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In the past year in band I believe I have contributed a lot to the band. Junior year I broke out of my shell and became more vocal during the season. This season I contributed to help my superiors teach and guide the ones struggling with their learning. I also believe I have contributed to make Marching Band even more fun. At football games I am one of the most spirited and the most “hyped”. This contributes to me being more engaged into the football games and our pep tune music so our football…

ethics and professionalism will take you a long way. Someone also said that “If your perseverance and integrity were contagious diseases, everyone at work would be as perfect as you. Thank you for being you and all that you do for the RTF. Kiara John Quincy Adams once said that, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” Kiara, I admire your initiative and leadership skills you bring to the team without hesitation. You always go above…

John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, once said, “always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost” (Pine, 14). Although, Adam’s notion of voting your conscience seems reasonable there is a definite line between a candidate’s assumed and genuine truth that frequently goes unnoticed. American citizens rarely have the privilege to vote in an election that has avoided the dilemma of choosing a…

During the period in which the national debate on the westward expansion of slavery took place, there were many events that occurred to actually make up the national debate on the westward expansion of slavery. During Tallmadge’s speech to congress in 1819 he made a proposal of an amendment. In Tallmadge’s proposal to congress he first stated that within the slaveholding States he did not intend to change the fact that they were slave states and that if he did this it would later on lead to…

Mendoza1 When talking about society and how individuals act within it, a big factor will always come up. Everyone wants to be high in the power caste and will do anything to attain that power. Because of the way, that the idolized society views a person, this can force the individual to wear a mask. When you are in high power, you tend to have things come easier than others. When talking about society and how individuals act within it, a big factor will always come up. Which would explain why…

The story of the Amistad began in February of 1839 when a large group of slaves were illegally taken from their home in Sierra Leone, Africa and were delivered into the heart of the slave trade in Havana, Cuba. While in Cuba Spanish planters bought between 40 - 60 slaves for shipment to a plantation along the coast of Cuba. July 1, 1839, only a few days after being bought and taken from Havana, the Africans aboard the Amistad freed themselves from their confinement below deck and stealthily…

The Electoral College Dilemma Premise: The U.S. Electoral College voting system needs to be improved upon because whoever earns the majority of total votes cast should be the winner. Definitions: Electoral College- the constitutional body designed to select the president. This system is described in Article II of the Constitution. (Gitelson, p.48) National Popular Vote Interstate Compact- a bill that would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all…

Stepping into office on March 4, 1829, Andrew Jackson began to serve his presidential term up until March 4, 1837. This was his second time to run for president of the United States, where John Quincy Adams took victory over him the first time around in 1824. He was said to have won by a landslide in 1829 because of his favoritism that grew after his first election. Overall, the citizens of the United States viewed the man called “Old Hickory” in various ways. Some identified him to be the…

well documented for his principles of liberty. His peers noted that Washington possessed certain characteristics which we're not common in a man, which spotlighted that Washington was a great leader. Charles Francis Adams, the son of President John Quincy Adams, declared of Washington: "More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total…

The first scene of the film is narrated by Abdul-Rahman, an African prince. The first scene of the movie takes place in 1788 in Futa Jallon, of West Africa. Prince Abdul describes his lineage and gives the audience a sense of his royal obligations, such as overseeing two-thousand men to be sent to the sea. After defeating his opponents, Prince Abdul returned home to announce the news. While the prince was traveling home to his father, he was ambushed by kidnappers. According to Prince Abdul, the…