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    The Gettysburg Address

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    of this period of history In summary, the Gettysburg Address is the treasure that will aspire all of the American even everyone who has the same fate and experience with America. I feel really powerful because I am on this land. I am absolutely washed by the obligation. Although the Gettysburg Address has already experience for a long time, the sprit of this parapraghy is still a strehthgh to encourage all citizen of the United States keep a same dream of a peaceful, equalied, and united…

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    self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”(Jefferson) Declaring to the king of Great Britain, that they will no longer recognize his authority or live under his oppressive rule for they felt that he had violated the rights that the colonist seem to see as self-evident. This declaration although addressed to the king of Great Britain, was foreshadowing for…

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    Like most things in life, your actions need to be followed up by an explanation. So when the American Colonies (United States of America) sent their patron country of England the most famous breakup letter of all time, the King could have obviously been the slightest bit intrigued as to why the country that they “gave so much to” disliked the British way of running things so little. This beginning explanation in the Declaration of Independence is called the Preamble, and it does explain the…

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    What is your idea of a perfect society? Do you imagine all men being equal? Do you imagine a world in which there is no hate? Equality 7-2521 must be living the dream then. In Ayn Rand’s book Anthem all men are viewed as equals and all men are loved, or so it seems. Equality 7-2521 and many others have been oppressed their entire lives by this so called ‘utopia’. To ensure that the ‘brothers’ in the society stay equal there are many rules in place to prevent any doubting of the society’s doings.…

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    created a document, The Declaration of Independence “it introduced the radical concept that “all men were created equal” in terms of their God-given right to maintain government of their own choosing”. (Tindall and Shi, 2013) Although, this concept meant different things to different people; the saying "all men are created equal" was not really what happened. What the group was truly trying to state was "all free, white, property-owning males are created equal". The document went on to…

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    When the United States was being founded, a key idea was the equality of all men. The founding fathers had wanted this from Great Britain, so in the creation of the declaration, this was an important factor. For instance, the declaration states, “…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” (“Declaration”). The quotation states that within the United States, all men are equal and are granted the same rights. This concept…

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    Stereotypes In America

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    America was founded by the founding fathers under the principles that “all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'' (Corley.1) Throughout the years, we as a nation have not exercised this belief and instead discriminated each other greatly. This led to much destruction on our very own streets where even many innocent people and bystanders have lost their lives. My vision for…

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    lead to our evolution and rapid progress but it has also had negitive effects such as slavery and oppresion.But through out all this mankind has always struggeld for freedom for liberty.Somthing that i have heard as you might have, from a very young age is the pledge of alliagance some words that stood out to me for a long time were the words with liberty and justice for all this stood out to me because of the implecations it has and the ideals that people have and will continue to fight for…

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    American political philosophy is rooted in the famous saying: “All men are created equal”, I want 240 years, the ideals and words of Thomas Jefferson from the “Declaration of Independence“, I have given rise to social events, political campaigns and even inspired revolutions worldwide. They have sparked imaginations, songs and all of our interpretations of liberty and equality. I run Ikelea he couldn’t live up to his own lofty political ideology in his personal life. Thomas Jefferson was an…

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    Americans today have definitely lived up to the ideals. First, our rights have greatly expanded since the publish of the Declaration of Independence. As shown in the placard (insert), African-American people were sold and bought as slaves to white men. This event caused many people of color to rise up and fight for their rights in the Civil Rights War in order to abolish slavery. Today, slavery does not exist anymore as it is illegal to own slaves. We as a nation and as people have gathered…

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