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    Marcus Luttrell, the author and protagonist of Lone Survivor was born in Houston,Texas on November 7, 1975. At the age of fourteen he began training with a former army veteran named Billy shelton, so that maybe one day he would be in the navy seals. After high school, Luttrell went on to study international business at the University of Sam Houston State. After college and boot camp, Luttrell enlisted in the U.S. Navy in March of 1999. His hard work and determination led him into getting his…

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    Margret Thatcher's Eulogy

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    Margret Thatcher's sole purpose of writing her eulogy was to make the American people remember all of the great deeds Ronald Reagan did for the country. She comforted the grieving nation by sharing her own personal experiences that had with the now deceased president. Along with this, Thatcher also uses repetition to get her point across to the American people. Thatcher uses direct quotes from the late president in order to show how much of an influence he had on the country. In the beginning…

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    Kennedy also used pathos to show the people the importance of joining the space race. At the beginning of his speech he talks about how: Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation’s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished…

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    their goals because they had the characteristics that people of america look up to. For some presidents they had skills, loyalty, honesty, team spirit, faith and more. By these characteristics some presidents achieve their goals like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. George Washington was born in 1732 and died in 1799 and between that time he was a General in the military, father of the country and the first president of the United States. When he was the…

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    Lyndon B. Johnson Becoming President Lyndon B. Johnson was born on August 27, 1908 and died January 22, 1973. He was the 36th President, and was President for 6 years (1963-1969). In the 1960 campaign he was elected vice President with JFK. When JFK got killed, Lyndon B. Johnson took his place as President. After being President, he was elected into the Senate. He fought in World War II and served in the navy as a commander. Early life Sam and Rebekah Johnson were Lyndon’s parents.…

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    The life of John F. Kennedy was filled with bravery, perseverance, and utmost defeat. During his life as president, he faced harsh criticism and made plenty of enemy, he has been crossed and he has double-crossed. The man was edgy and push for the things he believed in and fought hard to prevent tragedies from collapsing the nation. But he was not perfect. Every choice he made from deciding to run for president to deciding to sleep with assistance impacted the awful conclusion of his life.…

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    Operation Northwoods

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    to invade Cuba so anxiously; he wanted to go against Cuban forces. Lemnitzer invaded Cuba, he was furious with President Kennedy’s failure to authorize the plan and also that Castro had not provided an excuse to invade Cuba. Later then, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer came to conclusion that there was no chance of taking over Cuba. After this statement was made, Lemnitzer was moved to different job. Concerns of the American were brought to attention that military forces were stepping over…

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    The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is a World War 2 film, based on a true story of how those of the British Intelligence cracked the codes of the Enigma, an advanced German coding machine. The film was not bashed for its historical accuracy, but some of that ease on the criticism may have been because Alan Turing has finally been given justice after 60 years. The historical inaccuracies were not major, although added up, they play a key role in the interest…

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    countries as close as Turkey and Italy. The crisis began when The United States of America found out the just ninety miles from the coast from Florida, the Soviet Union had set up missiles. President John Kennedy announced on October 22nd about the discovery of missile installations to the public. John Kennedy also announced that…

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    to President John F. Kennedy being assassinated in 1963, the new President inherited one of the most intense battles on History, the Vietnam War. LBJ expanded the American presence in Vietnam tremendously which lead to numerous financial political problems not only in the United States but around the world. Through his speeches, letters, and voice recordings we are given numerous reasons why LBJ expanded the war in Vietnam. On November 22, 1963, we lost President John F Kennedy but we…

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