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cavemanmoron

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http://www.adweek.com/aw/creative/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000473646

Chevy Rolls Out 'Revolution' Spots
March 26, 2004
By Kevin Ransom



'Car Cover,' which breaks on Saturday, focuses on the Chevy Equinox.


DETROIT Chevrolet and Campbell-Ewald launch the next phase of their "An American Revolution" campaign on Saturday. A 60-second TV spot shows a car carrier "releasing" various models of the Colorado pick-up truck in different locales, including the city, the desert and the Grand Canyon, as though they were wild animals.

The spot is a sequel to "Car Carrier," which launched the "An American Revolution" campaign on New Year's Eve. Action-movie filmmaker Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys) directed both commercials. The spot by the Warren, Mich., shop will run during the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament, said Kim Kosak, Chevrolet's general director of advertising and sales promotion.

 
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Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
Originally posted by: SnOop005
thank you
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Topic Title: what is american revolution?
Topic Summary: please explain
Created On: 05/15/2005 07:28 PM

Chevrolet commercial?
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is it like an industrial revolution?
 
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ssiighh...i was hoping for a more serious answer. And yes this is for my Hst class. I kno what the formal definition is but there can be also many different in depth thinking arguments on this matter. For example, spread of democracy or sppread of religious freedom.


stuff like that...I need at least 2 pages on this essay topic and im running outta gas....



 
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You're from Cali and you have to ask this, why?? I mean,if you were from Botswana maybe......
 
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Originally posted by: SnOop005
ssiighh...i was hoping for a more serious answer. And yes this is for my Hst class. I kno what the formal definition is but there can be also many different in depth thinking arguments on this matter. For example, spread of democracy or sppread of religious freedom.


stuff like that...I need at least 2 pages on this essay topic and im running outta gas....
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Are you kidding me? Two pages? That's so easy, I could do that in my sleep.

Oh yeah, you might want to read up some more. America is not a democracy.
 
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I'm not really well-versed in history, so I've forgotten specifics like dates and whatnot. However, I know the gist of it. Someone else will correct me on the stuff I leave out/am wrong about, I'm sure.

Okay, way back in the day in the 1700s what we now know as the United States of America was composed of 13 small colonies along the east coast, which were under the rule of England. Being that America was rich in natural resources England went to great lengths to import many of these goods -- metal, agriculture, etc. -- from America, and decided to shaft the colonies with most of the bill in the form of tariffs. (Taxes) A lot of tariffs. On top of that, the English generally treated the colonists like second class citizens anyway. Eventually the colonists said "f%$# it, I've had it with this colony s%$#" and decided they wanted their independence. England, unsurprisingly, wanted to hold on to their rich little colonies. Thusly, this small disagreement in the governing of the colonies was settled in the way most advanced, civilized countries settle disagreements: by attempting to kill each other.

So England sent troops to "reinforce" the structure of English rule, and some Colonists banded together and fought a guerilla war against the English. The French decided to help the Colonists as well, if I remember correctly. Eventually, after a bunch of people died the English came to some realizations: 1) marching troops in line formation wearing uniforms that prevent their heads from turning is a great way to get them all killed by one Colonist with even the remotest ability to be stealthy, and 2) they were going to have to take out damn near 75% of the Colonists and a bunch of French troops if they wanted to keep their colonies as colonies. And thus, America won its independence, to which there was much rejoicing, and drinking, and discharging of firearms, since we all love our guns here in America.

Incidentally, a lot of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights are direct responses to the actions of the English during colonial times. The 2nd Amendment -- the Right to Bear Arms -- is a response to the English law dictating that no Colonist was allowed to possess firearms, and I believe the 4th Amendment -- whatever one has that line about "housing troops" -- prohibited the act of garrisoning troops: kicking people out of their homes and using them as housing and/or bunkers for soldiers. The English loved to do that during the Revolution.

Now, someone point out how many mistakes I made and win a prize. :p

P.S. Never fight a land war in Asia.
 
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Okay, way back in the day in the 1700s what we now know as the United States of America was composed of 13 small colonies along the east coast, which were under the rule of England. Being that America was rich in natural resources England went to great lengths to import many of these goods -- metal, agriculture, etc. -- from America, and decided to shaft the colonies with most of the bill in the form of tariffs. (Taxes) A lot of tariffs. On top of that, the English generally treated the colonists like second class citizens anyway. Eventually the colonists said "f%$# it, I've had it with this colony s%$#" and decided they wanted their independence. England, unsurprisingly, wanted to hold on to their rich little colonies. Thusly, this small disagreement in the governing of the colonies was settled in the way most advanced, civilized countries settle disagreements: by attempting to kill each other.
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Might want to add that England felt justified in its taxes because of the burden of defending the colonies, the French and Indian War for example.
 
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in English history, the events of 1688?89 that resulted in the deposition of James II and the accession of William III and Mary II to the English throne. It is also called the Bloodless Revolution. The restoration of Charles II in 1660 was met with misgivings by many Englishmen who suspected the Stuarts of Roman Catholic and absolutist leanings. Charles II increased this distrust by not being responsive to Parliament, by his toleration of Catholic dissent, and by favoring alliances with Catholic powers in Europe. A parliamentary group, the Whigs, tried to ensure a Protestant successor by excluding James, duke of York (later James II), from the throne, but they were unsuccessful. After James?s accession (1685) his overt Catholicism and the birth of a Catholic prince who would succeed to the throne united the hitherto loyal Tories (see Tory) with the Whigs in common opposition to James. Seven Whig and Tory leaders sent an invitation to the Dutch prince William of Orange and his consort, Mary, Protestant daughter of James, to come to England. William landed at Torbay in Devonshire with an army. James?s forces, under John Churchill (later duke of Marlborough), deserted him, and James fled to France (Dec., 1688). There was some debate in England on how to transfer power; whether to recall James on strict conditions or under a regency, whether to depose him outright, or whether to treat his flight as an abdication. The last course was decided upon, and early in 1689 William and Mary accepted the invitation of Parliament to rule as joint sovereigns. The Declaration of Rights and the Bill of Rights (1689) redefined the relationship between monarch and subjects and barred any future Catholic succession to the throne. The royal power to suspend and dispense with law was abolished, and the crown was forbidden to levy taxation or maintain a standing army in peacetime without parliamentary consent. The provisions of the Bill of Rights were, in effect, the conditions upon which the throne was offered to and accepted by William and Mary. These events were a milestone in the gradual process by which practical power shifted from the monarch to Parliament. The theoretical ascendancy of Parliament was never thereafter successfully challenged.
 
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