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    How do you get a whole city or country to follow your every word? Is it with kindness, charm and leadership or do you feed them false hope and lies with propaganda. The Khmer Rouge a communist guerrilla groups led by Pol Pot wanted a new Cambodia free of all western influences, corruption and Lon Nol. After a five years civil war with Lon Nol’s army the Khmer Rouge on April 17 1975 overtook Cambodia capitol Phnom Penh ending the civil war. Many thought it was a change for the better and a time…

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    To begin with the ancient times, various scholars and philosophers around the world were critically observing the liberty issue. This question or issue even became complicated with the advent of initial states and cities since it became evident that limits of freedom must be precisely defined using a legal framework. These philosophers include Plato who was born in Athens around 427 B. C, and who is also known to be the first philosopher to commit his life to the philosopher of attempting to…

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    Canadian Identity Essay

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    system and system of land ownership, but was firmly British territory, as a predecessor of the techniques of indirect rule the British would employ in later colonies . The historical area Quebec occupied soon came to be settled by English speaking loyalists from the American thirteen colonies, as if Quebec were conquered for additional territory as part of empirical expansion. These American colonists settled mainly in the southern portions of Quebec’s original territory, but clashed due to the…

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    The armed citizens of Massachusetts no one knew who fired the first shot, but that single shot as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, was "the short heard 'round the world". Britain declared the colonies in a state of rebellion. It was a fight between Loyalist and Royalist. The oncoming years resulted in the Dunmore Proclamation(1775) which states "Any slave who escaped to his(Lord Dunmore) lines and bore arms for the king would be granted their freedom", The declaration of Independence(1776),…

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    speak for she can't express all of her love. She is banished for this, leaving all the land to the two oldest. King Lear starts to notice his mistake when the two girls start to become rude and corrupt. A sub story also taking place is King Lear's loyalist Gloucester, has a son named Edgar who is planning an attack over his father, leaving the other son Edmund unsure of what he should do. The stories soon intertwine as the two corrupt sisters visit Gloucester's castle, it leaves Edmund the…

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    During the beginnings of the American Revolutionary war, both patriots (people who were pro-freedom) and loyalists (people still loyal to Britain) utilized the media to their advantage. An example of one of these persuasive writers are Thomas Paine and Abigail Adams. Thomas Paine wrote weekly articles called “Common Sense” where he avidly wrote about how it was…

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    Hi, Tara here to let you know what I consider the nationalist demonstration. There is a ton of data I am going to let you know about the matter .In my article I will be letting you know about the nationalist demonstration. The loyalist demonstration remains for providing so as to unite and fortifying America suitable devices required capturing and deterring termism demonstration of 2001. I will likewise let you know how it came to be in the utilization .and I will tell you my conclusions on the…

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    of government and finds that a simpler government is a better government. This is because then people would know who is responsible for making decisions. Paine says the British system “hath all the distinctions of an house divided against itself.” Loyalist yet to see the faults in the British government. Paine feels that people are loyal to Britain because of hometown pride, but also sees no point in remaining loyal because all of Britain’s decisions are in the well-being of Britain, not…

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    Canada has a relatively short history at about 150 years but it does cultivate many people that had great contributions to the country and the world. John A. Macdonald is the first prime minster of Canada and a truly funding father of this country. Ellen Louks Fairclough, the first woman who had served in the Canadian cabinet, as a member of parliament, she advocated women's rights including equal pay for equal work. David Suzuki is the best-known environmentalist in Canada; he organized the…

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    The Irish Republican Army

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    The Irish Republican Army started off not as a terrorist group but as a military organization and even took part in the Irish War of Independence. However, having lost the civil war they took part in, they stayed in existence with the plot to overthrow the Irish Free State and made their defiance against the British well know. They made its existence known to the world as a terrorist organization in the 1960s as the Clandestine “armed wing” of the Sinn Fein movement. They were devoted to…

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