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    Tessa Brei Band-Armed Forces Salute 5th hour Due: November 3rd The Armed Forces Salute The Armed Forces Salute also known as the U.S medley that consists of 5 songs for each branch of the military. This would be the U.S Coast Guard, U.S Air Force, U.S Navy, U.S Marine Corps, and the U.S Army. Each one of these branches are extremely important for defending our country's freedom. And each one of these branches has their special and unique song. The Coasts Guards song is “Semper…

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    You do you, Make it Popular The speech, The American Scholar, by Emerson describes that it is time for America to create a new cultural identity. American needs to get rid of Europeans influences, and the american scholar will be the majority of developing american cultures. After the american revolution, the society of america is changed. The americans are immigrants; therefore, they come with their own cultures and religious. The speech points out that it is important for americans to…

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    When you hear the name John Locke, what do you think of? In your head you probably think, “Oh thank must be the guy who invented the lock!”. But in reality, John Locke is one of the reason you have so many rights. John Locke is a famous philosopher. He was born in 1632, in England. He thought all men were created equal, which many people disagreed then because most males thought they were superior to females and all African Americans. However, the fourteenth amendment protects former…

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    Kara Young Political Thought Mr. Scott Harris October 19, 2017 Boucher VS. Me If the colonies would have listened to Boucher, would we be the United States today? The United States would have never been, and we would still be under England's rule. Jonathan Boucher believed that being under England's rule was God's plan. He said that every man should obey the government because that is what God wants. He says that when Christians disobey ordinances from the government, they disobey God as well.…

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    "The Yellow Wallpaper," best fits the literary style of naturalism. Naturalism is a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes. Characters are controlled by internal or external forces or by the environment. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the main character is being controlled by her husband, who believes that he is right in keeping her confined for her treatment of depression. She is also being controlled by her mental state, as it is…

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    Death Penalty "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This passage written by Thomas Jefferson and taken directly from the Declaration of Independence defines the rights the American nation is founded upon. These “unalienable” rights every American has “endowed” upon them are ones that cannot be taken away. The taking of a…

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    English philosopher, political economist, and liberal John Stuart Mill published one of his most famous works in 1859: On Liberty. Mill explores the innate and given liberties of people, analyzing what is the extent in which society or government has valid reasons to exercise power over its people. He argues that the individual should not be under the jurisdiction of society or government if their actions are not harming anyone but themselves. The only time society or government should involve…

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    Suppose there was a world in which no one had a moral compass. There would be nothing stopping someone from doing anything, as nothing would be seen as “wrong” or “right.” It would be a real life Lord of the Flies, with savagery and disorder being commonplace. But what is a moral compass anyway? The dictionary definition defines it as “a person's ability to judge what is right and wrong and act accordingly,” but is there more to it than that? The use of moral compass can be seen almost anywhere,…

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    Elizabeth Hutchinson’s “‘The Dress of His Nation’ Romney’s Portrait of Joseph Brant” centers its analysis on one of the most impactful American Indian leaders of the eighteenth century, Joseph Brant. With a long, illustrious, and arguably controversial career, it is unsurprising that numerous depictions of Brant are in circulation. However, for the purposes of Hutchinson’s article she zones in one particular depiction of the figure, which serves as the foundation for her examination into issues…

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    If we are to support that the thirteen colonies were justified in seeking their independence from England, then we must support Catalonia in its quest for independence from Spain. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, however, would disagree. In the Leviathan and Two Treatises of Government both Hobbes and Locke support that once a group of people decides to become a society as the laws of nature would suggest, they form a political society. If these people then choose democracy as their form of…

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