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Hailie Valdes Blog 2

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 Hello everyone, Thank you for coming back, and welcome to my second blog! These presentations covered dedicated change makers over multiple time periods. We covered change makers from the constitutional authors, the 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s to the present day. Each individual change maker and era represented a different time in history, which establishes how much growth we have had as a country.  Group 1 began with the constitutional writers. This was a strong start since it established the history of our country. By starting truly at the beginning, the audience was given additional context and appreciation for the presentations to follow. Their presentation did an extraordinary job linking their change makers. Group 1 shows how much collaboration went into this founding document. They explained the why and how this document came to be while highlighting each change maker's individual works. The opening change maker was James Madison. I feel like it was extremely important to ...

Cassandra Chery - Blog 2

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 Changemakers Blog by Cassandra Chery One very important thing that I learned throughout these presentations is that history is often taught as a long list of dates and dusty old documents and scrolls, but if you look closer, it is actually a collection of stories about people who refused to accept the world as it was. These changemakers, the thinkers, the rebels, the healers, and the builders, didn't just live through history; they grabbed it by the shoulders and turned it in a new direction. From the humid, tension-filled rooms where the United States was born to the fast-paced, digital halls of modern justice, the individuals we explored in public speaking class from late February to early March represents the very best of human ambition and grit. Below, I will give a summary and description on the the specific changemakers which we learned in class. Following that, I will speak about my classmates, the group of people who wonderfully represented the ambitious changemakers from ...