The Declaration of Independence

We're reading an original draft of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson in American Literature class. The Declaration of Independence is a document that needed to be sign by all thirteen colonies to break away from British.

In the beginning of the declaration, Jefferson stated that all men are created equal. We mention all men are created equal whenever is to abolish the slavery, racial segregation, or upraise the female position. However, the declaration deleted the part of slavery under the resistance of southern colonies. This part is the most important in the declaration which really stress on the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence became the most successful argumentative essay.

From Letters from an American Farmer

On Wednesday, we started a new person in American Literature named J. Hector Sr. John De Crevecoeur. His name is long and interested. He actually was from France, but he went to Canada.

In his one of the writings, "From Letters from an American Farmer" described America had no "aristocratical family, no invisible power giving to a few a very visible on; no great manufacturers employing thousands, no great refinements of luxury."(301) Europeans came to America tried to build a better society than their back home in Europe. They were hard to maintain a family back home, they had no jobs, and not enough food to eat. On the other hand, Europeans had a better life in America, they had jobs, and they had food to eat, they even had more than they need now.

Remarks Concerning The Savages of North America

"Franklin's writings on American Indians were remarkably free of ethnocentricism, although he often used words such as "savages," which carry more prejudicial connotations in the twentieth century than in his time. Franklin's cultural relativism was perhaps one of the purest expressions of Enlightenment assumptions that stressed racial equality and the universality of moral sense among peoples."

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