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    motivational tone,and simple and detailed syntax that advance his rhetorical strategies in his address. Trump starts emphasizing the people he uses to give signify thanks to or to help from using formal diction. Such as,“...Chief Justice Roberts,President Carter,President Clinton,President Bush,fellow Americans’ and people of the world-thank you…” as to give that rhetorical strategy of diction he uses as to give thanks to the important people he used in his address like many other former

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    America has always been a proud nation full of nationalism as well. The people, looked up to their government and their presidents for what to do during the dark days of depression, war, economic shutdown, and communism. The people knew who their enemies were or at least had a description. America never truly had a reason to doubt their leaders, those were the people who lead the nation to victory. Then there was a blow, a crisis that flipped everyone’s views and values upside down. There was an

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    The Watergate Scandal During the early 1970’s, a scandal took place at the hands of former president, Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon wanted to ensure that he got the chance to get reelected. He took extreme measures to do so, one of those extreme measures included espionage. On June 17, 1972, five burglars were taken down to the police station after breaking into the Watergate complex buildings in Washington, D.C. The five burglars; James McCord, Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez,

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    It’s 1969, Richard Nixon is the United States President. Winning presidency with not only the popular but also the Electoral vote. It's a very brutal time for Presidency, with the nation torn from the involvement in Vietnam. Richard Nixon seeming a promising Chief of Foreign Affairs has focused most of his campaigning with these issues. But all this faith is soon blinded by a terrible presidential scandal. Early morning of June 17. 1972 a on duty Security guard realizes the locks to the Democratic

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    Lessons by Robert S. McNamara was in so much as a great representation of the life of Robert S. McNamara. It showed his life to be dramatic and traumatic in many different ways. The lessons he learned and shared during the documentary movie were truly astounding to me. I personally thought the movie was a tad bit on the boring side, but it was a documentary after all. The Fog of War was a very informative piece of work. During Errol Morris 's documentary, The Fog of War, Eleven Lessons by Robert S. McNamara

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    Watergate Political scandals are not strangers to the United States. They date back as far as 1830, with the presidential sex scandal and Thomas Jefferson, and in 1875 with the Whiskey Ring and President Ulysses S. Grant (Time and Again 1). Today we have the Iran-Contra affair with Ronald Reagan and Whitewater with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Even with these, it can be argued that Watergate could possibly be the worst scandal in the history of the United States. Richard Milihous Nixon was the

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    Replicating bad behaviour: The effects that field training officers have on police recruit behavior According to Sir Robert Peel, the founding father of modern policing, “The power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent upon public approval of their existence, actions, and behaviours and on their ability to secure and maintain public trust” (Loader, 2016, p. 429). This statement signifies the critical importance of field training officers as, according to Sun (2014), who

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    The Watergate Scandal and the Resignation of President Richard Nixon The Watergate Scandal and crisis that rocked the United States began on the early morning of June 17, 1972 with a small-scale burglary and it ended August 9, 1974 with the resignation of Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon. At approximately 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972, five burglars were discovered inside the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington DC. The burglars,

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    Vietnamization (real Version) Essay

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    Vietnam Controversy      It’s January 27th, 1973 and the Vietnam War is over. Peace agreements were signed in Paris by the South Vietnam Communist forces, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the United States. The meeting lasted for several hours and in that time they agreed on many objectives, including: that U.S. troops would gradually withdraw from Vietnam and all prisoners of war would be released, South Vietnam had the right to choose their own future (whether or not to

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    When the President miscarried his proposal in refuting President Gerald Ford in 1976 getting the Republican nomination previous California Governor Ronald Reagan once more pursued the presidency during 1980. As discussions dealing with the vice presidential nomination with prior President Ford dissolved, Ford patently wanted obligations of possible self-rule as vice president, Reagan then impressed many of his followers by looking towards to Bush to be his vice presidential choice for the campaign

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