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    Who was Lyndon B. Johnson. Well i am here to tell you that he was one of the many Civil Rights Activists. Lyndon B. Johnson was born on August 27, 1908. In a small town called Stonewall located in Texas. But was raised in a small farm house. Johnson was oldest child out of the five siblings he had.Johnson had one brother, and three sister. While growing up Johnson had German, Ulster, and English ancestry. All thought out school, Johnson was not the most outgoing kid. But soon came his 11th…

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    In the 1960s, the movement against US involvement in Vietnam began with a group of peace activists and intellectuals on college campuses. It gained national attention in 1965, when the US started bombing North Vietnam even more. The vast majority of the American people still supported the US involvement in the Vietnam war, but by the end of 1965, a small, outspoken, liberal minority was making its voice heard within the US. Most of this minority included college students, members of the hippie…

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    Inaugural Speech of John F Kennedy President John Fitzgerald Kennedy inaugural address is a speech of inspiration. Kennedy has a bold attitude of confidence while giving the speech in a direction to conciliate the crowd of Americans, and propel them in to immediate activity. Kennedy’s unusual charisma, and uses of rhetorical approach, parallelism, and a shifting yet fickle sentence structure. Allows his speech to still be read and analyzed by many Americans even today. Kennedy used this style…

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    John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot and killed in November of 1963. Jacqueline, Kennedy's wife, dubbed the event of her husband’s death "The End of Camelot". She had seen the last few years as a period of peace and perfection in America, but after the unfortunate death of her husband, these years were brought to an abrupt end. "Camelot was the nickname for John F. Kennedy's thousand day administration of the early 1960s." (Bradley 1). This is why she referred to…

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    declared war. And the United States bombing the Saigon. In American, President Johnson was re-elected and he look for new course of action in Vietnam. Battle in Vietnam had started to happening and it was a new phase of who's going to be on top at the end of it. Vietnam independence is relying on who win the north Vietnam or the United States. What decisions did LBJ make and why from 1964-1965? President Lyndon B. Johnson made the decision to send troops to Vietnam and to bomb the North to…

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    In November 1963, Lyndon Baines Johnson delivers a speech to all of America and the world on the assassination of JFK. President Johnson, from here on shortened to LBJ, attempts to bring all of America to join in with his sorrow at the loss of JFK. LBJ delivers the speech almost like a eulogy, addressing JFK’s best qualities and everything he accomplished in his life. In the same nature as George W. Bush’s 9/11 speeches, LBJ is attempting to let his country know that they will survive.…

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    “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” (Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream.) This statement, broadcasted in Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech I Have A Dream, demonstrates the ever-present conflict of racism in society. Racism has existed since the beginning of time; different cultures and nations have always attempted to assert dominance over groups they…

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    Mahdin Mohammad Ms.Grindstaff ELA 17 October 2015 VIETNAM WAR Most people in the U.S. thought that involvement in the Vietnam War was wrong. Involvement in the Vietnam War changed many people, because the U.S. wasted many lives, and the U.S. basically lost the war, and it changed many people physically and mentally. The U.S lost a lot of lives in the Vietnam War. “In the Vietnam War more than 58,000 American troops died…

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    Rhetorical Analysis Steel Company Speech by Kennedy On April 11, 1962, U.S. steel manufacturers raised the price of steel by 3.5 percent. President John F. Kennedy held a news conference regarding the hike in steel prices. In the conference, John F. Kennedy uses allusion, diction, and repetition to regard the high steel prices. In paragraph one, he uses diction “it would” to add to the tension and build fear because it affects the companies and the nation’s depression. If the nation is unable…

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    The peace movement in the 60s and 70s revolutionised the way the population of America and England regarded politics as well as themselves as a society. From the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), spurred on by J. B Priestley, to Bob Dylan’s politically motivated songs, peace movements were formed to oppose political conservatism. Originally protesting solely on the nuclear arms race, the movement expanded to oppose America’s involvement in Vietnam in support of peace.…

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