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    characters.” Stan Lee is one of the original people who worked with Marvel comics. She brought up the Walking Dead characters for my brother, who’s a fan of them. Wizard World is a traveling convention that goes to several major cities. This particular one is called Wizard World Chicago, even though the convention…

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    convention (68) – a noun Convention means an agreement that is arranged in a meeting between people and they make decisions. EX: The new managers seemed to be delightful after their convention because they trust each other, and they will have new plans for the future. recoil (71) – a noun Recoil means: when a gun is been fired, a movement is back suddenly. Ex: He was going to hunt , and he seemed afraid because I saw the recoil of his gun several time. I think the man was training because…

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    The American Voice Essay

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    Since Obama mentions the convention, the setting is occurring in the National Convention in the year of 2004. Many people attend this National Convention, so Obama was very thankful to be there because he would be noticed. The intended audience for Obama’s speech is a great amount of people who attended this convention and also people from all over the world because the National Convention is an occasion where many people watch. Obama’s point is to say how…

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    of the National Convention. Additionally. the Reign of Terror demonstrated more brutal punishments for counter revolutionaries and foreign enemies, in the hunt for freedom and liberty by French revolutionaries. The events that would take place under the Reign of Terror, would shape the outcome and effectiveness of the French Revolution. The year of 1792 was characterised by an outbreak of Revolutionary Wars and the establishment of The French Republic by the National Convention.…

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    As a young armadillo growing up in Texas during the 1820s, my life was peaceful and happy. The Federalists who held power in Mexico left me, my fellow armadillos, and the Anglo Americans alone to enjoy and work the land. However, in 1829, the Centralists gained control of the Mexican government and the freedom we enjoyed gradually eroded. As the Mexican government imposed more regulations on the Anglo Americans, the tension which had existed between the two groups due to the Nacogdoches land…

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    Bilingual Diary Entry

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    December 10th, 2015 was the day my life would change completely. That was the day that I joined the petitioning crew to get medical cannabis put on the ballot for the 2016 election in the state of Florida. I was nervous, because Florida had already voted that same issue down not even two years prior. I was not going to allow that to happen again. We traveled all around Florida, staying in hotels, working seven days a week, ten to twelve hour days. The work was difficult and extremely tiresome,…

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    Alliteration and hyphenate is greatly used in The American Pageant in order to enhance the history of The United States. In this excerpt which describes Kennedy’s New Frontier, the author uses big numbers, alliteration, and hyphenates as descriptive devices in order for students to categorize the given information as positive or negative and unknowingly have a set view on this topic in history. Some examples from The American Pageant include, “A stampede of 43,129,566 Johnson votes trampled the…

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    Essay On History Classes

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    As we look into American history classes we see a common core across the country. Our students learn from the time America was founded to current events today. In our history classes we are taught from textbooks that are prolonged and biased towards the white man. The educational board needs to add other perspectives to history classes and textbooks because this will expand the future generation 's knowledge of others cultures, ethnicities, sex and points of view. All across the United States…

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    day in the summer, my grandma called me and asked if I wanted to go with her to a convention. I say to myself, “Might as well go out and have some fun.” So I wrote down the information of when we were going and what time she coming to pick…

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    Valley Forge Essay

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    In the winter of 1777-1778, a small village in Pennsylvania made history. In the midst of the Revolutionary War, this village, called Valley Forge, was the temporary home of over 10,000 American soldiers under the control of General George Washington. That particular winter was long and bitterly cold, enough so that Valley Forge made its mark in American history as being the lowest point in the war for independence. The village of Valley Forge is located in the Schuylkill Township in Chester…

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