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    to why the colonies should separate from the mother country of Great Britain. In his pamphlet, “Common Sense,” Paine argued over several different governmental actions and policies, but one of his most notable arguments had to have been when he made several points leading to his theory that the colonies should separate from Great Britain. In his argument for independence, he made quite a few points and used quite a few different tactics to better help inform his readers what the colonies would…

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    Rashaun Richardson February 17, 2016 In the story, “Shooting an Elephant”, the narrator is contradictory in his feelings, by supporting one set of people, the Burmans, but serving another, the British. The reader infers that he can’t decide who to fight for because in the text the narrator explains the treatment of the Burmans by the English, but then tells the treatment of himself by the Burmans. For example, the narrator states that the treatment of the Burman prisoners were…

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    "A white man mustn't be frightened in front of ‘natives’; and so, in general, he isn't frightened.". This is not the case in Orwell's short story "Shooting an Elephant" from 1936. This story takes place during the period of extreme anti-european feeling. Orwell shows that sometimes, the desire to be accepted will often negatively influence a person's moral principles, no matter what authority you got, and presents the insights of the human na-ture, and how a person sometimes bend to the public…

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    When is it a good time to become an independent nation? In 1607, the first colony was founded and settled by Englishmen. Since then, the colonists have been under the rule of the British king, receiving help and following the laws that are enforced. After years of being an English colony, people started disagreeing with how they were being treated. These people, also known as the patriots, started to rebel and try to get their king to notice what they wanted to get across. In the meantime,…

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    British people came to the new world to find religious freedom and to start new lives. Once they arrived and began to form colonies they were successful in many ways. The British King still wanted to control the people and profit from their success. The King as well as Parliament enacted many taxes, such as the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts, to try to control the colonists. As time went on the colonists began to resent the King and rebelled against him. The Founding…

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    Say you were a colonist and the majority of colonist wanted to to Declare independence from Britain, you would be smart and choose to rally against them to be on Britain's side. You would know that they were more powerful than the colonies. You would realize that the taxes were reasonable and that the colonist were throwing a temper tantrum over nothing. Or could you be one of the over dramatic unsmart colonist, that wanted Independence.The point is that the colonist weren’t justified to declare…

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    current order would need to be challenged: European society challenging the limitations placed upon individuals by the Church (traditional society), as well as the rejection of English modernity, forcefully implemented in non-European territories (the colonies rejection of English modernity). Held (1992) defined the modern state as “political apparatuses,…

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    brutal and indiscriminate slaughter of unimpeachable people therefore the use of the word massacre for this event is ambiguous, in truth, the Boston massacre should have been classified as a little dispute, brawl, or riot between mother country and colonies owing to the facts that; all the propaganda that was printed emphasized and exaggerated the actual actions taken by both the colonists and the British, the colonists made the first move, and the British only used what is known as self defense…

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    Seven Years War Effects

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    drastically affected the world. In this paper, it will analyze the ways in which the Seven Years War has greatly shifted the balance of power between nations and how the result of this conflict had greatly influenced the British to regain control of the colonies in hopes of growing a strong empire. While the Seven Years War had disrupted the economic power both across the region and worldwide, it had also caused the British to enforce unreasonable rulings during the Seven Years War, and further…

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    Acadia 4: A Short Story

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    The Infiltrator As the transport entered Acadia 4’s atmosphere, the friction of the descent unleashed an aura of dense orange flames. Eric Nels watched out the Portside windows as the blaze extended across his view of sight. Expanding, it appeared to ignite the rockish landscape below. As the craft escaped the boundaries of the atmosphere, the flames quickly subsided, revealing an unobstructed view of the surface below. Although, the rocky terrain of Acadia 4’s surface was easily apparent from…

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