representing every state but Rhode Island‚ met at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia‚ which is now known as Independence Hall. Notable delegates included George Washington‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ and James Madison. At first‚ the convention was very secretive. No members of the press were allowed to observe‚ and no official journal of the proceedings were kept. In fact‚ chaperones were assigned to Ben Franklin at all times‚ the eldest of the delegates‚ who had a reputation for being
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VII. Impact of Speeches The impact of the 2016 DNC speech was left on the first night of the convention. According to Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post (2016)‚ there were more than 28 hours of live programming over the four days of the Democratic National Convention. Even though‚ the first lady’s speech came on the first night of the convention‚ “it held the championship belt against all other for the next three days’’ (Cillizza‚ 2016). She stood alone amongst the best of the politicians in
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In the speech "The Virginia Convention" Patrick Henry set out to convince the Virginia delegates that the war with England is inevitable‚ the longer they wait the harder to win the war and that the war had already started. The author uses repetition‚ rhetorical questions‚ and facts to allow the speech to be more effective‚ interesting‚ and strong. Repetition is one of the stronger designs that Patrick uses to help stress the importance of taking on this battle now rather than waiting and being to
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The morning before Nikki Giovanni’s speech a terrible event had occurred‚ when a student at Virginia Tech starting shooting fellow students. This shooting spree lasted for about two hours and by the end there were a recorded thirty-three deaths including the shooter. After this shocking event so many students and families were crying over friends‚ family and loved ones. Nikki Giovanni‚ in the speech “We are Virginia Tech” in 2007‚ addressed the Virginia Tech students fear and sadness. The speaker
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Have you ever read something that seems to benefit everyone? For example “Speech in the Convention” by the one and only Benjamin Franklin believed in rights. The way he wrote this letter not only addressing the President but society in that time was very bold. Therefore this piece is a masterpiece especially to Americans. Franklin’s goal in this speech is to convince the people of America to support the Constitution of Independence including its faults. For example in paragraph two he clearly states
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Some might say that the Native Americans were better off before we the people came to settle‚ but most believe it all worked out in the end because we are here today in this fast growing world. Before the US had the latest and greatest technology‚ before our advance medicine‚ before the rise and plummet in our economy there was once other natives to this land we now call America. What was the life like before during and after the English men came. Although Powhatan Native American and English lives
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A Convention of society Everything we do is to please someone else. And that someone else can be all of society. Society is based on conventions. Most of society conforms to them‚ otherwise they may appear to be "outside" of the society that they live in‚ they may also appear to be eccentric or dangerous to the "norm" of their society. These conventions are general agreements on social behaviour; they have a strong force within society. This is stated by Frye in his speech "The educated
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Between the years 1765 and 1787‚ America had gone from British Colonies protesting against the British Parliament’s Stamp Act‚ to an independent Nation. During the Revolutionary War‚ Colonists wrote the Articles of Confederation‚ which acted as a set of rules and organized the government. Although the Articles of Confederation gave structure to the American government‚ it had ultimately set up America for failure as a thriving Nation. The states were given too much power and economic freedom in the
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Constitutional convention was about how a state can be represented in the legislature and a compromise between the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan. That Federalist wanted to ratify the constitution to have a stronger central government‚ but the anti
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in some areas it reliant on the constitutional conventions‚ even to dealing with substantial aspects of constitutional behavior. For example‚ the Queen should give the Royal assent to the Bill which has been properly passed by the Parliament. Unlike the America where have the codified constitution to rule the powers of president and his cabinet‚ the powers of minister in this country are broadly accounted by the ministerial responsibility convention. Even though the Great Britain is lack of written
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