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. ...

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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. ...

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• 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.) ...

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