The Declaration also plays a significant role in our world today and in recent history. ... The use of parallelism gives the document an emotional tempo that the reader plays through their head while they are reading. ... Jefferson knew citizens of foreign countries would read the Declaration, so he wrote it as clear as possible with the intention that people who were not American would read it. Jefferson wanted as many good individuals as possible to know why they were separating from Britain, which is why he wrote "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should de...

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One should avoid confusing hate speech with something it is not because other legal implications might come into play. ... King wrote to the Clergyman. ... He wrote what he believed without this type of speech because he knew that the people, the majority, reading would take it personally and not listen to what he really had to say. ...

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He wrote as much as he possibly could and became famous for doing many things. ... He also wrote and published Poor Richard's Almanac from 1733 until1758. ... Above all, he would be honored for the role he played in helping America win its freedom and then in writing the Constitution. ...

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"They wrote their first Constitution known as The Articles of Confederation. ... Madison explicated that maintaining autonomy and preventing dependence between the government's three different branches promoted checks and balances when he wrote, "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ... No single founder had a monopoly on America and each one played a role in the nation and the Constitution's early succes...

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(Out of Many, 614) In addition to the revoluntaries that encouraged reforms, muckrakers also played a crucial role in addressing injustices and calling attention to the American citizen. ... Upton Sinclair was best-known for his novel, The Jungle, which he wrote in 1906. ... (Out of Many, 634) Ida Tarbell also brought about change, she wrote History of Standard Oil Company in 1904, were she exposed the practices of some corporations and strengthened the movement for outlawing monopolies. ...

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Because she did not conform to the role society thought she should play, she introduced the idea that women had a say in things and that women were smart enough and able to think for themselves. ... At the convention in Seneca Falls the men and women of the movement wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. ...

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The Miller Center (n.d.) states that in 1774 Jefferson wrote "Summary View of the Rights of British America". ... Adams also played a major role in the establishment of independent governments in the colonies. ... Franklin also played a role as a public servant. ...

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He wrote this magnificent piece of propaganda so that any literate person could understand it. ... the actions of dedicated colonists played an essential role in the fight for independence because with these actions, the reasons to break away would be unknown, and there would not have been any orchestrated measures taken against the English. ...

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Joseph Reed, Washington's adjutant general, wrote to the commander on December 22, urging him to take action: "Our affairs are hastening fast to ruin if we not retrieve them by some happy event. ... " By the end of the book, however, it is also clear how much chance played its role in the quest for American independence. ...

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Samuel Adams wrote in 1772 that, "while their property shall be disposed of by a House of Commons at three thousand miles' distance from them, and who cannot be supposed to have the least care or concern for their real interest; who have not only no natural care for their interest, but must be in effect bribed against it, as every burden they lay on the Colonists is so much saved or gained to themselves", [Ada72]. ... The following year the Stamp Acct applied, "a tax stamp on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards", [Dig141]. ...

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Martin Luther King Jr choose the role he played in our nations past because of a racial standpoint that is unapparent to the unsegregated. ... One of the examples is the letter that King wrote from Birmingham jail and it shows how King used the document to cite examples to encourage "brotherhood and justice."" ...

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The creation a central government in America soon became a common goal among Congress, and Lee's strongly democratic views and insistence on political reforms came into play. ... Once, in a letter to John Adams, Lee wrote, "The hasty unpersevering, aristocratic genius of the south suits not my disposition, and is inconsistent with my ideas of what must constitute social happiness and security." ...

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