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    Patrick knees are split as far apart in the seat as possible. He’s sat in many concert halls many times over, and he still can’t understand why the seats are so small, the rows packed in so tightly together. He arrives quite early and alone so he can sit in the middle of the row in the middle of the auditorium. This way he can avoid that whole dance of trying to allow big hipped women and round bellied men past him in his chair. The turnout tonight is good. It’s the orchestra’s Christmas concert…

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    Prominent Police officer found dead in home Patrick Maloney, one of this towns best officers was murdered last night at 12:00 in his home on 12 main st. Mary maloney(wife) was devastated along with everyone at the precinct. Patrick had come home that night when mary had left to get groceries she had come back and he was on the floor dead. The killer is still unknown and the murder weapon seems to be a large club or object, “Personally I think it’s right here on the premises” said jack…

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    1760's, Americans were on the verge of war with Britain. They needed an excuse to fight and gain independence. Patrick Henry's famous speech created one of the many excuses that drove the people to fight. In his speech, Patrick Henry emphasizes the use of rhetorical devices such as anaphora and allusion to expose British atrocities to the people so that they could join the war effort. Patrick Henry used anaphora as a tool to convince the people to fight for independence because of the bad…

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    I was in Richmond, Virginia, listening to a speech made by Patrick Henry, and that was the day that would change my life forever. I was sitting in the room where Henry made his speech at the Second Virginia Convention, contemplating on the last words he cried out,”...give me liberty or give me death!” Was I to die for the country I’ve lived in for so long? Was I to take a ship to Great Britain and live there for the rest of my life? I had so many questions and yet I no answer to any of them,…

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    Patrick Henry made a name for himself with his outstanding speeches towards the American democracy supporting their ideas. Henry was known as the “Orator of Liberty”. In 1775, American colonists were undecided and unsure of their relationship with Great Britain. Many were still hoping to work out the disagreements. Other, like Henry, believed differently and wanted to go to war with Britain. Patrick Henry speaks to his fellow Virginian patriots at the Virginia Convention. In the speech Henry…

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    Overview of the case: I am currently investigating the murder of Patrick Maloney. We had received a call from Mary Maloney around ten past five in the evening. She told us that Patrick has been killed when she arrived from buying vegetables in her local grocery store. Patrick was killed in the living room, from a severe hit on the back of his head. Crime Scene: As soon as we got there, we saw Patrick’s dead body lying on the floor in the living room. There was a pleasant smell and some…

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    Patrick Maloney was killed with painful head attack from his wife Marry Maloney. This Incident occurred during evening. It took place in Patrick Maloney’s house 25, North narrows street. Due to affair with other women, he was killed on deceiving his wife. Patrick Maloney was killed with a piece of frozen lamb. His wife Mary Maloney killed him, by the fact he was cheating on her for Jessica Browns, owner of design homes. Mary Maloney was a pregnant woman and didn’t know what to do on saying…

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    articles, and books to influence people in general. One of the numerous known scholarly works of the Progressive Period was that of Patrick Henry. He was a notable revolutionist who trusted that there was no chance to get in settling the question against the homeland of the settlements other than beginning a war since he trusted the Ruler to be a preposterous despot.…

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    In Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention,” he talks about the reasons why Great Britain should be removed of their authoritative powers, and give colonial America independence from tyranny, which is because of restrictive binds the British tyrants weigh down upon the colonial government. Patrick Henry reinstates the American passion of obtaining freedom from the presence of tyranny through his use in antithesis, metaphor, and rhetorical questioning, thus instilling the value of…

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    Envisioned by Joseph Magnin, the first St. Patrick’s Cathedral, originally named St. Peter and often referred to as the Old Cathedral, built in 1815, burned down in 1868. When its reconstruction finished, it was downgraded to a parish church on a site destined and purchased by the church as a burial ground. In 1853, the city commissioned James Renwick Jr. to device a cathedral to accommodate the growing population of immigrants of Catholic religion entering the United States. Renwick’s design…

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