meh. I heard it involves a lot of give and take.autoload wrote:targetman377 wrote:Those hermaphrodites sure like to please eh?strike wolf wrote:targetman377 wrote:those angles. they always tell you to turn exactly 47.89 degrees to the left and then take the next right that goes off 85.3848745974587 degrees and next thing you know your so confused you end up in the auto's exes convention.autoload wrote:
not as crazy as the ex girlfriends of auto convention! yeah i walked into there by accident i was look for the angle convention. well they all took one look at me and went crazy!!!! shouting this (holy fuke this guys hot)(BETTER THEN AUTO) (WONDERFUL) well one thing lead to another and well soon i think as well i as i remembered it there was not much clothes and it went on all weekend![]()
i know but it worked out in the end. lets just say it was a great night
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Have you ever reread a post to make sure it makes sense ONCE?targetman377 wrote:sailorc wrote:I would post in here a ton more if school and football didn't restrict my time....
quit football. what more improt.
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Actually it makes perfect sense. Improt is a disease as depicted in mythology. Basically imps would get it and literally rot away. As for the "what" he meant to say "want".sailorc wrote:Have you ever reread a post to make sure it makes sense ONCE?targetman377 wrote:sailorc wrote:I would post in here a ton more if school and football didn't restrict my time....
quit football. what more improt.
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Odd thing about AC/DC in their early days (when Bon was still alive); even though all the members were (and still are) relatively small in stature, they didn't take crap from anybody and would often get into fights during one of their gigs if someone in the crowd insulted one of them. Also, they despised hippies, and would often beat them up or chase them off, should the opportunity present itself.
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It's our first chilly morning. I turned the ceiling fan off in the kitchen. It's usually on all the time. Quirk Jr takes a bite of food and then turns around to check if the fan is still off. It took several minutes before he stopped checking the fan in between bites. I forgot to buy bananas yesterday
. He's eating mixed vegetables with his Cheerios this morning.
The cat is being extra clingy so I had to kick him out of my lap. So he buried himself underneath paper bags for warmth.
And that's the end of my riveting morning report
In closing let me just say that Athens Bulldog fans are the most fickle fans in the state. They all feel the need to share their doubts about the team with me. I swear if they don't cut it out there will be blood on my hands before the season ends.
The cat is being extra clingy so I had to kick him out of my lap. So he buried himself underneath paper bags for warmth.
And that's the end of my riveting morning report
In closing let me just say that Athens Bulldog fans are the most fickle fans in the state. They all feel the need to share their doubts about the team with me. I swear if they don't cut it out there will be blood on my hands before the season ends.

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Such bullies.muy_thaiguy wrote:Odd thing about AC/DC in their early days (when Bon was still alive); even though all the members were (and still are) relatively small in stature, they didn't take crap from anybody and would often get into fights during one of their gigs if someone in the crowd insulted one of them. Also, they despised hippies, and would often beat them up or chase them off, should the opportunity present itself.
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I'm optimistic about their overall record I just think that we have the worst defensive coordinator.Quirk wrote:It's our first chilly morning. I turned the ceiling fan off in the kitchen. It's usually on all the time. Quirk Jr takes a bite of food and then turns around to check if the fan is still off. It took several minutes before he stopped checking the fan in between bites. I forgot to buy bananas yesterday. He's eating mixed vegetables with his Cheerios this morning.
The cat is being extra clingy so I had to kick him out of my lap. So he buried himself underneath paper bags for warmth.
And that's the end of my riveting morning report![]()
In closing let me just say that Athens Bulldog fans are the most fickle fans in the state. They all feel the need to share their doubts about the team with me. I swear if they don't cut it out there will be blood on my hands before the season ends.
Also it's still plenty warm down in Statesboro.
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Kurt Leichtle
ELETION OF 1800
“The alternate Domination of one faction over the another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horried enormities, is itself a frightful despotism” was said during George Washington’s farewell address to the nation. He was referring to the fact that in his options party’s will corrupt and erode our nation. This is the mindset that the revolution was all about. It was putting George Washington’s advice to a test and this test for both sides felt if they would lose that the nation would cease to exist. It was the ultimate battle for the state of control. It was a time for experimenting with parties. It was at this point that the future of our nation to those participants seemed that this nation would not see it through. Maybe reword?
The revolution of 1800 deals with parties; these parties are the main contributing factor of the revolution. At this time parties were seen as a bad thing that would plunge the nation into chaos. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts said, “[the] house divided against itself cannot stand”, looking back on the revolution Gerry said, “Had a party spirit then prevailed, it would have been fatal.” At the time, Gerry’s view was the popular view. Parties are bad. huh? However there were clearly two sides of this election; Hamilton for the federalists, and Jefferson for the republicans. Both of these sides would go up against each other and dominate the beliefs of everyone including the players themselves. Each party saw their party as the party that would save the union. Jefferson would write to Gerry that his belief that the “the republicans would reestablish a proper balance and also protect those freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.” Wocott, an advocate of the republicans and a federalist, argued that “any republican victory would be only an aberration Because only the principles symbolized by the Federalists guaranteed the future security and prosperity of the union,” but at the same time each side felt that their party would save the union. They argued that it was the other side that was dividing this country and bringing it closer to destruction. This argument was what the revolution was all about. The simple question of whether or not split us up? And in their time they would say yes parties are an evil that must go away. Yet even as they saw them evil they used them to get their way.
This election was a landmark election the reason was simple; no George Washington. This man was the symbol of the country and what the revolution stood for. When the political minds got together to rewrite the articles of confederation and promote the constitution it was General Washington who won the previously thirteen colonies their freedom. He supported the constitution whatever you believed in as an American the one thing you could agree on was Washington. Washington was the very glue that held this nation together. As sharp describes Washington the only reason there was a constitution was largely the fact that everyone assumed Washington would be the president. “Washington, it was felt could be trusted with power because of his well-known commitment to republicanism and perhaps also because of his often expressed distaste for office and longing for retirement.” Even though there were three elections up to the 1800s this would be the first one faced without Washington’s guiding hand. In the election right before the revolutionary election of 1800, the election that put Adams into office, was not as party oriented or grouped together. There was very little organization. At all they did not start to fight their minds with parties. The parties at this time where not organized and most states voted along where they laid in the union with Jefferson getting a lot of the south and New England going to Adams. During this election no one campaigned, no one really came out to spread support for their candidate that they had picked. This caused the election to run relatively smoothly. There were two sides. However, there was still a unity force that tied them together during Washington’s administration, but during Adams’ administration everything went downhill. The passing of the Alien and Sedation Act acted as the catalyst that would force both sides to force their hand. After Adams four years in office it was clear that each side believed that if they did not win, the nation would cease to exist.
Not only did the parties become more defined, but both were threatened leading up to the election. Both had been plagued with murky waters and would be hurting. The Federalist Party’s biggest hurtle was who they should nominate to run again Adams or General Pinckney. Adams’ idea to reopen negotiation with France split Adams’ federalist supporters in half. Hamilton thought of Adams as a vain, vindictive, unreliable and quixotic president. Sharp describes the federalist position that they were put into this election “Under Washington’s leadership, Adams’s critics contended, the federalists had been venerated as a party of virtue dedicated to the protection and preservation of the principles of the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the union. But Adam’s Egocentric and erratic behavior had endangered all of this.” This was the dilemma that the federalists were facing. Their party had almost been split into two different parties. The Republicans were not without their own troubles; in the summer of 1800 a slave insurrection was attempted in Virginia. Armed with homemade weapons slaves planned to march on the state capital, where they would capture arms and massacre the white citizens and induce a mass revolt. Their plans where thwarted by two of their own slaves betraying them. This happened at the time that the republicans were most vulnerable; the revolt sent shivers down the south’s spines. At this time the south needed a military’s might to help them cope with a possible slave revolt that might take place. They would also need the backing of the federal government. Making the incident even worse, was that two Frenchmen were accused of being involved in the affair. This set of tension would make it look like the nation was on the brink of destruction with each side viewing themselves as the only way to stop the complete and utter destruction of the nation. Each believed their side would have to win to save the union from destruction.
The revolution that went on during this election was a battle of the mind, it was the battle for control of the government, and it was seen as the last chance of a very loose group of states coming together to form a nation. Each side preserved the other side as the evil destruction of the nation and each side viewed their side as the savior that would come and rescue the nation in its darkest hours. With the threat of slave rights, foreign countries, corrupt legislators, and without the helping of George Washington hand, the symbol for unity and the revolutionary cause not being there would make this election the most revolutionary election of our history.
so what you think?
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Kurt Leichtle
ELETION OF 1800
“The alternate Domination of one faction over the another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horried enormities, is itself a frightful despotism” was said during George Washington’s farewell address to the nation. He was referring to the fact that in his options party’s will corrupt and erode our nation. This is the mindset that the revolution was all about. It was putting George Washington’s advice to a test and this test for both sides felt if they would lose that the nation would cease to exist. It was the ultimate battle for the state of control. It was a time for experimenting with parties. It was at this point that the future of our nation to those participants seemed that this nation would not see it through. Maybe reword?
The revolution of 1800 deals with parties; these parties are the main contributing factor of the revolution. At this time parties were seen as a bad thing that would plunge the nation into chaos. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts said, “[the] house divided against itself cannot stand”, looking back on the revolution Gerry said, “Had a party spirit then prevailed, it would have been fatal.” At the time, Gerry’s view was the popular view. Parties are bad. huh? However there were clearly two sides of this election; Hamilton for the federalists, and Jefferson for the republicans. Both of these sides would go up against each other and dominate the beliefs of everyone including the players themselves. Each party saw their party as the party that would save the union. Jefferson would write to Gerry that his belief that the “the republicans would reestablish a proper balance and also protect those freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.” Wocott, an advocate of the republicans and a federalist, argued that “any republican victory would be only an aberration Because only the principles symbolized by the Federalists guaranteed the future security and prosperity of the union,” but at the same time each side felt that their party would save the union. They argued that it was the other side that was dividing this country and bringing it closer to destruction. This argument was what the revolution was all about. The simple question of whether or not split us up? And in their time they would say yes parties are an evil that must go away. Yet even as they saw them evil they used them to get their way.
This election was a landmark election the reason was simple; no George Washington. This man was the symbol of the country and what the revolution stood for. When the political minds got together to rewrite the articles of confederation and promote the constitution it was General Washington who won the previously thirteen colonies their freedom. He supported the constitution whatever you believed in as an American the one thing you could agree on was Washington. Washington was the very glue that held this nation together. As sharp describes Washington the only reason there was a constitution was largely the fact that everyone assumed Washington would be the president. “Washington, it was felt could be trusted with power because of his well-known commitment to republicanism and perhaps also because of his often expressed distaste for office and longing for retirement.” Even though there were three elections up to the 1800s this would be the first one faced without Washington’s guiding hand. In the election right before the revolutionary election of 1800, the election that put Adams into office, was not as party oriented or grouped together. There was very little organization. At all they did not start to fight their minds with parties. The parties at this time where not organized and most states voted along where they laid in the union with Jefferson getting a lot of the south and New England going to Adams. During this election no one campaigned, no one really came out to spread support for their candidate that they had picked. This caused the election to run relatively smoothly. There were two sides. However, there was still a unity force that tied them together during Washington’s administration, but during Adams’ administration everything went downhill. The passing of the Alien and Sedation Act acted as the catalyst that would force both sides to force their hand. After Adams four years in office it was clear that each side believed that if they did not win, the nation would cease to exist.
Not only did the parties become more defined, but both were threatened leading up to the election. Both had been plagued with murky waters and would be hurting. The Federalist Party’s biggest hurtle was who they should nominate to run again Adams or General Pinckney. Adams’ idea to reopen negotiation with France split Adams’ federalist supporters in half. Hamilton thought of Adams as a vain, vindictive, unreliable and quixotic president. Sharp describes the federalist position that they were put into this election “Under Washington’s leadership, Adams’s critics contended, the federalists had been venerated as a party of virtue dedicated to the protection and preservation of the principles of the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the union. But Adam’s Egocentric and erratic behavior had endangered all of this.” This was the dilemma that the federalists were facing. Their party had almost been split into two different parties. The Republicans were not without their own troubles; in the summer of 1800 a slave insurrection was attempted in Virginia. Armed with homemade weapons slaves planned to march on the state capital, where they would capture arms and massacre the white citizens and induce a mass revolt. Their plans where thwarted by two of their own slaves betraying them. This happened at the time that the republicans were most vulnerable; the revolt sent shivers down the south’s spines. At this time the south needed a military’s might to help them cope with a possible slave revolt that might take place. They would also need the backing of the federal government. Making the incident even worse, was that two Frenchmen were accused of being involved in the affair. This set of tension would make it look like the nation was on the brink of destruction with each side viewing themselves as the only way to stop the complete and utter destruction of the nation. Each believed their side would have to win to save the union from destruction.
The revolution that went on during this election was a battle of the mind, it was the battle for control of the government, and it was seen as the last chance of a very loose group of states coming together to form a nation. Each side preserved the other side as the evil destruction of the nation and each side viewed their side as the savior that would come and rescue the nation in its darkest hours. With the threat of slave rights, foreign countries, corrupt legislators, and without the helping of George Washington hand, the symbol for unity and the revolutionary cause not being there would make this election the most revolutionary election of our history.
so what you think?
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strike wolf wrote:Sounds like you ahve a lot of work to do. Usually I advocate supporting the thread but today I think it's important for you to focus on that paper. So I'm issuing a challenge to you. that you finish this paper before you would normally come back on to check this thread again. Are you man enough for the challenge?
i think i passed that with flying colors!!!!
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Lucarilover240 wrote:So, Target, you got your Wii back yet?
yes i will hook it up right now!!!
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strike wolf wrote:Shh. Luc. don't distract him from his schoolwork.Lucarilover240 wrote:So, Target, you got your Wii back yet?
i am done happy happy joy joy
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targetman377 wrote:Lucarilover240 wrote:So, Target, you got your Wii back yet?
yes i will hook it up right now!!!
it is 043127830587 and my name on there is Scott figure
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strike wolf wrote:We've gotten lazy with grammar what with target being in here. I never got too into King Of the Hill but it was a good show. On the otehr hand I can't stand American Dad.Bozo wrote:I used to like king of the hill, but the last few seasons were, to use the tecnical term 'blah' I thought the season premire of American dad was pretty damn good. Im far to lazy to type the reasons why or for that matter check my spelling and grammer. Im sure someone will for me...
i like the Simpson and futurama i HATE south park, family guy, i just think they are dumb and not funny at all
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meh. I heard it involves a lot of give and take.[/quote]strike wolf wrote:autoload wrote:Those hermaphrodites sure like to please eh?targetman377 wrote:strike wolf wrote: those angles. they always tell you to turn exactly 47.89 degrees to the left and then take the next right that goes off 85.3848745974587 degrees and next thing you know your so confused you end up in the auto's exes convention.
i know but it worked out in the end. lets just say it was a great night
this gets my official seal of approval
p.s lone wolf it's been a while since you got one whats that about?
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sailorc wrote:Have you ever reread a post to make sure it makes sense ONCE?targetman377 wrote:sailorc wrote:I would post in here a ton more if school and football didn't restrict my time....
quit football. what more improt.
and if you are going to say football keep in mind that gun in the back of your head is not forgiving
read next post
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strike wolf wrote:Actually it makes perfect sense. Improt is a disease as depicted in mythology. Basically imps would get it and literally rot away. As for the "what" he meant to say "want".sailorc wrote:Have you ever reread a post to make sure it makes sense ONCE?targetman377 wrote:sailorc wrote:I would post in here a ton more if school and football didn't restrict my time....
quit football. what more improt.
and if you are going to say football keep in mind that gun in the back of your head is not forgiving
thank you for clarify what i was trying to say. and yes it should be want sorry
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Quirk wrote:It's our first chilly morning. I turned the ceiling fan off in the kitchen. It's usually on all the time. Quirk Jr takes a bite of food and then turns around to check if the fan is still off. It took several minutes before he stopped checking the fan in between bites. I forgot to buy bananas yesterday. He's eating mixed vegetables with his Cheerios this morning.
The cat is being extra clingy so I had to kick him out of my lap. So he buried himself underneath paper bags for warmth.
And that's the end of my riveting morning report![]()
In closing let me just say that Athens Bulldog fans are the most fickle fans in the state. They all feel the need to share their doubts about the team with me. I swear if they don't cut it out there will be blood on my hands before the season ends.
sounds like you had a fun morning
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*me needs to think of an awesome catchphrase that will take over the world
and thats the way it is
and thats the way it is
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In other news, a resoounding 124-point victory has just moved me out of the stripes for the forseeable future.
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Of course the campaign is short. Nobody gets Halo for the single player modes, silly. If it weren't for the online multiplayer, Halo wouldn't be near as big a hit as it is.strike wolf wrote:It's time for Strike's video game of the week.
This week's video game is...
Halo ODST.
Played very little of it myself but have seen more than I've played and it's a pretty good game. The Campaign itself is fairly short (my roommates beat it in just under 3 hours on Legendary) but the firefight setting is intense. Short ruling would be that if you like the other Halos you'll like ODST.
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Mine is 129068698982 and my name is Lucarilover (big shocker).targetman377 wrote:targetman377 wrote:Lucarilover240 wrote:So, Target, you got your Wii back yet?
yes i will hook it up right now!!!
it is 043127830587 and my name on there is Scott figure
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Yay, we have a lieutenant among us!jonesthecurl wrote:In other news, a resoounding 124-point victory has just moved me out of the stripes for the forseeable future.
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Aw, crap, now I lost my fancy blue diamond too... Damn losing streak.
Think I'm going to go back to assassin games for a while.
Think I'm going to go back to assassin games for a while.
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After reading the first paragraph and skimming over the rest I would say that you don't appear to have many grammatical errors...targetman377 wrote:Scott Georgeson
9-27-09
History
Kurt Leichtle
ELETION OF 1800
“The alternate Domination of one faction over the another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horried enormities, is itself a frightful despotism” was said during George Washington’s farewell address to the nation. He was referring to the fact that in his options party’s will corrupt and erode our nation. This is the mindset that the revolution was all about. It was putting George Washington’s advice to a test and this test for both sides felt if they would lose that the nation would cease to exist. It was the ultimate battle for the state of control. It was a time for experimenting with parties. It was at this point that the future of our nation to those participants seemed that this nation would not see it through. Maybe reword?
The revolution of 1800 deals with parties; these parties are the main contributing factor of the revolution. At this time parties were seen as a bad thing that would plunge the nation into chaos. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts said, “[the] house divided against itself cannot stand”, looking back on the revolution Gerry said, “Had a party spirit then prevailed, it would have been fatal.” At the time, Gerry’s view was the popular view. Parties are bad. huh? However there were clearly two sides of this election; Hamilton for the federalists, and Jefferson for the republicans. Both of these sides would go up against each other and dominate the beliefs of everyone including the players themselves. Each party saw their party as the party that would save the union. Jefferson would write to Gerry that his belief that the “the republicans would reestablish a proper balance and also protect those freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.” Wocott, an advocate of the republicans and a federalist, argued that “any republican victory would be only an aberration Because only the principles symbolized by the Federalists guaranteed the future security and prosperity of the union,” but at the same time each side felt that their party would save the union. They argued that it was the other side that was dividing this country and bringing it closer to destruction. This argument was what the revolution was all about. The simple question of whether or not split us up? And in their time they would say yes parties are an evil that must go away. Yet even as they saw them evil they used them to get their way.
This election was a landmark election the reason was simple; no George Washington. This man was the symbol of the country and what the revolution stood for. When the political minds got together to rewrite the articles of confederation and promote the constitution it was General Washington who won the previously thirteen colonies their freedom. He supported the constitution whatever you believed in as an American the one thing you could agree on was Washington. Washington was the very glue that held this nation together. As sharp describes Washington the only reason there was a constitution was largely the fact that everyone assumed Washington would be the president. “Washington, it was felt could be trusted with power because of his well-known commitment to republicanism and perhaps also because of his often expressed distaste for office and longing for retirement.” Even though there were three elections up to the 1800s this would be the first one faced without Washington’s guiding hand. In the election right before the revolutionary election of 1800, the election that put Adams into office, was not as party oriented or grouped together. There was very little organization. At all they did not start to fight their minds with parties. The parties at this time where not organized and most states voted along where they laid in the union with Jefferson getting a lot of the south and New England going to Adams. During this election no one campaigned, no one really came out to spread support for their candidate that they had picked. This caused the election to run relatively smoothly. There were two sides. However, there was still a unity force that tied them together during Washington’s administration, but during Adams’ administration everything went downhill. The passing of the Alien and Sedation Act acted as the catalyst that would force both sides to force their hand. After Adams four years in office it was clear that each side believed that if they did not win, the nation would cease to exist.
Not only did the parties become more defined, but both were threatened leading up to the election. Both had been plagued with murky waters and would be hurting. The Federalist Party’s biggest hurtle was who they should nominate to run again Adams or General Pinckney. Adams’ idea to reopen negotiation with France split Adams’ federalist supporters in half. Hamilton thought of Adams as a vain, vindictive, unreliable and quixotic president. Sharp describes the federalist position that they were put into this election “Under Washington’s leadership, Adams’s critics contended, the federalists had been venerated as a party of virtue dedicated to the protection and preservation of the principles of the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the union. But Adam’s Egocentric and erratic behavior had endangered all of this.” This was the dilemma that the federalists were facing. Their party had almost been split into two different parties. The Republicans were not without their own troubles; in the summer of 1800 a slave insurrection was attempted in Virginia. Armed with homemade weapons slaves planned to march on the state capital, where they would capture arms and massacre the white citizens and induce a mass revolt. Their plans where thwarted by two of their own slaves betraying them. This happened at the time that the republicans were most vulnerable; the revolt sent shivers down the south’s spines. At this time the south needed a military’s might to help them cope with a possible slave revolt that might take place. They would also need the backing of the federal government. Making the incident even worse, was that two Frenchmen were accused of being involved in the affair. This set of tension would make it look like the nation was on the brink of destruction with each side viewing themselves as the only way to stop the complete and utter destruction of the nation. Each believed their side would have to win to save the union from destruction.
The revolution that went on during this election was a battle of the mind, it was the battle for control of the government, and it was seen as the last chance of a very loose group of states coming together to form a nation. Each side preserved the other side as the evil destruction of the nation and each side viewed their side as the savior that would come and rescue the nation in its darkest hours. With the threat of slave rights, foreign countries, corrupt legislators, and without the helping of George Washington hand, the symbol for unity and the revolutionary cause not being there would make this election the most revolutionary election of our history.
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I would say you did pretty well Mr. Georgeson.targetman377 wrote:strike wolf wrote:Sounds like you ahve a lot of work to do. Usually I advocate supporting the thread but today I think it's important for you to focus on that paper. So I'm issuing a challenge to you. that you finish this paper before you would normally come back on to check this thread again. Are you man enough for the challenge?
i think i passed that with flying colors!!!!
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