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the Boston tea party; learning something new

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The Boston Tea Party December 16th 1773 When I threw the fake tea I felt patriotic and I imagined the early Americans felt the same. When we were at the Boston Tea Party Ships And  Museum I learned a lot that I want to share, so lets began.  The Boston Tea Party started with the British who were putting taxes on  Americans tea, and these teas were even the oldest and worst of the lot!! Do you like tea? I do and I wouldn’t want tax on the worst of the lot.  The early Americans in America wanted to do a giant act, kind of crazy and really big, to show how they felt. So they decided throwing tea into into the harbor would be the best thing.  I can’t imagine how brave they must have been. Now this elusive group limited to about twenty people were “the Sons of Liberty,” any family or friends that wanted to also partake in this dangerous and criminal act. Would you partake? I think it would be hard to know if you would be safe after you threw the tea in the harbor beca

the Empire State building; a perspective

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The empire state building  looking out from the top of the empire state building you get a very different feel then from the streets of New York. that feeling is perspective when you are eighty-six floors up you have a pretty high view, watching the clouds swirl around and watching the city below me was a perspective I had never had before, I felt a little bit like how god probably feels so high up and just taking everything in. I recall a highlight was recognizing the different buildings in Manhattan was looking down at a colorful ball and realize that is the ball drop was expecting it made me feel so close to something I watch on tv.  I have this picture where the city is just sweeping out from below me, while  the sky is just a brilliant blue, I felt like I was the empire which is ironic since I was in the Empire State, New York, in the empire state building. seeing the different views or perspectives was important to me, I captured this one photo in one of my many times around