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opportunity to achieve success and wealth through hard work, determination, and initiative (Oxford Dictionary). After all, this is precisely what America was founded upon: the Founding Fathers took it upon themselves to turn what had been English colonies into a new nation in which its citizens could live according to law far more suitable than the law of the English tyrants. However, before America became the America of today’s world, or even 1776’s world, there were a number of hurdles the…

in Pennsylvania are very neighborly and help each other out during hard times. No one will covet another man or have reason to harm another. Pennsylvanians’ relationships with Indians are exemplary, resulting in very few wars and bloodshed. This colony is self-governed and does not have heavy taxes unlike England. However, Pennsylvania still has the rights of an England citizen, such as the right to petition to…

1754, the colonies in America were not sovereign, as they did not have an independent economic system, political system, or a sufficient security system. Individual colonies each exhibited many aspects of sovereignty, but were not completely self-sufficient, and as a whole the colonies did not have a common goal in mind, meaning they were not united. Colonies such as Massachusetts were close to being sovereign while colonies such as Virginia were more tied to England. However, no single colony…

there had to be a reason to put their lives on the line. Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, ignited a burning desire for freedom in colonists’ hearts with its brilliant use of rhetoric to inspire a nation of oppressed people. With the American Colonies in a state of unrest, Thomas Paine released a pamphlet called, Common Sense, on January 10th, 1776.…

to why the colonies should separate from the mother country of Great Britain. In his pamphlet, “Common Sense,” Paine argued over several different governmental actions and policies, but one of his most notable arguments had to have been when he made several points leading to his theory that the colonies should separate from Great Britain. In his argument for independence, he made quite a few points and used quite a few different tactics to better help inform his readers what the colonies would…

Rashaun Richardson February 17, 2016 In the story, “Shooting an Elephant”, the narrator is contradictory in his feelings, by supporting one set of people, the Burmans, but serving another, the British. The reader infers that he can’t decide who to fight for because in the text the narrator explains the treatment of the Burmans by the English, but then tells the treatment of himself by the Burmans. For example, the narrator states that the treatment of the Burman prisoners were…

"A white man mustn't be frightened in front of ‘natives’; and so, in general, he isn't frightened.". This is not the case in Orwell's short story "Shooting an Elephant" from 1936. This story takes place during the period of extreme anti-european feeling. Orwell shows that sometimes, the desire to be accepted will often negatively influence a person's moral principles, no matter what authority you got, and presents the insights of the human na-ture, and how a person sometimes bend to the public…

When is it a good time to become an independent nation? In 1607, the first colony was founded and settled by Englishmen. Since then, the colonists have been under the rule of the British king, receiving help and following the laws that are enforced. After years of being an English colony, people started disagreeing with how they were being treated. These people, also known as the patriots, started to rebel and try to get their king to notice what they wanted to get across. In the meantime,…

British people came to the new world to find religious freedom and to start new lives. Once they arrived and began to form colonies they were successful in many ways. The British King still wanted to control the people and profit from their success. The King as well as Parliament enacted many taxes, such as the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts, to try to control the colonists. As time went on the colonists began to resent the King and rebelled against him. The Founding…

Say you were a colonist and the majority of colonist wanted to to Declare independence from Britain, you would be smart and choose to rally against them to be on Britain's side. You would know that they were more powerful than the colonies. You would realize that the taxes were reasonable and that the colonist were throwing a temper tantrum over nothing. Or could you be one of the over dramatic unsmart colonist, that wanted Independence.The point is that the colonist weren’t justified to declare…