For example, "For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. ... Obama uses diction in his speech because it enhances the message he is trying to depict. ...

• Word Count: 1103
• Approx Pages: 4

Wilson was the first president to deliver his State of the Union messages to Congress in person, since John Adams was president from 1797 to 1801. ... After this, a German foreign minister sent Mexico a telegram telling them to attack America to get America distracted from more German submarines being put out into the ocean. ...

• Word Count: 1024
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

On the night of 15 February l898 the battleship USS Maine was shattered by an explosion, which sent the ship and two-thirds of her crew to the bottom of the ocean. ... (Theodore Roosevelt's Message to Congress, 6 December, 1904.) ...

• Word Count: 1035
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French resources were spread thin already, and the Louisiana Territory being an Ocean away did not help either. ... Other Federalists opposed the purchase because they felt it might send the wrong message to Britain, who at the time was at war with France. ...

• Word Count: 2314
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate