It felt like it was a normal day in New York ,September 11,2001.It was sunny people were going to work.It seemed like any other day.But Everything changed in less than a second.Four planes were hijacked by a group al-qaeda. Which killed almost more than one thousand people. One day in New York there was an airplane that crashed but it wasn’t a regular plane crash.It was a terrorist attack.First one plane crashed in New York at 8:46am. The plane was traveling from Boston to Los Angeles
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Monuments are a symbol of a considerable time in history. They represent life, death, success, and struggle. They transport the past lively to new generations, and good or bad memories to those who were present in that. Many people feel a well-built sense of loyalty and patriotism when they view a monument. Also, those monuments help bring out those feelings of nationalism. Millions of people from all over the world go to the city where they are building just to appreciate them. Monuments make people
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Speech in Washington,White House Attendance: 10,000 Topic:Veteran Fundraiser : Hello everyone welcome to the veteran department fundraiser it's honor as First Lady to host this prestigious event out of my love for the people who serve this amazing country. This is my first event hosting so I'm hoping I can do a successful job and I can earn enough money for the veterans department. These men and women serve our country they leave their family, career, education and sometimes they even sacrifice
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Millions lives have been lost protecting the nation and fighting for many things that are taken for granted today. Our generation has been blessed by, not one, but many different gifts. Many of the gifts can be described by one word, freedom. Freedom means that you can do things without restraint. Everyone is granted, without any objection, civil rights stated within the Constitution. America has blessed not just American citizens with its gift, it has blessed the other countries that we’ve help
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These days' people take for granted what people long ago worked so hard for. They had great perseverance along with a single goal in mind. Their goal was to bring freedom to America. Freedom can mean so many things to so many different people. We are all different, so the word freedom can mean something different to all of us. The freedom that we have today also reminds me of other places that don’t have the freedom that we have. Today there are many countries that hear about our freedom, but yet
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the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and flew one directly into the United States Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. According to the terrorists’ scheme, the fourth plane was en route to crash into the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. A few brave passengers sacrificed their lives and thwarted this mission. These evil acts resulted in massive devastation and the loss of nearly 3,000 lives. After the realization of what had just happened, an astounding number of the American
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about her family's trip to Washington DC, during the summer after her 8th grade graduation audre lorde thought that Washington DC as a capital would be different from how it was. She was not expecting to find racism in the capital of a country that’s stands for liberty, freedom and equality. But still her and her family felt discriminate. In her story she writes, “The waitress was white, and the counter was white, and the ice cream I never ate in Washington D.C., that summer I left childhood
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Monopoly Money The article I choose to use came from The Washington Post and was titled Smithsonian Documents Detail Chief’s Expenses. The author, James Grimaldi, analyzes the financial report provided by the inspector general detailing expenses “deemed by the Smithsonian Board of Regents as authorized and “reasonable” under the terms of Small’s employment agreement.” The article revealed that Small was the eleventh secretary at the Smithsonian, earning more than 900,000.00 a year in compensation
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Roshawn Been Ethics 300-02 Denzel Washington “I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.” – Denzel Washington. Some may say he is intelligent, while others may say he is courageous. Big words are just insufficient to describe this actor/director/screen-writer/producer
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The best relationship to have is when your boyfriend is your bestfriend!roductionBrown versus Board of Education was a major turning point in the history of the United States. This major case was actually several cases that were decided by the Supreme Court as one. These cases were argued by the NAACP and their expert team of lawyers led by Thurgood Marshall and his team the Legal Defense and Educational Fund. All the cases were filed by African American parents on behalf of their children. The parents
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