Born on the Fourth of July

The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien, tells the story of a platoon in the Vietnam War. O’Brien uses many literary devices to help him portray the overall theme including repetition, details, and through emphasizing the reasons the soldiers are a part of the war. All of these combined portray the anti-war argument and illustrate the idea that when young men go into war, they carry many burdens, but the emotional burdens are the heaviest ones that they are never able to put this down.…

Tom cruise earned his first Academy Award nomination for, “Born on the 4th of July”. His spectacular performance of Ron Kovic, a young Vietnam veteran returning home sums up the Vietnam era. The moves flashes to Vietnam where Kovic experience the atrocities of war before he is wounded and shipped to a VA hospital to recover. The condition of the VA hospital are despicable, rats, broken equipment, and drug use. Most of the people who work there are apathetic, overworked, understaffed, and black…

The fourth of July is nothing to slaves if they didn’t receive their freedom. Douglass says that America needs to wake up and acknowledge that slavery is wrong. The hypocrisy of the nation has to be exposed and they need to be punished. Douglass was enraged with furiousness and metaphorically states that like a fire and thunder and earthquake, that the conscience of the nation must be awoken and there needs to be a change. The meaning of July fourth was different to slaves as…

"What to the slave is the Fourth of July" (BrainyQuote). During my time, The Fourth of July to a slave was not a day to celebrate our freedom. It was a time of harsh treatment with a lack of respect to our color. Our kind was led to believe when our Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, that every man was created equal. We had no right to an education, because we weren 't allowed to read and write, even less learn the alphabet. Many of the things that had occurred in my life of…

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglas delivered his “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” speech. At the time this speech was delivered, Douglas was merely an escaped slave who had been taught to read and write by his slave owner’s wife. He used his gift of literacy to fight for the God-given rights of both African-Americans and women. In “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July,” Douglas cunningly uses bold diction and formatting in order to…

In Hill’s “Critical Essay: Mr. Douglass’s Fifth of July.”, he explores the historical importance of Frederick Douglass’s “4th of July” speech. Before we can go into how the speech was examined, however, it would be best to look at the actual speech. Like the title says, this speech was not given on the Fourth of July, which fell on a Sunday that year, since it was a custom of that era prohibited secular events on the Sabbath. The speech was organized the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society…

documents The Declaration of Independence. The Second Continental Congress met up on July 1,1776 to discuss The Declaration of Independence, and the next day 12 of the 13 colonies signed to declare independence from Great Britain. The Congressmen spent two days revising the declaration made up by Thomas Jefferson. On July 4,1776, The Declaration of Independence was signed, and July 4th became Independence Day. July 4th was a day to celebrate independence, but everyone wasn’t celebrating…

“An Indian view 1805” and “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” give us an insight as to what happened in that era. The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro Frederick Douglass was an excellent orator that contributed to many newspaper and magazines. Among his major works that were published on many instances, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, " was presented in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. In this journal he argues that the 4th of July is a disguise for the slave who were…

always born the notion that the Constitution status was always a pro-slavery document. He even stated, “knowing as I do its origin, and the character of its framers, and seeing as I do, how it was written, as it were, in the blood of thousands and thousands of slaves, I think it, not an anti-slavery document” (Douglass, 1844, p. 315). Ultimately, Douglass reversed these beliefs and embraced the proposition that it is an anti-slavery document. The oration of “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of…

such as play and in speeches as well. Two examples are Shakespeare’s tragic play Othello and the speech made by Frederick Douglass which was called “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July. These are shown brilliantly for facing the issues of race as their main idea in Othello and What to the Slave is the Fourth of July even do that they are created centuries apart. Shakespeare’s tragic play revolves mainly on the protagonist Othello. Othello is respected and honoured…