The event that I attended was a film in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, in the Rigas Theater. This took place on Thursday, October 19th, 2017 at 7 pm. The film that was played was titled “Lake of Betrayal The Story of Kinzua Dam.” It was a screening of a new documentary film for national PBS broadcast from Toward Castle Films and Skipping Stone Pictures. The film discussed concern of the events surrounding the construction of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River. The PBS producers and some
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Zac Brown is a country singer, and probably one of the most talented people in this generation of performers set on changing country music. Zac Brown is also a record producer, record label head, and philanthropist. He is dead set on making the world a better place for as many people as possible. With his combination of country, bluegrass, reggae, and Caribbean music, he appeals to a wide variety of fans especially country and jam bands, and could possibly cross over to music and pop. He sold over
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Eli Whitney's, Cotton Gin changed slavery, the South and American history because before the farmers living in the South who grew cotton could only remove could only remove the seed, from the soft fiber of cotton, from only about one-pound of short staple a day by hand which was not very slow to do since you had to take the seeds from one plant at a time. Soon after seeing the problem’s that American Cotton farmers had Eli Whitney had the idea of making the Cotton Gin that worked efficiently at removing
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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was unjust because Lincoln was an amazing leader and one of the renown presidents to date, he brought a nation together after a war, was incredibly articulate, as shown by the Gettysburg Address, and created the Emancipation Proclamation which led to the freedom of slaves. However, his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, killed him because he believed the Confederacy would commend him. Lincoln’s assassination happened in 1865 at Ford’s Theater after Booth failed to
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Benjamin Banneker, a son of former slaves, lived his life as an astronomer, farmer, mathematician, surveyor, and author. In 1791 Banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson, the framer of the Declaration of Independence, about the hypocrisy of slavery in America. To address this issue, Banneker uses comparison, emotional diction, and biblical allusions in attempts of persuading Jefferson to change his views of slavery in American society. Banneker begins his letter with a respectful and empathetic tone towards
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President Andrew Jackson's message to congress "On Indian Removal" is substantially different from "Samuels Memory" by Michael Rutledge in terms of language and tone. You can see clear differences in the use of diction/sentence structure and connotation in both documents. The most obvious difference between the two is sentence structure. Andrew Jackson uses many complex and compound sentences while Michael Rutledge uses short simple sentences. The very first sentence of Andrew Jackson message to
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If you had the chance to speak in front of hundreds of people, and make a life-changing speech that could end slavery, would you? Frederick Douglass, a former slave, presented his speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” at a celebration of the Declaration of Independance, but took it upon himself to make it known that the Fourth of July was not a day of celebration for him or his people. Douglass utilized pathos, rhetorical questions, and repetition to drive home his argument against slavery
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Most of the people in the modern United States most likely wouldn’t be able to survive in an unknown environment because of how we lack survival instincts. Like Albert Einstein said, “Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.” Throughout Octavia Butler’s Kindred, the reader sees the main character Dana get herself into dangerous interactions due to her initial ignorance that she is time traveling back to the slavery era, where she works for a slave
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Rhetorical Analysis Essay The Union In 1861, Africans were free, although free “African Americans still were not allowed to enlist in the army. Towards slavery during this time isn’t quite enough to convince blacks to join them in their battle against the Confederacy. So, in April 1861, Alfred M. Green delivered a speech to persuade African Americans to prepare to fight in the Civil War. Green used rhetorical devices such as pathos and repetition to prove why joining this bloodshed was important
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The last paragraph states,"The separation of the Southern states led to the American Civil War. The war began as a struggle to preserve the Union-led Lincoln to free the slaves." After the South was threatened, the abolitionist John Brown
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