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    The American Revolution was fought between the American colonists and England. The war ended and the colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence. The American colonists were patriots because King George of England was too distant and became a tyrant. The King was way too distant to run the country. The King of England was across the ocean from where the colonists were located. Because of Benjamin Franklin, we know that communication between the two continents required a person to go back…

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    rate increase of 4.2 beats when watching Crazy, Stupid, Love. Furthermore, it shows that males had an average heart rate increase of 8.9 beats when watching The Patriot meanwhile, females had an average heart rate increase of 9.3 beats when watching the Patriot. This shows the trend that the average heart rate increases when watching The Patriot compared to Crazy Stupid Love. In addition, it shows that males generally have a higher heart rate. As shown in the above results of Graph 2 and Table…

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    challenges by pioneers—known as Patriots—kept on heightening, as in the Boston Tea Party in 1773 amid which loyalists obliterated a committal of exhausted tea from the Parliament-controlled and supported East India Company. The British reacted by forcing corrective laws—the Coercive Acts—on Massachusetts in 1774 until the tea had been paid for, taking after which Patriots in alternate states energized behind…

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    Beginning in the middle of 1765, the Sons of Liberty were a secret political organization made up of colonial patriots. The secret organization was founded by Samuel Adams and John Hancock inside of Boston, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty was organized as a means to protest the recent tax on anything printed on paper, known as the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act had been pressed upon American’s without the consent of the colonial legislature. Because of this, several colonists wanted to rebel…

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    revolution resulted in a divide between the colonies’ people. On one hand, there were Loyalist and on the other were the Patriots. The revolutionary events from 1775-1776 transformed competing visions of Patriots and Loyalist in Britain’s mainland colonies. Then men and women who supported the colonies’ fight for independence and protested against British rule called themselves the Patriots. Their views were that the British Parliament could not legally tax colonist without representation and…

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    There is one person that betrayed the patriots during the revolutionary war. He was a patriot himself, but felt like he should fight with the British. “Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army. While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and plotted to surrender it to the British forces.”…

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    Continental army had just lost two important battles. The army lost in the Battle of Brandywine in September and also the Battle of Germantown in October” (Washington 1). The Patriots needed a place to stay for the winter to keep an eye on the British army. “The British army marched into Philadelphia the previous autumn and the Patriots couldn’t stop them from taking over the city. Philadelphia was the largest city in the…

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    122 state street Dubuque, Iowa 52001 9/22/15 Bob carpenter 873 bluff street Las Angeles 68223 Dear Mr. Carpenter One reason college football is better that the fans are more hard core than NFL fans. The NFL players are mostly all old who ever starts. The best thing to watch is the rose bowl when it comes on it is usually the rivalries again Like Iowa and Iowa State. All the college players work hard to try and make it to the NFL for their goals. But if they don’t do well they could…

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    and his father had many conflicts on the political problems as a Loyalists (Sam’s Father) who have to pay taxes and have to do what the King says or they get killed, while Sam is on the Patriots side, the Patriots are against the King and his rules. Sam’s father did not agree with Sam on the side of the patriots because he didn’t want problems with the King and his Soldiers. Sam’s father always argued with Sam for not being on the side of the English King but Sam didn’t want to be under the rule…

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    This gave a huge advantage to the Patriots while the other team had the official standard balls, which played a key role in leading to the final score. Referring back to the topic of referees fixing matches, “In January of 2005, Bundesliga referee Robert Hoyzer admitted receiving a plasma…

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