Declaration of Sentiments

The terms structure and direction can seem overwhelming and difficult to understand, but when trying to comprehend certain issues, events, or ideas, those terms can help in the distinguishing between right and wrong. Structure and direction can also help in understanding how some things are the way they are and how they got that way. Everyone can have their own ideas of how structure and direction apply to certain issues also, which sometimes allows for disagreement. Using my own interpretation…

Good writing can influence the very fabric of history. The Declaration of Independence changed the world by separating Britain's colonies in the Americas from Britain itself, The Magna Carta was the first piece of writing that limited what a king could do With so many differing opinions it is almost vital for a person…

like none other. Also stating that “We have no interest in the scenes of antiquity…” (O’Sullivan). However, it was stated, reality stated that women were objectified as male property since the ‘man was in charge’ ideals. As stated in the Declaration of Sentiments, "He has compelled her to submit to laws. In the formation of which she had no voice," and "He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men –both native and foreigner" (Stanton). This lack of gender…

grant them freedom. Outburst like the Stono Rebellion and many others were the cause of this. The American Revolution produced a new outlook amongst the people. Groups such as slaves and women would draw their inspirations later from revolutionary sentiments. American began to feel as though their fight for liberty was a global fight. Although women didn’t gain any political rights, the war did help equalize genders as the women ran farms, homes, businesses, served as spies, and nurses in their…

and ratifying of the Constitution. They wrote the model document. Those, who were not present made significant contributions in several other ways; Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense”, the influential pamphlet to influence the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence which was authored by Thomas Jefferson. Amazingly, one of the great Founding Fathers, Patrick Henry, was not in the favor of the Constitution initially. He is the same person who fought hard to ratify the “bills of rights”…

and fear within the minds of the audience members by appealing to emotion, and making religious or authoritative remarks in front of colonists who felt enslaved by the British. Patrick Henry’s intentions were to provoke the result of the declaration of war in rage against British oppression. Patrick Henry himself was greatly affected by the…

I have surprised myself! It’s only been a few days and I am already writing once again! Today Phoebe introduced me to Jane Adams, we got along very well! I was so glad to meet her. We look a lot alike too which is really odd. We hung out for an hour, before I had to go back to work on the farm. I always ended up being the tagger in our tag game, I wish I was better at the game. Although, later we played hide and go seek and I always won because I found the best hiding spots! It was much fun…

Freedom is a little word that has a big meaning. Freedom is the power to act, speak, think as one wants without restriction. Imagine a world without freedom it would be unfair and a miserable life. When you actually come to realize that freedom is something that was not an option for many it makes you think of how people felt getting treated so harshly. In the narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano freedom only occurred to those who did everything in their power to destroy others lives. In…

freedoms. Free blacks in northern states sought to utilize the progressiveness of the Revolution and its fundamental ideals as grounds to push forward their claims to the same rights that all other men claimed when the founding fathers wrote the declaration of independence. In an antislavery petition in Massachusetts, the writers stated that they wrote on behalf of the large black community which were still enslaved in many parts of the country, “that they…

Here the goods were inspected and taxed so it led to anti-British sentiment. The next economical reason of the war was the Intolerable Act. In 1774 as the British adopted the Coercive Act, which was also called the Intolerable act. The British target of adopting these acts was to isolate Boston by closing Boston’s port…