Each year‚ United States citizens celebrate Independence Day/The Fourth of July with cheerful barbeques‚ music and fireworks; but African Americans seem to also delight themselves in getting together for the Fourth of July as well. They celebrate by having cookouts‚ laughing‚ socializing‚ lighting fireworks‚ and generally enjoying themselves together. But‚ what significance does the Fourth of July really mean for those who were slaves? This question is worth exploring. Frederick Douglas seemed to
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The moment when the Declaration of Independence was written and signed on the Fourth of July‚ 1776‚ you can say‚ the nation is an emptiness world that adds a stripe of color and hope into it making it plentiful. This is why many of us are celebrating the meaning of this day. It’s like a cage bird being set free. We the people‚ we as a whole union represent the American eagle. “We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
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My Fourth of July It all started about three or four years ago when my friend or as some people may consider her as my sister invited me to go for two weeks to a beach house for the fourth of july with her family. As soon as the sun was up we hit the road for about five or six hours until we finally arrived to cayucos which in this case was next to moral bay where ¨finding dory was filmed¨. As soon as the car stopped we ran out the car and started running towards the ocean as you hear the
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Why do we celebrate the 4th of July? Most people in the United States celebrate the 4th of July‚ but do you know exactly why the holiday is so important to our country? Imagine how you would feel if someone older than you (maybe an older sister or brother) kept telling you what to do all of the time and kept taking more and more of your allowance. That is how the colonists felt in the years leading up to 1776. Great Britain kept trying to make the colonists follow more rules and pay higher taxes
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The 4th of July A sliver of the sun crested it’s bright head over the horizon‚making Applegate glow a golden orange.Today the small island was busy with a bustling feeling of excitement as we prepared for the coming tsunami of extended family and close friends. The decorations were set and the flag rose high over the cottage‚flaunting its patriotism. I walked past the mirror like water waiting to meet any disturbance with a sudden flood of ripples. We rode over to the shore waiting to load our boat
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Every year for Fourth of July‚ my mom’s side of the family gets together and celebrate. Each year my family come from all over the country to celebrate as a family. Some of them come from Columbia‚ Georgia‚ New York‚ Bermuda and even Baltimore. We all get together the day before Fourth of July to go stay on Myrtle Beach‚ SC. Before going down to Myrtle Beach‚ my family would have majority of the food prepared. Our menu for Fourth of July‚ consisted of many different types of food. Some of food we
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------------------------------------------------- Born on the Fourth of July The ending of the WWII culminated with the beginning of the cold war. The cold war was a major political and military conflict between the superpowers of America and the Soviet Union. The conflict is also an insight of the rising democracy and the attempts on removing the communism. In the 1960’s America joined the Vietnam War on the South Vietnamese side‚ against their opponents inspired by the communist ideology: North
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EU1101E In-class Simulation - The July Crisis 1914 URGENT - JULY CRISIS TELEGRAM Europe on brink of war Immediate Conference of Great Powers to Convene On 26 July 1914 Brussels‚ Belgium On 28 June 1914‚ Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ was assassinated while visiting Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Serbian nationalists. The Austrian government blamed Serbia for harboring terrorists and sent the Serbian government an ultimatum that Serbia rejected. This set
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“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” On July 4‚ 1852‚ Frederick Douglas delivered his “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” speech. At the time this speech was delivered‚ Douglas was merely an escaped slave who had been taught to read and write by his slave owner’s wife. He used his gift of literacy to fight for the God-given rights of both African-Americans and women. In “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July‚” Douglas cunningly uses bold diction and formatting in order to emphasize
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Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July an adaptation of the memoir by Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise ‚ in a role that was a brave departure for him in 1989‚ plays Kovic in his adult years. Kovic grows up as a child of the American dream in 1950s Long Island. He’s a God-fearing‚ baseball-hitting‚ patriotic man who lives in an environment full of parades and malt shops. As a high school senior‚ young Ron doesn’t think twice about signing up for the Marines‚ believing that he’s doing the
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