who are subject to it,”(Aung San Suu Kyi). The idea of equality typically gets adulterated into a mass of corruption. Equality can also be executed by taking away choice and uniqueness, which will eventually cripple the society. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the “government”, which consisted of pigs, is dishonest, which leads the utopian society into a disastrous unequal dystopia. In Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the people are not unique and have no choice but to do as the government says, and because
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George Washington was a spark to one of the country’s most significant wars, The French and Indian War. The world would have colossal changes if there was the slightest change during the War. Our first president of the United States was a flint rock in a field of cotton. Washington and his sum of 160 men went to have a chat with some French settlers and that’s when the rip tide went into effect. Marching through the brush with muskets loaded and ammunition at disposal Washington, a young major,
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John A. Moretta's biased biography of William Penn is easily a great contribution to the historiography of early Pennsylvania. “William Penn and the Quaker Legacy”, complements two earlier biographies in the Longman's Library of American Biography series, (Edmund S. Morgan's Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop and Alden T. Vaughan's American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia) by telling the story of Penn's life and career. The beginning of this book concentrates on
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The Rise of Silas Lapham is set in Boston in the mid to late 1800’s. Silas is an aspiring business man. When the book opens he is being interviewed by the local newspaper man for the column in the next morning’s issue. Silas is quite proud of all his accomplishments. He tells of the early days and how a paint mine was found on his family farm. His family did not try to work the mine and he began working in a Saloon. It was not until he wanted to paint the building that he thought about that paint
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Nathaniel Greene is an American General, a well-known participant in the war for the independence of the United States. Green was born in the town of Warwick (Rhode Island). His father was a Quaker; he had a smithy and worked on a farm. Nathaniel was engaged in self-education, especially interested in mathematics, history and law. In 1770 Greene moved to Coventry and took over the management of the family's smithy that had been built by his father. In the same year he was elected into the Legislative
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Americans remember 1776 for the bravery many leaders displayed at the time of crisis, yet leaders of the time knew it only as a turning point. During the year many losses did occur, such as the Battle of New York, but the wins at Boston, Princeton and Trenton laid out America’s future. David McCullough in the aptly titled 1776 displayed the intricacies of the year in total, and claims through weary diction and use of contrast that leaders aren’t just brave people, but need to lie and be naive to
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Battle of Lexington & Concord Written by: Kaitlyn Carter In 1764 the Lexington War started with Lexington and the British. The British had a plan to go to Lexington and capture 2 people. The wanted to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock. After they captured them two people they went to Concord to get gun powder. Americans somehow found out about that plan and spread the word. There were two light near the church in North Boston that said the Boston were attacking from sea. Paul Revere went on
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George Washington was not just the president during his lifetime. He was General and commander-in-chief during the colonial armies during the American Revolution. Washington had impacted many lives before becoming president and changing the way things were ran in the White House. His family background was very rich, but lost it all during the Puritan revolution and when his grandfather migrated to Virginia in 1657. He was a very special president to American history. Washington did not get elected
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Now Cornwallis had backed himself up into a corner and was about to pay for it. While Cornwallis had his troops fortifying the town, Americans were preparing to defeat the general and his army. George Washington had been waiting in New York, awaiting the arrival of the large French fleet. (Higginbotham, Witoski, 1). While Washington was waiting for the fleet, General Layfette sent small groups of militia to stake out and watch Cornwallis’ army
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One of the most well known leaders of the modern era, Washington was the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and first president of the United States. Born into a wealthy family in 1731, Washington had an easy upbringing. He was a member of the upper class of Virginia due to his family's farm land and number of slaves. As Virginia was an agricultural society at the time, the more land and people one owned (while having British aristocrat ancestry) gained
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