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    History of Modern Day Politics Essential Question: How did William Jennings Bryan contribute to modern day presidential campaigns? America’s history of Presidents has been a long and grand one. With many close races, campaigns have been a crucial part of gaining votes. However the campaigns today are completely different compared to those before those before the nineteenth century. The ideals behind each voter differed greatly and the way each party gathered votes may have been considered strange

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    The ANZAC Campaign at Gallipoli completely failed. The purpose of the Campaign was justified, however its poor planning led to events such as the landing to fail. Additionally, the poor tactics and rough conditions made attempts to break the stalemate be in vain. The evacuation however, was one of the only successes of the whole campaign. The purpose of the Gallipoli Campaign was completely sound and would have provided massive strategic advantage to the Allies if it succeeded. The idea behind the

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    In 1915, the 25th of April, the Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed on Gallipoli peninsula, which is located in Turkish Thrace. The Anzacs had to expose the Dardanelles to the allied fleets both the British and the French to meet ferocious conflict from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. On the 4th of August 1914, Australia and New Zealand became involved in World War One. Britain had declared war against Germany and both Australia and New Zealand sent troops to support them. They were further

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    World War I (1914-1918) was considered the 'Great War' and Australia’s Gallipoli campaign has always been considered as the pinnacle of the Australian military feats. This is due to the constant glorification of the event despite the fact it was an unmitigated failure. However, the work of the Australian army force in the most important battleground of WW1 the 'Western Front' is often cast under the shadow of Gallipoli. The battles on the Western Front took place in France, Belgium and parts of Germany

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    To win a presidential election, it is a necessity to be able to afford the cost of campaigning. The start up cost is $10 million just for the headquarter. These candidates will need to spend another $4 to $15 million to stay in the game. The fight to remain as a candidate is vicious as there will only be a couple of candidates being chosen for the final round. To be in the final round, they have to gain their popularity, advertise about themselves in order to win. The downside to the hefty price

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    reflection, as well as a symbol of mateship, sacrifice and nationalism. The Gallipoli campaign was the first major military action shared by Australians and New Zealanders, and it was a campaign that lasted eight months, with more than 8 000 Australians having been killed in action. Because of this, it had lasting effects on the nation as a whole, hence why it is commemorated each year. Those who had served in the campaign were also irrevocably changed by the experiences they’d

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    publicly funded campaign contribution matching grants are suggested to repair the broken campaign finance system, certain people are against this idea as well. Opponents to this plan are rallying behind two major dilemmas. The first argument on the opposition side states that when candidates are elected, the rate of re-election is increased when the system is used. Since candidates using the matching grant system depend on the majority of citizens to raise the money to finance their campaigns, the lesser

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    The film Gallipoli by Peter Weir, is a fantastic historical representation of the British military campaign against Turkish positions on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. The film starts out in Western Australia, 1915. Archie is young man who is introduced in the first scene, is a talented sprinted who is very passionate about the war. Young men living in this time period all aspired to go to war to help fight for their country and gain honor from their families. Archie saw it as an opportunity to

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    Have you ever heard of a teen activist? If you haven’t, you will today. A teen activist is a kid or a teenager who wants to change the world. They fight for what they are passionate about. They go through tough obstacles along the way but don’t give up what they love. They do this because they want to change the world. Some teen activists are Malala Yousafzai, Alex Libby, and Alex Lin. All teen activists change the world. For example, Malala changes the world of education. According to the interview

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    To accomplish our goal, we needed to get the event out to as many outlets as we could. We also needed to introduce roundnet to people who have never played or heard of roundnet. The measurables did not change over the term for this goal. The goal was important because having participants to play was the key to the whole event. We also wanted to have a big number of teams in order to put us on the map for future events. While getting the word out about the event was a marketing task, getting people

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