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    author of the book Bolivar American Liberator which is written about Simon Bolivar a rich man who was born in Venezuela. Though an orphan at a young age he was passed around family members who never cared about him but his wealth. Later, he fell in love and found what he really was meant to do. Arana does a great job telling Bolivar’s story with much research and unbiasedness. He was the liberator of much of the South American and Spanish tyranny. As a famous liberator he was also hated by most…

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    the most influential periodicals were large at work: William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator and James DeBow’s DeBow’s Review. A voice for the South and pro-slavery, DeBow served as an advocate for the South and it’s independence from the North and abolitionist ways of thought. While DeBow crafted his arguments for slavery and Southern independence in a cohesive manner, the work of William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator stands alone. In his work as an abolitionist, Garrison not only used his…

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    This document is a primary source : a speech delivered by Daniel O'connell in 1836 in the House of Commons. O'Connell, also called 'The Liberator', was an Irish-Catholic lawyer and then was elected as an MP. He didn't want to aknowlegde the King as the Supreme leader of the country. He defended the rights of Irish people and Catholics who were still oppressed. There had been the dissolution of the Irish Parliament and so Irish affaires were ruled from London. There was also the Tithe war in…

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    Simon Bolivar is the most successful Liberator in several Latin American countries. Through his military and diplomatic efforts, he organized revolutions against the Spanish empire and joined countries together into one resilient union. Bolivar’s goal was to create a union of states similar to the united states of America. Bolivar traveled to Britain for a diplomatic mission, to gain insight and aid in his fight back home. Leading his followers, he invaded Venezuela, resulting in the start of…

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    Zamperini was born January 26, 1917, in Olean, New York, to Anthony Zamperini and Louise Dossi, both native to Verona in Northern Italy. He had an older brother named Pete and two younger sisters, Virginia and Sylvia. He was raised in a strict Catholic household. The family moved to Torrance, California, in 1919, where Louis attended Torrance High School. Zamperini and his family spoke no English when they moved to California making him a target for bullies. His father taught him how to box in…

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    "There were more than 140,000 American, European, and Australian prisoners in Japanese Prisoner Of War camps" (HistoryOnTheNet). Of these, one in three died from starvation, work, punishments, or from diseases. Louis Zamperini was a survivor of these dreadful camps. Throughout his life, Zamperini exemplifies what it means to have moral courage. Louis Zamperini was born on January 26th, 1917, in Olean, New York. He grew up in Torrance, California where he smoke, drank, and stole on a regular…

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    Louis Zamperini was a olympian who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and was scheduled to compete in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics was cancelled due to WWII. Zamperini due to the cancellation of the Olympic enrolled in the Army Air Corps. He was later captured by the Chinese and sent into one of their slave camps. Although Louis Zamperini had a very good childhood his life would later be changed, and do the event of him being captured, placed in a slave camp, and surviving, he was…

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    The Reformation period of Tsar Alexander II’s reign stapled him in Russian history as the “Tsar-Liberator”. The Emancipation of Serfs, and the Zemstvo reform had a major positive impact on Russia in both economic and political ways. Through the scope of historical perspective, Alexander II is deserving of the title “Tsar-Liberator” for making great advancements in Russia even when it opposed prior Russian culture and norms. The Emancipation of Serfs was the boldest of all of Alexander II’s…

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    Delaying the landing as much as they could, some planes plummeted into the sea. The family of a B-24 Liberator might have particular concerns for their son. Most B-24 Liberators, also known as “The Flying Coffin”, had plenty of faults. The B-24 was a plane with the reputation “... for being delicate, especially in the skinny wings, which could snap off if struck in combat.” (pg. 64) The B-24 Liberator was a plane which held a lot more fuel than a regular plane but it was very thin. If a crewman…

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    a more radical approach through his writings in his newspaper: The Liberator, his creation of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and his extreme anti-Union ideas, which led to a schism in the abolitionist movement. His actions played a major role in the division of the abolitionist movement, and thus helped express slavery as a central ethical issue. William Lloyd Garrison created an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator which advocated rights and education for African Americans, his…

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