2.02 Founding Father Thomas Jefferson
Your Assignment
A. Discussion
Discuss these questions with your family:
1. The last line of the Declaration of Independence asserts: "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
a. What does it mean to pledge your "lives, fortunes, and honor"?
I’m thinking that it must mean to pledge to America with each other as American citizens everything that we have. It means that we will sacrifice our belongings to our country, but also have an equal opportunity to save the things with love and cherish. As for honor, it could mean that if you give America your service, your honor, then that will be very honorable of you.
b. For what causes would you be willing to make a significant sacrifice?
Feminism, radical revolutions to defend our rights,
a cause for justice and liberty, for people that I care for, I would sacrifice my belongings if it is to save them,
there are causes like social equality that I find worth being sought-after, as I think that there is too much social class injustice and prejudice out there. There are too many scandals with the elites and socialites, and the hard working industrial workers being good at heart and getting cheated off of their well-being; this is a cause worth sacrificing for and there needs to be a change. Regardless of the intimidation and fear of persecution or being ignored, someone needs to speak up. These honeybees deserve more to their lives.
2. Look at the Amendments to the Constituiton with a family member. How does one or more of the Amendments protect and limit an individual’s rights? Identify at least one instance of protection and one of limitation. Be sure to name the Amendment(s) and explain your thoughts. After you have discussed these questions with your family, go to the Discussion area of the course and post your responses. Be sure to respond to at least one other student's posting.
Amendment 3- Quartering of soldiers.
This, I believe, is an amendment of protection because the fathers who wrote our Constitution didn’t want the same thing that happened in history to reoccur. Back during the Revolutionary War, Brit soldiers were sent to America to guard the uprising colonists and were quartered in their houses. This led the colonists to become enraged that they have to take care of the British, who they believe has caused injustice upon the colonies.
This amendment particularly protects our people from having the responsibility of taking care of soldiers, since some American citizens will feel uncomfortable, as before with the British soldiers.
Amendment 14- Citizenship Rights.
This is where the amendment has a limit. It states that a citizenship is limited in where s/he cannot ask for help from America to pay for their debts if used to aid rebellion against the United States. Also, it is illegal to borrow from the U.S. and turn against it; therefore it makes sense that the U.S. will not pay for your debts.
2.02B Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Believing that every person is privileged to rights, this declaration will be addressed to all of my despotic friends in the past. As friends you all have claimed to be, I find it unjust to have a friendship with one person of more authority, and the other, as I, felt weak. Read this, and see to it that there was a reason why our friendships did not last as long as you might expect.
She says, "Give me something, or else I won’t be your friend anymore." Were you even my friend in the first place?
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She uses her sad face, or collapses in her dishonest, emotional phases to get things her way, to earn the possessions of others.
She ignores you when you ask her "What’s wrong?" to depict that her other friend was ignoring her. How were you supposed to know?
She acts as if she’s mad and goes her way home, or has just begun to, and when you decide to go into your house and shut the door to give her some time to herself, she wails and exclaims that she was joking.
She forces your corgi, or puppy, to play with her on the playground, despite the fact that puppies can’t jump from places so high; they aren’t cats. Your neighbors tell you that your friend was playing mean, and he more your puppy resists and seems scared, the more she tugs the leash.
She knocks on your door every morning just to "walk to the bus stop together" and thinking it’s okay because "we’re best friends," when your mom’s roommates needs some sleep to recharge themselves for work.
She thinks people are her best friends when they’re not because they don’t even hang around with her; they hang around in their groups, where they feel comfortable and not forced to do every little thing she wants. There was that time when she would say of your other friend, "She’s my best friend." and you were skeptical because your other friend rarely hangs out with her.
She asks to share your lunch when you were so slim in the old days that you were below 100 lbs.
She was so clingy that she went wherever you went, and so it was hard to talk to anyone else, especially if the person didn’t get along with her. To make things worse, she was in your neighborhood.
She thinks that people who were born younger than her should listen to her, and that didn’t work out so well with one of the tough girls at our school.
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She gets scared that she will lose her best friend, so when her best friend invites you to her party, she tells you afterwards that her best friend doesn’t want you to come.
She copies your classwork, gets A’s like it’s a breeze, and ends up in an extracurricular that you would need to have an invite to get in.
She tells you that you’re going to graduate high school at twenty when she knows that you’re taking multiple challenging classes and aiming to graduate in 2014.
In addition, she doesn’t believe in you and just makes your sympathy of getting failed by one of the hardest history classes hatched and become something from a butterfly to a Loch Ness.
She calls you psycho and threatens to slap you after you grab her fragile, very small and skinny wrist in an attempt to drag her away from being involved and actually spreading gossip about you that you eavesdropped.
I, Lynn Pham, have grown weary and grew out of these friendships, sometimes because I was lucky that you have moved away out-of-state, or I just drifted apart from you after our transition to upper secondary school. My advice, however, is that if you all want stronger, and more genuine friendships in the future, you would have to be kinder, and definitely, more amiable. A friendship becomes stained if there is one who is like queen and like glass if the other feels unwilling.
I would give my Declaration of Independence a C.
2.04 Thomas Paine
Questions on The Crisis
They deserve love from men and women.
Britain has a right to "bind us in all cases whatsoever."
He’ll pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine finds offensive wars as murder, but he explains that man has a right to defend himself against whoever has wronged him, and whoever it may be would not matter at the time. I think that he means since Britain has wronged America, she would fight back to represent herself, even if she has to defy her mother country.
Patriots are like sunshine to our country because they’ve fought to gain their own independence and eliminate high taxes from a lost mother. They are always shining, always fighting for what they believe, with intrinsic motivation, voluntarily. Summer soldiers are the redcoats, I believe, and they are "summer" as in they aren’t fighting for their independence, so despite their technology and ammunition, they will fight weaker. They are seasonal, and this is their profession. They do not fight at heart, and as Summer is seasonal, so are they. They won’t help their monarchy to have control over America and hold that control for long.
America wants peace. "Give me peace in my day." refers to America’s longing for separation. The patriots want to see peace in their day.
Enraged and hopeful.
A loyalist might have said, "Give Britain our taxes, and there will be peace." "…for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. . .
2.05A Olaudah Equiano
Part A
For this assignment submit your answers to the questions below:
One. The stench was intolerable.
Two. Perspirations were common.
Three. It was crowded, somewhat like the Upper East.
Four. Fresh air was nowhere; suffocation was constant.
What happened to the slave that got caught after jumping overboard?
He was "flogged… unmercifully."
Why did many people die during the journey?
The closeness of the slaves brought a sickness, which many died in conclusion. Some also managed to drown themselves.
Why did Olaudah think the crew possessed magic?
He looked through the quadrant and the clouds looked like land, so therefore his wonders were heightened and from an instrument so strange, he ought to think that the crew possessed magic.
Find a picture that would be a good one to go along with this excerpt. Copy and paste the picture into this assignment.
This is a picture of possibly a slave ship. I chose this because the water on which it sails are in the memory of those who have drowned themselves along the way and the space exterior from the ship would have fresh air, the air these wretched slaves so longed for, and may have died without ever seeing their destination, nor the fresh air which was in such abundance outside. The sky, and the clouds were what Equiano saw through the quadrant.
2.06 Native Americans
Venn Diagram (I couldn’t type into the pasted chart, so I’m going to type.)
Squanto:
He has lived in England.
He traveled with the colonists.
He was in allegiance with Smith.
He was sold in Spain.
He sailed to England again.
He went to Canada.
He went to New England.
Squanto stayed with the settlers.
He and the English had mutual trust.
Powhatan:
He never went to England.
He had power over the region.
He never absolutely trusted Smith.
He has had conflicts with the English.
He was not ever under European rule.
He made it clear that he had power.
He did not like the settlers that acted powerful.
He wasn’t used to disobedience.
He wasn’t subject to obedience.
He demanded gifts to be returned.
He didn’t like broken promises.
He had a daughter that made peace.
Similarities:
Both had started out great with the English.
Both had helped the English survive with crops.
Both had lived in North America.
Both had known who John Smith was.
Both were mistreated by Europeans.
Both knew about the struggle of the English.
Both had struggled because of English contact.
Write a story.
Our culture is great. We should have no shame in immersing ourselves in it, nor telling our descendants of it. We are from Powhatan. Our chief has much power. He could aid you or destroy you. By tradition, the paramount chief is the nephew of the former chief. Our culture consists of great respect to our king, and perhaps to the English, greater respect than they have for theirs. When the chief sleeps, there are four guards standing around him and they exchange messages to make sure that one another is okay. Failure to reply to a co-guard results in punishment. Our chief, known as Powhatan to the English, had bodyguards that are tall; in fact, the tallest fifty men of our people. Although we do have enough land in his territory, he expands it with ambushes and protects his farther regions with the sub-chiefs, or brother-in-laws, as he has made them. He marries to most of his less powerful chiefs’ sisters, and this guarantees peace and agreement between them, and strong friendships, stronger than when he weren’t married. Our culture has many arts and crafts. We have furs and jewelry, of which the Englishmen covet and we’ve asked them to trade their weapons with our precious stones and jewelry. Pearls and gold are saved for Powhatan, who was also offered eighty-percent of our labor’s supplies. We work hard, but don’t ask for more than what we deserve. Additionally, we don’t need much. For as long as Powhatan is in bliss, we will also be in bliss, knowing his well-being is achieved. We take orders from our chief, and there is much reason for what he orders us to do. Whenever the settlers take our gifts and don’t return us anything, it angers him, and as he views this as treachery, he finds reason to call an attack on them. Besides, there was a time when the English sailed around the Chesapeake Bay upon their own curiosity. They’ve acted as thought they had more control of the region that they literally do. To protect his region, Powhatan called for his sub-chiefs to attack wherever ad whenever possible. The English simply cannot conquer land and conquer us just when and where they please. As long as Powhatan is living, we are safe. We would not fall under English rule. Our chief’s younger brother will do the same for us in the memory of Powhatan and for the good of our people. Trust is important, and in our culture, when distrust arises, it can hardly be restored. The biography of our late chief Powhatan should be told and known of, and all that he had done that kept us safe from the settlers. The settlers are so unpredictable, but with strong chiefs, misfortunes can be prevented. We do not want war, but if the English is cause of it, we will go to further lengths to keep our land safe. Good deeds must be exchanged with good deeds. Our people may be simple in the eyes of the English, but we know ways of survival, which they have to find to cope with the New World weather and winters, and however savage we appear, we know of hospitality. Hospitality and virtue runs it our blood. It never dies, and neither will creativity. We must grow strong to live up to our reputation; archery, weaponry, and hunting will transform us unto manhood. We grow strong, and this is to protect ourselves and those we love. We aren’t subject to any other rule but to our chief, and other than that, we are free.
This is where we live. Our lives are lit by light and the coziness fills our home. Of warmth for winter, and space… is enough to not disturb nature. This is where we hunt. Where Powhatan takes walks during his childhood.
Descendants of these English settlers took what they call "photos" of our tribe’s surroundings and posted it on Google images.
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