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    Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and many others. He was our nation’s third president and founded the University of Virginia. He studied law at the University of William and Mary in Virginia, and went on to use what he learned there to help form our great nation. Although all of his actions were not graceful, Jefferson was a man that made more of an impact on our country, than any other person. Born into a…

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    Nowadays, an increasing numbers of Americans are arguing that whether U.S should carry out direct democracy to replace representative democracy in U.S government system or not. Direct democracy means people vote for what they want and they do not need a government to interfere with the issues of their nation. However, I think direct democracy cannot be put into practice in the United State. If a nation is without a government, it will be anarchy and chaos. Some negative effects will appear in…

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    Sardar Vallabhai Patel was truly the architect of united INDIA. He was also know as Vallabhai Jhaverbhai Patel. HE was one of the great leaders of Indian National Congress and one of the founding leaders of the republic of INDIA. He guided independent India into a united nation and worked as an architect in it’s rebuilding. He was elected as the Home Minister and as well as the Deputy Prime Minister of India. He won the heart of all of India with his tactics and his efforts to restore peace…

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    The Founding Fathers

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    Luisana Zambrano Test 1 The necessity of the Founding Fathers to establish a new independent state was reflected in the Declaration of Independence, where they defined “that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their common creator with certain unalienable rights that among this are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. The main purpose of the constitution was based on the defeat and prevention of excess of power previously vested by the English empire. Their…

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    responsible for abolishing slavery through signing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Dr. Martin Luther King also referred to the founding fathers naming them the “architects of our republic”. The architects that he referred to are: George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. Martin Luther King refers to them more importantly because he is proving that the nation was not built on segregation and inequality. He uses the credibility of these men to make…

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    The class issues have been talked about for a long time, and there are three different articles that describe the class issues in American society, and explain what cause these class issues such economy, education and race. The first article is “Literacy and the Politics of Education”, which was written by C.H. Knoblauch. He shows that the literacy is a kind of way to judge people and gives readers four different kinds of literacy in his personal opinion. Also, he also claims that there are many…

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    was the one to stop segregation was because he was all about peaceful protests and not violence. MLK Jr. also wrote a speech and started a peaceful march to the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. (Google). In Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have A Dream” it says “And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee…

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    Andrew Jackson, good or bad? Jackson wanted to restore the will of the people to politics. He is a states’ rights supporter. Was Andrew Jackson a democratic supporter of the people or a tyrant? Andrew Jackson is a democratic supporter of the people because: he wanted to help voters, thought that taxes in all states should be equal, and he vetoed bills that didn’t help pay the national debt. The first reason Andrew Jackson is a democratic supporter of the people is that he wanted to help the…

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    America is full of opportunities for some, but others might not have the access or ability to take advantage of those opportunities to make their American Dream a reality.Economic situations,the freedom that you have, and the qualifications for jobs and the are some contributing factors that lead to if someone really does have access to achieve their American Dream. Economic situations are a very big contributing factor to how America only gives access to some, but not to all. In “ Is the…

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    George Washington. Within this letter, he diligently describes his argument against slavery. He writes to these two important men and informs them of what they have done. By using satire, repetition, tone and diction, Banneker is able to ridicule Washington and Jefferson on their decisions and experiences in order to strongly support his argument against slavery. Banneker writes a letter talking about why he disagrees with enslavement.With the use of satire, he begins to ridicule Washington…

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