The main reason why the United States invaded the island of Grenada was "to prevent a Communist government from spreading to other Caribbean islands", but it was also to protect the lives of almost 1,000 Americans who were living on the island at the time.
Answer:
The audio version of the speech provides a more emotional delivery than the text version. For example, the sense of urgency heightens as the speaker gradually increases the pitch of his voice:
There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
<span>He
convened a special session of Congress in which to declare a four
day banking holiday</span>
<span>Termed as the ‘Age of Revolution” in reaction to the
‘Age of Enlightenment’. One of the Romantic period’s characteristics was the
expression of strong senses, emotions, and feelings in literary, art and music.
Romantics rejected the idea of deduction – the process of gaining knowledge by
using logic or reason; rather, they believe that it is gained through
intuition, the ‘gut feeling’ – knowing something through natural feeling as
guidance without evidence. In turn, this period emphasizes more on exaggerated
emotions of awe, apprehension, horror and terror which intensifies the
subjective perspective of one’s experiences. </span>