Two important revolutions break out with the aim of being freed from the oppression of the monarchy's rule: The French Revolution and the American Revolution. ... Dickens in his book "Tales of two cities" describes the situation perfectly "Far and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation. ... The American Revolution was also a mean of change as ended two centuries of British rule from 13 colonies and created the modern republic of United Stated of America. ... These two important instances of bloodshed seved to evoke the spirit of American patriotism all over the c...

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Gertrude Himmelfarb, professor emeritus of history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, argues that moral decline in America is a very serious reality. ... A joke on America's family today tells the tale by riddling "How do you find out the number of divorced people in America? ... People must learn to balance optimism and pessimism so that we can differentiate between the two. ... Now some would say that a single parent could be just as good a parent as two parents, but what must be understood is that a single parent cannot be both a father and a mother. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Littleton, Colorado was devastated when events in Columbine High School left twenty-three people wounded and fifteen people dead, including the two supposedly "unstable- gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. ... A Tale of Two Cities certainly portrays incredible atrocities about what events occurred to cause mass beheadings in Europe, and how the poor revolt against the rich. ... Suicide bombings mirror the Columbine tragedy in a number of ways; many people were killed including the two causing the crime, and the events occurred in a highly public area. ...

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When two people come in for the same job but won't take the price cut. ... In practice, tales of outrageous abuse have only grown more common, as EBT cards are used to purchase everything from unhealthy groceries the Nanny State otherwise discourages – such as sugary carbonated beverages – to luxury foods, and even more creative uses like posting bail or tipping exotic dancers. ... bipartisan group of senators was working on a plan to legalize the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and offer them a path to citizenship (but not without first paying finan...

• Word Count: 2005
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