines. Smith left Andre towards the end of the trip and when Andre was close to his destination three men stopped him. These men questioned Andre and instead of showing his pass that he was John Anderson, Andre trusted the men and revealed who he really was. The men, who Andre thought were Loyalists were part of the

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    Contradictions of the Declaration of Independence The American Revolution, which resulted into the creation of The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, and several other important individuals would make horrendous contradictions that would create a double standard for African Americans. To this day our society is still plagued, and greatly affected by these double standards. Thomas Jefferson wrote “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” yet

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    Folklore is the traditional customs, beliefs, and stories of a community, passed down through generations. Legends are traditional stories sometimes regarded as historical but unauthenticated. Myths are traditional stories, one concerning the early history of people or explaining some social or natural phenomenon. It typically involves supernatural beings or events. Fairy Tales are children’s stories about magical or imaginary beings and lands. Canadian Folklore is the traditional material passed

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    ¬Though not entirely representative of their political factions, Thomas Paine and James Chalmers are major literary figures in describing loyalist and anti-loyalist sentiments in pre-revolutionary America. While Thomas Paine argued for America’s independence, James Chalmers counters the idea by proposing some of the possible negative consequences as well as down-playing the perceived necessity of declaring independence. The major points of contention in both of their arguments deal heavily with the

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    The American Revolution was a war fought between Great Britain and the American colonies over independence from 1775 to 1783 which resulted in a fundamental change in American politics, society, and economics. The American Revolution began as a result of Great Britain taxing the colonies to cover the debts accumulated through the French and Indian War. While the majority of the colonies stayed loyal to their ‘Mother Land’, some of the colonist felt resentment toward England. Some colonist felt that

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