Thursday, November 6, 2008
body paragraph 1
The pigs inspired others because when old major did a speech before he died major spoke without listening to Mr.jones the sad part about old major was he died during the speech. when the wind mill set fourth his reason for advocating the building of the windmill. When the windmill broke it broke into a passionate appeal in favor of the windmill. The story of the rebillion is above all the tune and even the word of the beast of england. Plus the human beings could not certain the rage this is how the story inspires the pig.
intro paragraph
In the story animal farm there is something surprising to grab attention. although animal farm appears to be an excited story about animals. it is actually a satire of russian society. The background info on animal farm is that the animals took over the farm george orwell wrote the story right after the russian revolution.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
introduction and thesis statement
frederick douglass was one of the civil rights leader of the mid 1840s the civil rights started in the 1860. the civil rights movement started over gerrit smiths liberty party paper and lysander spooner and the united states constitution. At one time he had shared this veiw of william lloyed was concerned that support for slavery was part of the fabric of the constitution. frederick douglass was one of the leaders of the early 1861 civil rights movement douglass recruited over one hundred free blacks from upstate massachusetts. Among the recruits arriving at boot campat boot camp were two of douglass sons lewis and charles.
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his career as an abolitionist began dramatically in 1841 at an antislavery convention in nantucket, mass. where his impromptu address to the convention revealed him to be an orator of great eloquence.http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=207839
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during these years, douglass became friendly with the american abolitionist john brown ad was given a hint of browns strategy of destroying the money value of slave property by training a force of men to help large numbers of slaves escape to freedom in the north via the undergrond rail road. http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=207839
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douglass served as advisor to presidents. abraham lincoln referred to him as the most meritoius man of the nineteenth century.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/douglass_exhibit/douglass.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/douglass_exhibit/douglass.html
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in 1833 a quarrel between the auld brothers brought fredrick back to his home in saint michaels, maryland tensions between the racalcitrant black youth and his owner convinced thomas auld to hire frederick out as a farm worker under the supervision of edward covey, a local slave breaker http://www.answers.com/topic/frederick-douglass
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