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    to take place in Philadelphia.” As the Anti-Slavery convention of American…

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    into a Quaker family in Essex and took active roles in the Anti-Slavery campaigns.” Around the 15th century, Quakers originally started in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lucretia Mott started what was called the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society took an effective step to strengthening our nation. The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, “within a year they had collected funds to run their group, subscribed to…

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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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    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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    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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    Bombing Of Dresden Essay

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    The bombing of Dresden, Germany occurred during the Second World War between the 13th and 15th of February, 1949. The attack was done by Britain and the United States through the use of an aerial bombing. Within the four raids that the allies carried out, 3,900 tons of highly explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped on the city by heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force. Dresden, Germany was the country’s seventh-largest city and the largest of the…

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    Protocol III is an amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions relating to the adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem which was enacted in 2005. Under this new protocol, the protective sign of the Red Crystal can be displayed by medical and religious personnel during times of conflict and war. This means that it can be used in the place of the traditional Red Cross, or Red Crescent symbols. Persons who choose to display this symbol are performing humanitarian duties and therefore must be…

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    political beliefs and views- many who had no legal defence. He also had the capacity to disallow the King a trial and placed a case for execution arguing that the monarchy had been downfalling due to the Revolution. As a consequence, members of the Convention disagreed with Robespierre and suggested that the King should have the chance to defend himself and vote for acquittal. Unfortunately, all the 693 Deputies were in favour of the King guilty while no one had voted for acquittal. In other…

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