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As a member of the Continental Congress, Franklin was a member of the committee in charge of drafting the crucial document. The document needed to get the United States’ point across effectively without causing anymore unnecessary arguments. Thomas Jefferson was put to the task of writing it, and Franklin was one of the people to review his draft. Both he and John Adams edited the draft. They deleted areas that were…

policies than of free trade or free capital movements. Since the Recession in the mid 2000s these feelings just got worse. Just like mentioned before, Americans believe that these immigrants take jobs, decrease wages, and destroy our economy5. The United States is not the only country that has negative feelings towards immigration. Europe is jumping on the bandwagon also. Many of these countries are dealing with the process of integrating immigrants into their…

still relevant to the present day, fifty-two years after being signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. How the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is still applicable in 2016 and beyond is through the end of segregated public facilities in The United States and the enforcement of the ban on discrimination in the workplace based on gender, race, and…

controversial and divided periods in United States history. Major countercultures full of sex, love, and rock n’ roll were on the rise, 18 year olds were being sent to Vietnam, and blacks were fighting for their freedom. Conflict in Vietnam began due to the Tonkin Gulf incident, and our rationale for war was the domino theory. Not long after the start of the war, the antiwar movement had already begun, and it would only grow larger and larger. People in the United States were so against the war…

existing. Shortly after in the 19th century Wakulla County came about on March 11th 1843. Wakulla County can be spotted on the Map in the United States of Florida. Wakulla is a part of Tallahassee, Florida which is approximately 736 square miles. The Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of education, and the University of South Florida state, “Wakulla County is Florida's 23rd county, from a segment of Leon County. The origins of its name is unknown, except that it probably comes…

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on the date of January 3, 1919. Breaking the color barrier, Jackie Robinson turned into the first ever African-American to play in Major League Baseball. The most youthful of five youngsters, Robinson was brought up in relative destitution by a single parent. He went to John Muir High School and after he attended Pasadena Junior College, where he showed his skills playing four sports: baseball, track, football, and basketball. In 1938 he was…

Junior year was an exciting year. I was no longer a baby under classman, and I had finally graduated into being an upper classman. Softball had a different feeling this year. I still loved playing and my teammates, but some of my teammates did not. Most of the ones that were ready for the season to be over were seniors. This meant the juniors really had to step it up. We never truly came together as one unit. We still had a winning season, and even hosted the region tournament. Region tournament…

Hello I am John Schlich from Gold Town Strength and today we are going to help this athlete named Stephan from the University of North Georgia Nighthawks. Now, Stephan is a college basketball player and plays point guard. Point Guards are responsible for making offensive plays by distributing the ball so that team mates are set up to take a good shot. Defensively the main role of the point guard is to disrupt passing lanes and act as the primary defender against fast break maneuvers. In order to…

In the 1860s, the north and the south fought against each other over the long-standing controversy over slavery. At the end of the Civil War, slavery was abolished by the 13th amendment and slaves were free from their masters. The ex-slaves were free, but it would take some time for them to gain equal rights. Former slaves faced obstacles for equal rights like voting and segregation for nearly a century. Although the 14th and 15th amendments helped blacks with equal rights there was no one to…

put a whole group of people down by overgeneralize each person in that group. The stereotype of the ‘Hillbilly” and “Redneck” are referring to the Appalachian people that live in the Appalachian region of the United States. The Appalachian people are marginalizing in the United States not because of race, but because of the regime, they come from. First, to marginalize is the process which a group…